Out of the Box (Part 2)

"Hey! What happen to you!? Are... are you ok!?" 42 shouts in my ear.

I was still floating in the middle of the isle, but that wasn't my issue anymore. I put myself in a position like a superhero would when flying, except I didn't do the pose. I imagined engines on the palm of my hands and legs, with smaller engines on my back and sides for support, just like the being's suit I saw from before. I blast off towards my capsule!

"Wow.. WWAAHHHH!" 42 screams.

My engine blasted off successfully, but then it shut down shortly after! It kept going on and off constantly like it is jammed, and I kept getting dizzy when I try to use the engine. At this rate, I will crash!

"Calm down! Let me help you!... wow!"

I realized that I'm not in any particular danger, so I let him take control. Just before I hit the capsule, I come in to a full stop. My engine are back to normal and I balance myself in to full standing position in front of my capsule's storage. I fell something is ruining down my nose, and over my lips; it was hard for me to breathe with my nose, so I had to breathe in with my mouth. The liquid from my nose felt sticky, tasted strange, it had a strong hint of iron. I touch it and see it's red. What is that?

42 Jumps out of my back and hovers in front of me. "Hey what has.... oh wow .... your… there is blood coming out of your nose! Strange! I swear that we stopped before hitting anything, so why are you bleeding?"

42 immediately scans my face. I took this time to calm down and look inside the storage and find two other items. I can't figure out what they are. One is a bracelet of some sort, a metallic bracelet. The bracelet seems to be damaged, however. Parts of it is missing and had been chipped off, and it's not a full circle anymore. There was something round on the bracelet. There seems to have been glass on that part, for half of it is messing and the other half is cracked. Behind that glass there were two pointers, and there were numbers on the edges, I see a 12 and then right after it I see the number 1; however, the numbers 2, 3, 4, and 5 are missing. One pointer was smaller than the other, The smaller pointer was pointing between numbers 9 and 10, while the bigger one was pointing directly at number 6. What is this, and what's it for? I wonder.

The second Item I found is a pendant, though I can't make out of what it is. I feel it has a very simple shape with particularly no design on it, I just can't remember what the shape is. It's black, and has a very smooth surface to it, but hard, as if I'm touching a glass. The pendant is small. Its top was about half an inch wide, and the bottom made a sharp edge. The sides were round; it started from the top and curved its way down and made a V shape when the sides meet. Its height is about 3/4th of an inch and the depth seems to be about 1/4th of an inch.

"Hey stop whatever you're doing, and lets go to the infirmary!" 42 said, intervening my analysis.

"just put those items in your Orb's inventory and lets go!"

Infirmary? Inventory? What are they? More importantly, what's wrong with me?

"What's happening to me?" I asked.

"I'm reading some of your internal injuries haven't been fully healed, especially the one in your head, it looks like that's what makes you bleed. I will direct you to someone to check it out. It's probably the reason you can't function with your suit well"

A screen projects up in front of me from my suit, from under my neck towards my left shoulder, looks like some sort of map, a three-dimensional map which shows my surrounding. The map is not shown until certain extent, however I could zoom in and out. There was an arrow pointing at a direction, towards up.

"This is a navigator to help you out with your direction, now follow that arrow until you reach a warp to the infirmary room. Well, you could go there manually as well, but this way is much faster, and simpler." 42 explained.

"So what about these two items? How do I put them in this inventory?"

"You use it the same a way as you imagine how to navigate just now,"

someone from behind me answered my question instead of 42

"Apparently it's like a denominational pockeet, except it has a limited space... According to my AI Fwend 200"

I look behind me to whoever responded to my question. It's a man, standing in his capsule's door, the capsule in front of mine, although he has already suited up. He is tall, with athletic muscle tone. He had a coppery skin, very short black hair, black eyes, thick lips and wide nose. He had a deep voice with a unique deep accent. He is struggling to speak English, but it's good enough for me to understand. I wonder if he remembers anything from his past. He seemed to be excited and cautious, judging by his expression, but his eyes widens when he sees my face.

"Ah yes! That look like you could use some help!"

"Here let me put in the inventory for now, and you can figure out everything else after we check you out," 42 intervened.

A tiny warp appears in front of me and the items in my hand hovered in it, then another screen shows up in front of me showing what I have in the inventory.

"Ok, let's go!" 42 said in a hurry.

I look back at the man.

"Thank you, but before I go, do you by chance remember anything?"

"Uh... no, except that I know I'm from a place called Africa. According to my AI fwend heye," He points, with his thumb, to a drone behind him that looks exactly like 42 "I should recover my memory over time."

"Did he tell you why that is?" I asked.

"N.. No, but he said that we will gather somewhere and someone will explain tu us there of why that is, and then we will prepae to depart. Why? Does yours not say that?"

"No, mine is in a hurry, apparently he doesn't like crowded places"

He laughs out loud, holding his stomach. "ooh that's an extrah one, so our AI fiends have defuent posonalities haa?"

"Come on! Lets go! Your bleeding for crying out loud! You can chit chat with your new friend later! DRO1609200 please guide your person who your assigned to properly. They shouldn't be talking to each other!" 42 intervened.

"42... there is no such rule, you're the one that's always in a hurry and not guiding properly," the drone responded. then came forward and face me.

"Hi, I am DRO 1609200, you may address me as 200, or whatever name my partner will come up for me. Please to meet you, 42 can be a bit.... unorganized sometimes, but he means well, and will explain everything when the time comes."

"Gee 200, thanks for the little intro! He's bleeding! He need medical attention now!" 42 shouts flapping its halo wings up and down. he then jumps back in to my suit. "Ok, lets go!" He yells in my earphone.

"Please to meet you both as well" I unconsciously bowed to them, out of being polite. Funny how I still have my own habits despite not remembering nothing. "I will be on my way now and thank you both!"

"you are most certainly welcome!" 200 responded

"Hey, hope to see you again my fwend, and I pray your nose bleed is nothing serious!" The man responded to me waving good bye.

I take away my inventory screen, and make my navigator smaller, and follow its direction. I don't know what's waiting at the end of my path! I don't even know where I am! Despite of that, I have stark feeling that this situation... is only leading be to a start of something big. something that hasn't even begun yet.

**To Be Continued**