Science Fair
AN: Ok, so here's what's going on. I've decided to continue this story now that I finished another story I was working on. For those of you who don't know me, there are two main types of stories I write. One is more serious, plot driven stories, the other is a bunch of goofy nonsense. This is one of those goofy nonsense stories, so there won't be much of a plot. However, each chapter will have a certain theme and will focus on just a small group of characters. This chapters' theme is Science Fair, and it will focus on toddler Yordle and Piltovarian scientists inventing (and destroying) stuff. Enjoy!
As the daycare staff drive everyone away from the mushroom-infested second daycare, their busses run low on fuel. "Oops, guess we better get some gas," a staff member says, pulling off to a gas station. For some reason, there is a graveyard across the street from the gas station, and it's a Pokéstop, so the daycare staff go stand over there, leaving the champions to their own devices, which is never a good thing….
"What's that?" Karthus asks.
"What's what?!" Mordekaiser grumbles, in a bad mood as always.
"That!" Karthus exclaims. "The wailing." The two of them pause as a loud wailing noise is heard from the graveyard.
"LET ME AT IT!" Olaf yells suddenly, flinging open the doors to the school bus and charging towards the graveyard. Karthus and Mordekaiser share a look, then head after him. They walk right past the daycare staff, who are too busy shouting something about a Mew to notice them, and on towards the wailing in the graveyard.
"IS THAT YORICK?!" Mordekaiser exclaims. "He looks different."
"What's a your-ick?" Olaf asks, disappointed that he doesn't get to fight it.
"He's…um…." Karthus tries to explain, but stops, because he doesn't know.
Meanwhile, Mordekaiser frowns. "Or maybe he looks the same…I can't tell…who's Yorick again?"
Yorick moans, causing everyone to turn their attention back to him just as he starts transforming!
"He's changing!" Olaf gasps. "Like a butterfly. Yay! I like butterflies!" Olaf says, clapping his hands. The Shadow Isles champions glare at Olaf and his smile fades. "I mean, death to all butterflies!" he amends, trying to stay friends with the cool Shadow Isle kids. The three of them stay there with Yorick as he transforms, not noticing that the busses are driving away, or that a certain girl is watching from a distance….
Meanwhile, the daycare staff are so ecstatic that one of them caught a Mew that they forget to count all of the toddler champions before driving away, leaving four of them behind! (Five, if you count Yorick from last chapter.) However, no one seems to notice, and the busses soon arrive at the third daycare. After determining it is safe and shroom-free, the daycare staff let the toddlers loose.
Heimerdinger is board. He has been doing his best to make playing with Legos interesting, but there are only so many things a Yordle can build with pre-cut blocks. No, what he really needs are raw materials, something he can build whatever he likes with. "Hmm, Ziggs? What would you calculate the probability of the daycare staff giving us more interesting items is?"
"…huh?" Ziggs, who had been smashing two Lego blocks together, asks.
"If we were to ask the daycare staff for more interesting stimuli, what percent chance of ascertaining them do you think we would have?"
"We don't understand you!" Rumble, who is also building with Legos nearby, exclaims.
"You don't understand me? Why not? I am simply asking for more entertaining materials to build with."
"Build?" Rumble scrunches up his face in confusion. Then his eyes light up. "You mean funner Legos?"
Heimerdinger sighs. "Something like that."
"Forget that!" Rumble exclaims. "Look!" he says, holding up a cellphone, which, due to his toddler Yordle size, is the same size as his head.
"Ooooooooh!" Ziggs exclaims, reaching out to touch it.
Heimerdinger frowns. "Is that the appliance of a daycare staff member?"
"YES!" a staff member yells, snatching the phone out of Rumble's paws. "I'm so sorry, Mew! I will never leave you again, my precious!" the staff member who was lucky enough to catch Mew says, cradling the phone like it's a baby.
"Hey, mister, can we have funner Legos?" Rumble asks unwisely.
"NO! the staff member exclaims, annoyed at being interrupted from celebrating his Mew catch. "In fact, you're lucky you're not in time-out! I don't think you found my cellphone, I think you took it! MY PRECIOUS!" the staff member exclaims, scaring the Yordles a bit even though they aren't familiar with Lord of the Rings.
The Yordles watch nervously as the staff member walks away, then Rumble breathes a sigh of relief. "Yay! They didn't catch me!"
"You took it?" Ziggs asks. Rumble nods. "That's not nice!" Ziggs exclaims.
"Indeed!" Heimerdinger seconds. "If you want an interesting device, you should build it yourself!"
"Maybe I will!" Rumble exclaims. "It'll be better than anything you can build, that's for sure!"
"I highly doubt that!" Heimerdinger exclaims. "I believe a test of that hypothesis is in order." When Rumble just stares at him, he sighs. "Let us both build something and Ziggs can decide which object is better."
"But I wanna play!" Ziggs whines.
