Atlantis Rising Read Online Free PDF Page B

It will take a while to check it all out,” Mike
said. He stood up and joined his brother at the door.
    “Display crew on hologram,”
Jonathan said.
    Six blue stars sprung up on the
hologram.
    “Isolate the CEF and CSF, and
zoom in,” Jonathan said.
    Atlanta grinned, “I see you’re
learning.”
    Jonathan smiled back, “Yup. The
training for this table that you sent me helps a lot.”
    “Just remember it applies to
everything, here. While some things are hands on, many are not. This table is an
example of that dichotomy. It has to be fast and easy to use, in case of an
emergency,” Atlanta said. “I’m going to see if I can help Terri. I think she
has found the galley but has no idea how the storage units work. It’s hard on
her, right now. Her brain is a mess as it tries to assimilate the languages I
sent her. Food and rest will do you all good once we solve this problem, and
get the base back to full power. Then I can take over, and direct repairs.”
    “One question,” Jonathan said.
    “Sure,” Atlanta said.
    “We lost a backup reactor. How are we going to replace that?” Jonathan
asked.
    “We will need some supplies from
the mainland. Then the spiders will build it,” Atlanta said.
    “How long will that take?”
Jonathan asked.
    “It will take a day to build it,
and a day to connect it to the power grid. I estimate the repairs to that
section will take four days, and then we can power it up, and put it into sleep
mode. The spiders will also check the other secondary reactor, before it
sleeps,” Atlanta said.
    Jonathan watched as the stars
representing Mike and Brad descended in a lift, “Okay. Well, go help Terri I
guess. I’ll be here.”
    Atlanta nodded and then faded out
of sight.
    Jonathan’s jaw dropped as he
realized Atlanta was a hologram. He was sure he had seen her manipulate items,
though.
     
    Mike and Brad
managed to get the door opened without difficulty.
Later, almost everyone gathered around the
table in the Command Center. Andie stayed in Medical working but Terri had
taken her some food supplements. It was the only thing left that was edible in
the galley and they tasted like dust. But it filled them up and stopped their
stomachs from rumbling.
    “Remind me to put food on the
list when we go for supplies,” Terri said as she made a face.
    Everyone laughed.
    “Okay, here we go,” Brad said. He
touched a door on the hologram and then selected open on the small screen that
popped up.
    For a second nothing happened
then the hologram showed the door slowly raise as it opened.
    ‘Warning! Pressure door 10-B-00
cycling, emergency routines engaged,’ the bland computer voice said.
    “Disengage emergency routines,
authorization one-alpha-tango-two-zero-zero,” Jonathan said.
    ‘Flooding will occur in
passageway 10-. Do you wish to proceed?’
    “Confirmed,” Jonathan said.
    ‘Authorization accepted,
Commander. Emergency routines disabled.’
    “Double the atmospheric pressure
in the Primary Core,” Mike said.
    They watched as the pressure in
the core rose, and forced the water out of the room. So far, everything was
going as planned.
    “Bring Main Core to 75% power and
hold,” Brad said.
    ‘Main power online and rising.
Caution contaminate in main core room. Unable to bring core to 75% power, power
output stopped at 50%.’
    “That’s not enough to open the
outer ring. We have to have 75% power or more,” Brad said.
    Mike nodded, “Increase
atmospheric pressure times two and hold.”
    After a long second of silence,
the computer responded.
    ‘Bringing power output to 80% and
holding.’
    Lights that were unlit blinked
on. Dormant Spider Bots woke up, and started accessing the computer. The base
was fully operational, even at 80% power output.
    “Emergency release of docking
ring four, authorization one-alpha-tango-two-zero-zero,” Jonathan said.
    ‘Docking ring four released.’
    The explosive release of the
docking ring blew sand from the bottom of the sea floor