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Gods for the Machines 49: Irregulars Atasi
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Chapter 49: The Irregulars: Atasi
Atasi stared down at the twitching body strapped to the table and tried her best to remain calm.
“I don’t think sedatives will work” She said as calmly as she could, “The demons aren’t controlling their minds, they are possessing the cyberware and sending signals into their nervous system that way”
“So, no point in sedatives? Noted” An artic fox nurse she had just met that day said.
“What NO. WE are DEFINITLY using sedatives!” Atasi blurted out only to receive a look from said nurse.
“Kid you literally just said…”
“I know what I said.” Atasi said trying not to get mad at the woman, “And stop with the ‘kid’ stuff, I’m in charge of this and if there’s even an outside chance that the original person is… still around… there’s no way we are cutting into them without sedatives.”
The fox looked down at Atasi with a piercing gaze form her blue eyes, and for a moment Atasi really wished she was taller, “Noted… ‘Ma’am’ Sedatives are go. But the thrashing is still a problem”
As if on que the half mangled not-quite-a-corpse of what she thought was some sort of dog on the table bucked and squirmed. The leather straps strained but ultimately kept it in place.
“Do we have muscle relaxants?” Atasi asked, choosing to ignore the strange emphasis the woman had put on the word ‘ma’am’ and staying professional, “They won’t turn off the signals the cyberware is sending but if the muscles don’t react, then that’s one way to keep him still.
Sure, enough the next injection resulted in the thrashing creature rapidly calming down, at least physically, on the table till it no longer struggled. Atasi allowed herself a long sigh, at least this had worked, some of her other ideas hadn’t, or had only half worked, and she had dealt with death glares as a result.
“That worked” The Fox said.
“No need to sound so surprised.” Atasi stepped in closer and nodded to the other medical professionals she had been all so suddenly put in charge of, “Ok, step two is to remove anything from the cyberware that looks like a power source. We don’t need to be zapped while trying to remove the parts.”
Five hours later Atasi was shaking while she sat on a bench in the once crowded university halls. Turning some of the labs into experimental surgical suites was something she hadn’t expected, though she could understand not taking a captured ‘zombie’ to a normal hospital with normal injured people around that it might try to hurt. She also understood that with Victoria being, well, less than available, meant that Atasi was the foremost expert on cyberware that they had, so even if it did make sense to a point, being put in charge of career medical professionals though was hard.
She knew they didn’t really respect her.
“Still here?” The Fox with the glass eyed gaze stepped out of the lab to where Atasi was resting.
“We weren’t done yet.” Atasi grunted, squinting her eyes to shake out the feeling of sleep as best she could, “You need me in there?”
“No need. Patient done.”
“The Patient’s done?”
“The Surgery is done. The patient is alive”
Atasi shot up and made for the door before the Artic fox clamped a hand on her shoulder, “Just clean up, you’d be in the way.”
“But he.. Is he.. ok. Did we save him?”
“Don’t know, won’t know for hours” The fox said, “Sedatives remember?”
“R-right”
“Young Doctor should remember what she gave to the patient” The Fox said with her usual condescending tone.
“Hey, I didn’t sign up for this either, and I’m doing my best. I know you think I’m some inexperienced worthless kid compared to you but we need my knowledge for now.”
The woman looked her up and down before responding, “Don’t be stupid. Go sleep, then you’ll have fewer stupid things to say”
“Hey you listen…”
“No you listen” The older woman pushed Atasi to the wall, “You are young, you are inexperienced, but if you were worthless I would remove you, orders or no.”
Atasi grunted and looked aside.
“Go sleep, you made a good decision, but are too tired to make any more.”
Atasi paced up the stairs, She didn’t really want to sleep. She wanted to know what would happen when the ‘zombie’ woke up, she also wanted to see what was in the cyberware they had removed but she could practically hear the words of the much more experienced crew that technically worked for her. Something like ‘we can catalogue the components just fine without you hanging around ‘boss’ lady’.
They always seemed to have an emphasis on the ‘boss’ or the ‘ma’am’ whenever they addressed her. They didn’t fully respect her, and there was an undercurrent of implication at times that she was partially to blame for all this.
‘Unless I’m just imagining it’ Atasi shook her fatigued, cobweb-filled, head and trod upstairs. she wasn’t sleeping in the dorms for now. No just because they got shot up the last time, but because the higher ups didn’t want her leaving the building if it could be at all avoided ‘for security reasons’, so a classroom had been retrofitted into a dorm for her and the other ‘irregulars’.
“Irregulars” she whispered to herself with a head shake as she went into the thankfully empty dorm and flopped down on a cot. The word still felt weird; it reminded her of Sherlock Holmes’ street rat helpers, not so much what they were. A cop in a wheelchair, a boot camp graduate with bomb experience, A peg legged fed with a shapeshifting sword, a horny co-ed, and Atasi herself, a girl who had briefly worked with one of the foremost experts in cyberware.
“How the FUCK am I an expert in any of this?” Atasi gasped out in a silent plea to the universe for help, “Where are you…?”
Atasi flopped into her cot and pulled a pillow over her head. He hoped that just this once she could goto sleep without her brain going nuts with everything she should have done, everything she could have done, or could have done different. The most recent list of her personal nightmares was the officers they had lost when her little EMP Idea had only managed to incapacitate SOME of the cyberzombies. They had thought that they were all down but then some just got back up and the cops…
Atasi cried into her pillow as she started to nod off from pure exhaustion.
