Wands and Warframes

Operation

Operation

Natah is waiting for them when Harry, Kitty, and Hermione all disembark from the Railjack at the beginning of the winter holiday, Minerva will be returning tomorrow as she has an end of term meeting to attend first, granted tomorrow is almost 3 months from now but still.

"Hey Mum, we've got trunks full of animals for you, I thought we got breeding pairs when we first did our shopping."

Natah nods, "We did, which are fine for study, but we want to set up stable populations."

"I see, so you want the increased genetic diversity. What brought that on?"

"We have a Leyline developing on Lua, and we want to see if that's because of something we've done or it happens naturally. So we're going to establish locations with magical plants and creatures to see if leylines develop naturally or not."

Kitty fair bounces on her toes, "How's the testing with Oro's going?"

Hermione laughs, and heads off to do her own thing before they remember she's supposed to be acclimatising to other frames. Natah on the other hand sighs, "Yes, we've finished our initial research, and we think that it's safe enough for the two of you."

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A few hours later, The Lotus looks at Harry and Kitty seriously, "Are you sure you want to try this?"

Kitty nods emphatically, "I am."

Harry shrugs, "I'm still game. There's profit to be made, to borrow a Corpus phrase."

Lotus looks over at Pandora, who shakes her head slightly, "Very well," – she takes of her helmet moving to a less formal posture – "These two transfer pods have been specially designed to prevent you from using physical transference, only the pod driven transference. If something goes wrong, we do not want to have to try and transfer you out of your Warframe to fix the problem. Additionally, the lids have been modified to be cut out with a surgical interface for Pandora and I to use. When we've done this with Kurbow, we've had them sedated, however we need immediate feedback from the both of you, so instead you'll be in your Warframes. I want you both to pick a Warframe with an instant cast non-sustained first ability."

Kitty smiles, "That's easy, I'll just use my Nezha. Just make sure there's something I can throw my disk at."

Harry laughs, "Kitty, that's not the first ability."

"It's not? Wait? Damn it, I never use the fire walk. Ok, I'll fish out Excalibur."

Harry has to think hard about her available Warframes, finally settling on Invra, as her noise arrow is just shot from her bow and stops when it hits something.

"Now that you've got your Warframes selected, the next week is going to be very boring, as we need to calibrate the amount of void energy reserves they allow precisely. So that you have just enough excess energy to use your abilities twice before the reserve is empty."

A few days in, Kitty complains, "Why do we need to do this again?"

Pandora sighs, "We're trying to detect if there are any ill effects on you or Harry after the operation. We've not detected any shifts in personality with the animals we tested this on, but humans are not animals. And you've got abilities over and above the normal human. We're not just calibrating our void condensers for each of you, we're also taking scans of your bodies and brains, as well as including personality test questions. Anyway, two uses, again."

Kitty stalls after only one use, "That's not enough energy, even though my overlay says I have enough."

"That's because the overlay doesn't work as precisely as we are, let me just add the decimal points to your overlay and you'll see what I mean."