When we were walking back, I asked Jessica about the other Googles. "Are they all like the one that we have?"
"No. They have different personalities. Red is kind of a... He's kind of a butthole. Yellow-- Yellow has a name. Oliver. He's like a cinnamon roll. And Green's-- Well, I don't know Green very well. You and I have a lot in common."
"What do you mean?"
"Trauma. The incident in fourth grade. Seventh grade."
"Seventh grade? When they treated us like we were--"
"--More worthless than a dead clam."
"Are you reading my mind with your powers?"
"No. We just have a lot in common. And that's a quote from Jaiden Animations."
"Who?"
"YouTube."
"Wow. Uh... Those are some amazing psychic powers..."
"Yeah... I actually wanna get rid of them. I want to be normal, again."
"Hm. Okay. Maybe Dark can help. For now, we need them, though. Sorry."
"Yeah, no, I got that. I can send a distress signal to Earth."
"How?" I asked.
"Telepathically."
"Oh."
"Yeah. Just give me a moment." She looked as if she was trying to think of something. "Okay. It's out. Now, we wait. I can do pretty much anything. You want me to create an exact replica of someone? Gotcha. I can actually help you contact Yancy. Put you on, like, a telepathic call. You can read each other's thoughts."
"Can you?" I smiled excitedly.
"Yeah! Here!"
I wonder how Y/N is doing... Yancy thought of me. He thought of how I looked.
Yancy? Yancy! I'm on a telepathic call with you! We can read each other's thoughts! It's Y/N!
Y/N?! How is this possible?
I met this nice girl. Her name is Jessica. She's me from another universe. One of the universes she went through gave her psychic powers.
Oh. I wish that I could meet her. Also, it took me a week, but I finally remembered what happened with the multiverse. How is youse?
I'm... I wish I could say I'm good, but I'm stuck on a different planet. It's just like earth, but I think we're the only creatures that are alive. Google dropped off some dangerous AIs here.
Oh no! Is youse okay?!
The AIs haven't done anything bad. Yet. We sent out a telepathic distress signal.
Y/N... Come home soon... I miss youse...
I miss you too.
You two are so cute.
I looked at Jessica. "Jess!"
"Sorry..."
"It's okay."
That's Jess.
Hi, Jess.
She'll be in prison with us.
Cool.
How's prison been?
It's been... tiring... without youse. I miss youse so much. Sometimes, I cry myself to sleep because of how much I miss youse.
I'll come. I promise.
There was a thud.
What was that?
What was what?
Captain, we have to go.
Why? What is it?
There is other life here. I just forgot to tell you. It thinks... It--

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The Way Back [Book 2 of One Tragic End to a Million Stories]
FanfictionThe Captain had to go back. They had to. For Yancy. But things go wrong. Again. They should have known. Everything always goes wrong for them, but this? This was unpredictable. Cover by: @mirthfulmark