Chapter 14
Finalizing the Plan on Location
[Harry]
Harry tapped his foot
impatiently as Aria cleared her throat to begin the explanation. They were now safely inside the mostly stripped out interior of the ship.
"Okay so, first of all try not to interrupt, its a somewhat long plan to talk about," she said.
"And?"
asked Harry, immediately.
"I'm getting to
it," she said," like I said have some patience, and don't interrupt." She put a finger on her lips to emphasize the point.
"Okay, but we
have to get to work soon too you know," said Daisy.
"If you two keep
arguing I'm not telling you till lunch time," said Aria.
Harry immediately zipped his mouth shut and the two of them
raised their hands in surrender.
"So I'll go over
it briefly for now and then tell you the exact details a bit later. We don't have the time for the full discussion, it's a busy schedule tonight as well."
Harry and Daisy both nodded
vigorously.
“Why are you two just
nodding randomly?" asked Aria.
"Nothing, just
keep going," said Harry, waving his hand in a ‘go on’ gesture.
"Hmm...anyway,
so the idea was to get the supplies without having to carry much right?" she said.
"Yes," said
Daisy.
"I think that's
what they last said," said Harry.
"Hmm...so that's
the point when you two..." began Aria.
"So we were
talking about how to get food," said Harry, not wanting her to go down that path," can we continue with
that conversation?"
“Sorry," said
Aria, looking on the verge of bursting out laughing for some reason, "so anyway you guys know about the shipments that come into supply the camp through gate A and F."
"Yes?" said Harry. What could they possibly do with those? The aliens had way too many procedures in place specifically to avoid human interaction with that process.
Aria nodded.
"So we're going to get our hands on some of that,"
said Aria.
"Wait but that's impossible isn't it," said Daisy, voicing his thoughts.
"Oh we're not getting it from the gate, that's the beauty of it," said
Aria.
"How?" asked Harry, now looking thoroughly confused.
"From the source,"
said Aria," well sort of."
"What?" said Daisy, now sounding even more confused.
"Wow, you guys really weren't paying attention," said Aria, shaking her head.
"Just get to the point," said Harry, "please!"
"So, these materials as it turns out don't come directly into camp," said Aria,"remember how they said the drone made it all the way to the alien settlement and they'd mapped a route out?"
"Yes," said Harry, "which reminds me, did Mom tell you when she was gonna tell us that remaining part of the plan we couldn't cover yesterday?"
"Not yet,"
said Aria," it'll probably be tonight, but anyway, that's not where I was going with this. Anyway, so the final plan involves sneaking out using one of those transports that bring supplies in, its the easiest way to get past the outer gate."
"Cool, but I still don't see it," said Harry.
"Yeah also don't they check those transports on the way out?" asked Daisy.
"Actually they don't, well they do, but its not thorough, its more of a formality than anything else from what the drone could capture."
"A century of success can do that to you," said Harry.
"Yup," said Daisy," but I still don't get the part about food?"
"Right, so essentially, as it turns out with some basic math, they calculated that not all of the supplies get emptied all the time," said Aria, "some of the transports leaves with supplies still left on board, as high as half of what they come in with."
"How on Earth did they do that with maths and a drone," said Harry.
"I have no idea," said Aria, " well I do, they did tell me but I don't understand it enough to explain it to you two. The basic theory was something about how trucks that are full, half empty and empty behave differently in wind or speed or something like that."
"Ahh, I think I figured it out," said Harry.
"Really?" asked Daisy.
"Yup, simple physics," said Harry," well not that simple, but its not that hard."
"Say no more, I don't want to know," said Daisy. "If you acknowledge its not simple, its going to be horribly complicated."
"True," said Harry.
"Okay, so happy now. That's what we're going to do, sneak out in a truck with some parts of the supply left and well, steal some of them as we get off," said Aria.
"Where do we get off though?" asked Harry, suddenly, realizing they'd never discussed that.
"That I think is what mom said she'll tell us later," said Aria, "I don't know for sure, but if I had to guess, I think it has to do something with this ship we're inside."
"Why would you say that?" said Harry.
"Just something about the look in mom's eyes when we first gave the news," said Aria, "I've seen here get news about the camp's weakness' before, this was different somehow."
"I don't notice that," said Harry, trying to recall that moment.
"Ehh, its a hunch, don't worry about it, let's get this work over with," said Aria.
The other two nodded.
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