[Visual/Action] -2nd Shadow- aka: Baby it's really really cold outside...

[theytookmypants]

[Somepony's hailing the scrolls today laying down with a hoof over his eyes...if it wasn't enough that Crmsn looked miserable already, he winces as he lifts the foreleg to look at the scroll.]

I'm not usually one to bother with this kind of thing, but cripes, does anyone know where the pony strength aspirin is? I kind of need one...or two.......or fifty.

[There's a muttered curse about the cold weather.]

Whoever can point me to some, or, even better, just empty a bottle down my throat, wins forever and will be my life long hero.

[Meanwhile, if anyone needs him, he's just going to...stay where he is. Half collapsed outside the door to his room in the commune. It's really hard to walk on four legs when your forelegs are being uncooperative.]

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[theytookmypants]

Do what?

[He has to take a minute to figure out what that means but it dawns on him quickly enough.]

Oh! No...no my fuel is pretty much...a vegetarian platter at this point. Aspirin is...it's an anti-inflammatory medication, and can be a salicylate drug, often used as an analgesic to relieve aches and pains, or can be used as an antipyretic to red-

[He stops and sighs slightly.]

Sorry...science lesson over. The down-low is it's not a food, it's a drug, it makes the pain go away for a bit.

[toosmarttodie]

Oh please, I think I can understand basic chemicals, I work with them sometimes.

But I get it, it's a chemical additive to modify your organic processes.

[theytookmypants]

[GASP! Someone who speaks science!? He speaks science!]

"Organic"...guessing another bot gone Equestrian, huh? Essentially, yeah. It's mostly meant for minor aches, but I just need something to alleviate all this pain in my back, I'd ask for something stronger but I don't know if it even exists here...

[And he really doesn't want to go near magic...unless it's the last option, then he might.]

So what kind of chemical work do you do?

[toosmarttodie]

Yes Cybertonians seem to be prone to this level of cosmic shenanigans.

Weaponry! I made a corrosive quantum acid once that eats metal only when the viewer looks at it!

But I'm an engineer mostly.

[theytookmypants]

Sounds like me and my family.

[There's a chuckle, then silence, and wide eyed starry eye'd staring at the thought of quantum corrosive acids. At least he's forgotten about his back, mostly.]

Duuuuuuude. The best I've ever done is a molecular conversion device that generates matter from energy building objects based on the users whims, but digital gods above and below...

[He has friends that like to make scissors out of nothing...don't ask.]

Quantum induced corrosion is like the cat of all cats!

[toosmarttodie]

Energy building based on visualization?! I could only dream of owning something like that!

[No he'd rather ask.]

...you mean those things that Arcee and Prime became?

[theytookmypants]

[He chuckles a little. You're going to make him blush.]

Well...yeah I suppose it is a little impressive.

[Not on the first date.]

Yeah. Like the two of them...oh right! You wouldn't-duh. Sorry, I was making a reference to one of Earths scientists who created a thought experiment involving a cat in a steel box. It's a bit famous back home and a fundamental question in the quantum community.

[toosmarttodie]

You'll have to show me how it works when you get the chance.

...a quantum cat experiment?

[Iiiiiiinteresting.]

[theytookmypants]

Definitely, we'll compare notes and discuss theories. Not to brag, but I started my business out based in weapon systems and engineering myself.

A quantum cat thought experiment. I don't think a live test was ever done. Basically it was used to pose the question of when does a quantum system stop existing as a superposition of states and become one or the other? When does that cat start being alive or dead?

[toosmarttodie]

Are you? Well adding to that not bragging, but I did help end a four million year war.

Oh so the uncertainty principle.

[That reminds him, hmmmm...]

...you might have just given me an idea.

[theytookmypants]

Nicely done. Props to winning the war.

[He pauses a moment.]

An idea, huh? What kind of an idea?

[toosmarttodie]

Hear me out on this: imagine that on the back of every Autocat, a little gun tailored specifically to them. Once fired, the enemy is a double quantum whammy: they cannot tell whether they or the cat is there!

[theytookmypants]

Hmm...so a quantum disruptor built for cats in essence, and it'll alter they're perception of reality, causing it to cease existing...

[toosmarttodie]

Yep, that's it! We'll have an edge on another invasion when it happens.

[Because he's sure this shit happens with exceptional regularity.]

[theytookmypants]

Ugh, and here I was hoping for a vacation from invading forces.

[He laughs a little. If he wanted more of this crap he would have preferred fighting Darkloids back home.]

If you need any help designing it, I'd be more than happy to assist.

[toosmarttodie]

You start thinking that and then another ridiculous event happens.

Oh really? Good, because with this stature I need all the help I can get.