KAOS-U / Cookies!

[techie_prowess]

The morning dawned bright and clear, a glorious day, as yet unmarred by explosions, mangled corpses, or science gone wrong. Not that Pierce noticed the daylight. He'd been up all night and was now sitting in the kitchen. There was a webwork of wires crawling along his face and head, contact pads looking like little feet all across his skin while he contemplated...a plate of cookies.

These were ideal cookies. Cookies that defined every kids' dream of chocolate chip; large, soft, tempting. The smell alone would make a weaker man tremble at the knee!

And he hadn't touched them yet because he wanted to make sure all the senses were registering properly and that anticipation readings could be taken as well. Was it any wonder he was a little zoned out?

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[techie_prowess]

"Yeah, I guess I did unless Braig's been messing with time." It was possible given the man was researching how to rip holes in reality! "I'll sleep sometime today. After food! Hey, casserole..."

[sliceitwithwind]

"He's not allowed to screw with time in the house." Dilan said, pouring another cup of coffee. "You better sleep, you reprogram things when you're tired."

[techie_prowess]

"Oh, that's a good rule. When did we make it?" Pierce mumbled to himself, pulling leftovers out of the fridge with little regard for what would actually taste good together. "And you had fun when I reprogrammed last! You were chasing my holograms all day!" Because they'd been bunnies.

Alarm bunnies.

It made sense at the time!

[sliceitwithwind]

"After the coffee cup." Dilan said, "And that didn't count! I was tired too!"

[techie_prowess]

"The cup wasn't time though...was it? He told me he missed a decimal point in a location!" Now he was going to wonder if a coffee cup in the future was going to disappear on him!

"It was still fun."

[sliceitwithwind]

"No, I just decided that if he couldn't keep cups out of the wall he couldn't do time in the house." Dilan explained, "Mmph."

[techie_prowess]

"Oh, that makes sense. And I won't be waiting for my cup of coffee to disappear in mid sip or something!" Spaghetti, casserole, and pizza all went in the microwave!

"Mmph? Hmph. See if I make bunnies for you again."

[sliceitwithwind]

"Probably for the best. We broke a lot of furniture." It was totally not Dilan's fault alone!

[techie_prowess]

"Well, yeah, but that happens a lot anyway. Remember that sonic wave some idiot in frat row managed? That pulped everything in three blocks! We're lucky the house stayed up!" So really, put in perspective, some of the furniture wasn't bad!

[sliceitwithwind]

"Ugh, yeah." Dilan snarled a little, "That sucked."

[techie_prowess]

"Hey, at least you were down in the lab! And those ear drops helped!" He got oddly optimistic when he was tired! "Did we ever get back at that guy? I know we thought about it but it was also finals week."

[sliceitwithwind]

"Yeah. I spiked his coffee with heavy duty sedatives. He slept through finals." Dilan said, without hint of shame.

[techie_prowess]

"Score!" Pierce laughed. "Dude, you're a lot nicer than I was going to be. I was going to slip micro-caterpillar machines in his breakfast cereal."

[sliceitwithwind]

"I had extras." Dilan said mildly.

[techie_prowess]

"Well, yeah, still. Nice extras. How's the thing that isn't the wheat thing coming?"

[sliceitwithwind]

"Pretty good." Dilan said, followed by a spate of technobabble fit to tie.

[techie_prowess]

"Dude, yeah, that's better than you expected!" He gave Dilan a cheerful thumbs up before pulling his plate out of the microwave. "Hey, have you been fiddling with Sheeva any?" Random thoughts were random!

[sliceitwithwind]

"No." Dilan said, blinking, "Braig doesn't like me experimenting on the pets now that I have a reliable source for hamsters."

[techie_prowess]

"Huh." he noted helpfully. "I haven't had to reset her as much recently. Think she's finally adjusting properly? It's down like..." quick mental calculations "...22%?"

[sliceitwithwind]

"Might be!" Dilan said, "We should give her a checkup and take her to the vet."

[techie_prowess]

"Yeah, totally! Hmmm, sleeping today. Tomorrow? Friday? Get the freshman to do it if our schedules suck?"

[sliceitwithwind]

"I'll do it." Dilan said, "You are going to sleep. I'll take Cat, too."

[techie_prowess]

"But you have your wheat thing to do today." Schedules sucked sometimes! "They won't walk off or anything? Turn into amazing space wheat and start running the campus?"

[sliceitwithwind]

"No, it'll be fine." Dilan promised, "Having pets means taking care of them."

[techie_prowess]

"Alright, but don't let any new vet guys take a screwdriver to Sheeva!" Pierce worried! "Oh, and do you need some sunglasses to take since you're taking Cat?"