Finders Keepers

**ChloeAnn** · 01/31/2008 08:40:48

"CHLOE! *CENSORED* it, watch where you're going, you're going to get us killed!" Resillience had yelled at a ChloeAnn.

Through her excitement, ChloeAnn was maneuvering the ship in and out of the dark caves carelessly as if she was a young bluepill infant at a candy store.

The three:Res, Chloe, and Erythnul were exploring the real. Chloe had never explored this type of place before. Shes been out in the real, but never really explored. They had been hovering around, and saw a huge place with ruins in it. They landed nearby, and decided to take a tour. They could tell there was a bunch of parts and pieces that they had needed. Chloe had ran ahead of them and was just looking around until she spotted an old, rundown ship.

"Oh my god, you guys, come here! Hurry!" Chloe turned around and yelled at the boys, who she thought was being extremely slow. She saw that they were coming, so she pointed at the ship she had found. "Look! I found me a ship!" She ran off into the ship, and looked through it. It was messy. Everything seemed to be in decent shape, just messy and broken. All three searched the ship, and all met up in the cockpit. Chloe sat down in the captains chair and looked around at the controls.

Kicking scrap metal out of his walk way leading to a horrible smell of the mess hall on the ship, Erythnul looked around. "Hm, the mess hall seemed to be neglected." Erythnul hadn't seem to be as excited as ChloeAnn, but being as the new one to the group he saw it to some success.

"Seriously guys, I don't see how you all think this bucket of monkey feces is anyway shape or form good for us." Erythnul yells as he stomps into the cockpit where ChloeAnn sits, gazing in daydreaming excitement.

"We can clean it up, Erin! Make it our home! It'll need alot of work, but we can get it done." Chloe spun around in her chair and grinned at the boys. "You guys are now on the soon to be improved, Hovercraft Suadela!"

Resillience

Resillience scratched his head and looked at all the wiring hanging out, "You really expect us to fix this Chloe?" Chloe, with that devilish look in her eye looked right into Resillience and said "Yup".

Resillience grinned and turned towards Erin "Well, looks like we better get started eh?" Erin returned to Resillience's ship, the hovercraft Versatile and returned with a toolbox and other various gadgets. Resillience began work on trying to bring light to the ship, while fixing the circuit breakers Erin began work on the hull, which was damaged almost beyond repair.

"Ouch Bast- rr." exclaimed Resillience as for the 5th time he had managed to electricute his fingers. Something hit him in the back of the head "What the?", Chloe replied "Put them on" pointing to the pair of rubber gloves now behind him. Although greatful Resillience couldn't help wonder why she didn't provide him with this after the first few times he did it; Chloe smirked and said "I found it funny, if your wondering why i didn't give you them earlier".

After a couple of hours of work Erin and Resillience began to feel quite grumpy and complainative...

**Erythnul** · 02/12/2008 12:20:37

"I seriously don't see the point," Erin says, flailing his arms up in the air with bags of equipment attached to them. Erin walked passed Chloe as she had an excited yet evil grin on her face as she stared at him. "What are you looking at?" Chloe says placing her hands on her hips beaming her eyes strait into Erin's.

Erin looks at Chloe as she stares at him and begins to open his mouth to grossly say something to his Captain.. "Chloe, I don't see wh--". Resillience interrupts, "Erin, there is no point in you fighting it. She is going to get what she wants, shes your captain, plus your the new guy." Still staring at Erin, Chloe says with a smile on her face, "He's right."

Erin storms away with a short sigh that turns into cursing mumbles and grumbles heading to the main hull,"*CENSORED* women. I bet the next thing she wants us to do is paint the mess hall pink." Chloe laughs while watching Erin throw his temper tantrum and says, "I love you too, Erin."

Dragging and running the bags of equipment throughout the hall leading to the hull, Erin replies, "Mhm"...

**ChloeAnn**

ChloeAnn rolled her eyes as Erin walked away. He was the most moodiest, most upfront new guy she had ever met. He wasn't afraid to tell her what was going on, and how he felt, and Chloe liked that. Honesty and trust was a huge factor in anything and everything Chloe did. She knew the ship would be hard work, but Res was right. Chloe got what she wanted most of the time, and she never backed down until she got it. Chloe walked to the kitchen, which was through the dining hall. It was big, but messy. Pots and pans were all over the place and the area wasn't exactly clean. Still with a grin on her face, and now humming, Chloe began to start cleaning. She first started with cleaning up the sink and metal counters. Dust was everywhere, but easily cleaned. After Chloe had finished that, she began to put the dishes and silverware in the sink. A few hours past, and Chloe finally had finished fixing the boys lunch.

