fandomhigh | How to Blow Things Up

Aly had set up the main campfire with an assortment of bombs running the field from the classic bombs used in movies to less sophisticated devices.

She waited for everyone to arrive then started speaking. "The last few classes, we've talked about how to blow things up. Which is, admittedly, a lot of fun and also what the class is about. Today, however, we're going to talk about what happens when you don't want the bomb to go off. Disabling explosives is a hugely dangerous task, and in general, it's something you want to call in an expert to deal with." She grinned. "But really if there's one thing Fandom teaches you it's that when you need an expert, one usually can't be found. So today we - and by we, I mean you - are going to work on disarming explosive devices that won't cause quite so much agony is you get it wrong."

Gesturing to the assortment of bombs, she started discussing bomb disposal techniques including the use of a pigstick ~~because I love this word~~ and the ever-popular cutting of the correctly coloured wires.

"Now the trick here is that these devices aren't bombs. But if they are disengaged incorrectly, they will explode." She grinned. "I hope you wore clothes that can get paint on them. If not -" she pointed to a box "-there are some lovely and very fashionable smocks to put on."

"If you have any questions, feel free to ask. Otherwise, pair up and have fun."

[OOC: More information on how this will work is in the OCD threads which ~~I am puttng up now~~ is up like an up thing. Not dirty]

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"Sure. Sounds like a good way to start," he said, trying to riffle through the tool box and find out which one was the endoscope. "Before we can disarm it, we'll need t'figure out what it is that needs to be disarmed."

"Maybe an x-ray?" She suggested helpfully?

Johnny grabbed the portable x-ray machine and started scanning the bomb from head to toe.

"This'd be so much easier if one of us had x-ray vision."

"I'm afraid I'm just a normal kind of girl," she said, grinning and watching what he was doing.

He shook his head. "Well, that's too bad," he joked. " 'M just a normal kind of guy, so we're both stuck."

An image finally appeared on the x-ray screen. Johnny examined it. "Looks like a couplea wires an' a timer connective to the explosive bits."

"Well, we'll just be normally cool then. Stuck, but cool."

Annette leaned over so she could see the x-ray screen too. "Wow. It's amazing how these things are put together, uh? What do we do now?"

Johnny shrugged, and tried to remember his notes from earlier. "Figure out which wire needs to be cut without the whole thing explodin'?" he suggested.

"Right. I say we should cut the blue one."

He frowned a little at the idea. "Isn't it always the red one?"

"I like blue," Annette replied, looking over at him. "Isn't it always the red in movies? What if the movies are wrong? What if we cut the red, Johnny, and BOOM!"

The idea of movies being wrong chilled Johnny a bit. He'd spent a good number of years watching movies on TV. And TV wouldn't lie to him ... would it?

Still, it was a fifty-fifty chance of which wire to cut, and Annette had picked first. He was willing to see if she was right.

"Alright, if you think you're sure, cut the blue one," he said.

Uh-oh. Then she'd be the one to blame if it blew up. She gave Johnny a skeptical glance and handed him the wire cutters. "You're the guy," cause that made sense, yes, "I think you should decide which one to cut and cut it. I'll just stand here and be...encouraging."

Hmm. Johnny didn't want to be the one to blame if it blew up either, but if they kept it up, th scenario was likely to end in a stalemate.

"Clearly, we need some scientific way of pickin' a wire." He looked at Annette. "Rock, paper, scissors?"

She smiled, "Rock, paper, scissors it is. Ready?" She brought her palm up and made a fist with her other hand, ready to say it together with him to see who it would be to cut the wire.

Johnny made a fist and put it up next to Annette's C'mon scissors...

He looked back at the bomb display and set-up, noticing something he hadn't seen before. "Or we could comprise an' cut the green wire at the back?'

Annette looked over, "Well, how about that? I didn't see that there before. Okay, let's cut the green. Go ahead, Johnny." She said, smiling up at him. "These wire cutters have your name on them."

Johnny took the wirecutters from Annette, opened the bomb's panel, and carefully reached in. It seemed as though his heart was pounding loud enough to be heart outside his chest as he carefully snapped the green wire.

She leaned in close; she couldn't help it, she wanted to see too. And she was holding her breath, waiting to see what was going to happen. If anything.

She might have had her fingers crossed behind her back too.

As soon as the wire cutters closed on the wire, a crack was heard.

A burst of pinkness exploded out of the bomb covering both students with quite a large quantity of paint.

Johnny blinked, as he used the back of his cleaner hand to wipe the paint off of his face.

"Alright, maybe it wasn't that one."

Her mouth was still hanging open and she looked over at Johnny, at all the pink paint, and she bust out laughing even though she was totally covered in it.

Johnny looked down, noticed all the paint was pink, and looked back up to see Annette covered in gobs of pink paint too. He couldn't help it; he dropped the wire cutters and joined her in laughing at their mess.

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