trans_9 | Better Living Through Reckless Experimentation [Open]

Brainiac 5 hasn't been outside of his area of the labs much of late, preferring to keep working if at all possible and finding it easier than most others since he doesn't need to break for food or rest nearly as often as organic crew members do. Not to mention that the last few times he'd ventured outside, he'd gotten caught up in an altercation and, earlier, run into a particularly irritating girl who'd compared him to a vegetable of all things.

Therefore he's determined to stay in here where the company is infinitely better and continue working on his experiments in power sources. He's not, despite what others might think, sulking. He's simply working on something that requires a lot of concentration and--

His sensors beep faintly. Apparently his work requires slightly more attention than he's been giving it, because it's about to overload.

"Oh," he says. He has just enough time to throw up a forcefield around the device, his work station, and, by proxy, himself, so that nothing else in the area is going to get damaged. And then it explodes.

He thinks that the forcefield contained the worst of it before it gave out, but he's not entirely sure because he's busy describing a near perfect arc through the area before colliding heavily with the door. Which promptly opens and dumps him out in the hallway.

"Ow," he mutters. This really isn't turning out to be his day. Or week.

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"Yes," Brainy answers tersely. His eyes don't shift from the device, and they're glowing faintly as he monitors it closely. With Wyn right next to it, he wants to know the nanosecond something starts to go wrong.

"Well, big red buttons are usually either activate or self-destruct, and it might end up being both in this case, but anyway." Wyn says, slightly faster than normal. She gingerly pushes the aforementioned big red button-- and waits.

Brainy doesn't answer. He'd like that it only be for activate, but Wyn's right that it's been functioning as both lately. Hopefully things will change soon. He's not sure how many more explosions the equipment - or his own body - can take after all.

The device hums slightly when activated and... nothing happens. At least, nothing that can be seen unless you have specialised sensors in your eyes that are monitoring it. But Brainy can see the energy start to build slowly, and for a moment he thinks that maybe it was simply a problem to do with his own inorganic nature, but then...

A light flashes bright red in warning and Brainy snaps out a warning, "Get down!" as he activates the forcefield around Wyn and slams another around the device just in time to catch the explosion.

And then he's on his back on the floor again, but at least this time he's still inside the lab.

"Wyn? Are you alright?"

"Oh f--" Wyn hits the floor as soon as she hears B5's warning, covering her head with her hands protectively (and she should really be a little bit more disturbed that she's gotten so good at dodging explosions, but there isn't time right now.)

"I should be asking you, you're the one who got thrown across the room again." she says, sitting up slowly. VV (who had enough sense to get as far away from the explosion as he could) hovers protectively over B5, managing to look very concerned for a small floating disk.

Wyn seems fine, which is his main concern at the moment. Luckily it looks like her lab experiences aren't far off from his own, at least as far as getting away from things as quickly as possible is concerned.

"I'm fine, my systems can repair this kind of minor damage easily," he says with a wry smile. "It takes a lot to put me out of commission, to be honest." He pushes himself up and there's a few burn marks that are rapidly being repaired even as he walks over and offers a hand to Wyn.

"I guess it's back to the drawing board though."

"That would be one of the advantages of being a hyper-advanced robot from the future." Wyn says with a grin to match B5's, taking his hand and pulling herself up.

"Well, that was fun." she continues brightly as she unpins the shield generator and hands it back. "Sorry it didn't work out, though."

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Brainy frowns. "I'm not a robot, I'm Coluan," he says flatly. He knows Wyn didn't mean it like that, but he can't help but take it personally.

"And don't worry about it," he continues, accepting the forcefield generator back. "I have a few more ideas I'd like to try anyway."

Wyn winces. "I, um... right. Sorry." Her apology sounds a bit inadequate, even to her, but there's not much else she can say.

"Well, unless you need any more help, I'll be on my way then." she continues, recovering her smile (even if it is a little smaller than it was before).

"I'll be fine from here," he says calmly. It's not insulting, but there's a sense that he's keeping Wyn at a bit of a distance now. "Thank you for your assistance."

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