TG Race Week 1 Day 4b
“Still in Texas”

“Thanks, Tony! We’ll expect drop off on Saturday.” Tracey’s eyes drift to the computer screen. She slams the talk button near the speaker, “Bogey on our 6!” Then she sees two blips emerges from the front, “Extend-o-wheels!” Her stomach lurches down into seat.

Silence and then CRACK! Tracey starts to wonder what happened when an automated female voice speaks back to her, “Secondary missile returning. Executing evasive maneuvers.” Tracey is then thrown all over her cage in the back. She glimpses the screen to see what is happening. The van is all over the road and up and down too! Finally Tracey sees the stealth jet car race ahead with a missile following it.

The automated female voice returns, “Evasive maneuvers complete. Secondary projectile redirected toward aggressor.”

Tracey is confused. Where is Doctor Cod? Who is that? She looks through the computer to see someone with hair of several shades of blue sitting in the driver’s seat. Tracey opens the door, “Doc?”

“Your safety is assured.”

Tracey tentatively heads closer to get a better look at whoever is driving her. As she nears the driver, she sees that he is no longer he but rather a she. “Who are you?”

Without looking from the road, “I am KOS-MOS.”

“Where’s Doctor Cod?”

“Data unavailable.”

Data unavailable? The rocket! TG Race… Then the realization hits her. That IS Doc! “What are you?”

“I am an android.”

“And you aren’t going to attack me?”

“No.”

“And you can keep driving like that if we get attacked again?”

“That is correct.”

Wow, she drives better than Doc and as an android she doesn’t get tired. I think I’ll leave Doc like that until we get to the finish line. Then I’ll change him back. “Thank you, KOS-MOS.” Then Tracey heads back to the safety room in back.