The Way Back [Book 2 of One Tragic End to a Million Stories]

Telepathic Distress Signal

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--