A/N: Holy crumps guys, I didn't realize how many mistakes were in that last page until a couple hours ago, sorry about that ^^; hopefully this page is better, anyway, enjoy!

Skullboy was up later then usual that night, not because the machine he was working on was particularly hard to build, but his conscience made him want to disassemble the entire project, throw it in a fire, and never think to do anything so...destructive again.

Skullboy sighed and looked past the side of his new machine, it had a series of gears and wires, the exterior was red, at Iris's request, and it had what looked like a small gold-colored,stool-like object jutting out on one side. Just above, and on a small pedestal, was a kind of helmet with lots of wires and flashing lights that he wasn't even sure did anything, they just looked sciency, that's what Iris said anyway.

Ever since her visit earlier, Skullboy had been worried about his supposed internal secret being not so secret anymore. He had managed to convince Iris, for whatever reason she accepted, to "test" out this new invention. He made sure she knew EXACTLY what it did, even spending a good hour or so explaining it.

That didn't change the fact that he felt horrible about the whole thing. In fact, he seemed about ready to puke.

Iris almost laughed at Skullboy, it was funny to see him so worked up over things. After all, she HAD agreed to use the machine, so she really couldn't understand why he was being so hard on himself.

She knew what the machine did, basically. He had explained it in a lot of big sciency terms that she didn't understand, but after a while she had finally understood.

It would wipe her memory of what happened earlier, she told him not to worry about it, being as reckless as she was, she forgot things all the time, partly because of concussions or something along those lines.

After a long period of silence between the two, Iris groaned.

"Skullboy, are you SURE you can't build any faster? If I have to sit here any longer I think I may EXPLODE!" Iris exaggerated the statement by swinging her arms out.

"I'm almost done Iris, and thanks again, I'm really grateful that-"

"oh come on not that again, it's OK I told you, I forget things all the time! I can't even remember what I did last Tuesday, besides something about Squig...and a wall. I think we ran into it. Maybe."

Skullboy rolled his eyes and looked back at his work.

"I know, I know, but I just feel kind of guilty about this."

Iris walked over and knocked her knuckles against the side of his head.

"How many times do I have to tell you to get it through that thick skull of yours?"

Skullboy leaned back, setting down a wrench and closed the back of the contraption.

"Maybe a couple hundred thousand more times and I wouldn't feel as bad about it, but that doesn't really matter now"

"why?"

"because it's finished."

The two stared at the mechanical metal machine.

"Well" Iris said excitedly, "Let's DO this!"

With that, the young cyclops practically jumped onto the stool, strapped on the helmet, and gave a toothy grin to her skeleton friend.

"Ready when you are Skullboy!"

Skullgoy gulped, clenched his teeth, and pulled down on the lever.