"Hmm," Heimerdinger says, putting his hand on his chin as he thinks. "I know! Jayce! Viktor!" he calls to the other gifted toddlers he hangs out with. "We are having a contest to see who can build the most interesting device. Would you like to judge it?"
"I wanna play!" Jayce exclaims.
"Me too!" Viktor adds.
Rumble face palms. "Who will judge now?"
"I would love to observe," a strange tentacle-covered kid says, slithering over.
"That would be great, um…."
"Vel'Koz," the toddler replies.
"Excellent!" Heimerdinger beams. "Let's get started!"
Vel'Koz watches as the toddlers scurry off in different directions to construct their devices. Almost immediately, Rumble sprints across the room and locks himself in a closet. Vel'Koz is confused about this at first. After all, what good building materials would there be in a closet? Then Vel'Koz realizes that Rumble likely wanted privacy so the other toddlers couldn't steal his idea. Smart kid.
Meanwhile, Heimerdinger is pulling a wagon around the room and piling it high with every unusual object he can get his hands on. Jayce and Viktor, on the other hand, are mostly just sitting in one spot, with Viktor occasionally sneaking a peak at Jayce's device. Since Vel'Koz is new to Earth, he doesn't realize that this is called "cheating". The only toddler that hasn't started yet is Ziggs, who is just wandering around the room aimlessly.
Jayce and Viktor are the first to finish. "I built a robot!" Jayce exclaims. Of course, being unskilled toddlers and all, it's not an actual robot, rather, it's a four-foot-tall Bionicle made out of pieces of smaller Bionicle toys.
"I built a robot too!" Viktor exclaims, revealing his four-foot-tall Bionicle that is almost exactly the same as Jayce's!
"Hey! That's cheating!" Jayce exclaims.
"No it's not! Mine's better," Viktor proclaims smugly. "Its arms are five Bionicle bodies wide, but yours are only four, so mine's better."
"FIVE?!" an angry voice exclaims.
Viktor turns towards the direction of the voice and sees Jhin glaring at him. Between Jhin's creepy glare and Jayce's shouts of "CHEATER CHEATER PUMPKIN EATER!" Viktor decides to back off a bit. "Ok, so its arms are just ok, but can yours do this?" Viktor asks, moving around to the back of his Bionicle, which, unlike Jayce's, has a giant wheel on it. Viktor turns the wheel, causing one of the Bionicle's arms and legs to swing forward, while the other two swing backwards. "See? Mine can move! Isn't that cool?" Viktor exclaims. Unfortunately, he is so busy bragging that he doesn't realize his Bionicle is off balance until it falls over on top of him and breaks into pieces! "WAAAAAAAAAAH!" Viktor cries.
Vel'Koz surveys the damage, then announces "Jayce is winning so far, because his robot didn't break. Anyone else done?"
"I have completed my invention!" Heimerdinger announces proudly. Everyone says "Ooooh!" as Heimerdinger lifts the tarp off his wagon to reveal a device like nothing they've ever seen before! Its wheels are the circular knobs from the stove, its main piece is a fire extinguisher with the top cut off, on top of which is a clothing hanger and a tennis racket.
"What does it do?" Vel'Koz asks.
"Well, I noticed Cho'Gath is always hungry, but the daycare staff aren't always around to feed him. That is why I invented this: 'The Cho'Gath Feeder 9,000'!
"Interesting idea," Vel'Koz comments. "Proceed."
"Cho'Gath!" Heimerdinger calls.
"Food?" Cho'Gath asks hopefully.
"Yes, food," Heimerdinger replies.
"FOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!" Cho'Gath yells, charging towards Heimerdinger.
Heimerdinger squeezes the nozzle on the fire extinguisher, causing a gummy worm to come out of it and catch on the hook of the hanger. A string attached to the device then causes the tennis racket to hit the gummy worm off the hanger and up into the air… causing it to shoot backwards and get stuck in Heimerdinger's hair!
"That shouldn't have happened," Heimerdinger mumbles. "By my calculations, the gummy worm should have been propelled forwards, not backwards," he says, before Cho'Gath knocks him over and eats the gummy worm out of his hair.
"Good idea, but minus 9,000 points because it didn't work!" Vel'Koz says. "Still better than the robots though. Next?"
"I finished!" Rumble exclaims, bursting out of his closet. Everyone peers in the closet to discover Rumble has built the largest Lego tower in daycare history! It fills the entire closet, and even has some movable parts, which Rumble shows them.
"Great!" Vel'Koz exclaims. "What does it do?"
"I just showed you…." Rumble says, sounding confused.
"Hmm, an interesting tower, but serves no purpose," Vel'Koz comments. "Heimerdinger is still winning. Next?"
"NO FAIR!" Rumble whines, but everyone has moved on to see how the last participant, Ziggs, is doing. Unfortunately, Ziggs doesn't seem to be doing much of anything. He has finally stopped wandering around the room only to plop random cooking ingredients into a bowl as hard as possible and giggle when they go everywhere. His side of the cooking station is completely covered in flour, along with a bit of chocolate powder, sugar, and baking soda. In fact, he seems to have gotten more of these ingredients on the counter than in his actual mixing bowl, which is annoying Pantheon, who is trying to bake cookies next to him.
