Chapter 43 - What is Anesthizine? (Patreon)

Stepping close to the door, I knelt low to the ground and very gently rolled the gas grenade of my own design into the security office, making it stop directly under their improvised poker table. Though it was near silent, the grenade’s supply of anesthizine gas was released flooding into the room until its primitive sensors detected the concentration was 70 parts per million, at which point it was designed to stop emitting the gas. As these two were baseline humans and not members of some previously unknown alien race with a unique and unknown biology, they quickly fell victim to the gas and fell unconscious, face first, into their poker table, their chips and money clattering noisily to the floor.

I moved quickly into the room and picked up the dropped chips and cards, then began arranging both men to look like they’d fallen asleep at their posts. Taking a look at the one-way mirror into David’s quarters, I couldn’t see anything as the kid had pulled the curtains shut over the mirror for a bit of privacy and probably as an act of defiance.

Running a localized passive scan on the next room, my sensors detected one human child with an extremely slow heartrate and respiration, indicating a sleeping and unconscious state.

Moving into the hallway, I triggered the door to open and threw my now activated gas grenade onto the kid’s bed. Unfortunately, the door opening had been quite loud and the kid had shot up in bed awake and alarmed, but quickly fell victim to the anesthizine gas.