Kendric was still sleepy and stared at his pancakes for breakfast. He wasn't hungry, still dealing with everything he learned in the past 24 hours. He wanted to learn even more about their history and the Anunnaki. The others were busy with their conversations to eachother. Yrsa came into the messhall and after a quick exchange of eye contact, he acted like he was part of the conversation with the guys and laughed out loud since Marcellus was laughing about something. She still looked angry and Kendric blamed himself for that. He wasn't exactly the nicest person yesterday, certainly not to Yrsa who apperently only showed some interest in his experience with Charlize.
'So Kendric, are you gonna share with us what your problem was yesterday?' Kenji asked him.
It kinda overwhelmed him. Kenji just asked him straight forward, out of the blue. He pulled up his shoulders. Didn't feel like talking about it. He thought back at Enki. He didn't want to share that moment with anyone, it was so special to him that he wanted to safe that conversation for himself. He hoped he would see Enki soon again. He felt like the big brother he never had.
Zuberi pulled up his shoulders and lips at Kenji: 'Don't ask me man, I haven't talked to him for a whole day.' And Zuberi finished his breakfast.
Zasha walked up to their table.
'Kendric, will you meet me after class again? You know where to find me.' She stroke her hair while walking away. Kendric noticed Yrsa watching them as a hawk from the corners of his eyes.
'Yes!' He answered enthousiasticly. This was actually something he was looking out for. Crazy as it felt how Zasha was the one he could stand around him at this moment. She was just Zasha, never pretended to be someone else than her annoying self. A Russian beauty, who didn't do smalltalk or riddles. Just straight forward. Could it be he liked Zasha and there was potential friendship here? Kendric had to laugh at this ridicolous idea.
'Earth to Kendric, hellooooo, anyone alive out there?', Marcellus waved with his hands right in front of his eyes, 'Zasha???' He asked confused.
'Yeah, we've bin practising together on our pyrokineses.'
'How did that came to be?' Zuberi asked him confused while his mouth was stuffed with some sort of chicken dish.
'It just did, coincidence of running into eachother. She showed me a classroom to exercise with our flames safely. Something Miss Bria created for people with pyrokineses powers. It's actually quite awesome, like a holodeck.'
'A hollow what?' Marcellus asked him while being just as confused about all this as Zuberi.
'Not hollowww. H-O-L-O! You know, Star Trek?'
Now everyone looked confused.
'You're a trekkie?' Marcellus asked him and burst out in tears from laughter while making the Vulcan salute. It's when you spread your fingers into a V in the middle.
'So what? Is the science to much for you?' Kendric looked as cunning as a fox and wasn't planning to be ridiculised by this little Mario or anyone else for that matter and everyone had to laugh.
'Testosteron much guys?', Cahya noticed them on their manly cavemen behaviour and ordered a Sprite with a slice of lemon, 'so are you guys exited about today?' She asked them but no one seemed to know what she was talking about.
'Jean? The A.I.?' She couldn't believe no one remembered.
'What about Jean?' Marcellus asked her while getting impatient. He had developed a small obsession for the Artificial Intelligence of the school and begged Miss Bria to have a chance to meet her.
'Today is your turn for lessons with Jean the A.I. You all did know she teaches right?' Cahya checked their reaction one by one. But no one seemed to know this little fact. The only thing Kendric heared about the A.I. was on the night of the mission to the Isle of Sky.
'You've already worked with her right? On our mission for the DNA sequence? What is she like?' Kendric asked Cahya. He really didn't had any idea what to expact. A robot? A talking invisible computer like the talking ship from the series "legends of tomorrow"?
'She is great, you know Jean from X-men? That's her, that's why her name is Jean She is the spitting image of Famke Janssen. You know, the actrice who played Jean in the X-men?' Cahya seemed to admire this Famke Janssen. Kendric actually knew who she was talking about although he didn't knew the actrices name. He loved the X-men movies and had a lot of the comics as well.
'They cloned her?' Zuberi asked Cahya while looking a bit upset by this idea.
'Haha no, not cloned. Just used her appearance for the A.I. Apperently the one who created her, was a big X-men fan.'
Well that explained it. Marcellus didn't look upset at all, instead he just looked in love and daydreamed about her. The blue light appeared and they heared a womans voice echoing through the messhall.
'For all the boys of colorclass Blue, follow your blue light. For the girls, we see eachother tonight. Enjoy your day off.'
'What's tonight?' Kenji asked Cahya.
'Girls night out, Jane will inform us tonight about it. Have fun today!' And Cahya walked to the other girls in the back.
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The guys followed the blue light and went into the same direction as Miss Bria's classroom. But this time there were no wormholes. They all recognised the woman who was waving at them. It was Jean or Famke Janssen or whatever. It was weird and great at the same time to see Xmen's Jane waving at you knowing that she isn't it, but you could probably program her exactly like Xmen's Jean or like Famke, however you want actually. A strange idea which almost broke down Kendric's brain. It was just all to complicated for him to comprehend.
