6 Chapter 5- The flight
From a bird's eye view, the norm's platform is like ice peddle. The platform that Anna and Sugi lived could be called the fifth island, being the second latest norm island to be created. The middle of the ice paddle is the largest single platform on the island; having shops and entertainment. The routes that get closer to the center gets bigger.
Looking into the maps of Anna that showed them leaving the utter parts of the ice paddle and heads towards the utter middle part, pointing towards the middle public platform. They followed the routes around the outside of the ice puddle as they turned right and left through the simply sky maze that is the road. Anna looked at the time on the top right of her view, with Sugi jump running as each jump ranges from 10m to 50cm as the smaller jumps are for turning points, averaging out with 8m per sec.
"We're running out of time; It's 7:30 already" (Anna)
"Did we leave late?"
"Na. Can it? We about the same time we always do."
Sugi wiped out the map and doubled it onto the screen as she opened the history list on her person GPS provided inside the original knowledge cube. She pointed to their last location travel to the cannon fires and doubled that with 50% visibility on top of the current view.
"See, the place moved"
[Command: calculate fuel]
Sugi set point A at their current location and Point B at the destination.
"It's about a 30km trip. At our current rate, we travel about 28km per hour."
"We only have 20 minutes left for the fire."
"I know, we only travel about 9.3km in 20 minutes, and it's too dangerous for us to increase our speed by running"
"Do we have enough fuel?"
"Yea, barely to travel the distance of an eighth of the island."
"No, I was talking about a flying fish."
"Sorry, our family lives on the edge for a reason you know, we're kind of poor."
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"True"
[Command: solidify]
[Command: link]
[Command: Mode- flat]
Command: The gift for the smart, forcibly training one's brain on daily bases. The ability to bring small creation from one's mind. For those that can imagine the; function, look, programming and feel of something small with logical reasoning, can be made true with solidifying. For commands such as 'Dissemble' is to stop one command's function that the user has in mind, not needing to imagine how it can disappear. For command such as search or calculate: it's simply there for helping you and don't need much thinking. As for commands such as gravity control, you need to be in areas where it's usable with equipment that enables the function. As for those that aren't gifted, can't be helped by the knowledge cube quickly and is forced to use the pre-existing imaginations that someone has posted globally. The ideas can be posted onto the web, allowing people to download them into their memories. This for those memories given to them, allows them to see a 3D model inside their head like everyone else, however, some may take some time to get used to, and eventually devolves this ability for their own. For the downloads, they're free.
The wings that Anna created were dark and demonic, with the curve string part of the top having many unmoveable parts with each sticking out a sharp point, with a flexible joint at the end that leads to the smaller second part. About the middle of the first part of the wing, had another part stick out pointing upwards from the curved bone parts. From the bone, solid part of the wings had few extending bone parts extending out for some very thick skin to cling onto. The way how the wings are done, makes Anna's wings resemble a bat's. The bone part is of 30cm thick at first near the back as it gradually gets thinner, ending at 10cm at the point of the second part, extended. The width was 1.2m, ranging from 2.8 m meters in length for the first part. The up extended part was only 50cm in length with a width of 30cm. The second part was 0.7m in length with a width of 1m. The angle of the bone part of the wing if stretched out would be 40 degrees counting from the head.
The wings that Sugi displayed where the same ones as before, with an additional extension small wing at the top like Anna's. The angles of the wings were the same as Anna's as well, but the first part was shorter and the second part was a little longer. The wing was white, making it resemble a pigeon.
(The author was too lazy to come up with a different design)
I took a look at Anna's wings, and I quickly changed my design. But I kept the white. She was right, that design suits this condition better.
Time: 7:31
While they create the wings, they were still running, without wasting time. As Anna has already finished and was waiting for Sugi, she closed her wings and continued to run. It was heavy to say the least, though that's what they would have felt without the shoe that almost makes the body feel light, with only the adding of the wings, it feels only normal walking without the shoes. Due to the extra pressure added on the shoes, Anna jumper further. Anna looked back to see Sugi falling behind.
[Command: solidify]
Anna placed a block inside the shoe to limit the reflective force of the pressure when the shoe touches the ground, lowering the power in her jumps.
