Tales Of Arcadia Ficlet Collection

Don't Doubt Steven

A/N: Okay this was supposed to be a new chapter of ATI but it was gonna be focused on Flip trying to learn some magic so they wouldn't have to rely on Claire or Merlin but this evolved into Steven and Flip making some space swords with alien technology they found lying around (or stole from Area 49B just to piss off the people there)

Also photo above is kind of how I imagine older!Steven looking like

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"Alright, I have everything!"

Laura looks up from her biology textbook to see a box full of metal pipes, a blowtorch, some weird glowing tube and some glowing crystals with Steven and Flip standing behind it wearing big grins on their faces.

"Don't you have homework?" Laura asked as her eyes drifted back to her book.

"We're doing real science Laura, you can put that away." Steven stated, grabbing the book out of her hands and tossed it into the corner of the library.

"Blinky is going to ground you if something catches on fire." Laura mutters and her two friends begin taking items out of the box. "So what exactly are we doing instead of our biology homework?"

"So my dad found a box of some old sci-fi movies he had grown up watching and decided since my mom, uncle and Vex were visiting we could all watch it for family movie night."

"I'm afraid to ask which sci-fi film you all watched that caused you both to collect pipes and glowing crystals.

"Star Wars of course!" Flip said with a laugh. "Krel kept saying that there was no way lightsabers could cut through anything that quickly and efficiently, and that there is no way anyone could make a weapon like that."

"So we're proving him wrong by making one of our own!" Steven added and held up one of the metal pipes. "We even borrowed some old tech from his workshop on the ship to do this. And we even found a book at the library explaining the anatomy of a lightsaber too!"

"This is so not going to end well." Laura mutters as she gets up from the table to go retrieve her textbook. "I'll leave you two to your need project, as much as I'd like to join in on the fun, I have to study and make sure I don't get grounded for not doing my homework. No one likes a grounded Trollhunter."

"Suit yourself." Flip said with a shrug as she pulls out some sort of glowing knife. "This is gonna be so much fun."

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"Aja, have you seen that box of leftover ship parts?" Krel asked as he yanked a cushion off the couch before putting it back. "I wanted to try making something for Steven for his birthday and I can't find it!"

"Why would you think it's in Steve's house?" Aja asked, exiting the kitchen with a bowl of chips in one arm.

"I don't know, maybe I brought it in from the ship and left it in the garage." Krel replied as he looked under the coffee table. "And this is not good, Steven's present is almost done and I just needed something from the box but I can't find it anywhere! Also stop sucking on your fingers, you're not Steven when he was little."

"Steve says it's called finger food for a reason" Aja laughs as she pulled her fingers out of her mouth. "Also have you asked Stuart or Vex?"

"Alright maybe they moved it somewhere safe where Steven wouldn't get curious and try playing with the parts."

They heard someone coming down the stairs and turned to see Steven with a camera around his neck and a tripod under one arm.

"Oh...uh hi mother...uncle...uh what are you two doing here?" Steven asked with a nervous laugh.