~ Chromatober 2024 ~

Day 9: Arson/Lab

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Series: Rainbow Quest/Steve Saga

AU: Reconnected

Characters: Sabre, Prof. Red

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This was not how I thought I was gonna be spending my Tuesday afternoon.

After paying a visit to a certain crazy cuckoo for coco-puffs steve, I had intended to leave his lab to go visit Mysterious. Well... HAD. As I was bee-lining for the door, I heard a crash and suddenly everything started on fire.

So... now I was rushing to find a bucket of water to help put out the flames. It was times like these where I REALLY wish steves had fire extinguishers!

I beat the flames to a sink with a bucket in hand and quickly fill the bucket, turning around almost instantly to chuck it at the flames with a roaring hiss. I cough at the smoke and cover my mouth with my hoodie as I dip the bucket back in, then chuck more water. I repeat this process several times over before the place was less of a raging inferno and more-so a sopping wet mess.

My eyes sting from the smoke as I place the bucket down, then walk over to where the Professor was focused on a pile of half-torched papers and notebooks.

"You all good over here, chief," I ask with a cough as the crazy professor looks over at me, then pulls his googles up from over his eyes. "Quite alright now, Sabre. Thank you very much for acting quickly. Although I wish the same was for my poor research." He sounds dejected and lowkey guilt-tripping me as I try to not inhale more smoke. "Yeah- Sorry about that man. How'd this even start? You tip over one of the brewing stands or something?" I turn to look around and sure enough, one of the brewing stands I had seen perched precariously on a stack of books earlier, was now missing. Well, I guess if the professor is ever bored, he can start his own lab on fire with arson and not be bored.

"Sadly, the moron did." The robotic voice comes from my left and veers around me with a whirr, bringing me face to face with Assistant Steve. I about laughed, because I had never heard the Assistant directly call the Professor a moron. Well, guess he got my treatment, for once. "I did no such thing, assistant! How dare I be accused of such malarkey!"

A snort escapes me and I roll my eyes from under my blindfold.

"Ok. You two have fun. I'mma bounce now. Gonna go meet up with m- Red Apprentice. So cya two later!" Before I could get dragged into yet another experiment or spontaneous lab arson, I walk back upstairs and to the door. As I reach for the handle, it turns from the other side and opens. I freeze as I come face to face with the one person I hadn't introduced myself to yet.

The Red Leader.