SpaceNuts!

(YUSS! Spacenuts has returned!)

Fierce Deity finally hit the ground. "OI!" He shouted. "I was in mid-air for a MONTH! Do you know how HARD that is?! PSI OUT THE ASS!"

Tal slowly levitated down, widening the hole in a very loud display. He set down right next to Bara, "Second Floor! Cooking ware, nine irons, and undergarments!"

The cooky cogged machine changed back as Robert stepped down, "Aawww... These halls are not fluffy bot accessible! Zoh well! Looks like I'm leaving the Sentinal here!" it was then that the back opened up and a much more human sized machine popped out, leaving his outershell in the hall much as he had done with his significantly larger body out still on the cliff.

"SO! How bout that intrinsic array of cameras, pressure sensors, infrared beams, 40 caliber auto assult-turrets, and handfull of baby ducks that awaits us! Gonna be pretty hard to make it past all that..."



The rock pondered aloud again, almost as if it had developed an enjoyment out of pointing out obvious facts that it knew would upset the broken bot, "How does one with out eyes, see so far ahead? Especially when they never think farther than their next word..."



Tal thought for a moment, trying to come up with a witty response. But all he could muster was, "How can one with out a mouth talk so much!"

Eclipse looked at Fierce Deity and crossed her arms. “What...the...HELL are you talking about?” She asked in a rude tone as she cocked an eyebrow.

Mirth's eye screen, feet and head bumps glowed in the dark passage way they were in. She said nothing as she jumped on Robert's shoulder and looked around, her eyes scanning everything she saw.

TP got up and dusted herself off, then dusted Ell off. "So! I have...no
sense of direction. Anyone with X-Ray vision or something should look
where we should go. That would be awesome." she said. Gento sighed.

"Oh great. Our leader has no idea where she's going. Well that's just
perfect. And my third stomach is close to empty." He uncrossed his arms
and sat on the ground. Gename just laughed.

"It's ok friend. I don't know where things are either sometimes. Maybe we should just break the walls and find our way that way!"

"Absolutely not! this is why they made Tricorders and smart people." Kip said, pushing her spiral glasses onto her face. She pulled out a tricorder and started to scan the building. "I'm reading life signs a few floors underneath us. We should look for more stairs." Pip turned to TP, Robert, and Bara.

"Captain, Robert, Bara, since you all currently are holding or are equipped with people, robots, and objects that glow, you should go ahead of us. You can illuminate the way." they nodded, and walked in front.

Melody giggled at the Ferice Dietys remark. "I don't think you up there for a month." and turned to Tal. "We can take care of the cameras and such as we did for this hall...What we should do..maybe is find the computer center? I mean, I'm sure they would have her under watch. Then we wouldn't have to go around destroying everything." She leaned over, looking over Kip's shoulder. "Does that..tricorder thingy show like a center location for everything. I mean, we could find out the hard way but." She looked up at Bara, who didn't respond to her and lifted Mirth chin, still quiet fascinated by the creature and then turned when he heard his name mentioned. "..Ok." His body lite up in a strange almost sea green color, following certain patterns off his body, giving a strong illumination to see at least good 20 feet ahead and started forward like asked, not really caring if anyone followed or not.

“Hey Robert...why does Bara have such a great interest in me?” Mirth asked, her eye screen, head bumps, and feet glowing brighter than before.

“I have no idea.” Robert said as he stepped to the front of the group with Bara he took out a little clear crystal and held it up before it glowed a bright white light that illuminated the surrounding area.

“Wow, that's a pretty crystal, where did you get that?” Mirth asked, staring at the crystal.

“A friend gave it to me.”

“What's their name?”

“Klao.” Robert said before he looked ahead and started to look as if he was starting to drift off.

"I can do that!" Tal smacked his head a couple of times and head lights began to flicker out of his eye-like plates. "Oh, and check this out!" he smacked himself a couple more times the lights turned a deep green color and created a kaleidoscope effect on the wall he was staring at. He moved the light onto Melody, "Come on! Rave it out! Unst! Unst! Unst! Unst!"



The mystic rock of wordy mystisism appeared next to mirth, making another comment at Tal, "At a time when the unseen must be seen, and the seen must be unseen, the effect of making one's self seen is better seen on the unseen than the seen."



