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[The feed shows two small boys - around eight years old - running amok in one of the workshops at City Solutions. However, these aren't your normal children; the havoc they're causing is rather more scientific than what an average Earth boy might be able to do.

Koschei is tinkering with something that looks rather robotic when he glances up at Theta.]

Have you got your bit working yet, Theta? It's hard to do things properly with these primitive tools.

[Yes, someone was just as much of a snob in his younger years as he is several centuries later. At least he's not evil, though?]


[ooc: replies may come from either Koschei or Theta (timelordy). Or both!]

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[timelordy]

Fe fi fo fum, I smell the blood of an english man.

[ Hiding a bit of wiring behind his back. ] It's Jack and the Beanstalk.

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[worstretconever]

You and your Earth fairy tales, Theta.

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[timelordy]

They're fun.

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[hulkbusted]

I know, still not relevant, it's been co-opted by popular culture when used alone.

What have you got there? [He's scanning the room to make sure the AIs don't have any bits hanging out. He's pretty sure Tony would blow a gasket.]

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[timelordy]

[ Oops. Caught. ]

Our technology doesn't have wires. Not in computers anyway.

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[hulkbusted]

Then what are you doing with those wires?

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[timelordy]

Seeing why you need them.

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[hulkbusted]

That depends on where you pulled them from. Why don't you show me?

[Wait, he's supposed to be getting them out of here, not starting an impromptu winter science camp.]

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[timelordy]

[ Scooting down back under the table to slot them back in. All is fine and dandy really, because they do know what they're doing. ]

I haven't seen technology this old before, I just wanted to look.

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[hulkbusted]

As my mother used to say, you look with your eyes, not your hands.

[He's just going to close that service hatch now, thanks.]

You and your friend shouldn't be in here, this lab already has an occupant.

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[worstretconever]

[Wrinkling his nose.] Your mother sounds like my father. I'm not allowed to touch anything in our manor.

Does your mother say that children should be seen and not heard, too?

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[hulkbusted]

No, she didn't say that.

Come on, guys, even if you're not hurting things, this is a working lab and it's bad form to mess around where someone else is working. You never know what you're disrupting.

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[timelordy]

[ Looking guilty. ]

Well, we're sorry, we didn't mean to. Only it's really interesting. And we never get to do anything fun.

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[hulkbusted]

Heh.

[Squatting down to put himself on eye level with the two boys, he gives them a tight smile and nods.]

I get that better than you think, but here's the deal, you don't butt into another guy's lab and start messing with things.

[Oh so very aware of the irony of saying that with Tony Stark's face.]

So how about I move you two into an empty lab?

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[timelordy]

[ Glancing at Koschei. ]

Are we allowed to do experiments?

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[hulkbusted]

Can you promise no explosions, implosions, or dark matter?

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[worstretconever]

[He casts a worried glance at Theta - he knows what happens when Theta gets involved with experiments.]

If we just build a robot.

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[hulkbusted]

Okay, so can we agree to just building a robot?

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[timelordy]

I can promise to try?

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[hulkbusted]

I'll take what I can get.

Gather up your things, boys, we're going for a walk.

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[timelordy]

Brilliant.

[ He gathers up ... a bowtie and a sonic screwdriver. He had them this morning, they must be his. ]