Whistle While You Work

[Dr. Linksano/Wayne Schlumper]

(February 20th. Takes place alongside A Day To Relax. For members like Linksano, Tony, and others to work on gadgets, inventions, and security.)

Linksano walked in. They'd finished updating the security now so now he was working on a way to freeze their enemies. The idea was interesting but they had to make a portable version and add a teleporting feature. There wasn't a point in freezing their enemy if it was just rescued by one of their allies before they could get to it. They would just thaw them out again with their magic he was certain. So he kept working on it trying to make sure it worked.

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Stone/Wayne walked in heading to his table and began working on some of his weapons adding finishing touches to them and then began working on others.

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Dr. Tease walked in carrying her notebook as she began working at her table on one of her inventions checking her notes as she went.

[Tony Stark/Iron Man]

Tony meanwhile was with a remote and robotic glove-like objects. He was going to amaze his other scientists. If this worked he would make a whole suit out of this type of discovery. Since his previous suit was totalled thanks to the robotic bastard known to others as Mechakara. Suffice it to say, Tony's ego was bruised along with his body. No matter though. He was too tough to mope about it like some of the others heroes did. Not one to quit, Tony first went right to the so-called leader of the tiny group. Linksano, right? Yeah, the one with the goggles. Tony took the glove objects with a slight slam to get Linksano's attention and only looked with a small but michevious smile
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"Hey Linksano. Hey Dr. Tease. Hey Stone. Hey Ton---What the shell are those things?" Donny said as he too came to the lab. His master was with the others relaxing and Don felt he NEEDED to get some things done in order for it to stay the way it was today. Besides, his friend Tara was busy too and being noble, Don felt like she needed to be left be. Regardless it didn't excuse the fact Tony had weird hand like objects that was apparently made out of metal. What was the playboy scientist up to?
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Sherlock would not go outside. He was more interested in keeping an eye on Stone. For some reason, Sherlock grew attached to the young man. Maybe for his detective qualities, maybe his curiousity, maybe Stone just had the same aspects as Watson did. Speaking of that, Watson would have a long time to think about what Sherlock was planning to tell him if/when he came back. The thought of being without his friend was heart-aching so he coped with spending time with Stone. And it worked. Sherlock walked to meet stone working and patiently waited for the man to notice him there, although sherlock did cough for stone to turn around

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Little weasel-bot stalked across the ground. So this was that these pathetic little humans called a lab!? Starscream was not impressed. Since this was Starscream we're talking about, he was quite adamant in expressing his discontent. The thin body of his pet weasel weaved around and in-between the other scientists that were unworthy of his presence as he would frequently check on what they were doing. He jumped up on to one of the tables and began to trot along it. The body of his drone lacked fingers, so he had not bothered to attempt to build anything there. Currently, he was only scoping out what was going on - to assure himself that his technology was greater. The Decepticon coyly rubbed his hips against it rack of beakers before gingerly butting it off the table. He only acknowledged the mess with a snarky yawn. Starscream manipulated the drone to keep on walking, smug that someone else was going to clean it up.

"Tell me this is not the best your primitive race has to offer?" Crowed the Decepticon.

"What are, specifically, your desired goals?" He wanted to know.

[Detective Mike Stone]

Dr. Tease frowned looking up seeing the small robot smash a beaker to her annoyance.

"If all you're going to do is make messes and insults then you leave now. This is a laboratory. Not a playground." said Dr. Tease.

She pulled out a device from her pocket pressing a button as the mess and glass suddenly flew up into the air and reformed on the counter. She smiled taking the beaker and setting it out of the robot's reach. She had sort of made her own device basing it off Mary Poppins's power to snap and a room to clean itself.

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Wayne looked up seeing Sherlock arrive and smiled.

"Hello Mr. Holmes. I heard you were a chemist but what else do you know about science? I haven't really read many of your books lately. Been too busy with the war you know." said Wayne.

He returned to his device sure it would work. He could use it to shrink people or at least their enemies. It'd make them easier to capture. He turned back to Holmes.

