Of course, coming along with that sad little authors note is a small little story, just to make me and everyone else feel a little better. Remember in MrLRocks78's Random Bag of Yogscast One-shots, chapter 13? If you don't, I would recommend reading it. It's great. Anyway, it's basically Rythian failing at a science contest with Lalna. I thought about one simple fact: Rythian knows science. It's how he got out of the force field! No clue where this is going? Well, read on...
Sjin and Lalna had been bickering. Obviously. If they were in the same room, it was all out verbal chaos. This time, it was over one of Lalna's inventions. Very temporary peace had been established, only so the scientist could show off.
"I'm not getting in that thing if it doesn't work!"
"It works! I'm sure!"
"Riiight."
He had invented a supposed hovering device. It would simply take you into the air with zero gravity. In truth, it looked better on paper. Now, before we go on, EVERYONE is in Castle Duncan. Just saying...
"Do you want me to start it?"
"Will it explode?"
"No!"
Around this time was when Rythian walked in. Zoey had been facinated by the new computers, and he had left her alone for a second. It was that zone she got into, once there, can't get her out of it. In the meanwhile, he had been, well, changing the machines. Some simply didn't work anymore, others did the opposite of what they were intended to. The zero gravity machine was one of those. He wasn't sure what powered it, but he had broken it. Back to Sjin and Lalna.
"You broke it!"
"I broke it?! It didn't work to begin with!"
This made Rythian smile. He decided to stay and see what happened. He pretended to examine some sort of gun.
"I swear it did! I calibrated it-"
"Then skip the fancy talk and fix it!"
About twenty minutes later...
"IT WORKED!"
"MAYBE IF YOU STOPPED TRYING TO CONVINCE ME YOU COULD FIX IT!"
"I FORGOT HOW IT WORKED!"
"THE GET SOMEONE ELSE TO FIX THIS STUPID MACHINE!"
"LIKE WHO? XEPHOS? HONEYDEW? LOMADIA? YOU MIGHT AS WELL ASK RYTHIAN HOW TO DO IT! IF I CAN'T FIX IT, NO ONE CAN!"
"Was that an insult? Or a challenge?" Rythian thought. They were comparing him to Honeydew in science, and saying he was worse? "Well, you're in for a strange surprise..."
What happened next stunned the two bickering rivals. Rythian walked straight to the machine, and began to fix it. He reconnected the wires, and as he did this, just for show, he told them what he was doing,
"Readjust the balance, reattach the severed coils, flip it over, do the same for the other side.." And so on and so forth. "Done."
He flicked the machine in, and it floated back into the air. The two, now silenced, stared at the Mage. Just then, Zoey burst into the room.
"Rythian? Where are you? Come see this!" She grabbed his arm, and practically dragged him out of the room.
I might improve this later. Tell me what you think, this is the last idea I have.
Bye! :)