Sugi was finally ready. They jumped out the main paths and into the skies.
[Command: safe drop]
The auto solidification of the ground to stop you from falling has been disabled.
I stretch my wings out to their max lengths. I could see Sugi falling few meters way as the rapid and strong winds hits against my face. I changed my wing angle upwards and took a pushed it down to get high, before turning it back to their original angles of 40 to get a strong speed and lower the height. Due to the angle of the wings, gaining height would be hard as speed would be easier. Decreasing the height because we don't need it. I stuck softly few meters above the middle-sized streets, not worrying about turns as I travel in about 30m per second, traveling about 36km in 20min or 108km per hour.
Do not worry, houses or properties owned by other people can't be damaged by without permission by the owner, due to the yellow lines in the air will solidify to protect it. (unless you nuke it)
Time: 7:49
The leaving time for the firing is 7:50. We flew down on the stone-grey street and ran straight forward towards the direction of the cannon fire, due to having extra time and wanting to save energy. The roads that I ran on larger than the one that I traveled on before. I looked up my view to see that I have only 15% of energy left, just to travel the distance of a fifth of the gap between the public and here.
I ran and ran for 30 seconds after exorcizing myself on the flight. I reached the end of the grey stone path and looked down, seeing the canon fires area at the bottom filled with bright red stones connected with the only thing that connects with the grey semi-transparent stair path that was like the ones that linked my house.
The port was built on a lower level than the surrounding buildings and paths, located on the edge of the platform, extending out. 20 bridges of stones extend out the platform, pointing towards the public. The 20 extending bridges are for traveling islands of the below, while those 80 canons on the actual base are for traveling to the side islands and above. The canons are a base with three thick grey hoops levitating above loosely. The ball itself is hovering inside the three hoops. The ball is metal, with an outside that looks like many large pieces of metal stuck together that could hold up to 10 people each time. A metal hut is placed behind each canon, filled with one worker each with the machines inside doing most of the things while the person there is good to small fixing and machine control when it comes to decision making.
The platform like the base of a plant pot, with the small stone stairs surrounding it. The sounds of the firing are lessened by the surrounding stair, not affecting the upper areas as much. Though a magnetic field would have been nice to stop the sounds, it could interfere with the fusions of the firing.
Sugi was standing right next to me. We have 1-minute left before leaving the balls.
[Command: slide]
A yellow liquid appeared and wrapped around my shoe that extends back and front. I leaned forwards, and I rolled down the stairs with my shoes. Since the liquid and the shoe isn't touching, friction isn't created, allowing a smooth roll down stairs with the front of the liquid to touch the front stair as the back touches the back stair, so no bounces were created.
Sugi and I ran through the many cannons, as we looked at the number of people inside on a screen displayed above the ball. I was never a fan of people, but the time was running low as we just choose the number 40th ball, consisting of 8 people already inside due to being rush hour in the morning. We placed our plums onto a square scan, creating subtraction money sign off to the left of the screen. One of the metal pieces rolled upwards and let us in. The inside floor was filled with a thick blue carpet with hollowed out orange, red and green circle patterns. There weren't any chairs, just the floor which the people normally sit or stand on throughout their 3-minute journey. Our clothes batteries started to charge.
On the left middle side of our view, a small countdown begins to the fly of the ball. It dropped to zero as the outside three circles, and bottom base of the cannon uses a large magnetic force to repel the ball flying into the sky. Truth, to be frank, I always thought we teleported as you never feel a thing different inside. It was only when you witness what happens from the outside, you think otherwise.
The ball is made out of two layers with the outside layer looking like steel the thickest, is 20cm thick. The second layer is a lot thinner of only 5cm, covered in black paint with only a few soft lights on the bottom sides and top. This serves as a relaxing time for a few minutes for meditation or just closing your eyes to get ready for the busy day ahead. The outer and inner layers are separated by the repulsive force created from the many small points around the inside layers that also functions for the fly and landing that will happen soon. Due to the two layers being separated, the outer layer is free to spin anyway it wants on the fly without interrupting the side people. Since the heaviest point/ force is always heading downwards due to gravity, the inside will never turn that is caused by the outside.
