Sparky Repairs, Saturday

[2-twin-devils-2.livejournal.com]

Despite being rather tired from yesterdays events, the Hitachiins opened Sparky's. They weren't looking forward to whoever was coming to pick-up that trashed cash register. Mainly because they'd left the job to John and weren't sure how far he'd gotten yet. Of course, that wasn't so much on their minds as this 'Sparky's Party' Teddy had suggested last night. The twins busied themselves with putting up more Christmas lights around the shop's counter and door as they waited for customers, using the ding bots as stepping stools every once in awhile.

Sparky's is open.

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[courtincalamity.livejournal.com]

Jane walks in at some point in the day.

"Hay there boys."

Please don't be creepy. Please don't be creepy.

[connernotconnor.livejournal.com]

Mercer was taking his time wandering through the town; it was so tiny it was fascinating, and in all the places he'd lived he'd never seen any place quite like this.

"Hello?" he asked, peering into the shop.

[2-twin-devils-2.livejournal.com]

Both twins looked up from sticking lights to the counter. "Hello. Can we help you?"

[2-twin-devils-2.livejournal.com]

"Hi!" They look up from light stringing and nod.

[connernotconnor.livejournal.com]

"Oh, just curious about the sort of business you do here," Mercer replied, a little surprised that they'd spoken in unison. "I'm visiting in town, you see, and just doing a little exploring."

[courtincalamity.livejournal.com]

Gah. Creepy.

Jane maintained a neutral expression.

"You said to come back on Saturday about the register thing... So... Here I am."

[2-twin-devils-2.livejournal.com]

"Ah...about that..." Kaoru stands up and scratches the back of his head. "John said he was going to take a look at that and do something about it." He nods.

[2-twin-devils-2.livejournal.com]

"Oh, we're a repair shop." Hikaru said in a dull voice. It did say it in the name..

[courtincalamity.livejournal.com]

"So, not ready yet? That's fine." She leaned in like she was telling a secret. "I don't ever use the fucking thing myself, but Apu's got a thing about contraptions it seems."

[2-twin-devils-2.livejournal.com]

"Ah." They nod in understanding.
"Well...John works on Monday usually. If we get any information from him sooner, we'll call."

[courtincalamity.livejournal.com]

"Alrighty, no rush. Thanks."

[connernotconnor.livejournal.com]

Mercer chuckled softly. "I was wondering more about what sort of things you tend to repair. And --" he gestured to the dingbots -- "what are these?"

[apocalypsesoon.livejournal.com]

JOhn hobbles his ass in. Really. THe nerve of his place of employ being so far away.

This would require changing. And by 'changing' he meant 'go cart'.

John finished up Billy's leg, cobbled together a working cash register that somehow counted in Roman numerals, and started working on a single person gokart that could accommodate a cast.

[2-twin-devils-2.livejournal.com]

"Well...personally, we've repaired a a cell phone, a blow dryer and a skateboard...and these are," Kaoru looks over at the dingbots. "Robots..? They're pretty emotional most of the time..."

[connernotconnor.livejournal.com]

"Emotional?" Mercer gave them an alarmed glance. These days, any technology that was too advanced tended to worry him. "You don't mean they're sentient, do you?"

[2-twin-devils-2.livejournal.com]

"Sentient?" They may know English, but stranger, more specific words usually failed them.

[connernotconnor.livejournal.com]

"Intelligent," he tried to explain. "Capable of thinking on their own, making decisions."

[2-twin-devils-2.livejournal.com]

"Oh." They both look at the bots. "I really don't they do much other than whine... we havn't seen them do much else, anyway." Hikaru shrugged and went back to tacking up lights.

[connernotconnor.livejournal.com]

"I see." Mercer raised an eyebrow and watched the bots for a few more minutes. "That's . . . comforting, I suppose."

[2-twin-devils-2.livejournal.com]

"We were never told much about them except their names... so I can only assume they're pretty harmless." Kaoru added.