Wands and Warframes

Operation

Also out of the whole thing, they found that Harry's energy usage waxed and waned. This seemed to correlate with where their gender was at any point. Kitty's on the other hand, stayed solid the entire time. They made a note to check next time she was menstruating to see if that made any difference.

Finally, it was time for the surgery, and Harry and Kitty are both staring down at their unconscious bodies.

Kitty shakes her head, "I don't think this will ever not be weird."

Harry nods, "I know what you mean. I think that's why our pod suits were designed with sensory deprivation in mind. Can you imagine what it would have been like if you came across your own body sleeping in the pod?"

Kitty shudders.

"Ok you two," – Natah comes over with Pandora trailing behind her, both of them naked and in their full frames – "We need you to get back behind the line, everything inside is going to be sterilised when we activate the surgical field."

The two of them walk back to the area with the training spectres, before turning back to watch. A shimmering green light flashes in a dome indicating the danger of the field, it then settles to amber and finally violet, to indicate it's active and safe to approach.

Inside the field, Pandora says, "Activating life support systems, enabling spinal block. Their brains are now isolated. Natah, proceed when ready."

"Activating 4th dimensional isolation field. Rotating skin, muscles, ribs, front lungs. How's Kitty looking?"

"Vitals are looking good, Kitty how do you feel."

"Queasy watching this, but apart from that, I'm fine. It's nothing I haven't seen before, only it's my body."

"Understandable."

Natah turns around to Harry's pod and repeats the process, "How's Harry doing?"

"Vitals are good. Harry, how do you feel."

"It's just weird watching this."

Pandora nods, before turning her attention back to the monitors, "Activating phase stabilisers, their Oro's should now be visible."

"I can confirm. Removing Kitty's now."

Kitty shivers violently, "Void, I feel cold."

Natah puts it back, and Kitty's shivering subsides, "Do you want me to stop here?"

"No, no. I...'ll be ok."

"Very well. Removing Kitty's Oro now. Removing Harry's Oro." – Harry shivers violently but says nothing – "Placing Kitty's Oro. Placing Harry's Oro."

Harry can't help letting out a moan, as the warmth he/she feels is amazing, like the best hug ever. Kitty joins them as well. And Natah removes the Oro she'd just placed in Kitty's chest. Immediately they both growl and start shivering.

Kitty says, "Put that back right now, it felt so nice."

Natah and Pandora share a glance and Gigabits of information before Natah puts it back in.

With the Oro's in place, but all the fields still active, Natah walks to a console on the edge of the sterilisation field and activates it. "Harry, you first. I want you to make two shots with your noise arrow. When you receive another energy charge, I want you to repeat the process."

She monitors as the system goes through the pre-programmed tests, with a random 25% of the energy charges being only a single charges worth, but the overlay adjusted to show the expected charge. As expected, Harry fires all 40 shots with no difficulties."

"Thank you, there is a minor shift in your energy usage, just above our error bars, so we'll want to keep an eye on that. Kitty, you're up."

Kitty starts to go through her own tests, though hers takes longer as she can't just stand by the dispenser. It's all going swimmingly when, 5 iterations in, she hits the first single charge. Zipping through the spectres, she cuts them down and turns as the second group walk into position, and activates her ability again. As she does, she feels a tearing sensation in her chest and staggers through the manoeuvre, still accelerated but in agony. At the end her Warframe collapses, and all of the fields wink out. Including the ones keeping the Oro visible. Curling up in her pod, she clutches her hands to her chest and screams. Void it hurt, it hurt so badly.

Harry vaults out of her own pod and rushes over to Kitty. As soon as she touches her in concern, Kitty's pain reduces to almost manageable levels.

"Stars and void, this hurts."

Natah spins around as she accelerates her thought processes to try to deal with this situation. Pandora accelerating to match her. In seconds they've got the fields activating again and are gently pushing Kitty back into the pod. When they activate the life support, it's fine, as soon as they activate the spinal block everything shorts out again, and Natah is thrown violently backwards. Drawing her wand, Pandora casts Stupefy and knocks Kitty out with magic.

Once she's unconscious, Harry goes to remove her hand and Pandora shouts, "Don't you dare remove that hand. Natah, I'm starting a scan for Kitty's Oro. Scan has come back negative. I'm going to check her over with magic, if it turns out to be a magical problem, we'll need to bring in a Qualified Healer."

Hed flies in and lands on Natah's frame, and Natah shakes her head, "How do they do that?"

"I have no idea, and it's got worse since they learnt how to void travel."

Harry watches cautiously as Pandora does a few basic diagnostic spells, only to find that Kitty has virtually no magical reserves, which is vastly more than she should have. With a sigh, she conjures some parchment and ink, "Minerva hasn't left yet has she?"

"If she has, then she's still in transit. It will still be quicker for them to turn around than for us to send her back."

Pandora quickly pens a note to Minerva requesting that she asks a fully qualified healer to make a house call, and outlines the symptoms.

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Minerva is just packing her bags for the morning when Hed appears in her room and holds out a leg with a letter grasped in her foot. Giving her a scritch, Minerva takes the letter, reads it, reads it again, and then swears, heads to her Floo and calls out "St Mungo's"