Later that night, Sam was getting ready for Mac's party. She decided to get somewhat fancy for tonight's festivities and put on a fancier outfit than normal. She threw on a purple dress and for accents she put on some classy red lipstick. As the final touch she threw her hair into a ponytail and put on her black slip ons. She checked herself out in her bathroom mirror and had a boost of self confidence. She smiled at herself and left the bathroom. She entered the living room and grabbed her keys off of the kitchen counter but was stopped by her mom.
"And where are you going?" Mom asked.
"I'm going to a party with some old friends of mine from New Donk High." explained Sam as she neared the door.
"Oh. Okay well be safe." said Mom, "Tell your friends I say hello." Sam smiled at her mom and exited her house. She got into her car and started it. Ike had messaged Sam the party address and she inputted it into her map app. She then was on her way to the party.
"Ah man. It's been forever since I've seen any of these people." Sam said talking to herself, "Hope they don't think I'm all high and mighty now that I got to a smart person school as Luci would call it." She continued to drive and within fifteen minutes, she had pulled up to Mac's party. Mac lived in a suburb in northern New Donk City. The house looked packed and there were a lot of cars parked on the street. From inside of her house she could hear music blaring from the inside. Sam took a deep breath and got out of the car. She walked up to the door and knocked on the door. Ike promptly opened the door and greeted Sam.
"Well well, if it isn't miss smarty pants!" Mac greeted enthusiastically. Sam smiled.
"Thanks for inviting me." Sam said.
"I'm just happy you could make it." said Ike. Sam came into the very crowded house. The house was cramped with a bunch of New Donk City High students. From the front door led to both the living room which was on the left and the kitchen which was on the right side. In the middle was a staircase that went upstairs to both Mac's room and his parent's room. The kitchen was packed with kids with red solo cups drinking alcohol and in the living room was a musician by the name of KK Slider (A black kid with white dreads and wearing his signature outfit of a white hoodie and white pants with all white vans). He was playing his acoustic guitar and singing some original songs. There was a circle of people around him.
"Oh my god you guys got KK Slider to show up?" Sam asked, astonished by the mythical musician's presence.
"Take it easy" Ike jokingly said, "KK is actually pretty chill and performs anywhere." he went on to explain. Mac came from downstairs and saw Ike and Sam.
"Hey you two! We're in my room." Mac said. So Ike and Sam followed Mac back up to his room. In his room was Corrin, Roy and Luci passing around a bottle of Smirnoff. Corrin and Luci were ecstatic to see Sam. They got up and hugged her tight. Sam hugged back just as tight as them.
"Oh my god!" Corrin exclaimed, "I'm so happy you were able to come!"
"We should like do this all the time!" Luci slurred. She was very drunk.
"Luci are you okay?" asked Sam.
"I'm perfectly fine. I'm gonna have another swig." said Luci as she stumbled for the bottle, but Roy pulled it away from her.
"Corrin! Come get your girl before she throws up!" said Roy.
"I'm fucking fine Roy. Piss off." said Luci with her face on the floor. Sam and Corrin laughed. The two girls went and took a seat on the bed. Mac and Ike went and sat on the floor next to Roy. Mac took a swig of the vodka and passed it to Ike who then passed it to Sam.
"Oh I'm good," said Sam.
"Awe come on." pleaded Ike.
"Let the girl be Ike. If she doesn't wanna drink she doesn't have to." said Mac.
"Well it's more like I've never drank before." explained Sam. The room then went silent.
"Okay that won't do!" Corrin exclaimed, "Mac grab her a shot glass." Mac went and grabbed a shot glass from the living room.
"Smirnoff tastes like ass but it'll get the job done." said Roy. Sam smiled. She was happy to be hanging out with her old friends from school.
"So Samantha, since we were rudely interrupted last time, how are things at the nerd school?" asked Ike. As he asked the question, Mac came back in the room with the shot glass and a Sprite. He handed both to Sam.
"You'll need a chaser. Or mix it, I don't really care." Mac instructed. Sam grabbed the glass and the drink.
