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General Olympic and Rolin made it to the General's lab, Rolin's tail almost squashed in the door if General Olympic hadn't pulled him forward. The device was already in the middle of the room and being prepped for use.
General Hounder looked over and saw General Olympic and Rolin, he put on his best smile at his future boss and current peer. "Talia." He greeted General Olympic and went to her side. "So good to see you." General Hounder generally ignored Rolin. "What is the special occasion?"
General Olympic raised an eyebrow. "I was told there was an emergency. A young female lombax is in danger and her darling brother found me." She gestured to Rolin. "He is my guest." Rolin did a respectful salute to the General.
Hounder tried to keep his smile up. "Rolin Azimuth, yes. We are aware." He grabbed an info pad from one of his assistants and turned back to Olympic. "Subject is Kori Azimuth. Telecommunications Operator. It has been several hours since she went in and we still have very little to no leads on where the wormhole took her."
Olympic nodded and simply waved at Rolin. He got the hint and cleared his throat. "Yes," He moved around behind Olympic and stood next to Hounder. "Sir, I remembered that my sister had mine and her passes to enter the facility. Could we possibly hook onto the GPS signal the passes give off and use that to lock onto her position wherever she is?"
Hounder raised an eyebrow. "What do you do for a living, Azimuth?"
Rolin nodded. "Currently, keeping my siblings alive." He held up his hands. "But that's a top secret mission from my mother." Olympic smiled behind Rolin's back.
Hounder handed the info pad back to his assistant and gave out the orders to do what Rolin said. "You might have a future position at the Facility, young man."
Rolin shook his head. "I appreciate that, sir, but I'm not Montay. He's the scientist of the family." He looked at Hounder and spoke as politely as he could. "If I may, sir. What is the plan when we do find out what happened to Kori? Are we sending in a team to get her or hope that she comes through herself?"
Hounder nodded. "Extraction team. We didn't active the device until she was located."
An assistant spoke up. "We have a location, sir."
Hounder walked over to the assistant and looked at the screen. "She is in the Polaris galaxy." The room went silent. "On the planet Morklon." A collective sigh of relief.
Rolin nodded and looked around the room. "Right, Morklon. I know where that is. When do we leave?"
Olympic looked over at Rolin with suspicion. "We?" She shook her head. "If you have any plans to go there yourself, that is ill-advised. You have no formal training and you've only been through a portal like that once in your life."
Rolin faced General Olympic. "All true but my sister is out there." He stood firm. "I know you understand General but there isn't anyone I trust to save my younger sister than myself." Rolin crossed his arms. "You can tell me that I can't do it all day but I would do anything for Kori. Like you would have done for your brother Kaden."
Hounder frowned and almost hit Rolin if Olympic hadn't raised her hand to stop him. She was still for a moment before she took a breath and met Rolin's eyes. "Guts can only take you so far, Rolin." She turned to Hounder. "Get my suit ready and get Rolin fitted for his."
Hounder stepped back in shock. "You can't be serious, Talia."
Olympic frowned. "I am quite serious. Rolin and I agree on something, but I can't allow him to go by himself. I'm going with him and we'll find Kori and bring her back together."
Hounder rung his hands. "But what if Tachyon is still out there? You'll be defenseless!"
Olympic shook her head and walked past Hounder to get her suit herself. "I'll destroy him myself." She waved her hand. "Come, Rolin. We must prepare." Rolin saluted to Hounder and chased after General Olympic, careful not to get his tail almost smashed again.
Olympic's assistants buzzed around her and Rolin. "Now, Rolin." She stated. "Inter-Dimensional Travel is quite difficult, especially when one has not done it before." Olympic shoved a helmet into his hands. "Luckily, we perfected it when your brother Montay was in diapers. That device that sent your sister away was a portable version of the Dimensionator, but they were too sensitive and they never were able to be calibrated to the fullest extent we wanted them to be. So they were scrapped and destroyed due to how dangerous they could be." She put her own helmet on. "How at least one of those things survived the destruction of them I'll never know."
Rolin tried to keep up but all the objects that were handed to him were weighing him down. "You sure know a lot about this, General Olympic."
