Everyone and No One (part 3)

Posted on Tue Jan 12th, 2016 @ 3:47pm by Lieutenant JG Ronnie Wolfe & Lieutenant Commander Jennifer Tate & Lieutenant Commander Damion Wolfe & Ensign Tallas Shirol

1,014 words; about a 5 minute read

Mission: Of Gods and Men
Location: Lancaster's Quarters

[CONTINUED]

[OLD]

The hologram simply snickered. "Perhaps it is your helplessness that drives me, Lieutenant. I've already killed one of your friends, what's one more?"

[NEW]

"You've killed nothing." Damion replied quickly. "You're a puppet. A marionette. The person pulling your strings did the dirty work. You just acted as the instrument. The only helpless person here is you!" He screamed as he gripped the handle of his retractable blade and continued his cold stare. "Between the two of us, I am the one who isn't cowering in the dark."

"Wasted words, better suited for a being that actually has feelings." The hologram quipped back.

"Then why?!" Damion lashed back, taking another step forward, raising his voice again. "If you have no feelings, why are you doing all this? What do you get out of it? None of these people mean a damn thing to you, but you act like hurting them gives you some kind of pleasure. Some satisfaction. If you're as devoid of feelings as you claim, why go to such personal means? You could easily accomplish your goal without laying a single hand on these people, but you choose to. You want to inflict this pain. You want to see the fear in their eyes. You enjoy it."

"I'm sure you will figure it out Lieutenant. If not, then you are not deserving enough to know." the hologram replied.

"Look," Ronnie said, tired of the arguing. "You've lost. Your master has lost. Just give in and let's get this over with."

"Oh my dear sweet Ronnie." The hologram cooed. "This is only the beginning. The way I see it, you're down an XO." The hologram began to laugh maniacally as it celebrated it's triumph.

Ronnie wondered if a hologram could be crazy. This one sure appeared to be. "I pity you," she said, shaking her head. "You really know nothing at all, do you?"

"I know everything, I am everywhere." The hologram replied laughing once again as if it could feel it would have certainly enjoyed watching Damion and Ronnie try to act tough.

"You're a program." Damion replied, narrowing his eyes. "You are only as smart as your programming allows." He took a step toward the hologram. He looked deeply into its direction as he gripped his retractable blades handle tightly.

"Wolfe. Wolfe. Wolfe." Tallas interrupted quickly from a small ear piece he slipped into his ear before walking into the room. "I got it. I got it. I don't know how long I got it but I got it." Her fast fingers and Cafe-Pow guzzling finally paid off. She was able to work passed sub-routines, firewalls, and techno babble to finally get into the holoemitters coding. With this new information she could look into the codes figure out, to the best of her abilities, how the program was put together, what it was capable of, and its standard command's. The last part seemed to throw her off a bit as she found, upon reading it, how extreme the person who put it together really wanted it to be. It scared Tallas a little.

Damion smirked evilly as he tilted his head a bit, hearing his spastic assistant news. "Nothing but force fields and implanted commands. Smoke and Mirrors. You are nothing once you get passed all the programming. Like I said before, you're a puppet, and a puppet that still has its own strings. Your only power comes from commands and orders that your creator placed into you. And once someone gets through all the garbage and babble your freedom is the same as you. Nothing but smoke and mirrors." He stopped moving and slowly raised his hands out. "Simon says: Get over here, Puppet." The hologram vanished and now appeared in front of Damion, thanks to Tallas's help. Her new hack now gave her limited control. She could move the hologram and establish safeties. Everything else she was still working through. Damion smirked, now looking the holograms in its eyes. "Hello puppet."

Ronnie looked for the mobile emitter. The hologram had to have one in order to come into her quarters. It shouldn't be too hard to find.

"W-what are you doing?" The hologram asked worriedly looking at Damion now taking on the form of a young blonde haired woman unrecognizable to anyone in the room.

"Taking control of the strings." Damion replied as he took a step forward, standing nose to nose with the hologram as he peered into its hollowed eyes. His gaze, for the moment, seemed cold. "What's the matter? Where is your bravado? Your cocky tone and omnipotent demeanor? Suddenly your not so bold and fearless. In case you were wondering. That look on your face. Its concern. I'd even say you were bordering on fear. But, of course, you're a being that doesn't have feelings. Remember?"

"P-please don't hurt me." the hologram pleaded placing her hands together.

"But you don't fear anything," Ronnie reminded the hologram. "So what can you tell us in exchange for leaving you alone?"

"P-please don't hurt me." the hologram repeated it's plea.

"Then tell us who sent you," Ronnie said.

"I don't know." she whimpered.

Ronnie had enough. The hologram clearly knew nothing and Damion yelling at it wasn't accomplishing anything, either. She was done. So, she pulled the large portable holoemitter off the hologram. "Here," she said, handing the pack to Damion. "Tallas can check it to see if there's any sign of who made it. As for me, I can't be here any more. You have work to do. I'll...go sleep somewhere. Maybe Lizzie is still in the arboretum." She wanted desperately to stay with Damion, but right now her need to be held was far less important than his need to find out who was behind the attack. She doubted whoever did this would attack her again.

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Hologram
NPCd by Jennifer Tate

Lieutenant Damion Wolfe
Chief Security/Tactical Officer

Lieutenant JG Ronnie Lancaster
Assistant Chief Science Officer

 

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