Give Me Hope ~ Stefanie Salvatore

~chapter 28~

I look around the deserted area. There is a forest in the distance, but where I am standing is all just sand for at least a few miles.

Hope just continues to look around, and then her eyes land on a large planet far ahead. I look at the planet, and realise there is some sort of rocket coming towards us. We watch it as it crashes a few feet in front of us.

Unsure what is about to come out, we walk to a ledge, so we have the advantage of the higher point.

Soon enough, two people, dressed in all white begin to walk in our direction, bickering to one another.

"Wait. If we are sisters in this world then why am I not a princess too!" One of the individuals say in annoyance, and it echos in the entire area.

Once they are close enough, Hope and I draw our weapons towards them.

"Don't make another move. That salvage is ours." Hope says to the people, referring to the broken rocket.

I look at them for a moment, and suddenly, it clicks. Hope and I rip off our masks and sigh.

"Why the hell did I just say that?" Hope says, confused as to what character took over her.

"We're still tripping, aren't we?" I sigh, and Lizzie and Josie nod.

I look down at my outfit, and see I have heavy set boots on, brown cargo pants, and a blue long sleeve shirt, with a belt that have weapon holders on it. I am also wearing a bandana-like mask, along with some goggles to stop the sand from getting in my eyes. I rip of the goggles off my face in annoyance.

"I have a bad feeling about this..." Hope says.

Hope and I jump off the ledge and walk towards Lizzie and Jo.

"A outer galactic princess..." I say, examining Lizzie's white, delicate outfit, "And her assistive robot sister?" I then look at Jo, examining her robotic-like outfit.

"Don't even get me started..." Josie huffs in annoyance.

"Okay, let's just review our problem.." Hope says, bringing the conversation back to business. "The last thing that I remember is that we were all pandas. Now, we're here, so I'm assuming that this is some sort of shared hallucination?" Hope guesses.

"That computes" Jo nods robotically.

"You really are a robot" I chuckle slightly, but Josie glares at me.

"Android, actually. We just escaped a rocket ship that some evil, Darth Vader wanna-be invaded. Android Josette was very helpful in finding an escape pod." Lizzie says knowingly.

"And you guys are?" Josie asks us.

I think, but nothing comes to mind as to who we are. I look at Hope and shrug.

"We don't know. We just came her to scavenge a wreck. I don't even think we have names." Hope says.

"All that matters is that we find a way to hop off this ridiculous acid trip" I say, determined to be done with this. It was more fun when we were pandas...

"I personally think it's kind of cool" Lizzie says calmly.

"Of course you do"

"You get to be a princess"

"How on brand..."

Hope, Jo, and I all make remarks to Lizzie in annoyance.

"My point is, it's not like we have to do anything. Eventually, that drug that Andi doused us with will wear off, and then we'll just, wake up" Lizzie says, no worry in the world.