(translations are in the AN)
After driving for 4 hours yesterday the group stopped at a park for the night Lincoln woke up to the sound of Grandpa Max cooking and on the phone.
"Yes Lynn, I used your recipe, no substitute thair in the oven now and I got the address to tell Rita will be there for the family weekend," Max said, scrambling eggs.
"Morning gramps is that dad," Lincoln asked.
"Oh yeah here Lynn Lincoln's up im passing the phone to Him," Max said handing Lincoln The phone.
"Hey, how's the trip been kiddo," LynnSrr asked.
"Great how are you, Mom, and Lilly doing,"
"Pretty good but we can't make it to Lisas' science camp family weekend since you Max and everyone are just an hour away I asked Max if you guys could drop by," Lynn explained, "I also gave Max my salted caramel chocolate chip recipe to make for you and Lisa," lynn finished.
They continued talking till Ben and Gwen had both woken up and Max had finished cooking breakfast, once they had finished eating they got back on the road and arrived at the Futech campus.
Futech was a billion-dollar company owned by Nick Ozone; they were most famous for their space program, electric cars, and smart tech. They also ran the Genius of Tomorrow camp where they give the smartest kids from around the world near unlimited funding to make any project they want Lisa had gotten a spot at the camp. At the gate, they were stopped and told they could not bring the rust bucket onto the campus and directed to the camp entrance and parking lot where they were met by a blond woman in a black security uniform.
"ok so you're the first of the Campers family to arrive we got called earlier saying to expect 3 people 2 kids and one adult so I'll need you all to sign these thair simple NDAs," the woman said barely even looking at them and continued to explain the rules giving them each a pass for the next 3 days and warning if they lose it they will be forced from the premise.
They were then led to the entrance where their phones and devices were stored till they left; luckily the watch and ring were just ignored as jewelry since they didn't set off the metal detectors.
The camp was less a camp and more just a building filled with labs. Thair guide took them to the top floor and explained that the capers were ranked based on the skill and genus of their inventions and Lisa was at the highest rank for her current project.
"Now Lisa has requested that no one enter her lab without her express permission. You will wait here. I will go tell her you're here," the guide smiled.
"I get that Lisas is smart but come on like we'll mess something up," Ben huffed while sitting down.
"Uh I think that her lab is a clean room," Gwen said noticing the guide take out a hazmat suit from a locker
"Come on, I just took a shower last week. I'm not that dirty," Ben said back.
"First off you need to take showers way more often and second, a clean room means there is no dirt or anything that could mess with her experiments, not even a single piece of dust or anything like that," Lincoln added.
"Oh well ok," Ben says after a few moments the guide returned with Lisa.
"Grandfather Cousin brother it is good to see you," Lisa smiled as she entered the waiting room.
"Hey Lisa, so good to see you," Gwen greeted.
"How have you been," Max smiled.
"Hey," Ben added
"Lisa I'm so happy to see you so what are you working on in thair," Lincoln asked.
"finishing touches on a project," she smiled.
Another door opens and an older kid about 15 or 16 with long red hair in a lab coat enters from another lab looking at the guide.
"Has my father arrived yet," they asked her.
"Oh um no not yet he will be here Monday night for show and tell," the guide answers.
"What's show and tell," Lincoln asked.
"Oh on the final day of the family weekend we will be showing off our projects," Lisa explained.
The kid rolled his eyes and went to the elevator.
"I'll take them from here miss," Lisa said and headed to the elevator as well.
The group followed Lisa the redhead rolled his eyes as they joined them in the elevator.
"Hi there nice to meet you kid im Max Lisa's grandpa Who are you," Max smiled at them.
The kid for thair part just tapped their foot.
"This is Kris, one of the geniuses and Mr. Ozone's child," Lisa explained.
"Oh so you're Nick Ozone's son," Ben asked.
"Actually Kris is non-binary, I read about you and your dad online," Gwen added.
This seemed to anger Kris more than being misgendered as they pressed the button for the next floor and got off early.
"Kris doesn't like talking about their dad," Lisa explained.
They then came to the bottom floor revealing what looked like a play area even had a few TVs connected to game systems.
"This is the RnR floor so we can rest, play, and eat. I don't see them," Lisa explains as she continues to lead them to a couch to sit down.
Over the next few hours, they just cheated and enjoyed the day until other families showed up and they started the activities. Normal camp things were more high-tech in some ways, the next day was more of the same and finally came Monday and with it show and tell.
