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Chapter 1 - Where Am I

"Rory, Rory wake up" A cold monotone robotic voice echoed from inside of Rory's head.

Rory lifted her aching hand to her head as the sound of the robot voice pierced through her skull like a red hot poker. "Agh, who's there" Rory asked looking around the heavily broken shuttle she layed in.

"I suppose you would want to know such information, you should leave the shuttle before I tell you" The voice said as Rory's head pain began to slightly dissipate.

Rory's whole body felt like it had been set ablaze and extinguished multiple times and that sensation only grew as she forced herself to her feet.

She was unable to stand straight instead having to balance herself on the partially destroyed parts of the shuttle that stayed standing.

"The door won't open you'll have to climb through one of the many hull breaches"

Heading the advice the voice had given her Rory began looking for hull breaches she could climb through, must of them to small for here to fit through them.

As she looked around for a large enough she noticed a hull breach in the ceiling right above what she assumed was a pilots console. Rory now able to slightly stand straight walked towards the pilot console.

"Are you sure your up for this?" The voice asked as Rory began brainstorming was to reach the hull breach.

"Do I have any other choice?" Rory said gesturing around the shuttle at the other hull breaches far to small for her to fit through.

"Fair point, I suggest using the bolted chairs" The voice said as Rory looked at the half broken chairs that were bolted to the floor in front of the console.

Rory climbed onto the chair at first whike sitting on her legs and slowly trying to stand, it would have been hard trying to balance on a fully functional swivel chair let alone a broken one.

After getting to a position where she could safely climb onto the console she began climbing up to the hull breach. The shuttle was around 50 feet from floor to ceiling and the console was about 42 feet long.

Thanks to some smaller hull breaches Rory used as foothold she was able to climb the extra 8 feet the the rood hull breach.

Rory exhaustedly sat on the roof of the shuttle taking in her surroundings, she was in the middle of what appeared to be a desert though the air felt cold, Rory looked up into the sky to see swarms of blue shards orbiting the planet, their were millions of them all illuminating the planet in a light blue glow.

"It's beautiful" Rory said under her breath as she watched the cacophony of blue shards dance across the sky.

"I would hope you plan to get off of the very unstable shuttle roof" The voice said sounding strangely snarky in a robot kind if way.

The shuttle seemed to be practically buried in the desert sand so it wasn't hard foe Rory to just slid off of the roof into the sand.

Though the air was chilly the sand was not, instead it seemed to retain some sort of heat.

Rory sat in the sand taking in the heat which was a nice reprieve from the cold air the she had been feeling since she awoke.

"Cam you tell me what you are now?" Rory asked addressing the robotic voice in her head.

"I am incomprehensible to a life form such as you, but for the sake of trust I can simplify what I am, I am what your your species would call a highly Artificial Intelligence that can do things your species has merely dreamed of" The voice said with hints if pride in its usual monotone voice.

"If your so great why are you in my head?"

"You do not remember but you stole that shuttle that had me trapped inside of it, and then you did a very stupid spacial jump and ended up colliding with that asteroid field up there, and to avoid getting destroyed along with the shuttle I hopped into your brain"

"Why were you on that ship? And why did I steal you?" Rory asked as she stared up at the asteroid field that had nearly killed her.

"My maker had placed my in a data chip which your species had found on an archeological mission, I was on that ship being brought back to probably be examined, and as for why you stole the ship I have no idea" The voice started to sound more distorted as it talked.

Suddenly it stopped talking all together and a strange red window popped up in front of Rory's face.

[I was on able to communicate with speech because I was in emergency mode, now that I'm not I can only communicate in visual representations like this]

"Can I remove you from my head or am u now stuck with you?" Rory asked as she stood up.

[Technically speaking you could remove me at any moment by either dying or ripping me out of your brain stem, which properly wouldn't led to anything good for either of us]

"Ugh, so I'm stuck with you unless I die or mutilate myself, just great" Rory began to walk in a random direction.

[What are you doing?]

"I'm not going to sit around doing nothing produce forever, I might as well look for signs of life"

[Good point, continue on]

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