A DISCOVERY
"Technology is fun!" Junko shouted from under the mountainous pile of scrappy gear. "I mean, look at this stuff! I know its about centuries old, but it works."
"Yeah, I for once have to agree," said Stork who dreamily leaned against the waste pile, thinking of the beautiful Condor soaring through the skies, yearning the golden light of the horizon, its metal finesse rippling from the evanescent kiss of clouds and the sweet caress of wind. Oh yes, the Condor was a beauty, where every engineering pioneer would smother her blueprints with compassionate approval and the mere tease of her curved chassis beneath a velvet cloth would arouse...
"Stork! Look at this beauty!" Junko's enthusiastic puncture through the pile ruptured the pyramidal structure of the scraps, where flimsy metal pieces exploded around the Wallop like metallic fireworks. Clasped within his fingers was a curious spherical object, where wild wires flailed freely and the lens was trickled with feint cracks.
"Huh," Stork replied mildly, as he sat on his sore bottom. He had fallen from Junko's sudden outburst, and the Merb was not in the mood for forgiveness.
"It's a webcam! We can, oh I don't know, make home made videos at... home! Or video blog about our day daily! We can attach it to a crystal powered screen to watch playback and more stuff!"
"Oh yes, and discombobulate the internal communications data mainframe, send paroxysmal distortions to the crystal generators, which would, with high possibility, catalyse diaphragmatic aberrations of the power channels, unstablise energy distribution to the engines, where we would thus plunge into the Wastelands from insufficient lift and swiftly conclude out lives, with the brief light of impending doom being our final thoughts before death." Stork quickly contemplated in one breath, still sitting upon his very sore bottom and an index finger held up to highlight the possible untimely outcome.
"Oh come on Stork, it's just a camera. Nothing bad is going to happen to it." Junko pleaded, unsure of Stork's doubt over the piece of tech.
"Nothing to it, yes that is true. But did you think about what would happen to us? If, and I hypothetically state thus, we were to operate this camera as you innocently call it, what would the consequences be? I know for sure my prediction is certain and there are plenty more I can conjure. Oh yes, the consequences are quite... interesting," the Merb replied darkly as he stood up, rubbing his sore bottom.
Junko laughed at Stork's usual temperament. "Stork, why don't we stop guessing and actually put this thing into action. We'll see how it would function and I will put safety measures around it just for you."
"Um yeah. At your own risk." the Merb muttered.
"Cool! I mean, how dangerous can it be?" Junko cheerfully replied as he waded out of the scrap pile.
"Gah! Don't say that Junko!" Stork shrieked.
AN: Well I am back. I won't be updating the other multi- chapter stories since I haven't the time to focus on them. Nevertheless, short bursts of my presence will grace your eyes here and there. This random combination of short stories would be updated from time to time, since I have plenty written up, waiting to be published! Just as another note, all these stories occur parallel to one another; i.e. they occur at a similar period of time. Therefore, a character will not appear twice in this entire collection.
Well sit back and enjoy, I guess.