The first show and tell was the oldest camper 18 and from Chicago His name was Lip. He had built laser mining drones, each one able to perform complex maneuvers in the air and use a high-power laser to cut complex patterns into the target, gather the debris, and bring it to a new location.
"So uh just thought it would be cool and didn't think of its use till after I built it," Lip explained.
Next Chuck, a 10-year-old from England called up his dad who was originally from Syria Lincoln noticed that he was missing a hand.
"Um well this is just a prototype it might not even work and uh sorry for wasting your time," Chuck said as he slipped some kind of sensor over his dad's arm.
"Um try to make a fist," Chuck added revealing a robotic hand.
Chuck's father did as asked and the hand did the same Chuck asked his father to do other things as well and eventually he asked his father to point forward with just the robotic one and he did as asked.
"Now uh I know it's not done, it still needs a lot of work but uh," Chuck was cut off by his father hugging him.
"Oh my little Najam I am so proud of you," the father smiled.
After that, a Latinx boy around 14 stood up and smirked as he walked up to the stage.
"Hello, my name is pedro I'm from Peru when I got here I no speak English good still don't but one of the uh what's the word conserje{1}he told me to speak English and I thought to me why he no speak Spanish then I built this uh… can I have a what's the word volunteer who only speaks one language," he asked.
Ben raised his hand and ended up being chosen. Pedro put some kind of collar around his neck before taking out a remote and typing something he pointed to Ben
¿Qué se supone que debe hacer esto? Oye, esa es mi voz, ¿qué está diciendo? {2} Ben looked around confused.
"Now this is the prototype, it's not finished yet. It only knows 3817 languages and my long-term goal is to get it down to the size of an earpiece," he explained, removing the collar from Ben with a smile.
Next was a French girl about 8 named Chloe climbing on stage as what looked like a fridge mixed with an oven was pulled up behind her.
"so my mom and dad are always working so we order out all the time it gets old but with this whipping up a home-cooked meal," she explained pressing a button on the side after a few moments it produced an overcooked over seasoned roast chicken when she took a bite her smile grew strained as she swallowed.
"Oh yum harumph," she began to vomit into her machine.
Next was a pair of twins Ren and Sana from south Korea Neither said a word as they took out a potato gun and fired it off to the nearby lake then took out what looked like a Syfy gun and fired it off in the same direction when it hit the water there was a massive Gaiser of water followed by a small wave they then turn to the crowd bow and leave the stage without a word.
Second to last was Kris they didn't show up when first called or the second but on the third a black mass carried them up to the stage.
"Hello sorry I'm late. I had a bit of trouble with a few thousand of these, introducing Ozone Nanos. These robots are each smaller than the tip. of your eyelash and can be programmed to do anything from take apart outdated tech," they said as the mass moved to an O cube(1) and tore it apart in seconds.
"Or build something new," they continued as the bots swarmed together then moved away revealing a bust of Nick ozone.
"And if you are running low all you have to do is ask for more," they finished as a small group took apart the podium he was standing at and began to build more.
Kriss looked through the crowd. All of them were amazed but he seemed disappointed as he stormed away followed by the swarm.
Lisa was last; she brought a hunk of metal and a laptop on stage.
"This is programmable smart metal it has infinite used as there are no limits to what can be built from it as with a few minutes of programming you can take this lump of metal and make it into anything," she said as she pressed a button and the metal transformed into a statue of Lisa then a recreation of the file tower followed by big ben with accurate time and ended as a cart that rolled itself away.
After Lisa's presentation presentation was a meal with all the campers but Kriss
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Nick had had a hell of a day. He had to stop a strike and renegotiate the contracts of the fulfillment workers and missed the show and tell for the camp including Kris's nanobots he had built the entire camp for Kris.
"Uh hey Kiddo sorry I missed the show and tell but I was hoping you could give me a private showing," Nick asked as he entered the lab.
"Oh sure Dad, just you watch," Kriss smiled as he pressed a button, The nanites spread from their container taking everything apart and growing in number until they consumed their control unit and all that stood in the room were Kriss and Nick.
"What's going on, what are they doing," Nick asked.
"I gave them a simple order tear down everything you have made," Kriss yelled not noticing as the nanites began to climb their leg
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So another done
1: It's a smart speaker
{1} janitor
{2} What's this supposed to do, hey Is that my voice, What is it saying