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CHAPTER 2: Be Quick

"Ram  ... man I fell asleep" Zee feverishly said.

"Didn't Mac wake you up? Huh? Do you know how many things we have to do today? DON'T You remember what we planned yesterday? How can you be so stubborn?"

"Woh.. calm down, we still have enough time to get the O2 supplies, meet Pi and Stea at the HQ, don't we?"

"Yeah. whatever" Smoke oozed out of Rm's head as he tried to calm himself.

"Did you get your new levitator?"Zee being a dope decided to change the topic.

"No, they have to upgrade it"

"So you will get a Grand New Levitator.. wohhh" Zee said excitedly.

"Yeah"

"When will they upgrade mine?"

"If you don't sneak around, being reckless and making those bots 'march' after you.. you'll get a new one"

"I'll try to, but you know right?" Zee shrugged and mounted on his levitator as Rm walked beside him. They reached the pod station after walking for about five minutes. Rm lived at 'R Quarters'. they planned to meet at the pod station of Z Quarters. But Zee being a sloth made Rm walk to Zee's home, and then walk back to the pod station with him. Rm was taller than Zee, with brown tanned skin, green eyes, and jet black hair.

(Humans evolved a lot in the span of 500 years and a new adaptation of nocturnal eyes came into being, but only a few have completely gained nocturnal eyes. Rm was one of them.) Every quarters had a pod station except for 'W' and 'E'. The 'A' quarter's was the farthest from the city and the ride took a whole two hours. A pod is the capsule-shaped, 2-4 seated, maglev ultrasonic carriers.

"Z-Y 03333, Your-terra-identitatum", asked the bot who stood beside the pod that they had to take.

"Here" Zee put forward his arm so that the bot could scan the chip instilled in the underside of his right arm. As the bot scanned the chip, it glowed red for a split second. The same process was done to Rm.

"Servare puer dum est in vigilantia apud capsuls vehiculum" said the bot into his attached microphone.

"Ok dare ordo" came the reply from his screen embedded on his arm.

"Huh?" Rm cringed annoyed by their persona language.

"You-may enter-your-pod". The bot said and left.

The two guys got in and sat face to face. The pod door closed, metal belts tightened around their bodies, and in the count of three, the carrier zoomed towards the city.

"What did that bot say to the control room?" Rm asked.

Zee adjusted himself in his seat and said, "He gave the order to monitor me inside the capsule" Zee could understand the language of bots somehow, not that he learned it but he just knew what they spoke with each other and communicated with the people at HQ. No other teenager that Zee and his friends knew could get the language of bots.

"Great, troublemaker! How are we going to get to the city then?"

"Haven't we done this before?"

Rm looked a bit worried, "Yeah, but what if our mission gets exposed and we fail?"

"Wohh.. no we never fail!" Zee straightened himself and looked at the monitor on top of the pod door. Rm too turned his gaze onto it. "How long till the tunnel?"

" 3 minutes from now" Zee took in a deep breath and leaned forward to get his flybag.

"Done"

Rm sighed, "Be quick Zee".

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