Chapter 5

Chapter 5

The manor was silent; which was never a good sign.

“Rabbit? Jon? Anabella?” Spine looked into the 5th room of the day and scratched his metal head. Where is everyone?

He began to check the older more abandoned rooms, still nothing. Heading downstairs to ask for the aid of the humans he heard a giggle.

“Read this one next Rabbit!” Jon cheered. There was a moment of silence.

“You were there when it happen The Jon, why this one?”

“Well Anabella hasn’t heard it yet!” Jon said shyly

“G-good point Jon!” Rabbit grinned.

Curiosly Spine heared towards the sound.
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“The Spine sees to never have any malfunctions, if he does they are normally small such as speech stutters, But today during breakfast something was a miss…Spine was usually the first one at the breakfast table, but today he was missing. It didn’t take us long to find him, he was in the hall of Wires fighting with his body. For some strange reason his vertebra would not latch to his body….I got Rabbit and the Jon to help me to get Spine’s body down to the lab; of course that was after Rabbit stopped laughing” Rabbit stopped and scrunched up his face. “It gets all weird here” he shrugged and threw the papers up in the air. “So I will tell you the rest!” he cheered

“While Peters fixed spine’s body, We were in charge of Spine. The first day was a blast; I came up with the best puns!” He grinned from ear to ear as steam came from his vents. “Later that night, Little Steve must’ve snuck into the HOW, cause the next morning we came down for breakfast to find Lil Steve ridding Spine with a tinny saddle on him. Even Steve had a good laugh until he got ‘the look’” Rabbit laughed and turned his faceplates into a hard glare that made Jon scrunch up closer to Anabella.

“It’s a scary look!” Jon whinned softly, playing with his suspenders enviously.

“Nah, he never meet anything by it, it was more b-bark then bite” he pulled his brother closer.

“Why must it always be that story…?” Spine stood at the top of the stair case, his arms folded against his titanium frame.

“Hey! It’s s-s-snake man!” Anabella cheered running up stairs and tripping along the way.

“Again…?” Spine sighed he shook his head. “Peter want’s to see you” he sighed glaring at Rabbit who was rolling on the floor in ‘tears’ laughing

Anabella tilted her head. “D-did I do something wrong?” she asked quietly.

“Nah, just a check up” He shrugged watching Rabbit and Jon start heading up stairs. “You two made a mess, clean it up” Spine instructed.

“Awww! But Spine! She made one too!” Rabbit pouted.

“Yes, well she’s going to see Peter, now clean it up” with that he turned with Anabella at his side and disappeared from the door.\

Anabella moved quietly to the lab where VI was sitting at his desk looking through the computer. “Y-you wanted to see me?” She whispered.

“Ah yeah, I just wanted to check you over again, I heard yesterday you had a small power failure, I would like to try to see if there’s anything in your data and if there’s any thing in your memory”  He motioned over to a metal table that was lowered so Anabella could easily slide in. Walking over VI grabbed a wire and examined her for a moment, finally finding the panel on the side of her head and popped it open and inserted the USB.

Anabella jolted; her world turned momentarily black. Light blues and purples flew pass her, people called out her name.

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VI frowned at his screen. All the data that had appeared on the screen made no since, it was written in a different language, one that might take a while to crack. “This might take a while” he sighed once he heard the door close and Michael come in.

“Looks like a mix of binary and something else” he peered over her shoulder. “There’s something in English” He pointed to a folder in the lower right with the words ‘Memories’ written on it. VI dragged the mouse and double clicked.

There was a weird screeching sound coming from the computer. The lights in it flashed black and white fast and faster and a minute later, the screen exploded with smoke arising. “Damn it!” he jumped away from the Screen coughing and waving at the smoke.

Michael had gone over to Anabella. “Anabella!” he unplugged her. “Anabella! Can you hear me?!” he called shaking her there was no response. He opened her shirt and opened the panel hiding her inner workings and reach inside. A frown ceased his face. “Her boiler is warm, barely on…so we haven’t lost her…yet”

VI stood there motionless as Steve, Spine, Jon, and little Steve ran down the stairs, all asking what that sound was.  He couldn’t say anything.

Just what was in that memory file?