"Hey you lazy slacks, some eat your garbage!" Chloe had yelled at Resillience and Erin, and within 2 minutes, they both had came and sat on the newly cleaned table in the dining hall. The newst, but oldest member for Chloe was FrostV. She was a very close friend, who had just recently returned from a long needed break. Frost had brought Chloe's two small kids to the new ship. Chloe wasn't too happy about it, but she was always happy to see her children, after everything that had happened. "Chloe! I've got a special delivery for you!" Frost grinned as Lucas and Marcus ran up to Chloe, and she bent down to hug and kiss them both. They were a little over a year old, and identical to their father.

Chloe had sat her kids down and put a bowl of food infront of them, Frost, Erin, and Res. Chloe wasn't much of a eater, so she had skipped out. "Is there anything I can get ya guys? A cup of grease?" Chloe giggled and the boys gave her a mean look. "You would give us that stuff to drink! You'd easily try to kill us!" Res shook his head and started to eat his slop, as Chloe called it.

"No I wouldn't! Who else would I get to do my heavy work for me?!" Chloe giggled and gave each of them a cup of fresh water she had extra. She finally sat down and started to feed her boys the slop. They had grown up eating the stuff, so they loved it just like bluepills loved steak. "This stuff is nasty, but gives ya energy after a long day of work." Erin had said through bites of his food. Everyone finished their food, and left the bowls where they were, and Res and Erin got back to work. Frost had stayed with Chloe and the kids, and had shut the door to the dining hall so Chloes kids could play.

"So, is there anything you need me to do, Captain?" Frost had said to Chloe. She had started to pick up the bowls and put them in the sink, as Chloe glanced at Frost and shruged her shoulders. "It doesn't matter really. You can help me clean if ya want! You know how much I loooove to clean." Chloe said sarcastically. "I'll help ya clean." Frost said as she started to clean the dishes up.

Chloe looked around and started to see the progress on her ship. The dining hall was spotless. The kitchen was straightened up and cleaned. It wasn't in the best of shape, but in Chloe's eyes, everything was sparkling. Chloe felt like she deserved this, as much stuff as shes been through within the past two years. She fell into a daze, but quickly got snapped out of it with the sound of Frost's voice. "Chloe, the kids are asleep. I've made them a spot to lay, so we can move on."

"Huh? Oh.. oh, of course! Let's do this!" Chloe and Frost quickly left the dining hall, and moved to the next room.

Resillience

After closing the door, Resillience patted his stomach in relief of finally eating (even though he thought it could have tasted better...) and went back to work, the ship had lighting and was already looking far better than it had been found..however there was still alot to do.

Erin was on the main deck, he examined the 'jacking-in' chair, pressed his little finger on it and watched it topple over. "Wow..." Erin sighed as Resillience walked over, "Don't worry, i'll have the chairs and computers repaired in just a few hours...it's the mainframe that could take a very long time...you could get started on that if you'd like" replied Resillience. Erin nodded "Alright i'll give it a go".

With Resillience and Erin busy at work on the electrical side of the ship, Frost and Chloe carried on working with the appearence side of the ship.

**Erythnul** · 02/12/2008 12:18:04

Erin mumbles to himself as Resillience walks away saying, "I for one am not going to have that jack seating..."

Erin began to work on the mainframe wires, gadgets, and monitors that were terribly trashed. He had never worked on any sort of engineering work ever in his life except for his college years in the simulation being a minor in Computer Engineering. The zapping from the cross hairs of the mainframes motherboard started to annoy him as he yells, "God *CENSORED* it!"

Of course Chloe, Frost, and Resillience in a distance chuckled a bit as they heard the new guy in frustration. "Yea yea yea, laugh at the new guy!"

"This is really going to take a while for us to actually broadcast into the matrix with this ship, might have to stay aboard--" Again Resillience interrupts him, "Hell no, your not staying with me. We are going to get this ship up and running. I don't care if the cycle starts over again in the simulation. The ship is going to be up and running."

