Chapter 20 Special: Holiday Part 2

Daniela stared at the two cloaked figures, "Who are these two?"

Will smiles awkwardly, "Well. You see..."

"SHUT THE DOOR KID, YOUR LETTING THE FIREPLACE HEAT OUT!" one of the sector leaders shouted who was huddling around the fire.

"Sorry. Anyway." Before Will could continue, he heard a gasp from Alyss who charged down the stairs and literally mowed the two. Araluen's impressive and usually not caught off guard, fell on the ground. "I MISSED YOU TWOOO!"

Halt gave one of his rare smiles. Gilan laughs, "There she is! The missing lady! Lady Pauline have been worried sick of you two."

Daniela puts her hand into her smooth hair using her hands as a brush and straightened it. "Well it seems like you two know them..."

Will smiles apologetically, "These are the two I talked about the most..."

Which then she understood, "Wait....It's see...." She puts a finger on her chin, "That one! The one with the grey beard who seemed to use a Ranger Saxe knife to cut his beard is Halt!"

Through the dim lit house, they all saw the intent death stare from Halt at his former apprentice. "What have you been telling to everyone?"

Will laughed, "Nothing too detailed."

"An outsider who knows of a Ranger and a Saxe knife. I think that's pretty detailed if I think so myself." Halt said defensively.

Gilan looked around, "Well certainly this is a pleasant place. Halt, your just surprised that she knows you are the barber of your own beard."

Daniela smiles at them, clearly to her they were good people and she felt she could trust them for some odd reason.

"Let's get some tea." Which then sounded really awkward.

Halt raised his eyebrow, "Tea? Anything please, coffee will do."

"Oh. Your just like him" She mutters, "Does everyone who wear that cloak like coffee?"

Will cheerfully grins, "Yeap...!"

"Oh boy."

Ooo

Halt, Gilan, Will and Alyss sat down...after the curiosity died down. Both of them took a good chunk of the night catching up what has happened so far. Will and Alyss, their times at school which Daniela helped join in and left at the moments that were embarrassing for her. While Halt and Gilan started off like doing a Ranger Report but then abandoned that tense and spoke normally explaining what the things were like the kingdom.

All eyes watched as Halt as he rose suddenly and started heading to the direction of the front door. Daniela asks, "What is it?"

Halt turned around and looked at them. "..."

Will's lightbulb went off, "Oh! Over here, the washrooms are soooo different and convenient." He got up and ushered him to another room which he showed Halt the tap. Raising an eyebrow and the water fell down like a small waterfall into the basin.

"And when your finished you press this lever" Will demonstrated which Halt took a small slight step back when the toilet water swirls excitingly.

Will turns around and sees a peeping head of Gilan who was watching intently at the room.

"You do realize that I can see you..." Will said.

GIlan laughs awkwardly, "Haha? Yeah? Oh... don't mind me..."

All of them savored the taste of hot food and chocolate. Apologizing for having no more coffee which Will knew it was a lie. Since he started living there, they have been getting extra more supplies of coffee beans just for him. Instead they served hot chocolate which they had a lot of. The two senior rangers didn't seem to be affected by the difference of taste.

Gilan and Halt jumped at the sound of the small cell phone on the table that vibrated which Will sighed and picked it up. "Hello?"

Curiously, Gilan looked at the small piece of wood. "Who is he talking to?"

"And wow Halt, I never seen you jump that high before either."

Halt grumbled, "Like you didn't either. Shut it."

"Turns out the police wants to talk to the 4 of us regarding our club or something. Daniela, we will be right back."

Daniela nodded as she walked in the room but slightly confused. "Um...so my dad arranged a flight to go to the private island." Will waved and all of them walked out into the calm and lightly snowing environment. They didn't know that this could be their last time saying good bye.

Before the door closed, Silhouette bolted out the door.

"Wow, the lights aren't on yet. Only some places." Alyss said as she made some vapor on the window.

The driver at the front replied, "Some of the power grid was managed to get back up before it either connection lines got knocked down or it got frozen below its active state."

"All that blathering I don't understand...Will. What is this thing that goes so fast yet doesn't rock like a horse? What do you feed it? Why is there so many colors? Why is there lights at the front?" Gilan and Halt shot questions at once.

