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In Which Jack Feels Superior

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Jack smiled happily to himself as he dumped the backpack full of stuff on the table in North's Globe Room. The others had already arrived for their scheduled meeting and were watching him curiously.

"What's in the bag, Sweet Tooth?" Tooth asked, fluttering over from where she'd been instructing her fairies. Baby Tooth quickly zipped over and took her place on Jack's shoulder before any of her sisters could steal her spot.

"Well, it has recently come to my attention that I wasn't as technologically savvy as I'd thought and, considering you guys haven't spent as much time around kids and the modern world as I have, I figured you would be worse than I was."

Bunny glared and Jack was quick to cut him off before an argument could start.

"So, I asked Jamie if I could borrow some of his stuff to educate you."

Sandy, who appeared the most enthused about the idea, happily drifted over. Jack unzipped the backpack and pulled out the very much despised iPad.

"As long as we don't break anything," he said, handing the device to Sandy, "we're welcome to use it." He watched for a moment as the little man tried and failed to figure out how to turn it on before reaching over and pushing the button on the top, squashing the voice in the back of his mind that said he had been just as ignorant not a week ago with the ever-so-pleasant feeling of superiority. It was a rare experience for him, particularly when he was around the Guardians. And he had every intention of savouring it.

Sandy smiled his thanks and Jack returned his attention to the bag, pulling out the next item; a hand-held video game console, giving it to Tooth. She had a little more luck in figuring out where the on button was than Sandy but she looked confused while she was doing it.

"Catch, Cottontail," Jack called, gently tossing an mp3 player over to the anthropomorphic rabbit, confident he would catch it long before it hit the ground. Bunny easily snatched it out of the air, eyeing it both in curiosity and suspicion.

"Aaaand North can have the frea- phone," he hastily corrected, passing Jamie's mobile to the large man. It had taken a lot of convincing to get the kid to part with it and all of his other electronics but it was easy enough when he used a snow day as a bribe. Jamie would just have to find another way to amuse himself for the day.

A tug on his hoodie grabbed his attention and Jack looked down to see the Sandman looking confused and gesturing to the iPad he was still holding.

"Oh," Jack said, kneeling down a bit. "It's called a 'touch screen', so you just tap what you want with your finger like this," he demonstrated, opening the internet app, frowning when an error message popped up. "Huh, guess we're too far north to get any reception. Just press the button with a square on it to go back."

Sandy nodded, doing as he was told.

"Argh!" the frustrated cry of the Tooth Fairy had Jack wandering over to her, peering over her shoulder so he could get a look at the screen.

She'd managed to open the racing game (Maria or something, he couldn't really remember), but was failing spectacularly. She hadn't even figured out how to make the cart go.

"How is this enjoyable?" she asked almost manically as the other carts passed her for the second time.

"Hold down this button to make the cart go," Jack instructed, gesturing.

Tooth did so, only for her cart to fly off faster than she'd anticipated and crash into a wall. Jack tried to hold back a laugh.

"You have to use the control pad to change direction."

Sandy was back, looking a little scared, if Jack was honest. He made a sand image of a glass breaking, pointing to the device.

"You think it's broken?" Jack asked, ignoring the way his voice rose. If anything got broken there would be hell to pay.

Sandy nodded, demonstrating by trying to touch one of the apps only for nothing to happen. Frowning, Jack pressed it himself. The camera app opened instantly. Sandy tried pressing something else, with the same nonexistent results.

"Huh," Jack said. "Maybe it has something to do with the fact that you're made of sand."

Tooth had a rather manic expression on her face as she aggressively tried to get the cart go where she wanted it to and Jack decided he should probably fix this now before he had the chance to regret it.

"Why don't you two swap?" he suggested, prying the game from Tooth's clenched hands and handing it to Sandy before giving her the iPad.

"GAH!"

They all jumped at the sudden cry, turning to face a rather startled looking Bunny, who was holding the iPod at arm's length, earphones dangling to the ground.

"Bunny?" Jack asked tentatively. "Are you okay?"

Bunny's eyes met his and he cleared his throat awkwardly. "Fine, mate," he said with false calm. "Just wasn't expectin' it to be so bloody loud."

Jack hummed in sympathy. "Got me the first time, too," he nodded, not bothering to mention that the 'first time' had been the only time and that he now refused to put the little buds anywhere near his ears. He also decided it would probably be best not to mention how he'd forgotten the kangaroo's ears were far more sensitive than his.

"I think I'll stick to eggs, mate," Bunny told him, holding the little music player out to him.

Before Jack had the chance to grab it he was distracted by a string of curses in what sounded like Russian. North was scowling at the phone, jabbing his finger at it, which only brought forth more profanity.

"Is so hard to only press what you want!" the Cossack ground out. Jack knew the feeling. And North had bigger hands than him.

"I think maybe we should just stick to what we know," Tooth suggested kindly, but the look in her eyes hinted to the storm brewing inside. Apparently she hadn't been having much luck with the iPad either.

In fact, Sandy looked to be the only one enjoying himself, having successfully managed to get the cart to move (although he was a rather reckless driver and crashed more often than not).

At Bunny's further prodding, Jack conceded to taking the iPod, looking down at it in thought. If it managed to scare both him and Bunny, who was supposed to be 'master of tai chi' and whatever else he'd spouted back in Jamie's room that day, maybe there was a further use he could put it to. A much better use. But it would require a stop at Jamie's place.

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Jamie had insisted on coming when Jack had told him the plan. At first Jack had been hesitant to allow it but he quickly realised he had no idea what he was doing and would require the teenager's technological abilities to pull it off.

And that was how they'd both ended up hiding on top of one of the creepy bird cages, out of sight, in Pitch's lair, watching without a trace of fear as the Boogieman clapped his hands over his ears and shouted to no one, trying to figure out where the infuriating and rather unexpected loud music was coming from.

...I think I'm too mean to Pitch (especially since I really like his character)

Guest Review Responses:

WEast: I think I'll spare Jack from fanfiction (he might be scarred for life). Especially if you keep in mind the fact that the movie wouldn't have happened in their universe ^^; Yes fluffies are nice. I love their relationship and the awed/amused expressions Jack sends North in the movie. Glad I could amuse you XD Yeah... couldn't avoid that little bit of angst :I The space thing was a last second addition but I'm glad I put it in XD I had that 'I blame you' line in mind from the moment I started the chapter :P