"Thanks. And nerd school is fun. A little dangerous but it's nothing I can't handle." explained Sam. As she was talking she handed Ike the shot glass and Ike poured her a shot of Smirnoff.
"What do you mean dangerous? The hell are you guys doing over there?" asked Roy. Ike hands Sam the shot glass and Sam downs it and quickly drinks some Sprite to chase it. She coughs a little before she can respond.
"You good?" asked Corrin.
"Yeah yeah..wow that burns." said Sam. She took another drink of Sprite. "So, Daisy's little sister Peach has this genetic experiment where she modifies these mushrooms to come alive. My friend Ollie who pulled me away was like 'she always does this'. Low and behold they turned evil and we had to evacuate the school."
Corrin and Luci start laughing.
"Yo that's fucking crazy." said Ike. He took another swig of the Smirnoff and handed it to Sam. Sam took it, poured another shot and downed it; this time not taking a swig of Sprite right after.
"Yo look her go." said Mac. Sam chuckled.
"What can I say guys, I learn fast." Sam said, feeling good, "How have things been at school for you guys?" She went on to ask.
"Eh. It's still the same. I think the only interesting thing that has happened is that we got a new lunch lady." Roy explained.
"A new lunch lady?" Sam questioned.
"Yes! The food is edible and actually tasty now!" cheered Luci.
"Oh my God you are not okay." Sam said laughing. Luci stuck the bird and laid back on the bed.
"But honestly things haven't been the same since you left." explained Ike, "it's like our group lost a bit of joy when you transferred." This warmed Sam's heart.
"You should like totally transfer back." Luci said, slurring her words.
"No Luci, Sam has to conquer the world with her genius." explained Corrin as she patted Luci on the back. Sam chuckled. Roy went around and poured everyone a shot. He then raised his and proclaimed "Here's to Sam!" The group all downed their shots. Luci however raced out of the room and went to the toilet to throw up her shot and the rest of the alcohol she drank. Corrin went and held her hair back and Ike, Roy, Sam and Mac continued to party. The night went off smoothly. Sam got incredibly drunk for the first time as she downed more shots and played a couple of rounds of beer pong but instead of beer they used shots of Grey Goose. Yes, Mac is fancy enough to have Grey Goose at a party. The night ended with Sam and Ike slow dancing as KK Slider played a soothing ballad on his guitar.
Meanwhile at the lab…...
Ollie was hard at work as he toiled away designing pikbots. He ran with Sam's idea of giving the bots different colors to represent different functions. He decided to have five different types. Red would be able to heat up surfaces, yellow could give an electric discharge, blue would be able to spray water, white would be able to give off a non toxic gas and a pink one which only function would be flight. However, he was low on resources (not to mention paint) so he only worked on mass producing blue and yellow bots. He fed Rob the blueprints for the bots and Rob went to mass produce them. As each one was finished, it was dropped into a little bucket.
He was blaring Frank Ocean's Blonde over the speakers and dancing to himself. As he waited for Rob to finish making all of the bots that it could, he worked on his superhero costume in the office. His idea was an all white suit with a mask and red gloves. The mask would have an antenna on top that would allow him to communicate with the bots.
"Rob! Where are you on the pikbots?!" He asked, yelling over the music. Rob heard and turned down the music to respond.
"Eta is 3 minutes until the set number is completed." responded Rob, "What do you intend to do with all of the droids?"
"Well I have to make all the yellow ones be able to discharge electricity on a given notice. That'll take me some time and then I have to attach water tanks to the blue ones so that they can dispense water. But thinking about it now that tank wouldn't be able to hold that much water to even do anything.
"An alternative would be to store water on your personal person." Rob suggested.
"Potentially, but I'll cross the bridge when I get there." responded Ollie. As he said that Rob completed the production. Ollie quickly went and grabbed the bucket of pikbots and brought it to the office. He checked his time to find it was 10:30 at night.
"Oh crap I better get home." He said, "Rob turn off the music." The music stopped and Ollie poured the bots into his booksack. He threw it over his back and exited the lab. "Goodnight Rob. See you later." Rob turned off all the lights and the building went quiet.