Will smiles but sighs, "Yay, this is going to be a fun ride." But in his heart, it was warmed up.

Ooo

Gilan and Halt looked around as they walked down the hall. Both of them felt they have acquired new information so well they could take over the world. Sarah on the phone warned Will not to explain too much or else it won't be good for the past. Which he understood...sort of.

Occasionally Halt tested the metals on the wall rapping them with his knuckles. It was all too fascinating to them. Just like Day 1 for Will and Alyss. A door at the end slide up as a scanning system recognized Sarah.

They entered the room which saw something irregular with full of wires and lights.

Sarah explained to them on what is happening. "Okay, like what we were trying to research and do, is to get Alyss and Will back to the past."

She saw the nods of everyone. So she continued, "Well. This hunk of metal will be able to do just that." Tapping the large device, which to the comic books Alyss had taken some interest in recently, it did not look like the portals in the story.

All of them started cheering. Will and Alyss hugged each other tightly. Then suddenly there was a smack on the portal which one of the developers winced at the hard worked piece of delicate equipment. "Hey hey!"

"But." Sarah said.

Everyone looked at her with some confusion.

"Like I said, we were trying to build a machine to teleport Will and Alyss back to the past"

Will, Halt and Gilan narrowed their eyes finally understanding some wording here. The youngest Ranger smacked his fist into his palm, "No...you can't mean..."

The CEO nodded, "Only two people get through this portal. Now, doesn't mean we can try again. But it will take quite a while before we can get the parts back together again."

Everyone's jaw dropped, meaning everyone who heard that. Groans around the room was heard.

Alyss stepped forward, "So, that means this portal will be destroyed?"

Sarah nodded gesturing to one of the other officers who was viewing the progress.

"Basically Miss, once the two personnel enters the portal. There are some faulty problems we couldn't go around yet without risking the riders. When it is activated and the process is done. This whole building will go offline...we aren't sure if our server might also go off."

Sarah looks at him with a bit of more surprise, "Whole building and server? That's a bit extreme."

He smiles apologetically, "New hypothesis, anyway. We ARE getting something to the past."

Gilan shook his head, "I still don't get anything of what you just said. But if it goes "offline" why not get it from somewhere else?"

Will agreed with him, "Yeah! Just move it to some other building or something and then we can draw it from there later."

The officer turned around and sighs, "Thought of already. Once it goes offline, our system. Entire system is shut down. For this part of the section and there are many other factors. Our satellites for our sector will need to reboot. We are risking everything in our division to do this already. Also, the size of the file is too big and too dangerous to move. If one leak is to be out we lose this whole thing. End of world kind of thing."

Silhouette whimpered in her dreams and turned over on her back which Alyss knelt down and started rubbing her.

Sarah opened her little directory book, "If that actually happens-"

"-it will"

"-then we will need our eyes to be averted...Procedure OTR?" Sarah asks for confirmation.

Director Cortex entered the sliding door, "Indeed. We will need to go OTR until power grid goes back up, explanation and coverage from any prying pirates. In the meantime also keep the secret operations running and all the other things aside from this project."

Will held his hand up, "So wait. I lugged all my gear to this place for nothing? Whaaat?"

Which Halt belted him with his bow onto his head. "We need to get you in some rounds of training boy."

Rubbing his head painfully, "Okay well how long does OTR will go on about?"

The officer nicknamed by Will, Big Eye replied. "A month or two."

"A MONTH OR TWO?" everyone shouted at once.

"Hey hey...ease that shouting you do realize I have earphones too."

"What is OTR?" Alyss asked softly.

Director Cortex explained, "We haven't come up with a better name yet so right now its. Old Time Routine."

Halt laughs drily knowing very well Lady Pauline would have gave him a cold stare for doing that, "Even I can guess what it is."

Gilan prompted his bow up at the lights let it gleam and shine a bit. "So the big question. Who leaves first?"

The director held up some books, "That's why I came here."

Ooo

Will sighs as he sits on his fat horse as the sun beating down onto him. "Isn't it supposed to be winter?"

Alyss checks, "Well. Not this place."

Silence fell around them. "Too bad we couldn't bring Silhouette huh?" Will said with the thought occurring to him.