Tension rose as the heat did all through the hard work everyone was putting in. There were no hard feelings, just one big happy family getting on each others nerves.

Erin sighs and continues on working as sweat falls from his face. "Can we at least open exterior, its freakin' hot in here!...." Erin says to them all as he reaches into a bag he carried with him to the ship.

**ChloeAnn**

Hours had past since Chloe has last checked up on Erin and Resillence. Frost had taken Chloe's kids back to Res's ship for a good nights rest, and Chloe had found herself wondering around the ruined area. She was on a search for, as Erin had said, 'better *CENSORED* chairs'. The ones that were in the ship were ruined. They were no good. After what seems like hours of searching, Chloe had spotted a few chairs. They were covered in dirt, and she had to move a few pieces of metal strips away and then she examined the chairs.

"Hmm.. these don't look to bad.." Chloe mumbled to herself. She took a seat in one of the chairs and leaned back. It didn't fall, or collapse, so Chloe thought that was a good sign. She had closed her eyes, and started to picture being inside the simulation. That place was beautiful compared to the real. Even Westview. There was the sun, birds chirping, kids playing, running water, nice food, and amazing clothing. In her mind, Chloe had sat on a bench in Tabor Park, and was watching the happy blue-pill couples walking around, hand in hand, whispering to eachother, and holding eachother. She got lost in a daze, but soon felt someone shaking her shoulder.

"Chloe! What the hell? Get up!... CHLOE!"

Chloe quickly opened her eyes to see Erin and Res standing over her. "Holy crap, you two! Scare me to death why dontcha..." Chloe shot them both a mean look and got up and dusted herself off. "Sorry, I was daydreaming..." Chloe looked around at the chairs and grinned

"Pick 'em up boys! One for each, then were off to bed!" Erin and Res sighed with relief as they picked up a chair each and started to carry them off with no problem. Chloe, however, struggled with getting her chair, and ended up having to drag it back to the ship. She wasn't as strong as she was in the simulation, but noone looked down on her for that. Res and Erin had completed their trip back to the ship and came back to help Chloe.

"Geez, Chloe, any slower and the world might end!" Res grinned and nudged Chloe, nearly knocking her over. Erin and Res carried the chair off, as Chloe looked on, sighing as she started makig her way back to her newly found home.

**Erythnul** · 02/12/2008 12:17:36

It was a long day for the crew. Though we had no idea what time it was, it was considered to be "lights out" through everyones exhaustion. Except the problem was the quarters on the ship were filthy. Chloe decided to go around the room quarters and do a little touch up.

Flopping onto one of the grossly filthy bed in one of the quarter rooms down the hall from where Chloe has seemed to be cleaning the room she has picked, Erin sighed with relief and gently closed his eyes. "I don't think I will ever get used to this type of moving." Erin hears a faint similar sound around him as he laid there in his bed. He didn't want to open his eyes because the sound only sounded for a split second. However, again the sound made its second appearance, "SLAM!" Slowly opening his eyes he finds himself in his old bedroom back at 12256 Mannsdale Housing Projects, Mega City. Out of amazement Erin looks to his left and right viewing the numerous pictures of his wife and kids next to his bed.

"I'm.. I'm home." Quickly springing out of his bed he notices him having different close, away from the raggedy attired he had when moving the equipment into the ship. "Is this real?" Quickly disregarding the strangeness of what was going on, Erin ran throughout his two floor yelling, "Michael....Christopher... Britteny!?"

"Dear, I was looking all over for you! Michael and Christopher are only young kids, you can't lounge around while they move the furniture in. And why were you yelling?"

Staring into his wife's Angel-like glowing silhouette, Erin couldn't believe what he was seeing. In his wifes sweet gentle voice she says, "Why are you looking at me like that babe? We can't do that right now, the kids are here and we have loads of furniture to unload so come on!"

"This can't be real..She is so beautiful." Erin said gazing at his wife.

"Come on!" Britteny grabs his hand and pulls him towards the front door.

The sun couldn't of felt any more closer to Erin once he reached the outside. His kids were goofing off with the Hauling truck as his wife sat there tapping her foot while staring at him.

"Well!?" she aggressively yelled.

