The light turns green and the car once again moves forward, the small girl that was staring at Yula watches as it leaves, she looks up at the street that the car was driving on. “Did you see his eyes? They were white. That was the oracle... wasn’t it daddy...?”
A voice that sounds as if it were playing off of a computer speaker answers her question. “-Yeah that’s him-”
The girl continues to question the voice. “Where do you think they’re taking him?”
The voice speaks up once again. “-From the route they’re taking it’s to another laboratory in the city. I wonder what kinds of complications the military has run into to be moving him like this. Something big must be happening-”
The young girl watches as the car disappears. “Maybe you should find out what’s happening...”
“-You read my mind exactly! I’m already starting to look into it!-“
The small girl seems a little concerned. “Be careful dad, I haven’t updated your security defences for a while. This is the military we’re talking about so-”
“-No worries, no worries! Even if you were years behind in my updates I could still get in and out of their system without so much as being seen-”
The small girl begins walking along the street while still speaking to the voice over the speaker. “Do you think that this has something to do with what’s going on in the Eden of North?”
“-You won’t let that go will you? Why are you so convinced that the military presence in that place is important?-”
The girl begins to explain herself. “You read father’s files on the Eden of North! If they really are true then it could be very bad for everyone!”
There is a silence between the two, the voice from the computer once again speaking up. “-You know, I hate to admit it, but I think you might be right-”
The girl seems excited about this. “Why!? What did you find?”
The young girl comes to a stop when a solid green holographic screen appears in front of her, she gasps as she quickly runs out of sight to where she couldn’t be seen. “Don’t do that when I’m in the middle of a crowd! What if someone sees?”
“-What are you so worried about? They can’t read any of it-”
The girl lets out an annoyed growl as she takes a large pair of glasses from one of her pockets. “Honestly for someone that’s supposed to be smart you can sometimes be so dense!” She puts the glasses on, the green screens changes from a solid colour to a screen full of pictures and information under the lenses of the glasses.
“-It seems that the military ran into some interesting information very recently that was compiled from some tests that were taken from a new subject they had acquired last night-”
The young girl stares the screen as she reads the vast amount of information over. “They got their confirmation...”
“-The reason that subject #1502 was moved from his previous facility to another, was because the military was afraid of the complications that would arise if he were to come across their newly acquired subject, subject #2800356-”
The young girl doesn’t seem shocked in the least. “Well I’m not surprised! Just look at this information! I can hardly believe it myself!!”
“-There’s a much bigger situation happening right now. The military has been acting vigorously in the last two years over nothing but suspicions and assumptions. Now that they have their confirmation on the existence of what they’re looking for, things are going to get very bad-”
The holographic windows close, the girl removes her glasses and continues on her way. “We have to do something, with the oracle being moved to a building with a lower security standard we might just have that opening we’ve been looking for, and well... even if we don’t do anything things are just going to get way worse right? There’s got to be something that we can do to interfere with their plans.”
“-I beg you not to get mad at me for saying this, but what in all honesty could you possibly do? You’re just a little girl, one that’s terrified of stepping foot in public unless it’s absolutely necessary-”
The young girl comes to a stop just as she begins climbing up some steps to a building. “There’s a reason for that and you know it!” She sighs to herself, taking a key from her pocket and opening the front door to the apartments in front of her, making her way through the halls until she reaches the door to her apartment, unlocking and entering it, closing and locking the door securely behind her.
She begins to take her many layers of outer clothing off, throwing everything she removed around her onto heaps of clothes already on the floor while the voice over the speaker continues to speak with her. “-I’m just saying that this is a situation that’s far out of your league, it’s best just to stay out of it, and if you can’t do that then to get someone to help you that can. This isn’t something that you can do alone-”
The young girl takes the last article of her outwear off, her features no longer hidden. She’s not like the other people that lived in the city. Her skin smooth and without fur, her face small and flat without a muzzle or button nose, her cat-like orange ears and tail are the only thing animal-like about her, everything else looking human=like. “What other choice do I have dad...? I’m not like anyone that lives here... I have no one to ask for help.”