'Greatings earthlings, truthseekers, young masters, students. I have identified you as the boys of colorclass Blue. You may enter now.' Jean pointed behind her and a grid was to be seen. Like a million lasers were pointing in every direction.
'Please enter the grid one at a time.' She requested the boys and Zuberi went first even though Marcellus couldn't wait to step through it himself. He was jumping up and down of exitement like a little kid.
Zuberi stepped through the grid of laserlights. As soon as he did so the laserlights scanned him. It reminded Zuberi a bit of the doorway from the medical wing where they also scanned him but this one was different. There were way more lasers and they changed colours like a LED show. They all pointed to Zuberi's head. When the led lights went out Jean let him know that he could step out of the grid. Marcellus then followed and while the lasers were scanning his brain he observed them closely, it looked like he already planned to build something like this himself and taking notes in that brilliant mind of him. Kenji and Maynard followed and Kendric went last. When the lasers went out Kendric stepped out of the grid. They arrived in a big hangar where spaceships were docked everywhere.
'Are these UFO's?' Marcellus asked even more exited than he already was.
Jean stood next to a big spaceship and answered in a typical robotic way: 'No! UFO: Unidentified Flying Object. This flying object is identified. It is spaceship 82310. Also known under the name: Cerebro.'
She then made a gesture they should enter the spaceship.
Kenji walked around and observed all the robotics from the ship and there were a lot as far as Kenji could tell.
'Professor X his Cerebro?' Maynard asked and grinned. Kendric laughed and felt relieved that he wasn't the only X-men fan in the group.
'My maker called it Cerebro because he was a X-men fan. As he also named and formed me to his favourit character. This ship is controlled in the same way as Cerebro, therefor it was only logical to call it so for my maker.' Jean walked to a panel and a strange looking tube came out with a long pin at the end. It flew to the back of her neck and plugged in. She turned around and Kendric noticed the same binary code as in Master Uruk's office, ran through her eyes. The symbols just fell down as rain and kept going.
'I am now connected to the grid of this spaceship. Let's begin.'
Jean just stood there with that pin in her neck and the tube that was leading to the panel she just had installed. A door opened up, it was the cockpit. Six chairs were placed infront of a huge window.
'Sit down,' Jean ordered them, 'and place your right hand on the control panel.'
As soon as they did, a collar came out of the chair and locked on to their necks. It felt a little strange, like a weird massage running through your body with electric shocks. Out of the control panel the same strange tubes with pins just like the one that got pinned into Jean's neck came flying out. They all jumped out of their chairs.
'No way you stick that thing in to me!' Maynard yelled.
Kendric agreed with Maynard for once, this was scary as hell.
'You are mistaken truthseeker Maynard. Sit down, let the collar connect to your bodysuits, the pins will connect to the collar, not to your meatsuit.'
'Meatsuit? Are you kidding me?' Maynard observed Jean, trying to find some button he could push to disconnect her or something.
'Sit down Maynard, she is an A.I. don't expect any humanity from a robot.' Kenji sat relaxed in his chair and let the tube with the pin connect to his collar which surrounded his neck. As soon as the pin got connected to the collar the same kind of grid that was installed at the doorway slowly crawled over his body from his feet up to his head. Kenji seemed to he at ease.
'It is done, you're connected to the ship now. Tap into it truthseeker Kenji and demonstrate your fellow truthseekers how it works.' Jean ordered him.
Kenji thought about the spaceships doors closing down and as soon as he did the door closed down. The others looked back at the door and Maynard stood their in shock. Kenji thought about the ship hoovering a bit and as soon as he did, the ship began to fly up and hoovered for a while.
'This is way cooler than my robotics lessons at school!' And Kenji felt over the moon. Just like Marcellus did when a cool high tech gadget was presented.
Kendric searched for Marcellus but he apperently already jumped in his chair and couldn't wait to connect with the ship. He looked super exited, maybe even more than Kenji. Kendric and the others went to their chairs and let the ship connect to them. As soon as the grid finished over their bodies, Kendric could feel the ship. Like every aspect of it. The ship felt like it was a living organism. Like it was breathing on its own.
'I can detect you all now, in order for you truthseekers to feel eachother you have to focus on eachother. Since your body is now linked with the ship. You're connected with eachother, like a hyve.' Jean said while she stood as still as a wax figure.
Kendric tried to focus allthough he didn't know on what to focus exactly. He decided to start with Kenji who sat next to him on his rightside. He closed his eyes and felt a lot of different energies. How could he feel whose energy he felt? It felt like a 1000 pieces puzzle, when you hit the darker parts of it. Kendric noticed this one energy, it vibrated so quickly... He didn't know how he knew, he just did.
'What the heck are we suppose to do?' Maynard asked frustrated.
But Jean didn't answer him. Kendric stared at the others, Marcellus squeezed his eyes, Kenji also. It seemed no one knew how to connect with eachother.
Again clueless, you have got to be kidding me!
Kendric decided to give it one more try before he threw the towel into the ring. He focused on the energy which vibrated so fast. Yes, there it was.
Heartbeat...