Disclaimer: I don't own Medabots or any of the characters but I do own Deacon, Kirsty, Archon, Jordan, Leo, Josh, Fenix, Mike, Orcar, Jeff, Spitro, Leon, Aquilla, Ahrok, Bruke
Chapter 10; Small talk
11:55am, in a tree
"Oh no… I just remembered that our holiday ends today!!" I shouted "I have to find Kirsty now!!"
"Calm down, it's not like it's the end of the world" Peppercat said, "Wait a minuet who did you say you had to find?"
"Kirsty… why do you ask?"
"That's funny… she's the girl that me and Samantha bumped in to on the way here, yeah she was with theses other two boys but we didn't bother to ask they're names"
"That sounds about right" Metabee said
"Where? Where did you see them?!" I said as I really started to panic about now
"Out side the hopmart, talking to Henry" Pepper cat said as she pointed behind her self
"Maybe if we're fast we could still catch them," Metabee said as he ran down the stairs, I followed soon after but stopped because I noticed that Peppercat wasn't coming
"Go on, I'll stay here and wait for Cyandog and Totalizer like I promised them" I didn't need to say any thing back but give a nod, then I ran off down the stairs fast to try and catch Metabee back up.
12:05pm, outside the hopmart
"C'mon Metabee I know your faster than that!" I shouted to him as he ran towards the hopmart from across the road
"I may not be as fast as you but you don't have to rub it in!" He shouted in front of my face and walked past in a mood grumbling to him self as he went.
"Kirsty, where the hell were you…" I shouted as I stormed in through the door
"Where was I? More like where were you?" Kirsty said back from near the counter, she then walked out of the door followed by Josh and Jordan "Are you coming Deacon?"
"Coming where?" Kirsty never really shouted at any body but if she did she didn't mean it
"Our holidays up, we gotta get… back to the air port before the… plain leaves" Jordan said as he slurped a drink
4:20pm, at the Japan main airport
"That was really mean, I didn't even get to say bye to any one"
"Nether did I, but do you want to get home or what Deacon?" Kirsty said
"But we didn't have to be here until five any way, we could have stayed a bit longer" I complained, even though I wanted to stay, I couldn't just up and leave Kirsty after all we've been good friends for ages.
"Flight twenty-two now boarding… will all passengers for this flight come to gate three" the announcer said
"See look, if we had come here at five we would have missed the plane!" Kirsty said
"Yeah and plus you got Metabee's home contact number you lucky bot" Jordan said
"I'd be quiet… if I was you," I said as I glared at him and thinking that I would kill him if he said another word.
"Eh eh… sounds like some one…" as Jordan was about to finish I pulled out a piece of paper from his open bag that was conveniently laying on the floor next to me, it was a photograph of some one that he admires… aww but I'm not going to say who
"Hey Kirsty how much do you reckon this would be worth?" I then showed Kirsty the picture and explained that this was the person that Jordan admires, she then burst out loud with laughter, Josh then asked what was going on and then I explained to him as well and he broke out in laughter also.
"I'd say it was worth a hundred quid!" Kirsty chuckled "We should really get going"
"Ooohh… I'll get you for that Deacon, and I know just the way to do it" Jordan said under his breath
"What's that Jordan? You want me to… tell you're friends," I said, waving the photo in front of him as I walked past
"Come on Jordan we'll miss the plane" Archon said as he patted Jordan on the back
7:53pm, on flight twenty-two
This I managed to overcome my fear of flying by watching an in-flight-movie, it wasn't a very good movie but I suppose it was better than nothing. After a little while an air hostess came round and asked people if they'd like to visit the cockpit, I really didn't want to go but Kirsty somehow managed to persuade me to go up with her.
"Cool what type of island is that?" Kirsty asked the pilot, the island was in the shape of a crescent moon with the two end points almost touching each other, and it also had a forest almost covering the whole island, it looked so familiar.
