From: "Joshua Falken" Subject: Quantum ReBoot - Installation (part 5) Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1998 22:19:14 -0300 Message-ID: <01bdf4b5$290b3460$LocalHost.5@smdksbcr.telnet.com.br> Quantum ReBoot -- Installation written by Joshua Falken _________________________________________________________________ I come from outside of the Net, Through lives, peoples and cities, to this place, Mainframe My format? I think... Leaper. To change the history for the better, to put right what went wrong. ReBoot! _________________________________________________________________ Chapter 5 Houston, Texas January 26, 1967 Enzo looked at for Verbena of open mouth. On that moment, he exploded: "Do you mean that you don't know what the mission it is?!?!" "No." "How can I change the things, if nor you know the one what it is to change?!" "Well..." Verbena beats more in the handlink. "There are 63% of chance for the Apollo 1 astronauts' rescue... and 17% to Regina..." Enzo thought a little. "It seems more probable than it is the test of that such of Apollo 1 that I should change." Verbena agreed. "How did it happen?" "Tomorrow, during the test of the spaceship Apollo 1, happened a fire in the command module - the part in that the astronauts are during the flight. They could have left easily if the module' door was not arrested. The three men died burned." "But, wait a nano..." Enzo remembered suddenly. "If I am here to save those guys, does it mean that Regina should die?" Verbena lowered the eyes. _________________________________________________________________ Mainframe Core Control Room November 12, 1999 "Warning, incoming Installation Routine! Warning, incoming Installation Routine!" The voice tuned for the room. "Gooshie, center me outside!", Al commanded. The hologram disappeared. "Defrag!", Bob said. "Phong, what kind of program is that?" "It is a graphic program, but... Oh User!", he exclaimed. Dot and Bob were alert, the problem should be very serious. "Without one of the files, that the program search during its installation, there will be an incompatibility that can destroy Mainframe!" Sam and AndrAIa changed concern glances. _________________________________________________________________ Mainframe Outskirts of the Principal Office November 12, 1999 Al observed haunted what happened. The Mainframe' sky opened up, letting to see the fall of a yellow-gold cube. Who was in the street, smiled. The User should be sending more an upgrade, they thought. Al thought: "Now, the confusion will begin!" He noticed when Sam, AndrAIa, Bob and Dot came to the front of the Principal Office. _________________________________________________________________ Greg Carter's Apartment Near of McGill University (connected to the MITNET) November 12, 1999 Greg waited the Installation Program seek the already installed components... _________________________________________________________________ Project Quantum Leap Control Room May 16, 2002 "How are the chances of the Leaps?", did Donna Elesse-Beckett ask Ziggy. "There is 95% of chance that Dr. Beckett gets to avoid the Mainframe's crash, if he gets back the files robbed by the virus, what has chance of 34%. Now Enzo Matrix's leap is more complicated. We didn't still determine with certainty which the purpose of his leap.", Ziggy answered. "If Enzo fails in his leap, which are the chances that Sam gets to return home?" That era the question that her more feared. Ziggy was quiet for a moment. She printed the answer. "0,000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001%" Donna closed the eyes. Verbena, that had gone back to rest a little (I don't understand how Al gets be the Sam's observer, she thought), returned the Second Imaging Chamber. _________________________________________________________________ Houston, Texas Mission Control Center, NASA January 27, 1967 Enzo had an idea. If he got to observe Regina, while he tried avoid the disaster of Apollo 1, perhaps he got to also avoid her death. He had brought her until the Mission Control Center, as if it was a walk. During the going, he was surprised with the Userworld. He was incredibly similar to Mainframe! "Hi, Enzo!" He jumped and he was turned. He saw the face of the Dr. Verbena Beeks. "Don't DO that!" "Excuse... but like you it did arrive here?" "I asked Regina so that her of that to me a hitchhike until the work." "This is no bad for the first leap", she thought. Verbena observed the atmosphere of the Control Center. She noticed that one of the engineers was explaining something to a pregnant brown-haired woman. She was Regina McCormick. "I brought her for the Center, so, I could keep a eye in her." Enzo illuminated, when seeing the observer's surprised look. "Keep a eye in who?", did ask one of the engineers, Arthur Keller, that saw that 'Ryder' was speaking for the air. "Ahn... Well... In these readings ". Enzo said, with a yellow smile, indicating a monitor. Arthur forgot the subject. Enzo and Verbena breathed eased. "Almost." "And Mainframe?" It went the turn of Verbena to smile yellow. "Don't worry. Sam knows what does." Enzo looked at, but he didn't say anything. _________________________________________________________________ Mainframe Sector 67(between Wall Street and Baudway) November 12, 1999 The yellow-gold cube of the Installation Routine landed between Wall Street and Baudway. Sam looked at fascinated, it could contain various PQLs in that space that the cube occupied. "Glitch, status!" On that moment, a yellow tube, with about half inch, left the cube, parallel to the ground. The tube came for whole the road to the Principal Office. When it went by them, Glitch had given the answer. "This is bad, this is really bad!" The tube had entered in the Mainframe's Archive, and it sought the robbed file. It didn't find. The color of the cube moved of yellow-gold for bright red. A wave of energy left the installation cube, shaking Mainframe as an earthquake. "Glitch, contention field!" Sam saw the Bob's keytool divide in three parts, one similar to a small laser emissor, it was fixed in the arm and the other two parts, circular, converged until the sector of the crashing cube. The two parts opened a kind of force field, similar to the magnetic field of a bar magnet. Of each object, a light line came to the 'emissor'. "What is that?! The Net version of the Swiss Army super-penknife?", did Al ask admired. Bob turned for Dot. "Dot, you need to go to the Silicon Tor and..." A wave of energy came through the control lines, reaching Bob. Before someone could make something, he increased the level of energy of the Glitch's contention field. "Bob, are you OK?" "I am, a little dizzy, but I am... You need to recover those files, because Glitch will only support for some time and after that..." Dot nodded quietly, understanding. _________________________________________________________________ Houston, Texas Mission Control Center, NASA January 27, 1967 Enzo observed everything fascinated. He had seen about that type of room in Sci-fi games, but this was the real thing! Verbena looked at for sides too, curious. Both could be in that if they had not been brought to the reality by the warning: "Attention, test of the spaceship Apollo 1 in three hours!" Enzo went back to the psychologist. "Then, how I prevent the accident?" _________________________________________________________________ Mainframe Silicon Tor November 12, 1999 The tremors of the section 67 arrived with all the force to the Sector G-Prime, shaking everything. Megabyte connected the vidwindow: "Herr Doktor, how is going the portal?" "Lord Megabyte, the portal..." The laboratory was shaken by a tremor. "The portal will be ready to be energized in few nanoseconds!" "Good." In another vidwindow, he observed a building in Wall Street to turn off the lights and colapse. The virus inspected his fingers. "It seems that arrived the hour of abandoning this system." he murmured.