Chapter 26

On the whole way to the Med Bay, Trance had to keep a hold on Harper to make sure he didn't take off to see Rommie. By the time she sterilized the wound, applied nanobots, and generally made sure he was back to normal, he was fidgeting and asking every five seconds if she was done so he could see Rommie. 'Back to the old Harper all right,' Trance thought. Finally she was done and he jumped down from the table.

"Hold on, Harper!" Trance had to yell to stop him, "I think you're forgetting that there is a certain Nightsider onboard?" Harper literally sagged. "Fine, fine. I'll go see what I can do," and exited. Trance followed him out, and they both headed over to the weapons locker.

Suddenly Trance's commlink activated. It was Dylan. He said, "Trance, I tried contacting Harper but I can't get through, is he OK?" Trance both looked puzzled as to why he couldn't get through for a moment, but then Harper said,

"I'm here Dylan, but my commlink doesn't work normally anymore. We had to, um, fix it to get through to you before,"

"I see. Well, I need you to fix the internal defense systems, and keep them from taking over command. Is there any way you can do that from the outside?"

"I'm on it!" Harper said and ran to get some tools from one of the machine shops. Working with a hairpin hadn't really suited his liking.

Trance headed to the weapons locker.

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