43 Chapter 43 Underwater Adventures (2/2)

”Oh, yea, sorry.I forgot.”

He looked at her for a moment, really thinking about laying into her, then shook his head.”I have work to do, try not to bother me too much.”

She sighed, then, laying the bag of guns on the floor, she stretched out on the bench for a nap.Dustin got busy, pulling panels off and seeing what went where.This was way more complicated than the small tech he remembered working on, but that just made it all the more fun.

Time flew, and when she woke with a start, cursing with tears in her eyes, he had torn the entire interior apart.She just sat there gaping in surprise.

”So, I've disabled the antennae that lets the shuttle talk with the Josagn, and I think I've found the self-destruct trigger.The bad news is that it's tied into the life support system.It's probably going to take me days to figure out or rewire the ship.”

”Well, I'm starving.This thing doesn't happen to have any food in it, does it?”

”Probably not, and I wouldn't try eating that dead worm outside either.”

”Let me check in the bench,” she said, standing up and lifting the seat up.There were several large bundles that she pulled out.

Dustin came over to see what they were, because he was starving too.

There were two sets of armor, similar to what they were already wearing, as well as a couple of laser pistols.

”This might come in handy,” she said, lifting up two rebreathers.

”I've not seen those before, what do they do?”

”They pull breathable air out of the surrounding air, so that in times of emergency, you can survive longer.”

”We could try and use those, if I disabled the life support system for air, but that won't help us stay warm.”

”Yeah, you're right.It will get cold fast.”

”I guess there's nothing for it.We're going to have to go hunting.”

”But everything out there wants to kill us!It's death to go out there!”

”Yep.If we try to wait until it's time to go to the space station, we'll be too weak from lack of food to be able to fight well.I don't intend to get that far, just to have them kill me because those things out there want to kill me.”

She stood up and sighed.Taking one of the pistols, she threw the other one to him.Dustin wished he could use his PED to change to something more appropriate, but that wasn't an option anymore.