Rev's Odyssey by R. R. Kaufman (the reading list .txt) 📕

puts the batteries in her design of these drokes.

 

Mars

I don’t believe she uses any batteries.

 

Erik

What? I don’t get that. She must be charging these things somewhere for sometime.

 

Mars

I’ve had a team of assistants and we watch and record all their movements. They are always active. There is no charging station.

 

Erik stared at Mars in disbelief.

 

Erik

Then the mystery side of this chip must be her battery or power source for each droke. That’s why she uses gold. It has many mysterious powers and the most valued material in the universe. Copper and silver are better conductors of electricity but gold never oxidizes. It’s pure. Also it’s more dense, so about half of the size of silver or copper is needed. In electronics size is everything. The smaller and more reliable, the better.

 

Rev

Razor sure loves gold. She wears a lot of gold jewelry.

 

Erik

All stolen from a famous museum just before it was submerged. But I believe Razor has found a special power that gold possesses.

 

Rev

One other fact that might be of some help. I noticed when Brixwrecker was turned on all the other drokes froze. They didn’t or couldn’t move.

 

Erik looked puzzled and pensive.

 

Erik

So she only has so much power. She has to switch the energy back and forth between them. I need to examine your gold chip further, If I may, Rev. I have a team in the lab that can offer us a second opinion. They have special instruments that can dissect this mystery chip.

 

Cyna

Why don’t we take a break, get some fresh air and something to eat?

 

Rev let Erik keep the chip. She closed her locket and placed it back around her neck. The three of them thanked Erik and agreed to meet later.

 

Chapter 71

 

 

The wind picked up as the group moved along the outside passages of the container pyramid. An eagle soaring high overhead caught Rev’s attention as Cyna and Mars lost in their own conversation strolled ahead and disappeared around a corner. The wind turned into a blizzard and Rev slipped and glided on the snow as she tried to catch up to her mother and uncle.

She turned the corner and without warning she was knocked down on the ground. A hand grabbed her necklace, pulled it over her head and escaped with her locket.

More furious than hurt, Rev chased after the thief.

The thief leaped down the exterior staircases at lightning speed. Rev was right behind her mugger. She reached the bottom of the structure. She could barely see anything ahead of her with the blinding snow blowing straight at her. She looked down and could see big footprints in the snow.

She continued to follow them when she slipped and fell hard on her bottom. Out of breath she jumped to her feet and continued, only to slip again and slide down a steep hill. The snow was getting deeper as she reached a flat open space.

With the snow pelting at her face she continued chasing the thief. She was getting closer to him and just about to grab his dangling scarf when she heard a large cracking sound.

She looked down. She was standing on ice. But not for long. In an instant she vanished from the surface.

Without time to even take a breath to hold she plunged into the freezing water.

Rev had never experienced this cold pain before.

Someone was sticking knives through her whole body.

She knew she was in shock. Control your breathing, Rev thought.

Don’t panic, don’t panic. But how could anyone not panic.

It was so cold she felt her skin burning.

She looked up and caught a glimpse of the hole that she had fallen through.

She tried to swim up but no use.

She thrashed around and discarded her coat and kicked off her boots.

Soon her energy would be zapped.

She made one last desperate attempt to reach the hole.

Almost there. But no. She just couldn’t reach it.

And then a hand and arm plunged through the open space.

Rev managed to grab hold of it. She felt herself being lifted out of the water and dragged over the ice.

She looked up at the hooded man that had saved her.

Her eyes were almost frozen shut. She opened them enough to see his face.

It was Vice.

 

Vice

Now we’re even.

 

Chapter 72

 

 

Cyna

We need to get her inside right away.

 

The men lifted Rev on a stretcher and took her inside. Cyna removed her daughter’s wet clothes and wrapped her in blankets on a bed. She wrapped towels around hot water bottles and gently applied them to her body. Still conscious Rev was able to sip some sweet warm tea.

Cyna lay down beside Rev and hugged her gently. After a few hours Cyna checked her pulse. Fortunately it was back to normal and Rev spoke without any difficulty.

 

Rev

I’m lucky to have a doctor for a mother.

 

Cyna

You’re lucky to be alive, young lady. What were you thinking chasing after that thief?

 

Rev

He stole my locket.

 

Cyna

Yes, I know, but the gold chip wasn’t inside. You gave it to Erik.

 

Rev

It was a gift from Wolfie. I loved that locket. It was Vice that stole it. It was Vice who saved me.

 

Cyna

I know you’re weak. I don’t want any argument. Doctor’s orders. Rest for the remainder of the day. Tomorrow we will meet with Erik.

 

Chapter 73

 

 

The next morning Rev, Cyna and Mars were seated with Erik in his dwelling.

