She was smothering him with hugs. This girl's nuttier than squirrel s**t, he thought. She's crazy. But there's nothing wrong with being crazy. The lightning wolf was about as crazy as they come, but if you point him in the right direction, he could do some serious damage. "Take us to the map room of this ship," Blaine said. That sounds like a good direction. "Let's go," Seifer said, slipping free of her again.
"The debt is a lie and they had purposely crashed the ship into this mothership...the government owns all Outlaws and sadly us newer versions have to listen to whatever they say...most of the Outlaws on this ship aren't bad people, they are just trying to survive." 'So, they''re supposed to kill us? That's phase three?' she thought. 'I think we already knew that... But we didn't know they had reason to hate the government too.' "Most? How many of you are there?" she asked.
Kimmy was having them follow her to the map room. "Most? How many of you are there?" "A good community of Outlaws, one Earth there is over 50 new version Outlaws, on this ship 10," Kimmy paused, "And one of them I worry so much about, they give birth to the Cyberstone." Kimmy was making sure her pace was fast, but slow. Just in case they ran in trouble now that she found him, she wouldn't have him killed. Now that she had him in her sights she'd never let him go. She'd never let him go. Blaine was feeling that sickening feeling again. He was getting wuzzy and a bit sick to his stomach. But he shook it off and just followed the crowd. Betsy was asleep in his arms giving his arm warmth, but giving her warmth as well.
"A good community of Outlaws, on Earth there is over 50 new version Outlaws, on this ship 10," Kimmy paused, "And one of them I worry so much about, they give birth to the Cyberstone." "Your explanation doesn't really make much sense, but it'll do for now," Seifer said, distancing himself from her again. He noticed Blaine looked a little ill. "You okay," he asked. "Go check on him," he said to Kimmy. Anything to get her away.
Blaine pushed Kimmy away. "I'm fine I've been dealing with these side effects for some time now," Blaine paused, "I'm use to it, I don't need anyone to help me." Blaine continued walking, he didn't need help. He was fine, unlike these people who fall from the slightest thing. He was a stone and wouldn't budge. He wasn't as weak. "I don't fall unconscious or dead quite easily," Blaine said. Kimmy was just been throttled around. He didn't want her around him, but she wanted to be with him. She didn't like getting shoved by the other one though. Him it was all right the other, no.
"I knew it. So the question is where do we go now? We're not welcome here and we're be hunted down on earth now. We can't run forever you know. I want a solution. And why the hell are we heading to a map room if we have a guide we want the armoury or the escape pods. We're wasting time here unless we can turn this ship against them and stand up against everyone we wanna get out of here."
"...if we have a guide we want the armoury or the escape pods....." Damien said. "An excellent point," Seifer said. "Spoken like a true leader." He turned to Kimmy. "Just how many cyberstone are we dealing with? If we got to the armory, could we take them on? If not, we should be heading for the pods ASAP." Does this ship even have escape pods? he thought. They might be banking on something that doesn't even exist. Same goes for the armory.
Kimmy stopped. "A large community of Cyberstone....over 5,000 of them and the number grows every few weeks....Cyberstone are born not made and each new one that gets born is stronger then the last," Kimmy said, "They are born with their weapons and their armor there is no armory...they keep us Outlaws in such a small room I don't know if it has a escape pods...I don't know the whole entire ship...I only know the few hallways we Outlaws are allowed through....nasty Cyberstone creatures....Outlaws are the one who gave them life and they turn on their mother like that."
"...I only know the few hallways we Outlaws are allowed through...." "But you know how to find the map room, right? That's good enough." He didn't like blindly following her. If nothing else, they needed to get to the map room so the rest of them could know what she knows -- and more. Then, if someone doesn't trust someone else, they can go their own separate ways. Though he hoped it wouldn't come to that.
Kimmy began moving more quickly. Weaving through the few hallways and finally leading them to map room. When they got inside the map room it was another spectacle they had never seen. All so familiar with Kimmy, but not them. As if the walls were the hologram pictures of this map. The whole entire room, even the walls was the map. It had a strange dark blue hue to it with green little dots. And strange symbols that they had never seen.
"Okay, time to start figuring out what's what in here," Seifer said, looking around the room. "I suppose there are cyberstone everywhere out there, so I won't even bother asking about 'em. But could you point out where we'll probably run into the most Outlaws? I'd like to avoid them for now, if we can. And where's the control room in this thing?" He looked over all the symbols, feeling like a kid in a candy store. Almost everything they needed to know was right here. All they had to do was figure it out.
Kimmy stared at the man. "There is no control system here...the Cyberstone were afraid we might try to take over...its only a map room, I'm sorry," Kimmy said. She stared at one of the green orbs and just smiled at it. It was such a pretty color. Such a wonderful and pretty color.
"There is no control system here...the Cyberstone were afraid we might try to take over...its only a map room, I'm sorry," Kimmy said. "You're kidding," she said. "So, you mean to say that you guys made the cyberstones and then the cyberstones made you slaves?" She laughed, just once, aware that laughing was probably not the best move.
"WE DIDN'T MAKE THE CYBERSTONE!" Kimmy said, "The humans were the ones who made the Cyberstone gene, with the Outlaw project...one of the members here is the carrier of Cyberstone and gives birth to them...only because the humans are the ones who injected them with the Cyberstone gene...and as I said there is a new Cyberstone every few weeks or so and each one is stronger then the last." Kimmy glared at the girl. Blaine sat down. "Well the girls are screaming at each other I'm going to be sitting down...I feeling queezy and well sitting down should help a little," Blaine said.
