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Hey Tony, think you could make something like this? Like, with lights and future-y sounds? Oooo, and could you make it fly? Like with little thingies like your boots have? Maybe some way to control where it goes? I don't know.

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I have a lot of tech left over from the satellite crash. A LOT. If you need anything from there.

I can pay you. I have no idea how much, sixty juulan? More?

Edited (htmfail) 2013-07-26 17:59 (UTC)

Is that a ship? [No, wait.] Is that a starship?

Where did you get the idea for that?

[He's definitely interested. Let's face it, there's no way he wasn't going to be interested.]

You're going to need a lot of metal. And a power source. Yeah, I could do it.

You know about starships?? [Korra was starting think there wasn't anything he didn't know.]

My friend Jim showed me a holo-thingy of it. So I thought it would be cool to make him one since his isn't here.

[A beat.]

I mean I don't want you to make it like, actual size or anything. Just so you could hold it up with both hands.

[Giving squinching her mouth to one side of her face, Korra looked to her left, thinking about the power source part.]

Well, I don't know if anything from the satellite crash has a power source. The Tony that left made notes about each piece, it took him a few hours, but they're in English and hard to read.

[Pure scientific terms that was just gibberish in ink form to Korra.]

Is sixty enough? It sounds really complicated to me.

[But then, a glider staff had been really complicated to her.]

Sure. I've seen starships. Never got a chance to build one, but I could whip together a model for you. If it's small, I don't think it will be a problem.

[Yes, he was totally suggesting that he could build a full size ship. And he could with enough material and time. He's a genius after all.]

Sixty is fine. You know, if I could get a look at that hologram, that would really help. Do you think your friend would let me see it? The notes you have would be great too. I've got a few pieces myself, but it doesn't hurt to compare.

[The fact that he could build one just blew her mind. Jim showed her the scale of one, and it was way, way big. Big big. There’s a pause that’s only punctuated by a murmur:] Wow.]

[To Korra, Tony was the smartest guy in the room, hand down.]

He might! I mean, I made a tiny version with rock. [She holds up a small Enterprise made of grey stone. After getting pointers from Toph who had a knack for minute detail in miniatures, it looked accurate.] But the holo-thingy- er, hologram had everything. [The NCC-1701 engraved on it is slightly marred. Even bending English isn’t easy.]

Um, I can send you the notes. They’re just really hard to read. Well, hard for me. Whenever you have time, you can look through my tech storage.

[This is one of the better conversations he's had in a long time. Putting Resilient together had been good. It had given him focus and motivation again. But this is fun. This is something Tony can commit to and enjoy, and it helps that Korra is enjoying it too.]

That's pretty good. Now you just have to make it fly. You know, I bet we could use your powers to make it fly.

[Smart he may be, but Korra is basically talking to a big kid when it comes to building.]

Yeah, send me what you've got. I'll put some plans together for the ship.

I'll settle for a paper one of my own for that. [She did giggle at the thought of Jim being disappointed it couldn't fly unless Korra was there to lift it up.]

All right, I'll see if Jim would let you borrow that holo-thingy, er- hologram doo-dad.

[There was a short pause in which Korra seemed to debate something in her head, going from her tilting her head to one side, then the other.]

Um, I also wanted to ask if you could make my console able to use that encryption you used when we first met. But I don't know if that would be too much to ask.

[After all, she had no idea if that took him a while to set up because of how strange the consoles were, at least to her.]

I mean, I'd pay for that too. [She knew how many juulan she had save over the past three months and it seemed like a worthwhile investment and Tony had always been one of the adults she could trust.]

Great. It'll help a lot.

[Also he wants to see the ship design with as much detail as possible.]

An encryption program? Trying to have private conversations with your boyfriend?

[It's a good thing she can't see him grin, right?]

Sure, I can do that. I'll have to do it from your side. That okay?

[As soon the word boyfriend was said, the sound of her choking and then coughing ensued.]

H-hey! [That was actually something she had been wanting to use for both her boyfriend and her crush, but she didn't want to go into specifics.] I just need some privacy sometimes.

[She nodded, and then remembering it was audio, she chimed in.]

Yeah, that's fine! I'm in ME-2B. Maybe you can look through that tech stuff I salvaged from the satellite crash. There's a lot of neat stuff in there.

[Teenager asking for the ability to make private calls. Right, like he was going to let that one slide without comment.]

Oops. Did I hit the target? Don't worry. I'm discreet.

[And then she kept going.]

Whoa, okay, okay. You don't have to bribe me anymore. Break out the toys. I'm on my way.

Nail on the head. [Hanging her head, she simply muttered it.]

All right. I'll get everything out of the storage closet!

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