Beyond the home

Chapter 11: Alliance

Sweetie looked at both of them, as they were nervous about something.

"I'm not in a real world, am I?" Sweetie asked, putting everything back inside her collar.

"We can't materlize you in a real world, since you haven't been virtualizated in our scanners." Jeremie said, standing up from his seat. "So I made a virtual world, which allowed you to use your real DNA, meaning you look real."

"So this wasn't all a trick?" Aelita shook her head.

"Either way we'll be meeting in person soon." Sweetie said. "Jarvis, materlization."

She began disappearing, soon appearing inside the scanner where she entered the digital world.

"Alright, let's pay them a real visit."

/-/-/-/

"That...was...amazing."

Ash chuckled, hearing her one-nighter, Peter, say. After the drinks they had they decided on going to his apartment, where they slept...together.

"Anyway, I should go. I'm supposed to be meeting my boss in some time." Ash said, standing up.

But Peter held her back.

"Why not stay with me? You obviously liked it." He said, as Ash shook her head.

"I would like to, if the meeting wasn't important." Ash said, now trying to get up again, but unsuccessful.

Shit. She thought, as Peter laid her back down.

"Okay, just let me message my boss that I'll be late." She said, as he nodded. Ash grabbed her phone from the floor, and unlocked it, heading to messages.

Ash from ash: ffs i m in problems
Ash from ash: this guy wont let go

Piano boi: what
Piano boi: u drunk?

The Moon: No, wait
The Moon: Ash, are you okay?
The Moon: Send your address

Ash from ash: *Location shared*
Ash from ash: i dunno if hes armed

The Moon: Great, you are further than I thought.
The Moon: We are going to get you, we can't risk losing another one.

Ash from ash: wdym

The Moon: Nooshy is still somewhere, Porsha isn't picking up, and I'm gonna have a stroke
The Moon: Johnny, come and pick me up, will you?

Piano boi: k

Ash put the phone down, only to see Peter on top of her.

Fuck. "Another round?" He said, making Ash gulp. It wouldn't be like it was no more.

/-/-/-/

Sweetie flew out of the ship, into an abandoned factory that was about the same size as her room back in the castle. She saw an elevator inside it, so she walked inside. It looked the same as she knew.

Going down, the elevator suddenly opened, revealing the same room where she was before, only now there was no one.

Strange. Was it just a simulation? She thought, walking towards the computer. She jumped up on the seat, and looked at the monitors.

There were many opened windows, displaying different things. She went through all of it; a virtualization window, a map, health bars, network status, and so on. She decided to look further.

Minimizing the windows, she saw the background being two people. The same people she was with before, Jeremie and Aelita.

So they are a couple. Wow. She thought, looking through the files. She spotted a program for materlization of people, so she opened it, and just for fun, she materlizated Aelita and Jeremie, to have a real talk, and being protected for real now.

She gave them a minute, till the elevator opened, revealing both of them in it.

"Welcome to the real world." Sweetie said.

"How did you?" "It's simple. Found where was the supercomputer, and then materialised you back here." Sweetie explained. "So, you know about the proxy, don't you?"

"Yeah, we do." Jeremie said. "We wanted to destroy it weeks ago, but it wouldn't even budge."

"So can I ask you not to destroy it now?" Sweetie asked. "Since it was finally repaired."

"Okay, we won't." "Great!" She jumped down from the seat. "Thanks for the cooperation, Aelita Schaeffer and Jeremie Belpois."

They both looked at her, not understanding how she knew their full names. Sweetie opened the door, revealing empty shaft, through which she flew up, heading back to the ship.

"May I blow it up?" "No, leave it be." Sweetie said. "They could be useful."