Anthimia 8, 230 AC

Continuing the debriefing of the nouergist Barandigi, who was witness and co-worker to Tanheu during the operation at the earthquake-damaged Eridu North nuclear plant. The questioner, "A," is Ariadne the nouergist and leader of the Surakosan rescue and relief effort at Eridu.

A: What happened next?

B: I'm still linked in with him, and I see the interior of the chamber filled with steam and radiation, I mean I see in a nouetic way, you know. And he sends the energy through the shape he built, and things kind of get all wavy like looking through hot air. And then the crack disappears, like it melted together. New water comes in and I hear shouts from the Algon working at the controls.

A: Was that the end of the operation?

B: No, because they were saying it was still too hot and couldn't shut down completely. Professor could hear this, and I relayed it to him nouetically too, since he was sort of still inside the reactor, like his body was here and his power was there. It got all dark in there, and then the Professor changed his shape. Instead of a robot, he was now a metal tower as tall as the reactor. It was really cool how he changed. And he started building something around the reactor. It looked like a grid rolled into a tube, going round it all the way, but it was made out of light. Just like movie special effects. He says to me then, at my mark send me as much energy as you can. When he has it all built, then he calls me, and I send it. I try and try, and the place gets all wavy and I get dizzy, and it isn't working. I feel so bad, but I've been working on slabs and rubble all day and I don't have much juice left. I feel like I could faint, and he stops.

A: Did you unlink at that point and put out a call for nouergic help?

B: I didn't think about that. He must have, though. He said to me that the first operation to seal it didn't work, and he was going to try something more risky to get it done. He says, tell everyone to stand back and not get anywhere near me at the wall. We all back off but he's still linked to me and I'm seeing what's going on. Except in my mind it's all black and glowing purple and I see his body against the wall almost disappear, like it's made of smoke or something, and even the floor underneath him gets kind of unsolid, and I feel as though I'm being dropped from a roof, I feel like I'm falling fast even though I'm standing on concrete, and there he is inside the reactor room again but it's all dark and no special effects. I never had this happen even when I'm high. I was kinda scared.

A: Did the Professor try to explain to you what was happening?

B: No, I don't think he was paying attention to me any more. I felt him gathering energy for one last try. And then something else happened. Something I don't think he expected. Suddenly there was a big nouergic power surge, really big, like someone out there was feeding it in to him. The ID color was this bright bright blue. Then there was another one, different from the first, and this ID was pale green, like nothing I've ever seen. And he took the new amount of energy he had, poured it into his grid, and made it strong, and he hit the switch, and there it was. And I hear the men at the controls yelling and shouting, that it was stabilizing and the temp was going down.

A: I don't recognize those ID colors. No one from our team has that ID. He must have called in help from outside. We'll have to check our database.

B: And then after that was done, everything got solid again. And when he was solid, the Professor fell over and sprawled on his face on the floor. We tried to get him to get up, but he was out. I thought he was dead, but nouetically he was still there. Things were getting really messed up, with the Aurians and the Algon and the plant director, and the Aurians were starting to shove the Algon around, and then Antolak says, we gotta get out of here, and he tries to pick up the Professor. The Algon director is yelling at the Aurians that he's finally contacted EnergiAlgon corporation and they're sending a crew on two rotocrafts, and that they should get out of there because it's EnergiAlgon's property. I thought the Aurians were gonna start shooting, but suddenly one of the officers, the only one who knew any Common, says, You son of pollution, keep your polluted fire, we will be back to send you to hell. And they all cleared out, packed into their rotocraft and took off. Commander, I don't know what that means, I'm just saying what they said, but they all were glad to leave. Then in a few minutes, the EnergiAlgon guys arrive, and they have guns, and they're wearing protective suits. They pick up the Professor and his equipment bag and stuff, and they get him on board, and they pull me on board too. But they leave Antolak behind. He says he has a woman and three kids out there in the suburbs, and he has to get to them, their house was destroyed, their comlinks don't work, he is searching nouetically, he has to find them. The last thing I see is Antolak walking down the access road in the dark, and no one's there to guard, and he goes through a gap where the big wall was broken in the quake, and out into the village.

A: Barandigi, you've been more than helpful. We're going to keep you right here for now, and our medics will give you some anti-radiation drugs. We don't know how much radiation you and the other people in the control room took, but we'll hope for the best.

B: I wanna see the Professor.

A: He's still out, you won't be able to communicate with him.

B: He saved the power plant from exploding. He saved us all. He is a superhero. I will sit by him till he wakes up. I will protect him from bad people and Aurians.

TO BE CONTINUED

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