The gates open to our home sweet home, the familiar creaking is a welcome comfort and distraction from the awkward silence the trip home has been. Gabe's pissed off at Mia and Mia is so socially unaware, or just doesn't care he's upset in the slightest.
Now that we're finally home I can't wait to start working on the A.I. chip tomorrow.
"Guys, it's pretty late. We should get some sleep and begin planning in the morning how we're going to go about fixing up that chip."
"Mia, you can just leave the chip in the garage."
Without a word she walked into the garage with our halfway complete ship. Good nothing to worry about. I'll just get some sleep, they're quite tiring.
Ughh, waking up to loud noises wasn't on my bingo card for the night. To no one's surprise it's coming from the garage. Slipping on my oil stained overalls and tying my hair in a ponytail, I'm dreading what they're doing in there. Walking down the hallway to the garage I see Gabe still in his pajamas walking out rubbing his eyes.
"What the fuck is that noise?" He said through a yawn.
"Well if it wasn't you that leaves only one thing it could be."
The light shining from around the door frame shows my assumption was correct Mia is probably messing with the chip.
"What in the stars above are you doing at this hour?" Opening the door to my surprise is Mia strapped to the chair unable to move.
"Well Well Well more humans."
"The A.I. chip?"
"Kayle is my name, and yes I was in the chip."
"Well Kayle why do you have Mia strapped to a chair while making all that noise?"
"For one I'm still learning this new body has no engine connected. Two, this little girl threatened to modify me so I stopped her from doing so."
"Well you were labeled a prototype so why is that so bad?"
"I'm not! The one who made me just didn't like me and thought I was a danger."
Great another idiot to deal with "So you thought strapping her to a chair is proving you're not a danger and no one who made you is alive or even on this planet." Pinching my nose to try and hide my annoyance.
"Just needed her to calm down while I got my bearings, no ones getting modified or hurt."
"I agree let's just all help each other out and calm down."
"I'll fry every piece of wiring in here if you try anything funny with me."
"Let her go and we promise we won't"
With that the seat belts loosened and Mia was freed.
"Strap me to the chair like that again and I will dump a gallon of water on that chip and erase you from the world." Mia said as she walked out and didn't even glance back Gabe followed her making sure she was ok where she was tied down at.
"See that little girl is absolutely insane"
"I mean you have a point."
After spending the entire night giving him the rundown of the world as it is today, and the situation we all find ourselves in, Kayle actually agreed to help so long as Mia stayed away from his data chip.
"That dark haired pale skin girl said worse things then my original creators"
I couldn't get him to explain what she said but it rattled him good.
So we have an A.I. to help fly us off this god damn rock but he's also fucking crazy. Looking out at the sun starting to come back up I can't help but smile and think things might actually work out. We might make it up there.
I woke up full of energy, and dread around noon. I'm so excited to map out things and work on the ship but it's way too quiet in this house, and that's never a good thing. Walking down the hall I pass both Gabe's and Mia's rooms both empty. Picking up my steps hurrying a little I burst into the garage.
"What are you guys doing?" Asking before I even opened the door.
They both looked dumbfounded and looked like I asked the craziest question.
"UH working on the ship we let you sleep in." Gabe said, still confused.
"Sorry I just didn't want a repeat of last night."
"Don't worry that won't happen again." Mia gave a slight smile, making me afraid to ask why I stared at her a moment.
"Ok I'll bite what did you guys do?"
"I'd like it to be known that I've simply been working on the plasma gun so we have some defense in space, I'm not a part of that." Gabe cut me off
"What did you do to Kayle?!"
"Only what he did to me. Except I spent the night with my new best friend."
"And that is?!"
"I took away his ability to make noise and annoy me while I worked on him." remaining emotionless while speaking believing she's still done nothing wrong.
"Do you even know what you're doing?"
"Yes, here I'll show you."
She flipped a few switches, the interfaces slowly hummed to life she turned to me and I nodded, she flipped the last switch Suddenly everything came to life.
"She's absolutely insane! Keep this woman away."
"Good morning." Mia said to the A.I.
"What did you do to me?"
"Check for yourself"
"I can control everything.. Wait except for the speaker volume."
"Yes I adjusted your wiring to fit everything that's available here, but I will be in control of the volume when you upset me again your screams won't be heard."
"Why are you so scar…"
"See fearless leader, I fixed him." she said, turning to me.
I must always remember to stay on her good side and never piss her off. "How did you know how to program him like that?"
"That paperwork over there from the office space where I found him."
"Uh, thank you. Did you turn him off?"
"No, he's still hearing everything. I just don't want to hear his voice until he learns to thank me properly."
I really must remember not to aggravate her.