Two Different Worlds; A Space Travelling Story

Chapter 17 - Sudden Experimentation

'Thank you for that, Blake. How did that flower even managed to get up this high?' I asked. I'm starting to think that these plants have eyes. You know what, for all I know, they might!

I incinerated the Magnet to 987°C to make sure it's going to be stable enough that it doesn't interfere with the magnetic activity inside the ship. The sun might have been the reason why it lost its magnetic capabilities. If you didn't know, heat causes magnets to weaken because an important part of the relationship between magnets and temperature is the fact that heating the magnet causes its molecules to become more disorderly. Magnets are dipoles, which means they have an opposite charge, or magnetic direction, at each end. This is a result of most of the magnetic molecules facing the same direction. When we heat our magnets, those polar molecules start moving around. The average direction of the entire magnet's polarity becomes a little bit messier because those magnetic molecules are no longer facing the same direction.

If magnets are heated to the Curie point, they lose their ability to be magnetic. The dipoles become so disordered that they can't return to their original state. Curie points are very hot, and you would not be able to get your magnets to reach them without special lab equipment. For iron, the Curie Point is 1417°F.

'Their stems might be mutated because of the radiation emitting from the sun. Must've taken a lot of time before this happened, let's get out of here before things get worse.' Blake approached my ship and started to combine the two together, forming one big ship once more.

'Okay, time to go.' I replied as the machines finished doing their thing.

'Once we go back home, I'm going to have a long nap because this trip has gotten me extremely tired.' Blake said. Can't blame her, she's right. I'm not just tired, I'm stressed too. I just hope this procedure will work and my original home is not a big mess.

'Why not just nap now while I take care of this,' I suggested. I have a consciousness, you know? I help people who I think need it.

'Are you sure? Do you know how to work with this?' she asked. I looked at her, looked at the main console, and looked back at her.

'On second thought, just put it on Auto.' I changed my suggestion. This thing is too complicated for me.

'Good idea. The Automatic Mode is not perfect, it will be slower, but as long as you're there, it should be alright.' she said.

'Okay, enjoy your rest.'

'Wake me up when we're near the Atmosphere.' were her last words before she went to bed.

Moments passed through. Seconds felt like days, minutes felt like years. I just need to do more progress, but how? It will be either I speed this up or I plan out my procedures once we're back on the Laboratory.

I won't be exciting today, I'll just do my second option.

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'Blake, wake up. We're approaching the Atmosphere.' I said after knocking.

'Okay. I'll just prepare myself, you go on ahead.' she replied back with a surprised voice. She might be shocked that we're here already.

I went back to my seat and monitored our distance to the surface and the speed of our ship. For now, we're good to land. We will take minimal friction as we go down so hopefully, no fire will be included.

Blake sat next to me as I was monitoring the data. I feel her getting more and more stressed.

'Get the Magnet out, now!' she shouted. I looked at her as she points on one spot where two missiles can be seen approaching us.

'On it. Why are they targeting us anyway?' I asked while I used a highly concentrated laser to cut a flat chunk of it and gave it to Blake.

'They are the automatic attacking system for meteors and asteroids.' she responded. How can't those machines from Earth detect that we're not meteors? I will smack those inventors once I get a hold of them.

'What are you planning on doing?' I asked.

'If I throw this Magnet out of the ship, the vast vacuum of space will freeze it up which will effectively strengthen the magnetic field of this. Hopefully, the missiles will be directed to this as it gets closer.' she explained. Great, we are wasting important and rare items. But it does mean that we are going to survive, so who am I to brag?

'Won't it pull us in too?' I said as I found a flaw.

'That is why we need to be quick. Now get ready to blast us away, but not down yet. Once they blew up, we can slow down. I have to attach a solidifying pole of a laser to this Magnet so it won't go down and approach the missiles instead, that will go against our plan and it will be messy.' she responded.

'Why will it be messy?' I asked.

'Because anything that doesn't explode outside of the Earth's Atmosphere will be showered with hellfire.' she replied as she throws the Magnet outside. I blasted us out of there before the Magnet cools down completely.

'I plan on getting 250 km away.' I suggested.

'Sure, it will be a safe distance. Those missiles aren't programmed to target us because they are not following this ship's direction.' she said as she turns on that laser.

The laser held the Magnet from all the way over there like an Obsidian stick. It's not moving around which was perfect.

A few seconds later, the missiles came into contact with it and we were shocked. Instead of just attracting it close, it disassembled the missiles whole. I can't believe it. We can see it through the zoomed up image of the phenomenon with the cameras outside.

'Remarkable. I actually need that to travel back safely, because, without my entire crew's equipment, I will disintegrate in the vacuum.' I said.

'How is that going to help you?'

'It will disassemble my surrounding area and keep me whole. I will run tests with it with the Assistant at home.' I replied.

'It only seems to be doing that when it touched the Cobalt, was it still charged?' she asked and I nodded.

'Time to go back to the Laboratory.' I boosted us out of there.

After a few moments of waiting, we are here with minor side effects. I just felt sick, to be honest. I assigned the Assistant to get the Magnet safely and we went to sleep, and yes, it is night time.