BB was half asleep most of the time they were on the moon. He had spent enough time working; he was able to delay Alexandria, Mistress and Sears's deaths for some time. Though, Joey and Scott were still scheduled for the next day. He was exhausted. Maybe, for a minute, I can let them go. Or I can take a few hours to sleep. No, I need more sugar.
"BB, you seem stressed."
"Yes. How long will it take for you to make me chocolate? No, jam. Wait! Coffee. Just coffee. Two sugar cubes per cup."
"Very well."
The particle connector worked and eventually, it came to be in front of BB. He was falling into old habits. He used to spend all day at home blackmailing dirty cops. Now,he had actual physical activity as he brawled and ate healthy at the same time. BB was gaining muscle from the deer people collected and began to make energy through exercise instead of sugar. But like any normal human when they were spending days at a time awake, they began to get sleepy.
"This coffee is weak."
"It's your fourth."
The un-private detective blinked before he had realized what happened. He was blacking out. This was a bad time for him before Sears put a chloroform rag over his mouth and let him sleep for a few hours.
"I hate to do this to you, but you need a sleep schedule,"
BB was dragged off to his room before Scott was awakened with an ice bucket into his bathtub. He jumped up with a scream before realizing something. He hadn't changed his clothes ever since he was picked up by TODD.
"ODETTA, can you get me a new suit, also, can you get me a shower?"
"You have a bathtub right there."
"Fine."
Scott smelled putrid. He had made some effort of cleanliness as he placed deodorant on himself weekly whilst they ran Backtown.
"How long do these go?"
Joey was confused at his statement. Usually, he was tolerant with Scott, and he nearly lost himself when he went to maximum security. Though, if anyone had given him hope that he hadn't lost everything, it was the fact that he had been near Scott. What really confused him was how BB had placed him in the pit whilst Scott was in the minimum-security sector.
"I don't know. About twenty minutes. Use some soap. ODETTA, can you get him some soap?"
"Yes. Why is everyone so needy?"
"You know the answer to that."
Joey was at ease with being around the AI as his real daughter was in Backtown. He'd probably never see her again.
"Thanks. So, I guess, get out?"
"Yeah."
Joey was out and walking the hallways before long. Soon, he entered another shower room and began to take a shower. Sometimes he thought about his fingers. Especially when he showered. He was considered handsome by his peers, but he didn't really care for such things. But some words the other BB said rang in his head almost every day. Especially when he was in the hole. I killed the mother of ODETTA. That means that I must've had a reason. Especially if I was able to get back custody. But why would I leave her for dead in the woods. That part might be a lie. TODD did leave BB the files when we started Backtown. If that is an older BB, that means he would have the knowledge to say so. Perhaps I was letting her get picked up by someone or keeping her from something.
"Shower off."
"What?"
"We don't have enough energy to power your shower and time travel at the same time."
"You got to be kidding me."
He got out of the shower with his hair still soapy and he was soaking wet whilst he dried off and got dressed. He went to the lounge where BB was reading a book and Scott was about to get punched in the face by Sears, who was tired of him playing karaoke.
"About a few days from now, we'll be in the new year. Our job is to massacre everyone on the moon base."
"You said our job was to sabotage the space forces and allow more cryosleep pods to be opened up on earth."
"True, we're sabotaging them by killing thousands of them at a time."
BB stood and walked away from the table. He didn't trust any Ai.
"I cannot trust one who manipulates me into doing things I don't agree with."
"You must be very agreeable for a serial killer."
"Drop me off in New Chicago."
New Chicago was New York City after the three biggest cities in the United States were bombed and began to all come together to form the new city of New Chicago. It was the capitol of the United States and James Diostar lived right outside of Buffalo so it would be pretty easy to meet with him, and a new force had arisen, the E.P.F. After James had gone into space, the world governments had formed a new bureau named the Earth Protection Force because D.O.W.N was off the radar following an alien attack.
"When we arrive. You will be there."
Sears visited BB later. He was writing in his journal so much that he had snapped nearly three pencils.
"We need to talk."
"How about we discuss how you drugged me."
"You were going to die from too little sleep. I've seen this before. You should know this."
His face was firm. The room was dark. BB's eyes were a dark shade of red. He had his back to Sears.
"The machine told us that we were simply going to sabotage them. She then ups the stakes by saying we kill them all. That's not a mission, that's manipulating people into being loyal to you."
"How do you know?"
BB turned to Sears. He looked like a mad man. His eyes were glowing in the dark. They always glowed in true darkness or in times of need. Having the eyes basically left BB colorblind as everything had a slight red coloring over it.
"I was raised in an orphanage for geniuses and sired by the greatest mind of the twentieth century. What makes you think I don't know anything about manipulation?"
"BB, just listen. I got a good feeling about this and would like to have you help out with this. She told us about James. She explained that if she had some family in Backtown besides Joey, she'd have been safe enough to slowly take the place back from Dials."
"Do you know something?"
"I know something about everything."
"Well, do you know that James Diostar is Joey's cousin, and James is married to Mariah York."
"So?"
"That means that Joey and Alexandria are actually cousins in law. She picked us for a reason and this is it. She's making us connected and making us do things we shouldn't have done. What's next? Us being pirates on the seven seas and fighting Blackbeard and How Molly?"
"What, one thing that links us."
"Did you also know that my father, Dials, worked for the Earth Protection Force as the deputy director before he went into cryosleep in twenty eleven? James Diostar, seeing his organization go down the drain, declared a three-way war against the E.P.F with help of a treacherous Dials. We're all connected. Even you."
Sears felt the hairs on the back of his neck stand up as he saw what BB was laying down. ODETTA was getting all the chess pieces together.
"How does Scott and I tie into all of this mess."
"Your mercenary group, Cleanup Dogs, was picked up by James Diostar sometime after you left. Scott became a mouthpiece for James during the war. Now, ODETTA has given James a group of killers who ensured that humanity has a fighting chance and created a timeline where we rebuild."
"It's all one great big conspiracy."
Sears left the room with a bad taste in his mouth. For some reason, he hadn't felt the calm and collectedness that BB usually brought on. He was never that unstable when Eisenhower or Scott were around. Now, he had most definitely gone mad. Even for a brief period. No, he didn't go mad. Through the entirety of his life, he always was mad.
"Hey John. Nice to see you after you ignored me for the last couple days."
At this time in his life, Sears had no patience for the likes of Scott. Though, Scott had become somewhat reasonable in the wake of BB's insanity.
"Can we just talk?"
Sears hadn't been the biggest player in the game up to this point. Though, he was a soldier. He decided he wasn't the smartest person on the time machine, but he was the most skilled fighter and by a long margin. He had some mind abilities via Mistress who was willing to teach him to unlock some of his mind. He could put a little protective shield over his hands for when he got in fights so that way he could protect himself during fights. The shields weren't that strong. Though, they took up about forty percent of any blow that hit it.
"What do you want, Scott?"
"Well, we need to get out of here."
"What?"
A boom came down the halls as time distorted outside. Eventually, they arrived at the moon.
"It seems we're here a little early."
"When the bus stops. We get off. You can tell the others."
BB had written some things in his journal at that time.
These idiots. I've made a plan to get out and get what I want. I simply go and kill Dials. He has been a plague on my life.
Perhaps I'll miss him. No, I won't.