[b][color=orange]"Ah!"[/color][/b] Sal said suddenly, clutching her head. [b][color=orange]"My head!"[/color][/b]

[b]"Don't eat it so fast."[/b] Alto said, taking a bite out of his ice-cream cone. He took the sundae out of her hands as she rolled around on the floor.

[b][color=thistle]"The condition is called 'brain freeze'."[/color][/b] Theo said as he walked beside him, [b][color=thistle]"It is caused by sudden changes in  temperature in the roof of the mouth. Blood vessels expand to reheat it and that is what causes the pain."[/color][/b]

Con walked over to the hunched form of Sal, and put a reassuring hand on her shoulder as she also took a bite of her ice-cream. On another note, he was pretty sure Theo and Con were immune to brain-freeze. He wasn't sure how the program worked, but he was able to give them the ability to taste and feel stuff as well as just being physically there. His true meta ability was sort of strange in that respect. He knew exactly what a piece of code did, and he could write code to do anything he wanted to do, but sometimes he had no idea how the code really worked, he only knew that it did.

It was because of his power that his company had taken off like it did. His programs were perfect, if there was anything wrong with his technology, it was the hardware.

Anyway, Theo and Con had decided to shut off more than a few of the physical functions. Theo had elimenated all the ones that would've disadvantaged him in any way right from the outset, but Con had kept a few of them on at the begining. Over time she turned some of them off after learning the hard way.

[b]"C'mon, you can still walk."[/b] He said.

[b][color=orange]"You're so mean!"[/color][/b] She said, pouting at him.

[b]"Hold this,"[/b] He said to Theo, handing him the sundae. He put his ice-cream cone in his mouth then he picked up Sal and put him on his shoulders before grabbing his ice-cream and taking another bite.

[b][color=orange]"Hey, what are you doing!"[/color][/b]

[b]"You're taking too long,"[/b] Alto said, [b]"I'm not supposed to be out right now, you know."[/b]

[b][color=orange]"Yeah, but still..."[/color][/b]

[b]"We only came out here because you wanted ice-cream. That hasn't changed the fact that I'm supposed to be working right now."[/b]

He heard Sal sigh in resignation, and he felt her lean forward to play with his hairpins.

[b][color=orange]"You're such a meanie, you know."[/color][/b]

Alto took another bite of his ice-cream, then finished it off before starting to walk away.

[b][color=yellowgreen]"Master."[/color][/b] Con said suddenly. [b][color=yellowgreen]"Look."[/color][/b]

He looked over to where she was pointing, only to see a face he hadn't met in a long time.

[b]"Oh, Ruby."[/b] She was climbing the stairs of some kind of club with some other dude he didn't know. He wasn't really sure what kind of club was open in the day time, but that didn't matter so much to him.

Con hadn't been around when he'd tried to bail out Ruby those 5 years ago, but when she was first activated, she'd sifted through his memories and experiences to construct based on what he wanted, and what he liked. So she knew all of his memories, and so did Theo for that matter.

[b][color=orange]"Who's Ruby?"[/color][/b] Sal asked, snapping him back to reality.

[b]"Well, she's another old acquaintance I suppose."[/b]

He could easily just ignore her and keep moving, there wasn't exactly anything they had in common. He looked down at his watch.

[b]"Ah, whatever. I have the time. Guess I should go say hello."[/b]

With that, he set off towards the duo. Sal on his shoulders, Theo and Con in tow.