"I am sure Louise is going to take care of her well." Alyss replied without a second thought.

Will sits down, "That's true."

Irritated he got off the horse and picked it up and threw it far way, "I miss them."

"The two?"

"The snow."

"Oh."

Silence fell around them.

Will surveyed this scene while he moved up and down with certainty that there is no chance that he will be any more stable. "I kind of expected a bit more big spirit and excitement you know."

The blonde girl sat down into the water disregarding that her sundress is going to get wet.

Will hugged another horse, sighing again. "You know I am beginning to hate the sun."

Alyss murmured, "Hate is a strong word. Use strongly dislike."

"TUG!"

Alyss and Will's eyes looked out and they could see a small speck in the distance. "Finally, our friends are going to be here."

Will said with a smile, "Thought we were going to be bored out of our minds."

The two heard a yelp, "Wait. They brought the dog? But I thought we couldn't."

They saw Louise on the tugboat slowly chugging its way towards the docks. Daniela was with her and Jennifer was also on the boat with Steve and Toby.

"And I thought this was a place for the maids and butlers to relax. I almost called it a Servant's Escaping Point."

Will turned around and saw an empty, dusty space with a big shock. "Where did she go-!"

He hears her shout, "Come on! There's more fun stuff coming around the corner!"

Will smiles at her who was already several feet away running towards the docks. He prepared to sprint when he then fell face first, onto the beach with a second blow in surprise.

Literally around the corner was a big robot that showed up out of nowhere.

"T-that is fun?"

Alyss laughs and jumps right at it which Will watched with big eyes. From her point of view, it was a big inflated balloon.

But Will didn't know that.

Spitting out a few grains of sand he said, "Who knew that the whole North American land mass lost power?"

Ooo

Technically it wasn't possible, but it set a virus on every power plant blowing it's circuits. No injuries were reported...but who knew?

Exactly 42,164 kilometers from the center of the Earth, (PPPP-SIR: Nicknamed: Sir Peter Pan) Pin Point Precision Particle Satellite Infrared Ray's firing tip cooled with a slight hue of red. SINAS labeled proudly on the side.

Well.

As proud as one stamped little tiny screw.

Good thing it didn't have a screw loose.

"Wait, what?" Sarah exploded. "Peter Pan was activated?"

The director stood up, "How?"

"There was apparently some bug. We believe planted by one of the rivaling companies, they possibly didn't know of the satellite. From these readings, it was to destroy itself."

"So we are drawn back from whatever we were doing."

"What did it hit?" Sarah asked.

"Well...it would have aimed at every city on the side of the planet it's on...so...us basically."

Cortex stared then began to laugh, "So basically it then targeted the power plants?"

"We are still trying to understand the situation of what exactly happened, but that's the gist of it. If it wasn't your sector somehow, and I mean this somehow shutted down the servers completely, we could be facing some mass murder with traceless meaning."

Before the two could say anything, the voice laughs as well. "Fastest response I ever seen. No apparent damage is shown above 0 files also. So it was something else."

The director looked at Sarah with a wink. "Well. Thanks Eurasia Sector. We had to revert to OTR and you had some extra hands to help us out."

"Still humble as always my friend...you are the director. I would have still done it if you asked. I can never doubt your reasons, Strategist." And then the line went dead.

Sarah looked at the director, "So where are those two now?"

With envy eyes he replies, "Somewhere on the pacific ocean having the most relaxing time. Let's get to work on getting the media and stuff cut down. All this is a miracle. Disaster prevented... "

Sarah smiles, "Well. If it wasn't for the boy who fired the arrow and pushed the button to cut off the long goodbyes, we could have been too late."

The director shudders, "I don't know what's worse. Having the power cut off quarter of the earth on New Year's Eve. Or a stupid wandering competitive virus-bug nearly committing a mass murder on it."

Happy New years everyone! Alright I suppose it's already 1 day or 2 passed because of time zones but anyway.. Good Bye 2015 and Helloooo 2016! Anyone make resolutions yet? If you want to share it let's hear it!

I'll tell ya one thing. Doesn't feel much different than 2015...

OKAAY so I didn't think I'd have this much to add on this Special. Oh well. Did it get confusing at the end? Haha...It should be easy enough to understand.

Laters!

~Pulse out!