Sir has created another gun, which destroy objects. He said it could be useful in case someone was in danger and there was the case of destroying some architectural barriers, such as doors or walls.
We have also built walls and doors of various sizes and thickness, and the gun worked fine. This happened in the first half of the year.
After seeing some events, the prince decided to try to add features that affect mood. He managed to create two functions that weaken and demoralize the opponent.
He also made the decision to try to put these functions into a single gun, and call it de-gun. So far he has made four functions: dehydrate, destroy, debilitate and demoralize.
He told me that he would wait to assemble the multifunction gun. Before he want to build and test well those who have already made, and I fear that he will do it on me. But no matter, I am willing to sacrifice myself if this will help him with his research.
As expected, he experimented guns on me, but also on himself, and I spent a
whole day to comfort him after he tried the "demoralize". He had done the same with me, so I think this is the minimum that I could do.
And another day I spoiled him a lot when he used the "debilitate" function, which had left him weak and prostrate.
After he recovered he told me he had to decrease the power of the two guns, because the recovery times were too long.
After working for 4-5 months, he has finally perfected the three new functions. He had decreased slightly the destructive power of the ray, because he said it was too dangerous, and decreased the power on "debilitate" and "demoralize", now the recovery time is four hours, much better than a whole day!
Always looking several events on the computer, Sir decided to create four additional functions for his gun: two useful (although I do not know how they could be used), one which seems dangerous and one semi-useful.
The two useful are "decompress" – and he said it might be useful to save some lives by suffocation or otherwise – the other being "deregulate" and frankly I have no idea what it might serve. From what I know is an economic term, and also means "liberalize".
The prince did not want to say to me what might serve, and where he took inspiration.
My guess is that has made it casually (I hope he would not read this note), because it starts with "DE".
He has also created a feature, which I was scared at first, because he would have called "death ray", but he assured me that it was just a powerful stun beam.
He had made it strengthening a taser gun that was on the ship, and then tested first in a computer simulation and then, insisting a lot, upon himself.
He had asked me to monitor his vital functions after being shot, to see if there was reason to strengthen it further or de-powering it.
Monitoring him with medical equipment, which were on board, I noticed that he was like dead, but actually he had only a very faint heartbeat, and his brain activity decreased significantly, compared to normal.
I noted that the recovery time was equal to about two hours, and so he ruled that that was fine like that.
After he woke up we did some testing to see if there had been some kind of repercussions, especially on the brain.
But, fortunately, everything was normal and so we breathed a sigh of relief.
The last function is "decoupage", and I am convinced that he made it for me. Or maybe he has an artistic streak that I didn't know. However, it is also useful in investigating, since it is a ray that emits powerful glue. I have no idea how a beam can emit glue, but it does.
Very often I am amazed by the genius of my ward, but after all I haven't his intellectual abilities.
Sir has devoted practically all the year to assemble the de-gun, with all the various guns' functions, which had done in previous years.
He tested the latest features to see if they had any problem, and has adjusted them accordingly.
Then he told me that he would use the binkey as an energy source, at least until he would found another source of energy powerful enough for the weapon.
He explained that, for a weapon with all those functions, it need a very high amount of energy.
And several prototypes of the guns were supplied with binkey (for functions dehydrate, death ray and destroy), and so would have to use it for the de-gun too.
BEGINNING OF EIYUU'S NOTE:
First I had to find a way to miniaturize all the components needed for the various functions.
I wanted to make a gun simple to use and not too bulky.
Once found the system to reduce size, but not power, for all the components, I had to think of a way to easily select the weapon's eight functions, knowing what type of feature I was going to use.
I thought of small levers with the acronyms, but since I wanted that the weapon was also beautiful to see (for me the style is IMPORTANT!), I discarded that idea.
Then I thought about buttons, to put a circle of them around the "barrel" of the gun, always with the acronyms.
I made several patterns, but none of them satisfied me. And plus, the buttons placed at the bottom were difficult to reach.
I wanted something simpler, and with the ability to write fully the functions.
So I looked at records and other data on our computer, of terrestrial weapons, to make me come an idea.
After hours and hours watching videos and pictures I had lost all hope, when suddenly I saw the solution: a revolver, where the drum was the method of feature's selection.
Also I was entranced by the intricate drawings, typical of the Victorian era, and decided to give the de-gun a typical aspect of the time when we were finishing, making it out of iron with incised decoration and other decorative pieces tooled in brass. The energy room was made with a special glass that I could create with the machinery in the ship.
So I went to work and after MONTHS of trials and unsuccessful prototypes – both technically and aesthetically – I finally succeeded in getting what I wanted.
The weapon itself is a work of art (modesty aside), both technically and stylistically (I've already told me that style is important?): dark metal, almost black, with brass finishing.
The handle is shaped like a drop, and on the sides there is my symbol: the thunderbolt, still made in brass.
The brass parts are: trigger (tastefully decorated), "claws" at the bottom of the drum (they only have a decorative function) and three "claws" in front of the drum – before the barrel of glass material – which open when you pull the trigger, and the hammer, composed of two parts, one of which is decorative, and it snaps forward slightly when I press the trigger.
The hammer is located on the right side of the barrel and is S-shaped, which is also decorated with intricate patterns.
Now we come to the interesting part: the drum. It is a drum with eight "bullets", with the written functions of the protruding part of the cylinder.
The writing is bright blue and the initial "DE" is located on the right side of the gun.
When the selected function is aligned with the "DE", the relevant function is activated.
