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Topher wasn't sure how he'd gotten roped into being Alenko's TA without actually being his TA this time around, but he wasn't going to question it. He just waited the appropriate amount of minutes into class before assuming that Kaidan wasn't going to show, then hopped onto the desk at the front of the room, carefully disabled the woodworking equipment that was also on the desk (because he didn't want his fingers cut off, thank you for the tip, Ace) and then addressed the other students.

"So Alenko's not here," he shared, "obviously. But there's wood and whatever to play with, and if I just hook up my phone to the projector..." He paused for an improbably short period of time in order to do just that-- "Bam. Blueprints of stuff you can make. Or you could go a different route and just make a coaster, which is my plan."

He swung his arms forward, trying to think of whether there was anything else to include. "Oh, and in the last twenty minutes, meet with your partner and make a list of ways your battlebots can battle without destroying an arena. And then hand them in to me. I might grade them."

He would do no such thing.

"Have fun!"

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"It's in the name," Anakin added; he wasn't quite whining, but he was close. "And we wouldn't be designing them to destroy the arena on purpose, but sometimes it just happens."

It was entirely possible that his perspective on this was informed by several of his and Jacen's more . . . heated sparring sessions.

"Right," Bay said, and eyed him curiously. "How big exactly were you thinking about making this thing?"

"Not that big," Anakin promised. "It doesn't have to be, to be effective. With the right components, we can make it do a lot. Besides, I bet a small one could catch people off guard."

He rolled his eyes, but affectionately. "'Size matters not,' that's what my uncle would say. He loves quoting an old teacher of his."

"I am so tempted to ask if he said 'it ain't the meat, it's the motion' too, you don't even know," Bay said. "But ... completely inappropriate humor aside, I think you're right. We don't need to build a ~~meta~~ Transformer."

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Anakin blinked at her in total confusion for a moment before his eyes widened and his cheeks turned red. "Not like that!" he blurted out, and the way his voice squeaked didn't help his mortification at all. (And now he was going to flail all over the place the next time he was home and Uncle Luke mentioned Yoda.) He took a breath or two to calm himself down before continuing. "Anyway, if we don't have to spend too much time building a really big droid, there's more time to fine-tune everything."

Because he would. Obsessively.

Bay laughed with surprised sympathy. "Okay, I don't think I've ever made a guy squeak before," she said. "Sorry. I'll do my best to stay robot-focused from here on out. So yeah -- small, efficient, powerful. The iPad of battlebots."

It was a sad fact that Anakin got so caught up in other things that he generally didn't even remember he had hormones, so getting that reaction out of him was actually pretty impressive.

"Basically," he said, nodding. "Do you think Kaidan would disapprove if we programmed it with dirty tricks?" R2-D2 was a terrible influence.

[OOC: And I'm heading home then out for the evening, so SP/handwavey?]

"I think he didn't actually say we couldn't," Bay pointed out. Because she was a terrible influence. "What kind of dirty tricks?"

Anakin grinned conspiratorially. "Well, for one, if it just happens to accidentally leak oil, that would be a shame, wouldn't it? We'll just have to make sure it's got really excellent traction, just in case."

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