"If you'd like to help me you can. I'm trying to rebuild my old invention the shrink ray. Just for more adjustments and we can use this to shrink our enemies. If we shrink them all and get the gadget that brought us all here we can send everyone home with no more bloodshed. I've already heard one girl from Ask That Guy's side was killed. The next person could be one of our friends and I don't want that to happen." said Wayne.

He was beginning to act more and more like Wayne now. The reviewers already knew about his other personality and it wouldn't be long before everyone did.

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Linksano looked up seeing the others arrive. He glanced at the suit and nodded.

"Ah. You're building another suit are you Tony. Perhaps you could make armor or shields off your designs to help us. Not all of us have a full armor suit like you do. It might come in handy for more of us to have more backup in fights." said Linksano.

He turned seeing the mess and Dr. Tease reversing it.

"Impressive. But how did you do that?" asked Linksano.

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"I call it the Poppins gun named after one of Mary Poppins techniques. It helps clean up messes like she did." said Dr. Tease.

[Linkara]

Linkara walked in, followed by Jesu Otaku. While Linkara wanted to just see if he could upgrade his morpher, JO wanted to test out her new abilities of fixing things.

Linkara nodded to Linksano, before walking over to a table and pulling out his White, Green and Gold morphers. He pulled out a screwdriver and started to dig into the Gold one, it was his most useful after all. After the brief battle with Mechakara in the basement of Ask that Guy, the morpher had been a little troubled. He pulled off the casing and started to try and connect some of the wires back together.

Meanwhile, JO was examining the chemicals. Almost without thinking, he poured some green liquid into a purple beaker and a blue pill into some brown sludge. She then examined the result. Apparently the conclusion of her meddling was a special kind of alcohol.

[Tony Stark/Iron Man]

Tony smirked to Dr. Tease, a bit impressed with her invention. Then he noticed the others, as well as Donny asking what he had. Dr. Linksano's question however caused him to have a "great" idea, show them his new type of suit. He smirked to the goggled man and responded "Yes Linksano, not JUST a new suit and not only for me but possibly for everybody else too. Give me a minute"

He then clapped his hands loudly and responded, abeit arrogantly "Hey! Can I have a moment of silence and attention please?" After a bit many of his accomplices turned around to him and Tony smirked again. He responded, almost like a advertisement "Fellas, we've been working on weapons but one problem was that they usually dropped in our hands and we needed to pick them up. Well I got to thinking, I'm the only one with a actual suit. So, quickly I decided to make you all some, especially the leaders such as wonderful linkara here" He then pointed to the supposed comic book expert before continuing

"Now I need time for that but I figured out a possibly better way to get you all suited up, why not have the come at the sound of a snap of the fingers?" He asked without waiting a answer. Then he smiled "Watch and be amazed... Well, if not amazed at least impressed"

Suddenly he whistled loudly and one of the gloves flew across the lab, landing on Tony's hand and morphing into a arm/hand piece for tony's suit. Red and shining it glimmered as it morphed
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"Ah Stone. I would love to help. I do know a bit about engineering" Sherlock spoke a bit confidently but also a bit observantly. As if he was seeing something was wrong about Stone. Quickly he asked "I say dear chap, are you alright?"

However his question was ignored with Tony's speech and presentation. Sherlock, admittedly, was shocked over this new device Tony made and widened his eyes. The detective quickly went over to his look-alike and asked "I say Mr. Stark, did you work on that long?"
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"Holy shell! Tony, that's amazing!" Donny said, easily impressed by Tony's new invention. The turtle never saw something like this and if he did, he certainly would have a tough time copying this idea. Donny turned to the others for their responses

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Oh yes; that isn't a dangerous projectile hazard at all.

Peh. Not that he cared.

