Detention! Saturday morning, Ass O'Clock

[sith_happened]

Diiiiiid Anakin feel the slightest bit bad about exposing students to all of this radiation as they stood outside to un-decorate the school bus?

Well, maybe a slight, slight bit, but he wouldn't admit it. He'd say they shouldn't have defaced a piece of school property during a nuclear winter.

But he had handed out breathing masks!

...Okay, Stormtrooper helmets.

And even modified one for Vette! Wow, what a guy. It almost made up for the fact that he'd put a strict "no powers allowed" rule in place as the three students (and Kanan) were forced to de-floaty the bus--and then clean it and repaint it, in case the duct tape ruined the finish--using nothing more than soapy water, toothbrushes, toothpicks and the smallest paintbrushes Anakin could find that would still hold bus paint correctly.

Hope you didn't have anything else planned for the days, guys.

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Get to work!

[sith_happened]

With your attractive helmets, if you'd prefer.

Re: Get to work!

[chirpchirpchirp]

"WAIT WAIT WAIT I GET A HELMET?"

Yeah, this wasn't really going to be a punishment for Vette, who actually enjoyed meticulous fiddly work and who had no remorse over the bus thing.

"This is so great!"

Re: Get to work!

[sith_happened]

That had not been the reaction Anakin was expecting.

"You're welcome?"

Re: Get to work!

[chirpchirpchirp]

Yeah, Vette had never, ever seen a helmet made for a Twi'lek before. She was hugging hers and bouncing on her toes.

"This is the best! You're the best! I'm going to do so much neat stuff to your bus for this!"

... She was not an easy girl to punish.

Re: Get to work!

[sith_happened]

"Oh, please don't," Anakin said, holding up his hands. "You've done quite enough."

Re: Get to work!

[chirpchirpchirp]

"I take requests," Vette offered, grinning as she picked up a toothpick. "We could paint a Kowakian monkey-lizard on there for you! For luck!"

Re: Get to work!

[sith_happened]

Anakin snorted. "Really. No."

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[chirpchirpchirp]

"It's okay," Vette said, smiling as she started pulling floaties off the side of the bus, "it won't be a big monkey-lizard."

Watch out, Anakin. You'd find a teeny-tiny monkey-lizard doodle somewhere, somehow, when you least expected it.

Re: Get to work!

[sith_happened]

"That is one of the least reassuring things I've heard in a while," Anakin told her.

Re: Get to work!

[uncertain_dume]

Kanan hated you all a little bit today. Just in case you were wondering. He was taking that toothbrush and wondering if it could be used to extract the stick that had clearly been lodged up Anakin's ass...

Oh, but at least he got a helmet.

Yay.

Re: Get to work!

[bookbeltof_love]

Nina was... was squinting at her helmet dubiously.

"Were we, like, supposed to be wearing these all week?????????" she asked.

Because if the answer was no, then she wasn't wearing that.

But, sure, she'd be clambering up on top of the bus to figure out how to get ANAKIN the unicorn off the top.

(And totally taking more pictures.)

Re: Get to work!

[sith_happened]

"That better not end up in my office," Anakin said like a stupid person who forgot how teenagers' minds work.

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[bookbeltof_love]

Oh, Anakin. Anakin, no.

Nina paused.

"Nnnnnnnnnnnooooooooooooo, it won't?????????????"

It was totally going to end up in his office, now that he'd said that.

Like, what if ANAKIN the unicorn got lonely?!

Re: Get to work!

[sith_happened]

It would just have to be lonely! Or something!

"See that it doesn't," Anakin said. "My nine year old would be ridiculous about it."

Re: Get to work!

[bookbeltof_love]

"You're got a kid????????????" Nina chirped, honestly happy to hear about it. "Oh my gosh, you must be a fun dad!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

That was... genuine, actually. Sure, he was shouty, but her experiences with Anakin so far only meant she thought he was pretty great.

Re: Get to work!

[sith_happened]

"I'm not sure Juliet would agree with you," Anakin said. "Luke and Leia might, though."

Re: Get to work!

[bookbeltof_love]

"You've got three????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Oh my gosh! Amazing!

Re: Get to work!

[sith_happened]

"Four," Anakin said, smiling. "Christopher's five, so as long as I give him mac and cheese and dinosaur chicken nuggets, I'm in."

Re: Get to work!

[hashtag_chocobro]

Haha, jokes on you, Skywalker. Prompto didn't even have any powers.

And now he had a dorky helmet that modulated his voice to make him sound like a pilot in one of his video games, so guess who had no intention of shutting up while he worked?

"Hey," he suggested as he geared up with a toothbrush and bucket, "how about some tunes to help this go along, huh? Anyone else know '99 Cans of Ebony on the Wall?' Don't worry; it's suuuuuper easy to pick up!"

Re: Get to work!

[bookbeltof_love]

"Proooooooooooomptooooooooooo," Nina called down, from where she was hanging out on top of the bus.

Sans helmet. Because no.

"You can keep my helmet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

She was... pretty sure he'd find something to do with it.

Re: Get to work!

[hashtag_chocobro]

It was amazing, really, how, with just the turn of his head upwards, even with the helmet on, one could still tell the shocked and excited expression that was likely on Prompto's face just then.

"We get to keep them?"

...oh, shit, he already had a brilliant idea, especially if he wound up with two of them.

Re: Get to work!

[bookbeltof_love]

Nina glanced at Vette, then back down at Prompto.

"I think, like, he has no way of getting Vette's back," Nina noted, "and if Vette gets to keep hers, then I'm definitely not giving mine back either!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Not that she was wearing hers. And was, in fact, trying to give it away.

But those were small details.

Re: Get to work!

[hashtag_chocobro]

"Ohmygod, then," said Prompto, "yes, please, gimme! I have got the coolest idea for these bad boys now, and it is going to be freakin' sweet!"

Re: Get to work!

[bookbeltof_love]

"Consider it yours!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

This was the best detention! Free loot and hanging out with her friends? Awesome.

"What are you, like, going to do with them????????????? Or is it a secret???????????"

Re: Get to work!

[hashtag_chocobro]

"...I haven't decided yet!" Prompto called up, and tried to get himself to decide, but the thing was, if he said it, and then he couldn't get it to work, he'd feel like a complete idiot. But he was pretty sure it would work. But it had to do with video games, so he didn't know if Nina would be as properly impressed by it as he would have liked people to be properly impressed by it.

So he scrubbed a square inch of the bus with this toothbrush a little as he tried to decide.

"It'll involve video games, though," he offered, which, really probably wouldn't surprise her anyway.

Aw, hell, he might as well spill at that point. "I was thinking just headsets at first," he said, scrubbing as he talked, "but that's not that exciting. What would be freaking sweet, though, would be rigging the inside visors up as a screen, and you can wire it up for, like, a completely, fully immersive flight simulator experience without even leaving the comfort of your own room! It shouldn't even be that hard to wire up, and with two of them, there's the option of having someone else join in, too! Rig up some vibration on the chairs, too, for when you get hit and fire and stuff! Oh, maaaaan!!"

His scrubbing, for what little it would do to ultimately help him, maybe got a little more determined, because the sooner they finished this, the sooner they could go, right?