Mad Science Institute by Tower Sechin

Author:Tower, Sechin [Tower, Sechin]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Short Stories
ISBN: 9780984850716
Publisher: Siege Tower Entertainment
Published: 2011-12-09T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 26 ~ Soap

Victor let me into Topsy and even got me another key. After that, I worked through the night to improve Rusty. If I was going to get revenge on the Professor, I would need my robot in top condition.

The first thing I did was cannibalize one of the scaled-down antimatter reactors from some big gizmo that was already broken. As far as I could tell—and this was only a guess because I didn’t have time for any experimentation—the reactors worked by accelerating the formation of virtual particles on the quantum level. These virtual particles always came in pairs, one part matter and one part antimatter, and the energy came when these particles annihilated each other in the same instant they formed. There were no dangerous materials because the fuel—the virtual particles—were already everywhere in the universe. It’s possible they were coming through from a parallel universe or that they were quantum strings changing their vibration frequencies or something, but the bottom line was the same either way: unlimited, weightless fuel that was stable until use. Also, the only waste products were some gamma rays which could be soaked up by some nice, heavy cadmium-plated depleted uranium shielding.

Right then, I didn’t care about the operational theories or how the reactors seemed to scoff at the first law of thermodynamics. All I cared about was the power.

Before, Rusty was methodical and slow, so he was hard-pressed to keep up with a person walking briskly. Now, with the antimatter reactor in his core and superconducting servo motors for all his moving parts, he could carry a pair of anvils and still outrun me. I also restored his scorpion tail with the magnifying transmitter, which meant he could blast focused EMPs in different frequencies and with different strengths. I thought about adding some rail guns or flame throwers or something, but I didn’t have any of those things handy, and every hour I spent tinkering in the lab was another hour my Dad was rotting in jail.

Aside from robotic backup, I also needed information on where to find the Professor, or at least his men. I remembered that the Topsy House computers connected to the sheriff’s station servers, but Victor said that only Nikki had the passwords to get into the police databases. I dreaded seeing Nikki after what she had said to me, but I was ready to beg if that’s what it took.

The only problem was that Nikki never showed up.

“Where is she?” I finally said to Victor in exasperation.

Victor was taking a study break to feed the chupacabra. Choop, as we were now calling the creature, seemed very appreciative of the anything we gave him. My guess is that the Professor hadn’t been feeding him enough and was probably abusive in other ways, too. Now, the spiny gray reptile (Victor insisted he was a reptile and not a lizard) was all too happy to live in our jail cell. It turned out that Choop was really smart, too,

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