Hey! Another week has past and now we are here with Curiosity! I hope you all had a good Halloween, I had a pretty weird costume. Anyways, here's another chapter. By the end, there will be some explaining required.
Jessie walked away from the group, turning in the direction she saw Felix go. If her thoughts were correct, he would be with her mom right now, probably catching up or something. It didn't take very long to spot them, and Jessie ran the rest of the way, which ended in her tripping over a rock and tumbling around until she fell into Mom, knocking her over.
"Oh, uh.. Hey, Mom," Jessie said, now on top of her mother. The other women looked bewildered.
"Jessie?! I don't... Did you just fall into me?" Mom asked, and Jessie laughed,
"I guess I did..."
Mom questioned her again, "Would you mind getting off of me?"
"Huh? Oh, right.. I guess I should do that," Jessie replied, getting off and dusting herself off. "So.. What are you up to?"
"Just... catching up," Mom replied with a smile. Jessie nodded and let out a cough.
"Do you mind coming back and joining the others? They're kinda waiting for you."
"They are? Well, I guess we're done talking over here so it wouldn't be a bad idea," Mom replied.
"Okay, then. Lily, go back and join them. Jessie, stay here, I want to talk to you," Felix said, speaking for the first time.
"What? Why aren't you coming?" Mom asked.
"I told you, I want to talk to Jessie," Felix replied. Jessie eyed him curiously, wondering why. She blinked her other thoughts away and looked back at Mom,
"It's fine. I can talk to him."
Mom looked like she was about to argue, then nodded, "I suppose I be leaving, then." She walked away from us.
Jessie waited to make sure she was out of hearing range before speaking, "What is it?"
"You know more than you're telling us."
Jessie blinked her immediate surprise off, "What?"
"It's obvious. The way you and your friends say stuff that don't make sense. The way your expression shows that you know what's going on before anyone can begin to wonder. The way you knew you were on Chorus when nothing in the canyon you were at showed you were," Felix said.
"You are very observant..," Jessie said, looking at Felix for a bit, before sighing, "Okay, yeah. I know more than any of you would believe, and more than you'd probably want me to know, but I'm not going to tell anyone because.. Honestly, the sanity levels in these people are already pretty low."
"Did you just call me crazy?"
"What? No, I didn't.. Did I? S-sorry, I'm talking about the Reds and Blues here. They're the ones who are probably insane in one way or another. Though, everything I know is probably enough to make everyone insane... And a certain couple of people want to kill me..," Don't say that in front of one of them! "But that's beyond the point!" Jessie finished quickly, smiling.
"You are very skippy," Felix commented, but after hearing her words, he looked at Jessie with slight suspicion in his eyes, but quickly knocked the expression off.
"Am I?" Jessie asked. Stop. Talking. To him. You are going to blow it for yourself and your family! "Heh, didn't notice. Well, actually, this is how I normally am! With talking, that is. You just... Haven't gotten to know me enough to realize it! Though, that option is always ope- I mean, I'm always like this!" She said a little nervously.
"You are a terrible lier."
"Am I that bad?"
"You said there were people waiting for me?"
"Oh, right. Of course. Let's just go see what they're doing."
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I spotted Mom approaching us, a look of slight confusion on her face. She shook her head and put on a smile. Wait.. Wasn't Jessie going to get that mercenary? Where is Jessie anyway? Well, she probably won't be too long. I shouldn't worry about it.
"Where's Felix?" Washington asked, looking at Mom expectantly.
"Oh, he still back there, said something about having a talk with Jessie," Mom answered, though it seemed like she went back through her sentence as a sort of lightbulb seemed to turn on on her. "I do wonder why, though. What is there to talk about?"
"I'm sure Jessie will tell us when she gets back," I said, or tell Mom and I, at least.
"Where is everyone?" Mom asked, seeming to notice how many people were missing from the group.
"Well, you see: Donut had this wonderful idea of playing Truth or Dare, a game which Carolina left early on, and so did Kimball and Simmons. Apparently I'm not very good company right now, so Carolina left me here. I don't know where Grif is, though. He seemed to notice we were playing and just left," Epsilon said, glowing in front of Mom.
"It was the best game of Truth or Dare I had ever played," Sarge said, "Watching a blue humiliate himself like that was one of the best ideas of all time, even if it was another blue who suggested it."
"I would like to be the one taking credit for that thank you very much," Church said, "And I'll admit: it was pretty fucking funny."
"Oh don't you start!" Epsilon warned, now in front of Church.
"I'm only telling the truth here," Church argued, "Everyone knows I'm completely honest!"
Everyone in the room gave Church disbelieving looks. Luckily, or, at least I thought it was lucky, Jessie appeared, Felix following close behind.
