Act 5 Chapter 13: The Real Job Begins

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It didn’t take me very long to find Adam, turns out he was actually looking for me to. “There you are, I know you probably noticed by now that your carriers isn’t in the same places as it normally is. Well that’s for very good reason, which is that you no longer have that one instead you will be using one built especially for you.” He said to me as he pointed and started to walk. We arrived at the edge of the city where most of the vehicles were kept. “That over there will be your new carrier.” Adam said to me pointing point towards what looked like a giant arrow head. I didn’t think it was actually my carrier at first look, it didn’t even look like it could fly for that matter. “That thing, can it even fly, I mean it doesn’t even look like it would stay in air for more than a few seconds before it started falling straight to the ground.”

A short man walked up to me as I was talking, the look on his face was as if he was very offended by what had just said. “How dare you talk about my baby like that”. I went to the trouble of building this especially for you, everything will fit you perfectly like a glove. But no first thing you say is it’s going to fall out of the sky some people I just can’t stand them so ungrateful.” The man said as he nodded his head and walked towards the carrier.

“That’s your mechanic, he built the thing especially for you and it is better than any other carrier that we have.” Adam said to me as he pushed me along to follow the mechanic. “Well, going to introduce yourself to him and try to make up for that blunder you just made.” Said Adam to me as he laughed and push me forward. I stumbled a little and then started to walk to the new carrier. “Hi my name is Daniel, sorry about what I said but I just don’t see how this thing can fly.” The mechanic simply looked up at me shaking his head from side to side. “Of course you don’t know, this is my baby it’s built differently from every other carrier. It is not meant to go slow in any way, I built this baby for speed and speed alone.”

I looked at him very confused I didn’t quite understand what he meant, after all the carrier had before was very fast. “But I how would it fly when it doesn’t even have wings?” He looked up at me slightly smiling, then started to laugh. “Look carefully it has wings they are just very small. When I was building this carrier I realized that the other ones had a slight problem when it came to gone faster. And that problem was dragged; their wingspan and their bulky body slowed them down considerably so I got rid of all of that it started over. This design is made especially to reduce air resistance drag and allow it to go as fast as possible. That’s also why your cockpit has a cover unlike all the other ones.”

I understood in a way what he meant by reducing the drug to allow to go faster, but I still didn’t get how I would stay flying in this thing. “Okay, you know best anyway what’s your name.” I said to him as I watched as the packages I was to delivered that day were loaded inside of it. “You don’t need to know my name all you need to know is that I’m the mechanic, your mechanic and the best mechanic there is.” He looked at me with a smack and pointed at the cockpit of the carrier. It was about time for me to get going I had a lot more deliveries today than before.

I climbed into the cockpit, sat in the chair then pulled two straps that crossed into an X over my chest. I gave the thumbs-up that I was strapped in and ready to go. My mechanic walked up to the side of the carrier he smiled at me then he began to speak while pointing at things on the cockpit dashboard. “First of all, this does not function anything like what you’re used to. I will tell you everything you need to know to not die out there today, first off you need to know how to get this thing going. That’s what this green switch is for, you will switch it into the up position to activate the main engines. Once you switch it down the engines will be deactivated, but because I built this with two engines switching off the main engine will only slow it down. Second thing you need to know is this button, this blue button once pushed retractors ceiling of the cockpit so that you can get in and out. Now those are the only two things you actually need to touch in this cockpit. But you need to know one more thing the systems autopilot can only turn off the main engine doesn’t turn it on, I made it to say just in case something happened than he needed extra time to get in or you needed extra time for something else. Just remember how many deliveries you have to manage your time properly and things will be just fine.” He pushed the blue button and step back, as the cockpit above me started to close.

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