White pov
I pulled up out in front of Tony's place.Told the others to wait in the car walked in the front door there were some armed men sitting at the table.I paid them no mind and walked right up to the receptionist.
She looked up at me and said Mr. White. We've been expecting you. Please come back. I noticed she was not the same one from yesterday. Interesting. I thought I walked into Tony's office. He was waiting for me. I take what you found what I wanted you to find. You mean the key screen from a vehicle? Yeah, I found it. Where did you find it? I found it in old 32 Ford. Must be the same one we lost in 36. You'd be correct. I sat down. Alright, Tony, give up the gig. Why did you quit? I gotta know.
Tony looked me in the eye and said, "Because I wanted to live a semi normal life." And well now here I am.
Normal life being the most notorious ma boss in detroit. He just shrugged his shoulders.
If I keep my ear to the ground in the underground, I learned things a hell of a lot quicker than if I was a straight lace shooter, Besides, it allows me to be where I'm needed. Good news. I think I also found the electroheart and the skyline horizon. That's good. How long have they been missing? He replied Well at this point in time." We're not sure, but we're transporting them back to base. Universe 4088. You'd be correct. Never like that place. It always gave me the creeps now. Tony said now to the matter of payment for services rendered. Here you go, white, one interdimensional key. Thanks. Keep your ear to the ground for me, and let me know if you need any help. You guys are always welcome around here.Besides, I could know you guys can handle yourselves in a fight.
I'll keep that in mind.Also, what happened to your old receptionist. I fired her. She was bad for business. She?
Angered a notorious friend of mine, and then she got you slightly Pissed off, and I've seen what happens when you're angry?
Oh, you mean you've seen what happens when Walter is angry? I said "No brother, I mean you." Tony said. I saw what happened when you came across that camp in poland it was hideous, man. I know they were nazis, but did you actually have to do that?So you were there for that, I take it.I was one of the G.I.'s assigned to escort you. That was back before I joined the organization and this outfit. I nodded to him. I must be getting back to headquarters.It's been fun talking to you, old friend.Hey stop in some time.I'll always have fresh spaghetti for you.I waved to him as I walked out the door the chef met me in the entry way and handed me a bag sandwiches for you and your guests. How much do I owe you?You don't owe me a thing , sir. You always take care of the boss's needs, and that's good enough for me. Thank you, old friend. I'll be seeing you not too soon. I hope, but soon enough that we can reminisce about this. Good luck. And I hope you find some new dishes to serve always old friend.
I walked out to the car. Got into the driver's seat and passed out sandwiches. here, everyone eats something before we get back.
We all dug in. The sounds of enjoyment from the ladies in the back seat brought a smile to my face. I looked over a max. He just nodded that the chef really knew how to make a good sandwich, doesn't he? Yes, he does. I replied.
So when we're all finished eating, we're gonna head back to the fortress. I said, and then we're going to head straight to the lab. They start running some medical tests on you. Ladies to find out exactly how you ended up in this predicament, you are in Amy said.
Yeah. It's going to be a long story. I just hope that whatever happens, we're going to be able to walk away from this without too much poking and prodding. Oh, I'm assuming there's going to be a lot of poking and prodding. I said, "Along with you're probably going to have to go visit dragon," a groan escaped, Andy. Not him. I replied.Oh yes, I'm 90% sure.I know exactly what you are definitely gonna have to go visit Dragon. Now let's get going.We drove through a rift to get back to 2025, and I pulled up. To building C garage 6. We all exited. The car walked over to the elevator and went up to the medical floor.
We were making our way down the hallway when I noticed miho. And Lilith making their way towards us greetings. Ladies, I said, what brings you up to here? Miho said we're on our way to see Joe.What about you, same?I believe these 2 ladies need a full medical examination.We're here to pick up the results from yesterday. I nodded. Alright, let's head inside. I opened up the door to Joe's lab. And saw Annie working at his desk typing away on his computer, going over reports. I said. Where is Joe? She doesn't even look up from her work and says he's sleeping off a massive hangover. He's in the main lab if you want to go wake him up. I've got too much work to do, and I'm assuming the ladies that are with you are the ones that are here for the examination. You would be correct, I said. I'm gonna enjoy this, ladies. If you don't mind, please stand over by the observation window. And watch as I expertly. Kindly wake up sleeping beauty in the other room.
Joe pov.
I was blissfully in dreamland flattening pedophiles with a steamroller watching their brains pop like zits. When I was rudely brought back to reality by someone inserting a smelling salt stick in my nose. I flew up off the cot, flopping around, trying to get the thing out when my eyes adjusted it as I sneezed it out. I looked up and saw white standing there with a grin across his face, saying good morning, sleeping beauty. I reached up and punched him in the gut.That's what you fucking get asshole. I heard laughing coming from the open door when I turned around and saw through the observation window, my dear. Annie was laughing her ass off along with the other women in the room. Max just grinned at me.
I took a deep breath and said, "I hope you all enjoyed the show and took a bow." White was groaning over in the corner going. I guess I deserve that at least we gave our visitors a good show. Didn't we? I just said yeah, I guess we did. Did you really have to use the smelling salt, though? I wanted to be thorough. He said all right now I'm awake. What's the game plan? Well, that there is Amy and Andy that you're gonna have to give full.Medical examinations to I believe amy is the electroheart and andy is the skyline horizon. I hope.
