Beyond the home

[FC] Chapter 16

FILLER CHAPTER!
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"We can save Nooshy, but...why they wanted her there?" Sweetie asked, as they were travelling to the cottage in real time.

"There were some goggles for virtual reality, and a suit with cables, probably to the virtual reality." Timur said. "So I think they put her into a virtual world, where she sees and feels everything as if she was there."

"And having her real form now..." "Means it's even harder to know." Timur said. "But making a virtual world is hard, and can be only made with knowledge, not dynamically."

"So there is just what someone knew." Sweetie added, understanding. She wasn't stupid, she understood technology really great, and the rest was okay too.

"But I'm gonna disappoint you, Chase won't be there probably." Timur said.

"You think he went looking for Valerie?" Sweetie asked, worried. He shook his head, a hologram appearing out of her collar, showing a dot on a mountain.

"I put a tracker in the bag you gave to Valerie, so we will know if Chase comes close to her." Timur said. "And also, just so you were calmer knowing where was she."

"Thanks." Sweetie said, cracking a smile.

"Anyway, the plan is simple." "Fly down, take Nooshy, get away. Got it." Sweetie said, as Timur nodded. "And then straight to Calatonia." 

"Yeah." Timur nodded, and sighed, turning his head to see the control panel on the ship.

"Something wrong?" Sweetie asked. 

"Yeah...just..." "It's Porsha, isn't it?" Sweetie asked, getting a nod as an answer. "I thought you were a great couple."

"Not that great...

"You always leave when I finish!" Porsha screamed at Timur, who only nodded, knowing she was right. 

"When I finish my job, I just want to rest and be with my partner, but no, you have more important things god knows where!" Porsha said. 

"Porsh, I try." "Just send me a simple note saying 'oh, I have some company things' then leaving me there alone." Porsha said.

"I'm sorry." Timur said, scared to do anything.

...and there were more of them." Timur said, sighing.

"I always thought you have Jarvis running your company while you are away." Sweetie said, the orange sphere appearing on a hologram.

"I cannot manage sidet industries." Jarvis said, as Timur nodded.

"Did you talk to her about it?" Sweetie asked.

"Yes, of course." Timur said. "But she was right, as always. And yesterday was the same."

Sweetie looked at him confused.

"The dimensional travel program you have seen on Lyoko and saved us...that was just a part of everything." Timur said, taking out his glasses, and handing them out to Sweetie. "This should help you understand."

Sweetie let him put the glasses on her head, as they immediately darkened everything around.

Then there was a sphere, an orange one like Jarvis.

"Jarvis is the main control of the whole operation. He can handle every request thrown at him, act autonomously, and be effective."

She thought that it would be just a recording, but Timur was explaining it to her.

"But even he is a program. A program that could control anything, but not do anything." 

Then, the sphere flew away, and it displayed three things.

"With this you are already familiar. The proxy to the multidimensional travel."

The two black spheres appeared in front of her.

"But this...wasn't everything."

The spheres flew away, and got replaced by a structure, that looked like a DNA helix.

"While there are buttons and technology for sending commands, the neural link was always the best option. That's why you are able to hear, and talk to anyone even if your mask isn't on. Your collar always worked as a relay to it, and it helped you numerous times, just think of them."

And the structure disappeared.

"And this was the reason Porsha argued with me." 

In front of her appeared a gooey, black substance, surrounded by some kind of protection.

"This is Glous, an immortal, deadly substance, something like a venom, that, if having a carrier, can make them a superhero. The problem is that it's unstable, and targets only one person."

She felt the glasses being taken off, revealing Timur looking at her.

"Me." Timur said. "And if it attacks me, it could make me do anything, even be able to duplicate it."

Sweetie opened her mouth wide. She didn't know that he would have this much weight on his shoulders. 

"I'm gonna sound selfish, but I just don't want it to make me hurt Porsha, or my family, or you." Timur said. 

"Porsha will surely understand." "She will, but...she would worry, and that would mean she would do anything to sacrifice herself, which I don't want to." Timur said.

"I...thought the same when I met Chase." Sweetie said. "I was going to sacrifice myself for him, because of everything that was happening with him."

Timur listened, as Sweetie recalled the memories from a long time ago.

"He was...everything to me." Sweetie said. "And when he came to me after the whole fiasco with the tower...as if a new sense came to me to worry about him more."

Sweetie looked out of the window, seeing the snowy Alps as they flew over them at blazing fast speed.

"And that's why I want to know what I did wrong." Sweetie said, letting her tears out. "Why he must be like this."

"I know you had a rough childhood, so you thought..." "Yes, that I could finally relax and be happy once I met Chase." Sweetie said. "Funny thing was he never wished me happy birthday."

"He didn't?" "Only once, but that was when Marshall told him on a mission once back when the Paw Patrol existed." Sweetie said, chuckling. "And I doubt this year's he will." 

"And all be-" "No, you did the right thing." Sweetie turned around to face him. "The queen asked you to, so you did it with a reason."