Bellamy burned a way through the vent, letting them out in a hall with machines and pipes.
"Here." Bellamy handed Faye an axe to lock the door. She broke the card reader, then used the axe to barricade the doors.
"Come in, Raven. We made it. I hope you have a plan."
"We're still working on it. Give us something to go on. What do you see."
"A huge steel vat, looks like a submarine. Some other tanks with chemical formulas. Warning labels."
"Pipes."
"A monitor."
"Oh. Go to the monitor." An unfamiliar, male voice said.
"Hello to you too."
"Don't mind Wick. He's not really helping."
"Hey, Bellamy. How's my boy Monty doing?"
"Fine, yeah. But I don't know for how long."
"Great. Pleasantries over. If that monitor is a control panel, we can use it to kill this thing. Look for a pH scale."
"Right. Well, it has a scale, but the rest, uh... S3, V2, O5... H2, S2, O7. Can I just blow this thing?"
"No."
"No, they'll know their defenses are down. They'll send a tech to fix it, reroute it, or pull out a weapon we don't even know about."
"Plus, you'd probably melt your face off. Looks, you know I like a good explosion...but we gotta think our way through this one. We can do this. Here we go."
"Okay, uh..."Level indicator."
"No."
"Do you see an actuator anywhere."
Bellamy looked at Faye who shrugged. "I have no idea what that is."
"Come on, what else?"
"Internal pressure sensor."
"No."
"Set point and alarm."
"Let's avoid that one."
"Maintenance and cleaning."
"Bellamy, go to that subdirectory. See if there's anything there that says "passivation."
"Okay, I'm on it. I got it." Faye looked over his shoulder, finally something was happening. "It says, "Aqueous sodium hydroxide bath."
"That's a base. That'll neutralize the acid. Select that."
"It's doing something."
"You should be able to hear the pump."
"I can hear them."
"It's moving." Faye pointed to the needle on the monitor.
"The pH is rising."
"It's working."
"Passivation successful." Bellamy said.
"Finally." Faye said. Released to have finally accomplished something.
"All right. Send the flare."
"Roger that."
"Come on. Let's go." Faye said, trying to leave.
"Wait."
"What?"
"It didn't change. Raven, we got a problem. Damn it, where are you? I don't think the acid fog is down. Get word to Clarke. We have to stop the army. Raven?"
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Atlantis
Fanfiction"I'm sorry, I just can't pretend to be something like that." "But you are something. You are Worheda." Faye kom Trikru will have to put her past behind her to save her future and people.
