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Brian looked at the Librarian, which in turn looked at him. Brian shrugged, and went back to finishing the last of his chocolate bars, when the librarian reached over the table. he poked Brian.
"Whut?", brian said with a mouthfull of Schnitzel.
The Librarian pointed at the two females.
"Yea? I know. I mean, that is usually the case with women. They are like..... you know, chicks are from Mars and Guys are from Venus...."
"Ugh, " said the Librarian, and wrinkled his eyebrows.
"I know, dude, this is so strange. But I mean, the really fricking strange thing is allways s**t shoveling. "
He grinned, and patted the hand of the Librarian.
"I mean, dude, I am like 15, and you are practically an elder yet excellent dude. But do take this tip from me: If you interfer, the entire s**t will go down on you. Just, let them sort it out for themselfs. The best is usually to just wait it out. after all, we are just civillians...."
He shrugged, and ate his schnitzel whole.

The Librarian looked between the two girls, and sighed. he knew something was fundamentally wrong with the way Brian saw it, yet he had to admit it made sense. He had certain ancient memories of how really big predators reacted, when two of them claimed the same territory. He sighed, and leaned back, thinking about how to use his overwhelming possibilitys of discussion to sort that out.

Brian grinned, and waved at the newcomer.
"Hi there, pal. I am Tech, " and he pointed at the Librarian, who was still in his various layers of armour, "And this tasty piece of a** is the Librarian. capital letters if you please. Now, why don't you come forward, and talk to us a bit? I mean, the ladys are involved in some kind of animal play, and you seem to be a nice fella, so come on, and have a seat. "
He cleared a bit of room on the table, and grinned friendly at the guy. This was basic stresstesting. If that guy could survive him being 12 and his awesome skills at the computer, and The librarian, a really fat and grinning Orang utan in battle gear with a gatling cannon, then the fella was alright. In Turn, both of them grinned at the newcomer, and smiled at him.
"So, cowboy, what are ya doing in here?"

Eva looked over at Tech and laughed. "Is it try to insult Eva day? Because I'm seriously flattered at the fame granted by a national holiday, but I'm afraid it's just an exercise in wasted time. Fun kid, though. And you can just tell that he thinks he's spouting zingers. Oh, that's so priceless. He'll probably go through his whole life like that. Poor chicken." She leaned back in her chair, watching the door swing shut behind Shian with a look of amusement on her face. "Reminds me of Twitch, but less fidgety. Just as annoying, though." Noting the look of incomprehension on the faces before her, she added "Twitch is one of my delightful squad members who, for whatever reason, will not shut up. Or stop moving. Or do anything useful. He claims to be a decent fighter, but he flaked out on the sim room and had better have a damn good explanation coming out of that zippy mouth of his when he shows up again."

Chibi nods, still smiling at the butterfly. "I love being able to talk to everything, though, I gotta admit, this is the first time I've talked to someone else inside my own head.

((Thanks for letting the others know. I probably won't be back on until I can use my laptop, though. Waiting as long as I've been for simple pages to load up is pretty frustrating.))

Brian grinned, and munched on the doughnut.
"Heck, I am already 15, although I know I look like a frigging 12-year old. Nothing is a bigger cockblocker then having a babyface. But well, guess if the rest of you has had the first liftings, I will still look like 30 or stuff. "
He smiled, as the guy mentioned his understanding with the Librarian.
"Well, you ever viewn Starwars? I have found out that most of the jedi stuff also works on humans and fourhanded beings. I mean, he is my padawan. I can practically read his mind...."

The librarian quietly grinned in his mind, but did not flinch a muscle. That stuff was getting way too good.

"As to what this excellent dude just said, it was basically "you look too thin, you should eat more!"

