Warning Mad Scientist At Work

[runs_on_batteries]

Who: Tony and OTA
Where: Varies
When: Apple Day 17- 20
What: Tony's keeping busy investigating, building, breaking things, you know. The usual.
Warnings: Language and I'll warn if there's EG spoilers

Quiet Car- {OTA + Manabu}

Tony has taken over one of the quiet rooms to be his own personal work space. There's a note on the wall next to the door saying just that and to stay out. If anyone chooses not to respect that, they'll find tools that had been um.. borrowed from the previous world and several mechanical projects in the works. Nothing is finished yet.

For Manabu: One of the projects, Tony is working on is fixing the laser gun that belonged to Manabu's dad. He's using both tools from the world, tools he's made, and a few items from the medical bay to get into the electric base of the gun.

Medical Car- {OTA}

Another place Tony has made himself at home is the medical area. He's taken some ingredients from the kitchen and using the tools from the medical bay to work on a few projects here as well. One can find him using some cups, mugs, bowls, and some silverware to do what looks like a couple chemistry projects.

Gym- {OTA}

When he's not cooped up with his brainy assignments, he's sparring in the gym or doing yoga. He had started off doing this by himself in his quiet room, but has clearly given that up and now does it wherever he pleases (but mostly the gym).

[Side Note]
He's repeatedly gotten so busy he has forgotten to eat or go to bed if anyone cares to notice.

[ooc- if there's something specific you'd like me to add just holler and I'll add it. Or I might think of something else and add it later.]

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Storage car, wall where conductor's door should be.

Immediately following this

As Tony storms from the dressing carriage to the closest one to where the conductor should be, his armor clinks into place. His helmet drops into place and he barks a few orders to Friday and powers up, ready for a fight. He ignores any and all attempts to slow him down or explain himself. Finally when it's only the wall between him and the one he suspects has answers, he attacks.

"What the hell have you done with Gwen?! Come face me, you dickless tyrant!"

Comments

[runs_on_batteries]

Well that was good but..

"How does a seven year old know how to fix a trash chute?"

The kid was brainy but, really? Come on! Could he imagine his daughter asking about a solution's concentration in three short years? Well.. two really. Her birthday was soon.

"There's a couple pH strips in the medicine cabinet over there. This certain one has a color as one of it's compounds, so I can just see the concentration."

[deductiongeek]

"I saw a program about it on television."

Conan frowns in thought. "But that won't help with avoiding pain or identifying the toxic concentration level."

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"You're a weird kid." He tossed the solution he was working with down the sink. "It's okay. The smartest and most interesting people usually are weird."

Setting the bowl back on the exam table in front of them, he sits back down and shrugs. "So now you see my problem."

[deductiongeek]

I've been told that before. [Usually accompanied by comments about his mystery obsession, tonedeafness and inability to go anywhere without stumbling across a crime. ]

It sounds to me like you need a doctor and a chemist.

[runs_on_batteries]

Chemistry I can handle just fine.. but yes, a doctor of the human body would be helpful.

[Even if it waa questionable whether Peter and Gwen could be known fully as 'human'.

Either way, he doesn't move to start wasting any more of the ingredients he's been playing with.]

To be a good detective, you're going to need criminology, psychology, law, and training as a police officer. The first three should be doctorates if you want to be the best. Think you can handle all of that?

[deductiongeek]

You forgot forensics, chemistry, biology and physics. And I should solve at least a thousand cases as an amateur detective.

[He wasn't entirely convinced that he needed a doctorate in all of them. It was the reputation that truly made a detective, not the number of degrees. But he'd spent ten years already studying them, and more besides. ]

[runs_on_batteries]

Overwhelming you didn't sound like that great of an idea. But yes, if you put it that way, it's useful to know anything and everything. Your other option is to have a really great team.

[He shrugs.]

Either wway though.. what kind of programs are you doing at school?

[deductiongeek]

I'm in first grade. There aren't any.

[runs_on_batteries]

[Ah.. well..]

Sports maybe? Look, I don't know what first graders do. My kid is only 4.

[deductiongeek]

Mostly we practice kanji and learn the times tables. With lots of breaks for recess and art and crafts.

[He'd found it tedious and boring the first time he'd had to live through it. The second time hadn't improved it at all.]

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[He can see Conan's expression in reference to that and he feels like he might be talking to a kindred spirit.]

You know, I graduated college when I was 15. You may need a better school system than what your parents have put you in. It didn't sound like our worlds were too different. There might be something like that if- when- we find a way to send everyone home, try to keep that in mind. You're far too bright to be stuck doing that crap.

[deductiongeek]

[There were a lot of reasons why changing schools or skipping grades weren't an option for him, but he decides to stick with the usual excuse.]

My parents are in America and I don't talk to them often. Besides, the kids would be upset if I left the detective boys.

[runs_on_batteries]

[Tony gives him a funny look at that. While that excuse might work in a lot of cases, it didn't work here with the older man.]

Are they living in America and you're in Japan alone? Someone must be your guardian if they're on some prolonged stay that would keep them from being able to sign you up for that kind of thing.

What's the detective boys? I thought you just said you didn't have any extra curricular activities.

[deductiongeek]

It isn't an extracurricular activity. Its just what some kids I know decided to call our group. We solve mysteries after school and go on field trips.

[He shrugs.] I'm staying with some people in Japan. I guess they're responsible for me.

[runs_on_batteries]

[That sounded exactly like an extra curricular activity just outside of school, but he wasn't going to keep arguing that point.]

'Some people'?

[He shakes his head with a smirk.]

If I didn't know any better you have the mouth of a teenager.

[deductiongeek]

Some friends of a distant relative.

I'm old for my age.

[runs_on_batteries]

Seems that way, kid.

[He looks amused, but he moves on too.]

What kind of cases do you and your friends solve?

[deductiongeek]

Lost pets and school mysteries. [A pause.]

Although we do happen to come across a lot of murders.

[runs_on_batteries]

[Tony's eyebrows shot upward. He sits forward in his chair and gives the kid a hard look.]

A bunch of first graders are solving murder cases? Are you just that smart or are your police just that bad?

[deductiongeek]

[He shrugs.]

Probably a little of both. The Tokyo police are good at their job, but I'm good at noticing all the little things that everyone else misses. And I get a lot of practice assisting Uncle. He's a famous private detective.

[runs_on_batteries]

They are supposed to be good at noticing little things other people miss.

[He wasn't buying this kid's 'distant' relative was some famous private eye. Why wouldn't he have mentioned that before?]

Well if you notice any murders on this train, be sure to let me know.

[deductiongeek]

It's usually very noticeable when someone has been murdered, especially on trains.

[runs_on_batteries]

One would hope.

[Pause.]

How many times have you been on a train and someone's died?

[deductiongeek]

[Give him a moment. He has to count. And figure out whether to count the times no one died because there was a bomb on board but it was dealt with before it could explode.]

Five murders on trains. And three other cases where no one was killed.

[runs_on_batteries]

[Uh.. wow. Um..]

Perhaps you shouldn't be allowed on trains anymore.