Overclocked Light Novel Chapter 5 Overclocked?
Our story continues as we see Vincent laying in bed, watching something.
Denki Hospital
Int. Room 16-Afternoon
Time 11:32AM Friday June 10th 2062
-T.V Hologram (ad)-
"Are you tired of being an average joe?? Then get the new Autobeat By
RevTech the RocketMk.3 Autobeat! It's the fastest Autobeat to date for
all your extreme needs. Order today and live life Reving!"
Vincent lifts up his shirt and looks at the one he got.
-Vincent-
(Uneasy)
"..."
-T.V Hologram (other ad)-
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-Vincent-
(Annoyed)
"What's with all these ad's...I just want to watch some movies"
After Vincent says that he hears the door open, It's Doctor Lemberg.
-Doc Lemberg-
(Happy)
"Hey there Vincent, how are you feeling so far?"
-Vincent-
(Smile)
"So far I seem fine"
-Doc Lemberg-
"Good,good. Do you feel any discomfort in your chest anywhere?"
-Vincent-
"Nope. Like I said, I feel fine."
-Doc Lemberg-
(Confused)
"Hmm...That's odd"
-Vincent-
(Raising Eyebrow)
"How so?"
-Doc Lemberg-
"Well...we did some x-ray to check if you were injured in any way that we
couldn't see and try to determine what Autobeat you had in your chest.
You had no injuries from the x-ray result and we had no luck of
identifying what model your autobeat is...and what is more
strange is it seems to me much bigger than we
expected it to be."
-Vincent-
(Curious)
"Why? How big is it supposed to be?"
-Doc Lemberg-
"Normally we go by the size of heart the person normally has. Then
we make an Autobeat the same size as their original heart...but in your
case...it seems like your Autobeat is supposed to be 15% smaller for
your body. Don't be alarmed, the x-rays show the Autobeat isn't
close to hitting anything in your chest."
-Vincent-
(Relieved)
"Phew...Ok....odd but ok....i guess...continue."
-Doc Lemberg-
"Well this is what I'm getting at. You have a bigger than expected piece
of metal in your chest...you should feel some weight difference. It would
take a long time if you could adjust to the weight."
-Vincent-
"Really? Hmm...I didn't notice anything"
-Doc Lemberg-
"Stand up and move around."
-Vincent-
"Ok"
Vincent gets out of the hospital bed and starts to move around, walking, jumping and stretching while taking deep breaths.
-Vincent-
(Confused)
"Ya doc you know what....it's really odd...."
-Doc Lemberg-
(Smile)
"See told ya, you must of didn't noticed the weight difference cause
of possibly being in bed for a long time. Your whole body might feel
heavy since you weren't active for a while. You need to get them
muscles working."
-Vincent-
(Confused)
"...Doc...."
-Doc Lemberg-
"Yes?"
-Vincent-
(Confused)
"There is a weight difference...."
-Doc Lemberg-
"Ya, And?"
-Vincent-
"But..."
-Doc Lemberg-
(Raising Eyebrow)
"But what?"
-Vincent-
"I feel...Lighter..."
-Doc Lemberg-
"!?...Ha...Let me check your temperature you might be...."
-Vincent-
"No doc i'm being serious"
Vincent then starts to look around the hospital room, his eyes stop on a stepping scale in one of the corners of the room.
-Vincent-
"Now I weighed about 167 last time I checked. I seem to have lost a bit of
weight from the looks of it and now I'm 155....how much weight does a
normal Autobeat weight?"
-Doc Lemberg-
"The normal Autobeat weighs in at around 2.5 pounds. And with that
Autobeat being over sized for you I would only think you would notice
the weight difference in your chest....yet you don't and you seem to
have lost weight instead of gaining it. Hmm.....well you can't
know everything."
-Vincent-
"Yep.....and that reminds me of something you hopefully would know, do
you know what happened the day of that fireball comet thing? Like what
was it? Did anyone get hurt?"
-Doc Lemberg-
(Distracted)
"...No not really..."
-Vincent-
(Stressed)
"What? then who does? Did Anna make it out unharmed?
Was she hurt in any way?"
-Doc Lemberg-
"Calm down Vincent, No one was seriously hurt in or around the school.
The only fatality was the truck driver."
-Vincent-
(Confused)
"Ok but....HOW DID I GET THIS THING IN MY CHEST THEN DOC?"
-Doc Lemberg-
"Well when we found you....You had the Autobeat in your chest already
with a strong pulse. You only had minor scratches and bruises...we
didn't know you didn't have an Autobeat your parents came to see
you and told us you never had an Autobeat put in. There were
even no records of this Autobeat or it being bought."
