Darren frowned at Hitomi, who had rissen and gone over to the desk, "Don't 
you find this the least bit unsettling?"
     "Not really.  After all, Priss and I had a pleasant talk, although she has 
committed herself to be here for at least the next forty years, thirty if I can 
get her to study."  Hitomi replied, "I take it you and SkyKnight are using one 
of the magic Items that Twister created?"
     As Bert took off his helmet, and started to look around the room, Darren 
replied, "Yeah.  But you should at least have been a little bit startled."
     "I've seen other things far worse.  Besides, having two of the characters I
sometimes write about show up is quite a pleasant surprise.  You two would be 
willing to listen to me before you do anything wouldn't you?"
     Bert and Darren looked at each other, "I guess so Hitomi," Bert said, "But 
can you make it quick?  We need to clear up a few things and your labs may be 
able to make this suit a little bit better."
     "Your suit?  You're not here for revenge then?"
     Darren snorted, "Far from it.  We want to stop it, and you're the only one 
on the list with access to an advanced research lab."
     Hitomi looked at the two of them carefully, "I see.  Well then, you've got 
to be Bert and Darren.  How are you two doing?"
     Bert grinned and looked at Hitomi, "So far so good.  I did say I'd get to 
Winnipeg one of these days."
     Hitomi giggled, "Yeah, but I wasn't expecting you to be wearing a 
hardsuit."
     Meanwhile Twister was taking a good look around the office and noticed the 
diagrams and calculations on the Whiteboard.  "Were you the one who was fooling 
around with this stuff?"
     "Actually, that's what I was explaining to Priss.  I got her to promise 
that she wouldn't try anything unless she listened to me first, and I got her to
do so _on_ _her_ _honour_ so she won't try anything, at least not until the 
explanations are over."  She grinned, "I think Priss was rather surprised at how
long it would take.
     Darren grinned back, "I take it she wasn't too happy?"
     "You could say that."
     Bert meantime was annoyed, still climbing out of the suit.  "Would you 
ladies mind?  We have some more pressing concerns at the moment, like thinking 
about how to contain this?"
     Both girls had the grace to redden and Hitomi quickly said.  "Ok, lets take
that suit for analysis and repair any dammage.  It may take a while though.  I 
don't know if we have the parts or the materials, most of them are still 
theoretical."
     Bert smiled, "As long as I can get one of those lightsabers, I'm not really
going to mind."
     As they left the office looking for a cart, Hitomi smirked, "Well, we do 
have a prototype of that actually which uses a triple-enclosure magnetic field 
bottle, but so far we haven't been able to get it longer than fifteen inches.  
If you'd like to try..."

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Hitomi