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Gatz walked in and thumped a heavy backpack onto one of the desks, giving Quint a friendly wave.

"Yo, teach!" he said with a grin. "So, what are we going to be blowing up today~?"

Gatz quickly filled in the noble gasses on the table and handed the sheey it back in. He gave Quint a wry smile.

"... You'd think that the government would recognized the higher intellegence of a being older than human civilization, but no," he explained with more than a hint of sarcasm. "If it's not on paper and filed in triplicate, then it doesn't exist to the narrow-minded buggers."

"But there is an upside," the entity told Quint with a conspirital wink. "Schoolgirls. And after that--college girls." Gatz gave his friend a huge, perverted smile. "I plan on staying on long enough to earn a Masters in every subject, then hope that its been long enough the system forgets I did and do it all over again. Sounds like a plan, right?"

"--All night long," Gatz supplied with a grin, not really answering the question. "And with great skill and dexderity, I might add."

He smirked at Quint, resting his hands on his hips.

"What..? Did you think that I'm limited to giving projections of myself hands and feet, or something?"

"It does," Gatz said, trying to think of the best way to explain things. "Of course, it also lacks celluar tissue period, so the fact I don't have any nerve cells in there shouldn't come as a surprise..."

"Hmm, this is really more a biology question," he muttered. "Here, try thinking of the neural network of the human body as a bunch wires that form electrical circuits," he began. The entity walked over to a blank space on the blackboard and started drawing a diagram.

"If you stimulate one spot through pain, pressure, or some other sense, it sends a signal to a specific part of the brain--or just the spinal cord, if it's the start of a natural reflex. That part of the body then interrupts the stimulis for you, telling you what it means, and what to do about it. If an action is need, a singal is sent back through the 'circuts' to the motor neurons. The motor neurons then tell you to do something, and you do it."

Fire + hand = stimulus => signal --> nerual pathways --> brain/spine => "Ouch!" => signal --> motor nerves => pull out out of fire

Gatz let Quint get a good look at the chart before circling "nerual pathways" and "motor nerves".

"--Since all signals have to travel along the same path Now, the way nerve striking techniques work is by either damaging, or simply overloading one of these two things, ususally with a strong, percise blow. The usual result is massive pain. Or if the signals can't move, or have become confused, it can cause various kinds of paralysis." He looked at his friend and winked. "To bring up the 'circuit' idea again, it's like flipping a switch... either 'light go on' or 'light go off.' This is why a lot of biologists refer to the body as being hardwired."

The entity dropped the chalk back to the board and grabbed his hair, pulling. With a soft pop the man's head came loose, dangling by his fingers.

"Now for want of a better term, you could call my body here softwired" the diembodied head said with a smile. "Instead of running current through a closed circuit, it's more like you're running electricity through a blob of mercury. You can access the current from whatever angle you like, and can even reshape the blob without disrupting the circuit too much. As such, hitting this new circuit with an outside stimulus doesn't do much to stop the current." The enetity dropped his head with a small plop, letting it fall back into place. He twisted his noggin from side to side, as if working out some kinks in his neck.

"... Of course, it's not entirely that simple, but it's the best I could think at the moment."

"I'd have to go with 'or something'," Gatz replied with a smile and a wink. He looked the woman over, making a quick appraisal of her curves and her raven wing hair.

"... Hey, I don't think I've seen you around here before," he said, trying to start the conversation. "Shall we introduce ourselves, then? My name is Gatz. And you would be..?"

"Here's a clue--I'm probably going to wind up as one of his specimens at some point," he said with a laugh, pointing to Quint. He turned back the the woman after only a short moment.

"So, Shego, what do you do here? You don't quite look like a student..." The entity gave her a sly wink. "... Though you're definately cute enough that you could pass for one."

"I get it..I think.." That quickly feel to, "Pretty sure, maybe.."

"You get feeling in your body, but it isn't coming from an exact place, seeing as your wiring is open. Thus, you get sensations, but they aren't from an exact place.."

It took Quint quite a while to understand what his friend was, but he nodded, getting it to the summarization. So lost in his study, he overlooked the girl that came into his room, asking relevant questions.

"I'm sorry, yes, this is the Chemistry wing." Quint responded, turning to her, "Are you here for instruction?"

((Sorry that took so long...Gatz is really complicated I see..))