Sorry for not making another chapter sooner. I was having brain block with expensive beauty.
If you check my other stories you will see I was busy with repo! Strikes again. For some reason I could only think repo the last few days! So this should make up for it.
The silence of the forest was enchanting.
Shilo lay sleeping by my feet.
I was sewing pouches of rabbit skins together.
I had an invention in mind and I had been working on prototypes all day.
"Hey any luck?" fausto asked sitting down next to me.
"I think I finally have it, instead of just one line of stitching with thread I'm using yarn and I'm doubling the stitching. That way the rocks won't fly out" I said making another neat stitch.
"Well that's good" fausto said.
He reached out and put his hands over mine.
"What?" I asked.
"Take a break and eat something" fausto whispered.
"I'm good fausto calm down" I said smiling.
"You have been here since this morning, eat lunch" fausto said.
"I need to finish this invention" I said.
"Come on Megan! Why are you pushing yourself?" he asked.
"Because I have a gift that the specials want. If the specials want me for it then it's worth something. I need to help smoke" I said making two more stitches.
"Your helping smoke a lot right now by being here" fausto said.
"How? So what if I don't have lesions! That means I should help even more!" I said.
"Okay at least take a break to play with shilo, she has been sleeping all morning. She must have pent up energy." Fausto said.
I put the sewing down and then took a long piece of grass and used it to tickle shilo's face.
She woke up and looked at it before turning over and falling back asleep.
"There done" I said.
I took the stitching up again.
"Funny Megan, seriously come on" fausto said.
"I'm not hungry fausto" I said grinning.
I tied the stitching and started filling the sack with rocks.
I tested the weight before rethreading the needle I was using.
It took me a few tries to learn how to thread a needle.
Croy helped me a lot with the first few tries.
If you're careful thread and even cloth and be reused.
Fausto finally got up.
"I have to go" he said.
"Work?" I asked.
"Yea they have me on design" fausto said.
Since getting to smoke we all were given jobs.
Fausto had been given the job of calculating things.
He was very good with physics and anything science.
We worked together a lot.
A few people where put on smaller jobs like taking care of rabbits and watching the camp during the night.
The camp was always guarded.
I sometimes took a guard shift while working on an invention.
Fausto would come and suggest ways to make an invention more useful or make it actually work.
We had made three sucessesful prototypes of what I was working on now.
But it was accurate with aim yet.
The afternoon wore on and I finally was done.
I tested all of the stitches and saw they held very tightly.
I smiled and bought the crude device to fausto.
"It's done, ready to go test?" I asked.
"Sure" fausto said grinning.
We went to a clearing we used for testing things.
I unraveled the invention.
It had a thick cord and sacks of rocks tied securely in many places along the rope.
"Okay ready?" I asked.
"Yes" he said nodding.
I swung the cord around my head.
I watched as I swung it faster and faster.
Finally I got it to the proper speed.
"Okay, its holding" I yelled.
"Good now throw" fausto said.
The edge of the cord spun behind my head and I let it go.
The cord ran through the air and hit fausto straight on in the legs.
The cord tangled itself around his legs.
"YES IT WORKED!" fausto yelled.
"HOW DOSE IT FEEL?" I yelled running to him.
"It stung like hell and I'm going to have rope burn. We got it!" fausto said as I got to him.
"Try to move" I said.
Fausto tried to walk but ended up falling flat on his face.
"Perfect, let's untangle it and try some real shooting" I said grinning.
Soon I was standing on one end of the field.
Fausto started running across the field.
I spun the cord around and then released it and it flew and hit fausto.
He fell to the ground with a huge groan.
I ran to him and he was sitting there already untangling it.
It took us a few moments to untangle it but it did come undone.
I helped fausto up and we went back to camp.
"Maddie" I called walking into the observatory.
Shilo was following me through the door.
"She is in her work space" Zane moaned from his pile of blanket.
"What's up with you?" I asked.
"I'm still having headaches, maddie said they should have gone away by now" Zane said.
"Maybe that's just your brain being pissed at you" I said shrugging.
"Maybe" Zane said burying his head into the skins.
I walked passed him and found maddie bending over a work screen.
"I made something" I said.
Maddie looked up "really? Let's see" she said smiling.
I smiled "come with me" I replied.
I led her outside into camp.
"Okay see croy right there trying to catch that escaped rabbit?" I asked.
Maddie nodded and I took the device and unraveled it.
I swung it around and right on the correct point I released it.
