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Pushing up with her left arm, she had managed to sit up and reach his left shoulder. The synthetic spider silk armor he wore was designed to stop bullets and even dampen the blast of energy weapons, but offered almost no protection against the inch long claws that had extended from each fingertip. Dropping the pair of scissors with a gasp, he tried to pry her iron grip from his shoulder, to no luck. His right hand fumbled along the ground, and finally found the syringe he'd grabbed earlier. Her grip tightened, digging the claws in even further as she attempted to pull him down. Trying to ignore the searing pain in his shoulder, he jammed the syringe into her thigh, delivering the entire dose.
The syringe contained a three drug concoction. The first part was simply a very powerful painkiller, a version of enhanced morphine minus the addictive quantities. The second component of the mix was a nerve suppressant, actually similar to chemical weapons used in the 20th century, although a lot more controlled. It only targeted skeletal muscles, those under voluntary control of the victim while leaving vital organ musculature such as the diaphragm and cardiac muscles untouched, and it wore off after a few days. This was very useful for patients that refused to stay still, aggravating their injuries. If that wasn't enough, the third component was an extremely powerful sedative. The alien's eyes went wide at the sudden stab and just as she was trying to reach for his neck with her other arm, her eyes rolled back and she flopped down unconscious.
He sat there for a moment, staring at her before realizing that his left shoulder was soaked with blood. "Stupid..."he thought as he took off his armor and started to bind the wounds left by her claws. There were times before when he'd had to treat soldiers who were either drunk or just not cooperative, but this really took the cake. He mentally berated himself for dropping his guard like that. Just because her leg was injured did not give any reason that she wouldn't try to resist. She was an enemy combatant! Most people he knew would have taken the shot, or just left her. What was his problem?
The eyes. He stopped, and allowed himself a small chuckle. He'd answered his own rhetorical question. He was starting to lose it. But really, looking down the barrel of the pistol, something in those eyes made him unable to shoot. Along with the defiance, there had been another emotion...sadness, regret. For all her bravado, he could tell she really hadn't wanted to die. With his shoulder treated, he turned back to the sedated alien. Removing the empty syringe, he set back to the task of setting the bones in her leg.
- COMMENTS
UncertainT7 months agoGreat story.
Wow, some people can really get they knickers in a twist.
It is a great pity that the Universe did not make the world in the way they wish to perceive it.
Anonymous8 months agoGreat reread. Great characters. Enjoyable read and highly recommend other people to read.
Jackspeed2uabout 1 year agoYeah it’s the modern world now and not the 50’s and the atomic age with stupid kids buying X ray glasses from magazines before modern trade practices forbid such lies in advertising and kids went to school and learnt real science ( as opposed to ‘duck and cover’) . So where is this all going you ask? Well you can’t be sloppy with basic science these days and even in stories you can’t contradict every day known facts that people learn directly say from school, or learned by extrapolating known facts, or learned by experiencing the fact for themselves.
WTF you say! Well the x ray glasses the dickhead have are useless. As stated the only way they could work is if they were Bluetooth linked to a x ray film of some type THAT’S BEHIND THE PATIENT. You see x rays pass through almost anything and most defiantly don’t reflect off anything really. So his x ray glasses need an x ray source/emmiter that’s on his side and a flim that could be electronic or a wet film BEHIND the patient. Then you need a way to display the film on the “X-ray glasses” which would then just be a display screen and nothing to do with X-rays.
You see X-rays that you see are actually the negative of the real X-ray. Since the film reacts to the X-rays themselves which means that the bone that blocks a lot of X-rays wouldn’t show up much and the meat that lets almost all X-rays pass through would be glowing white on the X-ray film. But that’s not what you see on the picture because the ‘developer’ inverts the image and on a wet film X-ray,old school, you see the negative while the modern electronic films they just invert the image intensities.
So X-ray glasses are a load a of bullshit and anyone who has had an X-ray or went to school knows this. It’s a known physical impossibility. No amount of science fiction can use X-rays as a medical imaging device without an emmiter one side and a film the other. Those components can be as flashy as you like and all sciencey as you want but they have to be there. If you don’t want all those bits then don’t use hundred year old science a millennium in the future, people got smarter to make cool shit but scientific facts and partial physics and nuclear physics is still the same.
So what to do… instead of X-ray glasses like a 3 year old, this guy is a doctor so he’s probably a staid person and educated SO….something along the lines of an ‘ Atomic Reference Medical Imager’ or ARMI for short. That suits a military component better and it’s a thing that YOU invented to suit the futuristic world so you determine it’s abilities and the name says it all so you don’t even have to explain it’s use or function just like the X-ray you tried to use. Well you did use it so that’s why we are here.
So this is a big fuckup early on so what fuckups are to come? Id rather not find out so I’m out.
