A/N: Okay, so I've decided to not work on anything story wise apart from this one. I've noticed that the quality of my chapters have dropped. It's going too good for these two. How about a bit of rough parts? But even then, I don't just mean that, I just mean how I write is not getting any better.

Ned resurfaced, breathing in the warm air. He put the last Boomerang into his suits storage, then he looked at the Aurora. Ned dived back under and started to swim back to the base.

Ned opened up that hatch and got in, waiting as the water was quickly drained and air was pumped in. He opened up the bulkhead and heard Sydney's automated protocol voice say, "Low Power." Repeatedly, each time followed up with two sharp, loud beeps.

"Sydney? What power are we getting?" Ned asked, going down the ladder for Stine.

"The only power being produced is from the solar panels. The generator is out of electricity." Sydney said, still in her protocol voice.

Ned glanced around Stines room and quickly went back up the ladder. He reached into the box of power cells for a few more, only to find there were only about fifteen left. Ned grabbed four and carried them out to the generator, then replaced all the old ones. He got back inside and put the old Power Cells on his desk, noticed the huge pile that was now slowly falling off his desk.

Ned sighed. He wish he could find the blueprint for a Power Cell charger, but they couldn't find it so far. He looked in the only locker left, his locker, and looked what was in it. A bit of silicon, a water bottle, a little bit of silicone rubber, a small piece of fiber mesh, a battery, a bottle of lubricant, and an oxygen tank. Ned sighed, then closed the locker, walking right back out to get more resources. He started to swim back to the place with the red grass.

Ned found one of those lumps again, and wondered if he should even try. He grabbed some titanium from his storage, and dropped it above the lump, backing away. The titanium hit the lump, and sand flew everywhere as one of the armored things popped out of the ground, twisting around to face the titanium. The creature seemed to settle down, as Ned turned on the Seaglide, and went away as quickly as he could, going around to another hill in the field of hills. He quickly returned to the surface to get a bit more oxygen, then continued exploring, knowing that he could test the lumps by dropping things onto them.

Ned returned to the base to drop off the things he had gotten. He was pretty proud of how much he had gotten in such a small amount of time, though he had burned through two batteries. Ned turned all the Airsacks in his locker to water, then cooked and cured the other fish. He sat down at his desk, and began to drink from one of the water bottles, setting the rest on his desk, next to the great pile of power cells.

Ned put down the water bottle, and began to eat a Boomerang. He thought to himself for a moment, then was instantly interrupted by the bulkhead being opened, and Stine's voice saying his name.

"Ned?"

"Yeah? What is it?" Ned said, getting up.

"Do you know anything about the Glider's engine?" Stine said, walking around the the hole in the floor.

"No, is it broken?" Ned asked, moving towards the door.

"Just go and open the repair hatch."

Ned opened up the bulkhead, then went through the hatch and saw the Glider above him. He got inside it and crawled to the back , and opened the foot by foot repair panel. Hot air flowed out of the engine cavity, filling the room, making Ned sweat. He got into the seat and poked the top of the thing above water, then opened up the hatch. Ned breathed in the cool air, then closed the hatch, not wanting to breathe the air for too long.

Ned then looked at the engine. It looked fine, the only trouble that might be there is a lack of something to help the engine parts move with low friction. Ned sighed, got out, returned into the base, grabbed the bottle of lubricant and the small sheet fiber mesh, then returned, and tried to do it correctly. Ned was only worried that he might get the lubricant in a place that could hurt the engine.

Ned put the lid back on the lubricant, then looked at the fiber mesh. It was ruined now, so he opened up the hatch and threw it into the water, then returned to the base to put back the bottle of lubricant. Before he went out in the Seamoth Glider, he wanted to check if the assembler that he had made earlier had anything that might help. Ned spent a good twenty minutes looking through the menu, and the few things that caught his eye was a small light that runs off of a battery, and can be mounted to surfaces, and a O2 tank that was in a U shape. Ned made one of the lights, got back into the Glider, and started off the afternoon by going back down the cliff face.

Ned had gotten a fair few things, including some silver, and a chunk of nickel. He had noticed by now, his hunger and thirst, and a nagging need of sleep, as he hadn't gotten much last night. Ned started to head back home, cruising with the top just above the water as the sun slowly set. Ned just liked the look of the sun slowly setting, when he was on Earth, and when he was on the other two planets. If you actually thought about it, should you even call the sun that this planet, 4546B, was orbiting, the sun, instead of "The Star"? Ned was just used to the phrase "The Sun".

Ned dipped back down to find himself a distance past the little round sphere that was his destination. He returned, unloaded everything, then returned to his chair in front of his desk. Ned soon found himself asleep at his chair after drinking the rest of the water bottle that had already been on his desk.

Ned's rest was interrupted by a loud sound, an alarm going off, and a loud roar from outside, through the wall.

"Sydney? What is happening?" Ned asked, panicked.

"A creature attacked the side of the wall, causing a small tear on the outside. It has been wounded by this act, supposedly." Sydney said. "It was most likely chasing the thing now in the airlock."

Ned got up and moved in front of the bulkhead, waiting for it to open, assuming it was probably Stine. The door handle twisted, then the door opened and a wall of water suddenly collapsed onto the ground, going out into the rest of the room. Ned looked down at the water quickly then looked at the person who opened the door. It was indeed Stine, he, taking his mask off.

"What's with all of this water?" Ned asked, motioning towards the ground, checking down the ladder that lead to Stine's room.

"I waited for it to drain, but for some reason it didn't. Aw, crap! Thank god for the lip." Stine said, getting down to his room and checking how much water had gotten down, which was only a thin layer, due to the little bit of metal that surrounded the actual hole for Stine's room.

"Well I hope you're proud of yourself, because there was probably a reason for it not depressurising." Ned sighed, then got his mask on.

Ned made sure to close the bulkhead before getting back out into the water, where he checked if anything was near him, and saw the solar panels. Most of them were just scratched, a little bit ripped up. But four were basically ripped off the platform entirely. Ned went back in, which put more water down to Stine, causing him to yell. Ned then grabbed his habitat builder then went back outside to salvage the solar panels, then checked the wall. Indeed, the little bit that was ripped, was the kit panel, the little panel where the oxygen kit, and the draining device, etc. was behind. And the only kit that was damaged was the one that drained water, to make the base not flooded or filled with water. Ned went back and made a new draining kit, then put it in, then fixed the panel using the welder that was still in the Seamoth Glider.

Ned returned to his desk, and after remembering the sun was still down, he decided he should get some extra sleep, and deal with the solar panels later.

A/N: I can't believe that I'm actually getting my chapters longer, even if it is just by about a few hundred words added per chapter.