Erin still continues to gaze into the pleasant view of the matrix and his lifestyle in it. The birds were chirping so innocently as the friendly neighbors across the way were crossing lawns to great their new neighbors, The Thomas's. Erin couldn't believe what he was seeing. He slowly turned around to his wife, looked her in the eyes and said, "Honey, I love yo---"

"Erin! Oh my God Erin!" Chloe screams at him. "Your sleeping?! We have so much more work to do!"

It all was a dream. His dreams from within the real has teased him with what he wanted most in life.

Erin sighs and slowly sits up from the filthy bed.

"I was going to help you clean up your quarters, but it seems like you want to do the job so I wont stop you, Hmph!" Chloe walks away with a witty yet cocky Captain attitude.

Resillience pokes his head through the front of Erin's quarters door. "Dude, you actually fell asleep on that thing?"

Erin still sitting up on the dirty bed he wipes his eyes. "I uh.."

Resillience interrupts as he walks away,"Thats just sick."

Erin puts his face in his hands and flops back, on his back, onto the bed....

**ChloeAnn**

Chloe mumbled to herself as she walked back to her room that she had picked out. It was the biggest one, considering she was the one who had two kids that would be staying with her. She popped her head out of the door and had yelled at the boys. "Guys, take a nice break. We'll start back up in the morning!" The boys had yelled goodnight back, and Chloe shut her door and locked it up. Although everything wasn't perfect, it was a sleepable place. She wasn't worried about covers yet, as the day had been hot from working so hard. Chloe laid on the bed, stretched, then shut her eyes.

Resillience had went back to his ship for the night, so it was just Chloe, Erin, and Frost on the Suadela. It was quiet. For the first time in a week, Chloe was happy to finally get some rest. Her and Frost has almost completed the cleaning process, and Res and Erin had almost completed the eletrical work. The last thing left to do, was to get the ship flyin'. Chloe tossed and turned, stressed about everything that needed to be done. After an hour, she sat up in bed and rubbed her eyes. She heard quiet footsteps moving around outside her door. She walked slowly to her door and put her ear close to it, trying to listen to what it was. She unlocked the door and peaked out of it.

"Erin? Frosty?.... Hello?..." Chloe walked out and looked around. She tippytoed and peaked in Erin and Frost's quarters, and they were still asleep. Chloe shrugged and turned around to go back to her room, when suddently a figure came out of the darkness with a large metal pipe and swung it at Chloe's head. She ducked just in time, and fell backwards. The medal pipe hit the wall, and echoed throughout the ship. The large man proceeded to wrap his hands around Chloe's neck and held her against the floor. "Erin! H--help!" Chloe managed to scream out.

"What the hell---" Erin whispered and shot out of bed. Within seconds, Erin and Frost had came out of their rooms, and two more figures came out of nowhere. Chloe kicked him in his left knee, and he fell to the ground, gripping his knee. Chloe got up and started to panic. She saw that Erin was handling his own attacker, and Frost was struggling with hers. Chloe grabbed the large mans pipe and hit Frost's attacker in the back of the head with it, knocking him out.

"Man, screw this! Were outta here!" Erins attacker shoved him out of the way and the large man limped away, leaving the unconscious man behind. Chloe rubbed her neck, and cleared her throat. "What the hell was that? Who were they?" Chloe looked down at the unconscious man. Erin had went into the next room to get some ropes. "Probably just some people nosing around. I don't think they'll be back. Unless they want their little friend..." Chloe left as Erin and Frost tied up the man, and she went into the control room and picked up the com radio, and sent Res a message.

"Res, its Chloe. We've got a situation over here. Come quick."

Resillience · 02/06/2008 13:47:09

Resillience strolled onto the ship, while Chloe, still in a panic began to yell at Res "Wheres the running?! Wheres the shouting are you ok?!..." Chloe seemed to have run out of breath. "Well i figured you'd be able to take care of yourselves, it's not like you havn't trained yourself not to be able fighters, is it?" Res said with his arms behind his head. Chloe seemed to have ignored what he said and walked off towards the newly captured enemy ranting on.

"Whoever this guy is he's gonna be out for a couple more hours by the look after that mark in his head" as Res begins to examine the captured warrior. "Is he a zionite?" asked Erin and Frost at the same time. "I'm not sure, doesn't look like any neo-hugging-hippie i've ever seen, maybe they have a new dress code?" they had a small chuckle. "So...what do we do with him?" asked Frost, Resillience grinned under his sparkling white bandana (does he sleep in that thing? thought Erin) we do anything we can to figure out who he is, what his motives were and who he works for".

