Armour

The man guided Avon through corridors and exited the building. Upon exiting the building Avon saw that there were some sort of plants being grown but the plants looked nothing like of those that he knew. They were of all sorts of color and some had leaves or various shapes.

Following the man Avon entered another building. They climbed three floors and Avon noticed that each floor was a different lab. The lab on fourth floor seemed was more of a workshop with armours hanging all around and some other skintight suits visible on the tables.

The man went towards a huge screen on the wall and typed out the purpose of visit. Soon a man came to receive them. The man seemed human, at least on the surface, thought Avon.

Then they went into another room of the lab where the man told Avon pointing at a circular grid on the floor, "Please stand on that, it will take your measurements."

"Okay"

Saying so Avon stood on the grid and then a blue light shot out from below for a moment and disappeared.

"It is done, so please tell us what kind of amour would you prefer?"

Avon didn't say anything and looked at the man with a blank face. He was confused. He was never told anything about types of armours.

Catching on to his confusion the man said, "Ah maybe you have not been told about this yet, it is fine. This is common knowledge for everyone here but I'm guessing you are not from this planet?"

'Seems like everyone on the planet knows this but the ally planets do not. I can use this excuse to not reveal from which planet I exactly am from'

Thinking so Avon replied to the man, "Yes sir, you are right"

The man then continued, "So ,there are three types of armours. First two types are basic armours where one focuses on agility whereas other focuses on power. The third type is where custom armours are made to match the wearer's specific skillsets, but since there very little time left for the raid to start I believe a custom armours at this point is impossible.So how about you take a few minutes to think about which type of armour you want?"

Avon gave a nod and began to contemplate.

'I believe both speed and agility are necessary. As for special skills, I don't have any yet and so it's fine. Yeah I will ask for a versatile armour if they have it.'

He was quick to think as he always value versatility more than anything.

"By chance is there an armour which balances both?"

The man, who was not expecting this question widened his eyes and then placed his fingers at his temple as if in deep thought.

'Based on his reaction maybe they do have such an armour...' ,

Avon thought.

The man then looked in a certain direction and then looked back at Avon and said ,"Please wait a moment, I must discuss something with my colleagues first and then we will let you know. We do have an armour like that in the making...but whether to put it to practical use yet has not been decided."

"Okay. Thank you".

Avon replied.

"Well then I shall take my leave" said the man whonhad guided Avon to the laboratory and left.

Left alone, Avon sat in an empty seat and waited patiently. After sometime a woman came out and approached Avon."Please give your ID." She said.

He obediently handed it over to her. The lady left and after what seemed like a long time for Avon, the lady who had taken his ID told him to follow her.

He looked at the time while getting up from the seat and saw that it had been almost half-an hour.

Wondering what was talking so long he followed the woman. They entered into an isolated chamber in the laboratory and upon entering he saw a bunch of people inside including the man who told about the armours earlier.

Seeing so many people Avon got a little nervous but it was fine. There were many instruments around and he could see his data being displayed as a hologram right on front of a monitor which was displaying some unintelligible data.

There room was completely white. The people inside wore white coats. It seemed like this was where the research happened.

"Well then everyone let's move away from the centre of the room."

Said one of the scientists. Immediately everyone stepped away from the centre of the room where there was nothing. All the equipment was on the four wall of the room. While the room was spacious it was not too big. It would accomodate probably twenty people without being too crowded.

After everyone stepped away from the centre, one button was pressed and then the floor at the center started rising up slowly.

A long horizontal capsule appeared slowly and once the floor base rose unti it touced the ceiling.

"mr.Avon please enter in there."

Avon didn't as told and entered. Soon a gas was released and he felt lightheaded for a moment. Then he was told to get down.

One of the scientist told Avon that this gave them data about his biology. The gas particles would enter the body, store data about it and exit. This was a special kind of gas that was made for this purpose.

Avon was surprised to hear this and asked,"How doe gas store data?"

To this the woman who was told him about the gas smiled slightly and said," We have synthesised an element which has the property to do this. This invention is a result of biological studies and study about natural elements.

The atoms individually store very little amount of data, but data stored near the nucleus is very protected so this method is effective. In a gas there are uncountable atoms so very high amount data can be easily retrieved."

Avon was just in awe of this and could already think of various applications for this.

"This is so awesome. I cannot believe this!"

Suddenly he heard a familiar voice speak up from behind,

"Well you better believe because you will be first one to try it on."

He looked back and saw someone he knew well entering the room.

She had a smile tugging on her lips and looked at him in a teasing manner.

'Ms.Aveline!'