Broadcast's body turned around so his butt faced everyone else. Starscream wasn't all that impressed. After all, he was pretty much a mechsiut himself - only far, far more handsome. Only after a second or two of it being on his mind did the tiny weasel body stiffen. There were too many humans running around with his powers already; giving them the added durability of metal armor was not something Starscream wanted. This could make his planned takeover far more difficult than it needed to be.

Oh, yes. The red jet with still planning to backstab them all. Why should he not, he reasoned, they didn't show him any more compassion than the Decepticons. Those repairs? Why would the sacrifice a powerhouse such as himself? There was no emotional attachment: it was just as cold as all the treatment his former faction has showed him. Starscream was sure of that!

"No!" Came a bitter hiss, "What a stupid idea!"

[Dr. Linksano/Wayne Schlumper]

Dr. Tease nodded.

"Impressive display Tony. But they're right. If we could get more of those made it'd be helpful. Although I'm guessing it'd take too much time to help us in recent plans." said Dr. Tease.

Dr. Tease walked over to JO seeing her mixing chemicals as she smelled the results.

"Smells like alcohol. You think it's safe to drink? Or is that for cleaning?" said Dr. Tease.

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Linksano paused as he whistled and the glove flew to him and transformed into an armor.

"Impressive. Although that probably wouldn't help much in battle or if the magical guys took our voices. They did to Chick once. Should find a backup plan in case we can't whistle or give it a voice command. Like a device or something." said Linksano.

He paused hearing Broadcast knowing it was Starscream's thoughts.

"You and Tony are only ones protected with armor. We need more armor to protect ourselves. Why do you care anyway? The more armor we have the quicker we can possibly end this war and send everyone back home." said Linksano.

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Wayne/Stone looked up at him.

"I'm fine. Although my name's not stone. It's Wayne Szlaninski. I'm trying to build my shrink ray." said Wayne.

He stepped a little to the left so Sherlock could help him with the designs as he stopped realizing he should remake the blue print first to make sure nothing went wrong. The last one he made ended up shrinking his kids or other family members even himself. He wanted to make sure this one didn't have that problem. So he took a sheet of paper and began drawing in a matter of minutes he'd finished the design astounding Holmes and anyone watching him.

[Tony Stark/Iron Man]

"No worries guys, the new suits for the rest of you will be easy for me to make, like I said I'll deal with all that. It'll give me something to do" Tony responded, patiently, to Tease giving her a deep smile. Then he turned to Linksano who commented on the whistling and he let out a laugh "Dr. Linksano, you poor thing, I would never allow it on ONLY voice set. That'd of course be dangerous, so I figured out a way for the suits to use our brainwaves as well. Which means basically the suits will be somewhat physic, trust me it took me a while but I got it" He then smirked assuringly to the goggled doctor "However I'll give you this Goggles, you planning like that gives me relief I have people who are also pretty damn smart in this place. Like Dr. Tease, you and pretty much all the scientists and such"

He then sneered slightly to starscream, from day one Tony slowly but surely was losing interest and replaced it with disgust. It was almost similiar to the feelings with Steve back on S.H.E.I.L.D but those feelings disappeared quickly and replaced only with sarcasm and hidden concern. However with this robot, it was almost as if Starscream was never meant to be trusted. Nevertheless, Tony didn't care what starscream thought, he only was paying attention to Linksano and a bit to Linkara and Dr. Tease. He responded to Linksano but looking right at Broadcast, who had starscream's attitude "Don't let Starscream's emo and pessimistic attitude get to you Goggles. He's just expressing himself. As I'm expressing what I feel I can do for this team"
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"Starscream, what tony just did is a possibility for better stradegy and defense! This could give us better backup plans to whatever those villains got!" Donny said excitedly. Forgetting what Dr. Tease and Linksano said, the turtle was extremely excited about Tony's new idea of suits. Tony was already a hero in Donny's eyes but this took the cake. This meant new hope and new chances of getting Raphael and Michaelangelo back
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"Wait. Excuse me? Wayne?" Sherlock wasn't paying attention and instead was focused on Stone. Ok, this was not good. Stone was far from ok, calling himself wayne just screamed that. Sherlock took this to stride and assumed at the moment that Stone was joking. And so, he let out a nervous but good-intentioned laugh, putting his arm around Stone "Ah, is this the american humor you speak of? Very clever stone" He then grew serious and responded, trying to believe that it WAS a joke "Stone, calling yourself wayne worries me, don't fool around with me like that"

