Mew stepped in front of the thin and the fat one to introduce herself.
“I’m Mew, I managed the recycling center station were Toll worked. Before he
and Rusty stole a ship and made their run for the ring.” She said.
The Doctor sat up in his chair and rolled forward a little bit. “Do
you work on the ring console with them?” He asked. She shook her head. “Did
they tell you how they did it?” He asked. She shook her head again. He slumped back
in his chair again. “Then why the hell are you here?” He asked.
She shrugged her shoulders. “You’re the scientist, you tell me.”
She grumbled.
He rotated his chair and turned his head to look at her. “Can you
order pizza?” He asked.
She rolled her eyes. “You’re one of the smartest people on the
planet and you don’t know how to order pizza?” She asked.
He shrugged. “I never memorized the number.” He said before he
pushed off backward down the hall.
The doctor’s assistants came out of a smaller computer lab and saw
the group by the main door so they walked over to introduce themselves. The
girl held her hand out. “Hi I’m Ling, if the doctor said anything rude or
annoying feel free to ignore him.” She said with a smile as Mew shook her hand.
The doctor rolled by on his chair. “Excuse me, I have three
degrees in computers and engineering, everything I say is equally brilliant and insightful.”
His voice echoed down the hall.
“’You’re a sexist asshole’ isn’t insightful it’s just an
unpleasant reality.” Ling shouted down the hall.
The Doctor rolled back. “Hey now. I’m not sexist, I don’t care who
gets the pizza as long as it’s not me, and it doesn’t have olives.” He said
before pushing off again.
The male assistant finally spoke up. “W- W- W- Can you tell us ab-
b- b- about your friends?” He stuttered.
Ling nodded. “Anything that might stand out about them relating to
technology? Did either of them have a favorite computer on the station? Or any
obsession with any kind of machine?” She asked.
Mew thought it for a moment, her eyes got wide. “Oh hell yes Toll
did! He had this ancient portable game machine that he had on him practically
24/7.” She growled. “I hated that thing.” She spat.
Instant the doc rolled back and stopped quickly. “How old? What
did it look like? What was it called?” He asked in rapid fire.
Mew shrugged. I don’t know how old, It was green, like an ugly
neon green that had faded a long time ago to this sort of tired green. I don’t
know what it was called but it played these horrible computerized tones that
Toll called music. The only other thing I remember is that Rusty got almost as
angry as I did when he caught him playing it. Which he did, pretty much all the
time.” She explained.
The male assistant ran back into the smaller lab that he and Ling
had just come out of. Ling had a huge smile on her face. “Video game machines
were on the bottom of our list, if he can figure out which machine it was, and
we can find another one we might have our first real lead.” She explained as
she ushered Mew back to the smaller lab.
The doctor looked at the fat and the thin gentlemen that had
delivered Mew. “So that’ll be a large, sausage and mushroom pizza, light on the
sauce, cheese stuffed crust mkay?” He waved them off with a hand.
