2.2
Part 2
It was four in the morning when I realized the key flaw in my plan.
Namely that the bus didn't run at four in the morning.
Very stupid thing to forget I know, I kicked myself hard the moment I realized it.
Well rather I kicked a bulkhead but the result was the same either way: A lot of cursing, catharsis, and an idiot feeling a sharp sting of suffering followed by a dull ache of resignation.
Luckily there was a very obvious alternative.
Spend the night.
"How the hell am I going to attach this?" I muttered looking at one of the plates I'd cut for outer armor.
I'd picked good stock for it at least. I'd spent more then an hour blasting at various bits to see how long various parts resisted. This wasn't the longest lasting of them, but it'd lasted a while and was light. It also came in convenient quarter inch plate.
"Rivets?" Nah, a rivet gun would cost more then proper chainmail? "Rent it?" I questioned, then discarded the idea entirely. I didn't know how to use a rivet gun... "Do they even still use rivet guns?" I questioned.
It didn't really matter, rivets would probably shatter the motocross armor.
"Superglue?" I questioned. I mean the idea wasn't really as crazy as it sounded. Superglue was amazing stuff. There was a reason it was in almost every emergency survival kit used on Earth.
Well that and its use as an emergency suture.
"Nah, fire would melt it, and a big shock could still knock it loose," though that might work as a functional ablative...
"Nah too thick," I realized. This was going to be heavy enough as it was.
At the same time I looked at the much less combat oriented armor plates already on my costume.
Then I hit the side of my head, "Idiot."
And then I started cutting slots into the plate to fit the buckles that secured what was already in place.
Man I was just oh for two now wasn't I?
"Going to have to hammer these things into shape," I grunted, meaning painting was going to have to wait for that at the minimum.
"Still all in all not a bad day of work," I smirked in approval.
Then a thought hit me and my eyes went wide and I quickly checked my phone.
"I still have time!" I grinned at the realisation.
The sunrise from the top of this heap was probably spec-freaking-tactular!