BIV Book 2 Resurrection Chapter 3

Dark a dull, the lack of lights made the room dark and harder to seen in if it wasn’t for the very dim lights in the ceiling. The twelve-year-old Hydro rolled over the gray floor to dodge behind a fake rock. Hydro sat with a set of a thin electronic clothes over his normal clothes which he changed to black. Right now he was sitting behind a rock that was on the bottom floor of the three floor room.  Hydro then ran off to the west to go under the upper floor of the multi-story Laser tag arena.

He just got out of the open square that he was standing in. That place was wide open with the other two floors about it bordering it above with walls in the four corners. Just as he looked around the area his lights on his laser tag gears red light turned off. ‘Dang it!’ He mentally complained as he looked at his left wrist that held his laser tag band. On the screen it showed the score. ‘I am not losing to no dirty blues!’


“You suck,” Scarlet complained as she took off the thin gear in the room. “How did you guys win!” the room was a simple white and gray room with plenty of magnetic black floating tables to put all the laser gear on. Including the vests, wrist straps, ankle gear, upper leg gear and the laser guns.

Hydro just grinned as he ignored the other kids in the room. “Red always beats dirty blues.”

Scarlet just laughed. “Ironic that your favorite color is blue!”

Hydro's face fell, “trying to be funny.” He then walked out of the room into the main room of the laser tag section of the settlement.

“Clearly,” Scarlet droned as the two friends walked out into the main hallway. As they walked their shoes echoed over the mesh floor with the hydro cell power flowing through the pipes.

“But have you heard?” Hydro asked as he put his hands in his pockets.

“About what?” A confused looking Scarlet asked.

“The fact that they are going to expand closer to the ocean surface,” Hydro stated.

Scarlet froze and stared at Hydro, “Wait really! I’d love to be able to see the sun!”

“Yeah that be so cool!” Hydro spun around to look at Scarlet. Grinning he put his hands behind his head and walked backwards. “Come on I want to see the others now!” Hydro suddenly bolted farther down the hall leaving a shell shock Scarlet only hold out a hand in protest.

The next day Scarlet was sitting in her room at a table of hers. Her room was a simpler room that she had painted black and used light red lights to give her room a unique feeling. Her bed was centered against the north wall with the door to her room on the east wall in the Sought East corner of the room.

Her bed like everything else in the settlement was hovering in antigravity with an out any posting to hold it off the gray carpet floor by a foot. On the underside of the base of the bed was a notch line that was offset by three inches from the outer more edges. This line glowed red as it forced the bed into the air. On top of that was a simple white mattress with scarlet red bed sheets and a gray blanket on top of that.

To its left was a small black wooden stand that had a single alarm clock on it. On the West wall was her drawer that held all of her clothes. Finally, to the right of the of her bed was a tall table with a chair right next to it where Scarlet was sitting on. Her desk was covered with plenty of wires, technology, screws, etc. You name it, more than likely it was there.

In front of her she had a new racing drone. ‘The parts are finally printed!’ She happily thought. The black pieces of her new drone was the body’s shell, which was much like a mix between a jet of sorts with an indie car and dirt buggy hybrid. The main body had not front wheel slot for the flying car as the solid cone nose in the front had a wing spoiler infused at the bottom of the form nose cone. Over halfway to the back was a cockpit where she had a camera installed so she could control it with VR. It was in the back where it held the true mix between the jet and the indie car. While it held the rear tail spoiler of an indie car. Where the wheel well for an indie car was a wing that come of the solid shell. Straight and flat it went out six inches before it continued straight down at it curved down at a ninety-degree angle and did the same thing once again as three inches. This last piece went back to the main body by four inches.

Scarlet held a battery and a small engine in her hands. She then gently flipped over the hollowed out shell and placed the Engine in and secured it to the frame. She then placed the battery in to the back of the shell. Taking a wire to the engine and then to the shell she started to connect them but as she did.

Pain. Shock. “OW!” She screamed. She pulled her hand away from the battery but her entire arm started to tingle. By the time the numbing went way her entire right arm seemed to lack control. Like it was asleep yet it was not. Not wasting anytime Naomi hurried into her daughter’s room to see Scarlet gritting her teeth.

“Honey are you ok?!” She held Scarlet’s.

“I can’t move my arm.” Scarlet used her left arm to lift her right arm.

‘Shit!’ Naomi’s eyes shook as she held onto Scarlet’s arm. “Don’t worry we’ll get your arm fixed.”

