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“God damn could you weigh a little more?” I knew it was a bad time to talk the instant that I said it. I heard shots ring out, I went down. Tommy was hit in the first volley in the chest.
“s**t… that ******** hurts.”
I got up and started to run. I was the last one left now. More shots, they missed me by only a couple of inches. As I am running I look to my left there are three of them ********. I let about ten shots ring out, I’ll be damned if I am going to let them coral me with out a fight. I was in luck today I nailed all three of them .I still know that there is no way in hell that I am ever going to win this. I am right, just as the thought crosses my mind I took on to the leg. I roll over to see one of them trying to get around me so I take him out without a second glance. Then smack it’s over.
As we walk off the field together the guys poke fun at me and Tommy because we got beat so bad.
“Well, if you sons a bitches were interested in a fair fight and didn’t always stick us with the neubs and a** holes then we could kick your a**. I don’t know I you noticed but I think the two of us fried half your team.”
“******** Miah you went down hard when I hit you in the a**” Said Jake.
“Yea… yea I did but I would like to see you try to get around me again. You got shot three ******** times. Man you got to learn to cover yourself when you are moving.”
“Hey, Miah you need a ride home with me or are you walkin?”
“Yea, I think that I will walk let Sassy out of your truck will you. I am going to go home through the woods I think.”
As we were walking through the woods I began to fire off shots at little things, branches and chipmunks and things of the sort. I thought that I heard something so I called Sassy over; we were creeping through the woods when bam the ground was gone.
I awoke a few minutes later to a dark room I could see were we had fallen from but it was about fifteen feet above us. I knew that there was no way that I could get us both back up there.
“God damn it. You ok girl?”
It was a stupid question if I was ok then she was going to be fine. She was a lot more resilient then I am. The room was really dark. Then I heard a noise from above me. The entrance that we had fallen through slammed shut. I know that sounds weird but it is what happened. Like it wasn’t natural.
Now the room was pitch black so I pulled out my Zippo lighter. As I tried to find the wall or something I saw a small light a ways away I decided to walk towards it, so I called Sassy over. I didn’t want her to wander off and get into any trouble.
As we approached the light a screen turned on. There was a women’s face there. “Hello… hello can you hear me?”
“I can hear you just fine. Answer me this one question. All generals must know how to fight but only a good general knows… what?”
“Oh, I know this.”
“Then complete the quote! You have twenty seconds.”
“When to retreat. A good general knows when to retreat.”
“Yes, that is correct. There is one more thing that I need you to do before I start to answer your questions.”
“Yea, what is th-.” Bam, something hit me in the head like a ton of bricks.
“Holy s**t, what the ******** was that?”
“I needed to implant you with a link up chip in order for you to be my captain.”
“Wow, there what the hell are you talking about I am not the captain of anything much less a big room underground.”
“I am much more then a large room, this is just a cargo bay. I am a ship that is capable of travel around 30 times the speed of light. I have ten decks and am a hundred meters long.”
“Wow, I still don’t know what is going on. And where is my dog, and what the ******** did you pick me for anyways?”
“I placed you dog into a room that will auto clean that way she doesn’t make a mess of the ship. The reason that you were picked is because you are the first one to enter the ship since my other captain died. Also, yours is the first generation that I could explain my operations to.”
“What time is it anyways.” I asked as I surveyed the room.
“The local time is four o’clock in the afternoon.”
“That means I was out for about thirty minutes. I am going to have to leave here pretty soon or my parents will begin to worry. Is there anyway that we can turn on lights or somthin like that?”
“Yes, I am raising the light three levels. You can’t leave the ship, if you leave the ship now my computer mainframe will crash. I was in peril of crashing before you entered that is why it was lucky that you showed up when you did. But now that you are here I am relying on your brain to sustain me.”
“Am I going to have to spend the rest of my life on this ship?”
“No, you just can’t leave until you have repaired the mainframe.” The computer said as I walked through an automatic door on the right side of the room. When I got into the hallway the lights flickered on and I could see the hallway curl around on both sides of me.
“Well then I guess we should get to work, what’s first?”
