Command 1 in order. System reboot completed. Ready to launch. He pressed execute as he felt a cold drop of sweat fall on to the keyboard from his sweaty forehead. -Did we do it; did we get it right this time? He asked anxiously. Bzzzzt. Bzzzzt. The machine did not malfunction this time. At least not like it used to. There seems to be an interference at the mainframe.-answered 996.Would you mind going down to Sector F to check it out? Sure thing.- replied David in a disappointed manner. He got his jumpsuit off, as it was too torn and too dirty. He put his nametag back on and walked to the main elevator. The word elevator had lost it's meaning at his time. It was obvious that the devices they called elevators in Visiacorp was nothing like what his grandfather had in his time. Before the big leap came. The button F had been very unresponsive for some time now. It was even an office myth already. If the F is working, you got some luck coming. Rhyming should not be left to the temps, he thought to himself. He pounded on the button .It's light began to shine. Must be my lucky day he thought to himself as he put up a band-aid on the seeing eye and lighted one up. Code Orange! Code Orange! Code Orange! .The seeing eye turned green and the elevator gained pace. All personal must evacuate the complex immediately. Where the hell are we going to go? David thought to himself. He was on the Visiacorp HQ since he was born. He had never been in love. He had never seen the sunrise. He had never felt the cold shiver that the first rain of autumn brought. Shit! Zheta was going to visit him at his dorm on Sector S.Zheta was born deaf so there were no chances of her hearing the announcements. He kicked open the button mainframe and took the elevator down to Sector S. This will bite me in the ass someday.-he thought to himself as he skipped his only chance to ever see Sector A-The Ground Floor-and went down all the way to Sector S.
Part 2
David Holcomb,don't you let that battery go! cried Alicia Holcomb.If was as it was yesterday at Visiacorp.A perfectly maintained 20 degrees celcius air,the uptight florescent light fixtures and the seeing eyes.David,14 years old,found it very amusing to take the power cell from the central heating system and play with it.It always disturbed his aunt,seeing there'd be a minor nuclear blast in the dormitory facilities if he ever dropped the cell inside the oxygen generator. Trustworms 101 starts in 15 minutes.Lecture room 2-said the voice in the intercom.He always argued with his aunt about his career choices,Alicia,47 years old, thought David should be working on the sanitary facilities like David's uncle.Whatever happened,she thought to herself,there'll always be garbage. David, however ,was interested in joining the newly founded Particle Technologies department, as they worked with all forms of latest technologies.
He left room 3994 to get to class.The lecture room was almost full when he arrived there.He picked out a nice,unbroken chair and opened his book.The cover of the book always made him think about the Shai Hulud,as Dune was the only film he ever watched. That is,besides the ''Epic Journeys In The 7th Art .Produced By Visiacorp.'' series which was his only entertainment as a child.
Professor Alistair Roosevelt, or 996 which was his formal name amongst the communuties as his parents died in the big leap before they could even name him.He was cleaned, purified and relocated in the Visiacorp like the other infants and he was raised by the laws of The Solid Truth.Remastered and Perfected by Visiacorp.Trustworms,said Roosevelt,are one of the most complex living entities of our day.They can never be identified, they can never be dedected,we're not even sure they exist.They can take various forms,animals,plants,people,consoles.There has been 182 reported trustworm related activites up to day.Yet there have been no actual trustworm sightings until a month before the big leap which leads us to the thesis that the big leap and trustworms are somehow connected.
The big leap...David thought to himself. The great unknown, the day everything turned blue. Was it scary,was it beautiful? What happened to all those people? Are they gone? Are we gone?
Code orange! Code orange! David regained consciousness after hitting his head on the button panel when the elevator stopped. He used his crowbar to open the elevator door and went out to look for Zheta.
He left room 3994 to get to class.The lecture room was almost full when he arrived there.He picked out a nice,unbroken chair and opened his book.The cover of the book always made him think about the Shai Hulud,as Dune was the only film he ever watched. That is,besides the ''Epic Journeys In The 7th Art .Produced By Visiacorp.'' series which was his only entertainment as a child.
Professor Alistair Roosevelt, or 996 which was his formal name amongst the communuties as his parents died in the big leap before they could even name him.He was cleaned, purified and relocated in the Visiacorp like the other infants and he was raised by the laws of The Solid Truth.Remastered and Perfected by Visiacorp.Trustworms,said Roosevelt,are one of the most complex living entities of our day.They can never be identified, they can never be dedected,we're not even sure they exist.They can take various forms,animals,plants,people,consoles.There has been 182 reported trustworm related activites up to day.Yet there have been no actual trustworm sightings until a month before the big leap which leads us to the thesis that the big leap and trustworms are somehow connected.
The big leap...David thought to himself. The great unknown, the day everything turned blue. Was it scary,was it beautiful? What happened to all those people? Are they gone? Are we gone?
Code orange! Code orange! David regained consciousness after hitting his head on the button panel when the elevator stopped. He used his crowbar to open the elevator door and went out to look for Zheta.
