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Yancy College of Science and Technology- Experiment Lab #9
"Just a little, itsy bitsy drop…"
A slightly tanned masculine boy with jet black hair and green eyes, sea green eyes, was holding a dropper filled with a blue liquid in his white gloved hand. His sweat dripped on to his wet lab coat and fogged up his goggles. His breath as slow and calm, but one could see that his hand was clearly shaking. Below him was a flask filled with crimson liquid that would bubble up and pop.
'Did I turn the Bunsen Burner on with too much power?' he wondered. He would often adjust his tools to satisfy his needs but forget to turn them back to normal for the others. That may or may not have anything to do with the more 'violent' failures in the lab.
'Well, it's too late to back out now.'
As slow and soft as he could, he squeezed the dropper. Seeing that nothing came out, he put a bit more power into the push. A tiny blue drop escaped but was holding onto the dropper.
A frustrated sigh escaped his lips but remained calm. Just a little bit more…
RING RING RING!
Startled by the sound, the boy pressed on to the dropper too hard, causing all the fluids to dive into the flask.
Smoke flew into the air as well as a purple gas.
'Oh shit!'
Quickly putting on his earlobe face mask, he dropped onto the floor hoping to avoid the vapors in the air. He crawled to the door and pulled on the alarm.
The sprinklers started kicking in as the ceiling started to rain, separating the gases. Now feeling more energized, as always, he darted to the windows and opened them, releasing all the air.
The door then burst open as a woman in a lab coat rushed in.
"Percy, are you ok?!" she exclaimed in a protective tone.
"I'm fine, mom," Percy said, removing his face mask. "No thanks to your phone which you keep forgetting."
The brunette chuckled sheepishly as she rubbed her head. Her name was Sally Jackson, or Dr. Jackson as her subordinates call her, and she's the mother of the boy, Perseus "Percy" Jackson. She's also a well-known chemical engineer who's currently working on a solution for water pollution. She was fairly tall with curly brown hair reaching her shoulders and dark blue eyes.
"Whoopsies." She reached out for her phone and put it in her pockets.
Percy rolled his eyes at his mother's response. "Honestly mom. One day, you're gonna get me killed with that phone of yours if you keep forgetting it in my lab."
"The only way that'd happen is if you use the toxic chemicals," she scolded," which I keep forbidding you to use."
"Yeah yeah yeah." Percy waved his hand, dismissing his mother's words. "Now, where's my assistant?"
He looked around the room.
"Oh, assistant!" he yelled out.
Footsteps could be heard in the halls as they were coming closer to the room. A red-haired girl entered through the door holding a clipboard, panting and sweating. She had hazel-brown eyes and small freckles across her face, and her hair was in a ponytail that reached her hips. Just like the duo, she was wearing a lab coat.
"Sorry, boss! I was caught up in another experiment recording!" she quickly explained herself.
"Nancy, how many times do I have to keep reminding you that as your direct superior, you listen to me first?!" Percy exclaimed, causing the girl to bow her head in shame.
Her name was Nancy Bobofit, and she's the recorder of the experiments in the area, although, she's also known as Percy's personal assistant. She's also known for her little crush on Percy.
"I apologize boss!" she said. "That won't happen again!"
Sally sighed. "Honestly you two, you should be acting more like your age and go play outside. It's a little disturbing to see 11-year-olds waste their time with chemical equations and experiments that are way above their usual skills."
Both Percy and Nancy scoffed. "As if," Percy started. "Why waste the opportunity to stay here and study since our parents work here?" Nancy nodded her head.
Normally, 11-year-olds wouldn't even be allowed to step foot in the experiment buildings, but since Sally was the head chief of the Chemical Engineering section and Nancy's dad, Nathan Bobofit, was the head of the Medical Engineering section, the two had special permission. A special permission that they would always exploit.
Seeing that she couldn't convince them, Sally gave up. "Fine. But do try to live a little. After all, you're only kids once." With that being said, she left the room.
Nancy turned her attention to Percy, pen and paper ready. "So," she began," how'd it go?"
