Chapter 4: The new suit
It was morning; two days after Double-D's escape.
He woke up and got on his computer.
"Good morning, Mr. Eddward."
"Good morning June."
"What is today's project?"
"Failed wingless flight twenty eight."
"Sir? That designs never gained a sustainable power source."
"Well how about this?"
Double-D typed in some keys, and pressed enter.
"Power source found. Flight design achievable."
"Let's get started."
"Knock, knock, and knock!"
Said a familiar voice, from the door.
"Hey Sock head, we got scams today! Get up, and get ready!
Double-D slapped his face.
"I'm busy today!"
"Well stop being busy, and get ready for the scams!"
Double-D sighed and pressed the 'get rid of Eddy' button.
Eddy fell through a trap door, and landed in Double-D's pool.
Double-D got back to work.
"Set up standard system check."
"Yes sir."
The computer beeped.
"Malfunction detected. Power source is not usable for sustainable flight."
Double-D rubbed his temples.
"Well then I guess the power source needs an upgrade."
The next day, Nazz, Sarah and Jimmy where playing a game of skip rope.
Nazz's phone range.
"Hello?"
She answered.
"Nazz, how big are your hands?"
Double-D asked.
"Aaaa… what?"
"How big are your hands?"
"Double-D, what game is this?"
"I need you to come over."
He hung up the phone.
Nazz looked confused, but walked over. She walked in, and up to Double-D's room.
He was on his bed, with no shirt; but the mini ark reactor was on his chest.
"Is that what's keeping you alive?"
Nazz asked shocked.
"Yes, but it is now outclassed."
He showed her the new mini ark reactor.
"I need your help to put it in."
Nazz looked scared.
"It's safe. It's like a game of Operation."
"Not helping."
Double-D took out the Ark Reactor, and held the new one up to her.
"I don't know… this is very… high tech."
"I trust you."
She slowly put the wire into the hole, and sweated.
"Ewe… pus…"
"Not pus, its plasma discharge."
A buzz went off.
"Ow!"
"Are you ok?"
"Yeah, just like a game of Operation."
She connected the wire, and put the Ark Reactor in.
Double-D started to laugh.
"Never… ever… ask me to do that again."
Double-D got up.
"Thank you."
"You've change a lot."
"Well I'm going to change the world… a lot."
"What happened to the Double-D everyone knew and loved?"
"I was in captivity for four months. I had guns at my throat, and was in a dark cave… that can change a person."
Nazz looked at him.
"Well… I don't like it."
She walked off.
"June, when will it be ready?"
"It is ready sir."
"Good."
Double-D put on a slim suit, with metal coating and glowing blue eyes, with a glowing chest.
"June, set up interface."
"Yes sir."
The screen showed the room, and it showed a scan of the room; and the time of day: twelve p.m.
"Scan complete."
"Test flaps."
"Testing… test complete; scanning flight paths."
"No. Start flight."
"Sir, there are terabits of information to upload before…"
"June! Sometimes you need to run, before you walk."
The wall opened like a double door, and showed a flight strip.
Double-D walked out on the strip.
"Fly in three… two… one…"
The jets on the feet started, and so did the stabilizers on the palms.
He flew into the air.
"Woooohoooo!"
He spun and flipped; he went up higher and higher.
He looked at the ground.
"Ah! The circus is in town."
"Sir. That is Eddy's plot for gaining currency."
"You mean a scam."
"Yes."
"Scan events"
"Scanning… scan complete. Showing trapeze, trampoline and petting zoo."
"Ok. That is just pathetic. Anyway, what is the maximum height for flight?"
"Maximum height is eighteen thousand feet."
"Well records are made to be broken… come on!"
He flew up into the air, going higher and higher!
"Sir, a fatal buildup of ice accruing."
"Higher!"
The jets shut off.
"Oh, this is bad."
He fell.
"June! Come on! Deploy flaps! Deploy flaps!"
He kept falling.
At the circus below, Ed was being petted by Jimmy, while he was in a raccoon costume.
Rolf looked up.
"What is the falling thing?"
They looked up.
"Double-D would say it is a falling satellite."
Ed said.
Double-D fell as the kids ran around.
"Got… to… break… the… ice…"
He pressed the manual flap release.
The flaps opened, and the power came on.
"Jets on!"
The jets turned on, and he barely missed being a human man hole.
He flew up.
"Yeah!"
He spun in the air; and finally hovered over his flight strip.
"Kill power."
He fell through the strip and into the garage; hitting the car.
"Father's going to kill me."
After getting his armor off, and going up to his room, he saw a wrapped present.
He opened it… and it was his original Ark Reactor. It had an engraving, which said 'Eddward's other heart.'
Double-D smiled.
But in a dark room, and man got a message.
"Sir, we have your weapon."
"Deliver it."
"Sir? We have a small problem."
"Small?"
"Yes… the power that it would take… it doesn't exist."
"Eddward could make it in a cave! With scrap metal!"
"Well I'm sorry sir… we're not Eddward."
The man rubbed his chin.
"No… no you're not…"