House of Baloo 2, 3

8.

2 HOURS REMAIN

"So now that we have a figure we can finally do our research that we've been wanting to do!"

"You're right! We can even get more scientists."

"I heard there's a really nice school downtown, we just need to go up to the dean and ask them for scientists and money!"

"It wouldn't be that hard right?"

...

Well, that worked.

"I honestly didn't even know you guys had an actual thing going on here."

 "Like what? Come on, FIGURES?"

I will not let the 12-year reputation of this fine institution be besmirched by you!"

"Oh come on! Suddenly this place has a classy reputation to uphold?"

"Your only the dean now because the last one went to jail."

"Are you saying I'm not qualified?"

"You spell science with a y, and what's upsetting is I don't think YOU KNOW, that that's wrong."

"This is an institution of higher class learning, and if you wanna study "figures", do it somewhere because I have two words for you."

"Let me guess, get out?"

"No he's gonna say "suck it."

"He's not gonna say "suck it."

"SUCK, IT."

"You were right."

"Oh wait, oh my god, I think it might be a figure."

"Oh no, it's just a bird, bye bye. There's the door."

"Later days, can you hear this? Let me turn it up."

*makes bird noises*

"Oh my god."

"This is incredibly, immature behavior."

They left.

"Okay, just a minor setback." 

"You know what guys I think we can really do this. We can become the first scientists to prove the existence of the black figures, or as I came up with, the Shadow Figures. We just have to bring it into a controlled environment! That's all!"

"Hey there's the Zephyr I like! Welcome back!"

The team headed home.

"Hey, guys, I got some pretty cool stuff cooking up over here, if you want to just turn your head. I got some newly printed circuit boards, and I rebuilt the superconducting magnets. I improved beam accuracy by adding a plasma shield to the RF discharge chamber. I have cryocooler to reduce helium boil-off, and to top it all off, we got a freakin' Faraday cage to attenuate RF noise and avoid quenching."

"Nice!"

"Alright!"

"Hey guys, There's a Smartin Kleenburg here to see you." Jacob said.

"Smartin Kleenburg?"

"Wait, are you saying "Martin Klienburg?"

"Doctor.."