-Vincent-
(Shocked)
"Ok...How did my parents handle all of this?"
-Doc Lemberg-
(Reassuring)
"They're fine. I just called them before I came in here. They should
be here in a few minutes. they usually visit you for 3 hours everyday
around 5 but looks like they're coming early today. You are also
clear to go home if you feel like it."
-Vincent-
(Relieved)
"Oh....ok...thank you doc."
-Doc Lemberg-
(Smile)
"No problem, it's my job haha. By the way are you able
to give your Autobeat commands?"
-Vincent-
(Raising Eyebrow)
"What do you mean commands?"
-Doc Lemberg-
"Well I don't know everything about Autobeats but some Autobeats
have different functions with different commands to activate them.
Example. You must have seen the new Autobeat by RevTech the
RocketMK.3 right? Those are programable for you to activate
their new Overclock Function Mode. Burst Mode".
This function lets the Autobeat instead of a steady overclock for a
limited time, It builds up changes on top of that giving you the
ability to use the charges freely which are rated at 50%
higher then the stable overclock for that Autobeat."
Vincent
(Confused)
I have no idea what you're talking about. I really don't know
anything about Autobeats.
-Doc Lemberg-
"Oh well like i said earlier each Autobeat you find is gonna be
different depending on the generation it was built in and the
company who designed the models.
Every Autobeat has a percentage. At this time the percentage
for Autobeat's starts at 80% and goes up to 350%."
-Vincent-
(Raising Eyebrow)
"Percent for what exactly?"
-Doc Lemberg-
"It's a percent that shows how much faster it can go from a normal heart.
So if RevTech's Autobeat is rated for 350% you are able to achieve 3.5x
the blood flow then a normal heart. You can however always go past
the rated percentage but it is always unwise and not safe to do so."
-Vincent-
"I see...."
-Doc Lemberg-
"Ya...So the Burst Mode on the rocketmk.3 is rated for 400% but...."
Doc Lemberg pauses for a moment and starts typing on a Digipad hologram)(a digipad is like a tablet that can display a hologram image)
-Doc Lemberg-
"The overall rating for the Autobeat is 350%. The burst mode can only
achieve 400% and it lasts only a few minutes each charge which you
are able to hold 2."
-Vincent-
"Oh ok....Still a bit confusing...but I'll get it."
-Doc Lemberg-
"Try to give your Autobeat a command."
-Vincent-
"Umm....ok. But how do I do it?"
-Doc Lemberg-
"The Autobeat has a few ways to input commands but the most common
one is by voice command."
-Vincent-
"Voice command? As in anyone?"
-Doc Lemberg-
"No No...it has the highest voice recognition software to date plus
it can tell just by your voice box when you are trying to speak. So
if anyone had a sample of your voice the Autobeat still wouldn't
activate since it can tell when you use your voice box."
-Vincent-
"Oh that's kind of cool...What if you can't speak?"
-Doc Lemberg-
"Then you use another method but like I said before the most
common and most recommended is voice command."
-Vincent-
(Bored)
"Ok...So..."
-Doc Lemberg-
"Well each Autobeat when on standby is always at 100% and by giving it the overclock voice command you can achieve whatever the overall rating of the Autobeat is. Let's say you had a Rocketmk.3 in standby at 100% but if you say the command it will go to 350% plus other voice commands for other function like the burst mode."
-Vincent-
"So what are these voice commands? like what should I say?"
-Doc Lemberg-
"Well every voice command that i know of to overclock your Autobeat you
need to say the model of Autobeat you have followed by overclock."
-Vincent-
Huh? really? that's pretty simple. Are you able to program it so you can say
anything to overclock it?
-Doc Lemberg-
"Yes but it's not allowed. It's for safety reasons mainly."
-Vincent-
(Raising Eyebrow)
"How so?"
-Doc Lemberg-
"Well you see all the camera's in public places play a big part in it
for example you are in a train car with some people you don't
know and one of them has an Autobeat and is about to
attack you..."
-Vincent-
"What? Why would they attack?"
-Doc Lemberg-
"Vincent just listen please, in order for us to know when someone
is overclocked we told everyone to give their Autobeat the same
voice command so if anyone was about to attack. The camera's
everywhere have the highest lip reading detection and voice
hearing/recognition software so if any listed models of
Autobeats are said followed by overclock the camera's
will trigger an alert. There are also sensors on the camera's to
read electric objects so if you couldn't hear them speak or see
their lip moving, we can still pick them up with the sensors.
