Hidden-Part 2
Hello! I got a whole bucket load of reviews on the first chapter, which I don't even like that much. I promise, it gets better! It was pointed out to me that it wasn't very detailed, and I agree whole-heartedly. Reading it back now, I see that. Usually in my stories I am so detailed, that it takes me a long while to even get to the plot. I was trying to not do that, and I guess I forgot that I have to use some. I'll put some detail into this! Your reviews were so nice, and that was just the chapter that starts this fic up! Don't worry about the 'using same characters' thing in the first chapter, I found a way around that! Oh, by the way, this is set before Ouroboros. Okay, weird, crazy things up ahead, but always in the up most of seriousness!
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Andromeda's avatar was walking through the dead ship, doing her routine check. It was pitch black on most of the decks, because the lights were turned off to save energy. Everyone else was asleep, so this was a perfect time for the ship-made-flesh to check on herself.
Rommie pushed her new red highlighted hair out of her eyes, as she walked down another corridor, her boots clicking on the grated floor. Everything seemed to be running smoothly, until she saw a panel with wires sticking out by an open vent. White sparks sprinkled onto the floor every once in a while, giving out a little buzz. Rommie was about to check if Harper was sleeping, when the air in the corridor suddenly became very heavy. She scanned around, and found an elevation of air density all throughout the ship, that had happened so suddenly.
She homed in on Harper, and found that he was indeed sleeping. It seemed he was having trouble breathing through the thick air. Rommie tried checking on the other crew members, but something was not letting her. She felt the air right where she was get heavier. It almost crushed her circuits, but as soon as it appeared around her, the high concentration of air had disappeared.
She tried to check up on her crew again, but now she couldn't find any of them. Her whole radar scanning wasn't working. She walked over to the nearest consol screen, and tried to talk to the ship. The screen remained black, sometimes static breaking out, in the eerie silence. She tried to hook up to her AI, and managed to make it up the track and into the matrix. She looked around for her AI, but immediately was shot back to her body. She tried to open a comm. link throughout the ship, but couldn't do that either. Rommie thought about it, and decided her AI was shut down. Everything electric; doors, lights, and comms., weren't working. The engines were dead, which meant they were floating dead in space. Which was not a good thing.
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Rommie walked through the ship, trying to find any of her crew. She had checked the sleeping quarters, but no one was there. They must have woke up, and tried to find the others to find out what was happening.
It would have been easier if she had had a full sized crew, but she was looking for only five people. Three humans, one Nietzschean, and one purple girl. Rev Bem wasn't on the ship, because he had taken a vacation to go to a Monastery Meeting, or something like that. If Andromeda had a full crew, she would have surely run into someone by now.
Rommie was about to round a corner, when she heard footfalls on the other side. Turning the corner, she saw Beka. "Beka. I'm glad I found somebody."
She read a massive surge of unnatural energy from Beka's brain waves, but otherwise she seemed fine. She was even breathing well in the high air density. Speaking of, the density on the ship seemed to have lightened up almost at the same time it had disappeared from around Rommie. Beka's body, though, had a high density mass, which was very unnatural.
"I'm not Beka. I'm Dylan!" Dylan's strict voice boomed out of Beka's body.
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Thanks to my reviewers, who are so nice to me, even when the story isn't at it's best. You guys are wonderful! I hope the story got a whole lot better! I'm not sure if Rommie can access her own AI, but I think she can. But, of course, she can't right now, for some reason. I know, this chapter was mostly about Rommie, and didn't have any Harper in it at all, but I promise he's in the next chapters. You may have seen this 'theme' before, but my spin on things is a bit different!