Out of the Frying Pan and Into the Fire

[Grace.E]

Immediately she reconized the voice...she stared at him for amoment, her emerald eyes wide, she sighed "you...have the plans that you were going to give back, I need them please" she pulled her hair back into a pony tail, seeing that right after this she was leaving for work...but didn't he just say that he LIVED like this...Vivienne had an Idea..

"how about this, as making up to you so called bad choices, why don't you work with me as my partner...seeing that you probley made that arm of yours?"

[Alice The Necrofox]

Patch's eyes widened in recognition.
"Oh... yeah..." he looked down and reached into his vest pocket, pulling out the folded plans he had there. He handed them to her, and watched her as she pulled her hair back. Her features were striking, that was for sure, but he averted his eyes.
"Yes, i did make the arm... but where do you work? The Warehouse? I don't know..."

[Grace.E]

Vivienne smiled "well..." she opened the plans, her eyes widened for a moment as she saw that these were her own...her sighed heavily as she re folded them and placed them in her pocket "well, seeing as though you have returned my plans, I now have no choice but to hire you...I don't want people stealing them" she stood up "what do you say?"

[Alice The Necrofox]

He looked confused. "Soooo... I stole your plans and then you want to hire me? Ooookay?" he looked down at the horn.
"When do I start?"

[Grace.E]

"Now!" she hauled up the fox, he was much shorter than she was but she didn't mind, she pratically half dragged him down the bridge. a couple of guys from work who were makii\ng errans stopped "hey Vie, wanna lift?"
"yes, him too, he is my new employee!"
"right on"

the ride there was really quick. Vivienne told patch the rules and ropes of the place, and that if he stole anything again, she would seriously not be happy about it. Ben who was waiting outside the doors smiled "hey, Vie, who's the squirt?"
Vivienne smiled "our new co worker, hopefully you have room"
Ben smiled "sure do sweet cheeks, we always need the help"

[Alice The Necrofox]

Patch was not happy about being hauled along for the ride. It was all he could do to keep his saxophone from being dented up in the process, something to which he was VERY unhappy about. He didn't appreciate being called 'squirt' either. Putting his saxophone down somewhere were it wouldn't get damaged, he walked over to the work bench.
"Sooo... are we inventing? or just building?" he muttered to the girl. "And anyways, what IS your name? I haven't caught it"

[Grace.E]

Vivienne smiled "The name's Vivienne Bloom, mostly we just build but I sometimes I can get creative and invent, the big grizzley you saw is Ben Bloom, my adopted dad he keeps everything in order, your boss is Reginald Tigerian, we eat lunch at 12:30, its provided, we work until 5:30"
Vivienne was beaming when she showed the Fox tp her station "I work at building weapons! sometimes I work on the big guys but not usually" she blinked
"By the way, whats your name?"

[Alice The Necrofox]

"Patch... the name is Patch."
He sat down at the work station. Looking over the organized table, he picked up a tool and looked it over.
"Better than the stuff I have at my shop..." he gazed over to the big mechs. Standing up, he wandered over.
"What have you built this stuff with, paper, spit, and prayers???" he rapped on an armature and two bolts rolled off. he sighed.
"Okay... where do you keep the rivet guns and the spare metal." he said, puling his flatcap off and stuffing it into his back pocket. He pulled a wrench out of his side pants pocket and twirled it in his hand.

[Grace.E]

Vivienne sighed "yeah I don't like how they put it together either ... the scrap metal is in that room right there, don't get too bold, Tigerian designs most of the stuff here, its all crap basically these battle mecha's are gonna fall apart as they walk" she pulled out a couple tools and began working on the new project...the energy blaster she helped invent...with the overlooming whatch of Tigerian, Vivienne was nervous working on this one since she had to deal with unstable lightning energy.

[Alice The Necrofox]

Patch looked at the new weapon. "Your power conductor is unstable you know that right? You need to get a generator and not just power it using crude methods like the ones your using." he pointed to his arm, which wirred and clicked into a position. The hand opened and showed off a hole in the center. A click and a long tube like thing extended from the hole, and a second later it glowed blue. It crackled to life, lighting arcing off of it.
He clicked it back into position.
"Let me see what I can do with that power source." he said as he wandered over to the power modual.

[Grace.E]

"I know its unstable, and the generator we have is weak, a couple times it nearly shocked me, these are not my plans...this are Reginald Tigerian's mine would be much better..." she moved out of the way for Patch "go ahead, I need to see this thing right here real quick" she pointed at the automatic barrel gun she desinged. whiping out a screw driver, she began to focus...

[KittKat chunky~]

The huge iron pipes hissed and gurgled morosely, a thick smog of steam hung in the air, swirling madly as engineers walked past. Kitt sat alone, back leaning against one pipe, feet jammed up against the other, eating what had at one time been a fresh piece of bread. It was now several days old, but smothered with a thick layer of butter. He ate it rapturously, as though he had not eaten for a long time.

A dark shadow suddenly cast itself over him, the owner of the shadow, a thick-set wolf, looked down at the young feline with a grin "Szarda?... Wonderin' where you got to. Theres been a leak down in sector J-772, by the storm-drains. Its up in the maintenance shaft, and we need somebody with your expertise to help..." Kitt jumped down from his hiding spot, landing on the steel-mesh floor with a loud clang. He swallowed the last of the bread, wiping butter from his lips and then licking his fingers.

"What you mean, is y'need somebody who is both small, and somewhat expendable to go clambering up into that death trap. Find the leak, dodge the scalding hot steam and watch out for the loose rung fifty three steps up that ladder, all to fix the leak..." The wolf's grin widened as the pair walked away down the corridor "All right except on one account... None of my team is expendable Szarda..."

[Alice The Necrofox]

Patch looked at the design. He took parts from the machine, taking it down to the bare bones of the machine, ripping out anything that seemed unstable. The power source was a MESS. The plans were even worse. It looked as if a two year old had drawn them in a moving car. He refined the design a ton, puttiing together a machine that would fire a single stream of dissintegrating energy into the enemies. About an hour later, the power source was hooked up. He dragged the machine to one of the mechs and attatched it, causeing a small ruckus. He started loading coal into the back of the mech, heating up the boiler in the back.

[Grace.E]

Vivienne watched as Patch dragged the machie over to one of the Mecha's, a few others watched in confusion in what he was doing...Vivienne smiled, she had a good idea of what he was about to do and just shook her head as she continued to work on the barrel gun. she noticed Ben out of the corner of her eye "whats the rookie doing Vie?" he asked, she chuckled, "juust watch..."
 

[Alice The Necrofox]

Patch jumped into the Mech pilot's seat with an air of calm and joy.
"Okay folks, lets show the crowd what we can do..." he said to himself under his breath.
"What crowd? Patch you need to stop pretending that your famous."
Patch groaned and tried to block out that voice. Curse that voice.
He fired up the engine, using the controls to lift the mech's right arm, the modified one. Walking to the back area, a fireing range, he aimed the rod.
He pulled the trigger and a bolt of lightning arced out of the cannon on the arm and blasted a hole through one of the target dummies. He frowned and turned down the steam, letting out torrents of the stuff out of the top of it.
He hopped out and made his way back to the design board, passing the looks of amazement.
"Fixed your stability problem." he said to Vive as he passed.