Kimmy's reaction made her want to laugh, but she stood perfectly still. 'What's wrong with you?' she thought. 'You're acting like a moron.' She mouthed the word 'sorry' and turned away to hide somewhere in the back of the room, barely aware of the floating pens and bits of grit following her. Sam was not brave, avoided most every situation. The only thing she was good at was running away. What had she gotten herself into...
"So why don't you just kill the one that's giving birth to them then?" were these people completly retarded. If you wanted to stop the spread of the thing surely that was the logical move. "And what do you mean your not responsible? Do you not clas yourself as human anymore? If you let them spread like this the responsibility falls on you. You should have solved the problem before it got out of hand."
"Stop yelling. I'm trying to think," Seifer said, taking a seat as well. He was thinking over the numbers in his head. "5,000 cyberstone and counting... 10 other Outlaws on this ship, minus Kimmy, that makes nine... and there's only about ten of us... twenty if we can get the others to help out...." We're f**ked he thought. The military guys -- Echo and the rest of them -- want us to take over the ship, but there's no way in hell we can pull that off, even if they helped. The only option is to get out and destroy the ship, not necessarily in that order. He stood up to check the map some more, looking for escape pods or an engine room or something. Because of the crazy symbols, the whole thing was guesswork. How am I supposed to read this s**t!? "So why don't you just kill the one that's giving birth to them then... You should have solved the problem before it got out of hand," Damien said. "Unfortunately it is out of hand," Seifer said. "Killing their mother won't solve the immedate problem. I've got another idea. We find the one who 'gives birth to them' and bring her here to help find the escape pods. If anyone can read cyberstoneese, it would be their mother, right? We can kill her later, if it'll make you feel better."
Sam found the corner and melted to the ground. She played with her boot laces, untying and retying, untying and retying, trying not to think. Her head ached, it always ached. A pen floated next to her, and she plucked it from the air. To draw, but she didn’t want them to make a big deal about it again. So she drew on her hand rather than the floor this time – one of the symbols on the map. She didn’t know what it meant, but it was pretty. ‘Hey,’ said a whisper. ‘Hey.’ “Shut-up,” Sam mumbled to the nonexistent speaker.
"So why don't you just kill the one that's giving birth to them then?" Kimmy had tears rolled down her tears. "No you cannot kill the carrier...the carrier is so young and so kind....the carrier is the one who vouched for your guy's life, the carrier is the one who begged us not to harm you and we," Kimmy paused, "We ignored the carrier....we can't....the government are controlling the Cyberstone, but if the carrier got a chance...the carrier may be able to take back control, but the carrier is the only one who never wanted you gusy killed." Kimmy was trying to control her womanly emotions, but she couldn't.
"Shut up," Sam mumbled. It was so low, Seifer wasn't really sure if he heard it or imagined it. He considered asking if she was alright, but decided not to. It's not like it was the first time he'd seen her in a corner mumbling to herself. Meanwhile, Kimmy was whining about not killing the chick who'd populated the ship with unstoppable monsters. She was crying and making a big scene, but he never considered asking if she was okay. She's such a f**king drama queen. "So the carrier wants to take back control, huh? I guess she couldn't do that without our help... that's why she tried to keep us alive. Compassion didn't have s**t to do with it. But any help is good help. We need to find her and see if she'll be of any use to us."
"So if we can help the carrier control them we can turn them against the goverment. No one would ever know, the government have lied to use and said they were out enemy we could use them take them down and put our own system in place. If she supports us why is Echo and that lightning guy out to get us then?" None of this made sense. No one was in control or in charge. This was ridiculous.
"YOU DON'T KNOW THE CARRIER....the carrier really is compassionate, the carrier is really kind...you don't know the carrier, don't make the carrier the bad guy...me yes, Silver yes, Echo yes, but not the carrier....she begged for them to give you updates or somehow help you," Kimmy said, "You know nothing....NOTHING!" Kimmy was crying again. She couldn't control herself any more. "You've changed....you've changed you look exactly like him, but you've changed you've turned into something you told me you wouldn't become," Kimmy paused, "You said you do anything for me because you loved me...and now you've forgotten me and hate me...well I hate you to and I don't want to help you any more....you're completely dismiss my feelings." Kimmy threw the crescent shape necklace at Seifer with forced and went to make her way through Seifer and Damien out the door with tears streaming down her face. From what Blaine could tell from the ground the woman wasn't lying. Woman were weird when they told the truth. They held it with such emotional value that they began a fussy fight with anyone. They let their emotions become their morals, but in some way it useful for them. But at the same time with a group of men it could harm them. She was obviously hurt by something and he knew Kimmy's emotions were her truth and her morals like any woman. "Looks like your girlfriend wants to break up," Blaine said.
"I'm sorry if your not with us we can't allow you to leave." he stepped out in front of the girl blocking her path. She couldn't be allowed to alert anyone else of where they were. "Compassionate or not she's still acountable for what shes created, the destruction those things cause. Utopian theory! We kill her for the greater good, take a life to save 100's"
"Its not the carriers fault, its not I promise you....the carrier never wanted the Cyberstone kill anyone," Kimmy said. Kimmy stared at him. "Why won't you understand?" Kimmy asked, "I can only be with someone who can understand that."
Seifer picked up the necklace and caught her before she could get out the door. "I don't hate anybody in this room," he said. "Don't think that way. I just don't remember you. To me, it's like we just met for the first time. How am I supposed to love somebody I don't even know?" He paused. "Maybe I have changed a little. What did you expect? It's been a long time. But I know there's one thing about me that will never change: If I saved you then, I'll save you now. The same goes for everyone else here." He held out the necklace to her. "That's just the kind of guy I am."
