The little mad doctor took notes, bobbing his head. "Interesting," he would've said, if he'd had any control whatsoever over Square Root's actions.
"Plan on staying around long?" Square Root said, smiling almost obliviously. "See, I was just thinking...I could use somebody to help with certain things..."
"Dangerous things!" the little mad doctor cackled inside Square Root's skull. Fortunately, he went unheard.
Square Root can barely contain himself. "Oh, you won't regret it!" he practically squeals. "Come to my workshop after the party! It's right beneath the hardware store! We're gonna make history!"
He bounds off excitedly, nearly splattering his Neapolitan Swirl cone on the ground before he thinks to carry it off in his mouth.
"Dat would be me and your alfalfa sandwich," Hors said, smiling, as he came up to the ice cream clerk, "Now can we let bygones be bygones? At least for today?"
Hey! Read my fanfic: HereRitardando stood there for a while, ice cream and soda dribbling down his chin. There was a question forming in the back of his mind, but he couldn't quite think of it. He sat down, placing his drink in a convenient spot, also where he could actually drink it without it being awkward.
Then he remembered the question.
"What's a hardware store look like?" he asked. Square Root, however, had gone. "Oh."
Midnight Sky watched the hassled Vanilla Bean for a moment. Then her conscience kicked. Hurriedly she ate her cone, getting an ice cream headache in the process, and quickly trotting back to Vanilla Bean. "Hey. Would you like some help?" She offered before shaking her head. "Oh right, My name's Midnight Sky."
Real Life rwby rose"It's alright you know. Most ponies here don't know me. And I need to do something to stay awake." Midnight Sky reassured glancing at the stirring mob of ponies both coming and going to the ice cream cart. She glanced at it and then back to Vanilla Bean. "I'm also fairly certain most of the town is mobbing for your ice cream. I can just help with crowd control if you want."
Real Life rwby rose"If I cook anyt'ing else scry, just call me and I'll take it off da menu," Hors promised. He then turned and left to finish some last minute food preparations.
Hey! Read my fanfic: HereSquare Root bolted through the hardware store and down the stairs to his workshop. Everyone else was still at the party, so there was no one to crash into.
"The Professor!" he shouted, nearly tripping on some discarded half-built machine. "The Professor, I've got wonderful news! We gotta get this place straightened up!"
The white rabbit sleeping in the fish tank rubbed his eyes. He'd learned to take his "owner's" absences as napping opportunities. When he opened his eyes, the only thing between him and Square Root's overjoyed face was a pane of glass.
"I've got a test subject coming!"
edited 6th Apr '11 11:10:41 AM by Ryusui
"You could say that." The plum coloured pony chuckled. "I got up at 11 last night and I took a small nap somewhere around 5 this morning so I wouldn't be too sleepy to attend the Tanner's cutecenera." She explained gently. Midnight Sky quietly ushered a few eager ponies back into the line to keep them from pestering Vanilla Bean.
Real Life rwby roseMidnight shook her head. "No, I do see the sun. Usually for several hours before I sleep. It depends on the time of year and how early or late the sky gets dark. And I'm observing and charting the stars. I'm the pony who lives in that observatory outside of town." She added before she cleared her throat and looked sternly at a little colt trying to cut in line.
Real Life rwby rose"Well, I suppose the correct thing to say is it is back under old management. Pr-" Midnight paused glancing at the ponies around her. She wasn't sure if they would get scared or not. She shrugged figuring they were afraid of the Nightmare Moon, not the gentle Princess Luna. "Princess Luna is back in charge of her skies again. I had been noticing a changing in the stars lately. They had been more static in the past." She mused her head turned up to the sky absently thinking. "I can't help but wonder how many of our constellations and charts are off now."
Real Life rwby rose"Wrench, The Professor! Hacksaw, The Professor! Screwdriver, The Professor!..."
Square Root had cleared a walk path between the stairs and the workbench and was now putting what seemed like most of the junk he had cleaned up into a brand-new contraption he was now working feverishly on.
"I'm sure I've worked out all the problems this time," he said to a somewhat skeptical The Professor. "I just need to double up on the safety winding...the Y-41's gonna work perfectly this time, I just know it!"
Ritardando, after a while of bumbling around without a clue, eventually managed to find the hardware store?
"Hello?" he asked loudly. "Is this a hardware store? I'm supposed to be at one, but I don't know what it is, or what it looks like."
He looked around. "Hammers..."
Test subject. This should be funny.
edited 6th Apr '11 11:20:22 PM by Pannic
Without any warning, Square Root seizes a harness-like contraption and puts it on Ritardando's back.
"The Professor! Strap him in!"
The rabbit in the glasses and mortarboard dutifully does so, and Square Root applies the finishing touch: a headband with a small concave dish attached to it, right in the middle of Ritardando's forehead.
A mechanical arm rises up out the back of the harness, swaying unsteadily in the air.
"This," Square Root says, "is my magnum opus - the Automated Reflexive Manipulaticator, Prototype Y-41!"

"Ooh!" Ritardando said, eagerly taking out the remaining coins from his sack and putting them on the nearest flat surface for the ice cream salesman, and taking the root beer float.
Mmm. Cold and sweet. That was a combination he liked.
Unfortunately, that left him in the awkward position of having a glass with soda and ice cream in his mouth.
And the even more awkward position of somepony else talking to him. A rather eccentric pony asking if he wasn't from around here.
Wow. He's good.
"Mmm. Mm-hmm-hm." Ritardando mumbled, trying to say 'Yep. Not from here.' "...mmm..." he said when he realized he wasn't able to say anything.
edited 3rd Apr '11 9:03:27 PM by Pannic