Pixie Neurosis; Ala Freud"
By: Maxine Lucinda Tapert, Computer Specialist, [PC]
Krystal, Pixie Hologram , [RNPC]
Kassandra Rayanne Whitman, Security Officer, [NPC]
Mitch Dean, Chief of Security , [NPC]
Jennifer Hailey, Commanding Officer, [NPC]

Stardate: 58205.27 1715

==Jefferies Tube 4B==

"Are we there yet?"

"No," Maxine told the little pixie hologram. "And that's th' fifth time you've asked."

"The first time doesn't really count," Krystal pointed out. "Cause I asked 'where are we going?' that time."

"I stand corrected... ooof..." Maxine grunted softly when she bumped her head. "Good thing m'not very big," she grumbled as she crawled through the Jefferies Tube.

"I'd know where we were going and how long it would take to get there if I was hooked up to the computer..." The little hologram pointed out.

"I know y'would," Max had to agree.

"So can I go back to the computer now?"

"No."

"But when? I don't like being blind, Maxine. I think I'm having a neurosis," she announced in a pitiful sounding voice. "Are we there yet?"

"PIXIE!"

"What?? What??" She fluttered around inside the tube and darted around Maxine's head, spraying pixie dust everywhere. "..what?"

"You're whinin'," Max eyed her. "Stop it. That is not in your programmin'. You *don't* 'ave a neurosis. You're a 'ologram. Y'can't go back to th'computer until *I* am satisfied that you're not infected with somethin'. And we're here. Where the bloody 'ell did y'learn about neurosis anyway?"

"From the library data banks. I was reading about Freud," the little pixie informed her.

"Freud? Oh crikey..." Maxine rolled her eyes and went to work taking off the access panel that would expose the ODN junction she needed to work on. "Freud was a ninny. He was fixated on sex and 'is mother and couldn't move beyond th'size of 'is bloody willy."

"What's a 'willy'?" Krystal blinked huge blue eyes at her.

Maxine paused in her task to gaze and the pixie and blink herself. "I am SO not 'avin' a bloody conversation about sex and body parts with you. I think y'need to reboot."

Krystal gasped and grabbed her chest dramatically. "You mean.... Sh-shut *down*?!?!?!?? Nonononononononono... Not that!!! Please, please, please Maxine! Not that!!!! What happens if I don't come back?? I don't want to diiiiiieeeeeeeee!!!!" she wailed.

"PIXIE!"

"What??? What???" the hologram jumped and bonked into the Jefferies tube, passing partway through it before squealing hysterically and splatting against Max's chest, clinging to her. "...what?"

Maxine choked and sputtered and coughed, totally taken aback by the current behavior of the AI's holographic Avatar.

"Aww, bloody 'ell! I swallowed m'blasted chip!"