Ch 5: Training

"So kid have you ever worked in mechanics or anything similar?" Frank begins talking catching Tim off guard, who was still pondering on what the captain meant. Still doing his best to respond Tim replies

"Not exactly, only thing I can think of is working on my hover bike." his voice getting quieter at the end.

motioning for Tim to follow him through the complicated machinery that comprises the ship Frank continues the conversation, "Ha, then this will be a lot of fun (for me that is) let's start off with the basics. Do you know how this ship flies?"

"If I'm not mistaken, it uses a strong magnetic repulsion and gravity dampeners?" Tim is practically running to keep up while inwardly thinking 'why and how are these guys so fast'

chuckling to himself and also slightly impressed at how familiar the kid seemed with these systems, Frank still decided to burst his bubble "Are you a grade schooler? That would have worked in the city, but what about outside? You do know that this ship is an explorer right?"seeing the dejected look of the kid he threw him a bone "Don't worry too much, that's what I'm here to tell you."

After saying that Frank goes on a long winded speech Tim has little hope of remembering except for the gist. Which describes how they use a 'as of yet' limited energy source the same that makes the cities fly for their ships just in a minuscule amount making up the rest of the ship with various other energy sources.

Finally finishing their 'walk' at the same time he finishes his speech taking 30 minutes of the 4 hours till the captains training, Tim takes a good look around at what may have been the most interesting machine garage he had ever seen. The garage had tools and machines of all ages and materials everywhere of which Tim could only name a few.

"Cool ain't it" Frank whispers in the still entranced kids ears causing Tim to literally jump into the air in fright 'promising himself to stop spacing out at every little thing even when this thing was bigger than 10 of his old houses combined'. "HA,HA,HA" Frank laughs boisterously at the kids antics, "I'm just messing with you, welcome to my domain and my home."

As soon as the last word left his mouth Tim noticed a rickety metal bed with some beasts furs of which he had never seen before.

"Now we got about three and a half hours till we got to get you back so let's get you familiar with the place"

Not even waiting for him to finish Tim starts to rush through the area like an excited kid at an amusement park, however before he took three steps Frank picks him up by the collar

"Chill, there will be plenty of time for that after, I'm sure you won't make us fall out of the sky or blow us up" Frank says as if reminiscing about the past sending a shiver down Tim's spine and making him reconsider messing with some of the objects.

"Now first lets start with teaching you what is off limits" saying that Frank points to a line ten feet away from them that only has a workstation with some basic tools on it. Wondering why that would be off limits Tim starts to ask, but is cut off with

"Everything in this room other than that table is off-limits for now, when you can prove your ready I'll let you move around a bit more."

looking exasperated Tim starts to argue, but yet again is cut off this time by the most serious expression he has seen the pilot/engineer give as of yet. Little did he know that he was restricted due to the high number of deaths just being near any of the tools or machines has caused to normal people.