Synchro Wobble

As impressed as I was with this Shorty, I was still having trouble with the direction control. It seemed that something was off in my efforts. Something was slightly off, so I took a good look at each of the atoms that made up this Seven-Six-Six chain. The ornery Eights were normal, counting an equal number of Protons and Neutrons on each, it was like hauling five doublings of Ones around, compressed into the volume of about three Ones.

Their negative charge aside, the eights were just a giant drag, giving us some unusual stability, even though they were bent to one side. Your learn to compensate for some things, but I had not compensated for something. Moving in and looking at the pair of Sixes, I almost missed it the first time. Where there should be six Neutrons to match the Protons, the central Six was contorted slightly, and that was due to the fact that it was a "Heavy." With seven Neutrons, it had a different degree of flex that I had expected, and this was altering the shape of the molecule.

Having found one interloping Neutron, I scanned the Seven, and nearly lost it when I kept coming up with eight Neutrons. I am surprised that the Seven was stable with eight Neutrons. Regardless, the extra two Neutrons made this molecule heavy by two, and the heavy Seven was more than annoying when trying to make swingshots. Now, if I can just arrange a collision with another Shorty, I might be able to shed a couple of Neutrons by taking a hop to a more nimble copy.