Free The Mulligan Planet by Zachariah Dracoulis

extended his hand and I scooped up the lens and
followed his direction, “Ok, so those will immediately bond with
your body and run on your body heat, no changing batteries. They’re
voice activated, so let’s get you to turn them on, say activate.” I
was still blinking them in, “Activate.” There was a flash of white
before a map appeared in the bottom left hand corner of my vision.
“Woah… This is amazing!” Wolf was chuckling, “Let’s continue with
the tutorial. There are two modes, both of which have the ability
to switch from infra-red to low light to standard. The first is
exploration or passive, in this mode your vision will have the
mini-map, a compass and health monitor. Your health monitor is
invisible but will start beeping if you’re in immediate danger of
dying, whether from bullet wounds or radioactive exposure or
anything like that. The second mode is combat or aggressive, when
in this mode you will have everything from the passive mode, but
you will have a reticule which will change depending on what type
of weapon you’re carrying provided it’s scanned it. As well as this
it will put a red arrow above any target that you’ve recently fired
upon, unless they hide in cover for an extended period,” Wolf spun
around, pulled out a pen and wrote something on his hand, he showed
me it and clearly written on his palm was the word ‘brother’, “What
did I write?” I felt this a weird question, “Brother?” he gave me a
thumbs up, “Yep, that’s another cool feature, in-built translator,
this is written in German, you look at any writing and it will
translate it into English for you, or any other language,
personally I use German, makes my life a little bit easier.”
    Wolf began rubbing the ink off
his hand, “What else, ah yes, ears,” he grabbed the glass container
again and produced a small vial with a silver powder inside, “This
is the LAP, Life and Audio Program. You have to inhale this
nasally, lay down on the bench there.” He gestured to an empty
white bench next to me which I proceeded to lay on, Wolf walked
over and uncorked the vial, “This will help us hear you, you hear
us as well as that we can check your vitals, you can check ours and
as an extra bonus it translates all audio. It will latch to your
blood stream and pass to your brain, heart, all that. Easiest way
to do that is injection, but for some reason it messes up and gets
scrambled when liquefied. Now, when I say breathe in just… do it.
If you don’t this will be quite uncomfortable.” He brought the vial
to my face, I felt myself beginning to panic, “On three, One. Two.
Three!” he pushed the vial to my left nostril and I breathed in
with all that I could, “There we go, all done.” I began to sit up,
“I wouldn’t do that.” I felt pain shoot through the back of my head
like I’d been hit with a lightning bolt. I couldn’t help but growl
in pain, “It’ll pass, in a few seconds.” It wasn’t dimming, it was
the same constant pain, my eyes squeezed shut while my body was
writhed and constricted, and then the pain disappeared. Literally,
it didn’t fade or loosen, it just vanished, I opened my eyes and
saw Wolf standing over me, watching me with concern, “You alright?”
I nodded, “It’s gone, nothing, no residual, just gone.” Wolf smiled
down at me, “What’d I tell you?” I sat up and the pain hit again,
“You see that, that I wouldn’t have done John.”
    After the pain subsided I waited
and watched Wolf, waiting for his word, he looked down at his
watch, “Ok, you should be alright to sit up now.” I cautiously
began to sit up and when I felt comfortable that the pain was well
and truly gone I shuffled off the desk and stood up. “That was an
experience.” I shook myself loose, “So, can we see my car now?”
Wolf nodded, “Sure, let’s go,” We turned and began walking to the
elevator from where we came, “I hear he worked on this thing all
night after you got back,