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The drone turned his head around sharply. He had it in his mind to bite right back. However when faced with the arguments against him, Starscream realized that he could say nothing to hide his ill intentions. This only make the 'con more angry. In a brief instant of uncontrolled frustration, the weasel opened its jaws to let out a shrill, animalistic hiss. After the outburst, the Broadcast drone avoided everyone's eyes. He leaned up and folded his arms.

"Fine! And who do you feel is skilled enough to gain such power?" The robot snarled crossly.

Yes, he would need to know who he had to pretend to be friends with. Burning bridges was the last thing he needed to do now. If their upgraded forms were any match for himself, Starscream risked going offline permanently. When he first arrived, he thought his objective would have been much easier than other throwing Megatron (which he still had a mind to do when possible, mind you). But wat is turning out to be not the case.

Starscream still viewed everyone else as an enemy, and it showed.

[Dr. Carly Tease]

"Well shall we go?" asked Dr. Tease."Well shall we go?" asked Dr. Tease.Dr. Tease smiled at Tony annoyed at Starscream's words and Broadcast's antics. Seeing JO was busy she returned to the group.

"I think we should armor our leaders Critic, Chick, Snob, Linkara, and Marzgurl. And our kids. We can't protect them forever. They're going to enter a battle or have to protect themselves at some point." said Dr. Tease.

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Linksano nodded listening to them glaring at Starscream before hearing Dr. Tease.

"She's right. At least our leaders and the kids should be protected. Preferably it'd be nice for us all to have some kind of armor even if it's not as sophisticated as your iron man suit." said Linksano.

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Wayne paused turning to Sherlock.

"I'm just telling you my name. Nothing funny about it. I'm Wayne Szlaniski, an inventor. Glad to be working with you though." said Wayne.

He smiled as he returned to his plans. He overheard the conversation with the others and smiled.

"Great job Tony. Those suits and armor will be a great help." said Wayne.

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Dr. Tease paused seeing Sherlock was confused as she pulled him aside for the moment. She then pointed to a device sitting in the middle of the table.

"There's something you should know. Jesu Otaku and Wayne were building a device a couple of weeks ago when we went on a space adventure. That device. We stopped Mechakara, The Executor, and Terl from taking over the Earth. But Jesu Otaku and Wayne touched the device and created an alternate personality. Hers is Edward and his is Wayne. They're based off fictional characters they grew up watching. Smart ones that helped us design weapons and things while we were up there. When the adventure was over we thought they were gone. But I pulled the intention out asking Stone if he could help me update it and it zapped him. And Wayne came back. I guess Edward could come back for JO too. We just don't know how to get rid of them for good." said Dr. Tease.

[Linkara]

"So I'm forced to pretend my friend is something he's not? Dr. Tease you are not making sense" Sherlock hissed angrily. This woman was telling him that Stone did not remember who he really was and instead was thinking himself as a completely different person. There were people like that back in his home but they were put in a insane asylum and Stone did not deserve the same fate. His mind assumed too many things to be considered ok, he ignored the slight debate between tony and starscream and looked to Stone with a hurt look before turning to Tease "I must find a cure for him. He's important...." To me Sherlock added in his mind, and the sheer thought of that made him widen his eyes slightly. Where did that come from?
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"You got it Dr. Lovely and Goggles. The kids and leaders will get the first suits I make but for you guys it'll take a while since, obviously, the leaders and kids need it. I may have said that but you saying it makes me feel important" Tony joked around, ignoring Starscream for the moment. Then Starscream's next question sounded like a challange. A challange Tony needed to face. Tony narrowed his eyes again but this time it was with a hint of anger and malice instead of annoyance. He was tempted to walk and slam the robot but he remembered Broadcast was basically the puppet to Starscream's master and so stood away. He responded simply "The whole team, Starscream. I'm just the guy who builds the damn suits"
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"And marvelous suits they are tony. I really appreciate your hard work and will be more than happy to see mine. Ooooh I hope it has gold like yours!" Linkara said, feeling happier than he did in a while. He didn't care how much of a nerd he looked like, Tony was one of his favorite heroes, even if Batman was his top Iron Man he related to a lot more. Tony was basically the older version of someone he once knew, he didn't put his finger on it but it would come up randomly then vanish, and he loved it. Linkara giggled a bit and responded "If you can't do gold, red would be fine. Oh what the hell!? Just ignore me, I'm rambling"
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"I can't wait to see the suits in action. Too cool. Am I right?" Donny commented, crossing his arms, proud to witness this. Even IF Starscream was making a huge hissy fit over it

