Chapter 24: Body Suit Experiment
Arwen and Coretha shared a room together keeping anyone hurting them. The two have alternating sleeping times and rotations. Both of them finally decided to go to Trance laboratory.
"Hey Trance how is it going?" asked Arwen. Trance has a sigh on his face as he was fiddling with the computers.
"Well many things went wrong. First I am being tracked by my father if I leave this area. He already got mad for me trying to test out my new suit that makes going underwater possible," said Trance.
"A suit?" asked Coretha. Trance showed the prototype he was making and Coretha and Arwen looked at it amazed.
"It is meant for use of both humans and reploids who cannot sub-stain the water pressure. It also has oxygen filtration which can take a humans breath and de-carbonize the air making it oxygen friendly. Since the oxygen circulation system works like that it expelled the carbons to the air or water this case depressurizing the suit," said Trance.
"Sounds fun," said Arwen. Coretha looked at Trance and smiled a tad. She then looked at the suit.
"What about reploids. We do not need oxygen to breathe," said Coretha. Trance smiled on that.
"Well I can remove the filtration system and make it armor-like for the reploids. It is not hard to do. Though I want to make sure this suit is well done before I released it to the public," said Trance.
"Well then let me be your test dummy," said Arwen. Trance looked at Arwen and had a wide eye look.
"Wait it is not done yet. I do not know if you can control it," said Trance. Arwen smiled and have the suit on. Trance looked like he is going to panic.
"Oh don't be ridiculous I can figure it out myself," said Arwen as she puts the helmet on and went into the hatch where it leads outside. Trance now felt the heaviness of his panic attack. Coretha use her com-link.
"Arwen do you hear me?" asked Coretha. Trance sighed as he knows that he is trying to fix the communications for the longest.
"Loud and clear," said Arwen, "Luckily the sonar waves that these links provide helped out when I was in most space colony."
"Yeah when the satellites are shut down sonar is the next best thing. However, satellites does not work here so thankfully sonar does," said Coretha.
"Sonar?? Sonar…. I got it," said Trance as he get to work. Coretha looked at Trance as he fixing the machine that was in front of him.
"Umm… If you plan to make it hit to a satellite you should change the sonar to EM wave it works well like that," said Coretha.
"That is brilliant. Like that we can contact to the outside world. I should thank you both for that help," said Trance.
"Wait you tell me that you do not know that?" asked Coretha. Trance looked at her with a smile.
"We know that the surface world used the satellites to communicate with one and another, however, we do not know how to use that technology to ourselves. We do not know how they did it or if it possible to even communicate down here. Now you put it that way sonar with the mixture of EM waves will work. Now can you be a dear and help me with this machine," said Trance. Coretha sighed and gave a tool to Trance.
"Hey this suit is amazing I not only can breathe but my weapons can work here as well," said Arwen on her com-link.
"That is nice Arwen. Do you went target practice while underwater or something?" asked Coretha.
"No but I am going to do that now," said Arwen as she cut off her link. Coretha sighed as she continues to help Trance. Later on, Trance tried his machine on and tried to contact Arwen.
"Hey Arwen can you hear me? It is Trance," said Trance. Arwen on the other side had her gun away.
"Loud and clear. But I thought you cannot get communications underwater?" asked Arwen.
"Thanks to Coretha I find out how to make it possible. How is my suit working for you?" asked Trance.
"So far fine. Though I am heading back. I just want to test it out not be in it," said Arwen. Trance smiled as far as he think that he may have the final product.
"Well at least the suit can take up the challenge now it may be ready to be put on the market then," said Trance. A door open wide as the commander walked in furiously at Trance.
"TRANCE!! DID I TELL YOU THAT YOU SUPPOSED TO WORK ON THE COMMUNICATIONS!! YOU SHOULD NOT BE GOOFING AROUND AND TALKING!!" shouted the commander.
"But sir, I have fixed the communications and it is online. I manage to test it with Leviathan," lied Trance.
"Fine contact Fairy Leviathan for me," said the commander. Trance picked up Leviathan's location and open a patch link to her.
"Leviathan can you hear me? It is Trance," said Trance. Leviathan heard him and sounded little happy.
"Loud and clear. You fix the communications. That is good," said Leviathan. The commander took over.
"Fairy Leviathan, this is the commander. How is sector 5-8," said the commander. Leviathan changes her tone.
"Fine sir nothing out of the ordinary. Even in the surface world there is few attacks going on," said Leviathan. The commander looked pleased at the results of the communicators.
"Good now we can contact the outside world now," said the commander as he turned to leave but has his eyes dead locked on Coretha who is about to make him a pin cushion. He was about to hit the door and look at Trance.
"Keep the communications up. We will going to need to make contact to the outside world," said the commander as he left. Trance sighed as he tried to patch a link to Arwen.