Tal's experssion changed, ".....Ok....fine! You wanna talk aristotic philosophy? Then here's a little something to wrap you're mind around! This sentence is a lie! HA! Shut you up..."



The Rock pondered for a moment... "A contradiction you have presented. And a clever one too. You have clearly out classed me, and so I ask, inorder to cement your victory as the superior mind, could you recite Pi to the lowest decimal point?"



Tal stopped.

His lights shut off of as if they had burned out. He suddenly fell to the ground in a scarp sounding CLANG! He was completely lifeless save for a single blinking green LED that could barely be seen exuding light from somewhere in his head.



The rock suddenly appeared further down the hall, "Shall the group of myrthful heroes continue forward into the unknown and the unseen?"

"Raavee~" Melody started to pump it slightly until Tal suddenly shut down. "Tal?" She knelt down and tapped the bot. "He like..went to sleep or shut down or something.. we can't leave him here right?" Melody lifted him, struggling slightly and put him on her back, holding his legs. "Ok. Let's go or something. An Mr. Rock! Please stop trying to screw with peoples heads." She started forward with everyone and walked behind Robert. "Sorry Mirth. Bara's a very curious person. Expecully, with things we don't normally see."

"So, DJ!" Decaldo said, looking over to me. "How'd you get here?"


"Well, I was playing videogames, when suddenly--" I walked by a loud machine, still talking. The noise was loud for a while. "...And that's how I wound up here."


Fierce Deity looked at the bot. "What happened to him?"

They came to another flight of stairs. "You know, it's weird. We've been in here for a long time, yet there are no enemies. That never happened. Not even when Angel and Demon stormed the Oasis Castle to reclaim it." Kip said.

"You jinxed us." Pip complained.

“Hmm...just curious huh? I can understand that.” Mirth said, still on Robert's shoulder. She looked at him and saw that he had that same look from before and poked his cheek with her cold hand.

Robert quickly perked up his head from the new coldness on his cheek. “What the? Oh, Mirth, what is it?”

“You look like something is bothering you...is everything ok?”

“Yeah, I'm fine. I'm just thinking about something.” Robert said, looking ahead.

“Ok.”

Eclipse looked at Tal. “Is he going to be ok?” She asked.

"I'm not sure, he just tried to calculate an irrational number there. He could be out for awhile." Espe said, poking Tal.
"Whatever, he can catch up. I say we pick a direction and start walking, we're bound to find something sooner or later, be it safe or full of enemies. I'd just like to get moving." T-kun said, gazing around energetically.
"You totally drank a Red Bull before we left didn't you..." Espe said, his hand on his face.
"YEP!" said T-kun, a little too loudly.

"Oh.That's right. Maybe he's like..computing the number or something. But if its infinity..I don't even know all of Pi and I'm pretty smart." She tilted her head slightly, "What about you Bara? Do you know Pi?" "Pi. A baked dish of fruit, or meat and vegetables, typically with a top and base of pastry." Melody laughed so hard, she swore she was gonna drop Tal. "No. The math number Pi. Not P I E Pi..although I'm glad you said that..it means your becoming more human.." After going down a few more flights of stairs Bara stopped, coming to a fork in the road and looked back at the group, hoping someone would lead where to go next.

I looked at the fork in the hallways rather obliviously, Decaldo did the same. We both looked up at Fierce Deity.

"What? You two thought I'd know this answer to this? 'cuz I don't, and splitting up is bad."

"Should we all go through each one and go back if it's a dead end?" Decaldo asked.

"If we don't wind up dead at the end, I guess..."

The stone stood behind the group, "To compare pros is to contrast cons. To split is to weaken, but to stay is to gamble. For until you know the condition of the person you seek. The risk is entirely up to you. So the question still rings. Left, or right?"



A staticy voice answered.

"Left. 80 yards. A nexus room can be found. Door 205: Weapons Cache. Door 206: Lavatories. Door 207: Left wing, Science Bay. Door 208: Elevator leading further down 6 levels into the System's Maintainence Room. Life signs are minimal, personel clocking has ceased. Index co-ordinates...BEEP! 3577.2346 X. by 23458.323 Y. by 1233.44555 Z. 12 levels downs. Pi = 3.14159265358979323846264338327950288..."

