Mimic and the Space Engineer

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“Higgens! Clean up on the base deck!”

I jolted forward, nearly shocked out of my skin by the ship’s intercom. A sizzle from below my hands pulled me the other way, and I realized my little gizmo-project had set itself alight with my gap in attention.

“Dammit.” I groaned, grabbing my well-used extinguisher and blasting the creation until it stopped it’s popping and cracking.

“Higgens! Do you read?”

“Yeah! I read! What’s the mess?” I asked.

“Why do you need to know? Just get down there!”

I gave myself a few seconds while I mentally retorted with the sarcastic comeback I wanted to say, before saying what I knew I should say. “I need to know what equipment to bring, unless you want me to haul down about a ton of different bits n’ bobs. Is it a fuel spill? Post-fire recovery? Crew got sick? Injured? Bio-hazard…”

“Alright! Alright! There was a slight rupture in the base of one of the drills and a mess of grit and debris got in.”

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