Detention! Saturday morning, Ass O'Clock

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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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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?

Re: Get to work!

[bookbeltof_love]

Nina peeled duct tape off the roof of the bus, making a face at the paint it lifted up. Too bad they couldn't, like, paint the bus pink with the Dean watching.

She frowned a little as she worked, trying to put together what Prompto was talking about.

"So............. like, it'd be like you're there when you're not really there?????????????"

Re: Get to work!

[hashtag_chocobro]

"Yeah!" Prompto's grin transpired even through the modulated voice from the helmet. "Exactly! Well, sort of! It'll at least feel more like you're there....y'know what? Just trust meon it, and when it's ready, you'll have have to try it out for yourself!"

Which would be hilarious and great.

Re: Get to work!

[bookbeltof_love]

"Okaaaaaaaaay," she said, unable to stop her own grin. "Though, like, if it turns out you're just tricking me, I will wreck revenge upon you!!!!!!!!!!!!"

How, Nina didn't know. But she'd figure it out!

Re: Get to work!

[hashtag_chocobro]

"Tricking you?" Maaaan, Prompto couldn't decide if his laugh sounded super weird or super weird with the helmet, but it was definitely interesting. "Why would I be tricking you? Tricking you about what?"

Re: Get to work!

[bookbeltof_love]

Nina laughed, both at his laugh and at the question itself.

"What, and give you ideas?!?!?!??!?!?!?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Re: Get to work!

[hashtag_chocobro]

"The only thing I'll be tricking you about with these," Prompto reached up to knock a little fist against the side of his helmet, "is playing more video games."

Pause.

"And totally messing up your hair."

He didn't even want to see what it was doing to his right now, but it was totally worth it.

Re: Get to work!

[bookbeltof_love]

Nina's shudder was both theatrically exaggerated and entirely genuine.

"Why do you think I'm not wearing that helmet right now??????????"

Like. Really. Hair like hers took a lot of work to do!

Re: Get to work!

[hashtag_chocobro]

Prompto could empathize with that, you know! Why did everyone seem to think he just woke up and rolled out of bed looking this cute, huh?

"I figured it was either that," he said, grinning (not that she could see it, but maybe she could hear it in his voice, despite the modulation), "or you were just feeling like a rebel, like you don't need to conform to the expectation of specially-distributed helmets."

So, yeah, definitely the hair thing.

"I guess you'll just have to come check out what I do whenever you have a bad hair day, Nina, so then you can just blame it on my stupid video game helmets and no one will be any wiser."

There was a....slight pause.

"Not that you'd ever have a bad hair day, of course."

Re: Get to work!

[bookbeltof_love]

"If I'm having a bad hair day, then you are definitely not seeing me at all!!!!!!!!!!!"

Which was both true and also rather ridiculous.

Nina had to laugh, at herself, for that.

"Unless, like, there's an emergency or something?????????????" And then he could see that her hair? Was actually straight. So straight. "Because, like, I guess there's probably more important things than my hair in that case??????????"

Maybe.

Re: Get to work!

[hashtag_chocobro]

Prompto gasped. Gasped! Scandalized! Maybe tapping a little into a potential Nina impression to pull it off, too, not that he'd ever reveal that to her.

"More important things than our gorgeous, luscious locks?" And, yes, that was Prompto running a hand over the smooth surface of the helmet as if it was not at all covering said gorgeous, luscious locks. "Nina! How dare you! You take that back!"

Re: Get to work!

[bookbeltof_love]

"I said probably!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Nina protested, laughing. "I didn't say for sure!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Re: Get to work!

[hashtag_chocobro]

"Well...." said Prompto after a moment of narrowing his eyes at Nina, although he knew she couldn't exactly see them, so he threw in a disappointed shake of his head to take care of that. "Good, then. I still don't like the sound of that probably, though."

Re: Get to work!

[bookbeltof_love]

"It would have to be a truly dire emergency, I assure you," Nina said haughtily, tossing her head (and her gorgeous hair) for full effect. "After all, if people in movies can look perfect during the end of the world then so can we!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Re: Get to work!

[hashtag_chocobro]

"Damn straight!" Prompto agreed cheerfully, before adding, "People in movies don't usually have to clean buses with toothbrushes, though..."

That last part was mostly intended to be muttered under his breath, but, well, the helmet didn't exactly seem to make a distinction between normal tones and grumblemutters.

Re: Get to work!

[bookbeltof_love]

It... it really didn't, and if Nina hadn't been sitting on the top of the bus she might have laughed herself right off of it and then wouldn't you be sorry, Prompto?

"Yes," she admitted, still giggling, and leaning dangerously over the side of the bus to look down at him. Nina was not super concerned about being safe here. And, gosh, but he looked silly in that helmet, didn't he?

Nina added meaningfully, "But, like, it just gives us more time to come up with future bus shenanigans.............."

