Putting up the first Med Exam.
Shor and Isaac!
EXALERUNE MEDICAL BAY, EN ROUTE TO TOLRON
It was good to be back in space. Perhaps it was the limitless darkness of the void that called Shor'Gen's memory back to home, or maybe it was the relief of finally leaving behind the past ordeals. Whatever it was, he was calm.
Shor'Gen began preparing the surgery room for the mandatory crew physicals. After everything was neat and tidy, he stepped over to the medbay intercom. Placing a pincer on the broadcast button, he spoke clearly into the microphone.
"Engineer Isaac Adapt, please report to Medbay for your mandatory crew physical"
Isaac was working on, pretty much still paper work of his attempt for the AI's magitech artificial body when he heard the call for his physical.
Sighting he stood up, he hated being called out when he was struggeling with the theory and stuff, but as the report said it is mandatory.
After a few minutes he finally entered the medbay, stopping in his tracks as his eyes fell on the doctor.
"what the fuck?" Ignoring his thoughts he sighed again as he sat on a exam table and looked at the thing that was standing there.
"first off, what the heck are you, are you even a medic, second off if you feel like pincing me with those claws of your, dont, I wont say what I will do, but believe me, just dont"
When Isaac sat down on the exam table, Shor'Gen circled around him first, analyzing the geometry of his body. "Human," he noted, and stopped in front of him again. "I assure you, Engineer Adapt, that I am the IGCP licensed Lead Physician aboard this vessel. You may pronounce me Shor'Gen."
He crawled a bit closer, sensory tendrils waving in the air as he started to examine him from the surface. He extended one of his large primary pincers, and gently grabbed one of his arms at the elbow, holding a blood pressure tester against it.
In front of his head, a holographic display projected from the table popped up. "Blood pressure optimal, weight optimal. It appears you take very good care of yourself, Engineer Isaac."
He took his pincers off of him, and oriented his head towards his heart. "You seem to be in very good health. Tell me about your nutrition and exercise habits, Engineer Isaac."
Isaac gave the medic the benefit of the doubt as he said that he was the real physician and gave his name.
Still he felt like pulling his arm away from the pincers but carefully let the, what the hell was this guy actually? anyway he let him grab his arm, he could always shock the man if he went too far.
It was a surprise to notice how gently it could be, calming Isaac somewhat, only a real medic could be this gentle and carefull with such crude body parts.
Then the.... well he wanted to think man, but was this thing a man or woman or both or neither, so he settled with thing until he was sure about this creature's, existence.
anyway he came with the question about the nutritions and exercise, something he had been hoping wont come up one way or an other.
"well, uhm.., I keep active, let my body rest at times" trough he would be thinking as he was before getting called, but he kept that out as the medic would start asking about his sleep "and my food... uhm... I eat enough at the right times and keep myself energized though the rest of the day" he smirked at the energized remark considering what he did to keep that up.
Shor'Gen listened intently to Isaac's explanation. There were plenty of holes in it, but Shor didn't think it required further questioning. It was solid enough, he supposed. Although, he'd be lying if he said he wasn't curious how Isaac could keep a physique like his working as a starship engineer. He regretted to say such things, but rations on board vessels weren't exactly...optimal.
He nodded, and resumed examining him. "I'm going to take some samples now, please try to be still."
He opened a compartment on the side of the table, where all the exam tools were held. In his varius smaller appendages, he took up a series of tools. "Hold out your arm, Engineer Isaac."
Isaac tightened up after he opened the compartment, seeing the tools.
He had never seen these tools before, the sight ignighted his passion to learn more about these tools and see if they possessed magitech or if he could add it to the tools.
"say Shor'gen, are any of these things magitech?, and how do they work?"
He sticked out his arm as asked, letting his gaurd down a little as he was more interested in how these things worked, wanting to see it with his own eyes, though he could do without experiencing it with his own body, but then again, he wont be able to get out from this anyway now would he?
Shor'Gen shook his head. "No, these tools are purely technological. My kind cannot operate magitech as easily as the others. Our nervous systems and sensory organs make percieving intangible magic a difficulty."
With that, he pinched down slightly on Isaac's forearm, to ensure the flow of blood was good, before sticking a needle into the inside of his elbow. He filled the syringe with blood, before pulling it out and covering the small hole with some medical gauze. He set the syringe off to the side, on a sanitized tray. "Try not to exert that arm too much today," he advised, before taking up another tool, a cell sampler.
"Open your mouth, please."
Isaac as kinda bummed that he could not make the tools magitech, well at least not on the basis of workings, but maybe a passive ability?
He whinced a little when the needle came into his arm, he had always hated needled, he had tried to find a magitech solution before but failed so he knew he had to endure this crap.
once the medic put a gauze on the needle mark, Isaac smriked again, thinking that he would decide when to exert his arm or not, controlling his bio-electrical currents to increase his healing rate on where the needle had entered, closing the small wound pretty much instantly.
