fandomhigh | Science You Cannot Possibly Comprehend, Monday, Period 5

Hey, kids! It's a very Doom Final!

"I have taught you much this semester. Perhaps you have learned something from my lessons. Perhaps not. We shall see," Doom said. "Your task for this final is to invent something. This will be yours regardless of what it is, be it a weapon, a teleportation device, or anything else you can imagine and build within an hour."

"You will have the full hour to design and build your invention, minus this introduction. At the end of the period, you will bring your invention to the front of the lab, where we will be temporarily transported one hour into the past in a secure location to test your inventions. This should only take a few minutes for each invention, after which you will be brought back to this lab, seconds after you left. This serves not only to maximize your time, but also as a reminder that I brought mechanical time travel to my world."

"Any parts you may need are in the middle of the lab. Use your consoles for any help you may need. You will be graded on your invention's creativity and effectiveness. For this examination, I care little for aesthetics."

"Begin."

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Cecil beamed and held up his shiny-looking...thing. It looked sort of like a camera with extra bits grafted on.

"It tests if things exist! It'll look at them, and listen to them, and poke them, and sniff them. I wasn't sure how to make it taste things, but it should still be mostly accurate, right?"

Doom held a hand out, projecting a holographic image of another Doom. "Demonstrate. But bear in mind that you will have a long way to go to convince me that you are not wasting my time."

Cecil fiddled with a button and a long, skinny bit jumped out of his invention and jabbed at the hologram. It went right through it, and the invention's screen lit up with a sign saying DOES NOT EXIST.

Cecil grinned.

"Now demonstrate on something that does exist," Doom said. "But if you choose to demonstrate on me, you will fail and serve detention on Saturday."

Well, that hardly seemed fair. It wasn't like it hurt to be tested. But still, Cecil did have a job on Saturdays.

He pointed his invention at the wall. It (the invention) flashed and stuck out its...sticky-out thing...and then the screen lit up: DOES SEEM TO EXIST.

"Seem to exist? It can't be more certain?" Doom inquired.

"Well, how certain can we ever be of anything, really?" Cecil asked. "I didn't want it to overstate the possibility. It's as real as the machine is, anyway!"

"You invented something less useful than your own senses," Doom concluded. "But it is an invention and it does work. Now remove it from my sight."

Hmph. Well, Cecil bet it would be really useful to ♥Carlos♥. He could test the house that didn't exist and make sure it didn't! He could reassure the angels! Or not.

"Sure!" Cecil shoved it in his backpack. It promptly told him his backpack existed, which was good to know. "And I just wanted to say thanks! You're probably not the best teacher, but I did learn science! a little. And you didn't kill anyone, which is really decent of you."

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