She lifts her arm looking to a small computer that was modeled to fit around her arm, she turns it off and opening a compartment, taking a small memory card from it, she then walks over to a small contraption on the floor of her home, she places the memory card inside of it and then turns it on. The tiny robot booting up, lifting itself up from its ragdoll like sleep and checking it’s joints to make sure everything was working, the voice that had been speaking to the young girl now coming from the small robot. “-Lumia you know I only worry about you. I’m your father after all I can’t help it-”
Lumia frowns as she turns away from the small robot, making her way over to a computer and sitting down in front of it, the small robot spins around on its wheels and follows after her, the young girl speaks to the robot as she begins to power up her computer. “You’re not my father... you’re just a program that was made by him... my real father is out there somewhere, and I’m going to find him.”
The small robot circles the chair that Lumia now sits in. “-I’m much more than that, I was created to take his place, I have his research, his memories, I even synthesize his voice perfectly!-”
Lumia doesn’t seem interested in what the program had to say, these all things that she knew. “You don’t ‘worry about me’ you have to actually be a living thing to be able to do that.” It has been several years now since Lumia’s father had left home and gone missing, leaving her in the care of this odd program he has created to take his place. Instead of just continuing on and accepting a silly little program as her dad Lumia had instead been searching for him ever since waking to find him gone.
She stops the small robot from circling around her chair by blocking its path with her foot. “Now can you help me out here? This is important, we already know the True Bloods and the Domestic Military are after that same thing that was in Dad’s files, if either the True Bloods or the Domestics get that weapon do you know what will happen to everyone? To the entire world? We have to think of something to keep them both from getting it.”
The small robot backs up, turning around and zooming away from the computer. “-I will make dinner for you-”
Lumia calls out after the small droid annoyed. “Oh come on can’t you do that later?” She gets no response as she watches the robot drive into the kitchen. “At least give me the files that you managed to get when you hacked into the military mainframe today.”
The small robot rolls back over to her, stopping in front of the computer and plugging a USB cord into it, the files that he had downloaded now copying onto the computer, Lumia looks back at them and begins to read through them. “Thank you Daddy.”
She pauses when coming across some files of members related to project 1502. “Teddy Conner, doesn’t this guy live in our building?”
The small robot answers her question. “Teddy Conner occupies the third apartment on the fourth floor. He moved in exactly two years and sixty four days ago.”
Lumia looks up at the ceiling, that being the apartment right above them. “I thought he was just a security guard... I didn’t know he worked at one of the military labs! All this time I thought he was a mall cop or something. It’s a small world.” She closes his file opening another. “So then... this is her... subject #2800356... wow is she ever pretty.” She frowns to herself, as she reads over the document in front of her. “It doesn’t look like she’s been appointed a permanent guard yet.” She sighs to herself. “I wonder who they’re going to appoint to that. No doubt the best they got on hand right?”
She pauses for a moment going back to Teddy’s file and opening it, the voice that could be heard from the speakers coming from the kitchen. “-Logically, with someone as important as her, they’re going to be appointing someone from the military-”
Lumia doesn’t look up from her monitor. “Yeah... but I bet it would be really convenient for us if someone that lives in the same building as us happened to get the position.” She stretches her fingers before getting to work. “His work record is clean and pretty good to begin with, I’ll hardly have to do any touch ups at all!”
“-Just what exactly are you doing now?-”
Lumia smiles as she begins ‘fixing’ Teddy’s files. “Just fixing something up, and then putting in a few recommendations. Then with a little luck, we’ll have ourselves an inside man to this whole situation!”
“-It’s going to take more than just a patch job to his files for him to get picked up. Mark my words, a prisoner this important is getting a member of the military to look after him. Mr. Conner would have to do something pretty extraordinary for them to change their minds-”
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