Percy gave her a deadpanned look as he spread his arms, motioning to the entire room. She chuckled weakly as she wrote on the clipboard.
"So, another failure?"
Percy sigh. "Yes, my little helper. Another failure. Failure #89 to be exact."
Nancy giggled. "I always told you that you were better in the engineering part than the chemistry part. You should just stop trying to even your skills and just focus on making better machines"
It was true. Percy was better at inventing than mixing elements and compounds. A lot better. Sure, he did well in theories and solving equations, but he couldn't make a compound if his life depended on it.
Percy gave a mild glare to the female. "'If at first you don't succeed, try, try again,' my assistant."
"I think you mean 'try, try x89 again,'" she giggled before returning his glare with one of her own. "Now, could you stop calling me your subordinate? Why do I have to be your assistant?"
Nancy didn't want to be his subordinate. She wanted to be his partner, his equal. After all, she's just as skilled as him in the medical field.
"Because every great scientist has a hot slash cute smart lab assistant…," he stated in a matter-of-fact tone as he lifted his goggles up to his head, revealing his beautiful sea green eyes.
Nancy was startled as a blush crept to her face. But before she could reply, he continued.
"But since I can't find one, you'll have to do," he finished with a disappointed sigh and shrugged.
The sound of shattering objects could be heard as Nancy's face became blank.
Slowly, a dark aura surrounded her as she slowly pulled out a giant syringe. Her face was covered by a shadow as her eyes glowed and a sinister smile formed on her face. She sharpened the end of the needle as she moved closer towards Percy.
Ding!
Percy pulled his blue smart phone out of his lab coat and turned off the alarm. He let out a smile. "Time for swim practice."
Nancy was pulled out of her… trance… as she focused on his words. "Swim… practice…" She dropped her syringe and blushed.
Despite being a scientific genius, Percy was a very great swimmer. In fact, it's probably because of his love for the water and swimming that he was in shape. Otherwise, he'd be really, really scrawny with the lack of exercise.
Nancy had seen him once during his practice, and she loved every moment of it. Especially when the water poured down from his wet jet-black hair to his tan hard muscles…
Seeing that he was leaving through the door, Nancy quickly caught up to him, hoping to 'accidentally' get a peek.
Unknown Location
"Do you have it?" a deep voice grumbled. It sounded very old and weak, but at the same time, it held some power behind it.
"Of course, master," a male voice replied. "The Olympians have gotten old and weak, dulling their senses. It was easy to sneak by them and take it…"
A dark chuckle echoed. "Good. Soon, my children will be punished for defying their father, AND I WILL RULE THE WORLD ONCE AGAIN!"
"Ah," the voice interrupted," my lord, there is a… slight problem."
"What problem?!" it snarled. It had taken millenniums for its plan to finally start, and it didn't want to wait any longer.
"Th-there was an order to find it, and one of them i-is on my trail," the male replied, nervously.
"Which one?!" A wave of power filled the area, leaving the other being to breath heavily.
"O-one of the 2nd generations. The eldest one, to be exact."
It stayed quiet for a minute before the pressure of power was lifted, resulting in a relieved sigh.
"Listen closely, here's what you'll do…"
Yancy Academy, Floor 1, Room #19
One would think that since Percy was able to ace college level questions and equations that it wouldn't be necessary for him to attend school. Well, that clearly wasn't happening. Sally insisted that Percy needed to be with other kids near his age, and so, she forced him to go to school. However, that wasn't much of a problem…
"Class," a bearded man in a wheelchair started," please welcome our new assistant teacher, Mrs. Dodds. She'll be helping me with teaching you all Greek Mythology and, hopefully, will take my place after I retire."
The class broke in applause as a woman dressed in black entered the room. She had curly short hair and brown eyes that looked like they pierced through each student.
"Thank you, Mr. Brunner," she said. She looked around the classroom and saw all the students with books on their desks, whispering and gossiping… except for that one kid dissecting a bat in the middle of class. Wait, what?