“The first thing that you need to fix is the imaging sensors, they problem is a blockage in the circuits. I think all that it needs is a good cleaning. Walk down the hall to the left fifteen feet.”
“Alright which panel is it?” I asked as I went down the hall.
“ On your right.”
“This little thing here?” I asked looking at a panel that looked like it covered an opening that was about one foot by one foot.
“Yes open the panel and remove anything that looks damaged, it should be pretty obvious what has burned out. The circuitry is black and malformed if it is damaged.”
As I opened that panel I didn’t see anything that I though looked malformed and there was no black in the circuts. But there was one clot of something that was between two metal spires. As I removed it a person appeared behind me. She was beautiful, she had long dark hair that extended to her shoulders she was about as tall as me. She appeared to be in great shape but still very feminine.
“Wow… and who might you be?”
“I am the computer, the ship. This is the holographic representation that I chose many years ago.”
“Are you solid? You know so you can help me with the repairs and things like that.”
“Yes this representation uses a force shield technology that will allow me to interact with all solid matter as humans do.”
“Well, that will be helpful. I think that we should get to work.”
I spent the next few nights on the ship, I sent a letter to my parents telling them that I was still alive and ok but I had found a great opportunity. I don’t think they bought it until I talked to them on my cell phone. After that I talked with them regularly and that made things easier. We worked for the next three weeks, I had fixed up the captains quarters and by the end of that time most of the primary systems had been repaired. All the stealth technology that the ship possessed was working at one hundred percent, the weapons systems were operating at about seventy-five percent, and the ships engines were operating at full capacity. Thankfully there was little damage done to them because the materials needed to fix them weren’t on earth.
The next part was hard, I had two more tasks before the ship and I had fully bonded. First I had to name her and secondly I needed to find a crew. That first task too me well over a week, I spent a lot of the time cleaning up the rest of the ship. If there were going to be other people living on the ship it needed to be cleaned. But, I finally relized that she should have a say in what her name was going to be. When we talked about it we came to the conclusion of Amanda. It was a name that she sensed that I liked and she agreed with me.
The next task proved to be an enormous challenge, more of one then I thought because I had been gone for well over a month and it wasn’t like I could just pop up at someone’s doorstep and ask if they wanted to serve on my starship. So I decided that I would first go to see my parents and tell them the truth but not by just talking but by bringing them to the ship.
“Amanda, what do you think the best way to my parents here is?” I asked as we sat on the bridge and I drank coffee.
“I think that the first thing that we need to do is get me in the air. Now that my stealth technology is operating again I am sure that it is safe to fly. We will park above your home with our cloak on. After that we will beam into the woods by you-”
“When you say we do you mean the both of us?”
“Yes, I can transmit this image outside the ship for about fifty miles in every direction. Now as I was saying we will beam into the woods near your home and go talk with your parents. If they are less the receptive then we will be able to beam them up using the transporter. How does that sound?”
“It sounds like a plan, I think that we should do this as soon as possible. I really want to see my parents.”

Not weeks later I found myself in the woods not thirty yards from my home.
“Well, let’s get this show on the road.” I said as we walked towards the house.
As we walked towards the house my dad saw me from the garage and must have called to my mom who was standing in there with him.
“Jeremiah, is that you?” as I heard that I turned around saw her beginning to cry.
“Yea it’s me mom.” There was more that I tried to say but in never got a chance she had me in a vice grip hug before I could say another word. My dad wasn’t far behind her.
When she finally finished hugging me I asked her if we could go to talk in the garage. They had both noticed Amanda by now.
“Hello, I am Louanne Jeremiah’s mother, and who might you be?”
“This is the women that gave me the chance of a lifetime, something that we have both dreamed of. Her name is Amanda.”
“Well it is nice to meet the person that has been keeping our son so busy for the last two months.” my dad said as we walked across the driveway to garage.
“That is what I want to talk to you about. I have been working really hard with Amanda for the last couple months to build something. It is going to be hard for you to believe so please just hear me out…”
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Yeah sure.

I like it. It is good.

yeah but good.

