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I have it on good authority that some sort of resolution will be reached today. Hopefully it involves the finding of Gates, the beating of Grey or better yet, me winning the lottery and having enough money to never have to work for anyone ever again.
It's a little dream I'm sure we all share in one form or another.
And now, in that tastelessly appointed building . . .
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Okay, Gates, you're in here and I know it!
No you don't.
If anything you're looking for confirmation that he's alive.
So far all we have is strong evidence that he still exists.
And that's wrapped up in a way that it could just be a fake out into a trap by someone else.
You know I hadn't thought of that.
It's an old tactic, quite common. You know, make Batman think he's going up against the Joker and then throw Killer Croc at him.
Can you guys please stop that?
Poking holes in everything you do?
Sorry, it just comes naturally.
What else are we supposed to do?
Gates!
Or whoever's in charge of this place!
Stop undercutting me.
BEHOLD FROM I AM THE GREAT AND POWERFUL GATES!
See.
You're kidding, this is what Gates has become?
Yeah, a cheap knock off of the Wizard of Oz?
I was going to say giant disembodied head, but you've got a point there.
FEAR ME AND MY WRATH!
Just to check, you are Bill Gates, guy who's had his fingers in Microsoft since the beginning?
AT THE VERY LEAST!
And have made stupid comments, silly moves and had your haircut by your mother?
UH, NOT SO MUCH!
And was murmur, mumble mutter.
WHAT WAS THAT?
He means were you phasered?
By me? You know, you stood in front of me and I opened up with a bright light from my eyes and turned you into a form that could very easily be forced through vents and lighting to give you the appearance of a giant ghostly head.
Thanks for that.
No problem.
I AM NOT HE FOR I AM GREATER!
Okay, time to cut this out. Phaser the curtain.
I could just move it aside.
I said phaser the curtain!
Considering how that sort of thing got us into this mess I'll just move it aside.
No, do not look behind the curtain! Ignore what lies behind the curtain.
Now that just begs that we - Yikes!
What the Hell?!?!?!?!
Behold me in all my glory!
Glory?
It's Gates of Borg!
That's got to be some sort of copyright infringement.
That's proof we've got Gates.
I am no one's infringement, I am the culmination of everything I had planned for technology!
Isn't most of what he's wearing aluminium foil?
No it is not, it is an advanced alloy melded with my flesh.
It is. And it's stuck on with silly putty and string!
Those advanced compounds!
What are those wires going in and out of everything?
Technological conduits -
They're not wires, they're raspberry liquorice twists!
Dammit I am an advanced amalgam of human and machine! There was no other way for me to exist after you set me up against that cybernetic freak over there!
Hey, I'm not a cybernetic freak!
Yeah, he's a nerd, a geek, a mommy's boy and a middle aged virgin but he's not a cybernetic freak.
Thanks. Actually no, can we call me a cybernetic freak again?
After you left I was shot by those beams of his and critically wounded. It was then that I realised what had happened. You used me as a distraction to cover your own escape.
Hey!
No that's exactly what happened.
Fortunately that was not the end of me. Though gravely injured I managed to drag myself away, after a quick detour through a dumpster, towards the nearest pile of left over technology. Using my native skills with computers and machines I fashioned myself replacement parts, rebuilding myself better, stronger, faster.
Is that a left over chicken soup can on you left shoe?
BETTER, STRONGER FASTER!
Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're alive, my work here is done.
That's it? This isn't much of a quest.
All I wanted to do was make sure Gates was alive, reasonably well and basically not dead.
So we're done here?
Yeah, let's go home.
That's it?
Oh, and we're going to have to deal with Trekboy and his need to destroy us for harming the Lord of Star Trek.
Thank you.
No you don't!
Come on Gates, we're tired, we've been at this a while and now we're going home, getting something other than fast food to eat and having a bit of alone time.
Yeah, the Greymobile has no privacy whatsoever.
No, you're not going!
Okay, I guess I owe you this much. Why can't we leave, what are you up to you crazy little man?
I'm tired of being thought of as nothing more than a joke! So I'm going to do the one thing everyone will have to take seriously, I'm going to destroy the world!
Oh wonderful.
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Wait, is he serious?
Then again it is Bill Gates.
So this is another to be continued moment. At least we've finished the search part of things.
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