57 Chapter 57 Parts Warehouse Storage Room (1/2)
The black spike thing went flying across the hall, hit the wall so hard, that it ended up on the floor by his feet.Dustin kicked it into the room and shut the door again, to check it out.
After laying Olivia down, he picked it up and turned it around in his hands.Grabbing two of the spines at their bases, he pulled the thing apart, and was shocked at what he found.This thing was both biological and mechanical.The only organ he recognized, were the venom glands at the base of each spike.
With a shrug, he shoved some of the goo on his fingers into his PED port.
(NEW GENETIC MATERIAL ACQUIRED. ANALYZING.POSSIBLE EVOLUTIONS: RADAR PERCEPTION, AND GRAVITATIONAL MANIPULATION, THIS IS HOW IT HOVERS)
”You have got to give me these!Can you get the radar vision to stack with the heat vision?”
(BECAUSE THE RADAR PERCEPTION DOES NOT IMPLEMENT USE OF THE EYES, ACQUISITION OF THIS ABILITY WILL NOT AFFECT YOUR INFRARED VISION.)
”Sweet!”
(INITIATING EVOLUTION)
(EVOLUTION COMPLETE)
With a huge grin, Dustin practiced moving about the room with his new hover ability, until he spied Olivia still laying on the floor.With a shake to his head he settled on the ground and picked her up.He had to stay focused to get her PED fixed.Once they were away from here, he could play around more.
Opening the door again, he spied several more of the floating pincushions and prepared to punch them as they got closer.It was harder when they anticipated his movements, but not impossible.The hard shell of their skin prevented him from just spitting teeth needles at them, so he had to knock them against the wall hard enough that they would stay down.
After a dozen or so, he was able to leave the hall, littered with their bodies, for a different section of the station.Stepping out onto an overview deck, he looked over a large open area filled with the Josagn, hurrying around with their various tasks.Ducking into a different hall, after the AI, he hoped none of them had seen him.It didn't look like they had.
As he walked down the hall, he started opening doors at random.Most of them were storage of one thing or another.The AI waited for him, as he opened each one, before continuing to move forward.
”Hey, AI, can you direct me to the area where I could fix Olivia's PED?”
”Do you wish to fix her PED or do you wish to find a safe place to hide with spare parts?”
”Wait, how are those different?”
”Just because you have access to spare parts, does not mean you have the ability to fix the PED, and just because you are in a place to fix the PED does not mean you have the spare parts.Logic would dictate you need the spare parts before you can fix it, which is where I was taking you.”
”Alright, then lead on.”Dustin stopped opening random doors and picked up his pace.Anytime one of those biobots showed up, he would hit it against the wall hard enough to disable, or kill.He wasn't sure which.
”Through this door, you will find a section devoted to spare parts specific to the PED modules you speak of.I find the classification for these devices to be quite interesting,” said the AI after they had been walking for almost an hour.They had ducked into a room whenever he heard someone walking along the hall, and had managed to avoid all encounters with the Josagn so far.