 

Erik

I heard about your near death experience, Rev.

 

Rev

I’ve had nothing but near death experiences since I met Razor.

 

Everyone had a good laugh.

 

Erik

I can definitely relate to that. I’m so grateful you survived. Now about the gold chip. My team and I have come to the conclusion that the droke’s chip receives energy transmitted to it from Razor’s power source. The strange design on the one side of the chip is the key that unlocks it. But we don’t know what Razor’s power source is. Also nowhere on this planet has anyone ever succeeded in transmitting energy wireless from one object to another over a great distance. We can transmit lots of various signals wirelessly, but not energy.

 

Mars

While I was staying here I read in a book about an inventor named Tesla that did succeed in transmitting energy on your planet.

 

Erik

He did. But only over a short distance. Unfortunately he lost his financing to be able to continue his experiments on this. It might have changed our world for the better. We might never have been in this mess.

 

Rev

What about Razor’s tower?

 

Mars

You’re right. She has this bright orb mounted on a high tower on top of a cliff.

 

Erik’s eyes lit up as if someone plugged him into a socket. A wide smile covered his whole face. He walked briskly over to the piano and brought out two identical tuning forks.

He gave one of them to Rev to hold. The other one he struck against the desk. It vibrated making a high pitch. Then he grabbed hold of the prongs. His tuning fork stopped vibrating and the one Rev was holding was vibrating in the exact pitch. Erik reached out and stopped Rev’s tuning fork from vibrating as his tuning fork started vibrating again.

 

Rev

That’s amazing. Is that some sort of trick?

 

Erik

One of nature’s secrets. If some object vibrates it will transfer that energy to another identical object. It’s called resonance. Our Lux on this planet is in resonance with your Lux on your planet.

 

Rev

But what has that have to do with Razor’s chip?

 

Erik

Because Razor is transmitting the energy from your Lux to her tower to the gold chip in her drokes. Just like the tuning forks. Both can transmit and receive energy.

 

Erik pointed to the strange design on the chip that resembled a maze and labyrinth.

 

Erik

The pattern on this chip and Razor’s tower orb are resonating with the same frequency as the Lux’s vibration. Therefore the energy is being transferred all the way down to the droke’s chip giving them power.

 

Rev

But I don’t see the chip vibrating.

 

Mars interrupted with a burst of excitement.

 

Mars

So something inside the Lux and on Razor’s tower have the same pattern as this gold chip?

 

Erik

Exactly.

 

Rev

But why doesn’t this chip have energy now?

 

Erik

It does. It just needs to be hooked up to some mechanism with the correct programming. Just like Razor does with a droke. I imagine her tower orb, which not only receives and transmits energy also acts as a resistor, so she can control the output of the energy from the Lux. Otherwise too much energy would zap the drokes. You’ve opened up a whole new world for us, Rev, by capturing this chip. We are indebted to you forever.

 

Cyna

It’s free energy.

 

Rev

Wow! Of course. I didn’t realize that.

 

Mars

Yes it is. But it can be dangerous in the wrong hands. Look at what Razor has done with it.

 

Cyna

But where is the Lux getting its power?

 

Erik

It’s unknown. Another great mystery of the universe. I’m certain that Razor doesn’t know either. But she has discovered how to tap into that energy. And in doing so, it gives her incredible control and power over people.

 

Rev

Can you magnify the power side of the chip again and put it on your computer screen?

 

Erik agreed and everyone looked carefully as he enlarged the design of the chip revealing some sort of maze and labyrinth. He methodically moved the camera over every section of the chip.

 

Rev

Wait. Go back, please.

 

Erik obliged and Rev scrutinized it.

 

Rev

Can you move it on a different angle? There. That’s it. I recognize it from the Lux on Radium. When I was been spun around inside I saw this same pattern on the circular walls. At least a small piece of it. It went by so fast. But I believe it’s identical.

 

Erik

That would explain the resonance between the two Luxes.

 

Rev

It’s what Faze told me about her journey through Earth’s Lux that sticks out in my mind. She said that Razor drugged her and Wolfie but she did remember one thing. She was carried through several passages and up and down stairs.

 

Mars

Is it possible the design on the one side of the chip is not just a power source but also the way through the Lux?

 

Everyone stared at each other.

 

Erik

It would make sense. It explains why Razor wanted the chip back. She knew if anyone figured out the chip’s secret, then she could be in danger and all her work would be threatened. Many people have died trying to get through the Lux. Only Razor and her crew have succeeded. I’m going to make a big printout of this passageway on the chip and all of us will study it further.

 

Rev

But even if we make it back through the Lux how can we stop Razor from continuously destroying our planet?

 

Erik

That’s a tough one. Something people on our planet have been wondering for years.

 

Mars

Should we try to capture