The next day was Monday when my parents called Karl’s house to see his parents would allow him to come over this conversation was short. They said that there would be no problem with Karl coming over anything they could do they would do an instant. See the still have that I was missing in that my parents just wanted to see him. After as parents dropped him off a wasted little time in transporting into the ship. There was much to be done and little time we had. I had only an hour to try and convince Karl to join my crew and become my first officer.
“ Karl… Karl wake up.”
“ Miah is that you?”
“ Yeah man it’s me. I know I’ve been gone a while but I need ask you a favor.”
“ Oh… what the ******** happened to me?”
“ I will explain in a minute just follow me right now.” He followed me into the turbo-lift and we had to the bridge.”
“ Hey man where the ******** are we going?”
“ I got some things to tell you that might be hard for you to understand. You see we are on a space ship right now. I knoe that the last thing that you remember is going to my parents house, right after your parents let I had my dad shoot you with a sort of stun gun. You have been out for about ten minutes. Anyways the reason that I brought you here is to ask you to join me. See I am a crew of one right now, I have this entire ships to myself, well that is I have to share it with the computer Amanda.” It was as I said this that the doors opened and we steped into the bridge. Karl was wowed by the sight. I had, had Amanda take us to mars while he was under.
“So what do you think?”
“Is that a real picture of what I think it is?”
“That my friend is more then a picture it is a real time feed from a camera on the outside of the ship. We are surrentally in orbit over mars. This is what I needed to ask you, I want to know if you will be my first officer. You are my best friend and if I am going to go flying off into the unknown then I want you by my side.”
“I would have never believe this if I wasn’t seeing it with my own eyes. I don’t think that I know how to refuse an offer like that Miah. I would be glad to join you, but I know nothing of space travel. I don’t even like sci-fi that much.”
“I know that but you don’t need to, you see the ship here has a seris of chips that it can implant into your brain that will allow you to download information right into your brain. You can learn all that you need to know in a matter of days.”
“In that case I think that you just found yourself a new first officer. Can I have a tour of the ship?”
“Sure but the is someone that I think you need to meet first. Amanda please activate your hologram.” A few second after I said that she appeared as always .
“Hello my name is Amanda, this is a hilografic representation that I have choosen to represent my conscience.”
“What is she talking about Miah?”
“She is the ship. The ship has an AI computer. It is completely self aware.”
“That is really cool. Well where do I sign up?”
“We need to get you your chip before you leave so that you can communicate with us and tell us when is a good time to beam you up.” And so we headed to the sickbay to insert his chip. His insertion went much smoother then mine. I think that is because he was in a hospital and not lying on the floor of an empty room. I gave him a quick overview of the ship and told him of the plan to get some others to come and join us. I told him that I wanted at least five people before we set out to talk with the government.
Karl came back at about midnight that night to talk with me about who we should recruit next.
“Well what are you two thinking?”
“We were thiking that we would go for a girl next, but we were having a hard time deciding who.”
“Well send me their files so that I can help you make the choice.” He said “Humm… this is a hard choice. I see that you have a crush on this Becky girl.”
“Yea I do but if you go through the entire thing you will see that she is more qualified then both of us.”
“Oh I agree I think that she would make an excellent third officer. When do you want to get her up here?”
“Well like the file says I think that we are going to have to take her when no one is looking, I don’t know her well enough to get her to come to my house.”
“Well I have always said there is no time like the present.” And I agreed so we headed to the transport room. It turned out that she was alone in her room at the time and we had Amanda check to make sure that she was fully clothed. Then we did it, we transported her up.
“Wake up. Come on now I know that the transport cycle can be annoying but come on! Wake up.” I said as I shook her lightly.
As soon as she did awake she was terrified. “Becky, Becky settles down its Miah. I have brought you here to ask you something.”
“What could be so important that you needed to wake me at one in the morning?”
“Well if you will follow the three of us we can show you. We want to ask you to join us,” I explained as we entered the turbo-lift and headed for the observation deck. “we are forming a crew. See we have transported you onto our spaceship. The women to my right is Amanda, and the guy on my left is my long time buddy Karl Wegler. I know that the odds that you are going to believe me are slim at best that is why we are heading to the observation deck.”
