Chapter 10:
Project: Beyond Comprehension
“Hmmmmmm hmmmmm hmm hmm hmmmmmm” Junes humming fills the space around her and Peewee as they venture forth to find what she needs for the anti-gravity research.
“Peewee, would you happen to know of any fun crystals anywhere? Anything I could find fun to experiment with?” Junes looks down at Peewee. They look up at June, a little confused but seemingly giving a look of “Dunno”.
“Ah Dinnae Ken huh? Well, I don’t expect ya to know everything lil’ buddy. Well let's keep on keeping on then!” June and Peewee continue walking for several hours. They find a few new things while exploring, but nothing of great significance,”.
Some days pass and night comes back around again. June wakes up that morning and sees out the window that the festival is officially back. “So that makes it definite then. Three days of Mr. Sun and three days of the Twins and their festival.
June immediately starts writing down in her notebook about the new confirmation she's made. Her notebook has notes from every day in it, and, at the end of the day, she enters the data into her computer and then uploads the data to her suit for any needed future convenience.
“Bet the balloons at HQ would be happy to see I’ve gotten more information about Bonnie for them. Though who knows if they would even care about the day cycle.” She looks down at Peewee, “But that doesn’t matter, does it, Peewee?” She says with a grin.
Laying on June's bed, Peewee naps while June starts to go through and pull the different parts of her necessary notes together to get an idea of what all she has and what all she still needs before she can start the process of trying to successfully show up the entire companies research team.
“Hey Peewee, you awake?” Little, groggy eyes open and look up at June. “Sorry for waking ya. Did you know that Bonnie seems to have a very similar daylight cycle to Pluto? 6 days for a full rotation!”
Peewee looks up at June with a confused but sleepily excited look on their face. “Oh, that’s right. Uhmmm, Pluto is a Planet that’s a part of my solar system. It’s super tiny though.”
She stops for a moment trying to remember, “Or is it a planet? I can’t remember, to be honest with you, it would be a lot easier to remember that sort of thing if they didn’t change their bloody minds all the time. I swear it's every other decade where they switch up on Pluto,”.
“Well you're a planet to me pluto,”, She continues to pinch and swipe through different pieces of information on her computer. “I got yer back Pluto, don’t even worry bout’ it!”. Peewee sees June start rambling to herself again and takes the time to dose back off to sleep.
Several hours go by as June gets everything figured out that she needs to, leaving her feeling like shes just missing a couple pieces to this puzzle before she can solve it. “Alright buddy, I’m so close to having everything I need. Based off of these algorithms I’ve run, theoretically, there's just a couple of things I need before being able to test my theories.”
Getting some supplies around, she rushes through her pod with excitement. “Peewee, ya down for some camping? I’d like to explore a bit further this time. WOn’t have time to come back and forth like usual” Peewee looks over at June, vaguely understanding June's words and funny gestures but seemingly down for the trip.
After getting what she needs, the two of them head out and start their journey north. As the festival rages on throughout Bonnie's stage, the festival of dancing lights illuminate the world around them, making things bright enough to travel, despite the daytime’s absence.
“Mmm, Peewee come here for a sec!” June smacks her lips on a few fresh berries she found and washed in the spring next to her. Peewee struggles for a moment to get their head out of a cluster of foliage. Once unstuck, they hop over to June to see what food she’s found.
Through smacking lips, June looks down and puts out a handful of little yellow berries on a thin, stringy stem. It kind of resembled that of a bushel of grapes but the shape of these berries was more like that of a lightly pale-yellow raspberry.
Peewee grabs the stem with their little hands and pulls off a berry with their mouth. After a moment of tasting, peewee grabs the rest of the bushel with its little front paws and starts to join June in smacking down on the berries.
“Tasty right? They look like these things called raspberries from where I’m from but they have an unfamiliar, very sweet citrus taste.” For a moment June seems to notice something, “Oh wow, and a light, salty aftertaste? That’s interesting!”
June falls back onto the ground while still munching on the berries, “So good! So cool! Ahhhhh!” A quiet yell of mild overstimulation exits her mouth as the thoughts and feeling of fascination flood over her.
Not only do they taste really good, but the idea of everything is super fascinating and exciting to June. The idea of something new like this sends massive amounts of dopamine through her head.
June and Peewee go through 4 separate bushels she found and kept one of them for the “Road”. June looks over and notices Peewee start to get up sluggishly, noticing determination in Peewee’s eyes.
“Yuptae lil’ buddy, ya gettin’ a whiff of something?” She watches him, interrupting the process as she observes from the comfort of the grassy, rocky ground. Several minutes go by as Peewee searches through bushes, around rocks, and intensively plants their snout into the dirt in some spots.
Eventually Peewee plants their sniffer into the ground and starts to hover around that specific area for a little longer. Peewee hops up with excitement and starts vigorously digging into the gravely ground beneath their feet.
“Gaun Yersel’ Peewee, go little buddy, keep on diggin’!” June Cheers from the sidelines, watching with pride as Peewee goes to town on the dirt. “Ye got this!”. After a couple of minutes of digging, Peewee seems to stop, picking around in the hole with their mouth.
Moments later, Peewee starts hopping over to June. She sits up quickly as she sees them approaching, noticing a light shine in their mouth. “Woah, nice find buddy! I didn’t know you could sniff out crystals like that, I’ll have to add that to my data list on you later!”
Peewee runs over to June and sits a small chunk of what seems to be a little bright blue, glimmering crystal into her hand. “Woah this is super pretty!” She tosses it into the air to see it shine. Through splitting moments during its airtime, June notices the free fall of the crystal going ever so slightly slower than what she would’ve expected.
Tossing it up again to make sure she isn’t going crazy, her eyes look down at Peewee, beaming with uncontrollable exhilaration, as the translucent crystal falls through her vision, momentarily making Peewee look a wonderful shade of blue, before falling back down into her hand again.
A massive, open-mouth, smile wipes down over her face. “I thought so! I can’t be off my trolley! This has to be what I think it might be. Oh peewee you magnificent thing, you're incredible! This might be exactly what I needed!”
As she put the crystal into thee examination pouch, June looks down at peewee, “Anymore here?” Peewee looks up at June with an expression she has learned to recognize as “Dunno”.
“Alright that’s all good, this is plenty for right now, This might be the start of proof that this is possible.” She starts to run up the looming hill that they stood at the foot of before.
“Come on Peewee!, when you find a huge discovery like this, ya gotta take advantage of the rush, run with me!” She shouts to Peewee as she loudly starts laughing, pure joy bleeding into the air around her
Minutes later, June stands completely still at the top of the hill as Peewee catches up after a couple of seconds. “Woah, No frickin’ way.” Her eyes fixate on the view in front of her. “You’ve got to be kiddin’ me, Bonnie.” Breathe bursts from her lungs as she exhales the words “Pure Barry”
Noticing Junes oozing awe, Peewee looks up at the scene and sees a massive blue crystal sitting in the middle of a large bright green pond, all shimmering in the Twin's performance.
Breaking June’s oogling, fixated attention, a little message pops up in the side of her vision from the suit. “Alert: Analysis complete” After a couple of seconds, the message shifts. “Crystline properties: Anti Gravity”.
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