Chapter 15: Verification
Harvey paced around the lab as he waited for his technicians to verify that the devices in the man's back were indeed harmless. "This seems like a very inefficient way of keeping an eye on vital signs." He said to no one in particular, "this civilisation must be very underdeveloped in their medical fields"
"We have yet to create a technology that will measure the pain or stress a person's body is feeling" his chief technician pointed out from nearby, "This may be a good opportunity to figure out how much the power chamber affects the subjects" he added, "we will have to have a baseline to work from though."
"Fine finish what you are doing and wake him up, get your baseline and then put him in the power chamber, we are due to replace the current subject soon anyway."
The technician nodded and five minutes later he confirmed that the devices were indeed benign and were not transmitting a signal.
Harvey heaved a sigh of relief and said; "Very well I'm going to go and report to Pietor and you do what you have to, within reason, to get your baseline. I should be back in time to supervise the change over in the power chamber." At the mention of Pietor several of the men in the lab shivered, Pietor hadn't gotten to where he was by being benevolent.
As Harvey left the room the chief technician looked over at the closing door and said "I'm glad I chose science and not security as a career." The man standing next to him nodded in wholehearted agreement.
They had finished what they had to do while the man was asleep so the chief technician walked over to the table and, taking something small out of his pocket he snapped it in half right under the man's nose. The man woke with a start and began to sit up but the chief quickly put downward pressure on his shoulders and the man quickly got the message to stay put. The chief could see the man analysing everything around him and, from the miniscule tightening of various muscles beneath his hands, the chief was fairly sure that the man was also analysing whether anything untoward had been done to him. It didn't look like this was the first time he had been in this situation.
The chief released his grip on the man's shoulder as more of his technicians came over, ready to restrain the man should the need arise. But the man stayed where he was.
"We have been told by your colleague that the devices in your back are experimental bio monitoring devices, is this true?" the man took a minute to answer but eventually nodded his head. "Ok get him sat up." He said to the room as a whole.
A/N: ok so i know i havent uploaded in a while but between being in final year of university, army training and charity work i havent had mucch time for writing... thank you to every one who has favorited, alerted and reviewed this story its what spurred me to keep writing, this is a short chapter but theres a much longer one in the pipeline that should be up in the next couple of days, hopefully with crimbo holidays and only revision to do i should be able to get a bit further on the story. kepp letting me know what you think!