Just as I finished the doors opened to the observation deck. It was a large room that had windows all along the sides that faced the outside. There were several tables and chairs that were in the area I had forgotten to clean in here so they were scattered around the room. There was also a bar that had a food and drink dispenser located behind it.
“Do you want something to drink Becky?” she was stunned, just as Karl was at first. Hers however wasn’t passing as his did.
“Becky… Becky… you gone be alright?” I asked extremely concerned.
“Yea, yea I think that I will make it. When the hell did you get this thing?” she asked looking at me like I had just destroyed her entire reality.
“It would have been the entire time that you thought that I was kidnapped. I spent most of the time on Earth. I have yet to leave the solar system, I want you to come with me, Karl, and Amanda on the first voyage. We want you to be out engineer.”
“I know nothing about how this thing works. I can’t fix my caar much less a spaceship.”
“There is really nothing to it. We have this chip which we install into your brain. It is just like having a shot, well even less painful, and it allows us to download information into your brain. That way you can learn all the information that you need for making this ship and your car run. So what do you say?”
“I would say yes but I need to tell my parents something.”
“We will be. In about a week I am going to go to the president and tell him about us. I think that he is going to try and get me to give the ship up. I think that the government might even go as far as to hurt out families. That is why if you say yes I am going to install a security system that no one on earth can penetrate. That way they will be safe.”
“What will I do until you talk to the president?”
“Karl is the only person that I need to stay on the ship with me. You can go back to your house, we will put in the implant, and send you information. Your brain will assimilate the information in time and in about a week you will know enough to keep the ship running under normal circumstances.”
“What if there are abnormal circumstances?”
“Well then I guess we will have to turn to the ship. I think that Amanda can handle anything that might come up. She is after all the ship.”
“What the ******** are you talking about?” that was the first time that I have ever heard Beck swear.
“Well, you see the ship is alive. On the inside there are holo-projectors that allow the computer to project an image into the ship. That is what gives us Amanda. You will know more about it then me in a few weeks.”
“Well then I guess we are in business.” We then sent Becky home to try and get some sleep. I doubted that she would, the first night with the implant is very intressting. You get so much new information that it is hard to sleep. You want to look through everything.
Karl and I talked with Amanda about the next crew member. There were a lot of problems. We were having a hard time agreeing on the right person. Or if we even needed another person. We had an engineer, and defense specialist, a command and diplomatic specialist, and then a what-ever-the-hell else we needed specialist. In the end we decided that the was no need to add another person for the first missions.
A week passed, I been in contact with Becky to tell her the changes to the plan. She was glad that it was going to only be the three of us for the first mission out. We decided that there was no time like the present so after school I transported her up to the ship. She left a note to her parents telling them to watch the news while she was away.
Mom you need to watch the president’s speech tonight. I know that there isn’t one schedualed but trust me there is going to be some kinda big announcement tonight. If you are wondering were I am, watch, because that is what he is talking about.
We decided that the best way to approach the president was in one of the landing craft that Amanda had on her. We used one and went to the White House at noon once we had confirmed that he was there. Becky and Karl stayed on the ship after I fought with them for about an hour. They wanted to come with incase anything happened. And I though that it was important that if something should happen to me that there be someone on the ship to assume command.
He really didn’t take the news too well. When I told him that I found the ship lying in northern Minnesota he threatened to take the ship from me because it was found in northern Minnesota. Then I said some things that I shouldn’t have and called him a few names. And then talks broke down. As I was leaving he made a threat against my parents. I knew that there was nothing that could be done I would have to talk directly to the people.
When I arrived back at the ship I had to tell the others that I had screwed up the talks with the president, I also had to give them the bad news that he had informed all the other major government leaders about us and told them not to trust us.
“Miah it is going to be so much harder for us to get people to join up now. If the government doesn’t trust us then they will start cracking down on those who want to join us.” Becky said.
“I know but I have an idea that might allow us to reach the people without going through the governments.”
“What you got in mind Miah?”
“Karl, your gonna love this. The first step is going to be making lots of copies of file R-113…

many many typos though.

thanks. that is all that i got for that right now. but when i have more i will post it.