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Alright. That sounds good to me. Let's go in fifty, fifty. Is there anything else here you think you need?

There we are. [That decided, Undertaker takes a moment more to learn about what it is he has now. How does it charge? What does it take to operate it other than a few buttons to press? He's pleasantly surprised to find a user's manual, albeit one on a sort of tablet, not in book format. Once they've paid for it and left, he turns back to Vash.]

Not so bad. I should have done this long ago. So next, the question remains. When would you like to break this in and see what we can see?

I'm okay to try it out right now. Might as well get as much done before we leave this system as we can. Are you still free?

[There's a quiet hum and he looks the man over.]

As much as I can be, but I'm not going to start cutting into you right this very day. What do you suggest, my patient?

I'm willing to listen to my doctor on this one. You have a lot more experience at this stuff than me. We could take a look then you could get an idea on what you need to plan for the next step?

I'd much prefer this be done in the lab, if you wouldn't mind. That way we can have a look together and go over all of this in relative privacy. The only rush on this is what you decide.

Then the lab it is. I do prefer privacy when we can get it. [He didn't want to become some sort of group science project.]

[And while that might be a concern, he does give a damn about privacy, especially since Vash seemed so body shy about the scars to begin with.]

So, then the lab it is. I'll meet you on the Goldstone, if you're agreeable to that. If anyone is there, I can handle them and we'll get you sorted.

That works for me. I'll see you shortly.

[He nods, and as with before, taps an invisible hat, since he doesn't have his own here, and is gone back to the lab to get things settled for his patient.]

[Vash will say his goodbye and take his leave. Showing up to the lab at the agreed time. Even a little bit early and looking perhaps just a little eager.] Hey. Still ready for this?

[He has been waiting here for a little while, and is thus not at all surprised to see the man walking through his door. In fact, he has been reading quietly in his chair the whole time, near about.]

Oh, of course. The question is are you ready for this?

As ready as I'll ever be I think. [He gives his head a determined nod.] Where do you want me?

[He already has the device nearby, and he sets his book aside to retrieve it and gestures to the padded examination bed at one side of the room.]

Go on and make yourself comfortable there. We'll take a look and see how far this goes and figure out what to do next.

(ooc: How far in do these bars go? If it's shallow enough, Undertaker might be able to get away with a local and make a few small cuts and clean Vash out before he closes the injuries.)

Alright. And I should take off my coat, right? [He asks as he head towards the bed. Prepared to take off his big jacket should it be needed.]

(OOC: I have no idea! Feel free to say they go as deep as you want to make it interesting for Undertaker to be able to fix! I don't mind if that means a local or something a bit more intrusive. I'll leave it up to you and what you'd like to explore with Undertaker's abilities!)

[He nods and gestures to a seat where Vash can let his things stay while they're working.]

It'd be best. Depending on what this looks like, I might well be able to do this right away. Won't that be something?

(ooc: Okay! I'll make it fun but not too terrible for Vash. Not that he won't heal with it faster than normal anyway.)

[Once again Vash didn't bother with his armor that he usually wears. It makes it a lot faster to undress. He leaves his pants on unless told to remove those too. Soon his chest is bear with his coat in the chair. He takes a seat on the bed that was indicated too earlier and lays down onto it.]

Really? Like today? [He wasn't expecting something like that, but he doesn't see why he should be against it.] Do you think it will hurt?

(OOC: I am always up to being terrible to Vash if it will be more fun for you, but I'm cool if it's not!)

[Once he's done pressing a few buttons on the display, Undertaker has the screen he wants and he brings it over to the man on his table to start viewing that grate on his chest first and foremost, seeing it will likely be the easier of the two as long as no bone intrusion is involved.]

[And he finds that a little is, but it's not as bad as he thought from the outside. By now, he knows the x-ray device well enough to know that it can take still images, and he takes a few after moving it around, getting different views of the metal.]

Eager, I see. Can't say I blame you. [He moves around to the man's hip to start examining that next, taking stills as he goes.]

The good news is so far, that grate doesn't look like it'll be too big a problem to get out. The trick then will be to seal everything up properly, of course. I'm not in the business of causing pain where it's not necessary, so we'll do what we can to keep that to a minimum. But this one, I'm concerned about. I'll show you what I mean here in a moment.

Really? It won't be? [He's honestly surprised. It just seemed so big and clunky. To think it would actually have been easy to get rid of is a bit mind blowing.] What do you mean by concerned. Because I tend to get concerned when a doctor is concerned about something.

[One more still and he moves to turn the screen around so that Vash can look with him. The first screens he'll show the man are the ones he took of the metal in his chest.] Here. Look where the rods are going in. They're wedged right between your ribs all nice like. The bone is damaged, but it's not bad enough that I worry about the integrity of them. You heal fast, you said, so with this one, it'll just be a matter of making a few cuts, then pulling this right out. But this one.

[He switches the images, to show the one wedged in Vash's hip.] This one's going to be a bit of a pill. However you got that, it's stuck right in your pelvis there. Getting it out won't be too hard, but what comes after that is what has me scratching my head. It's not small, exactly, and that's a lot of bone that's simply going to be missing. To be frank, I was surprised not to find pieces of what was displaced around your insides. We might have used that to help reconstruct the area.

[He sighs and settles his hip in against the bedside, leaning back against it.] How well does your bone matter heal? Do you know?

[Vash follows along with what Undertaker points out to him. Following some of it, but not all.] I had no idea it was between the ribs. I thought it was connected right to them.

[He scratches at his head when they get to his hip.] Yeah, that's another one where I sort of passed out and when I woke up the doctors had just put it in me. They did mention something about needing to fill space so I guess I shouldn't be surprised.

I've-- I've never really tried to heal bone matter before. Or well, I don't do any of the healing consciously. So it might? But it might not.

[He nods, flips back to the grate's snapshots that he took.] Just barely. It touches, but it's only scraped them and wedged against them. Likely why you haven't been able to really move it or just pull it out, if you've ever tried.

[That the doctors had shoved something like that in the man just to fill a hole, well. The look he gets is mildly horrified for that, coming from a man whose world had only just recently discovered photography and electricity was still up and coming.]

Yes, and there's the concern. There's another way we might go about it, and this might be the easiest. What I can do is see about reshaping that bolt to let it sit flush with the rest of your hip, so instead of taking it out completely and leaving you with a piece that may or may not heal over, we'll let the metal in you stay where it is and graft the skin to heal over it. Won't leave a pretty mark after, not for a long time, but there will be skin there again and it'll be easier on your clothing, I'm sure.

[He shrugs and offers the x-ray handheld for Vash to look over the images again if he wants.] You've done just fine this whole time with it where it is, so I'll leave it up to you. I would prefer the alternative myself. Less for that to get hung up on and it'll give you some comfort back once it's all healed. The only pain then is the grafting.

Once or twice, but it hurt so I tried not to pull after that.

[Vash listens to the explanation and thinks that option over.] I don't mind if it doesn't look pretty once it's out, but should I be worried about metal being in my body long term? Kitty seemed worried about lead poisoning.

[He spreads his hands in a shrug.] Well, there we have it. I wouldn't worry too much about lead poisoning unless any of that is made of lead. What I would worry about is it rusting and giving you a good bout of tetanus or some manner of infection. You would know by now if that was going to be the case. Have they ever been infected before, either of them?

Um. It's actually made from parts of an old space ship. I don't think it's made out of lead. I think it's made from something else. Steel maybe? Either way I know the ships were made to be rust resistant. And no. Not since they were put in have they ever been infected. None of my scars or ah, metal bits have been.

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do you wanna just skip ahead to the lab next?

Sounds good!

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