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Chapter 49: The Irregulars: Atasi
Atasi stared down at the twitching body strapped to the table and tried her best to remain calm.
“I don’t think sedatives will work” She said as calmly as she could, “The demons aren’t controlling their minds, they are possessing the cyberware and sending signals into their nervous system that way”
“So, no point in sedatives? Noted” An artic fox nurse she had just met that day said.
“What NO. WE are DEFINITLY using sedatives!” Atasi blurted out only to receive a look from said nurse.
“Kid you literally just said…”
“I know what I said.” Atasi said trying not to get mad at the woman, “And stop with the ‘kid’ stuff, I’m in charge of this and if there’s even an outside chance that the original person is… still around… there’s no way we are cutting into them without sedatives.”
The fox looked down at Atasi with a piercing gaze form her blue eyes, and for a moment Atasi really wished she was taller, “Noted… ‘Ma’am’ Sedatives are go. But the thrashing is still a problem”
As if on que the half mangled not-quite-a-corpse of what she thought was some sort of dog on the table bucked and squirmed. The leather straps strained but ultimately kept it in place.
“Do we have muscle relaxants?” Atasi asked, choosing to ignore the strange emphasis the woman had put on the word ‘ma’am’ and staying professional, “They won’t turn off the signals the cyberware is sending but if the muscles don’t react, then that’s one way to keep him still.
Sure, enough the next injection resulted in the thrashing creature rapidly calming down, at least physically, on the table till it no longer struggled. Atasi allowed herself a long sigh, at least this had worked, some of her other ideas hadn’t, or had only half worked, and she had dealt with death glares as a result.
“That worked” The Fox said.
“No need to sound so surprised.” Atasi stepped in closer and nodded to the other medical professionals she had been all so suddenly put in charge of, “Ok, step two is to remove anything from the cyberware that looks like a power source. We don’t need to be zapped while trying to remove the parts.”
Five hours later Atasi was shaking while she sat on a bench in the once crowded university halls. Turning some of the labs into experimental surgical suites was something she hadn’t expected, though she could understand not taking a captured ‘zombie’ to a normal hospital with normal injured people around that it might try to hurt. She also understood that with Victoria being, well, less than available, meant that Atasi was the foremost expert on cyberware that they had, so even if it did make sense to a point, being put in charge of career medical professionals though was hard.
She knew they didn’t really respect her.
“Still here?” The Fox with the glass eyed gaze stepped out of the lab to where Atasi was resting.
“We weren’t done yet.” Atasi grunted, squinting her eyes to shake out the feeling of sleep as best she could, “You need me in there?”
“No need. Patient done.”
“The Patient’s done?”
“The Surgery is done. The patient is alive”
Atasi shot up and made for the door before the Artic fox clamped a hand on her shoulder, “Just clean up, you’d be in the way.”
“But he.. Is he.. ok. Did we save him?”
“Don’t know, won’t know for hours” The fox said, “Sedatives remember?”
“R-right”
“Young Doctor should remember what she gave to the patient” The Fox said with her usual condescending tone.
“Hey, I didn’t sign up for this either, and I’m doing my best. I know you think I’m some inexperienced worthless kid compared to you but we need my knowledge for now.”
The woman looked her up and down before responding, “Don’t be stupid. Go sleep, then you’ll have fewer stupid things to say”
“Hey you listen…”
“No you listen” The older woman pushed Atasi to the wall, “You are young, you are inexperienced, but if you were worthless I would remove you, orders or no.”
Atasi grunted and looked aside.
“Go sleep, you made a good decision, but are too tired to make any more.”
Atasi paced up the stairs, She didn’t really want to sleep. She wanted to know what would happen when the ‘zombie’ woke up, she also wanted to see what was in the cyberware they had removed but she could practically hear the words of the much more experienced crew that technically worked for her. Something like ‘we can catalogue the components just fine without you hanging around ‘boss’ lady’.
They always seemed to have an emphasis on the ‘boss’ or the ‘ma’am’ whenever they addressed her. They didn’t fully respect her, and there was an undercurrent of implication at times that she was partially to blame for all this.
‘Unless I’m just imagining it’ Atasi shook her fatigued, cobweb-filled, head and trod upstairs. she wasn’t sleeping in the dorms for now. No just because they got shot up the last time, but because the higher ups didn’t want her leaving the building if it could be at all avoided ‘for security reasons’, so a classroom had been retrofitted into a dorm for her and the other ‘irregulars’.
“Irregulars” she whispered to herself with a head shake as she went into the thankfully empty dorm and flopped down on a cot. The word still felt weird; it reminded her of Sherlock Holmes’ street rat helpers, not so much what they were. A cop in a wheelchair, a boot camp graduate with bomb experience, A peg legged fed with a shapeshifting sword, a horny co-ed, and Atasi herself, a girl who had briefly worked with one of the foremost experts in cyberware.
“How the FUCK am I an expert in any of this?” Atasi gasped out in a silent plea to the universe for help, “Where are you…?”
Atasi flopped into her cot and pulled a pillow over her head. He hoped that just this once she could goto sleep without her brain going nuts with everything she should have done, everything she could have done, or could have done different. The most recent list of her personal nightmares was the officers they had lost when her little EMP Idea had only managed to incapacitate SOME of the cyberzombies. They had thought that they were all down but then some just got back up and the cops…
Atasi cried into her pillow as she started to nod off from pure exhaustion.
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