She blinked before looking at the boy again. Yep, he was still taking that bat apart.
'Is it the Mist?' she wondered before shaking her head. No, that wasn't possible. A monster as powerful as her couldn't be affected by the Mist.
"Well, why don't you go to the back of the room and let me start the class," Mr. Brunner suggested. "It's your first day, and I wouldn't want you to do something you're not comfortable with yet."
Mrs. Dodds blinked. "Yes, of course. That would be wonderful."
As she walked passed the students, she kept her attention towards the black-haired kid. She watched him throughout the entire class period.
He drained the bat of its blood through a pipette and used his razor-sharp scalpel and scissors to take the organs out. He then measured everything about the bat, from its wing span to body size to foot size, before inserting in some metal parts with forceps. The boy then moved back and looked intensely at the bat. Soon, the bat slowly got up. The boy looked excited before smoke soon came out of the bat's ears, and an electric shock spread throughout the bat, resulting in it to lay down on the desk.
He looked disappointed before putting the bat and its organs in a plastic bag and put that in a blue string backpack. He then took out another blue book bag.
'Finally!' Mrs. Dodds thought. 'About time he focused on class. I was about to go insane if I saw one more seco-'
Her thoughts were interrupted as he took out a stripped sea bass and place it on his desk. He looked sadly at the fish before closing his eyes and bowing his head.
'I-is he really apologizing to the fish?!' she thought. 'And why is no one else noticing this?!'
Although he looked uncertain about his actions, he took out his scalpel and dug into the fish's body.
"Um, Mr. Brunner?"
The teacher turned his attention to the assistant. "Yes, Mrs. Dodds? Is there a problem?" he asked in a concerned tone.
She gave a nervous chuckle. "Not necessarily. I couldn't help but notice that a certain boy seemed… distracted… during class."
Mr. Brunner let out a tired sigh as he rubbed his temples and closed his eyes. "Yes, that'd be Mr. Jackson you're talking about, I presume?"
Good, so it wasn't just her. "If that's the boy that dissected animals throughout the entire class, then yes, I'm talking about Jackson."
"Simply ignore him. That's what most of the staff and teachers resort to, including me," he simply said.
Ignore him?! Most of the staff and teachers?! Mrs. Dodds was suddenly a bit worried. What kind of delinquent gets even the authorities to not discipline him?!
"Hey, G-Man!" Percy exclaimed towards a wavy-haired boy in crutches. The said boy looked scared before trying to run away as fast as he could. Of course, being in crutches didn't really help at all.
Percy caught up to him immediately and grabbed him by the collar, causing the boy to cry out for help. His name was Grover Underwood, and he's Percy's #1 subject.
Ever since Percy stumbled upon him eating cans and scraps of metal, he subjected Grover to experiments. First, he tried to fix Grover's foot with his 'Box of Wonder.' It was a plain metal box with screws that would tighten the box. Needless to say, Grover knew he made a mistake as soon as he placed his foot in the box. Percy took unhealthy amounts of blood samples, tested his inventions on him, forced him to participate in demanding activities, like walking with a boulder tied to his mouth, tested his muscle reflexes with a hammer, and even injected him to sleep and dissected him! Grover was just glad that Percy didn't go anywhere below his waist during the human dissections.
"Come on, Grover!" Percy exclaimed happily. A bit too happily. "I've got a new experiment to try." He then let out- oh no! He let out a giggle!
"H-hey Perce. W-what's wrong buddy?" he asked, nervously. Who pissed him off this time?!
"Well," he started in a sing-song voice," I went to the cafeteria for lunch but guess what I found instead?"
What? How'd today's lunch pis-
Grover let out a gasp. Oh, no. Oh, no! He looked nervously at Percy and felt somewhat bad for the cafeteria ladies. Percy hated seafood with a passion. A big passion.
Percy let out an evil grin as he dragged Grover to his lab. A wicked giggle escaped his lips while Grover screamed for help.
"FOR SCIENCE!"
Sorry if it's short, but I'm not sure if I even want to continue this.