Chloe slapped the tied warrior that actually awakened him saving waiting for the bastard to begin..the questioning. Resillience dragged him by his hair towards an empty room and seemingly emotionless to his screams placed him in the centre of the room and began to question him. "WHO ARE YOU?!" bellowed Resillience in the mystery attackers ear. He remained silent. Resillience punched him in the face, "Feel like speaking yet?". Frost, Erin and Chloe entered the room, Frost and Erin looked quite nervous about how Res was handling the 'questioning' while Chloe looked as if she wanted and expected this. Res turned to face them "Erin, fetch me the hacksaw and pliers, i'm gonna be cutting some fingers and removing some teeth until he talks" -- "WAIT NO!" Wailed the mystery man. "Gonna tell us who you are then?". The man looked down "I'm just newly awakened, the others thought it would be fun to raid the ship for parts and when we saw you guys they said to attack you". "So, gonna join the Cypherites then?" asked Resillience bluntly, "What? Are you kiddin-" Resillience cut him off "Then your dead to me, and to the Cypherites". "So i can go?" said the (now bleeding from the lip) man, "I punched you in the face, not ear. Your dead, you don't join us then you die. It works for you, it works for everyone else".

"Chloe, your turn" echoed the words throughout the ship as Resillience left the ship, leaving the screams of the man behind him.

**ChloeAnn** · 02/06/2008 14:11:38

Chloe grinned as Resillience walked out. She walked towards the man and leaned towards him, inches from his face, and asked calmly, "So, whats your name?" She stood up and crossed her arms, waiting for a response. "M.. my names.. John. I.." Chloe drew her fist back, and punched John on his right cheek.

"Enough. Do you know what a Cypherite is? 'Course you do... I'm sure you've been 'warned' of us. Well, some people think.. Like Res.. if you don't join us, you die. Well.." Chloe reached behind her and took out a knife. It was the same exact knife she had used to kill her bestfriend and former crewmate, Cystil. She looked at it, and twirled
it around, then looked back at John.

"I didn't use to believe that way. You see, I've changed. I see things more.. clearly.. now. You let them in and all they do is hurt ya. Don't worry, though. You'll never get the chance to be hurt. I'll make it quick and easy for ya."

Chloe drew the knife along John's neck and walked behind him. The man was shivering, sweating, and he had begun to cry. "No! P.. please. Don't kill me! I.." Chloe stuck the knife in the guy's back. The man didn't die instantly, only screamed for what seemed like hours. Chloe walked around the man and grabbed his hair, holding his head back and whispered quietly, "This is what happens.. when you mess with the wrong gal." Chloe stared into his eyes as she cut his throat. She stood up and watched the blood flow from the guys neck until he died. Without blinking, Chloe turned around and looked at Frosty and Erin.

"Clean this up. We've got work to do." Chloe walked out of the room, leaving the two speachless.

**Erythnul** · 02/11/2008 09:15:01

Walking up to the leaking body of blood, Frost and Erin looked at each other. As Chloe walks away from the room, Erin rushes the body with a hard firm kick to the head, watching the body flop backwards with the chair. "What the hell was that for?" Frost says as she puts her hands on her hips staring at Erin. "I at least wanted a lick in. This *** tried to kill us." Standing there, cynically thinking, Erin mumbles,"Should of kept him alive but used him to lure in a ship to destroy."

Chloe heard the thump in the previous room which startles her and makes her turn around, "I asked you all to clean the mess up not mess with the body." While Frost stands there and laughs at Erin, looking at his now bloody Strap Boot, Erin returns his captain a witty word, "Don't worry, we are PopTart!" Both of them smiled and laughed a bit before Chloe came up with her "come back", "Good job, cupcake."

Shaking his head in laughter he pulls the dead body up from the floor and whips out a knife he kept in his left boot. Never in his right mind would he keep a knife in his shoe before he was awakened. Erin had no reason to, but always in the back of his mind since being awakened to this "Hellish" reality, he does what he can to stay prepared.

