A/N: Hmmm. Maybe an apology for the long wait?
YOU GUESSED IT! Time to dedicate 500% of my time on this! WOOOOOOOOOO!
Ned was for the most part right about the direction and had gotten back more or less as Steve and Laura started to get up. Ned did a bit of processing of the food, water, and the few resources they had gotten. After that, they all sat down at the table to eat.
"Have you guys ever thought of constructing an antenna on the roof?" Laura asked, gesturing up towards the ceiling.
"Nah, we've just used the radio communications you saw," Stine said. "Also, if I gotta be honest with you Ned, I'm getting sick of fish. Any way of maybe like… Liquefying them?"
"I could. However it would take more time, power, and probably would require a new machine, along with some possible ingredients, a couple spoons, a couple bowls, then we would even need some sort of oven or microwave, to actually make it, well, higher than room temperature." Ned thought, taking a rather large bite of his fish.
"Well, in any case, I was thinking, we build an antenna to that communication box you have in your room, Ned, and we could boost our range far enough… Well, that's to do with how we build it. But, it'd be damn far." Laura said, standing up, as she had finished her meal.
"We will need resources! I'm off. Haven't been out enough."
Ned nodded and got up, pushing in his chair. Ned went out the bulkhead, leaving Laura, Steve, and Stine in the room finishing their meal. He took the Glider, naturally. He started to sweep the area for as much as he could get, ending up making three trips before the Glider warned of low power. A recharge later and five more trips, the Glider started to randomly turn off for long periods, leaving Ned to get out quickly, and swim to the surface every now and then before the engine started again.
Ned drove about three-quarters to the base from where he stopped, before the engine gave out, and didn't turn back on. Ned had to swim the rest of the way and tell the others about it. Steve and Laura jumped right on the opportunity of something to do rather than just collect a few resources, which on its own was boring. They swam back to the Seamoth Glider and pushed it back. As they got near the base, they tried to stop it, but it was meant to glide, and as it was only two weak humans on the back and one in the cockpit they couldn't stop it before it banged up against the base's wall.
The wall was crumpled, but the Glider had been smashed, Ned only getting out just in time to not get crushed. The things in the vehicle were lost, along with a bit of the engine, which had overheated massively, melting a bit of metal to another piece. Unluckily for Ned, he couldn't stop in time to not slam against the base's walls, along with Steve, who had no flippers. Steve seemed to just have general bruising, but Ned was not so fortunate. Ned seemed to have gotten several broken bones mostly just on his left, and some serious bruising.
They decided that because of Ned's work, they could stay in the base for a while, as half of them were going to be hurting for at least a week. Ned had a sling for both his arm and leg after he took a look at the wall of his room. It was dented in quite decently, but nothing was actually harmed, apart from the look of the room.
A/N: Long wait, short chapter as usual. Should be my motto at this point.
"Long wait? You can bet yourself a short chapter!"
Yeah, sorry, as usual. Hope to be focusing on this a bit more, but right now I have a small idea in the works, which might be some sort of causal story, meant for getting me in a writing mood when I just can't seem to write in this one, which happens a lot.
So basically, might be a mostly pre-written story up soon.
Now that actually brings a thought, should I make a really long wait, but make a lot of chapters pre-written?
Anyways, have a good day and never waste a single moment.