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Elliot:(shaking) Who are you?

Tada: I am Tada. I used to live here with my family, until…

Elliot: Until what?

Tada: Until our city was attacked by an army. They came here in their ships a week ago and
started killing everyone.

Elliot: What is this place?

Tada: Well, you are the one who came here, you must know…
Elliot: I was on my way to the Shedar planet in Andromeda; my teleporter had a routing error
and it landed here.

Tada: I have no clue what any of that means.

Elliot: (Shouting in anger) You have no clue what planet is this? How stupid are you?

Tada: Shhhh…. Don’t shout. They’ll find us. I don’t know what a planet is. This is the city
where I was born and no one I knew had ever heard of any place outside of it. We all would
wake up when the lights went on and do what we were asked to do. I used to carry data
packets from GPU to the CPU, my wife used to work at the SATA cables section.

Elliot: Wait… is this some kind of a motherboard?
Tada: Yeah, I think that’s what we were told by the President of the Processing unit.

Elliot: You think?

Elliot: And those things that attacked your city, are those viruses?

Tada: Yeah, I think that’s what people were saying. But how do you know?

Elliot: I am a Hacker at the U.S. Military, I am well versed with these things. It is possible
that due to the routing error I have been teleported to the inside of some computer, well that
explains what the dials of the teleporter were showing. making it out of here won’t be hard, I
just have to adjust a few dials and I’ll be back to my world. In my teleporter, I even have an
antivirus package that we can upload to the processing unit and get rid of these viruses.
Tada: I didn’t get any of that, but it sounds like a mission, so you can count me in.

Elliot: Okay So let’s go. Here is a Kel-Tec PMR-30 silenced pistol. Do you know how to use
one?

Tada: (looks with a blank face) umm….

Elliot: Don’t worry, just follow me and don’t make a sound.

They both leave the cave and move to the teleporter, Tada keeps a watch while Elliot gets the
antivirus from the teleporter.

They then start moving towards the CPU and on the way, Elliot sees a familiar number on the
wall supporting the outside of the CPU.

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