And this detention wasns't really encouraging her to not want to indulge in future shenanigans either.

Re: Get to work!

[hashtag_chocobro]

This detention wasn't doing anything to discourage anything except for maybe Beard Goals over there wanting to be an active part of society.

The manual labor was super lame, and Prompto would be fiercely hating it by the end of the day, but right now, it was just stupid cleaning tasks made better in the company of his two best friends on this whole island, so, really, it was hardly a trial.

"Lots of time to think," he chuckled plottingly into his helmet. "We're going to totally have to have a jam session after this to compare notes on what we've come up with. And, who knows? Maybe with all this detailing we've got to do, we might find something interesting out that could be used to our advantage..."

Because, yeah, he was totally planning on scoping out all the possible specs for fun little tinkering or add-ons to the bus while he was getting all up there in its bizznass.

Re: Get to work!

[bookbeltof_love]

It was a lot of work, and Nina was still pondering ways to best hide that she wasn't going to kill the ANAKIN unicorn (because she was going to find a way, just watch her, to stick that in the Dean's office), but... yeah, it could definitely be worse.

The company was fantastic!

... Aside from the original grumpy bus driver, who she both wanted to talk to and was avoiding like the plague.

"It's so uuuuuunfaaaaaaaair!!!!!!!!!" she protested, scrubbing another bit of tape off. "Like, oh my gosh, you and Vette can just look at something like this and get it and I'm left going hang on let me check all the books for three weeks straight to get to the same point!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

That was, in fact, what happened when coming from a world very, very technologically behind, Nina.

"One day," and that did come out rather threateningly, "I'm going to catch up to both of you!!!!!!!!!!!"

She was already making good strides towards that, at least when it came to phones and hacking them.

Re: Get to work!

[hashtag_chocobro]

"Well, this," Prompto admitted, gesturing a little toward the bus as if there was even something else he could be talking, "is probably way more Vette than me. Vehicles in general, I don't know a whole lot about, I'm more electronics and firearms, but, I mean, it's not that hard to try and figure it out if you really think about it. And you're at a disadvantage; we come from worlds that have this stuff, and you don't, and yet you're still sitting there pretty much hacking into all my boys' emails from that cute little phone of yours, and that's nothing to shake a stick at, either."

Re: Get to work!

[bookbeltof_love]

"It's a really cute phone," she agreed, "and, like, did I tell you I got a tablet?????????"

She could take her hacking into whole new areas with that! FEAR HER. Eventually she was going to need a real computer to get serious about the whole hacking thing, but for now... for now she had enough going on.

"But, like, sometimes it feels like I'll never catch up anyway. I can learn one thing really well, but how do I learn everything that no one here even thinks about?????????"

Re: Get to work!

[hashtag_chocobro]

"You're fiiiiiine," Prompto assured her with a small laugh. "Trust me. You can already do stuff with that phone that people who've been using phones their whole lives probably can't do. And no one can learn everything, anyway. I mean, yeah, okay, I could probably figure out how to hook this bad boy up with a few rocket boosters if I had the right materials, maybe, but hand me a sword, and I'm not going to know what the heck to do with it. Iggy keeps putting me in cooking classes, but I still burn water if I don't pay enough attention."

Re: Get to work!

[bookbeltof_love]

"Swords are easy!!!!!!!!!" Nina chirped. "Pointy end goes in the bad guys!!!!!!!!!!!"

Nina, no. No.

There was a reason Nina didn't use swords either.

"And, like, you'd think Iggy would learn not to do that to you, too," she mused, "but........ I don't know. It always feels like I'm so behind."

Re: Get to work!

[hashtag_chocobro]

"Nah," said Prompto, "you're just friends with a bunch of nerds."

Which was super true, don't even try to deny it.

"And you have a long way to go," he added, because that was true, too, and he didn't want it to seem like he was just saying what she'd want to hear by complimenting her. "But the fact that you've even managed to get this far is pretty amazing. And," his helmeted head tilted up almost warningly, "if you're still going to argue with me on this point, I am totally throwing this toothbrush at you."

Re: Get to work!

[bookbeltof_love]

"Do that and you'll get in trouble!!!!!!!!!!" she protested, though it didn't change the fact that she felt, and looked, relieved at his words.

Maybe they were even right.

And if she was doing okay, she'd just have to push herself harder, catch up faster, and that way they wouldn't leave her behind. Right?

Re: Get to work!

[hashtag_chocobro]

"I'm already in trouble!" Prompto declared swiftly. "Might as well make the most of it!"

And there was a toothbrush flying up toward the top of the bus, no where near actually hitting Nina, of course, despite the fact that it should be noted that Prompto was an excellent shot.

And he was a pretty good runner, too, which would be helpful as he went to sprint all the way over to the other side of the bus after that.

To hide.

And get another toothbruth.