The device flew and hit croy and he fell over in a confused pile.
"What then?" he said sitting up.
Maddie laughed "brilliant! Perfect for stopping attackers! Where did you get this idea?" maddie asked. "I use to watch bunch of old rusty documentaries. The native Americans use to use them in raid parties" I said.
"Megan! What was that thing?" croy yelled from where he fell.
"Oh, sorry croy I was testing something! Wait there don't break it" I called running over.
I bought the device to maddie.
"What are you calling it?" she asked.
"Runaways, it stops your from running away" I said grinning devilishly.
"Okay, well I'm going to get a team of smokies together to make some more" she said.
"Okay I will have fausto show them how to make it" I said nodding.
Over the next two days people where using the runaways.
I watched people use them on chickens and rabbits or on each other.
I volunteered to go scouting back at my old city.
"Here is a hack card, steal as much as you can" maddie said.
She gave me a list of things she needed.
Fausto, croy, and I headed out.
Shilo was bigger now.
Every time I left without her she would cause hell at camp so I bought her with me.
We got there at sundown a day later.
"Okay I think we are good" I said landing my hover board.
"Okay, so what's the plan?" croy asked lowering himself off his board
. "Well we wait for the dead of the night and go into the city and get things we need" I said shrugging. "How?" fausto asked.
I thought for a moment "the twins" I said smiling widely.
"Bree and Ashley?" fausto asked.
"Who?" croy asked.
"Before I left I made some friends, Ashley and bree they are identical twins" I said to croy.
"Okay when we should go?" croy asked.
"They leave early in the night so we should go now" I said.
"Let's go then" fausto said snapping his fingers.
We flew over to the city and landed.
"Keep an eye out for peris or tally" I added as we flew over the city.
"Wont people notice something different about us?" fausto whispered as we inched closer to the city. "Not if we fly really fast" I said pushing my board faster.
We got to the twins dorm.
I ran up to the elevator.
"Danm no rings, can't use it" I said growling.
Why did I not realize that earlier?
I was such a fucking bubble head!
"Don't they have window dorms?" fausto said.
I smiled "your brilliant baby" I said.
This new bubbly idea was going to make up for my bogus bubblehead behavior from before.
We got back on our hover boards and I bought them to the roof of the mansion.
Thanks to fausto's mods they went that high.
"Okay they are four stories down" I said.
"Wait, your climbing down the side of the building?" croy asked.
"Duh, come on bubble head" I said.
"What if shilo freaks?" croy asked.
"She is use to heights" I replied.
I was already lowering myself over the edge.
"Megan! You're crazy" croy said running to the edge of the building.
"Listen man, once she makes up her mind, it's going to happen" fausto said.
"Dude, it's your girlfriend stop her!" croy said franticly.
"Okay, fine" fausto said.
Fausto walked to the edge of the roof.
I was clinging onto a windowsill and was lowering myself down another floor.
"Megan-la!" fausto called.
"Yes?" I called back looking up.
"Croy thinks this is a bad idea, maybe you should come back up" fausto called.
"I'm already almost there" I yelled.
I was two floors away.
"I'm going to come down there and get you with the board Megan" croy yelled peering over the edge of the mansion.
"Nope" I yelled.
Then I let go.
The moment I let go I threw my arms back out and caught the ledge.
I heard a yell and looked up.
Totally bubbly I think croy forgot sometimes that I wasn't a stupid bubble head.
I knew what I was doing.
"That made it faster" I said laughing.
"NOT FUNNY MEGAN" fausto yelled.
"I'm going to move two windows to the left" I yelled up.
As I inched along the windowsills I felt shilo move around in my knapsack.
Her face was soon next to mine.
She clung onto my shoulder with her claws.
I ignored the sharp pain as I slid into Ashley's window.
I looked inside and saw Ashley was brushing her hair and bree was waist deep in clothing.
I knocked on the window and then quickly moved up one window.
The window opened and Ashley stuck her head out and looked around with a confused look.
She shrugged and then put her head back in.
she left the window open.
I grinned and slipped in.
I stood there and waited.
For the thrill of suspense I'm going to stop things right here! If you want the rest you must review me! I'm not continuing until I get at least three!
Oh and apparently someone has a story identical down to the last word. I don't know much but I just know that if you guys see another story oddly familiar to this one except a different character name let me know. I'm curious to see if this is a copy and paste story of if this is someone genuinely having an idea similar to mine! I swear to the all mighty that I did not steal this story from anyone!