Scarlet looked down at her arm, “can it be cyber?” Scarlet asked much to the shock of her mother.

“Wha- at?” Naomi stuttered. “yes but we can just fix it so you do not need to.”

“But I could like really cool!” Scarlet complained making Naomi sigh.


“Hey guys!” Scarlet waved her hand at her friends down at the park. The park was the same place that they always met at.

“What happened to your arm?” Hydro gasped at the sight of Scarlet’s right arm as he pointed at it. Esmeralda’s mouth dropped while Jones went starry eyed.

Scarlet’s right arm was very different than before as the black metal held a glowing red hue underneath the small grid lines that laid underneath the metal. The black metal was smoothly merged into her arm laying flush with her skin. Starting at the tips of her fingers the metal came out from underneath her finger nails making them glow red. But a black piece of metal came out from underneath each nail and was only one-eighth of an inch width. This line went up the top center of each finger and went to her knuckles where they continued with a small amount of red glow visible under her skin on either side of the lines.

This lines continued to her wrist following the pattern of a human skeletons hand bones. There a black metal line wrapped around her wrist and attached the other five lines over her fingers into the ring. Attached to the ring on the top half of her arm was a black right triangle that the long diagonal edge went up to the outer side of her elbow. But not the top, the side. Printed over the inside of the shape was a computer circuit like grid that glowed red with white dots moving along the lines to give it the appearance that it was moving.

Coming out of the slanted edge of the triangle was countless faint red circuit lines that went up underneath her skin up to her shoulder where it connected a bit blacker metal. This metal took a diamond shape with two point hitting the front center and back center of her shoulder. The other two lines was elongated to create two sharp tips opposite of each other. One on the top of her shoulder reach over to the base of her neck. The other one reached down halfway to her elbow.

“Oh,” Scarlet nervously scratched the back of her head. “I hurts my nerves.” She stated. “I think that’s what it was called. I just wanted this to look cool.”

“You look like a super hero!” Alex exclaimed.

“You should have made it green,” Esmeralda stated.

Scarlet just put hands behind her head. “Nah, I like black and red.”


“So why are we underwater again?” A fourteen-year-old Scarlet asked Maggie as she was looking over her notes.

“Wasn’t it because of the flood?” Hydro asked. At this point like all of his friends. He was fourteen. Currently Hydro was where a dark blue shirt with a black band on his left wrist like this mother. He also had on a pair of black cargo pants with white socks and dark blue sandals. “We came down here to avoid the flood? If we did why’d we have to go so close to the ocean’s floor?”

Maggie turned to look at her son. “It was when the water started to rise when we made started to make this settlement. If I remember history well. Then it was the governments that put this in place in case something would happen. We needed a new fuel source and we already had Hydrogen fuel cells. I guess we got lucky as we found out a way to make Hydro Fusion cells.”

Scarlet swung a leg back and forth as she stood next to Maggie. Scarlet was current wearing a white tank top surpassingly and gray thin shorts. Lastly she still had her classic black sandals on. “Still why would we go this far underground.”

Maggie shrugged, “I am not sure but it ended up be the correct call after all of the flooding happened.”

Scarlet crossed her arms. “I’d say. We even have a lot of the plants from round the world in the green houses down here! I mean all those tree! Desert trees! But I guess we needed them. For Oxygen.”

Hydro was currently leaning against the machine that brought him to life. “Mom?”

“Yes honey?”

“Do you have any idea when we’ll go back to the surface?”

‘That’s a good question,’ Maggie thought as she looked over to her son. “The main reason is the poison in the ocean waters. Acid and nuclear poison is still in the water after the floating destroyed all of our old power planets.

Last I checked the poison is still in the water. Granted its going away.”

“Well I don’t mind!” Scarlet beamed. “If it was not for you guys I’d be dead! And I couldn’t listen to all of the lovely EDM.”

“Ha!” Hydro laughed. “Alternative Rock and grunge is where it’s at!”

“EDM!”

“Alternative Rock!”

Maggie just giggled as she watched the two go at it. “But to answer your question Hydro. We will eventually.” Her words got both of the kids to turn and look at her. “That’s why I am studying ocean life. Surprisingly the poisons is not killing off all ocean life. It seems like it going away so in the future we return to the surface. Provided that there is land of course.”

The two only nodded before Hydro whispered, “Grunge.”

A tick mark appeared on Scarlet’s face before she roared, “E! D! M!”

Maggie started to giggle. Soon she went into a fit of laughter as she heard the two argue about what music was better.