"That… that's archipelago" The pilot replied
"Wait a minute…" I noticed that the aircraft's altimeter didn't match up to the read out on my own one
"What's the matter Deacon?" Kirsty asked me
"That altimeter isn't right"
"What do you mean, that has to be the most precise piece of equipment on the plane!" one of the pilots said at the top of his voice
"Calm down Chris" the other pilot, said to him
"Sorry, John it just I've had a long night you know what I mean" Chris the pilot said
"No… according to this we're flying along the ground" I explained to both of the pilots as I lent over the controls and started to tap the plane's altimeter, really it didn't take a genius to figure that out because the reading was zero meters anyway.
"AHH, NOW HOW ARE WE GOING TO LAND THIS THING?!" Chris shouted
"Well I'm sure Deacon here could act as the altimeter," Kirsty said as she put her hand on my shoulder plate "She keeps saying that she has one"
"That's right I do… heh, I don't know the first thing about flying a plane!" I said
"It's easy you don't have to do any of the flying, just tell us what altitude we're at when we ask," John the pilot said
"Sound's easy enough, when do you want me to help?" I asked
"Just… about… now" John said, as Gatwick airport came in to view because the clouds cleared Chris started to ask for permission to land, he also explained that there altimeter wasn't working and I was guiding them.
"Kirsty, you may want to return to you're seat" John said
"Deacon… do a good job," Kirsty said as she stopped at the door
"I will, now go," I said giving a thumbs up to her, she then continued out the door
"Ok fokes, I'm going to have to ask you to do you're seat belts up now, as we are about to land" John said in to a small microphone after he had finished he flipped a switch that turned the 'buckle seat belts up' sign on and asked if I was ready, I nodded. "What's our current altitude Deacon?"
"Umm… twenty-five thousand feet and dropping" I told both pilots
"Ok drop to fifteen thousand feet and manoeuvre for next drop… Deacon you'll need to tell us when we get to fifteen thousand feet" John said, the plane very slowly stated to descend first to twenty thousand feet then to seventeen thousand. At about sixteen thousand Chris flipped a switch that opened up some air brakes to help keep control of the plane during the landing phase.
"Stop!!" I shouted and as I did so did the plane "Sorry, now we're at thirteen thousand feet"
"Hhha… please pay attention, okay Chris drop us down to three thousand feet… slowly" John told Chris, Chris then tilted the control column down and the plane stared on its descent again
"Ten thousand feet, eight thousand, five thousand… Stop!!" I shouted, Chris then levelled the plane out "Ok we're holding almost steady at three thousand feet"
"Ok Chris line us up with the run way and then drop to one thousand feet" John said, Chris started to turn the plane so it was almost perfectly lined up with the run way that was only just visible and the plane slowly started to dive to wards the run way.
"Ok now we're at one thousand feet" I told the two pilots, John then flicked another switch it must have activated the landing gear because there was a lot of motor noses that came from the bottom of the plane. But then there was a repetitive noise that came from exactly underneath us and a red light started to blink with a warning sound.
"Oh no the front landing wheel's jammed!" John shouted
"Does any thing work on this plane?!" I shouted back at him
"Can I ask one small favour? Would you go down there and fix the problem?" Chris asked me
"Oh… ok where is it?" I said as I walked out the door and waited for some one to show me, John walked out after me and lead me back through first class, then through business class to a small hatch in the floor. I had notice that Kirsty had saw me so I just waved at her.
"Deacon where you going?" Kirsty asked
"I'm just going to sort out one of the landing wheels, it got stuck" Every one around me stopped what they were doing and looked at me weird, Kirsty looked like she was about to kill me.
"Don't say those sorts of things in front of other passengers" John whispered to me
"Oops… heh heh I meant I have to go and get one of the bags" I said as pointed to the hatch and tried to cover up what I previously said, it worked… to an extent.
"Just get going before you say something else!" Kirsty shouted as she did I jumped down the open hatch out of her way, every thing was pitch black.
