In Space With Markiplier, Part III: Fixer-Upper

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Red electric bolts shot up my arm like a bullet.
"Gah!-" I screamed.

Mark ran to my side but refused to touch me in fear of getting electrocuted. It shocked my arm for about 10 seconds before eventually dying down. The crystal turned back to blue.

"Captain, are you okay?" Mark asked.

I didn't respond. I was speechless while looking at my hand.
"We're running out of time!" I quickly got up and ran to the warp core computer.
Once I turned it on, the warp core lit up. The monitor lit up as well. I had to find a way to destroy it along with the crystal. Bolts shot up the warp core, it was badly damaged.

Peebles placed her bag down on the ground and starting pulling tools out. She handed a few tools to Mark who just stared.
"We're gonna have to repair this thing if we want to get the magic out of the crystal." She said.

Mark grabbed the tool and stepped closer to the warp core.
I shut the warp core down so it wasn't activated while it was being repaired. Meanwhile, I was searching deactivation codes or anything that could possibly destroy this.

As they were working on it, I could hear Peebles and Mark talking. I couldn't hear everything they were saying, but what I did hear always caught me off guard.

"So you're the creator of this thing, huh?" Peebles asked. He shrugged and smiled but sounded uncomfortable mentioning it, especially what happened last time we were here.
"How long did it take you?"

He sighed while laughing. "Got I lost track after the first three days. My guess is probably an eternity."

Peebles smirked a bit.
Mark looked down at her bag full of tools and gadgets.
"So are you an head engineer yourself?" He asked.

"Assistant designer, but yeah. I helped with the creation of my crew's spaceship." She went silent for a second. "Until it was destroyed."

Mark suddenly looked down for a moment.
"I mean..." he paused, afraid of saying something wrong. "I get it if you don't want to talk about it but how was it destroyed?"

She didn't seem to mind too much about it, probably just to get it off her chest. "It blew up after an engine failure, our leader was still onboard when it happened."

Mark went quiet for a moment again. "I'm so sorry about that."

"You're fine." She said. "I don't really worry about that anymore, However I'm still out of a job and there's not a lot hiring."

Mark paused for a second to face her.
"You know, our crew is always open for new members, we're definitely in need of more engineers."

Peebles suddenly lit up in excitement.
"I'd love too."
The two grinned but focused back on what they were repairing.

After a while, Peebles kneeled down to her bag and pulled out a large gadget, and placed it aside to dig deeper in her bag.
Mark noticed this and stared at it.
"What's that thing?"

She looked up at him than at what he was pointing at.
"Oh it's like an energy rate scanner."

She picked it up and turned it on. I suddenly began making clicking sounds, almost like a metronome. She turned the scanner towards Mark which made the clicking speed up slightly.

Mark stared down at it as Peebles showed it off.
"That's the normal rate for a human."
She then turned it to herself, which made the clicking speed up ten times faster.

"Wow..." Mark mumbled.

"Captain on the other hand..."
She turned the scanner towards my direction which made me stand up straight. It was around the same rate as Peebles but slightly faster.