SoulStone
#78: Laundry Truck
“Damn I miss my mono-wheel” Chad said.
“Not enough StructuralSmoke to make one of those yet” Akatsuki said. “when I tell you to...JUMP...NOW!”
Chad Jumped. The truck had slowed while rounding a curve on a mountainous road. He cleared the guard rail and...it was a long ways down the side of the gully to the bottom. The minute he’d launched himself into space a translucent ball had formed around him. He was centered in a crash ball, braced nine ways from Sunday, bouncing, tumbling, bumping and falling down the mountain side. Good thing he was in the ball. He must have hit every tree and rock on the way to the bottom of the valley until finally splashing into the creek at the bottom. The creek water was discolored with pollution.
“Ah...sweet pollution” Akatsuki said. The crash ball evaporated. Chad found himself in knee deep oily, scummy, liquid “wash your hands in it. Take a bath. Absorb it into your skin. Your blood nanites need the feedstock.”
“Surprised you don’t want me to drink the nasty stuff” Chad did as he was told but grumbled.
“Would you?” Akatsuki asked.
“NO!” He replied.
“Figures” Akatsuki said. “Well lay down in it anyway. There’s a nice little pool right over there. I need to maximize skin surface so you can absorb carbon. Once it’s absorbed your blood-nanites can turn it into SSMotes and you sweat it back out. When we have enough SSmoke we can do things”.
“Huh?” Chad said...befuddled.
“Are you dense or something?” Akatsuki said in exasperation “ ...lay DOWN.!”
“SPLASH!!”
Chad did that, then he wiggled around a bit and found a comfortable spot with his head laying on a rock just out of the water. It would have been ideal if he’d been in a hot springs instead of a nasty pond full of factory run-off.
“THERE ! ” Akatsuki said “That wasn’t so hard was it? Now just relax. Take a nap even.”
Nap? hmmmm. A nap might be a good idea. He was pretty tired...
Chad went to sleep. A fine haze of Structural Smoke begin to form on the surface of his submerged skin. The bubbles fizzed and floated to the surface then formed a layer of Structural Smoke over him. Akatsuki manipulated certain parameters of the Structural Smoke and Chad vanished from view. He was effectively invisible.
Hours, perhaps days later...
Chad gradually woke up. He felt good. He wasn’t hungry. He wasn’t too warm nor too cold. He was just right. He opened his eyes and noticed that he was up to his neck in bubbly steamy water. He was relaxing in a hot springs. There didn’t seem to be anyone around for miles. It was strangely quiet and peaceful. He could get used to this.
Akatsuki had patrol ‘bots circling the area to make sure that it stayed that way. There WAS no one nearby. They WERE pretty much alone. No one would bother them most likely. If anyone or anything stumbled upon them she would take steps. She had the technology.
“Ahhhh.” Chad said...stretching. “this is nice. What’s happening?”
“Executive summary? “ she said “ No technical details?”
“Nope...no technobabble.” he replied “Just the overview. Sometimes it’s better to see the big picture.”
“Well...ok. First off. We have a library full of plans and programs for neat stuff. I just discovered that a little bit ago. Next off, we have a hotline to the ArchMage. You wanna give him a call?” She asked him.
“Huh...whaaaa?” Chad was thrown off track. That was NOT the answer he had been looking for.
“What do you mean ArchMage?” he asked.
“Do you recall that old coot you met in the bookstore that day?” she asked.
“Yeah. His name is Shelby” Chad said “I bought my mono-wheel from him and some pill bugs. I miss em.”
“That’s the guy.” she said “ there’s more to him than meet’s the eye. It’s like this.”
She spent the next little while filling Chad in.
The Next Episode is
#79: RSVP
The Previous Episode was
#77: New Development
the First episode was
#1 : Prologue
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Sometimes it's hard to tell fiction from the news.
Take a pool of pollution and turn it into a hot springs, nice job by the ssmoke and the dragon.
waste not want not.
That was the first fiction that I read on Steemit, and that was crazy! I just got home after drink and somoke whith the people, and read this! I am not that kind of person how hould like to read, at all. so..! I'm just writing this a little drunk, to say: I liked what you Wrote!
If you like this episode you might like the whole thing.
Start at the beginning...read the middle
finish at the end..
which is going to be a LONG time yet...I have a lot more episodes to go.
reading this while drunk is a GOOD thing...it helps to suspend disbelief (and not see my typos)
start here
#1 : Prologue
all the episodes are linked.
when you finish one...go to the next one..and the next..and the next..
every ten episodes there's a table of contents for the previous content..
saves times.
Thank's @everittdmickey! I will do it!