[Patrick Vykkers]

Praetyre watched Krik unsucessfully try to enter the storage room, then procure what he needed from a weapons cabinet, and get out of the labs quicker than a Paramite to a steak. He noticed that he didn't give back the storage room key to Praetyre's superior. Praetyre decided that his superior would probably notice it himself, and decided to proceed with the operation.

Praetyre took another surgical tool. This one was actually a deoxygenating device that he wouldn't normally use so close to the lungs, but as several unprotected Inhabitants had spent around 20 minutes here, there was a high risk of infection, not to mention death by air. Unfortunately, he couldn't use it while an unprotected Inhabitant was here, as new bacteria, viruses, and fungi and air would still come in at rapid rates.

He used the tool to extract the oxygen, and with it the harmful microrganisms, from the area. He would have a 5 minute window of opportunity to then complete the operation, before the old devices batteries gave out and he would have to recharge them. Praetyre activated the sweat eliminators in his suit, and begun.

The pacemaker generator was already there, electrifying, and connected to the pacemaker. Excellent. Now he needed to cut out the natural one. A complex and dangerous process. He took his surgical knife and delicately cut of a single membraneous layer of the hearts skin. Performing surgery on some Mudokons was tricky. They could only register one pacemaker at a time, and so the original needed to be removed. But as it was so close to the heart, it was incredibly risky. Praetyre had barely begun.

He took off yet another layer. Still more beckoned. He continued, and continued, and continued, and continued, and continued for what seemed like an eternity, until he could see only one thin layer of pacemaker cells.
"Jackpot" he thought.

He used his knife to take off this final layer, and then could see into the heart like an experiment with X-ray vision. He then took the artificial pacemaker, de and reconnected it with the generator, and then attached the vital wire to the heart. He then took an Eyestitch 2000, and expanded it to "Long Vertical Eye Setting". The Eyestitch whirred into action, sealing the Mudokon up quicker than Praetyre had cut him open.

But there were still matters to be attended to. Praetyre commanded his suit to release a compressed storage jar, then scraped the pacemaker cells with his knife into the jar. He loved giving his patients the things he took out of them. It was especially hilarious when doing it on seemingly small things like this. He then reinserted the jar into his suit, storing it for later. He then did the honours, whispering into the Mudokons ear;

"Wakey wakey.."

He then turned to Dek;
"In the words of many a Slig.. I love this job!"

He then waited. The ominous moment.