Elizabeth's idea was actually fairly simple, we find one of the Lutece particle things and bring it back here, and use it to lift the department store back up to Rapture. "So it's like putting air in a ballon basically. Except this ballon is full of drug addicted sociopaths." Patrick surmised as we explained the idea to him.
Elizabeth nodded, "But there's a problem, the device is damaged." she said, looking at the device it was true, the thing looked like someone took a baseball bat to it.
I shrugged, "So? Can't you just you know, whoosh one to Columbia?" I asked, hoping that this would be easy. And of course it couldn't be.
Elizabeth shook her head, "Tears are like windows right? So you can bring a sledgehammer to a wall and make another but there could be a stud where your hitting it." she explained. "When me and (Y/N) first came here, it was purely luck that we where on the right side of the glass."
Ohhhh I think I get it, "Or in Columbia's case, jump through just to fall to death." Patrick surmised.
Elizabeth nodded, "And it would take too long to try and find some place to safely get to Columbia. So our best chance is to fix the machine." she said, looking over and wincing at the crowbar in the side of it.
"So... anyone here know how to repair a trans-dimensional Lutece device? Come on, show of hands." he joked hopefully.
Me and him both looked at Elizabeth. She stared back surprised, "What?! What makes you two possibly think I could fix this?" she asked, gesturing to the machine I question.
I rubbed the back of my head, "Well your like the smartest person I know. Plus I work on computers, not big ass machines." I said in my defense.
"Yeah, and I'm more street smart if anything." Patrick added. Elizabeth rolled her eyes at us.
"I guess Souchong must have some plans lying around. If we find them we may be able to find out what's wrong." she suggested. We nodded in agreement and began to search the room for blueprints or something resembling that.
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After we searched for a good fifteen minutes I came up with nothing, same as Patrick. We where about to give up in frustration when Elizabeth called us up to the upper level. We rushed up and saw that she found what we where looking for.
"What's with the crazy letters? Chemical compounds?" I asked, looking at the letters on the paper.
Patrick's eyes widened, "It's a code! I know this, you use the elements as a key for letters." he said, making me and Elizabeth look at him surprised. He shrugged, "I'm not a half baked detective, but it'd take me a while to-"
"I already cracked it." Elizabeth interrupted. She pointed to Suchong's name in it, "Egomaniacs have a tendency to surround their work with themselves." I can vouch for that, look at Fink for Pete's sake.
Elizabeth picked up the plans, "We need a Cathode Tube, a Carbon Dioxide Scrubber, and a Heat Sink." she said, reading off what was needed. I honestly didn't know what half if it meant so I let her continue.
"Any of the vending machines should have the Cathode Tube. And we can look for a Co2 scrubber in the bathysphere exhibit, almost all of them should have a working model. A heat sink... what could we use..wait. We already have it. Old Man Winter." she said.
I clenched my fist and watched the ice spikes pop out. "Check. So we need to find those two components then right?" I asked. Elizabeth nodded.
"Okay easy, you two go after the Carbon thing, I'll search for the vending machine tube." Patrick said. I looked at him worriedly, I didn't want him to go alone, with a big daddy stomping around, it could be dangerous. He saw my look and patted my shoulder, "Hey, there's a reason I'm sending you two after the subs, vending machines are easy to find." he said, putting me at ease.
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One Person Can Change Everything (Elisabeth x Male Reader)
Fanfiction'Bring us the girl, and while away the debt.' That was what I need to do and I could see my family again. I never expected things to so bad so fast.
