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Because of all of this, I will aid you. If I can. So again I ask, what do you need?”
    “I need hidden access to the base. I need to be taken off the life signs monitor. I need access to every part of the base and to reliable food and water that will not be noticed. I need to be seen getting on a transport and leaving the base. Can you do all that?” she asked the boy. He had a scared look on his face, just like the real Cole had at that age.
    “I can do all those things.” He hesitated a brief moment. “But if you can’t fix Cole before Hal returns, I can’t guarantee I can keep you hidden from him. Besides me, Hal is the only other AI who has total access to the base.”
    “I know. I understand. Hal will too, I hope.” She hugged the small boy and tasseled his hair.
    “All right now, look here.” Bain reach out and touched the base diagram, it bloomed to life. Blue blips lit up across the screen, then a smattering of green. “The blue are human, green are alien. Every living thing on the base shows up here, except you after we pretend you leave. Touch one of the blips and any info on the person springs up.” He demonstrated by pushing a single blip. A white line shot off the blip and connected to a wire frame box. Inside of the box was a picture of Cole and all of his vitals.
    “I control this program in conjunction with the bases dumb computer (all AI’s refer to normal computers as dumb). Now look.” He pointed back to the map. The wireframe of the base began to change. The map suddenly grew new hallways and rooms. The part of the base she knew were shown in red, the new parts were in yellow and the last was green. The green was the smallest while the yellow sections seemed to run everywhere.
    “As you may have guessed, the public parts of the base are the red sections, and the yellow parts are the behind the scenes areas. The maintenance bots use these hallways to move about. Water and power are routed through here. It will be cramped for you, but no one else knows about it. Well, Cole does, but I have no record of anyone else finding these maintenance passages. I will assign a bot to follow and erase all traces of you while you are in there. It will also show you to food and water when you ask. There are fewer places here to link into the base’s computer so you have to be careful. You will be at your most vulnerable when you are connected to me. Now for the rest, here is how we get you out.” To Sky it felt like they discussed their plan for at least an hour, but in reality, it was only a few moments. When you are linked into the computer the way Sky was, conversation ran as fast as thought, so it goes much faster than most realize.

    Twenty-four hours later, transports loaded with Kin, Worlders and two Nixa departed from Home Base. Cole watched from his connection in the base’s command center. He liked being connected to the base’s computer. It slowed his mind down and clarified his thoughts. He watched as the aliens, funny he had never thought of his friends in that way before, loaded in the transports and prepared to depart. Sky was the last to board. She paused and glanced over her shoulder, her eyes found the video capture device and she gave Cole a look that would burn into his mind forever. She turned and boarded the craft. That was it. She was the last. The outer doors opened and the ships left, piloted by newly trained human pilots, they would deliver the aliens to a friendly world where they could arrange passage back to their respective homes. Thalo, Jeth, and Sky, on the other hand, would be traveling on to the Nixa home worlds to deliver his message. One Cole hoped they would take to heart. He didn’t want to attack Nixa, but if they didn’t find the traitor in their midst, they would force him to, and his way wouldn’t be pleasant.

    CHAPTER 3
     
                            I have just spent the last few hours listening to my last recorded log. I am slipping faster than