Cyberpunk Apocalypse

Declan Guy and the Chronographic Sky :: Chapter 4


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Chapter 4 :: “An Accident in Time” (or “Mad About the Boy”) Steampunk Baby Dumpling wakes up in the middle of the night, aboard the Chronographic AeroShip "La Belle Sauvage" and wanders down the twisting passageways to the dark and empty main Cocktail Lounge on the spacious Sky Cruiser… Steampunk finds a small Holografix display of Noel Coward, singing an old song from the gay Stephan Elliott film "Easy Virtue" now playing on Netflix, which makes the Martian Boy consider the rumor he's heard that Declan Guy, his best friend on Earth, now lost in time, has gone missing and is clearly lost, between two parallel worlds... Caitriona Skye has told Steampunk she heard Declan was no longer living in Olde Saigon City, but rather, he was working at a pub called "The Trout" along the river Thames near Oxford College and the town of Zodstow... And as the Steampunk Baby Dumpling finds himself seated restlessly at a bench by the dark mahogany Grand Piano, in the abandoned late night Lounge on the luxurious AeroShip hurtling down the Blue Aurora Borealis Way, from the Planet Mars toward the Earth, he begins to tinker with the glistening, white ivory keys of the vintage musical instrument, and his small, but confident fingers slowly find their way to sketching out fond memories of Declan, in words and music, expressing the distant happy times they never spent together, other than in their dreams, so many years apart, between the Earth and the Planet presided over by the Official God of War in the Galaxy --- ...mars… In an empty piano bar, in an AeroShip, traveling through gravitational ripples and waves in time and space, in the middle of the night… Steam considers launching another trillion Mars Nano Spy Bots into the Internet on Earth via Satellite, to expand his search for Declan northward and all the way up to Scotland, before settling into a quiet, but steady sad twinkling of the keys on the piano, setting the audio alarms in the Bar on just this side of the edge of alerting the crew of the ship to the presence of an intruder... When the music was over, Steam noticed a soft warning light, a steady glowing red-orange LED on the piano key of E flat... "Caitriona!," shouted Steampunk up the grand staircase and into Caitriona Skye's master bedroom overlooking Jupiter and some various stars.... "Ahh, you woke me up, you little bastard!" responded Caitriona, in a shrill but still whispered tone from the starry balcony hovering above the glass bottomed piano lounge, under looking the Milky Way... "What is it now? Are you hungry for your egg, bacon, sausage and mushroom already?" Caitriona inquired wistfully from the upper room... She knew Steampunk looked forward to his first breakfast at Farmer Brown's Cafe in Covent Garden, whenever they visited the Earth and were near London. "No," intoned Steampunk Baby Dumpling, "Cai, you know, I don't need to look at a clock to know the time, as my own personal Time Circuits are based on the Flux Capacitor from the Earth Documentary, "Back to the Future," so you can believe me when I say, I think we may be riding on the crest of a Neutron Star Collision and a few SpaceTime wrinkling gravity waves." "I think it may just be bad memories of this area in Space," Caitriona mumbled only just loud enough for Steam to hear her through the ship's inter quarter intercom. "You were probably here before in some Off World Colony when you were first sent off into space from Tyrell's docking system." Steampunk did not like being reminded that he was a Replicant, and especially not by a girl, who was a replicant, as well. "You don't need to remind me of that," Steam said aloud. "No one likes to bring back their memory implants from so many years living as a slave in the Colonies. Let's focus on finding Declan now, and try not to talk about memory implants." "What do you mean?" Caitriona sounded perplexed. "Do you mean not even the good memories we bought from Rachel and Rick Deckard's daughter?" "Yes, not even the good
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