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Completely Unsafe Science With Beaker, Tuesday, July 19, 2022

There were a few things to notice coming into the Danger Shop for class today. The first was a giant "MELT OR BURN?!" sign over a metal contraption with two giant flame-throwers rigged up to it. The second was a large robot with a metal arm holding a fire extinguisher.

Safety first, kids! Or third. Or maybe tenth?

Beaker stepped up to the table and began speaking. "Meep meep mee meep meep mee!" he began, holding up a not-terribly flattering drawing of Joe from Legal, who had had Concerns about this lesson. "Meep meep meep mee." Beaker's voice turned mocking. "Meep meep meep meep meep meep meep meep!"

Joe thought something would explode, like that wasn't the entire purpose of Science! But Joe had insisted that Beaker pass on the word from Legal: a big piece of paper that read "DON'T", which he held up. "Meep meep meep meep meep," Beaker added, moving on and waving at Dum-E, who waved back with the fire extinguisher.

See? Beaker had other science-based friends well-versed in fire safety! Let's set some stuff on fire, kids!

There was a lovely selection of moddable items, including steel wool, marshmallows, metal pans, ugly sweaters, and that picture of Joe from Legal. Beaker had also wheeled in a chalkboard labeled "MELT" and "BURN" at the top to record the findings! Because if you wrote it down, it was science. If you set things on fire for fun, it was pyromania.

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Surely nothing will go wrong!

Sakaki

Aphra

Shane Gooseman

Alara Kitan

Connor Temple

Gray

Belle

Miguel O'Hara

Yang Xiao Long

See? Dum-E's here! Everything was fine!

Put things onto the contraption, hit the giant red button, see if it burns or melts!

If it burns or melts too much, Dum-E will use the fire extinguisher on it, you, and anything close to it and you.

Expect to be covered in fire-retardant foam is what we're saying here.

Sakaki had let out a shocked gasp when Beaker had held up that picture of Joe from Legal, a sudden terrible, terrible thought that couldn't possibly be true crossing her mind....

And so when that picture of Joe from Legal wound up among the items to be burned, that terrible thought had been horrifyingly confirmed, and she had no choice but to make the first thing she did was to go and rescue that picture, unflattering as it was, and positively cling to it protectively, as if to suggest to anyone who so much as thought of doing such a horrible thing such as burning or melting it, well....they'd have to burn and melt her, too!

And she had plenty of bandages on her hands from yesterday to prove that she clearly didn't fear pain and suffering for the sake of protecting cuteness!

Gray couldn't help but notice the bandages on Sakaki's hands and had to ask her, "Hey, are you okay?" with a vague gesture toward said bandages.

Sakaki was so accustomed to having bandages on her hands on Tuesdays that she didn't even think, even with the gesture, that Gray was talking about them. Instead, she looked down at his gesture to the picture clutched in them, and then blinked up at him.

She was okay. She was okay now that the picture was safe. And so she nodded, stiffly, with a faint, affirming "Mmm."

The little ghost of being a better communicator, though, whispered in her brain to urge her to say maybe a bit more than that, and she looked down at the picture.

"I didn't...want him to get hurt," she explained.

Yes, it was just a picture.

But it was also a principle.

"Uh," Gray said. "It's a picture." Then he asked, "Are your hands okay? Can I help?"

The conflicted and distressed look that crossed Sakaki's face at even the idea of a picture of Joe from Legal burning or melting was not to be understated, and there was just a little bit of time spent wrestling with those emotions before she considered the other part in all of this that might have caused concerned.

"Oh," she said. "My hands...they're fine. I'm...working on my communication skills."

A pause.

"With the cats."

Another pause, probably only just proving the fact that 'working on her communication skills' was a much needed endeavor.

"At the shelter."

That obviously cleared things up perfectly, didn't it?

"Oh, did you get scratched?" Gray translated. "I could probably heal those, if you want. Minor wounds are pretty easy," he added, in case she thought he was making a major offer here.

"....bit, actually," Sakaki corrected, as if that was much better, but, honestly, the fact that it had only been bites and not scratches as well was really a testament to the progress that was being made. "And they really don't bother me. I wouldn't want to be any trouble."

Especially since those bandages would be right back in place again next week, probably.

This was definitely a bad idea for Goose since he did have a history of setting things on fire in the kitchen (and getting stains on the ceiling) but this was totally for science right?

So he decided to see what would happen if he got a metal pan in the contraption to see what would happen.

He got his answer when it started to burn just a bit too much.

“Oops,” he blinked a bit.

"Meep meep mee?" Beaker asked as Dum-E shot everything with foam.

Melt or burn, Goose? Or both?

Goose blinked as he watched Dum-E shoot out the foam, "It was definitely burning but it did look like it was melting a bit as well so both?" he considered.

Alara wasn’t sure why but she was starting to feel rather nervous about the idea of being so close to all this fire and decided to hang back cautiously for the time being and watch what was happening instead.

Connor's scientifically driven mind was very conflicted with the small spark of primal pyro tendencies that had not fully been snuffed out by years of academics and true field science. He was eying that ugly christmas sweater. The thing WAS hideous and deserved to be destroyed... but, burning it was a bit excessive. Wasn't it?

It was for Science, Connor. "Meep meep meep," Beaker said, waving at the flame throwers.

"I guess... for science and all" Connor said with a slight smirk as he eyed the flame throwers. "Hands on research is the best and all right, mate?"

Belle was familiar with marshmallows. She was going to start there. She was pretty sure they could both melt and burn, too.

"Meep meep meep," Beaker said, holding out graham crackers from...somewhere.

"Thank you," Belle said politely. "Those will burn, I think, if we put them in. But we could try one I suppose."

For science and all.

Gray pulled out a particularly ugly sweater from the pile and started searching it for a fiber content label, like someone who had super ruined some laundry before. After a moment he found it and proclaimed confidently, "This will melt."

Miguel was absolutely going to burn/melt a few ugly sweaters.

And surreptitiously slip one of his UMF gloves into the pile, just to see what Beaker's reaction would be, since they wouldn't burn or melt.

Well, theoretically.

Who is having perhaps too much fun here and is definitely covered in foam.

I love Beaker.

Beaker is amazing, albeit a major fire hazard!

Case in point

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