"Felix!" I heard someone say. I turned my head in a different direction to find that Kimble had called him over. "Come over here! I found some really important documents you might want to look at!" Felix moved over to her, away from us. Jessie continued to walk to us until she was less than two feet from me.
"Oh hey, guys!" Jessie said, looking towards Mom and I, "Kat. Mom. Come over here, I need to talk to you about... multiple very important things that the others shouldn't be hearing."
"Person goes to get mercenary. Mercenary says he needs to talk to her about something. Person comes back and says she needs to talk about something to her family and leaves everyone else out of it. Nope, definitely no suspicious stuff there," Tucker said, seeming to look Jessie directly in the eye. I heard Jessie whistle and walk away, gesturing Mom and I to follow her.
"What is it?" Mom asked as soon as we were away.
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Tucker watched the three girls walk away.
"I'm surprised," Church said, speaking to Tucker.
"What about?" Tucker asked.
"This place is full of girls, four of which are around us a lot. And I haven't seen you hit on even one of them!" Church said, looking at Tucker.
"Oh, dude, trust me, I tried. Well, on two of them at least, I'll get the others later," Tucker answered.
"I'm not the only one who thinks they're pretty suspicious, right?" Church suddenly asked.
"I'm pretty sure we all know they're suspicious. They just left needing to 'talk about something'. Think we should spy on them?" Tucker asked, and Epsilon appeared in front of him.
"Yeah, because spying on people worked so well last time," Epsilon said sarcastically.
"Hey! When the oppertunity is there, I take it!"
"Whatever."
"Okay, here: I promise to stay quiet. Now come on! We're gonna miss it!" Tucker said, running away from the group, taking Epsilon with him. When they spotted the trio of girls, they slowed their pace, keeping quiet. They his behind a building, straining to listen in.
"I don't know what I'm going to tell them! By now, everyone knows we're hiding something. They're gonna learn the truth, I just don't know when," They heard Jessie say.
"Maybe we should just spill it to them," Kat suggested, but Jessie didn't agree.
"I'd rather not be chased around by evil back-stabbing mercinaries."
Evil back-stabbing mercinaries? Tucker wondered in his head.
"Perhaps we should just wait. With the way we keep talking, they'll have to find out eventually. Besides, just being here might change the future so a lot of bad stuff doesn't happen. I mean, we've changed it already, haven't we?" Kat asked.
"Wait, do they know our future?" Tucker whispered.
"Shh, you said you wouldn't talk!" Epsilon said.
"Okay, okay.." They went back to listening, and Tucker even peeked out a little to see what was going on. Jessie had her helmet off, and after considering Kat's words, it seemed, a sense of hope overwhelmed her expression.
"Yeah.. Maybe we can..," She said.
"Are you okay?" Lily asked, and Jessie nodded,
"Just thinking about possibilities."
"Anyways, I don't know if they'll be happy to find out they're just characters from a web serie- oof!" Kat's mouth was suddenly covered by Jessie's hand, and she looked over, spotting the two spies. Upon a quick inspection, Tucker noticed her eyes were now changing colors from her regular dark green to cobalt, making him glare at Epsilon For blowing their cover.
"Tucker?" Epsilon asked.
"Yeah?"
"Run!"
Tucker ran, glancing behind him to find the girls chasing him. He ran faster, until he reached the others, with Church glancing at him before breaking out into laughter. Tucker slowed down, stopping in front of Wash.
"Woah! Tucker? What happened?" Wash asked, and Tucker pointed behind him, where three girls were chasing after him. Their faces weren't angry, though, but worried.
"Tucker!" Jessie called. "Please, don't tell anyone what you heard! We'll explain everything! Just don't tell them!"
"Explain? Explain what?" Wash asked, and Epsilon appeared.
"Well, Tucker had this idea to listen in on whatever those girls were talking about, and we heard some interesting stuff."
"What kind of interesting stuff?" Wash asked, sounding genuinely curious, not noticing the begging looks on the girls' faces.
"Okay, let's see here.. Back-stabbing mercinaries... knowing the future... and something about some characters from a web series, I think," Tucker said, and now the girls looked like they had just died.
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"We're so doomed," I said as everyone turned to look at us.
"Would you care to explain?" Wash asked, and I heard Jessie sigh.
"I don't think we really have a choice anymore.. I'll warn you, though. It's a pretty long, strange, and impossible story."
A/N:
About time we got to this point, eh? Only took a book and four chapters! Well, better get some popcorn, this'll be fun..
Also, re-check out Universal Teleportation! I did some revisions and added a little bit of stuff to each chapter.