How to Date an Android

How to Date an Android Chapter 37

"And we've potentially made an ally. Craig is more willing to help us now. So Craig faction is up," she said.

"Every little bit helps," I said.

I gave Ruth a high five. Ouch it hurt. She's got metal hands for crap's sake.

"Sorry Jack," she said.

"Be more careful. Slapping a high five that hard will put you on the radar," I warned.

She looked worried, "we should practice it more later then."

"Yeah, we will. But not like that."

"Umm, he asked if you are rescuing his family? He says he wants to help too," she said.

"You locked them back in didn't you? You didn't leave the door unlocked?" I asked hurriedly.

"No."

"They did want to leave. I didn't have to threaten them this time. They shall learn their place soon enough," she said casually in a way that totally had me smirking and trying to not laugh.

"Good for them," I noted.

Whew. Fears alleviated.

I keep driving the car by remote up and accidentally missed the turn. I don't drive in this area everyday so I wasn't expecting how close some of the streets in this residential area would be together. Then I had to use another cul de sac to turn around and clip a couple of followers.

All while trying to avoid zombies. This is really tough with such a battered beater.

Finally I get to the street, but I had to circle it a few times to be sure too.

I have the address, and from MapQuest's website that I can see which one it is but the problem is my webcam viewer is too damn small. And I can't read small letters on this house. But I also can't idle the car too long or zombies will jump on it.

"Ruth?" I called for help. I look around frantically for her and where she went too. But my concerns were misplaced.

She's right behind me still staring at me in a weird obsessive way. Again the eyes are super intense and almost trance like.

"Yes?"

"Can you pull up a satellite photos of Craig's house while I drive?" I asked.

"Um, how do I do that?" she asked.

"You can use a website like zillow.com or a real estate viewing site of whatever is available of those that use satellite pictures and it will show pictures of the residence even if the house isn't for sale. It's not anything special and the tech has been in use for a long time. Use my datapad so I can keep driving with this wall desktop OK?" I said.

"Found it! Look for a white house with red old style shutters, and blue trim with a plastic Santa Claus in the front yard near the front porch," Ruth said.

It's scary how easily you can spy on people because of business software now days.

"Santa Claus? It won't be December for like 8 months," I shook my head.

"Maybe they really like Christmas? Or it could be Craig wasn't doing his chores around the house?" Ruth guessed.

That made me smirk...yeah if he hides in people's garages that could be his personality too.

"There it is!" I said. While swerving to the right and left to check out houses on the street I suddenly hear cheering and yelling.

"Damn," I swore.

I just realized my microphone is hooked up and functioning, but it's not two way. They can hear us but we can't say anything back to them. And the car horn isn't hooked up to the remote control because horns are so cheap repo companies didn't think they'd want it accidentally going off when they wrote the mass repo auto remote system that this thing is tweaked from.

"Wow, they're alive!" Ruth gasped.

I wasn't able to focus on it as much because I was worried about steering the car, hopefully not into any trees or parked cars. Which because this is an older street with more families there are more cars here to dodge...

At any rate, Ruth and I gave each other high fives.

YES!

Survivors!

We make another pass and sure enough there's a woman that looks like in early or mid thirties, an older teenage girl, and a little boy all up on the roof in front of Craig's house. They are waving frantically at us while yelling for help. The two kids hug each other. They probably think they'll be saved.

"Wow, it must have been hard for them to get up on the roof. I don't see any ropes, ladders, or weapons with them. They really will need assistance Jack," Ruth said.

"Probably, especially for the mom; they probably don't normally do stuff like that," I noted.

But I couldn't stop the car either because between my car and them calling out to us there are too many zombies surrounding Craig's house.

That's going to be a real problem.

I can't even stay on this street because there are way too many zombies around Craig's house. I could accidentally get them swarmed if I stay here too long.

"I guess he'll be happy to know his family is still alive," Ruth said.

"Heck yeah. Why don't you go tell him that? I've got to keep driving. Again like before assume they can turn on you at any minute and use caution but try to be kind and emulate how a real human would act," I said.

"Good job Jack! You are so wonderful!" I felt a wet kiss on my cheek that Ruth had just planted as she carefully picks up her pipe again to go give Craig the good news.

Ruth sort of hoots like a human might exclaim when something like a good positive action is done...well for only being a few days old she's not too shabby at playing human but with a few bugs.

And it gives me another idea.

If I've covered all this area and still haven't seen the black box, then...it's either landed on something, or it's in a backyard. A backyard would be the shittiest thing could happen because we wouldn't have the time or resources to go poking around every damn fence in the whole city and every yard, plus some of them wouldn't have easy access on top of the zombies being the most obvious obstacle.

So I need to go check the elementary school yard again. I'm sure I missed something.

There's also a new problem too that I have to worry about; the windshield of this little beater is really shot to hell. So far it's holding but I've got several impact areas on the passenger right side that look like they might not take a whole lot of extra hits any more.

I guess that's to be expected considered I've car bashed more than a few zombies today with this thing. The front hood looks all crumpled too. I'd gotten lucky that I had two cams in the car, because the front hood being crumpled has made it hard to see over the part that is crumpled and sticking up.