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

[bigdamnprincipal]

Good weather had fallen over Fandom this morning, so the picnic conditions were looking fantastic. The bonfire was there for good measure, along with the makings of s'mores, because it was almost truly summer, right?

There was plenty of food, and there were tables and chairs set up all across the lawn with varying degrees of glitter stuck to them. Everything was ready for another welcome picnic!

[OCD-free! Welcome the new folks gently! Or not!]

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[unusual_sith]

"Really well, thank you," Lana said. "And you?"

Yes, she had a (perfectly innocuous!) purpose, but that didn't mean she couldn't just chat.

[somethingwithturquoise]

"Pretty good!" Summer replied brightly. "Stark and I were stomping around my dimension's moon in the big metal ferrets my family has been using to fight space monsters these days! I hope we didn't tear it up too much, or else there's going to be some interesting new tidal wave patterns back home. Silver lining, maybe if they're fucked up bad enough, more people will chalk it up to climate change and be more proactive about it?"

Totally normal chit-chat, that was the Summer Smith guarantee.

[unusual_sith]

"Anything that makes them help the planet can only be good," Lana agreed. "What's a ferret?" She hadn't come across one of them before.

[somethingwithturquoise]

Ooooh! Opportunity to show someone something new! Summer was on it, her phone all but manifesting out of thin air as she quickly typed in something and then turned the phone to Lana to show off the search results.

"This," she said, after selecting clearly one of the cutest but also most helpful images, "is a ferret."

She gave Lana a chance to give it a closer look before turning her phone back to pull up another picture.

"And This," she showed her the next one, "is my GoTron ferret."

[unusual_sith]

Lana laughed. "One of those things looks distinctly more dangerous than the other. Is there a functional reason to make it a ferret, or is it purely aesthetics?" There was nothing wrong with pure aesthetics, she was just curious.

[somethingwithturquoise]

"I have no idea," Summer admitted, tucking her phone away again, "probably copyright issues."

What did that even mean, Summer??

"Either way," she continued, "my grampa's super into them and just, like, collected them? But he got in touch with another collector version of him in another dimension that wanted to team up, because there's actually five of those robot ferrets, and when you get them together, they connect to form a bigger robot, and this other Rick wanted to make even bigger robots by connecting the connected robots, and it's a whole thing now."

[unusual_sith]

"That sounds like it could get out of hand very quickly," Lana said. She got a little gun shy around giant robots. Still, this was Summer's world, and she didn't sound concerned.

[somethingwithturquoise]

Summer would be a thousand times more concerned with the people in the robots than she ever would be the robots themselves.

Especially when magnets existed.

"If it involves my family," she noted wryly, "things always do get out of hand."

There were reasons she almost never went home anymore, Lana! Except to fight giant space monsters with large robot ferrets!

[unusual_sith]

"Oh, dear." Lana gave her a wry smile. "That sounds like a story."

[somethingwithturquoise]

"Less a story," Summee groaned, rolling her eyes, "and more like the story of my life. There are reasons I don't go home much any more these days unless I get to stomp and fly around in a big metal ferret. I don't even know where to begin on those stories, Lana."

Like. She was trying to think of the most fucked up example as a jumping off point, and was having choice paralysis.

[unusual_sith]

"My condolences," Lana said. "Though it seems to have left you with a lot of useful skills."