Rejected Memories

Rejected Memories Chapter Seven - Decryption

"Come on guys, have a seat while you wait." said Varrie

"You're probably all thirsty, aren't you?"

A chorus of "Yes!" sounded across the room.

"We only have water, but atleast it's better than nothing." she said, walking over to a strange device on the wall. She presses two buttons and smacked the machine twice, which produced two cups of water.

"Here you go!" she said, giving us the cups. The second before I could take a drink, Princess Luna trotted into the room.

"Hello Time, Cloud. Where is everypony else?"

"I turned the lights to the exit on so we didn't have to direct everypony. They should get there in about three minutes." Varrie said.

"Very well! We shall go now. Varrie, I take it you know the way, so gather what you need and meet us there. Time, Cloud, follow me." Luna said, trotting off.

Cloud and I followed close behind, not wanting to get lost. We finally came to what appeared to be our destination, a large dome. After about two minutes, Varrie appeared, with everypony else in tow. She ran up to the door, and pressed a button on the wall next to it, under what appeared to be a speaker.

"Please give authorization." it said, speaking in a robotic voice.

"Authorize nine-six-nine-one-two-five-zero-five, decrypt key Trot-Intent-Maze-Echo." Varrie said to the device.

"Authorized. Have a nice day!" said the machine. The door made a big "clank" and a loud "fshhhh" sound, then Varrie pushed it open. It revealed what appeared to be a portal of sorts. Luna spoke up quickly, giving us directions.

"Time, Varrie, go through the portal. Get everything set up. Me and Cloud will get everypony through."

Varrie nodded and grabbed me by the hoof, dragging me through the portal. We came out in a room that was lit dimly by a faint red light. Varrie lead me over to a rack with what appeared to be some kind of suit on them. She grabbed one and stuffed it into my hooves.

"Put that on. I'll show you how to put the helmet on.

I slid the suit on and it fit loosely, draping off of me.

"Ok, take the helmet, and put it on, then twist it to the right, push down, and twist it to the left. It should activate. It'll tell you how to activate the rest of the suit."

I did as I was told, and sure enough, the helmet activated. The helmet started speaking.

"Checking HUD... HUD Online. For help say help."

In front of me appeared several bars. I had no clue what they did, so I said help.

"Welcome to the Dangerous Area MAnagement GEar, otherwise known as the DAMAGE suit. This suit is guaranteed to protect you against all environmental toxins. On your HUD, you should see flashlight battery level in the top left, Assisted Movement battery level in top right, your heart rate and the DAMAGE suits current condition in the bottom left, and an ammunition counter in the bottom right. Your communications channel is in the bottom center of your HUD. This concludes first part of help."

I could hear something muffled. I looked up to see Varrie with her suit on yelling at me to "Say help three!", so I did.

"Welcome to the DAMAGE suit help page three. To pressurize your suit, say "Suit Pressurize." To tighten the suit to your body, say "Suit Tighten." If you ever have an emergency with your suit, there is an emergency release button under your chin. Pressing it will release the suit and make it drop off. If you need to get the suit pressurized and operational fast, activate your helmet and say "Suit Emergency." The suit will pressurize and tighten, as well as check respirator function and activate communications."

I did the things I had to do and my suit was now ready. I heard Varrie yelling at me again.

"Suit Comm three!"

After I switched to channel three, I could hear Varrie perfectly.

"Why do we need these suits?" I asked.

"This facility was decommissioned. It was an extra facility that was built. It was dormant. That means there is no oxygen in the facility because the life support systems were never activated. These suits let us breathe and walk through any hazardous waste we might find. Oh and, by the way, if you hear something like a geiger counter, tell me and run. This place has a nuclear reactor, and it hasn't been used in forever, so there might be some radioactive material left around from the fuel."

With that, we set off.

"Where are we going?" I asked.

"We are going to the administration building so we can bring main systems online." she said.

After a short walk, we made it to the administration room. We walked inside and started powering up the devices.

"Time, look for something that says purge on it, and tell me when you find it."

I found the lever after a few minutes, and called Varrie over.

"Time, when I pull this lever, me and you are going to run to the pods that open behind that wall. On the count of three."

One...

Two...

THREE!

She pulled the lever and we ran towards the pods that appeared out of the wall.

"Jump in and pull it shut!" she yelled, nearly blowing my hearing.

After pulling my pod shut, I heard a voice in my suit.

"Purging facility. Please wait."

Our pods popped open.

"Facility Purged. Have a nice day!"

Varrie looked a window that had been sealed.

"Time, go over there, and turn that system on. It'll power up and start maintaining the reactor. I gotta work on getting life support up and running."

I went over to the reactor controls and powered them on.

"Auugh.. Stupid machine... Why won't you let me login..." Varrie said, obviously annoyed. I walked over and sat down next to her.

"Mind if I try?" I asked Varrie.

"Knock yourself out, Time. I doubt you'll be able to get it."

I sat down in front of the screen. I felt something, and then I began to type.

Welcome to Facility 209135. What system would you like to log in to?

ADMINISTRATION

User: ADMIN

Pass:*****

User ADMIN logged in!

ACCOUNT CREATE

Creating account...

New account username: TimeVariable

New account password:UnknownFluxuation

Account created. Set permissions?

Y

Modifying permissions for user TimeVariable

Give all permissions:TRUE

Account setup created. Login?

Y

I stood up and looked at Varrie. She had a look of total shock on her face. I waved my hoof in front of her face.

"Varrie. Life support. Enable. Now." I said, pointing to the computer.

"Did you just... How did you... Wha?" she stuttered, trying to make sense of what I did.

Suddenly, she snapped back to reality and got back to the computer.

"And that should do it, we should be able to decompress our suits soon. We should get set up here though, we have to register everybody and get them a room."

I nodded and started getting things ready.

"It's going to be one long day... One long day..."