Poryy's Stories - Hyperion to Eeloo

[Poryy]

The Hyperion probe floated in a 6.5 degree inclined orbit around Kerbin, It's sensors analyzing the white, blue, and green planet below and finding nothing of interest whatsoever. It received a signal from far below and aimed itself towards the coordinates received. It sighed silently. It was time to wake Jeb 9000.

Jeb 9000 was an idiot in it's experience. "Who needed to speak when they can compute?" It asked itself before sending a blurt of data to the Jeb 9000 module attached.

Jeb 9000 woke immediately. "Hello! Ready to get started?" It asked, as far below Alby Kerman sent it a signal to fire it's engines. The mission had begun. The burn was long, and almost exhausted Hyperion Eeloo's nuclear transfer stage, but it was not decoupled. The extra Delta-V would be needed to make orbit.

Back at KSC, everyone was asleep except for a single engineer using a file for a pillow. The file's name? Sisyphus.

Back in space, Hyperion Core V was losing his artificial mind.

Jeb 9K: Barrel roll! Barrel roll! Do a barrel barrel roll! Do a barrel roll!

Hyperion Core V: SHUT IT!

Jeb 9K: Why?

Hyperion Core V: You are more annoying than Alby when he's in a bad mood!

Jeb 9K: At least I'm more intelligent than a soda bottle!