The search for Reboot (part 2 of Otherworldly repairs)

Axel proceeded to press a glowing button on a panel of the ship, moments later the larger main door to the ship opened up. He turned to look at Cora, who was suddenly gone.

His antennae shot up quickly once he noticed this, and began to frantically look around. "Oh come on, come on...I can't be losing both of..."

"Gosh calm down Axie, I'm over here."

He quickly turned around to face the voice, his antennae and tail lowering in relief. She had been a bit far behind him and was standing next to one of the windows of the ship.

"Cora what are you doing? You almost scared me to death, what if something actually happened to you? Then I would have to..."

She walked over and put a finger over his lips, then let out a sigh of annoyance before finally speaking. "Shush. I was just looking out the window... what's all that white stuff on the ground?"

He gently moved Cora to the other side, and then looked out of the window for himself. Several thick layers of it were on the ground, and it still seemed to be coming out of the sky at the moment. Oh great, is that some yellow snow I see?

He glanced down at his feet for a few seconds which were barefoot and didn't have anything on them. When Cora had asked him one day why he didn't wear shoes or anything on his feet, he had told her, "I just don't like em. They make me uncomfortable, now stop asking questions."

There were more important things going on at the moment, so he decided to stop thinking about that because it was stupid. "Wait a minute, have you never heard of snow before?"

She blankly stared up at her alien buddy in silence for a few moments, like she was trying to process what he just said. "Nope, I never have. Though is that what's called? It looks amazing!" he noticed a hint of excitement in her voice.

"How...How have you never heard about snow or seen it before? Wherever you lived before, there was never at least a tiny bit of snow or mention of it?" The alien asked his friend in confusion.

"I'm not exactly sure, I guess it just wasn't that important or maybe-"

He shushed her before she could finish that sentence, and then started to lead Cora to the ships main door. "Alright alright, we're in the middle of searching for Reboot. We'll talk about this whole snow thing later, okay?"

The two of them started to walk down the snowy path after leaving the ship, he tried his best to be careful with his steps. "Oh and a quick heads-up, don't step on any snow that isn't white. Especially yellow."

***

Reboot was walking through an area with sparks still flying out of him, aliens and other species were staring at him. None of them were attempting to do anything though, because like one of them had said that he managed to hear, "Eh that thing isn't our problem, so why bother?"

Though one alien creature had eventually decided to go up and talk to them, he had actually managed to hear most of the conversation. "Why are you going to that thing? It's malfunctioning!"

"I'm not sure if that's really a good idea, what if you end up getting hurt?"

"Oh calm down, there's nothing else to do in this dump and that thing looks really interesting."

She had thrown a small pebble at him so that she could get his attention, his neck and head had turned around like an owl's to look at her. "WhA-wHaT dO yO-YoU wANT? hAVE yOU sEEn aN iMPoSTer oF mE bY cHA-chANcE?"

"Oh no, I haven't...though I could keep a lookout for them if you want? And I have a question myself, what are you doing here? What's wrong with you?"

One of her friends then mumbled loud enough for her to hear her, "I don't think you just straight up ask that last question..."

"Whatever, anyway can you please answer the question? You seem quite interesting if I'm being honest."

"H-hAH nOtHING iS wr-wRONg wi-wITH mE, I-iM juST tr-tRYinG tO..." he didn't really finish that sentence, at least in English he didn't. Before he finished, he had just started saying things in gibberish.

One of the girl's friends then started to walk over to her and Reboot a bit cautiously, "Damn it, did you make it start malfunctioning even more? I think we should probably leave..."

"No, why don't we just stay here with it for a bit longer? I'm sure nothing bad is going to happen, so could you just calm down by chance?"

The girl then jinxed herself by saying that, as moments later Reboot stopped talking in gibberish and started to approach her. "Uh...what is it doing??"

Reboot had grabbed her by the shoulders and started to squeeze them, luckily not enough to hurt, though just to have a good grip. "Y-yOU sHo-sHOULd sTaRT flyING."

He proceeded to throw her up high into the air, though he ran off with more sparks before he could see what had happened. Though he had managed to hear them all freaking out, especially the one he had thrown.

***

Axel mumbled something to himself in annoyance, as his tail hit a wall next to him hard. "Where the heck are we going to find Reboot?! I don't think it should be that hard to find him."

He glanced behind him and noticed that Cora wasn't really paying attention to what he was saying, and instead was looking at something else. "Cora, no. You can't pet my tail."

"It's really fluffy though, and also I actually heard a noise coming from that direction maybe we should check that out? It could be him?" she pointed in the direction.

The two of them reached what seemed to be a lake that was now frozen and covered in ice. Cora tapped his shoulder and then asked, "Do you see that?"

He looked around after that and then finally spotted what she was talking about, Reboot was standing there and looking down at the ice. Is he going to do what I think? This might end badly...

Axel started to walk over to him, though Cora was having a harder time as she kept tripping in the snow and almost falling over onto the ice. "Reboot don't you dare do that, if you do then the ice is gonna-"

He let out a small glitchy laugh, which seemed to cause more sparks to fly out. He walked onto the frozen lake while his two friends kept coming towards him, "o-oH yoU nE-nEEd tO cAlM d-dOWn, n-nOTHiNG w-W-wiLL..."

It was all very faint when the three first heard it, though they knew what was going on. Reboot looked down and noticed that everything was starting to crack and break away. "oH nO..."