The Great Escape, Part 1

In yesterday's post, we saw that the Deucadons did not know what to do with Rei so they decided it would be easiest just to kill him. Earlier, we witnessed MINIMCOM's first attempt at creating a whoosh-pop snap tunnel in Part 2 of Rome's Revolution. That first attempt did not go so well. But even a bad attempt in better than being dead.

Rei had sufficiently recovered from the Deucadon's version of a taser. While he was out cold, the Deucadons had dragged him into a small cave within the glade. There was no way out but that didn't stop MINIMCOM:

     Rei decided it was time to take action. “MINIMCOM, are you there?” Rei thought to himself.
     “Yes,” replied the little computer.
     “Did you hear what they said?”
     “In a sense. I can hear what you hear. They are not very pleasant people,” replied MINIMCOM. “And they clearly do not wish you well.”
     “Do you think there is any way you can help me out of this jam?” Rei thought to himself.
     “Certainly,” replied MINIMCOM cheerfully in Rei’s mind.
     “Well, are you going to tell me? Is there a way out?”
     “Not presently but we will rectify that situation. Please press yourself against the back wall of the cave,” said MINIMCOM.
     Rei stood up and moved a little gingerly around to the back. He pushed as hard as he could into the stone. He could feel vibrations but wasn’t sure of their origin. Little stones began to fall from the ceiling. Then larger hunks of rock. Now the entire cave was shaking. With a whump and a whoosh, a one and a half meter diameter section of the ceiling crumbled and collapsed to the bottom of room.
     Rei walked over and looked up and could see a shaft going all the way to the sky. The stars overhead were brilliant and he could see a reflection of one of the moons, perhaps Givvy, glinting against a few wispy clouds.
     “That’s great, MINIMCOM,” he thought to himself. “How did you do that?” he thought to himself.
     “Practice makes perfect,” MINIMCOM replied, quite pleased with himself.
     “It’s a nice shaft,” Rei thought to himself. “But how am I going to climb up it? It’s too high for me to reach.”
     “It is not for you to climb up,” MINIMCOM said in Rei’s mind. “I just wanted to make sure that I did not intermix your atoms with those of the rocks.”

Tomorrow, Rei is the guinea pig when MINIMCOM attempts to use his "transporter" for the first time.