Shop Class still accepting Students.

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MacGyver pushes a large pallet of crates through the hallway to the Shop classroom.

The crates are marked with a return address of:

S.Summers
Charles Xavier School for Gifted Youngsters
1407 Graymalkin Lane
Salem Center, NY 12865

On top of the crates is a receipt from PayPal from a recent E-bay purchase. The receipt notes something about "Shi'ar Technology".

Mac checks to make sure the Sign-up Sheet is still posted and goes to work unpacking the crates and starting to install the equipment.

Anybody walking by might hear Mac cursing over the fact that the Owner's manual does not have an English translation.

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[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

Sam shows up in the classroom, appropriately attired and bearing her own toolbox. She sees the man surrounded by boxes. He must be the new Professor. She puts the toolbox down on the desk and takes a seat.

"Hi," she says, grinning. "Looks like I'm the first one here."



OOC: I know she's there a week early, but she's a little goofy this morning.

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Han stops in on his way to art.

"How's the schedule adjustment going?"

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Mac looks up from the Shi'ar to English dictionary he's been studying and with a bit of a confused look.

"I'd say. Class doesn't start until next week. But as long as you're here..."

Mac waves his hand to a bunch of alien technology which has been unpacked and is sitting around the room.

"You wouldn't happen to know anything about the Shi'ar language would you?"

Sam may notice that the typical shop room elements. (Drill presses, saws, guillotines and fabrication tools are conspiciously absent.

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"Well the administration turned down my request for a chronofluid time lock, and are pretty adamant about the time periods I've already set. You said that the class you attend is once a week, Tuesday and Thursday right? How would you feel about auditing the course and coming in on the alternate day?"

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"Shi'ar?" Sam asked, confused. "Never heard, of it, unfortunately. You might want to leave a message with Butthead Doctor Jackson, though--he knows a whole bunch of weird ones."

She wandered over to look at the technology, with a slightly greedy gleam in her eyes. "What's all this stuff? And how long until I can take it apart and figure out how it works? I've never seen anything like it before. Not Goa'uld, not Tollan, not Asgard, not Tok'ra..."

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Mac eyes Sam's greedy look as he tries to make sense of the whole dictionary.

"It's some highly sophisticated holographic/force field equipment from the Shi'ar galaxy. Bought it off Ebay from another school down in New York state. Something called Charles Xavier's school for something something. It's supposedly came from the Shi'ar galaxy or something like that."

Mac finally just tosses the book on the desk. "Oh hell, let's just see what fits together and go from there. At least this owner's manual has diagrams."

Don't even think of taking this stuff apart. I had to promise Bristow my first born just to get it.

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"You bought alien holographic/force field equipment on Ebay?" Man, I wish I'd seen that auction.

Sam picked up the manual and began leafing through it. She made no sense whatsoever of the words, but the pictures were cool. Besides, she didn't usually have a manual of any kind and here there was no one shooting her. It made a nice change.

"Where do you want to start?"

*pouts*

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That'd work. I can go on Tuesday or Thursday. Been doing both, but only one is required. I can also come in the first part of the other day and leave early, if that's okay?

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"Fine with me, but unfortunately I'll need a TA that will be here for both days. Is that okay?"

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That's fine. I'm just glad I can make any of the class. TA, I can let go.

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"I tell ya. That internet thingie has some wonderful stuff."

Mac pulls out his pocket knife and starts to work on what he thinks is a holographic emitter. At least he thinks it's an emitter. It *looks* like an emitter.

"By the way, which student are you? The name's MacGyver but everyone calls me Mac."

Doesn't think the pout looks cute. Nope. Not at all. Teacher student relationship. That's all it is. really.

...

damn that's a cute pout

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"Then you're in here as official Audit status person guy. Oh... and no blasters, sonic screwdrivers or hydrospanner watcha-callits allowed. All tools will be provided for you."

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"Yes, sir."

"sonic screwdrivers?"

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"Oh, absolutely," she said, grinning. "I just wasn't aware that it had alien technology and will be adding it to my bookmarks just as soon as I'm done here. I wonder if the General knows?"

"Nice pocket knife, but I have screwdrivers and stuff if you need them," she said, gesturing towards her tool box. He's poking at alien tech with a pocket knife, and it's making her a little nervous--besides, that's her job. She put the manual down and stuck her hand out, "I'm Sam. Sam Carter."

She studied him for a second. "Y'know, I can't put my finger on it, but you look a little bit familiar and really cute and seem to know your way around a swiss army knife. Looks like I just found my teacher crush."

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Mac shakes her hand.

"Nice to meet you Carter. Actually I was a student here a couple of weeks ago, but had to drop out to take care of my grandfather Harry. Of course to me that was almost twenty years ago and then when coming here to teach there was this whole.... time warpy thing?"

Mac shrugs. "That Doctor guy says it's normal but I still think I got my butt dropped into a weird ass episode of Star Trek."

"Of course I also look a hell of alot like that 2ls_in_oneill guy but I have better hair."

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[ooc: Eee! Are we getting a Danger Room?!]

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[OOC: Danger Room Shop. Rules for use will be posted tomororrow. Thought I'd throw a little love to the X-men crowd.]

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"Nice to meet you, too, Mac," she says, somewhat shyly. "You were a student, and now you're a teacher? That's got to be weird. How're you dealing with it? Oh, and how's your grandfather doing?"

And...I'm babbling...

She nodded knowingly. "Yeah, time warps stink unless you're doing Rocky Horror, but around here they seem to be perfectly normal." She paused, the continued, "and you might want to stay away from Locker 327. Just a friendly warning."

Huh. Maybe he does look a bit like Jack, now that he's pointed it out. "I guess you do. Are you okay with that? It seems like there's a lot of that here. And if you think that's strange, there's a replicator/cyborg version of me you probably shouldn't meet."

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[ooc: Want Kitty to help set it up? She's programmed the Danger Room before, so she's somewhat familiar with the technology.]

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"Well it's been twenty years since I was last here. The weird thing is coming back and seeing everyone unchanged. "

Mac picks up a couple of parts and looks at the diagram.

"Locker 327? Oh yeah. The new math teacher was trying to suss that thing out yesterday in the teacher's lounge. I don't think he did very well. As for the doppelganger thing? Well I'll just have to get used to it since Jack is signing up for class."

Mac snaps the parts together, and screws them in with his SAK and compares it to the diagram.

"All right... according to the diagram we need to mount this..." *turns diagram right side up* "on the ceiling."

Luckily it's one of those drop ceilings.

I have to admit part of bringing Mac in was just to mess with O'Neill's head

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[OOC: Come join us on the thread above...]

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

She must have left her brain back in the dorms this morning. "Oh, yeah, that's right. But, um, you didn't miss much except for the zombies and Hathor!Janet, if that makes you feel any better. There's a new Dean, but it sounds like you've already met him."

"Jack's still able to sign up for class? Last I heard, he thought he had a class conflict. And I am not at all stupid!giddy over the prospect of sharing another class with him. Nope, nope, nope.

Sam grabbed the other side of the...whatever it was...that Mac was holding. "Are you sure this is the way it's supposed to go? Maybe the diagram was right side up the first time."

That's okay. Sam's got plans to drive him completely batsh*t by raving about the new shop teacher, so it's all good.

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Kitty hears the noise and stops to see what's happening. "Oh, wow," she says. "I didn't expect to see one of those here!"

::Lockheed flies up behind her and perches on her shoulder.::

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Sam turns around, careful not to drop whatever it is that she's holding. "You know what this is?"

She eyes the dragon nervously, but says, "Hi, I'm Sam Carter."

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"If so, do you know how to read shi'ar?"