Mortal Protection Services Chapter 38: X.GFL: Grounded For Life

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X.GFL: Grounded For Life Leia Grandpa Abstainer's Office, Hyperspace Grandpa Abstainer made us watch the replay from the second we left until Dad read the note... uuugggggghhhhh, I felt so guilty. Like pit my stomach that keeps getting deep and deeper. They really thought I would take my little brother on a suicide mission. I suppose if I wasn't scooped up it would have been... but that was always the plan. We caught up to real time. When dad was telling Jimmi and Ingamar about the note. Aunt Jimmi made me feel a little better, "I fuckin' told you. I knew she had a plan!" "I don't think her plan was to get trapped in hyperspace..." Dad was right, that part wasn't the plan. I truly expected to stay a night, maybe a weekend from our point of view, and show up back on the SAMWISE like we hadn't ever left. Dad continued, "But she's still gonna be grounded for life when she gets back." That was according to plan. Whatever you may think of me as a reckless teen I did know there would be some sort of consequences to my actions. "You hear that Leia, LIFE!" A life sentence was always a possibility. "Oooohh Leia, he's big mad." Luke laughed. "And don't think you're getting way scot-free either, young man!" Dad added, almost like he could hear us. "You didn't have to go along with her crazy plan." Luke frowned, and I laughed at him. "Biiiig mad." "Ahh, don't go too hard on them, Dilt." To my surprise, Uncle Ingamar had our back. "They really did save our asses. That was a nasty Scourge trap. I've been examining the sensor logs in the aftermath, it looks like it had a few dozen subspace interdiction organs that it hadn't quite finished getting fully back online when your kids sprung their counter-trap. Another thirty seconds of us being there and we weren't going to be able to form a warp bubble at all. Fucking Scourge has developed stealth biology. We couldn't see it at all under all that ice on the way in." Lucifer the robocat, had been charging a while, but he perked up when he heard Ingamar speaking. He must have been hanging out with Mafdet too much, because he just jumped right out of the window we were watching into Ingamar's bridge with and landed next to Uncle Ingamar. "How the fuck..." Grandpa Abstainer said under his breath. I sat up in surprise. Luke hopped clean out of his beanbag chair. "Well dang, if it's that easy..." He tried to leap through the window onto the SAMWISE bridge and slammed into it like he was diving into a brick wall. He hit the ground with a whumph and groaned. "Hahaha!" Grandpa laughed at him, "You think I ain't thought of that yet, kid? Seems to only work for cats. We gotta wait for James and Jia, or Mafdet to come back and whisk you away." Uncle Ingamar was on the floor, full blown ugly-crying, hugging his cat when I looked back at his bridge. "Oh buddy, I thought I lost you!" The robocat was purring and headbutting him in the face, as a normal flesh and blood cat might after several days gone missing. Lucifer exited and re-entered his lap repeatedly. Mixing meowing and purring with headbutts and snuggles. "Oh what the fuck, Abstainer!" Dad swore. "Can figure out cats, but not kids?" Lucifer sat down facing the view screen on the bridge, he started projecting a hologram out of his eyes, displaying everything that went down from the moment we arrived in Hyperspace, until he hopped up and left. He fast forwarded through the part where we sat quietly watching horse people, writing a letter, and reading a tablet. Then GGpa James showed up in a person suit, and you know the rest. "I am f-" Dad seemed more than mildly annoyed, he stopped himself swearing more because he knew were still watching, "I am big mad. Yes." Aunt Jimmi fell out, laughing her tits off. I'm not sure if it was at Dad, at James, at the whole universe in general, but I joined her in a bit of laughing like a maniac. "Did I... Did we..." Uncle Ingamar stood there, dumbfounded on his own bridge for a moment. "Did we just get rickrolled by Jim