I'm back again with another chapter of the story/fic. I see that I'm now starting to get a lot of questions concerning experiments, most from just one review. Oo;; I'm gonna need a lot of energy drinks…
Well, most (if not all) questions will be answered in future chapters. As you know, such complicated scientific explanations will take time to plan out and write down; so you may have to wait a bit for the answers. If you have a list of all the known experiments, it'll help me a lot of you could Email it to me. Now lets get to the science, enjoy the chapter.
Chapter 3: More experiments and more science
Today was a normal day like any other day in Hawaii, if you don't count the number of experiments that you run into every now and then. It's been two days since the last interview. Jumba was going to the lighthouse to check up on Sparky, he checks his experiments on certain dates. (Almost like a doctor or something.) He was outside the lighthouse when he saw the masked man himself, Mimic.
Jumba sighed. "Another interview?"
"Yup," the masked interviewer responded.
"How did you know I was coming here?" He asked suspiciously.
"I asked around and I found out you were coming here, so I took a shortcut. You wouldn't believe how easy it is to get information around here."
"Clever, what is it being about this time?"
"About your experiments of course," Mimic said, talking out his camera from his coat. "Ones that are currently active."
Jumba rubs his chin, thinking. "Well… Since I am going to experiment 221 for a check up, lets start with him."
"Sounds good to me."
They both walk into the lighthouse to find Sparky aka 221. They found him playing cards with two other experiments, a red one with a long nose and the same eyes and ears as Stitch and another red experiment with holes in his back and ears. It appears to be a quadruped. How he was able to those cards without thumbs, Mimic couldn't find out.
"Ah," Jumba exclaimed. "I also am seeing that experiments 158 and 502 are here as well."
"Finder and Yang," Mimic asked. "Don't they have jobs?"
"Must be on holiday or something very similar."
"Hi Jumba," Sparky said, his voice sounding a bit electric. "Its check up time already?" He sees Mimic. "Who's he?"
"Allow me to introduce Mimic; he is currently interviewing me about the experiments."
"Bootifa," Yang responded, unknowing that Finder is looking at his cards. "Am I going to be in it?"
"Are you an experiment?" Mimic asked.
"Ih."
"Then yeah, you are going to be in it."
"Sounds interesting," Finder said in Turian (or whatever language he talks) "How can we help?"
Jumba responded to the question. "Show how you're able to use you abilities when I say so."
Mimic turns on camera, ready to start another interview. "Ok, lets get rolling. First question: How is Sparky able to generate electricity?"
"Good question," Jumba said, walks over to Sparky. "Lets start with his anatomy."
"My what?" Sparky asked.
"Your body…"
Sparky yelps in embarrassment and tries to cover himself with his arms. Jumba slaps his face in frustration.
"As I was saying, a living organism can generate natural electricity that is equivalent to a nine-volt battery, but it cannot take more then twice its voltage without some type of damage to the body. What I did with 221 was to increase the voltage tolerance he can take and managed to make his body produce or become electric."
A bunch of electric bolts dance between Sparky's antenna.
Jumba continues. "Cells can also create electricity but what I did was to make it so the creature is a walking testla coil. To him, making electricity is like flexing a muscle. Every cell in his body produces high amount of it thanks to the extra mitochondria I put in his cells, but that's not where the electricity comes from, although it draws power from them. There's a special nerve gland in his body that allows him to channel his energy and produce it into electricity. This principle goes with any experiment that has this ability; the ones I made later drew more power from their cells."
"How is he able to turn into an electric bolt?" Mimic asked.
"That is more difficult, that's like lifting a barbell to him. A light one but barbell nonetheless. The nerve gland, which is located in his upper body, can spread out the electrons atoms that are in his body and is able to combine the electricity with any or all of body to make him into a being of semi-pure energy."
Sparky shows this by entering a socket in his electric form and come out from another one on the other side of the room.
"Oh, so that's how he does it…"
Spark smirks and says, "Aka tiki ba-ba."
"Show off…" Finder murmurs.
"Huh?" The interviewer asked.
"He said it was a piece of cake," Jumba explained, rubbing is belly a few seconds afterwards. "I could go for some cake right now…"
"Maybe later, here's a question about Yang. How is he able to create lava?"
"Let me show you," Yang said in his native tounge. He was about to show him, but Spark stopped him.
"Wait, stop!" Sparky yelled. "I just waxed the floor, I don't want to you to melt it!"
"Soka…"
Jumba waved it off. "Don't worry 502; it'll be a simple explanation. Now then, this is how he is able to create the lava in his body." He took out his computer from his backpack and typed up a visual program. "He can't simply create lava out of thin air, so he must create it using the rocks under his feet." A little chibi version of Yang comes on the screen. "He heats up the ground under his feet using special heat generating glands to melt the rock enough to absorb it into his body. Then he stores it in a sac similar to 501, except it's designed to heat and hold hot, molten rock." The little animation of Yang shows this, albeit a bit exaggerated. "Finally, he shoots it out of the holes in his back." The visual finishes by having the chibi Yang shooting the screen, covering it with red-hot lava.
"How does his heating glands work?" Mimic asked yet another question.
"Simple," Jumba said with a smile. "It's like shivering except that it vibrates at a very high rate. This causes the gland and the area it is focused on to heat up. I made it so that the gland wouldn't burn up or something like that."
"It's like sucking a drink through a straw." Yang said, surprisingly in english.
Mimic was a bit taken back by the sudden comment. "Uh… ok, I think I get it."
"That leaves experiment 158." Jumba said, lokking over to Finder. He makes a honking sound.
"Yeah, how does he find stuff?"
"It's quiet simple; his brain is designed to track down anything. He uses all of his senses and his brain's memory to find whatever he wants. If you want him to find something, just give him a description of the object or tell him what you want to find and he'll use his senses to the locate the closest match. What makes him different from a hound dog is his brain. His brain makes a mental picture of the object and sends out a special wave pattern that tries to locate that object. The farther it is, the harder it is to locate the object. When it's found, he uses his smell, taste, touch, sight and hearing to go out and find it. He can also fly by using his ears a helicopter, that's how he is able to cover more ground. It uses muscles similar to that of earth insects, only that his ears are the wings."
Finder begins to speak; this is going to take some getting use to. "My mind creates a mental arrow towards the object and I simply follow it. Then it's like a game of hot and cold. The closer I am to the object, the stronger the pull becomes."
"Wow, I never knew that…"
Jumba claps his hands together. "Well, since that's all settled. Anything else you would like to be knowing before you run out of tape?"
"How do some of your experiments grow the extra appendages? "
Jumba chucked. "The spikes on the back fold till covered by skin, fur or whatever experiment has. Their extra arms go into their bodies like a Swiss army knife using cell flexibility principle, more on that later. The antenna can retract by reducing the blood flow into them. Kind of like butterfly."
"I see." Mimic turns off the camera. "Thanks for your explanations Jumba."
"My pleasure."
Mimic turns his attention to the other experiments. "Thanks guys for your help."
Spark smiled. 'Anytime."
"Glad to help." Finder goes back to the table and picks up the cards.
Yang goes back to looking at his cards. "Uh huh…"
"Ok see you later." With that, Mimic leaves to perfect the film. Jumba and the experiments at the lighthouse got their check up and they went back to their working environment. Jumba went back home and helped Lilo and Stitch with the info on another experiment.
That's it for this chapter, tune in next time to find out what happens next. Please Review.
