Fixer-Uppers, Thursday

[the_merriest]

It was weird, how quickly she'd adjusted to being back here. Wake up with Reno, play with the kitty, ferret, and duck (so weird), bounce around town, pop into her store!!!

Today, she was working on rewiring a droid. One that had been hit by lightning. So ... a lot of it was fried, yeah, but that didn't mean it wasn't salvageable. Did it? Time to find out!

(open/ocd-free/etc!)

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[heromaniac]

Momoko had ice cream! And she'd even brought some for Rikku! It wasn't the same as eating in the Chilly Boulder, ordering your favourite flavours, but this was double scoops of candy cane! Who wouldn't like that?

"Rikku? Hi! Are you busy?"

[the_merriest]

"Hi!" Rikku bounced, before spotting the ice cream. "Oooooh, you brought some for me?"

She brushed some engine grease off her hands and onto a once-white towel before reaching her still-grubby hands for the nearest cup.

Best. Little sib. Ever.

"Just playing around with broken stuff," she said. "I love this job."

[heromaniac]

"Of course! And it's candy cane! It's a bit early, but it's totally delicious!" Momoko pulled Rikku's spoon from her pocket and forked handed it over, then leaned enough to see what Rikku was working on. "Ooh! A robot! Is it badly broken?"

[the_merriest]

"The circuitry's all shot," she explained. Oooh, a spoon! Perfect! She dug in cheerfully. "I'm hoping I don't have to scrap it. But I think some of the parts got fused together?"

[heromaniac]

Momoko nodded. "That would be bad! Does it belong to someone or are you just fixing it for fun?" She grinned, pointing at Rikku with her spoon. "Wait, you didn't break it on purpose just to fix it again, did you?"

[the_merriest]

"I didn't have to," Rikku laughed. Which should answer whether she had ever considered that kind of thing, yes. "It got zapped by a lightning spell. Some people don't know how to disarm droids, and droids can't distinguish between people and fiends yet."

[heromaniac]

"Ah! That explains the fused parts!" Momoko ate a spoonful of her ice cream and grinned. "So someone tried to stop it and didn't know where the off switch was. That's totally a waste of a good robot. How come you haven't built one that can tell when a person is friendly yet?" Momoko had absolute faith in Rikku's abilities, see.

[the_merriest]

"These are really basic droids," Rikku explained, shaking her head with a touch of amusement. "They travel to a point and back again. Anything that interrupts that path, they attack. When we lived in the desert, it was just us out there, and any Al Bhed knows how to disarm a droid, so it didn't matter. But now we're in Mushroom Rock, and lots of people walk by there."

[heromaniac]

"You moved but you still use the droids? Even if there's more people?" Momoko asked. "Oh! You should totally talk to Jaina! She had a droid in class the other day. Did you know they use droids to repair their ships in her universe?"

[the_merriest]

"She's from Luke's world, isn't she?" Rikku asked, before realizing that Momoko might not have known Luke. "And Professor Skywalker? They had one droid called Artoo that hung around. He was fun."

[heromaniac]

Momoko nodded. "Jaina called the one she brought to class, Sneaker. He was kinda cute. We didn't get to fly with him, though. That was the day we had to shoot down enemy TIE fighters to save our squadron."

[the_merriest]

"How'd you do?" Rikku asked. Sounded like a fun class. "They have way more advanced droids than we do, yeah. Lots of AI. Distinct personalities, it seems like."

[heromaniac]

"Mmmm, okay." Momoko shrugged and sucked on her spoon for a moment, wondering if she should tell Rikku about the reason she hadn't wanted to shoot even holo-pilots that day. "I mean, the B-wing isn't the best to fly and do tricky moves in, so it was annoying to pilot. But I was in a bad mood, too, so that was totally part of why I didn't do as well as I should have."

She reached out and patted the droid remains. "So why don't you want to give your droids personalities?"