Can't I Fit In Anywhere?

Chapter 45: Planning

Ryan and Unicorn sat in the main part of the lab with Sabre, going over various machines and devices that could stabilize the portal long enough. It was Sunday, the 19th, a whole week and a day after Ryan's first online class.

Over the week he got used to the randomness that each new classmate brought. Plus he was actually gaining other friends besides his few here. One day, the topic of the competition came up and how it was going to be held at Life Academy, which resulted in Ryan telling them he was unsure if he was going to join or not. The other's seemed saddened by that, since they all wanted to join and fight. Even Cory, who came off as a person who would rather not fight his friends.

Although he was at Shadow Academy, and apparently they were well known to not show weakness with fighting. Cory had no problem throwing down with someone for fun, he just would rather not fight his friends. It confused Ryan honestly, so he just said he understood when he really didn't.

Anti didn't seem too happy about the competition thing, and has just been a pain overall.

"Hey Ryan," Unicorn snapped him out of his thoughts by sliding over a blueprint. "Check this for me."

Although Ryan soaked in some info from hanging out with Unicorn, Ryan wasn't great at building machines. They found out one day when he built something only to explode five minutes later. That happened with everything else he built too, so Unicorn banned him from building anything else again.

Ryan wasn't great at building them, but he was great at picking out mistakes and such however. Ryan never understood that either. If he was great at seeing mistakes, why couldn't he build machines? Unicorn flagged it off as Ryan was too confident in his work, and often missed little mistakes that caused it to blow up.

Ryan's eyes scanned over the paper, and saw a problem almost instantly. "The thing will quickly overheat," Ryan pointed to a section that held most of the wiring. "With the amount of energy flowing through this small section it would ultimately melt the wire's casing then damage the wires, which would ultimately make the thing blow."

Stop being such a nerd, Anti spoke up. Like seriously? Keep that up and all your friends would get tired of you.

"Easy fix right?" Sabre nervously questioned. "Since no offence, but all of us want to get home."

Don't blame you for wanting to get away from this idiot.

Would you shut up.

I speak the truth though.

Yes, but dear god just shut up!

Anti shut up, but Ryan could feel his presence handing mid-air behind him, seemingly happy for some reason.

"And we're trying." Unicorn took back the blueprint, unaware of the metal bickering Ryan just had, and quickly groaned. "That section has to be that small though to make room for the dimensional location machinery."

"Dimensional what now?" Sabre shook his head. "Man, you gotta realize that we can't understand everything you say."

"It's a machine part that pinpoints your dimension." Ryan simply explained. "Since it's been so long, if you just jumped it, there's like a 0.000001% chance of landing in your dimension."

"So not good chances then huh?"

Unicorn groaned, and balled up the paper. Tossing it over his shoulder, he took another blueprint and began sketching. Sabre looked at the paper sadly, as it rested on the floor. He groaned, and rubbed his face. "This is going to take forever!"

"Forever is impossible, as everything has an end," Unicorn offhandedly commented, not really focusing on what was going on around him.

"Jeez man," Sabre gave a dry laugh. "That's a little dark."