39 Chapter 39 Shuttle Por (2/2)
”So, my bug beast?”
(AFFIRMATIVE.)
”So, you could initiate an evolution into that form and then back to this one if I asked?”
There was a long pause as it computed his request.
(AFFIRMATIVE.)
”Good enough for now.”
He would worry about everything else later.A giggle from behind him, caused him to turn.Olivia was laid out on the floor, pointing her gun at the small hall outside the doorway.As he watched, a Josagn came through the hologram, hiding the door, and she shot him with her gun.The gun shot a strange looking mist at the alien, coating him with a type of green slime that basically caused him to dissolve.There wasn't even a puddle on the floor when it was done.
”He didn't even get a chance to make a sound,” Dustin said softly, so as not to alert any Josagn listening out for them.
”I've lost count of how many I've killed.I think I've fallen in love with this thing.”
”What is it?”
”A molecular destabilizer.”
”A what?That's a thing?”
”Think of it, kind of like an acid gun, just faster, without leaving any gunk behind.”
”Where the hell did you find something like that?”
”On the shelf over there in the back.It was marked 'navwi' which basically means, don't use unless the world is ending.”
”Well,” he started, then fell silent as he realized he didn't have any come back from that.”I guess, we'll use that to clear the way?”
”Yep.I was just waiting for you to finish playing with yourself.”The smug look on her face said it all and he couldn't help but groan.
”You didn't have to put it that way.”
”Oh, yes I did.”She then shot another Josagn that had stepped through the door.
”I need to fix your PED, if you're willing?”He didn't feel like telling her, that this would be the second time he had upgraded her PED.
”What kind of upgrades?” she asked, suspiciously.
”To make it be able to do more than simple upgrades and to remember everything you acquire?”There was so much more, but he didn't want to have to explain everything.
”If you can do it without me moving,” she said.
Dustin returned to the shelf with the PED's and started gathering parts and pieces.He didn't have a PMS from a Josagn to upgrade it the way he had upgraded his, but these upgraded PED's already had the parts he needed.With his arms full, he returned to her side, and got busy.
He couldn't wait to see what else this place had to offer.He wanted to get off this planet, but he was starting to wonder what else was going on.So much of what he had thought was truth had turned into lies.