It does one thing, it makes him laugh a delirious little laugh.
"Nothing like reminding someone about their potential mummified corpse to get them to chill down."
It does actually work, though. The nervous laughter relieves some of the tension. And a reminder of the stakes gets him stubborn and determined, makes him want to win. He has to do this to save the both of them -- or at least her, if it's already too late for him. He has to do this to save a whole planet.
And he's done that before.
You've already helped save worlds.
Okay, so back home, maybe that'd been mostly down to Grunkle Stan but he and Mabel were the ones that rallied the town. They got everyone into the Fearamid. Stan never would've even had his opening if it wasn't for them. And since then, since joining the Legion he'd helped save others.
...then there's the fact that she's helping hold him up. It makes something warm and tingly curl up inside his chest and he's pretty sure it's not radiation this time.
Probably.
There's a different fluttery feeling there, but despite feeling it, it doesn't mess up his control of his teke. In fact, as he rotates the control rod and lines it up, it finally evens out and stops wobbling. He draws in one last deep breath and lets it out.
"Here goes nothing."
Instead of trying to mentally hurl the thing like a javelin, he points his hand like a gun, trying to imagine that it's a bullet instead. Something meant to be fast and precise.
Bang.
There's an actual crack of sound as his teke launches the control rod at a speed of over 200 mph. It flies into the slot perfectly, and the next sound is a loud groan that seems like it might be the precursor to an explosion, and then... then things start whirring and shutting down. The core cools enough that emergency coolant systems are able to finally flood the core with coolant.
A voice blares over an intercom.
EMERGENCY SHUTDOWN SYSTEMS ENGAGING.... EMERGENCY CORE SHUTDOWN SUCCESSFUL.
The meltdown warning klaxons stop blaring and the different quieter klaxons that just signify there's still damage to the core start sounding instead. As some of the overheated emergency systems cool down enough to function again, mechanical arms reach out from the walls, picking up radiation sources and taking them away for containment.
A shield even pops up around Nuclon, and he practically growls from where he's trapped in hardened coolant.
NUCLEOPHASIC SOURCE ISOLATION SYSTEMS SUCCESSFUL. EMERGENCY SHIELDING MECHANISMS SUCCESSFUL.
"Just you wait," Nuclon growls. "I'll get free and --"
"-- get your butt kicked by Pidge again?" Dipper laughs. "We didn't even have to team up to beat you in the end. Apparently, she just had to get pissed enough to do it all by herself."
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"Nothing like reminding someone about their potential mummified corpse to get them to chill down."
It does actually work, though. The nervous laughter relieves some of the tension. And a reminder of the stakes gets him stubborn and determined, makes him want to win. He has to do this to save the both of them -- or at least her, if it's already too late for him. He has to do this to save a whole planet.
And he's done that before.
You've already helped save worlds.
Okay, so back home, maybe that'd been mostly down to Grunkle Stan but he and Mabel were the ones that rallied the town. They got everyone into the Fearamid. Stan never would've even had his opening if it wasn't for them. And since then, since joining the Legion he'd helped save others.
...then there's the fact that she's helping hold him up. It makes something warm and tingly curl up inside his chest and he's pretty sure it's not radiation this time.
Probably.
There's a different fluttery feeling there, but despite feeling it, it doesn't mess up his control of his teke. In fact, as he rotates the control rod and lines it up, it finally evens out and stops wobbling. He draws in one last deep breath and lets it out.
"Here goes nothing."
Instead of trying to mentally hurl the thing like a javelin, he points his hand like a gun, trying to imagine that it's a bullet instead. Something meant to be fast and precise.
Bang.
There's an actual crack of sound as his teke launches the control rod at a speed of over 200 mph. It flies into the slot perfectly, and the next sound is a loud groan that seems like it might be the precursor to an explosion, and then... then things start whirring and shutting down. The core cools enough that emergency coolant systems are able to finally flood the core with coolant.
A voice blares over an intercom.
EMERGENCY SHUTDOWN SYSTEMS ENGAGING.... EMERGENCY CORE SHUTDOWN SUCCESSFUL.
The meltdown warning klaxons stop blaring and the different quieter klaxons that just signify there's still damage to the core start sounding instead. As some of the overheated emergency systems cool down enough to function again, mechanical arms reach out from the walls, picking up radiation sources and taking them away for containment.
A shield even pops up around Nuclon, and he practically growls from where he's trapped in hardened coolant.
NUCLEOPHASIC SOURCE ISOLATION SYSTEMS SUCCESSFUL. EMERGENCY SHIELDING MECHANISMS SUCCESSFUL.
"Just you wait," Nuclon growls. "I'll get free and --"
"-- get your butt kicked by Pidge again?" Dipper laughs. "We didn't even have to team up to beat you in the end. Apparently, she just had to get pissed enough to do it all by herself."
He turns to look at her, grinning.