"Are we gonna step out or what?" Shaggy asked, but in a more demanding tone.
"I'll do it." Daepi finally said, with firmness in her voice. She pulled up the sleeves of her pants, took off her jacket, took of her shoes, then her socks, then put her shoes back on and stepped out. She was partially disgusted but partially confident. She kept feeling the ground for any special weapon. "None yet." she confirmed.
Meanwhile, a voice buzzed from 🅱's pocket. "Where are you?" was all that came out of it. 🅱 took the device out of his pocket. "We are at the coordinates you sent us," he replied. "Daepi is trying to find the weapon.". The voice began to think for a moment. "FOUND IT!" Daepi yelled. Then Daepi pulled the object up revealing it to be a cube-shaped rock. "Dang it!" she shouted in upset after glancing at the object. "Yes, I don't know how to find it but all I can say is the coordinates are mostly correct. 0.05 degree margin of error and that's all. Also these weapons are somewhat large. Also, they glow. So keep that in mind." the voice finally replied. 🅱 yelled over to Daepi, "YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG. PLEASE COME BACK.". Daepi headed back to the quadbike. "Sorry to hinder your current search but I have an idea." 🅱 stated.
"What is it?" Nora asked. What idea did he have in store that would not let Nora continue her current search? Better be a good one, Nora thought.
"Daepi and Nora can go out and find it. Daepi has a more advanced minicomputer plus Nora's skill in camera maneuvering can help us find it. Nora holds Daepi's minicomputer up in a tripod and uses it as a tracker. Nora's minicomputer is connected to Daepi's so that Daepi is able to track the location. The one who will first touch the object is either Nora or Daepi. Shaggy and I will stay here while we talk to Lyrelle. Deal?" 🅱 suggested.
"I knew you could cook but I never knew you could come up with such good ideas. You know what? Sure." Daepi accepted. Nora also accepted. Nora rolled up her pant sleeves, took off her shoes, then her socks, then put her shoes back on to walk in the rocky ground below the muddy water.
Nora stepped into the slush. They both had their minicomputers. Daepi paired the minicomputers together, and enabled the tracker on hers, so that Nora could see what was going on on Daepi's screen. Daepi then pulled a stick from the bottom of her minicomputer and gave it to Nora.
"The tracker works like the olden ones. It'll beep when you're close, but as you get closer it'll beep faster. I am also using your device to manipulate mine so I can configure other tracking properties as well, far more advanced than that other stuff." Daepi explained. "I programmed the tracker so that it can find a glowing cube. So it may have errors in detention."
They started to walk and some direction. They had no clue where they were going. At first, they started with a simple, old fashioned tracking system. They kept taking step by step, over and over, in one direction. No beep. Daepi raised the sensitivity of the beeps. They continued to walk. No beeps.
"Why isn't it working? Why can't we find it?" Nora asked in skepticism.
"Hold on... I need to do something important. It may take some time." Daepi replied. Daepi was looking at the tracker's functions and controls, then she found a button on the minicomputer that displayed "Advanced tracking". She clicked it, then she changed the radius to five miles. She enabled advanced tracking. On the screen of the minicomputer had a rendered image of where Daepi and Nora were now. The image shrank as more land and area had been discovered, then a red dot showed up near the edge, while a few duller red dots also appeared. Daepi knew that the brighter the red dots, the closer they were to the inputted credentials.
"We should travel..." Daepi suggested as she calculated what direction to travel. "This way." Daepi pointed at the approximate direction of where the bright red dot was. Nora and Daepi walked that way.
They walked two miles in the mud, which was uncomfortable and slow but in the end, they made it. The only thing that allowed them to make it was their own determination in savings the world from potential disaster.
"Who's gonna obtain it? Because only its first human touch can be its wielder." Nora asked. "As much as I want to touch it, it would be more fair if you did, because of what I did here earlier." Daepi replied. Nora inserted the long stick back into the minicomputer, then gave it to Daepi. Nora let her hands free, and thrust them into the dirty water. Her hands were searching, searching, until they touched a cube-like object. They grabbed the object and thrust it out of the water with great force. Here it stands, it was the color of the ocean and it glowed a radiant aura of the same color. Nora held it up to the sky in victory.
Here Nora had it. The artifact of space. One down, three to go.
