fandomhigh | Mad Science & You: Week 1 (Tuesday, Period 3)

When students arrived at the Danger Shop for the first week of classes, they would notice that everything inside looked suspiciously ... normal. The inside had been set up to look like a typical classroom, with desks in neat rows and posters of inspirational sayings on the wall. The only unusual things about the room were the large selection of lab coats hanging on the back wall, and the man sitting on the teacher's desk at the front of the room with his face cloaked in shadow. He waited until everyone had taken a seat before standing up and starting to speak.

"Welcome to Mad Science & You!" he said. "The very fact that you have chosen to enroll in this course already proves your superiority over the rest of your feeble-minded fellow students. I am your instructor, Professor Souichi Tomoe, and my personal areas of scientific expertise are genetic engineering and astrophysics. Over the coming weeks we'll be exploring the interesting world of so-called mad science, dealing with areas of research that the scientific establishment tend to consider too 'outlandish', or 'in gross violation of ethical standards'. I hope to give you a sampling of some of the things my mad scientist colleagues get up to." Prof Tomoe grinned, with an oddly glowing red smile.

He clapped his hands together excitedly. "And before we start barreling head-first into reanimating the dead and creating hideous mutant hybrids, I should probably find out a little about you. So, pick a lab coat to use this semester, and then tell me your name, year, why you choose this course, and anything about your previous experiences with science, regular or not."

He started to reach for the coffee cup on the desk, and then paused as though remembering something. "Oh yes. And I will also be in need of a TA this semester. If any of you are interested in the position, you may speak with me after class."

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There was probably a pharmacist Barbie or something they could borrow a lab coat from. Though it might be pink.

"Well, I don't have any of those. The talismans, I mean." She wasn't sure about the "soul" thing. That was something she'd only ever heard beans talk about, not other borrowers.

". . . I also prefer not to be eaten." Just to get that out there. Because you never knew. "Oh yeah, and I was born this way. I'm a borrower. This is what we look like."

Edited 2012-08-28 17:19 (UTC)

There were no pharmacist Barbies, but Arietty had the choice of stealing either Doctor Barbie's regular white lab coat (http://www.amazon.com/Mattel-Barbie-Childrens-Doctor/dp/B00005BUUU/) or a bright pink one. (http://www.amazon.com/Barbie-Happy-Family-Baby-Doctor/dp/B000087L3I/)

"Most people don't," Prof Tomoe said with a sigh. "That's why I need to search as many souls as possible."

He tilted his head a bit at Arietty. "Don't eat you? Why, are you delicious?"

Well now he was curious about it.

That seemed like quite a hole in Barbie's resume. She should get on that, really.

Arietty wondered how one searched a soul. And if souls had anything useful to borrow. Then he asked his question, and she folded her arms across her chest and glared. "I don't know! I've never eaten a borrower, have I?!" Really now. "Cats seem to think so. But cats will eat anything."

One generally searched a soul by using ray beams to rip them out of victim's chests and then seeing if they turned into talismans. Souls looked a little like star crystals (http://www.oocities.org/tokyo/5976/sm104/sm104c11.jpg) if you took them out to poke at them.

Prof Tomoe raised an eyebrow over his glowing glasses.

"You're the one who brought up the issue of your edibleness. I merely inquire as to whether it's a pressing concern for you, not whether you'd go nicely with some tempura batter and soy sauce." He was into a lot of questionable stuff, but cannibalism wasn't really his kind of thing.

He nodded at Arietty's second statement. "Cats are awful, aren't they? Especially the talking ones. Always getting in the way of plans."

Arietty had actually only met one talking cat, and that had been in that strange other world they were all in for a week. But she couldn't disagree with the rest of his statement.

"A cat ate my cousin Eggletina," she said. She didn't actually know that was true, but it had been heavily insinuated by her mother. "But for all I know beans are just as bad. You all eat almost as much as cats do."

Prof Tomoe paused at Arietty's second comment, not sure of the terminology she was using.

"Beans? I'm not sure legumes have working digestive systems."

Arietty rolled her eyes. "Human beans, not food beans." Come on, he was supposed to be a scientist. "You bloody huge not-borrowers."

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