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klcthebookworm · 11 months

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WIP Wednesday

The Davidson kids have finally found Knives' ship and broke into it during the middle of the night. They have had way too much practice with Limburger and Knives missed learning about firewalls.

Hannah dismounted, pressed the open button, and the door slid open to a dark room. Automatic lights powered on when she poked her head in and saw the computers lining the walls. She gestured and the bike rolled inside with Chuck still on. Hannah pressed the closed button and locked it once it shut.

Chuck frowned as he took off his sunglasses and put them in his shirt pocket. “Didn’t Mom says she didn’t want you hacking until you had more computer classes?”

“Mom did say that. But I’m not hacking; the bike will be hacking.” Hannah grinned as she spooled out the AUX cable again.

“I don’t think Mom would agree.”

“Do you want Vash back or not?” She plugged in the cable and perched on a chair bolted in front of one of the many monitors near the bike. The screens flickered on and information flashed over them like clicking through television channels.

Chuck stood next to her. “Of course, I want to get Vash back. And Meryl-ma’am and Milly-ma’am.”

The screen on the right of the one they were in front of stopped on a layout of the ship and began putting white light points in different rooms. They clustered at the top of the ship in two massive rooms that each took up half of the ship. Four lights of the too many to count were on level with the hangar bay. Words printed on the screen in front of Hannah and Chuck. “All the passive power sources detectable.”

“What does that say?” Chuck asked.

“All those lights are power sources not powering the ship that the bike is sensing. What is powering the ship?” Hannah asked.

Four red light points flicked on in the massive two rooms at the top closest to those decaying fins outside.

Hannah frowned. “The power sources in use are inside, not generated outside the ship and wired in?”

“Yes.”

“That’s important?” Chuck asked.

“The wrenchhead is still using plant power?”

“The power levels match scans made in all urban centers we have traveled through.”

“Plant power sounds funny,” Chuck said, “but you ain’t laughing.”

Hannah took a deep breath. “Knives is still using the plant bulbs to power the ship like the towns do.”

“But I thought he wants to kill everybody to stop that?” Chuck scowled. “He lied and he hurt Vash. So we’re going to drop this place like Limburger Tower when we leave, right?”

“We can’t.” Hannah gritted her teeth. Boy, that hurt to admit. This place deserved total destruction.

“I’m sure Vash will know how.”

Hannah breathed deeply again to unclench her teeth. “All those white lights are Knives, Vash, Meryl, and a whole bunch of plant angels. They can’t live outside the bulbs and if we damage the bulbs in this ship, they will die.”

Chuck’s green eyes opened wide. “Oh no, we have to rescue them too.”

“Next trip, okay? Right now we concentrate on getting our adults.” Hannah glanced around the room. “We need to take the map with us. Need a printer or a… oh!” She pulled a tablet-like device from a shelf on the wall. It had power, turning on once it was in her hands. “Bike, give this access to everything in the ship if you can.” Hannah returned to the chair. “Map of the power sources on top if it can’t hold it all.”

“Yes. Working on it.”

“We need to see our adults,” Chuck said. “That’s a lot of lights that could be Vash and Meryl-ma’am.”

The screen to the left of the one the bike was answering on divided into many smaller boxes showing various people in beds.

Chuck moved his snout closer to the screen. “There! That looks like Vash and Meryl-ma’am.” He tapped the smaller box. The window expanded to fill the whole screen.

Hannah leaned next to Chuck’s head. “Yeah, that’s Vash’s scarred shoulder.” And Meryl’s dark head was resting on his chest. “They’re together. That makes things easier. Mark that room on the map.” Two of the white lights even with the hangar bay level turned green. “Okay, where is Milly-ma’am?”

The many smaller boxes returned to the screen and Chuck focused on them again. “These weird guys. Is Knives hiring from the same place Limburger does when he brings in outside wrenchheads?”

Hannah checked on the tablet transfer. “I think Gunsmoke just grows weird looking people.”

“That’s the only room with two people.” He poked at the window and it enlarged to fill the screen. “Do you think Knives locked her up with the priest guy they left with?”

Hannah scowled at the screen. “Maybe. If Knives has just killed people before, he might not have cells like Limburger. And that looks like Milly-ma’am’s coat on the chair.”

Another green light appeared on the map layout, same floor as the hangar bay. “Concern.”

“What? Do they know we’re in the systems?”

“No. Locations.” The ship’s layout shifts so they were above the floor with the hangar bay and this computer room. The bike marked that room with a black dot. The two rooms marked with green dots were on the opposite sides of the ship.

Hannah sighed. “Great. Why can’t we ever have an easy rescue?”

“So we open one room and then rip across to the other one,” Chuck said. “What’s the problem?”

“Knives killing some of our adults while we’re in route.”

“Can we lock him in his room?”

“I can lock all rooms but that can be overridden once I am disconnected.”

“That’s still a good idea. That’ll slow the wrenchheads down. What about booby traps?”

“I am not detecting any lethal sub-routines in the ship systems.”

“What does that say?” Chuck asked.

“She’s not finding any booby traps like poison connected to the air vents.”

Chuck grinned at Hannah. “I can go in the vents!”

“No!”

“Yes!”

“Splitting up is why we have to rescue them in the first place!” Hannah waved a hand at the screen with the ship layout on it. Why was she the only one of this group who could see that?

“You just said we have to get both rooms open at the same time. How are we going to do that without splitting up? Are there any alarms in the vents?”

“No.”

“Do the vents go straight to Milly-ma’am?”

A route in blue went across a bunch of rooms before it ended at the green dot furtherest away from the white dots.

“You’re volunteering to go get Milly-ma’am?” Hannah set down the tablet and crossed her arms.

He pointed to the other two white dots level with the hangar bay. “It looks like Knives is closer to Vash and Meryl-ma’am, so the bike should go that way. And if I go that way I may blow up something that I shouldn’t blow up. So I’ll go get Milly-ma’am. Through the vents!”

“I am suspicious of why you are so excited about vents.”

“Uncle Vinnie said that they worked in Die Hard when Bruce Willis didn’t have a battle bike.”

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flamesgirl · 5 years

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