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[ex_engineers208]

[ there's madison, sitting cross-legged amidst the refuse-cluttered maintenence room of the xavier insitute. his hands are up in the air, assembling and reforming a floating, revolving mess of scrap into pipes and wires and setting them down beside them. after a minute of concentration, he speaks. ]

Okay. So, I guess I've been kinda scatterbrained lately. After arrivin' and all and then I got a position and then McCoy went and did the... y'know, the nobly leapin' into the jaws of the law-ion thing. It's all been a big old sensory overload. A-and I've been getting 'Nam flashbacks and bad dreams again. So... yeah. Ha ha.

[ awkward three minutes of silence, chewing his lip while working. then: ]

Not that this is particularly relevant or, well. I sorta-kinda hate it when like, people act all knee-buckin' shocked when their electronics or appliances go all kaput on them after what amounts to systematic abuse. [ his voice takes a slight electrical fuzz when he cranes his neck back in the direction of a microwave in the background. ] No, you're not broken, little guy. It's okay to need a lil' bit of help.

But, yeah. They throw a fit when its transformer comes all undone―I don't want you givin' up on me―after they, I dunno, shove a cellphone in there for shits an' giggles. Maybe if they were the mean type... crickets? Gerbils? A tiny baby in, aaa, a luchador mask out of tinfoil and spoons strapped to their feet? [ a minute passes. he furrows his eyebrows. ] Sorry, I just forgot what I was talkin' about.

Comments

[ex_engineers208]

I mean, I kinda accidentally made one happen. But it wouldn't happen in this case...?

[webline]

I dunno; I think a microwave uprising would be cool.

In a B-movie sort of way. Then you'd be the chainsaw-wielding hero with a girl's name that has to save the world. Or at least, his few surviving friends.

[ex_engineers208]

You can't use chainsaws 'gainst microwaves. They always learn to plate themselves with... kinda armor? Armor.

I chainsawed a toilet once, though.

[webline]

Dude, you could totally chainsaw a microwave. It may not be cleanly, but you could so do it.

Why'd you chainsaw a toilet?

[ex_engineers208]

They joined the kitchen battalion and were shootin' at me? They broke through my fortifications...

[webline]

You're serious.

[ex_engineers208]

It was really terrifying.

[webline]

I'm -- uh -- sorry to hear that?

[ex_engineers208]

Yeah... [ awk ]

[webline]

[ a three minute silence..... ]

So. Uh. I'm Jessica.

[ex_engineers208]

[ sniff. FOUR MINUTE SILENCE. ]

Heya.

[webline]

[ two minutes... ]

So is your microwave going to be okay?

[ex_engineers208]

Yeah, it'll be fine. [ 30 seconds... ] So... whaddya do? With your life...

[webline]

[ an actual immediate reply: ]

I'm a -- uh -- student? In high school. I'm not like anything special or whatever.

[ex_engineers208]

Oh. Are you... going to take physics? Sometime?

[webline]

[ a beat........ ]

W...hy....?

[ex_engineers208]

[ beat. ]

I... teach it?

[webline]

[ no beat here ]

Oh! You're the new physics teacher! Oh, okay. Wow, that explains so much.

I'm -- I'm in chem. But I'm thinking about taking physics next year. I dunno -- there aren't a lot of science courses that are like, not just basic stuff. [ wow she actually sounds kind of uh. not awkward

hi shes a nerd ]

[ex_engineers208]

[ omg

nerd solidarity. ] I can guarantee that there'll be some pretty advanced material in there.

Hell, X-Men-just-figgered-it-out-in-the-last-four-years concepts. Obviously, I'd haveta lower the graded stuff down to the rest of the class' level, but. Y'know, I'd be willin' to teach you, eh?

[webline]

[ ]

Are you serious? Dude, you're not like, yanking my chain, are you?

[ex_engineers208]

I'm just thinkin' that, hey, someone out there wants to listen to the ramblings of an old man.

[ cccccc: ] It'd be my pleasure.

[webline]

Oh my god. Oh my god. That is -- Oh my god!

Yes, yes! A thousand times yes.