Bombproof

== Revised text ==
Notes: This ficlet has since been made redundant by "Aye, Aye, AGNIS"
Date/Timing: 8 January 2019
Setting: Temporary DriftSci housing, The Shed; Vaucluse, NSW, Australia
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Cait plops into a wheelie chair, head tilted. "Isn't that Chuck's?"
"Sh'won' missit," escapes Sergio around a mouthful of cake. "[AGNIS says she ate up at the mess.]"
Cait steals a bite with her fingers. "What's it like in there? Pietr's head?"
"Oh my god, it's amazing. No idea how in th' hell he manages it, though."
"Manages what?"
"The silence. Absolute. Perfect. Silence." Sergio swallows another forkful. "And the colors. They're—" Shakes his head. "—kinda bright and wonky."
Cait hums and pushes over to the computer.
"He's ... just—here." Sergio offers all of the Drift through their link; the incredible saturation of /colors-scents-textures, the warm tide of /peace-safe-home, the same /together-oneness Cait and Sergio had managed after a /year.
"Ho-holy shit."
Sergio sets the empty plate aside. "What the hell is he made of? Is it like this because he's deaf?"
Cait clicks around and frowns. "I have no /idea. My models—" She flicks her hand at the screen. "He's broken /everything." A beat and she mutters, "And we've never tested a deaf person before, which's /clearly a mist—"
"There's something else." He takes Cait's hands in his own. "While we were doing forms ... he saw the bomb."
Cait sucks air through her teeth.
"He didn't even flinch. All the noise, the ...." He shudders. "Cait, it just rolled off him an-and he gave back—whaddya call it?—a 'pond'? Only there wasn't really a pond just ... safe."
"The Chucks," murmurs Caitlin. "He can't be bounced and he won't let them bounce themselves."
Sergio nods. "He might be the perfect Drifter."
"We've gotta figure out how he's able to do this. If we can make all Ranger candidates, well, bombproof—"
Sergio pales.
"—like him—"
"We might be able to keep what happened to Monkey from ever happening again." 
Tags:
Ficlet, Go, Team DriftSci! arc, Skeleton Key, Sydney Shatterdome (setting), Caitlin, Caitlin (ficlet), Sergio, Sergio (ficlet), Pietr (mention), Chuck D (mention), Chuck H (mention), AGNIS (mention), Pietr is Universally Compatible, Lightcap is a Driftscientist
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