Protectors of Pandora

Chapter 48 ~rebirth and reboot~

“No! Caesar! Get up!” Jaxz yelled. “H- ho qually..” Stainly said sadly. They knew what he said. Bones roared out the window. “Wait! Get him to my pool! Quickly!” Lagoon said. “Why?!” The chief asked. “All of us oasisaurs have a special gift we can only do once in a lifetime, just hurry before it’s too late!” Lagoon explained. “Hurry get him to the pool!” The chief said. The apes picked up Caesars body and started out of the house. “OOH BAR QUA LE STA?!” Stainly said. They ignored him and brought Caesar to the oasis, they layed him down in the pool and stood back. “What do we do now?” The chief asked urgently. “Just stand back.” Lagoon said. The oasisaur’s shell shook under their feet, the pool started to glow white, and then a flash of light. When they could see again everything was the same, except Caesar’s arm was back, ish. It was now made of tek but not like tek armor, it was more organic looking, it just looked like his hand was metal. There was lines throughout it that looked like they could be lit up but they were inactive. “Caesar?” Jaxz asked. No reply. “Lagoon, did it not work?!” The chief asked. Bones roared again in anger. “Can you, please stop screaming..” Caesar said faintly. “Gee wallo shak!” Stainly said excitedly. “What is he saying?” Jaxz said. “How would I know, the implant is gone, I don’t have an-” he was cut off mid sentence as he looked at his new arm, shocked. “What the- okay what happened?!” He asked. “You were dead Lagoon somehow brought you back.” The chief said. “Sure.. but what really happened.” Caesar said doubtfully. “He’s telling the truth, I can only do it once in my life, be grateful.” Lagoon said, “And can you please pay me now..” she continued. “ I still don’t have any money..” Caesar said. Lagoon mumbled something under her breath. “Not that I’m not happy about Caesar being, ya know, not dead. But What do we do now? We can’t even talk to this chump anymore( He gestured to Stainly) And we’re no closer to finding Salizar.” Oak said. “I have an idea, Salizar was able to communicate to me through my implant, what if we could reverse engineer it to use his own tech against him, maybe even find the others.” Caesar said. The others seemed to like the idea so he went back inside Stainly’s home to work. It was very weird to get the implant out of his old arm, for him and everyone watching. But he did it, he had absolutely no idea how the implant worked, but somehow he was able to figure it out. “Ye shulk feedo quetta?” Stainly suggested gesturing towards the universal translator, Caesar removed it and handed it to him, he took it and did his own experiments on it. They both worked throughout the night. It was about 6:30 in the morning when Stainly said. “Testing? Testing?” “Who’s in there with you Caesar!” The chief asked threateningly from just outside. “It’s me, Doctor Ruthford Stainly.” Stainly said. “What?! How can we understand you? How can you understand us?!” Jaxz asked from the window. “Eureka! I’ve done it!” He exclaimed. Caesar looked at him, he was holding up his arm speaking gibberish into it and then through the implant they heard regular language, and vise versa, he had modded his implant with crude technology (well crude compared to tek.) and some tek. The new device was so large it was all around his arm like a cuff. “So what are you trying to accomplish Caesar?” He asked. “I’ve been trying to hack into the implant and kick Salizar out so I can use it, but he’s fighting me…” Caesar replied. “Perhaps I can help.” Stainly said. He took the keyboard. Ceasar had the implants outer shell off and the teknology hooked up to Stainly’s computer, he was from the industrial revolution but there was scientists in his old tribe who taught him the technologies of his future, including a Tek federation scientist. He didn’t quite understand tek but he had a basic grasp on it. “Here, look. (He pointed at the schematic for the transponder part of the implant) this is the transponder, that’s how Salizar is communicating to you, and how he controls it.” Stainly said. “So do I remove it?” Caesar asked. “No, if we do that then how can we try and contact your friends? instead, if we give a small shock here, (he pointed at a part of the transponder.) we can send it into system reboot, then we’ll have only a few minutes to change all the access codes and lock Salizar out.” Stainly explained. “Ok let’s do it.” Caesar said.

Stainly had the access codes pulled up on the computer and Caesar gave the part a small zap with a small tek lazer torch that Stainly got from his old federation friend. The computer popped up an error code saying: STRUCTURAL INTEGRITY OF TRANSPONDER COMPRISED. SYSTEM REBOOT IN PROGRESS “structural integrity compromised?!” Caesar said. “It’ll be fine, I hope..” Stainly said as he was changing the codes. “I hope it does..” Caesar said.