Arthur, with his big sister as a "bodyguard"
Family's New Shrink Ray
chapter 21
by
copier
· original author:
jurto2
Arthur was standing there in the doorway, holding a bag with some electronics tools in it. His coke-bottle glasses gave way to his ginger complexion and messy orange hair, along with his orthodontic headgear reaching around his head and was tied into his braces, giving him a bit of a lisp. Short and scrawny for his age, Derek would hardly expect he was a Junior like him. Standing behind him and to the side was his big sister.
Derek had no idea that Arthur had that much muscle behind him, his sister looked like she could thoroughly whip his ass if he so much as spoke down to Arthur. Shoulder-length orange hair, clear complexion; she was muscular, no doubt about it. Derek immediately wanted to ask her for her workout regimen but bit his tongue.
"I-- come in, please," Derek said cordially, "let me grab the stuff." He ran off to Lisa's room to retrieve the broken pieces of the shrink ray. Returning to the entryway, he invited the duo down to his dad's laboratory, hoping to impress them with their dad's technical prowess."
"Oh wow," Arthur said in surprise, stopping to look at various bits and pieces Steve had left laying around, "Thish is amashing shtuff," he said, sitting down. "Sho what ish it you need me to do?"
Derek presented the shrink ray in its broken form to Arthur, laying the peices in front of him. "This... Do you think you can you fix it? I can't figure it out" Derek said, hoping Arthur would at least try.
"What.. ish thish?" Arthur asked himself as he looked the broken pieces up and down before giving Derek a side-eye. "How could a bully like this," Arthur thought to himself, "have this kind of thing in his possession? Sure, his dad's a scientist, but no way does Derek deserve this kind of thing..."
"It's a..." Derek began cautiously, "a.. project of dad's from work. I'm gonna be in so much trouble if he finds out," Derek fakes panic as if he broke it himself.
"Shure, let me try to fixsh it," he said, sucking on his braces before turning on Steve's own soldering/desoldering setup, it was much nicer than the portable stuff he'd brought anyways.
Derek looked back to Arthur's sister, who had said nothing so far and only seemed to exist there to look menacing. "Uhh, here, let me get you a chair," he said, running off to the kitchen to grab a spare from the table for her. She sat nearby, looking unimpressed and watching for any shenanigans from Derek. He thought he could hear some discussion while he was upstairs, but dismissed it.
Arthur set to work reconnecting everything and reattaching some components to boards, gluing them down when he had to. As he reconnected the battery, lights lit up on it, and he said only, "Good.". With some superglue to reconnect the broken plastic exterior pieces, he finished up and tightened all the screws. He looked it over front to back and said, "I think that shthould do it," showing Derek from across the table. Derek perked up after a half hour of watching Arthur work his magic, hoping to finally restore his shrunken family.
As Arthur was cleaning up...
Derek had no idea that Arthur had that much muscle behind him, his sister looked like she could thoroughly whip his ass if he so much as spoke down to Arthur. Shoulder-length orange hair, clear complexion; she was muscular, no doubt about it. Derek immediately wanted to ask her for her workout regimen but bit his tongue.
"I-- come in, please," Derek said cordially, "let me grab the stuff." He ran off to Lisa's room to retrieve the broken pieces of the shrink ray. Returning to the entryway, he invited the duo down to his dad's laboratory, hoping to impress them with their dad's technical prowess."
"Oh wow," Arthur said in surprise, stopping to look at various bits and pieces Steve had left laying around, "Thish is amashing shtuff," he said, sitting down. "Sho what ish it you need me to do?"
Derek presented the shrink ray in its broken form to Arthur, laying the peices in front of him. "This... Do you think you can you fix it? I can't figure it out" Derek said, hoping Arthur would at least try.
"What.. ish thish?" Arthur asked himself as he looked the broken pieces up and down before giving Derek a side-eye. "How could a bully like this," Arthur thought to himself, "have this kind of thing in his possession? Sure, his dad's a scientist, but no way does Derek deserve this kind of thing..."
"It's a..." Derek began cautiously, "a.. project of dad's from work. I'm gonna be in so much trouble if he finds out," Derek fakes panic as if he broke it himself.
"Shure, let me try to fixsh it," he said, sucking on his braces before turning on Steve's own soldering/desoldering setup, it was much nicer than the portable stuff he'd brought anyways.
Derek looked back to Arthur's sister, who had said nothing so far and only seemed to exist there to look menacing. "Uhh, here, let me get you a chair," he said, running off to the kitchen to grab a spare from the table for her. She sat nearby, looking unimpressed and watching for any shenanigans from Derek. He thought he could hear some discussion while he was upstairs, but dismissed it.
Arthur set to work reconnecting everything and reattaching some components to boards, gluing them down when he had to. As he reconnected the battery, lights lit up on it, and he said only, "Good.". With some superglue to reconnect the broken plastic exterior pieces, he finished up and tightened all the screws. He looked it over front to back and said, "I think that shthould do it," showing Derek from across the table. Derek perked up after a half hour of watching Arthur work his magic, hoping to finally restore his shrunken family.
As Arthur was cleaning up...
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