Kishi: Well, yet another S/I... you might say I'm crazy. And who knows? Maybe you're right.

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Kyoudai

Chapter 1

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A loud bang brought the sighing figure out of warmer climes. "Ryan! What the hell are you doing out here?"

"Come out and see!" came the growled reply. The figure walked down the stairs and into the garage. The formerly empty garage. The garage filled now with various electronic components littering the ground and tools all over the floor. The body laying on the floor beneath the mess couldn't be discounted either.

"This doesn't explain the bang," said the figure.

"Some of my components fell off the shelf," said Ryan, sliding his grizzled face out of the mass. He pointed at the remains of a VCR.

"Crap!" The other guy ran over and knelt by the shattered remnants. "Don't tell me we're going to replace these, please."

"Oh, no need. The thing's already built."

"But... but..." the taller sputtered. "What the hell are you doing on the ground?"

"Doing some last minute tweaks that you couldn't possibly understand."

"Yeah, and you do?"

"Oh hush," the older teen growled as he stood up.

"So, let's see," said the taller, the younger. "You've been working for five days straight over winter break with nothing but sugar and caffeine on... something."

"Yeah."

"And... what does this thing do?"

Ryan stared at the congomeration of wires and metal and dials and buttons. "You know," he said after a moment, "I have no idea."

"I knew you should've called Stephen in on this."

"He'd never have helped out with this... this... whatever it is."

"And why not?"

"Because we have no idea what this thing is!"

"But that's half the fun!"

"Fair enough, Jay. Fair enough." The two sighed as they looked at the... thing.

"So who's going to push the button?" asked John.

"I nominate you."

"Why me?"

"Because dangerous and stupid are things you do."

"No, that's you, book man."

"But it's a button! You love buttons!"

John stared at his brother before sighing. "You're right," he said. He walked over and, looking around nervously, pressed the button.

And the thing exploded.

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Kishi: This is more of a prologue than anything. Um... yeah. Some might think that this is the end of my credibility as an author, but I say "Nay!" The idea of this story is to create circumstances where the world changes the characters, rather than the characters changing the world. It worked for Sean Gaffney, didn't it? Didn't it?

Avatar: The Last Air Bender is copyrighted to people who aren't me. I don't know who they are, otherwise, I'd give 'em credit.

The only things I own in this story are those things that I perceive as being original, and thusly are mine. If you recognize something that you came up with first, all credit goes to you.

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