The Collaboration Files

I've Got Bugs Skittering Over My Toshiba....

So, Ja. This is the next part. And I would just like to send out a special Thank You for all of you reading right now. You're fantastic!

Okay, kids, this chapter is COMPLICATED. Do not read if you're not in the mood for really complex, really confusing read. Because even I don't know what I'm saying. Sorry, but I'm tired and I'm sick, so my head is foggy, and so sorry if this chappy is super mind-numbingly confusing.

If you haven't guessed by now, I'm KindlingDragonsFire, or Birch. So, enjoy the next chapter.

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Lizzy had just blacked out, and meanwhile, drama was unfolding across the computer's screen. Artemis was calm and collected, acting as if he owned the place, and even though there was no color or sound, I could see he was angry. I'm skilled in lip reading, and sign language, as well as reading body language, and I could see that even though Artemis was cool and in control, there was rage in his actions. I couldn't see Butler anywhere, but I was sure he was near. But where was the woman with the Auburn hair?

         Anywho, Lizzy had recovered slightly, and I was scared that Artemis might pull a gun on someone, so I turned off the computers.

“So what now?” I asked. We couldn’t go home, not with Artemis there, and I was sure all of our electronics were bugged, so those wouldn’t be very helpful.

“Well, we could try and locate those faeries Artemis kept talking about,” Lizzy answered.

“Ja, but if we go looking for them, and they think we’re gonna harm them, then they’ll think we’re exposing our own kind (If we really are faeries).”

“Ugh. It’s like writers block!” Again, Lizzy flopped back on the bed. “This is so confusing. I just want to leave here, and when I come back it’ll be all over.”

“That’s confusing in itself,” I laughed. She joined in, and soon, I heard the telltale thump of some irritated hotel guest that was trying to sleep. We quieted down, but fits of giggles overtook us every once in a while.

Eventually, when we stopped chuckling, I got serious again.

“But what do we do? I mean…”

Then it smacked me in the face.

“ARTEMIS! I’M GONNA WRING HIS SCRAWNY LITTLE NECK!!!”

“What!?” Lizzy looked perplexed by this sudden outburst.

“If he was here, that boy we saw at the library wasn’t him. But it’s too coincidental, because they looked exactly alike. Then again, the boy at our houses mightn’t be Artemis, and the boy at the library was he. It’s confusing, but I think he was at the library, and the person at our homes was someone else. I don’t think it’s a good idea to go looking around, though.”

I pulled out the one bag I had brought with the food and books, and started to rifle through it all. Eventually, I had the one thing I knew was safe from Artemis and his bugs. My Toshiba.

With a picture of a TARDIS and Yin-Yang on front, this was no ordinary computer. What seemed like stickers were really power boosters, making the computer go faster than it was supposed to, and creating it’s own Cloud. The TARDIS was like a real TARDIS, dimensionally transcendental, with unlimited data-storage and a firewall that was impassable. Even with all the security, I was sure Artemis had managed to overtake the system.

I checked. No change that was seeable, but I was sure it was there. Lizzy watched over my shoulder as I typed in code after code of encrypted text that only I knew of and would be potentially embarrassing to me if anyone read it. Yet I’m sure no one would be able to figure out, even if they did manage to decode the symbolism. There was still the Randoms code that they had to bypass, and no one I knew could figure out the Randoms code. But that just might’ve changed.

I watched as binary crossed the screen, in perfect rhythm to my own computer’s system, I was sure. All the passwords and encryptions I had managed to cram onto the computer began to decode themselves as the computer, for lack of a better word, relaxed. There was no explanation but Artemis. I heaved a small sigh, and cracked the computer onto the floor, breaking it in half, and severing the Cloud, along with the dimensionally transcendentalation.

I peeled off the stickers, along with all the data attached to them, and sighed. Artemis had destroyed my system, my family, and now I was deteriorating. This was madness. Pocketing the data chips, I turned to Lizzy.

“We’re gonna have to hang low for a while.”

Lizzy smiled, tired. Curling up on the pillow, she fell asleep.

I huffed once, letting all my exasperation out, and, following Lizzy’s example, I fell asleep.

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Well... ya. This chapter was probably really confusing with all the tech stuff... sorry 'bout that. I was just in a Zone.... I had my 'techie face' on, or so some of my amigos tell me. Just remember, be dimensionally transcendental!

It's the only way you'll survive.

Lmol.