"Come on, just a little more," he twisted a bolt.
At the moment he was making little 'bugs'. He'd use them, or sell them rather, to help get in and spy. At the moment they were no more than simple hardware shells. But they were still able to move. He just had to put the software in them and they'd need to be tested. He smiled to himself. He could be such a genius at times.
"I am amazing," he smiled. "I sounded a bit like Hank there." He paused as the doorbell rang, "Company?"
At the door was a familiar face. One that had a visor and liked to keep a close 'eye' on things.
"Hello, Scott," he looked down at him.
"Hi Forge. Just came to see what you're working on lately," he waltzed in.
He raised a brow at him, "Shouldn't you be babysitting your brother?" He didn't recall inviting him in.
"I'm not sure where Alex is at the moment," he shrugged and looked toward the door that led to the lab,
"So, anything new?"
"You just wanted to get out of the mansion, didn't you?"
"Yes. Mainly."
He rolled his eyes and sighed, "Ok, you can stay here a few minutes. Are you thirsty?" He was responded to with a nod, "Ok, I'll get you a drink. Stay here and don't touch anything."
Being the 'mechanic' he was, he tended to hoard a bunch of his things around his rooms.
Being the curious one that Scott was, he looked into the lab and walked over, checking out all the new finished products and working progresses. Always impressive what he could come up with. He noted some things on the desk. Little bugs? His place was infested. Scott rolled his eyes and quickly brushed them off the desk into the garbage.
"Scott?" Forge looked around. He noted his lab door open and a figure moving around in there. "Hey!"
"Yeah?" Scott walked toward the door.
"Out!" He grabbed his arm, pulling him out and giving him a hard swat like he'd seen the professor give him on occasions. "What part of 'stay here and don't touch anything' didn't you get!" he swatted his butt again.
"Yeow!" he flinched, "Sorry, I was just looking!"
He grumbled and let him go, "You'd better not have touched anything." He looked in the room quickly and closed the door, "Drink your chocolate and leave."
"But there's nothing to do at the mansion."
He rolled his eyes. "Fine, just stop whining. It's hard to believe you're almost 20," he shook his head. He went back to his lab.
Scott smiled and sat, drinking his hot chocolate. He soon got a call. It was the professor telling him to get Remy and Longshot from the casino before a mob attacked them for cheating. After a series of groans and complaints, he was given some motivation to move in the form of Xavier threatening to take him over his knee.
"Thanks for the drink, I have to go," Scott set the cup down and left.
"Yeah, see ya." Forge looked over his devices and couldn't find them.