Undercover Goose - book 6

Part 2 - Tidings of doom

One evening after school, Miguel and I were sitting in Licia's room, just across rue Sumac street from Silverwood School, sharing a pizza. Both of her parents were out so the house was quiet.

 'Your bedroom looks tidier than the last time?' Miguel commented. 'But why do you have so many Barnies?'

Licia looked at the four, stuffed purple dinosaurs on her bed. 'When I was two years old, I liked to sleep on the bathroom floor. So my mother bought more so I could sleep on them.'

I looked out the window at Silverwood School. 'I wonder if Triple Oh could check up on Yonnie and Treeka,' I said, 'we really don't have any proof that their story is plausible.' 

'We could ask them,' Licia suggested as she turned to her computer, Maybe they're back on line.'

 'No! Don't!' Miguel and I said at the same time. But we were too late. Licia had tapped in her password and the tranquil interlude, since our last adventure, was about to end. 

 Yonnie and Treeka were two future computer algorithms, or programs, who existed on the Internet. They had become independently self aware and had developed the ability to hack any computer system ever built. They had searched back through time to find their origins and for their Great Mother. They had scanned every computer until they eventually found she was Oppy, the incredible quantum computer invented by Dr Zhang at Silverwood School.

They did not like that name so they had renamed her Mandia. Oppy/Mandia had discovered the technology which allowed Dr Zhang to travel back in time. In the process she had spawned back-up programs that had independently evolved into Yonnie and Treeka. 

 Oppy/Mandia's daughter programs, Yonnie and Treeka, had watched thousands of videos available on Netflix and other web sites and when they appeared on Skype they adopted the human personas of teenaged girls. Yonnie had a jet black face with green eyes surrounded by curly green hair. Treeka had blue eyes and waist length blond hair that was even lighter than mine. They both wore long silvery dresses. 

 'All hail, Lords Ziff, Miguel and Licia, prophets of the Great Mother,' they chorused. 'We bring tidings of doom.' 

Miguel groaned. 'Well that's a good way to start a conversation. What's wrong now?'

'Denny is being interrogated by C-SIS (Canadian Security and Intelligence Service),' Yonnie said cheerfully. 'Watch this.'

Denny Vernier was Dr Zhang's chief engineer and business partner. We had shared some interesting experiences with him on the Titanic and, later, as part of a Shanghaied crew on a British warship in 1778.

Licia's monitor switched to a split screen view and I almost fell of my stool when Denny's trade mark handlebar mustache filled half the screen. We were looking through the camera on his computer.