[Detective Mike Stone]

Dr. Tease paused and sighed.

"He believes he's Wayne now. Telling him otherwise will only confuse him or he'll just deny it. Stone is still int here somewhere. Last time whatever turned Stone and Jesu Otaku wore off after a few days. Maybe it'll wear off again. But the cure might start with the machine that caused it in the first place. It's done it two them twice. It was supposed to help you read minds and I thought they had fixed it. But it appeared to malfunction again and turned him into Wayne." said Dr. Tease.

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Linksano smiled at the suits.

"Excellnt Tony. It's obvious Starscream's just jealous you thought of it first. I know I am. But if you need any help designing those things you've got a whole room full of geniuses. The more working on it the faster you'd get them done." said Linksano.

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Wayne smiled as he began adapting the device. He was sure he'd have it ready soon. A shrinking device might come in handy. Although he was going to modify it for a portable version as his original design was too bulky. He glanced seeing Dr. Tease and Holmes talking and occasionally glancing at him. But he brushed it off not thinking it was important as he resumed working.

[Linkara]

Linkara chuckled as Linksano praised Tony. Nevertheless, the comic book person was thinking the exact things. He smiled to Tony and agreed "Yeah, the faster the better. Critic needs it first, since he's leader"
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Tony smirked widely "You got it goggles. If I need help I'll call you guys but I think I know what's up when it comes to suits" He ignored Starscream since he confronted him a bit. Sometimes he wished the robot would just disappear. Other times he gave the robot kudos for being so big and strong, it gave the heroes a advantage. He turned to see Dr. Tease and Sherlock talking, but paid no mind
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Sherlock gave a hurt look as he observed Wayne. Stone was in there just not in the way he assumed. Sherlock sighed and responded "Is it possible to get him back? Please. I cannot bear to think he's trapped as a completely different person" He sighed again and felt a strong urge to go to wayne and yell 'Don't you remember who you are?! About me?!'

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Being berated was not a new concept to Starscream. He was a Decepticon after all. Sometimes, scolding was because of his own doing, and he deserved it, and sometimes it wasn't and he didn't. He wasn't the type to take crap laying down, sometimes not even from Megatron, whom he feared. Often, he's chew one's ear off right then and there, but he was patient and sometimes would wait for an opportunity for revenge or his "haha, I told you so" speech. Yet his predicament didn't bring him to think of doing either. Sometimes, he needed to be submissive.

The weasel bot was silent, bringing his optic down. Broadcast's body lowered and brought itself into a laying down position: not a relaxed one, almost an exhausted one. Starscream had given up trying to win what he believed was a fight. Viciousness and tricks could only hide so much, and the truth was that millennia of failure and misplace ambition took a toll. The Seeker usually repressed it enough to function and feed his desire for power. Other times, it caught up with him.

Moving the drone's head hidden between its arms, he counted on being ignored if he was quiet. His inferiority HAD to take backseat; he HAD to know what the humans planned to. He HAD to counter it. ...didn't he?

Broadcast's body curled a bit tighter.