TL&TOHJ~Hope: Checking in

Hey there. I know I've been a little emo back there with me about to jump off a building (without my powers), but its OK now. No, really its OK. I talked about it with Candy and Joey.


Anyway, I was flying to the research base/compound. Joey calls it the Haley Cave. He's funny like that. Oh, uh, anyway, I met Paul at the same room as I was in the last time I was here. He was hovering over the computer like Dr. Richards was before. I said, "Paul!" I tackled him with a hug before he could turn all the way around. He laughed and said, "Hey kiddo! How's it going?" I looked at him and saw that he was covered with sweat and grease. I stepped away from him and said, "Aw, great. My Uniform is ruined." He said, "Doesn't that thing repair itself?" "Yeah, but I'm not too sure about stains." He said, "Well, anyway, look at how close we are to completing this thing!"

I saw it. The pillar that was ruined is almost completely done. The top was still opened. The Doc stuck his head out from under the structure and said, "Ah. Haley. Glad to see you're back." He got out from under the thing. He said, "Paul here is quite the genius, and he's been good company. We're having a little trouble here and there, but we should be done within...." He rubbed his greasy hand against his chin, creating a second beard of black.

I giggled without meaning to. He realized his mistake and out his hand down. He said, "Six months." I stared at him. "Is there any way we could, maybe, speed that up?" He sighed. "Miss Jones, I'm afraid we are doing everything we can here. Six months is at best. With only two of us here, that is the best we can do."

I said, "Its just that.....I'm losing people. Left and Right. One of them wasn't even affected by the lights, but she's in a hospital anyway. Is there anyway we can get this done faster? Like, if we explained what happened to the Government--" Dr. Richards' eyes got wide and he screamed, "No!"

Paul and I jumped back a little. He calmed down and said, "I'm sorry, I've lost my trust in the government lately. Most likely, they'll lock us up to just keep us quiet. This has to be done in secret."

I sighed. I admit he did have a point. I was going to sugest that we could g public, and with enough people supprting the idea, we can get the government to support us, but that as beore Link went off.

I picked it up and put it to my ear. "Machines terrorzing downown Den-Martin. No casulities yet, high possiblity still."

I said, "I gotta go. I'll come back sooner this time." They said bye and I went off to stop those crazy robots.