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Fandom High Welcome Picnic, Front Lawn of the School, All Day: Part II

Sure, someone could question just how all that ice cream was staying cold and not-melty without any immediately apparent means of refrigeration?

But really, of all the should-be-impossible things Fandom makes possible on a near-daily basis, this one at least was fairly benign. And delicious. So shh, don't question it, just enjoy it.

[OCD Up! This is the picnic post for general mingling. Roommates, fake siblings and teachers are all here. Since it's outside, the picnic is open to all students, teachers, and townies!]

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"Well, that's good," Peridot replied, deciding that this was probably one of those human things that she still needed to get used to. "Has your phone been working well? I can give it any tune-ups you need, if the holoprocessors aren't quite in alignment."

A small little signal blared off deep within the recesses of Summer's programming, an unaccounted detail that the system was quickly compensating for. Because that phone was very much still with OG Summer.

"You know whaaaat?" said Summer. "It's, like, totally the funniest thing. My brother was, like, so totally jealous of all the cool things that you did to my phone that he, like, smashed it. Like, totally went berserker mode on me and did some really gnarly damage. I got a new phone," she held it up, same purple case as before, but easily not the same phone, "and I guess I could have, like, had my Grampa Rick fix it up, because he's so brilliant, but you're brilliant, too, and I was, like, kind of wondering if you wouldn't mind fixing it again? It was like, so cool of you to do it the first time. It was an error in my judgement to think my brother wouldn't be, like, so totally jelly."

"... You have a gelatinous brother?"

Summer was actually somehow making less sense than usual.

"Well, I suppose I can fix up that phone too. But you'll have to keep a better eye on it this time, okay?"

She held out her hand for the phone.

"Sometimes."

And that was actually completely true.

Summer smiled brightly as she placed the phone in Peridot's awaiting hand. "Totally I will. I promise. Thank you, like, I mean it. You're, like, so the best, Peridot. I will totally be more careful and totally treat it with the respect that these totally important and personal material possessions should have."

"Well, good," Peridot replied. "I only have so many more toasters to take apart for stuff like this."

There was a slight twitch. One could only suffer through being threatened to be turned into a toaster so many times before it started to become a bit of a trigger.

"Is that, like, what you've been using? Toasters? It seems, like, totally a fairly primitive machine to create more complicated functions."

But it wasn't as if she had a vested interest in technology or anything all of a sudden!

"Or...you know...like, whatever. Pssh."

"There are some useful components," Peridot shared. "You have to get creative if you want to make anything useful on this planet, you know? Everything is so... simple."

"If we totally ever get the chance," said Summer with a faint smile, "we should, like, have you visit my house and see some of the stuff my totally awesome grampa puts together. I think you'd be, like, mega-impressed by what he can do. And, like, I think he'd get that? About most Earth technology being so, like, simple? He once made a robot whose, totally, like, only purpose was to totally pass butter."

And she laughed like it was one of the funniest things a person could do with a robot and butter.

"Can you, like, imagine? I'm so glad that at least myself, as totally a human, can function on so many levels than just one individual operative, ugh! Blech. Like, no thank you."

"Tell me about it," Peridot replied, giving a wry little smile. "That's what Homeworld is like, you know? We're made to serve our one purpose, and that's all we ever get to do. Humans don't realize how easy they have it. You get to choose what your purpose is..."

Somebody was sounding a little wistful, there.

And Summer responded to the wistful tone with a soft smile of her own. "But, like, you have so many purposes here, Peridot," she said, listing them off easily as they ticked in her programming. "There's the library, all your gadgets and machines, learning about this world, finding that rock pony eventually. I know that I'm totally glad you're here, that's, like, a totally great purpose, too."

"It... it really is, isn't it?" Peridot's eyes went a little wide at that. Possibly just the tiniest bit misty. She'd deny that much vehemently, though. "I'm more than what I was made for. I'm what I make myself."

"Ohmygod," gushed Summer, her hands for a moment to her heart before one reached out for Peridot's shoulder, "that is so true. Like, I know you're a gem, but that might be one of the most human things I've ever heard. Even those of us who come into the world to serve one purpose has so much more potential than they could ever, like, totally imagine."

Said the robot.

"We are all so much more than ones and zeros designated to single pre-programed sequence."

Okay, the hand on the shoulder was new, but Peridot was going to roll with it. Humans were a pretty physical species, after all.

"We're so much more than ones and zeroes," Peridot enthused. "I can code using twos."

Suck it, binary.

And that, literally, did not compute.

"Really?" Summer's eyes went wide, but then she laughed off her surprise. "But, like, of course you totally can! You're brilliant and can make phones hover totally using toaster parts, like, ohmygod. No surprise that you could totally do something like code using twos."

Peridot was pretty much beaming, now.

"Well, naturally. Homeworld technicians have to be clever, after all. How else do you manage faster-than-light travel when you're a species with bodies comprised of light?"

It got messy, really. Gem bodies being dragged behind starships, stretched out across the length of galaxies. It took some cleverness to deal with that.

"Beats me," said Summer, shrugging exaggeratedly with a chuckle. "I'm, like, totally just a normal teenaged Earthling girl, and that's, like, totally it!"

"Yeah," Peridot agreed, "you are. So I guess you'll just have to take my word for it."

Humble, that Peridot.

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