Raptor One – Chapter 6
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After waking up from bed, i go down stairs in a slow pace to the kitchen where Susan is making breakfast, today my last day in home, as i will need to go full time training in the base Walker camp, and as a Walker owner I'll need to participate in the city defense, as there is just less than a week before nightfall, the latex beasts like to attack in waves, and in exact times, so we get into nightfall and the ground freezes, that is, day 1 of nightfall, well have a wave to fight, after that on day 10, wave 2, day 20, wave 3, and last wave the strongest on day 30 last day of nightfall, that is going to be a mess.
Susan - “Dinner’s ready, so you start officially now at Walker academy.”
Silver - “Da, mama, I'll have to relocate there, but not for long as I'm getting in on the end of the training, so I'll have to catch up fast if i want to graduate, luckly i have the nightfall time to finish absorving all the knowledge needed.”
Susan - “That’s my fluffer, showing how to be a proper genius as always.”
Silver - “Niet, I'm not, just have learning assist that help lock on to knowledge more easily, you know, mechanical and all.”
Susan - “Right, i forget sometimes, you’re not 100% organic, now that you are done with eating now shoo, shoo, or you wont have time later to repair your Walker, right?”
Silver - “Da, I'm going.”
With our chat done i go back up and get my clothes ready, and then leave, after a long walk to the military sector of the city i manage to enter and get myself comfortable in my new bunk, here there is no distinction of gender, everyone with everyone at all times, or is that gender equality to the extreme? I don’t know, let’s just start, it’s about time to start the training, luckly i like to wear military clothes, the famous camo pants and black tank top, i see a lot of Demis giving me stares as i get into formation, normal as I'm even rarer than they are.
After a four hours body drill, we are sent to the skeleton system, nicknamed the iron coffin by the recruits, and just like that a 12 hour drill in Walker piloting starts, i got a personal drill instructor, making me do all the movement drills, repeatedly, each time with a higher sensibility in the controls, that was all i did, 12 hours of wild Walker riding, taming this beast is not easy, and yes, it’s just the low tier Bug Walker in this simulator, never kew they could do so many crazy stunts, now i know why stamina training is a must.
After the 12 hour of training is done we are liberated to do whatever we want for 6 hour before resuming training, so a total of 16 hour of training and 6 of rest, for the ones that can rest that is.
I go to hangar 12, where my Walker is, i already placed a order for materials while i was going to the base when i woke, so now i just need to repair and upgrade my new buddy, i wasted a total of 2700 credits in materials, all here in orderly fashion, ready for use, so i start the remodeling, i changed the cockpit inner plates into durasteel, the best avaliable armor, removed the waste recycler and changed it into a extra vent, relocated the radio into the center of the cockpit, installed many inner containers around the radio, removed and adapted the Walker NEK 7 one capacitor hybrid engine to work with four capacitors, and lastly installed a automated binocular system with 5x and 10x vision amplifier to make use of the Walker 180 line of sight better, all that wasted 2 hours of my time, and i did not start repairing the external parts yet.
With 4 hours left before returning, i start upgrading the cockpit external armor into a three layer plasteel armor, give the 155mm cannon extra armor protection, reinforce the Walker backpack where the 155mm cannon ammo is kept, then installed a machinegun in the center of the belly of the Walker with spring and padding for continuous firing, and lastly installed the ammo belts of the machinegun and it’s armored box loaders, sealing the Walker belly critical parts while getting a machinegun with twenty five thousand ammo capacity, the left over space i converted into external capacitor modules, a total of five, one internal, and four external, but with only 300 credits i have no money to buy the capacitors for the engine and external modules, i need to buy seven capacitors, each cost 250 credits, so 1750 credits are needed to buy all the capacitors, so, it’s not possible.
With the cockpit fully repaired and upgraded it now looks sleek and intimidating with it’s protected red visor and wicked three layered plates painted in white and black, it’s 155mm cannon and machinegun looking menacing with it’s luster, not even a lucky hit will breach this cockpit, and even if it does I'm thinking of upgrading the skeleton system with life support to seal the deal.
I look at the Walker legs that are in dire need of maintenance and repairs then looks at the materials i got for the leg upgrades, then shake my head as I'm out of time, i need to go back to training.
After some bonding with my new fellow tortured souls, we start the training again, 4 hours of non stop phisical training then 12 hour of Walker training, then 6 hour of free time, hard on the body and mind this training, ugh.
With 5 days left before nightfall i go for my second time to hangar 12, and resume my Walker repairs, taking the legs apart and doing maintenance, unjaming the shotgun system, giving the legs shotgun system ammo upgrade, then reonforcing the plating with triple layers in a patern that it works as a very sharp saw knife, with the Walker upgrade and maintenance complete i start recycling the left over parts for storage and reuse, placing it in the cockpit inner storage then i connect to the Walker and start upgrading the walker system and adjusting it’s data so it won’t go bonkers on me when i start it, as the Walker specs are very diferent now, while i was doing it i get a unexpected visitor.
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Silver - “Hello there, Demi, Name’s Silver.”
Demi - “Hello, I'm Kurohime, i saw you doing a complete remodeling of your Walker, what’s it’s name?”
Silver - “Look at it’s side, and you will know, can’t miss the big serpent weaving trough the letters.”