Plus some people might not use the smartest of words to
overclock their Autobeat..."
We see Vincent thinking of something in his head, then busts out laughing.
-Doc Lemberg-
(Annoyed)
"I can see you would have been one of those people...."
-Vincent-
(Laughing)
"Yep"
-Doc Lemberg-
"Well anyway...most Autobeat users also undergo blood doping, making
the veins and tissue more durable for overclocking and adding higher
oxygen levels to the blood. The display is called the IPatch, it's
Information Patch for short. There it is shown your battery
output in kWh, your current health conditions, BPM
and battery life levels.
The odd thing is your IPatch seems to have been embedded in
the actual Autobeat itself. The Autobeat is made out of an unknown
metal like tissue substance, it seems to have bonded with your
cells somehow."
-Vincent-
(Spooked)
"Great..."
Suddenly the door starts to open up with Maggie and George flying through the door)
-Maggie-
(Crying/Happy)
"OH MY BABYS AWAKE!!!!"
-George-
(Teary Eyed/Happy)
"OH YOUR OK SON! WE'RE GOING HOME!!"
-Vincent-
"Hey guys I'm sorry if i made you guys worry i didn't mean to...."
Vincent stops talking and hugs them both.
-George-
(Reassuring)
"It's all ok son. Nothing was your fault, it was out of everyone's
hands. I'm just glad you're ok."
-Maggie-
(Happy/Teary Eyed)
"MY BABYS OK!!!!"
-Doc Lemberg-
(Happy)
"Your son is fine and free to go home at any time. But I
really need to ask him a few more questions before he leaves if I
may.It will only take a few minutes,you can go down stairs in the
lobby and ask the lady at the decks for Vincent Weltons belonging's
if you want."
-Maggie/George-
"Ok"
-Maggie-
"We will be right back Vincent with your stuff."
-George-
"Yep don't go anywhere now we will be right back."
Maggie and George walk out of the room.
-Doc Lemberg-
"So Vincent...Before you leave I have 3 things to say. 1. At this moment
I don't think you are able to use any of your Autobeat functions since
you don't know what voice commands it needs plus the IPatch isn't
displaying any info so we don't know for sure if you are 100% ok.
If you want to try to find out then i would look up every company
model of Autobeat and say all the models followed by some
commands to see if anyone activates it."
-Vincent-
"Well I don't think I would need to use the overclock function but
I will see what I can find."
-Doc Lemberg-
"2. We have tried to charge your Autobeat's battery but it was unable
to take a charge since we couldn't find any charge ports on it. But we
have readings that whatever is powering your Autobeat should last.
Which brings up number three. Since we don't know what your
Autobeat is or how to charge it i would like for you to visit
at least once every week if u can for a check up to make
sure everything's in order. That's about it"
-Vincent-
"Well ok I'll be back once a week then. Thanks doc"
-Doc Lemberg-
"No problem. and if you have any chest pains or anything else
Before 2 week please go straight to the hospital."
-Vincent-
"Yep, I will rush over if anything happens."
We see the door open back up, Maggie has returned.
-Maggie-
"Ok Vincent are you ready? I got your clothes and your phone, you can
change in the bathroom. Your father went to go get the car he will be
waiting right outside."
-Vincent-
"Thanks…"
Vincent looks at his clothes which are burnt pretty badly by the fire
-Vincent-
"...Ok, I will quickly change."
Vincent now enters the bathroom.
-Doc Lemberg-
"So Maggie, I told Vincent he needs to visit once every week
for a check up just until we know for sure he is ok."
-Maggie-
"But I thought you said he was fine?"
-Doc Lemberg-
"It's a bit...complicated...but rest assured he is ok. Just keep a eye
on him and make sure he keeps up on the eating and sleeping
he still has to recover from his coma."
-Maggie-
(Eagle Eyes)
"Ok I'll make sure to keep an eye on him doctor."
Vincent now exits the bathroom with the burnt clothes on.
-Vincent-
"Well at least you guys washed them. Let's go mom. Thanks
Lemberg and see ya soon."
-Maggie-
"Bye"
-Doc Lemberg-
"See you guys. Take care."
Maggie and Vincent walk out of the hospital to George waiting in the car, They start to drive off.
We zoom in on Doc Lemberg seeing Vincent drive off with his parents through the window in the room he was staying in.
-Doc Lemberg-
(Stern)
"Good luck Vincent....we are all counting on you..."
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