Crossover Escape: Gotta be more than Lucky to survive

1.24 Requisitions

The first thing Luca did when they got to the compound was to ask if they could requisition any materials. Interestingly the suits were very accommodating on the matter just asking for a list of what Luca wanted. Luca smiled and said he’d go make a list up and bring it down shorty. Heading straight to their rooms look locked the door and waited for Rӓv to get the security set up before he grabbed a sheet of paper and started to speak.

[Lucky: Right then the sensory interference and mental affliction caused by that pyramid –]

[Holly: Cube.] Luca blinked at Holly’s interruption. Holly blushed slightly at Luca’s stare before grabbing out the original mapper device which he fiddled with for a moment before he set it on the table and the device produced a three-dimensional projection of the contest sight structure. The centre of the structure was blank, but it was clear from the exterior scans and the scans through the floor that it was indeed cube shaped. With the various entrances leading inwards at various angles much like a honeycomb cavern system.

[Lucky: Right then the mental and sensory interference of the cube –]

[Tails: Isn’t ‘The Cube’ a horror film?]Luca sighed and gave Tails a gloomy look. Tails stared back before he raised a hand to his lips and sat back in silence.

[Rӓv: I agree that the effect of the cube is a problem but I’m not sure what you want to do about it.]

Luca was grateful that at least Rӓv was focused on the issue at hand. [Lucky: solve the issues we can solve. Can you add a light music underplay to the coms it should be possible to muffle the whispered voices. While we can ignore them while just walking around it could be a dangerous interference when going through the tunnels.]

[Holly: Right, I noticed from my scans that the tunnels.] Holly tapped and highlighted a fifth of the entrances to the cube.

[Holly: These tunnels have medieval style traps, pitfalls, arrow traps swing blades and the like. Hearing things trying to pass these sort of things would be potentially deadly.]

[Ghost: Is good idea, what about other attackers?]

[Lucky: With the weird real sound muting and the recent circumstances has listening been helpful at all?]

[Tails: That is a good point. If we can’t hear danger anyway it is better to block out the interference.]

[Rӓv: That’s easy enough to do, I won’t need anything from WIC though…] Luck nodded in agreement with that.

[Lucky: I didn’t think you would, my requisitions are in regard to light. The night vision and thermal vision on the glasses aren’t going to cut it in that sort of pitch darkness when I doubt our problems are going to come from things with body heat.]

[Tails: That is another good point, though don’t we have ghosts glow sticks?]

[Rӓv: We’re not using flares. That isn’t happening.]

[Ghost: Da, no flares.]

[Lucky: Yes, Ghost’s glow sticks are good, multi-use and everything, but they have two problems there attachment process while great is stationary. Not helpful when the point is to be moving.]

[Holly: So doesn’t someone just carry one?]

[Tails: Oh.]

[Rӓv: Ah.

[Ghost: Is problem.]

[Holly: Huh?]

[Lucky: In a pitch-black environment carrying the light is essentially painting a target on yourself. Moreover, if the place is a riddled with traps and puzzles as we expect then we likely aren’t going to have a hand free to just carry the light.]

[Holly: Ah, yeah alternative solutions look good.]

[Lucky: Rӓv can you make a spider drone to crawl along the roof and carry the light?]

[Rӓv: Yeah, if you and Holly give me a hand, I think I can make something up in time. It only needs to carry the light?]

[Lucky: Maybe a hot-pop as well just in case.]

[Tails: Best make more than one in case there is an incident.] Luca nodded in agreement and then quickly started writing a list of parts down as Rӓv and Holly started to design the device. Once they’d determined a maximum list of components for the spider and what sounded like a few other things Luca ran the list down to the suit and handed it in.

The suit looked the list over and then nodded saying he’d have the stuff sometime tomorrow. Luca returned upstairs and pulled Tails and Ghost away from the raging technical discussion.

[Lucky: Tails do you think you can get back to the infirmary without being seen during the day?]

[Tails: Yes?]

[Lucky: I want you to check if anyone is still there and get some more emergency medicine, morphine, epinephrine, and adrenaline. Surgical staples and glue as well as whatever else you would like to take into an unknown hostile environment for an indeterminate amount of time.]

[Tails: Sure… I assume there is a reason you didn’t just add them to the request list?]

[Lucky: Aside from the fact that I don’t trust them really, components that can be swept are one thing, but medicine is not something we’ll be able to tell if they have tampered with it before handing it over. Better to steal straight from an infirmary where they won’t have mixed things since it could interfere with their work. Besides they would likely offer more of their miracle pills.] Luca pulled out the bottle of pills and dropped it on the table with a dubious look.

[Tails: That’s some pretty good reasons. A bit of medical thievery coming right up.]

[Lucky: Ghost, I need you to sneak back into the hive I want more detailed images of those Relics I found and any others we can find.] Luca looked at the positively delighted look on Ghosts face and winced. He liked the man honestly, and his warped sense of humour and danger normally didn’t bother him but that look right then terrified Luca it was like he’d taken a five-year-old that had been on a sugar lent and then told him he could have whatever he wanted in the candy store.

Luca considered for two seconds making some comment about restraint and safety and then remembered that he might get too dead to mess around in the near future and bit his tongue. As long as Ghost didn’t get dead messing around in the WIC compound Luca would just turn a blind eye to the trouble he would be making.

With the other mostly sorted Luca settled into a chair and pulled up the images from the day. He didn’t specialise in linguistics like Rӓv or riddles like Tails or mazes like Holly, Luca had a more general understanding of all the areas. Which meant he could plan a strategy early and then ask the experts for anything he’d missed. In this case since his experts were bending their expertise to other problems Luca had no choice but to see what he could figure out without them.