AGE PLOT SHENANIGANS

[microbrobotics]

WHO: Everyone and anyone!
WHERE: De Chima, various
WHEN: Around 6 PM EST, March 25th
WHAT: Age plot kickoff!
WARNINGS: Cuteness.

[ LET'S GET THIS PARTY OFFICIALLY STARTED! Opening events so we don't do too much comm flooding (although people are welcome to make their own posts for the event). You're welcome to toplevel with your character if you'd like to have them show up somewhere else for this plot.

Current toplevels:
Spring Festival in a De Chima city park
De Chima #1
De Chima #1, later (Minato)

The age plot will run from March 25th through Sunday, March 29th. More deets available at the plotting post. ]

Comments

[khajidont]

I've been known to keep a few.

[Or not known, which is the whole point of keeping a secret, but... whatever, Hiro will get what he's talking about. He does occasionally try to nip his own pedantry in the bud. It can get kind of obnoxious.]

Go for it.

[microbrobotics]

[ Eh, who cares about the details anyway. Hiro steps back towards the garage door he came out of, beckoning Jaime to follow. If Jaime does so ... he'll see two of those Hornet generators sitting in his garage, one looking just the same as the ones they took apart while the other is totally busted. ]

You know what those are?

[khajidont]

I definitely know what these are.

[And he loathes them. But he sees the point in recreating them, and in experimenting on them, so long as they're careful about it. He and Hiro have already had that talk. He crouches beside one, happy to get a better look now that he's not worried about someone trying to take his head off. He whistles low, admiringly, like he's looking into the hood of a car instead of at something that very well could have gotten them all killed.]

How'd you manage to drag these all the way over here?

[microbrobotics]

[ They have indeed had that talk, though Hiro's implication at the time was for the nullifying collars and not the generators; the generators are kind of illegal so he's been real careful about what he's said on-screen and on-network. Hiro gestures to the busted copy. ]

We didn't. One of our friends recovered one during that whole Hornet mess and dropped it off at our front door in a van. So we copied it and tried to make it broadcast a different kind of code. The good news is, it worked.

[ The bad news ... well, that's obvious enough. ]

[khajidont]

The government must be pissed about this!

[Jaime doesn't actually sound like he's scolding Hiro at all, though maybe he ought to be. Still, he's no big fan of the government here, and besides, they've already got all the power nullifying technology they need. The Hornets have been more or less disbanded, which means that they really have no need to take this in as evidence, right?

It's best for Hiro to have it rather than some kind of supervillain. So long as Hiro doesn't go all surprise supervillain on them, they're good. He casts his gaze over to the replicated one with an appraising stare.]

You replicated it pretty good, too. But out of everything you could've done, why try and make it mess with our ages?

[microbrobotics]

Ohhhhh yeah. So, uh. Keep it quiet, yeah? We're gonna return the original one, I swear. As soon as we get everyone else back to normal.

[ Doesn't sound like supervillain talk so far, anyway. And Hiro just isn't the type to do that for real, especially not with his brother here and alive and well. Back home the line was a bit thinner, of course. At that second question though ... He looks a little embarrassed at that. ]

The whole idea was to try it out with something harmless. Proof of concept, y'know? And I wouldn't have minded being older for a few hours ... That was the whole point. But it backfired and went way, way too far.

[khajidont]

[Jaime flaps a dismissive hand in Hiro's direction.] Don't worry, I'm not about to tell.

[He is, technically, a friend of the government. They like him. He brought in a spy for them, saved their shuttle, registered and performed his duty to the full extent of his powers. This is a good thing. He wants to be on their good side.

It makes it easier to go behind their backs like this.]

It seems like a pretty big step for something that's supposed to be a tester, though. I mean, it did wind up being pretty harmless, but you're actually changing your body. That's a pretty big step!

[microbrobotics]

[ Hiro's on the side of good too, okay. He's just not always on the side of law, registered or not. Anyway, he shrugs a little at Jaime's comment. ]

We weren't gonna just dampen powers - not a good test and might hurt people. I wanted to boost powers, maybe, but ... Well, some people have really dangerous ones? That's real bad to spring on anyone. So, we decided to do this instead.

[khajidont]

Still a pretty big jump... though I can't really think of anything better. [He straightens up, dusting off his pant legs.] How about the memory thing, though? How'd you guys manage that?

[microbrobotics]

Dude, that wasn't us. I have no idea how it happened.

[khajidont]

Are you sure? We already know that the nanomachines can mess with our minds. It affecting our minds along with our bodies isn't such a far stretch... is it?

[microbrobotics]

The vaccine was totally different though. Trust me, you don't want it to be our fault. If it is, we're definitely causing brain damage.

[khajidont]

I'm not really hoping it's anyone in particular, but you gotta admit, it can't just be a coincidence. So? Do you think you can reverse it?

[A beat.]

And I hope that the mind thing reverses too, or else we're gonna have a bunch of nine year olds with the bodies of twenty year olds.

[microbrobotics]

The physical stuff? Definitely. Gonna take another couple weeks, but we can do it.

... And wow, that's gonna be terrible.

[khajidont]

Might be terrible. I'm hoping that the minds are gonna be reversed with the bodies... but I'm kinda hoping it's not going to take that long.

[Dealing with Shinji, Minato, Kaidan, Shepard, Bart, and god knows who else for a little while? Piece of cake. Dealing with the flock of children for a couple weeks? Not so easy. He's used to dealing with kids, but not for that long - and not when they've got adult minds that are resistant to ideas like maybe you shouldn't be chopping vegetables while you're tiny.]

But hey, are you okay? I know this whole thing kinda messed up your house.

[microbrobotics]

Trust me, I'm not happy about it either. But it's gonna take that long to fix the generator, so ...

[ He sighs, glancing around at the cracked screens and other delicates in here ]

Me? I"m fine. I'm great. It changed me exactly the way I wanted. Shinji's the one who's pissed about all the dishes in the house getting broken.

[khajidont]

Eh, he'll live.

[Shinji's his friend, so he can handle being flippant about the whole thing. He knows that Shinji will come around eventually, even if he's pissed now... and besides, he's probably even more pissed about being stuck as a little kid to be cooed over by the people that ought to be his peers.]

I just figured I'd check. I didn't know whether or not you got whacked by falling stuff or not. Is there anything I can do to help? I won't be able to figure out any of the tech, but I can do some of the grunt work if you need it.

[microbrobotics]

[ Hiro's still gonna make up for it, okay. New dishes are the first thing on the list. ]

How much engineering do you know?

[khajidont]

Eh, not a ton. Mostly, I'm handy with a toolbox, and I can take direction.

[And, from the sounds of it, he certainly doesn't mind taking directions from someone younger than him.]

I work at a garage, so I fix up cars all the time, but that's probably a little different from what you're dealing with here.

[microbrobotics]

Liiiiittle bit, yeah. But that should be okay. I'll tell you which parts to wrench and which ones to pull apart?

[khajidont]

[He gives Hiro a thumbs-up.]

I can do that. I'm off school, so if you need someone to do grunt work for the next couple days, I got the time. You have enough tools here?

[microbrobotics]

Do I? Oh man, I've got tons. You haven't even seen Toolbot yet.

[khajidont]

Tool bot. Okay, I'll bite. What's toolbot? Is it a tool box on wheels that beeps? 'Cause that's all I'm imagining right now.

[microbrobotics]

Nah, that's just what Pym called it. It's more like a disk really. Buuuut it holds hundreds of tools.

[khajidont]

...hundreds? Like -- that sounds like a video game toolbelt. Can I see?

[How does it even work?]