She smiled. "Who do you think helped develop it?" Olympic clipped on her safety belt. "Male lombaxes have battle in their blood but female lombaxes have innovation." Her assistants whirled around the two of them. "It took eight minds to make the Dimensionator, did you really think all of them were male?"
Rolin laughed nervously. "I believe the right answer to that is no."
"You'd be right." Olympic snapped her fingers and two assistants grabbed Rolin and took him to a separate room to put on the equipment he was given.
It wasn't a perfect fit but it wasn't too uncomfortable for Rolin to wear. The sacrifices he made for his sister. The belt sagged a bit and the boots pinched in places, but it didn't feel like his brain was going to squeeze out his eye sockets so that he thought of that as a success. Not to mention the suit was a bit tight in some places that Rolin didn't want to admit.
Olympic was waiting for him when he was finished. Her suit was form fitting like his was but it fit her perfectly. Rolin had to focus to not admit that Olympic, who was older than his own mother, had aged well. She also held an object at her side that Rolin had not seen in years. An Omniwrench. He forgot about her figure for a moment to admire her Omniwrench.
It was about only a few inches shorter than she was, dual ended, silver and dual handguards. Equipped to take on hand to hand combat, practical use, and able to shoot blasts of flames at a high blast rate and with accuracy. No one really had a real use for Omniwrenches besides for basic repairs since coming to the Lombax but Rolin could tell that General Olympic had taken good care of her equipment. Her Omniwrench. She had taken good care of her Omniwrench.
Hounder turned to see Rolin coming up behind them. "Seriously, Talia, you can't bring along this novice." He returned his attention to Olympic. "There are other, more experienced, individuals who could handle this mission. Not to mention at your ageā¦"
Olympic shifted her omniwrench to her other hand and held up her hand in Hounder's face. "Let me stop you there, Clyde." She lowered her hand and stepped closer to him. "I'm not that old, thank you very much. And I don't care how old you think I am, I am perfectly capable, much more than you are in any sense."
Hounder held up his hands. "If this is about your nephew, he was an infant." He smiled sadly. "There is a small chance your brother wasn't killed by Tachyon but surely your little nephew was."
Olympic lifted her Omniwrench above her head but stopped before she hit Hounder. She lowered her wrench, looked at Rolin and smiled. "Ah, Rolin. Perfect timing, I assume your suit is alright."
Rolin nodded and tried to smile. "Perfect, ma'am." He walked quickly to get in between the two Generals. "How soon as we leaving?"
Hounder cleared his throat and turned away. "Once we get the device calibrated we'll open the portal. It won't be kept open long so that is when you'll need to...take the plunge, as they say." He looked Rolin over for a moment. "You don't have an Omniwrench, do you?"
Rolin shook his head. "Mother said I would shoot my eye out."
The male General rolled his eyes. "Someone get this boy an omniwrench...and a better pair of pants." An assistant gave Hounder a plain omniwrench and he just passed it to Rolin without so much as a glance at him. "In case of Cragmites."
Rolin swallowed the lump in his throat. He had only heard of Cragmites, horror stories among war stories.
Olympic rolled her eyes. "The only one left was that rat and if we meet him, we won't have to worry about him much longer."
Hounder cleared his throat with a quiet, "At your age."
A technician called out from the other side of the room, "Calibrated and ready, sir!"
General Hounder raised his arm. "Open the portal!"
A bright light and hole in the room opened up, whipping winds pulled loose papers and everything that wasn't nailed down toward the gap in space.
Olympic took off running. "Come on, Rolin!" She jumped up onto the stand holding up the device. Rolin took off after her, following her up onto the platform. She grabbed his wrist and pulled him in after her into the portal. Hounder closed the portal behind them.
General Hounder turned to the people around him. "Get those communication lines running. I want them able to be in direct contact with us as soon as possible."
The portal didn't open onto the surface of Morklon as they had intended. But instead, it let out at the planet's stratosphere. Olympic let Rolin scream for a while before briefing him on what to do. "You see what I mean," Olympic said over the wind, "Not very accurate. Get ready though, this is going to be interesting!"
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