"There's a flash light down there on the side" John told me, I turned around on the spot in till I found a sign that said 'only use torch in case on an emergency', underneath were two flash lights on a rack. I took one of them but I had to hold it in both hands because it was about a foot long and I was only three-foot tall "Ok if you continue past the baggage crates to the front you should find the problem"
"What do I do when I get there?" I asked
"It's pretty self explanatory" John told me "Now get going, we don't have long… after you've done that Chris can do a visual landing"
"Right… wait what if its not?!"
Front undercarriage
"Ok so here I am… what now?" there was no point in asking that question as there was no one around to answer it but it help me to reassure my self. The front landing wheel was more in the plane that out. There was enough light coming from out side the plane to see what I was doing, I tried pulling the manual release but when I did the motor just made whining noses. So I then started to inspect the wheel for any jams to do this I had to get down on all fore's because the ceiling was very close to the landing wheel. "Ah what's this?" I noticed that they're was a long piece of a metal bar sticking through the wall and in to the wheel bogie. I first moved off the landing wheel I wasn't going to try and remove the metal bar while on the wheel, then I started to pull the metal bar out of the wheel bogie. It took a shear amount of effort but it came out. After that I pulled the manual release and the wheel slowly flipped out as it did it started to drag the ropes out that were laying around on the floor. I didn't realise that one of them was caught around my leg until I felt a sharp tug that pulled me over on to my front this allowed me to grab on two the side of the undercarriage hatch. I tried to pull my self back in but the rope was being pulled tight by the landing wheel, I could feel the stress on my tin pet increasing so I had to let go, after that the rope uncoiled its self from around my leg. My natural reaction to falling was to open my wings witch I did, the plane was actually going slow enough for me to keep up with but I still had to flap quite fast, so I stayed with it. I thought that I would go and say hi to Chris and John so I moved round to the front bulkhead of the plane and waved at them of course they waved back but in amazement. I stayed with the plane till it landed, when it had pulled up to the main building, the boarding arm came over to meet the planes door I quickly dived in to the front entrance and skidded along on my front until I came to a halt; the person that was operating the arm saw what I just did.
"Are… you ok?" he asked me
"Why the HELL does everything happen to me??" I said back as I rolled over on to my back and laid there, after that I had to move out of the way because I didn't want to get trodden on so I walked down the gang way until I came to the main building, it was just as I remembered it. Every body else started to pile of the plane and I was left waiting for Kirsty, Josh and her brother Jordan. "Where are they?"
"Deacon!" Kirsty shouted
"Speak of the devil, bound to appear" I said to her after she pushed her way through the crowd to get to me
"Where did you go?" Jordan asked "Kirsty told me what you were doing, but you never came back after fixing the wheel"
"Well you see… after fixing the problem some idiot must have left ropes laying around on the undercarriage floor, to put it bluntly I fell out" I explained
"Deacon you never cease to amaze me" Archon said in a sarcastic way
"Wow Archon just said something, I must be dreaming" Kirsty said as she pinched her self just to check "Nope it's real"
"What time did dad say he'd be her for us?" Jordan asked Kirsty
"About now… so we'd better get going" Kirsty said "How about you Josh how are you getting home?"
"Uh me?"
"Well you're the only one with the name Josh around here" Fenix said
"Want a lift?"
"Yeah, if that's ok with your dad Kirsty"
"I'm sure he won't mind, he's renting a person carrier so there'll be plenty of room" Kirsty started to boast about how big and roomy the car is and all that stuff, after she had finished we all walked out of the main airport building to the pick up point. They didn't have any bags so we could go straight there. When we got to the waiting point we only had to wait a couple of minutes to be picked up by Kirsty's dad.
4:09am (GMT) in the car on the way home
"So how was the holiday?" Kirsty's Dad asked us
"It was cool, we all met some new friends" Jordan said
"Yeah and I learnt a new attack… I'll have to show you when we get back" I said
"But you also found out you hate flying" Kirsty said as she turned round from the front
"Yeah well… for every one advantage there's always one equal and opposite disadvantage" I said as I folded my arms and slumped back in the seat.
