Lilith pov.
I looked over at the lady and said now, what do we do?She said first things first.Don't call me lady.My name is Penelope, that guy is Tim.The one that's covering you and the other one that's over.By the door? Where the hell is he? Well, the other guy, that's Joe. He's our resident head medical officer for a lack of better term. Then I replied, "What is the game plan from here?" Like? What are we doing? We just got attact. Penelope responded, saying, "Well, I don't think that was an attack as more or less somebody was trying to get white's attention." I said, "What gives you that impression?" Well, the lack of effect that they just shot the entire front of the house up and nothing more. I said, "Are they going to come back? I mean, what's gonna happen to them from here? Penelope looked me dead in the eye. And said they're already dead. What do you think that crash was a few minutes ago?
White is many things but a reasonable kind man? Isn't one of them. He's a complete utter. Total psychopath but, when it comes to people he cares about. he doesn't leave survivors. Rarely often will he leave survivors, but only if they attack him. He might, but if they attacked his people, they might as well be at their funeral. Just then, the man known as joe walked in the back door. He said I saw everything White pulled up next to them. Said a few words. The driver of the other vehicle hit the gas pulled out right in front of a semi. Their car rolled 8 times. Penelope asked, "How can that be?"
Both cars are here.He looked her dead in the eye and goes.You didn't think he had a third car lying about it's white we're talking about here. She asked what car he was in, joe replied black two door el dorado. She said I thought he'd never be caught dead in a Cadillac.
Joe replied to her saying yeah, anything passed 1999.
But these old V8, he love's them. I then asked. Where are we going from here? Because we definitely can't stay here even I can see that. Joe looked her in the eye and said "we're going home to 2025, and where we have the resources to find out who sent you here, possibly how to get you back home without them knowing?" But I'm gonna have to run a series of medical tests on you to know what you are. And what you may need. Joe looked at Tim and said, "You take the 55 and make sure that there's no more issues in the area that need to be dealt with. Possibly back up White if he needs it, Miss Lilith. You're going with us in the 48 back to 2025.
I asked him. What about white? All 3 of them looked at me like I had 3 heads, and joe said he'll show up when he felt like it. That's how it goes. I then asked.How are we getting back, and how is he getting back?Joe replied both of these cars.Have a doorway key in them. White and walter are the only people who don't need a key. They can naturally open a rift anytime they want. We don't know how they are able to do it. We just know that they can, and they won't spell that tid bit of information with us. What we think it has to do with something that they did in space, but we're not sure. Outer.
Space, no one's been there. He just laughed and said, "Oh yeah, we've been to the moon and other places. Just wait and see." Oh, by the " Way, Miss Lilith Joe said you should be lucky to know. We normally don't share this information with outsiders.
Joe then took the IV out of my and said, "Let's get going. The longer we stay here, the longer more trouble has a chance of showing up. He led me over to the back seat of the Tucker 48. I have never been in one of these since there's only 48 of them ever made.I sit down in the back seat and realize this is actually quite nice, Before exhaustion puts me into a deep sleep yet again.
I wake with a jerk as I realize Joe is shaking my knee saying I would normally let you sleep.But you're gonna wanna see this.Because this is your first time seeing the compound.And it is an amazing site.He turned ahead, drove over the hill.And said welcome to the skeegland fortress. Just before. We pulled through what looked like another miss cloud in a backfield in Michigan. My eyes went blurry.
When my eyes finally adjusted, and what did I see? But a massive compound.
Aircraft of all sizes taking off and landing. Trucks coming in and out from what appeared to be ancient model t's to extremely modernized hover rigs. I looked dumbfounded. How is this even possible? I say he looked at me and said, "This is the skeegland fortress
Everything thing that can be transported by vehicle. Has come in and out of this place at one point in time or another. This is our home. It is connected to everywhere and nowhere at the same time.
It is also connected to every major point in history. If you wanted to, you can go back and listen to Jesus Christ sermon on the mount. Or or you could go party with Caesar. You also said this place is connected to everywhere and nowhere. He said. Yeah, some of our guys that work on the sand rails in the Sahara go skiing on their lunch break in the Alps or Utah. Also, some of our drivers can drag race the vegas strip, change their setups on their cars, and then drift Around Mount aakina In Japan.Same vehicle same day.