He then opened his mouth as the Shor'gen had asked him to do.
Carefully, Shor'Gen placed the tip of the cell sampler into Isaac's mouth, putting it against the inside of his cheek. He tried to make out what it was reading on the screen, but it was all a little scrambled. Shor'Gen tipped his head curiously to the side, but still managed to get a proper sample.
Taking it out of Isaac's mouth, he looked like he was going to put it away, before he froze for a few seconds. The sensory tendrils retreated into the carapace on his head slightly as Isaac got sharper in his vision for a moment.
He looked him over again, before his sight fell on his arm, and the lack of wound underneath the gauze. "Curious..." He commented, before looking back at Isaac. He pulled up a reading from the table again, and studied the solid hologram in front of him.
"Table reads a spike in neurological activity. Patient's wound has spontaneously healed. Soundsight...disrupted. Enginner Isaac, I'm afraid I must ask you what your species is."
the cell sample tool was kinda annyoing but at least it was pain free, still Isaac was happy to have it out of his mouth.
He rubbed his jaws as he had opened them a bit too much.
Suddenly the thing froze for some reason, pretty much right after he had healed his arm.
the thing turned and said Curious and followed it up with opening a hologram and more talk, talk Isaac was not happy about.
the thing spoke about neurological activity, which Isaac took as his Bio-electrical control, the thing knew he had healed himself, said something about soundsight, which he had no idea what that was.
It all sounded pretty much, well not bad but Isaac was not happy about this, and then his fears became true, the medic asked him for his race.
Isaac was quite for a while, calming his nerves, he did not wanted to risk of accidentally increase his bio-electrical currents again.
"Human" was what he simply said "of the Eremend sub-race"
He was not sure if adding the sub-race would be a smart thing to do, but then again, even if the medic had met an eremend before, how big was the chance of that one having been an thunder user as himself?
plus just stating human was likely not going to be enough, best he could do now was freign innocents, act like he had no idea what he was or what the medic was talking about.
Shor'Gen considered Isaac's answer, as he stood still in front of him. "Previous knowledge is incomplete. Eremend missing from IGCP medical databases. Facts...inconsistent..."
He directed his head back towards him.
"Please, do not conceal this information from me, Isaac. It's very important that I know the proper answer to this question. I can't do my work properly if my patients withhold information," He explained, and placed his primary pincers together, mimicking how humans put their hands together when concerned.
"If you wish to keep your race secret, do not worry. That secret's safe with me. I pride myself with patient confidentiality."
Isaac thought about it, sure you had something as doctor patient confidentiality as the thing said.
still he was bound by the rules of keeping his race a secret so for now he will try to fake innocence some more.
"Like I said, I am human, as far as I know that is all I am" he looked at the thing, suddenly realizing he could not find its eyes.
"what the, where are your eyes, what race are you?" he asked getting confused and trying to change the subject
Shor'Gen sighed, shaking his head.
"Please, do not lie to me, Engineer Isaac," he started, and stepped a bit closer.
"The fact that you healed your wound tells me that you know exactly what you're doing. I'm asking you one last time to tell me. If you refuse, I cannot do anything except mark you down as what you state you are. However, if you're wounded, and my equipment doesn't work properly due to your nature, I will not be able to save you. I will have no choice but to bring this information to the captain, it's my duty."
Isaac smirked, the eremend human body is perfectly human so medically it wont change anything, well there is one exception but that is an virus so rare that in the last 100 years only one case had been found on Marcle, and its a virus that only an Eremend can get, but it wont be leathal, it would pretty much expose his true nature however as the virus would start to effect the... well whatever allows him to change and control his body mass, meaning he would lose control and one or a few parts of his body would become electrical made till the Virus gets defeated by his immune system.
Calming himself once more to remove the smirk he replied "Like I said, I dont know, I am just a human, maybe there is something with the equipment here, I will look at it later and even if it was some strange healing power, as far as I know and I am sure you would know as well, healing is something the body would do on its own, its not that I can control it now can I"
he knew he would have the medic on that point, he could do this on control, he admitted that, but normally healing is a passive power, eremends that could do this were unique
Shor'Gen looked at Isaac. There was nothing wrong with the equipment, it was all brand new. Shor'Gen calibrated it all himself. He really didn't like the way Isaac was smirking, it only made it more apparent that he was lying between his teeth.
"Very well, Engineer Isaac. Your decisions are your own. You haven't convinced me that you're just a human, but for the sake of the others, I must conclude this examination. You have a clean bill of health, you may leave my office," He said. His voice was cautious, suspicious. It was clear he didn't believe Isaac for a moment, but Shor'Gen had a job to get back to.
Isaac simply just nodded and left the room, wanting to get away from this before something else came up about this him and his powers or race.
As he walked back to where he left his paper work he was thinking one simple thing: never ever use my powers in front of that thing ever again, heal myself after the check up.