Miles:"I'm telling you," I say, waving my wrench around. "It can't be the shield generator. I just checked it, and it's working fine.""It has to be the shield generator," Joel, my fellow Yellow Sun Academy engineer, says. "I already checked the academy's power, the wiring, and the controls. They're all working fine.""Don't believe me? Check it yourself."I lean back, giving Joel plenty of space to examine the shield generator. While I hate to admit it, I watch with a little smile as Joel checks the shield generator."It's not the shield generator," Joel finally says."Ha! Told you."Joel rolls his eyes and throws an oil-soaked rag at me."Well, smarty-pants, if it's not the shield generator, and it's not anything else, then why did the academy's shield fail during the bug attack?""I don't know," I yell back. "Sheesh. We spent weeks taking everything apart, running diagnostics, examining, and re-exami
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