Now miss Lilith , we're going to head straight to my lab so I can start running tests on you to find what supplements you may need. I then replied to him. I just got a check-up from the navy doctor. They said I am perfectly healthy and don't need anything. He laughed at me and said. Was that person by any chance of which doctor? Welcome to Modern Medicine and Science! I'm going to have you tuned. And I lean mean fighting machine by the end of the week. An hour later, after being poked, prodded, and scanned, he finally released me into the care of Penelope. He then said, "Gett out of my office." I've got work to do and pulled a remote out of his desk, and music started playing from the speakers around the room. Penelope then said dream on by Aerosmith, really? He said, "I don't judge you for what you listen to now." Get out. As we left Joe's office, Penelope turned to me and asked "so are you hungry?" I said, "Yeah, what's on the menu tonight?" I believe it's chef special, but I'll have to look. I think this week chef special is chicken Alfredo. Humm, I say All right.Then let's go Penelope said. When we made it down to the mess hall, she said. Let me introduce you to Sasha. He is our greatest host that we have on-site. He'll set you up with whatever you want. Alright, then let me give it a try. I say I walk up to the counter. He said, "What can I get you? I said I want the side salad with blue cheese crumbles and the Italian vinegar at the chicken Alfredo, with fresh ground black pepper over the top with plenty of shredded parmesan cheese. He took a deep sigh and said Walter. You can quit with that fucking voice modulator right now.
Is it an Arnold Palmer and Crown, or is it a bird dog from the bottle Knight? I looked at him and said, "I'm not Walter, who is Walter." I keep hearing about this Walter fella, but I'm not him he turned around and went. "Oh, my apologies, Miss coming right up." I turned to Penelope and asked what was that about? she said, "That is Walter's exact food order."
When will I actually meet this guy? She said, "I don't know." Walter is an acquired taste. You know how we said that white was the founder of our order well. Walter is the founder of the company that funds the order. As we collected our trays and went and sat down at the table. I overheard a couple of the other men in the room's conversations from the tables to my right and left. The table to my right. The conversation was about parently. A fella named specter and a fella named Phantom were down in someone named Dragon's lab working on cars. Getting them prepared for something called a nest burning operation. I don't know what that means. I'll have to ask Penelope about it later. But the table to my left is what really picked my interest. They were talking about Joe being up in his lab. Apparently, when he's playing Aerosmith. Whatever that is, he is really working through something complicated. They also said something that. Got my attention again. Apparently, vehicle girls are not common and are completely unheard of here.
The one gentleman said, "Yeah, wouldn't I like to have that jump my bones?"
And give me the ride of a lifetime. The other one just snickered and said, "Wouldn't that be frowned upon?" The other replied. "You know the policy as long as they're not married, and it doesn't affect the mission." Enjoy life. While you can for tomorrow, you will die."
The other man just chuckled and said. Yes, for tomorrow. We die the day after that will live again. And then the day after that will die again.
Walter is the only one that has guaranteed of they're being tomorrow. After all, he was here when the time began, and he'll be here when time ends. Then, they both men broke out into maniacal laughter. I turned to penelope and asked what they mean when they say Walter can't die. I thought white was the only one that couldn't. She took a deep breath.
And said now I'm gonna spill some more beans to you about what we really do.
She said. When you come through a rift, you are partially 2 places at once. In an extreme emergency, you can collapse the rift, but doing that causes you to be split into 2. Both good and bad will remain at the same time in each half. But one side will be more tentative to the darker, and one side will be more tentative to the light.
With white's case.
He is the lighter side. And Walter. Is the darker.
But the lighter has the more extreme swings of good and bad.
When you collapse a rift. You have 2 choices either work with the half that was split. Or kill it and return it to the hole.
I looked at her stunned. You can be split in half.
She said this job is extremely dangerous. But we do extremely important work to keep time marching on.
Now finish up your food. I need to find someone who can give you a tour. Because I've got a lot of work to catch up on. I finished up my food, which was absolutely delectable. She and I grabbed our trays , dropped them off at the wash counter we were walking Out of the mess hall, when I asked her.Why were you giving joe such a hard time for the music That he chose to play in the background of him working She chuckled and said it's not the music. It's what it represents. it represents jumping into something, not knowing what's at the bottom or what's ahead. It's one of our old Paratrooper traditions. They sing, and they play music to phyce themselves up for the jump, and when it's go time, they play that song. Even I have to admit it's bad ass when they do it. Now it's time to introduce you to some of the big wigs around here.