They've eaten something today because I'm gonna need extra samples to send down to Dragon. He replied. Yeah, we had a sandwich from the chef.
Tony's chef. I presume you would be correct, "he said. Alright, let's go out so I can greet our guests. We walked out of the main lab into my office, where I greeted our guests. One of the women had Auburn hair and green eyes.She took my hand and shook it and said hello, I am Amy. I noded hello, Amy.I.
Am joseph ments. Joe for short. I will be talking to you in a few minutes, and we will go over your medical And I will need to take medical samples.You know, blood, hair, spit, and urine. I turned to the other newcomer in the room.And I said, "Who might you be?She turned me and said, "My name is Andy.Well, hello, andy I am joe. I am also gonna need the same from you. We're also gonna take your heights. Your weights, your temperature test, your eyesight, and normal medical examination. I turned to my assistant, Annie, and said. Do you mind taking miss Andy?I need to take Miss Amy in that way.We can work faster to get all.We need to send this to lab. l also need to get samples to send down to Dragon. will do doctor she replied. Right this way, Miss Andy, if you please.
I turned Amy just a moment.Please, I have to get something for Miss Lilith. I have these meds for you. One is to help you with the T. D. S the other is to help you breathe. Build muscle, burn a little bit of excess fat. Help your eyesight. Basically, this is a jack-of-all-trades medicine. We give it.
To our soldiers all the time, there are no side effects to either.
Except maybe you might have an increased appetite. And you might be a little more tired from stressful exercise. But other than that, there are no lingering unintended consequences. I'd also like to take a couple more samples from you if that was okay and send those down to Dragon as well. Because you 3 ladies have a unique situation that the fact that you've all been to dimension 4088 as machinery, and I'd like to send Igor. With some data.
We just want to.
Make sure that there are no lingering side effects of being outside of dimension 4088 for any of you. Just to make sure that there are even on undeniable. Results, I'm going to send some samples from myself. Miss miho and Miss Annie just to make sure that there is no confusion on lingering effects. From being outside your home. Now, let's begin testing.
The 2 o'clock hour was quickly approching awhen. I finished up gathering all the samples. I put them into a lock box. Put the box in a bag and slung it over my shoulder.
I looked at Annie and said. Watch the lab for a bit.I'm headed down to R&D. Did you really put my samples in there?Yes, I did.I'm gonna have a talk with igor. This is a conversation that I wanna have in his lab with him and him alone. I'm going to.
Ask him to look into what you asked for earlier.
She looked at me with that hopeful expression like, really? Yes, yes, I'm gonna see if I can what you really, really want. We're just gonna see if it's even possible for now. O k thank you. She said. I made my way down to the R&D. Walked. I saw igor looking out the window. Sipping a cup of coffee. It was of the picturesque Balkan coast.
I walked up to him and said, "Miss home."
He looked at me and said. You know, I left home because of all the fighting and political strife. never would have dreamed that I work here in mechanics lab testing. Highly dangerous unknown compounds fanciful devices and complete an utter total madness. But you wanna know what I'm happy here? I'm free to do whatever I please. I only have to answer to who what Walter, white, jack, dan, you, and maybe penelope. So where?
Is all of your assistants? He reached over to grab another coffee cup.Fill it up, handed it to me, and said, "This is a conversation that no one else needs to be privy to." Well, let's start at the beginning. What do you know about Annie? He took a sip from his coffee cup. Then he looked at me and said she's an M1. Abrams, isn't she? Yes, she I said. he took another ship from his coffee. So what's your real reason for coming down here? You brought me some samples from dimension 4088 and and you brought me samples from Annie. I did. I also brought some samples from Miss miho. And myself, I didn't want to give away the game just yet. I took it.You also brought some from Miss Lilith yup.And Andy, and amy. You still haven't answered my question on why you're really down here. I took a sip for my coffee and took a deep breath, then said Annie wants to become fully human. Is there a possibility we could even attempt it? Safely without it hurting her. He looked out the window and said I'm not sure.
I'll have to go through what samples you brought me and maybe I can figure it out.
But this is highly irregular. Are we gonna try to keep this from Walter. How I asked. The man knows everything that goes on in this compound.I wouldn't be surprised if he's bugged the room. From the corner of the room.A light flicked on. no, i'm just here. Said a man in a trench coat and wide brimmed hat. The way I look at it, everything is possible even the impossible if you try hard enough.But what's you're asking is to turn a machine human, are we talking?You know human in the sense of heart, mind, and sole. Or are we talking human as in possibly?Get every disease, die, flesh, and bone.
The latter, I responded. well shit I just have to know one thing. Was this your idea, or was this hers? It was her idea, sir.
He just nodded, you know. Part of me wants to do this for someone else. But I know by the time we have this all figured out. She'll be long dead.
So you already know. What information I buried last night. Yes, I do. Even though Dragon can be trusted loose lips.Sink ships so keep that information in your head.
I nodded to him and will do, sir. He flicked off the light. I turned back to Igor and said, "Let's get these samples out of this box and into a cold storage." I turned back to the corner of the room and noticed that Walter was gone. I turned to Igor and said how the fuck did he do that?. Igor turned to me and said you'll get used to it. After the 15th to 47th time he does that to you.
I still don't know how he's able to move in and out silently. That is something we will never know.