"Hey Arwen sorry about the screaming in the background," said Trance. Arwen breathing heavily.
"About time you talk to me. Your suit just malfunctioned on me. I am about two feet away from Atlantis and trying to close in. I already have pressure build up on the suit as well some other things went wrong. I am going to try to get there as fast as I can if not I will look at my watery grave," said Arwen.
"What?! I knew I should not let you use my suit. I knew that it was not ready," said Trance.
"Hey Trance it is ok. This is not bad as what I have been through. Consider this my fortune to help someone," said Arwen.
"Arwen keep monitoring your air supply. If anything that is your vital thing you need right now. I will try to contact Leviathan to help you out," said Trance.
"Do not bother I am around the area," said Arwen as Trance can see her. Soon the suit complete malfunctioned and Arwen managed to get off of the suit out cold.
"Shit she will not have that much time," said Coretha as she took off her jacket showing her outfit underneath the jacket. She pushed a button to open the hatch and tried to get Arwen up for air. Coretha managed to grabbed Arwen and surfaced before the hatch is closed.
"Shoot she need medical care right now. Keep her in her room while I get the medics to check on her," said Trance.
"I agreed," said Coretha as she puts her jacket back on and take Arwen to their room. Trance sighed as he salvaged his suit and restart all over again.
"I never thought someone will be crazy enough to try my invention. I might as well fix it if I want this to work," said Trance as he remodel his machine. Meanwhile… Leviathan sighed as she goes to Trance's laboratory. To her surprised, he wasn't fixing his suit.
"Trance is there something wrong," said Leviathan as she closed the doors. Trance looked at Leviathan.
"Kind of. My suit that I never tested someone volunteer to test it and almost drowned. Her friend save her before she died," said Trance as he sounded so depressed. Leviathan looked at him.
"It is not your fault. The person wanted to help you out and see if your suit works. Besides you did make that suit so you can help me out with my rounds," said Leviathan.
"Yeah, I did. But still I do not know what went wrong. I thought all the plans I make it would work," said Trance.
"You will find the answers. So where the two outsiders that I helped," said Leviathan. Trance sighed.
"Arwen is in critical condition since she is the one who tried on my suit. Coretha is watching her," said Trance.
"Ok I will talk to them. They are the other people beside you that I want to chat with," said Leviathan.
"Go ahead, I will be working on my suit still," said Trance. Leviathan left and went to another room where Coretha had her dagger waiting to be thrown. Coretha saw Leviathan and put her dagger away.
"For a second there I thought you are someone else," said Coretha. Leviathan had a look on her face.
"Who you thought I was?" asked Leviathan. Coretha explained what had happen several nights she have discovered. Leviathan looked at her in shock.
"So someone tries to do THAT while you are sleeping," said Leviathan. Coretha nodded.
"Yes and both Arwen and myself have been on our guard. One will sleep and the other one guard. And we rotate. Like that we get our sleep," said Coretha.
"Do you stop functioning if you do not get your sleep?" asked Leviathan to Coretha.
"Mainly my energy will be depleted and I can't regenerate well if I am awake. True I am a reploid but I still need my sleep," said Coretha.
"I see," said Leviathan. Coretha looked at Leviathan and saw her depression look on her face.
"Though the only good thing we tried to do is help someone out," said Coretha. Leviathan looked at Coretha.
"Arwen tried to help Trance out by using his suit," said Coretha. Leviathan heard the story from Coretha of what happened and Leviathan was shocked.
"That never happened before. It sounded like someone sabotage the suit. If it is so then they would want to kill Trance. Oh no I felt horrible for not sleeping in the laboratory. Though I can't do anything if the commander keep on having me do night rounds," said Leviathan.
"You know what. We are going to sleep there. I can locked the door and Arwen and I can rotate in there. If anything, we will be safe there," said Coretha.
"I hope you know what you are asking. The laboratory at night can be spooky and dark," said Leviathan.
"Unn…. Wha-what happened?" moaned Arwen. Leviathan and Coretha looked at Arwen as she is coming about.
"The suit almost did your life. Do not worry you are back at Atlantis," said Coretha. Arwen got up and looked at Coretha and Leviathan.
"You gave me a scare when Trance and Coretha told me what happened," said Leviathan.
"Heh. It is not as bad getting burned by lava and talking to Fefnir who had his gun at me," said Arwen.
"Fefnir??" asked Leviathan as she heard the name before than had a huge smile on her face.
"Umm… Yeah," said Arwen as Leviathan looked at the two who is in front of her with a smile.
"I remember him well. How is he? Still the same perverted hot-headed reploid," said Leviathan.
"Perverted?? I do not know about that but hot-headed yeah," said Coretha. Leviathan giggled as she smiled at the two.
"Well you haven't seen him perverted yet. Just be lucky for that," said Leviathan as the two see the smile on Leviathan's face.