The Librarian grinned, and made the appropriate gesture, which was actually quite rude, and could have been red as an invitation to sit on the apes lap if you would not notice the indecent grinning.
Then, the idea hit him. He simply flipped the Laptop open, started his Cad-programm, and loaded his Library of loaded codes and blueprionts he had stolen from all over the world.
Brian / Tech let his fingers fly over the keyboard. Under his keystrokes, the new equipment turned loose. First, a pair of goggles. He took the basic design from raybans, but included several extra features. He placed tiny cameras at the front, exactly four.
A basic infra-red view, night-vision, the ultra-sonic part, and just for laughs, an extra normal camera with a magnificent 60 x digital zoom.
He went a step further, and added a mike and an inbuilt antenna, using parts that were readily available. Slowly, the thing took on a shape.
Then, he added a laser mike, while he added the actual lowfrequency laser to the opposite side of themike, to remain balanced. The high precission earplugs were just an added extra.
the powercord was a bit ugly, but he had seen uglier, so it stayed. He added a few lines for the data transmissions, and a flash-disk for the last 60 minutes of the feed from the cameras. That would proove pretty usefull.
The batteries could not be included in the regular case, or the design would be too heavy.
So, he went a step further, and breated the backpiece. Basically, he took the design from the motorcycle back protectors, and began to fill them up. 500 gigabytes of flashspace chips in the back would cover about 30 hours of film from all cameras. He also added a microprocessor,that was able to monitor the lifesigns of the wearer, and that would serve as a host for the added applications. he added a webbrowser, a wifi access card, a phoning application, and a basic radio twoway transmitter.
He pondered for a minute, and then began to change the batteries. 30 hours of battery time would provide much of a challenge. he solved it by using highpowered Lithium cells, tjhat he distributed over the entire area.
The heat-specs were a bit more tricky. Every kid knew that that the equipment used would generate too much heat....
He solved it by adding a laver of warmth-dispensing slits, water cooling, and much more.
Finally, he hit enter, and looked at the design in the CAD-programm. It was easy to use, or at least he hoped so, and he could rely on the voice controll programm, and the added user-interface, which was mainly gesture based. he grinned, and saved the design specs, then accessed the camera-feeds from the training room. The captain had been pretty detailed in the movements, but securely enough, he had some problems computing the outer lines, the camera-feed from the nightvision, the infra-red and his algorythms, which he had stolen from an automatic design clothesmaker-prototype. He grinned, as the modell took the shape of a very nude captain. She would be his first testing person.
He pressed enter, and the data was sent as a high priority stream to the waiting ball of nanites.

The nanites, basically small robots that usually were unable to be viewn with the naked eye, sprang into action.
For the normal users, it looked like the ball lost some of his mass. Instead, the robots swarmed out, and looked for building materials. a continuous stream of nanites wandered under the door, and took a few bits of every noncomputing piece of equipment in the equipment-room. The little nanites basically took specs of dust, and carried them back to the room where the glasses and the main unit slowly took form, as each taken spec of dust was remodelled into the shape of the equipment. Brian run a little calculation, and smiled.
"Captain Eva, you wanna cream your pants? In approximately 10 Minutes, the equipment I have prepared for you is ready to be tried on. "
He grinned, and immagined what the captain would do if she would find out that the main unit and the glasses were modelled to exactly fit her female forms. But he trusted his sense of peoples, which clearly told him that if the captain had already looked like a child in front of the prospects of a simple technology, she would perhaps not survive the experience of having that very design at her own fingertips.

The Librarian just grinned, and patted the blind girl and the new guy on the backs. He knew that behaviour. It ment that there would be lots of screaming, and tech/brian would probably get hurt. he already liked it.

Brian grinned, as he grinned towards the new comer.
"well, she is a teensy bit strange, and frankly, I do not know whichs squad she is in..... May as well be squad nul for all I know. "

Brian felt the pair of eyes more then he saw them.
"Not only did you insult me verily by not telling me your name, you also insulted me by staring at my computer. "
He eyed Shian, then grinned.
"Nope, just shitting ya. I meen, fo real, it is your right to stare in awe as I perform my sacred and most excellent skills as a mastermind. you may even drool a little. "
He grinned, and opened the can of coffee he wanted to save himself for later.
"Now, what you just saw was the creation of equipment by a modelling certain parts from other equipment via a cad masterprogramm together. "
He smiled, and quickly closed anything indiscriminatng. he knew he had stolen all of the cad blueprints,so hed better not take any risk.
"Now, Captain Eva, you finished your food? Seriously, you are one of the slowest eaters I have ever seen.....
I just want you to com with me to the training room, captain, because I think you are going to like this...."
He grinned at her, and closed his Laptop.

"Heh. who would listen to me anyway, it's not like it really matters, you're just going to have to deal with one more weird person on your team! Besides, it has to be some team, I wanna meet them. You can't get rid of me that easily!" Azora humped and crossed her arms over her chest, completely oblivious to the fact that there was another person there to hear her rant and that no one was listening anyway, she was blind! Sure she wasn't always like this but she had to snap sometime or another.

(yikes)

Azora stood up quickly and grabbed Star's leash and ran after her, well Star did, which in turn made her do so too.