Beep

Prologue

Beep, beep, beep. I groaned as I rolled out of bed. "ISAC, it's Saturday, why is my alarm on?" I questioned groggily.
"I'm sorry, Andromeda." His robotic voice said.
"It's been three months ISAC, call me Andy." You'd think he'd learn, he is the newest model of Intelligently Superior Astro Computer. "But don't worry, now I just get to spend even more time with you." I walked over to my closet and slid the door open. "What do you think ISAC, silver, silver or silver today?"
"That is the twenty fourth time you've said that this trip." He said it as more of a count than a 'please stop making that joke'.
"It never gets old." I chuckled at myself. "Seriously though, black, blue or purple?"
"I would say blue today." So I pulled on a very dark blue shirt with two neon blue strips running up the front and matching dark blue pants.

I stepped out of my bedroom and walked down to the main room. This room contained my favourite version of ISAC, not just a voice or a small screen on the wall or anything like that, but the mainframe; the big, sleek, white, happy face adorning mainframe. "Don't you look fine this morning, you really rock the bed head look." I remarked when I saw him.
"I woke up like this." His response combined with his artificial sounding voice was a perfect storm of absolute hilarity. After recovering from my short laughing fit, I sat at the chair in front of the mainframe.
"So, where are the rest of those sleepy heads?" I lifted my feet onto the control panel as I asked that. "How did that beeping not wake them up?"
"Are you kidding? I don't think a fire alarm could wake them up, especially Turner."
"Don't even get me started about Turner, he's been video chatting his girlfriend every day this week and they're the most sugary couple I've ever seen."
"Perhaps a game will get your mind off their annoyingness."
"You just want a rematch in checkers, I now it." I could see straight through his trickery; his programmed, inhuman trickery, but still.
"Would you like to play?"
"Sure, I could beat you in a game or two."
"If that's what you think." He pulled up the game and set me as the red player, per the usual. As the game neared its end, I already knew I had won, I had two kings left and he only had one regular piece.
"Sorry ISAC, good try though, you put up much more of a fight today."
"You've got that right." With that, he jumped both of them in one fell swoop. I gasped as I realized that I'd lost.
"I didn't even... how did I not notice that?"
"Humans, you miss things so easily." He started to laugh, which was my favourite thing ever, because of how monotone, periodic, but also somehow genuine it was.
"Do I hear the cutest laugh ever?" I turned to see Iris standing at the entrance to the main room, smiling.
"Hey, are you flirting with my boyfriend?" I questioned. We had a long running joke that ISAC was my boyfriend, and I played along with glee.
"Of course not, you'd probably kill me if I was."
"So, how did that beeping not wake you up?"
"What beeping?" She asked.
"The beeping of the alarm ISAC accidentally set off this morning." I remarked, not hiding my passive aggressive tone.
"Oh, you know I sleep through alarms even when they're supposed to go off."
"True, obviously that's a big trait you and Turner share."
"Well, he is my brother, you'd expect me to inherit something for him."
"Speak of the devil." I remarked as Turner stepped into the room.
"Hey, I know we've had our problems, but that's no reason to call me the devil." He said.
"Yeah, he's obviously too lazy to go around collecting souls on top of pretending to be normal person." Raymond figured, also entering the room.
"Hold on a second, how did the beeping not wake you up? Iris and Turner I understand, but you?" I questioned.
"I was up late last night reading, I was probably too deep asleep to notice. What beeping are you talking about anyways?" He asked, concerned.
"It was like, just a consistent beeping noise. I thought that ISAC had accidentally set an alarm."
"Are you sure it wasn't a warning about something on the ship?"
"Way ahead of you, but this says everything is operational." Iris told him, looking up at the mainframe screen.
"What if it was an alert about something on Mars?" That's when Raymond just reverted back to being his paranoid self.
"Come on Raymond, we've talked about this. It's just Mars, not Venus." When we had decided to take a group trip to Mars three months ago, he had easily been the most anxious about the journey and kept a tight grip on that title even today.
"Andy, are you sure you actually heard something and aren't just going crazy?" Iris inquired. 
"I can confirm that Andromeda did hear an alarm that I set off accidentally."
"There, so there's no reason for any of us to freak out, okay?" I said, honestly thinking everyone was just overreacting. Raymond seemed to calm after that and everyone got busy in doing something. I sighed as I sat back down in the chair in front of the mainframe. Then, I did my best impression of ISAC's laugh. "Humans, they freak out so easily."