Chapter Six

Ms. Haley Seala and Mr. Hal Gibson

Seala was sat up against the wall shaking in fright.

"Seala, aren't we safe in here?" Gibson asked.

Seala stopped shaking after thinking about it. Gibson was sitting on his knees across the room.

"I guess you're right." Seala answered.

Then a small, black spider crawled up next to Seala. She looked down at it curiously.

"AH! EW!" Seala screamed and she ran over and hung on to Gibson. Seala dug her face into Gibson's shoulder.

Gibson stood up. "What's the matter Seala?"

Seala stood up too, "There's a s-s-spider over there."

"A spider, you're afraid of spiders?" Gibson asked.

"No! It's just—just that they're not normal. They are a lower species with absolutely no intell and…they creep me out." Seala said embarrassingly.

"Me too."

"Well, Melodie insists it's just my scientific nature. I'm the chief of science here, know."

"Chief of science? So am I, on the HyperForce. …What are the charge, the location, and the mass of a proton?"

"Excuse me?"

"Just curious is all."

"Okay then. The charge is +1, the location is the atomic nucleus, and the mass of a proton is 1.6726 X 10^-27kg. Why, shouldn't you know?"

"Just wanted to know. Only a true scientist would know that."

"Ask me anything about science or math and I'll answer it. Go ahead."

"Okay, hmm…What is the 104 element of the periodic table? A true scientist would've memorized the table."

"The 104th element of the periodic table is Rutherfordium, or, on the table, it's symbolized as Rf. Atomic number: 104, Atomic weight: 267, Standard state: presumably a solid as 298K, Group in periodic table: 4, Period in periodic table: 7, Block in periodic table: d-block, Classification: Metallic, and the color is unknown, but probably metallic and slivery white or grey in appearance."

Seala opened her eyes to Gibson with his mouth wide open and eyes popped out. She just sat there and giggled. Gibson snapped out of it and got a smirk.

"Okay, that was an easy one. What does Fe + S equal?

"Easy: FeS. Anyone who knows how to add 2 + 2 can figure that out. I mean try 128,394,775,869,837,489.9999 X 12, which happens to be 1,540,737,310,438,049,879.9988."

"You can calculate big numbers in your head?"

"Yes, can't you? I mean being a scientist and all you learn many things in your head. What else can you test me on?"

"What does 25,487,966,663,252,145,702,154 X 23,147,839 equal then?"

"589,991,348,758,327,885,118,002,745,206. What else you got?"

"How many bones are in the full grown human body?"
"There are 206 bones."

"What is the percentage of blood in a human's body?"

"7-8% weight is blood."

"Favorite chemical from the periodic table?"

"Excuse me?"

"Umm…again, just curious."

"Okay then. My favorite is Carbon."

"Just like that girl?"

"Yes, Carbon was actually named after the chemical."

"She was?"

"Yes. Elella was the one who knew. She was found by Carbon's parents when Carbon was just born. Her mom could stand to see her out there so she took her in as a daughter and Carbon and Elella were like sister, are sisters ever since. Carbon's mom asked Elella one thing. One favor for her, it was to make sure Carbon didn't get hurt and to watch over her."

"What happened to the parents?"

"They're dead. They died in a house fire when Carbon was four years old. If Elella said that if she didn't come home when she did Carbon would have been dead as well. Elella flew in the burning house and found Carbon hiding on her bed crying and coughing. Elella grabbed her in her arms and flew as fast as she could out of the house. She said that firemen said she was a hero for saving Carbon."

"AAAAAHHHHHHH!" A scream came from outside. Gibson and Seala stood up and ran outside.