I see her backing away and giving the side of my Walker a look, Where the name Jormungandr coiled by the world snake that is looking at the front resting it’s head in the J while looking ahead.
Kurohime - “Nice name and look, what’s that monster? You called it a serpent?”
Silver - “That monster is a Kaijuu class monster from old history, it’s a giant serpent capable of swalowing everything in it’s path, it’s skin almost indestructible, and it was named Jormungandr, the world serpent, one of the old history miths of the titan serpent, if you give it a look you find it’s info on the archeologists server.”
Kurohime - “I’ll give a look later, but I'm here to talk to you, I'm in dire need of a engineer to repair my Walker, i can give you a special reward for your help.”
She says caresing my chest and placing a hand on my crotch.
Silver - “Slow down there, missy, i don’t need much to know you’re desperate to the point of giving your virginity to the first capable male you find, tell me what’s you situation, i may be of help.”
Kurohime - “I’m in dire need of credits for buying medicine for my mother and sister that is suffering from a rare illness that affects movement and generates a lot of pain, so i need my Walker in working order to get things done.”
I did not expect such history from a Tier 2 Walker pilot... Well, I'm not losing anything by helping, so why not.
Silver - “Sure, I'll give your Walker a complete repair and maintenance, free of charge, just buy the materials needed for the repair and maintenance or the best i can do is make a small miracle at best, and if you want i can take a look at your family, I'm a Tier 5 medic, maybe i can work out your trouble.”
Kurohime face brights up at my words and get working on the preparations, then blushes remembering my words.
Silver - “Da, good blush you got there miss black cat, i see notting is lost, so that’s good, I'm almost out of time, and i just managed to finish adjusting my Walker system so I'll go repair your Walker on the next rest session, if it does not take much time I'll even give your parents a once over to see what I'll need to cure or neutralize the illness, see you later?”
Kurohime nods and gives me her contact, then i go for another grueling session, wasting another 16 hours, but I'm learning things i never tought was possible in a Bug Walker.
*Stress level: 25% rest advised*
I hear my system alerting me, I'm now 3 days awake on active mode, so i have 3 more days before nightfall, that’s hard, luckly I'm only feeling the start of mental exaustion, so i can go on for 2 more days before needing some rest, not that I'll force myself awake for that long.
I contact Kurohime and the call connect in the first second, she is in hangar 22 and got all the materials, with that i end the call and go into hangar 22, and see a Bug Walker, the guy got it’s belly almost ripped off, and is missing a lot of plates, but i can repair it in less than 2 hours.
Silver - “Got in a fight with a butcher? And not satisfied got in a head on with a bull.”
I say not happy with the scan result from the Bug Walker.
Kurohime - “Yeah, i had to do some crazy stunts to get myself out of danger but i got the bad side of the coin.”
Silver - “When was this damage and with what.”
Kurohime - “A bulldozer roach, a week ago.”
Silver - “Da, I'll take 4 hours to repair this, but I'll give you a freebie and use my graviokinesis so 1,5 hours at most and it will be like it got out of the manufacturing.”
Kurohime - “Thanks.”
With that i start the repairs, many of the critical system was damaged but operational, so i just had to do a trough repair, and in a hour i was done, using graviokinesis on heavy things use a lot of brain power. Sigh.
Silver - “Done, let’s see your parents and see what i can do.”
Kurohime nods and guides me to the civilian hospital, that a hour of walking, i go directly to the medic responsible for the mother and sister to get his data, after that i do a deep scan with the permission of the mother and sister, what i get is not so good, but not bad either, it is really a rare diseage in the bone marrow of the spine, disabling their bodies waist down, but some nanites to the spine and they will be as good as new in a day.
With the scan done i pick my trusty first aid kit, take a injector tube and start to tailor make a repairing program for this disease, in some minutes I'm done, so i extend my tongue out and with a poke i let the pre programed nanites fall into the tube, that done i retract my tongue, give the tube some shake, and scan it again, not finding blood nor problems i take a syringe, load it with the black liquid and onject it into two injector cartridges, that done i clean the syringe and place it back into it’s place, again with permission i use the injector, the two girls get a dose each in the spine where the disease is concentrated and left to rest as the nanites does the rest with a medic on the lookout, that done i return to the camp, not saying anything to kurohime.
Training, training, rest, repeat, that is all i do in the last days of sunlight before the instructor gives the option to help in the Nightfall wave defense, as helping in the defense will bring me money and free ammo i agree, but most of the recruits deny, not only do they get a penalty but also berated at, but the ones that accepted was diferent.
Instructor - “For the ones that accepted defending their Grid city, I'll day this, after the Nightfall is over you all will be rated, the ones that did at least average will be promoted to Tier 1 Walker pilots, and at the start of Sunlight will go into the expedition team with the Recruits for their final tasks, obviously, the ones that survived and passed the defense task will go as a valid promotee to Tier 2 Walker pilot, now go rest, in 6 hours will be nightfall, be prepared, and don’t die, that’s a order.”
With that said i go to my bunker and lie in it, my Walker must be getting it’s ammo replenished, and capacitor recharged right now, let’s see first hand how bad the Hive wave really is....
With that as my last tought i finally sleep in six days...