"Is he alright? "
"I guess so, and hope so."
"I thought R.E.C.O.V.E.R systems could heal this damage?"
"The thing matters is whether he could wake up."
"Wait guys, look! He is waking up! "
Albur's sight are blurry, he can still hear his ears ringing. He found himself lying on the boat, everyone is surrounding him, except for Johnson.
"Dang, man, you're finally awake! " exclaimed Wilton.
Albur sat up, groaning, his head still aches.
"Careful, I just healed your deaf ears, the pain and dizziness might still be in your head." said Covie.
"Wait.....how long...have I been sleeping...." asked Albur.
"Straight hours, its already morning." said Wilton.
Albur looked at the sky, although still cloudy, but isn't as dark as the night.
"The rain has stopped..." murmured Albur.
"No wait! Where's that giant Gulper Eel? " asked Albur.
"You made it scram, your microphones noise made it feel uncomfortable." said Mysty.
"Oh..."
"If it wasn't you, we won't have enough time to fix the boat, and we will all become fishfood."
Mysty smiled at him, Albur also replied her with one.
"Oh, yeah, uh, where are we now? " asked Albur.
"Master said we still need to travel 100km to reach the next upgrade station, 95 on water, 5 on land. " said Covie.
"Still a long journey." said Mysty.
"Hey, why not we just have a little rest, while there's no threat at all right now. " said Wilton.
"Heck yeah, I'm a bit hungry right now. " said Albur.
The gang when back to the deck. Covie flew to the resource box and grabbed some food for the gang, Albur looked at the helm, Johnson is still piloting the boat.
"Still not broken? I thought you weren't water proof." said Albur, jokingly.
"Why aren't you dead? I thought you weren't sound proof. " Johnson replied him in a tired tone of voice.
"Finally awake from your maintenance break? "
"What the heck do you mean? If it wasn't me you would've been a meal of a hungry eel. "
"If it wasn't me you would've been a meal of Commander Glitch."
"Ok, fine! Fair enough! " Albur walked away. Johnson rolled his eyes.
Covie grabbed a bottle of apple juice and gave it to Johnson. And she recharged herself using a mini hyper gem.
"Are the food and water enough?" asked Johnson.
"I think we can make it using the remaining ones." said Covie.
"Good."
Covie flew back to the deck, the gang started to heat their food using a fire.
"Careful not to burn the whole ship! "
"Yeah! Yeah! Whatever!"
"You two really have to stop being against each other, we were...."
".....meant to be a team."
"Wow, you can even predict what she was about to say."
Mysty looked at Covie and shook her head, she giggled.
"Did I really said this phrase tons of times? "
"You did."
"C'mon, really, if we don't stand united, our team will collapse."
"Its that cyborg who ain't team working, always rush into battles and fly solo."
"Hey excuse yourself! I ain't deaf!"
Johnson's voice echoed from the helm.
"Yeah yeah! I know! Your eyes aren't deaf! Your ears aren't blind! "
Johnson scoffed in anger. He fired his minigun behind Albur.
Albur jumped off the seat, he looked at Johnson and pulled out his rifle and aimed at him.
"Woah, woah, woah, guys, chill! Enough!" Mysty tried to stop the 2 of them.
"He started it!" yelled Johnson.
"Hurts to hear the truth?" asked Albur.
Johnson grunted in anger. He smashed his minigun on the ground. His words were censored and he was electrocuted, and he fell onto the ground.
"Good news master, the effect only last for 6 more hours. " said Covie.
"Im sick and tired of this....." Johnson stood up and continued piloting the boat.
Albur lowered his rifle and kept it. He sat down and continued eating his food.
"Albur....you really have to stop. Please." said Mysty.
"Ok, ok, I get it. Sorry." said Albur.
Wilton looked at Coive, and looked at Johnson.
"Hey, uh, what is this little drones name again?"
"I'm Covie, Covie the R.E.C.O.V.E.R drone. " said Covie.
"Oh yeah, right, uh, can I ask you a question?"
Covie stared at Wilton with a raised eyebrow face.
"You are Johnson's little assistant? "
"Y-yeah."
"You're familiar with him? "
"Of course."
Wilton winked at Albur, Albur realized it.
"Well, do you go onto glitch killing missions with him?"
"Rarely, I'm not a fighter, so I usually stay at the moon hut while he go onto missions on Earth."
"How?"
"In the digital world, but not the parallel space entered using digitalisation, he enter computer system and transfer it to Earth and fight glitches there, I don't know why but he is always very sneaky."
'That's definitely system breaching.' Albur thought to himself.
"Then, what does he normally do in his daily life?"
"Why ask this question? My master won't like me to tell. "
"Just don't care about him, just tell us."
"He treat me as a family and I do the same! Nuh uh!"
Wilton frowned. And sighed.
"Look, Covie, you think he treat you as a family? Then why do you call him master? "
"What do you mean?"
"You calling him master means you are his servant, you don't know about this?"
"Why can't I? I like calling him that and he don't mind."
"Don't you feel like you are his dog?"
Covie shook her head.
Wilton was left speechless.
"Well then, since you are both a recovery drone and a transmission bot, do you really see him as the CEO of RNP talking to his employees?" Asked Albur.
"Why do you kept asking these questions? Well, not really, when I was in transmission mode, I have completely no control of my body nor memories. My master took full control."
"Huh...then how do you really make sure he is the CEO? "
"He have many invention stuff on his desk."
"Why do you trust that?"
"Is that the reason trust issues exists?"
"Boy is she naive." Albur thought to himself.
After that conversation, Mysty started to feel a little suspicious.
'Entering systems to kill glitches, and very sneaky, means he didn't have permission. Wasn't that illegal? ' she thought to herself.
"Ok, Covie, a quick question, why..."
Suddenly, Johnson fired one bullet below Albur's feet.
"The hell! What is that for?!"
"Oops, sorry, didn't see you there." He blew the smoke of his minigun.
Albur glared at Johnson. He knew that shot was on purpose, his guard was raised once again.
"What are you gonna ask, Albur? " asked Covie.
Suddenly, the boat rattled.
"Hey Covie! Can you help me fix this part of the boat, its broken." Johnson pointed at a part of the boat, its a broken part seemingly done on purpose by Johnson.
"Oh! Rogie rogie! " Covie flew to that part of the ship.
Albur and Johnson's eye met, staring at each other with narrow eyes. Mysty can even feel sizzling in the air between them.
Suddenly, the boat rattled again. This time, its way harder.
"You did not just break the boat again! " said Albur.
"What? Its wasn't me!" yelled Johnson.
"Uh, master? Why is there another broken part? " asked Covie.
Mysty looked at the water, but then, she felt warmth, she put her hands into the seawater, strangely, the water is hot.
"Uh, guys? Is it me, or is the seawater boiling? " she asked.
Albur went to Mysty's spot, he looked into the water. Suddenly, a bullet fired from beneath the water. The 2 of them dodged it. Johnson noticed something isn't right, so he quickly turned to another direction. Out of nowhere, a mini ship appeared from the water, the hatch on the ship opened, a corrupted CI popped out from it.
"This is team #72! Reporting to the admiral! We found them! "