Character(s) Bloom and Tecna
Genre/Story Type mystery
Rating T
Prompt/Beginning Sentence
tecna what do you know of thermal shock and it's effect on people
Submitter: knight7572
Short Circuit
"Tecna, what do you know of thermal shock and it's effect on people?" Bloom asked as she looked up from her computer.
Tecna spun around in her chair and faced Bloom.
"Well, I guess it depends on the charge and temperature. Sometimes heat and electric shocks are used for physical therapy and are essentially harmless. But I guess at when a high enough power it could be deadly. Why do you ask?"
"I was just wondering if that is what destroyed the forest." Bloom replied as she looked up at Tecna.
The Winx awoke one morning to find the the forest ablaze and no explanation. Faragonda had placed the Winx in charge of finding out what had happened and catching the culprit, if there was one. At the moment, it was two in the morning and Tecna and Bloom were the only two still up, relying on the stale coffee on the burner to keep them awake. No matter what they thought of that could have led to the fire, they were met with dead ends and cold leads.
"You think so? I mean, one would need both electricity and heat to make that possible." Tecna mused.
Then it hit Bloom.
"Oh no."
"What?"
Flashback
"What do you mean I can't play with it?" Bloom asked through slurred speech.
The Winx and Specialists were currently hanging out and drinking in the girl's room when Bloom had caught sight of Tecna playing one of her new games. Bloom desperately tried to grab the controller out of Tecna's hands but Tecna refused to let go, being tipsy herself.
In fact, everyone was fairly intoxicated. Stella was chatting Brandon's ear off as he held his hand in his head. Riven was holding back Musa's hair, Aisha was challenging Nabu to an arm wrestling contest but wouldn't stop dancing on the table for the said competition to take place. Flora and Helia were making out in a secluded corner of the room, slowly needing to take it to the bedroom. Meanwhile, Bloom was wrestling Tecna for the controller while Timmy and Sky looked on, not knowing what to do.
"Stop being so selfish!" Bloom grunted, trying to pry the controller out of Tecna's hands.
"I am not being selfish. You are drunk and I don't want you to break it!"
"You're also drunk!" Bloom bit back.
"But I am the Fairy of Technology so I think that I can handle this." Tecna rolled her eyes.
Bloom pursed her lips and her hands started to heat up, heating up the metal inside of the controller. Tecna let out a slight hiss and released the controller.
Bloom looked at Tecna victoriously until she realized that the controller was starting to short circuit.
"Look what you did." Tecna exclaimed. "Let me fix it."
"No, I can do it."
"No, you can't. I will fix it. Now give it back." Tecna demanded.
Bloom held the controller away from Tecna until Sky grabbed the controller and gave it to Tecna.
"Thank you, Sky." Bloom pouted as she saw Tecna with the controller.
"It's okay, Bloom. Tecna will fix it but for now how about we go sit on the couch and try to drink some water."
"Fine."
Bloom and Sky went across the room, taking sips of water while watching Tecna trying to fix the controller. Bloom let out a loud laugh as the controller sparked in front of Tecna. Bloom stood up and walked over to Tecna and once again, they fought over the controller.
"Let go!" Tecna yelled.
"No, I can fix it! You let go!"
"If you would have just left me alone we wouldn't be in this predicament."
"If you would just share.."
"I am not sharing with someone as drunk as you." Tecna exclaimed.
The two girls fought over the controller until there came a huge explosion. The girls yelped before they both let go of the controller.
"Ah! Get rid of it!" Bloom exclaimed.
Tecna hesitantly picked up the controller using a pair of tongs from their little kitchenette. Tecna paced the room trying to figure out what to do with the controller that was short circuiting and burning at the same time.
"Get it out of here!" Bloom yelled. Tecna panicked and threw it out the window.
"Problem solved." Tecna smiled as she got rid of the controller.
"You're lucky that Flora is too busy to notice that you threw that out the window." Timmy remarked.
The girls looked over at their nature loving friend and let out a soft laugh as they saw her entwined with Helia.
Present
"Oh my." Tecna remembered.
"Yeah." Bloom placed her head in her hands.
"What did we do?" Tecna asked rhetorically, both perfectly aware of what they did.
"I'm sorry about your controller by the way." Bloom looked at her purple haired friend.
"Don't worry about it. I just hope that Flora is as forgiving when we tell her what happens."
This one was a little bit of a hard one, and I should say that if you absolutely hate the story and wanted it to go in a completely different direction, then let me know and I will try to rewrite it.