Tal was functional again....sort of. His whole body seemed to glow blue with a system of LEDs under his chasis. He slid down off of Melody and moved forward ahead of the group down the left corridor in a fashion much more mechanical than before. His voice was monotone as he continued to recite PI unendingly.

TP bobbled her head a little. "Too much math. Make it stop." She said, clearly confused. Ell blinked. She was wondering what she could do if a fight broke out. She would be weighing TP down...

Pip and Kip kept trucking along. They had their tricorders out, and they were ready for any trouble that might occur.

"There. Systems maintenance. They are bound to have the security cameras in that room. Not only could we control everything, we could completely shut them off, go through undetected and know exactly where Princess Zelda is." Melody said, walking past the group swiftly and looked around for the mentioned elevator. "There it is. Come on. I know I'm not the leader but logically, it is the best move of this game of chess. T-Kun and Espe would probley be best to take out the guards in the room. They seem to be best equipped for fighting..ish..well you know. At least, they will burn some of that energy." She opened the elevator, waiting for the camera to move and grabbed it, pulling it from the wall before it could see them. "This elevator is surprisingly large. Wait Tal." Melody hurried over and grabbed the bot's arm. "Come this way...you sound like you need an energy boost.....if you had a port on you of some kind we could plug you in.."

"Sounds good to me." T-kun said. He and Espe stood backs facing the wall on either side of the door, guns out. T-kun motioned a count off of 3, 2, 1, and they ran in. There were some sounds of beating up, a few yells, and an "OH MY SPLEEN", then T-kun opened the door and said "There you go, they won't be waking up for awhile." smiling deviously.

Fierce Deity smiled. "How about never?"

Decaldo glared at him. Angrily.

"Sorry, sorry, I kid," He said quickly as ever as he scooted a bit from Decaldo.

The three of us went through the now cleared out room.

Bara Grabbed the chair and slide over to the computers. His fingers moved quickly across the keys and he slide around the computers. "The cameras will only see fake images of clear hallways. We can proceed undetected." He turned in the chair to the twins. "You can find the princess?" He stood up, looking at the chair slightly and pulled it out for Kip to take seat.

"Look Tal. With all these computers. You could probley fix yourself right?" Melody looked around, not sure what to look for for him personally.

Tal had pretty much been reciting Pi the whole time, at least until Melody pointed out the control console. "386340284.....9... Holding cells: Level 12, 6 levels below. Touch-to-access ware active. Uploading fastest route...now." BBBBBZZZZZZZZZZTTTTTT!!!!!! The moment the monotoned motormouth touched the console all the screens in the room went out as Tal, once again, fell to the floor lifelessly.



The Rock appeared next to one of the unconscience guards, "To be poor ar your work is to be poor at your dreams. If one does not seek perfection, they will only find failure. Even if perfection is unobtainable."

Pip and Kip pressed some buttons on their Tricorders. "We're reading humanoid lifesigns a few floors down. The electrical interference from Tal is making it hard for the Tricorders to scan." Pip said. Kip looked over to the computers.

"It looks like he managed to knock out the main computer. If that doesn't get someone's attention, I don't know what will." she took out her swirly glasses and put them on. "It'll take Pip and I a few minutes to get the main computer back online." She said, and started opening up panels and things. Pip did the same. The two started to work on the computer system, but who knew just how long it would take?

Eclipse's ears twitched and her tail flicked in an irritated way when The Rock said another whimsical sentence. “Please...for once...would you stop with these sentences of yours?” She asked as she turned to him. Those that could see her face noticed that her hair cast a shadow over her glowing red eyes and her face was a mix of freaked out and anger.

Mirth jumped off of Robert's shoulder and walked to one of the twins and watched them as they worked.

Melody knelt down beside Tal. "Tal?..either he was to old for the computers and fried them, or he was too complex and overloaded them." She lifted Tal and sat up up against the console side. "If you need help Bara knows a thing or two about computers." She told the twins and giggled slightly to herself at the pun in her words.