I've put the miniaturized components inside the drum, and I placed the sensor that sends the energy in the barrel near the letter "DE", inside.
The barrel is composed of a special glass material very resistant, and that conducts well the energy, designed in such a way as to concentrate the energy in the metal tip in the front.
To concentrate the energy in the tip I made a glass chamber inside the barrel, shaped like three consecutive spheres.
The tip and the bottom of the gun are made of an alloy based on aluminum.
Here's how it works:
the desired function by rotating the drum (colored light will be seen inside the barrel, depending on the function)
the trigger to activate the energy of the binkey
hammer is activated and starts the contact that will hit the miniaturized components inside the drum
energy will pass through the glass tube and out the tip, hitting the target.
BACKGROUND NOTE: for now I will use the binkey, but I would find another source of energy for this gun, if I would build another one for Meen-yawn. I am very proud of my work, and also my great friend told me that this gun is a masterpiece.
I tested again and again and it's perfect. Sometimes I even surprised myself, although I know that I'm very smart, thanks to genetic inheritance from my parents.
Meen-yawn says I should be a little more humble, but seeing how humans are, I cannot help but feel superior, even though my friend and guardian is right, of course.
END EIYUU'S NOTE
To make and refine the weapon, the prince used ALL the year, but eventually he managed a great job.
It is true that I think he's not modest, but I also know that he's really smart and talented, perhaps more than his parents, and then it's fine if he had a swollen head (the pun was not intended).
As he says, humans are less intelligent than his race, although there are some that have the potential.
And he's looking forward to meeting interesting people to talk to.
Even though we both know it will be very difficult, to be accepted by the Earthlings.
Especially in a so retrograde and dangerous era. I'm glad that he had invented something to defend himself, and anyway I'll always be by his side.
In approximately a year we will arrive to our destination. Sir asked me to make him other terrestrial clothes, and to calculate where we landed.
At the distance where we are, we can tell the computer to let me know when we get near Earth, to set controls to "manual", activate the invisibility function, and find a good place to land.
Looking at the map of London, carefully prepared by our probes, a good landing spot could be a new public park called "Battersea Park".
There is a pond in the middle of the park, with an island full of trees, where we can hide the spacecraft.
My ward also suggested dehydrating the spaceship, but I suggested it would not be a good idea, since we did not know what effects it had on the particle annihilator engine. He agreed with me, even if reluctantly.
A week before we arrived we noticed a strange activity on the sonar, and we had almost forgotten Prince Enywa.
His ship was again close to ours, but at a safe distance, and Sir had thought he could, at that distance, keep an eye on the inside of the ship.
When those projects had been stolen, Aoseians scientists had thought to equip our shuttle with a secret connection to the spacecraft built with the stolen designs.
The design for the ship provided cameras and microphones to record the trip, and a diary written by hand.
It was the standard procedure of construction, and without those components the spaceship would not work.
It was like a kind of hypertechnological "black box" (the black boxes were old systems for detecting errors in flying or aerospace equipment).
So we opened the link to see and hear what the prince Enywa said, even knowing where he landed and what he wanted to do, since the route was the same.
We discovered that he had made use of the probes – but once we arrived in London would have obeyed only to me or Sir, since they were set to obey only for native people of Aosei – and had already implemented a plan to be adopted by a important family in London: the Scott.
Here's what he found: a boy his age, related to the Scotts, had lost his parents and was coming to London to be introduced to the family (it seemed that his parents were living VERY far from London, and Lord and Lady Scott did not had ever seen him) and adopted as a child of those noble family.
Apparently, the Scotts couldn't have childrens, and they were very happy to welcome this child into the house.
Only that, while traveling to London, the child and his escort, and the coachman, had been attacked by robbers in search of money and killed them all.
The Prince of Kinsei had it all figured out and we even discovered that he would use the robot as if it were his escort, using a disguise generator built into the robot.
He would have "parked" the spacecraft just outside London, in a wood, and then fly to London after dark, to arrive at the residence of Scott just in time.
If the nobles had asked him what had happened to the carriage, would have told them that they had been attacked by bandits just outside London, but he was saved thanks to his servant, and they had arrived walking.
Sir was very angry about the decision of the prince of the neighboring planet.
He said he would never do something so reprehensible, for the honor of his parents.
But he also knew that that behavior was part of the nature of that race.
Although for many years they had become traders of exchange, the nature of raiders and crooks would come at surface, as in this case.
He only hoped that, through education of the Scotts, he would be improved a little, and especially that he would not put a spoke in his wheels.
Now we have entered the Earth's stratosphere, and soon we will land at the designated point.
I turned on the manual controls and the function of invisibility and wait until evening to land.
I do not want anyone to be suspicious.
I also made some other clothes for Sir, another pair of semi-high brown leather's boots with buttonholes, dark blue semiadeherent cotton pants (heat sensors on the spacecraft had found that out there was warm), white shirt with narrow neck and black leather vest with pointed front and a little bit behind, accentuated with his trademark on the dart, and button designs that recall the design on the gun.
He made the buttons by himself, with the brass remained after the construction of the de-gun.
And I made a "leg" holster with black skin, so it's easy to extract the weapon.
I'm also thinking about making him a long coat for the cold season, because I think it would look good and in this way would cover the gun.
We landed and we are going to rest. Fortunately there had been dehydrated food for another year.
We have agreed that tomorrow night we will go for a stroll in London to see the situation and look for a place to settle.
We hope for the best.