"Hurry up and cut him loose so we can dump him off, Erin," Frost says as she turns and leaves the room, leaving Erin to do the work. Though Frost left Erin behind to finish the work, it didn't bother him. Erin learned not to lean on anyone, anything that has left out of the matrix. They are "Fallen Angels" to him. Angles that ate from the forbidden fruit and now pay the horrid price. Those that chose to protect the dreaming, have tasted their redemption.

The body began to get cold from its extremely loss of blood and life. Lifting the body up and sliding it through the exterior bay into the cold caves,"What a perfect graveyard for the dead, born in this hell, now dead in this hell."

"Now I can get come sleep." ......

**ChloeAnn** · 02/09/2008 08:56:52

//Log Started
Login: ChloeAnn
Password: *******

Bah. What a job it is to fix up a *CENSORED* ship. Everything was going good until those goons decided to try and play games and attack us. Well, one got repaid. By death. Sucks to be him. I've always wanted a ship. I hate being on someones elses ship. If I have my own, I feel its really mine, and I can keep it in good shape. It's getting close to the end, the only thing basically left to do is getting my baby up and running. She'll be airborn soon, and we can continue our search.

Things are fixing to get real interesting.

//Log stopped

Logging out.

**Erythnul**

BANG! BANG! BANG! A loud beating on Erin's cell door wakes him up from a deep sleep. He slowly sits up while rubbing his eyes, trying to fully wake up. The beating on this cell door continues as he walks up to it, he beats back. BANG! BANG! BANG! He stops his series of beating as he realizes the person behind the his cell door discontinues their beating. "Erin, wake up, you've slept long enough, get this ship up and running," Chloe shouts from the other side of the door. Erin slept for what seemed as ages before the anger some beating began on his door. He walked back to his bed, but did so in search for his shoes next to the far wall at the head of the bed. He clipped his boots fastened tight and made his way down into the cockpit of the ship. The steady sound of Erin's boots hitting up against the steel floor would of woken up the rest of the crew from their deep sleep, but the work done the previous day numbed their ears of anything outside of their dreamy world.

Staring into the flashing lights of the cockpit Erin hopped up into the front seat of the cockpit and pressed a simple button to lock shut the cockpit doors. Navigational systems, System radar, and Bogey Informational Telecoms never was fit into the description of being a crewman of the Suadela. Nevertheless, Erin never thought the "truth" he had bargained for once taking the red pill would have anything to do with cold caves and constant grumbling of the stomach. For two years aboard the Zion hoverbarge, the Sentimental , Erin self-taught himself how to jack in solitude, release drop boxes within the matrix and pilot a large ship; also along side constructing a bomb to blow up the hoverbarge. Therefore this small but swiftly maneuverable hovercraft wasn't of any much difficulty to him.

The seconds became minutes and the minutes became hours as Erin was still continuing his work on getting the ship to sail. The hums of the cockpit motherboard started to act as it normally would. *A slight hum comes from the voice of the ship*"Navigational Systems: Operational, Hovercraft pods 75% ready. Electronic balance within the hovercraft pod-legs are fully powered." Erin began to run a full synopsis of the ships condition. Punching in a few buttons he knew this might be the finishing touch. Small, but fierce footsteps began to pound on the metal floors of the Suadela. Each step sounded as if it was getting closer and closer to the cockpit door hull. BANG BANG BANG! "Hurry it up, Erin!' It was obvious Chloe could care less about if Frost and her kids were still asleep on the ship. Her main focus was to get this ship up and running. No telling if more Zionites could come and try to infiltrate our ship once more.

Chloe's imperative banging at the door did cause Erin to speed up the process a bit. He reached up at the Hovercraft starter and pump it a few times for the ships pods to have enough power to ignite. *A loud humming sound was sent throughout the ship* Erin presses the large starter button the right of him, then the ship began to lift off from the rocks and spikes of the cave. Each electrical pod was operating just fine. The Suadela lives...

**ChloeAnn**

Chloe went to bang on the door once last time, and felt the ship jerk. "What the... " Chloe grabbed ahold of the wall and giggled, realizing what was going on. She opened the door and took a seat beside Erin and gave him a big hug. She was excited. Chloe yelled across her ship, "Buckle up, everyone, were going for a little ride!"

((Theres alot thats been going on lately, so I wont have much time to write more here. Shall be continued later SMILEY

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