"Ziggs, are you almost done?!" Vel'Koz exclaims, getting impatient quickly like toddlers do.
"Almost!" Ziggs exclaims. "Needs more liquid…." he mumbles to himself. He adds a bit of cranberry juice, then a bit of strawberry juice. "Nope," he says, frowning at how little they splattered. Then he sees it. A huge bottle of splattery, fizzy vinegar. "Yep!" he exclaims happily, pouring a large amount in and watching happily as it sloshes and fizzes.
Suddenly, the baking soda reacts with the vinegar, causing the contents of the mixing bowl to fizz wildly and shoot up into the air!
"AAAAAAH!" the toddlers scream as they are pelted with the fizzy mess, except for Ziggs, who shouts "YAY!"
Suddenly, all the toddlers fall silent and back away as a drop of the baking soda and vinegar concoction lands on KLED's nose.
"WHAT IN TARNATION?!" Kled yells, his eyes, which were closed peacefully in sleep just seconds before snap open. "WHO DARES POKE AT ME ON MY NAP MAT?!"
The toddlers back away further, knowing not to mess with Kled. He may be new to their daycare, but he already has a reputation not to be messed with. Kled likes to nap a lot, and on the very first day at daycare, he put down twenty nap mats in a square and announced that they were all his. Of course, that isn't fair. When another toddler complained that everyone is only supposed to get one nap mat and tried to take one, Kled fought him off angrily and grabbed the nap mat back, declaring it as his land. Now, everyone is afraid to come near him, and Kled is about to show why.
"IF NONE OF YOU COWARDS WILL ADMIT TO POKING ME, I'M TAKING YOU ALL OUT!" Kled exclaims, charging towards the group of toddler scientists, not caring that the numbers aren't in his favor. The toddlers back up nervously… but a lizard comes charging towards him. "BEAT IT, YA STUPID LIZZARD!" Kled yells, annoyed that the lizard is back again. She has been following him ever since his first daycare, and he doesn't know why.
Suddenly, Kled gets an idea. Why doesn't he ride on the lizard like a pony? After all, she is very fast, as he discovered when he tried to outrun her so she'd leave him alone. The lizard turned out to be much faster than him, so why not try riding her?
"YEE HAW!" Kled exclaims, jumping up into the air and landing on Skaarl's back. Unfortunately, while adult Skaarl is able to carry adult Kled on her back, toddler Skaarl is a lot smaller, so when Kled lands on her, her knees buckle and she falls to the ground, sending Kled flying into the air!
"AAAAAAAARGH!" Kled yells, causing Skaarl to feel bad and try to catch him, but instead, she ends up tripping on Kled, because he is already on the ground, and falling on top of him!
"SKAARL! YOU USELESS PIECE OF POOP!" Kled yells. Kled has wanted to swear from a young age, however, he currently only knows one swear word, and it's not even a real swear word. "YOU'RE SUCH A POOPING PIECE OF POOP! IF YOU EVER POOPING DO THIS AGAIN, I WILL POOP YOU SO HARD…." he yells, starting to get up.
Suddenly, Lux yells "Illuminate the enemy!" and casts her light binding spell on them!
"AAARGH!" Kled yells, as he is forced to suffocate under Skaarl's smelly behind for an extra few seconds while Lux laughs at him.
During the time Kled is immobilized, Vel'Koz announces "The winner of the science fair is Ziggs!"
"Yay!" Ziggs cheers.
"Aww," Heimerdinger says, disappointed his Cho'Gath feeder didn't win.
"WHAT?!" Rumble yells, looking for a fight. "THAT WAS THE BEST TOWER EVER, AND YOU KNOW IT!"
"Ziggs' explosion was the most entertaining, and therefore the best," Vel'Koz says. He doesn't say the real reason he declared Ziggs is the winner, which is because his "invention" was the least useful. After all, he must encourage the building of funny, useless inventions, and discourage the building of helpful ones if he wants to rule the world someday! "Tehehe…." he giggles as he imagines how shocked these humans will be when he takes over their useless planet! Then he notices Lux is staring at him suspiciously and stops laughing.
Unfortunately, Ziggs' celebration of his win is short lived, because once Kled gets back up, he throws the largest temper tantrum ever seen! He causes so much destruction that the daycare becomes unusable, causing the Pokémon-obsessed daycare staff to switch daycares yet again.
So I wasn't going to do any sort of plot thing… but then I heard Yorick was getting reworked and wanted to do a teaser for that at the beginning of the chapter. I will try to feature new and reworked champions when they come out. Speaking of which, how did I do with Kled? I just played a game as him and he seems like a fun champion for top lane. I haven't played any of the scientist characters I wrote about in this chapter though, just read their lore, so hopefully they aren't too out of character?