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[tyler_marlocke]

Take one nearly-ten yearold gadget hero-in-training. Give him a shoebox of old electronic junk and busted tape-players, and a big old smoothie made with Jolt cola.

Half an hour and a gauntlet-mounted tool-kit later, you'll find a few little BEAM robots skittering or rolling around in the empty lid of the shoebox. Building stuff like this is really

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[ever_lovin]

The movement of the bots catches Ben's eye as he sips his beer. Turning he recognizes a familiar face and so says, "Hey I didn't know you were into robotics."

He may have forgotten Tyler hasn't seen him human yet.

[tyler_marlocke]

...who's this guy?

"...yeh." Tyler's just going to tilt his head a bit..the voice sounded..kind of familiar. "...do I know you?"

[ever_lovin]

Ben winces. "Sorry, forgot. I'm Ben Grimm. Got somethin' of a cure fer my condition."

Really he's not a creepy guy in a flight suit who talks to kids in a bar at the end of the universe.

[tyler_marlocke]

yeah if there were any number of those this boy would have a tazer fo-

Wait, whut?

Ben, you've got the kid all boggled and big-eyed.

"..Mr. Grimm??"

[mandercommander]

Bonzo sees the robots skittering around in the box from an angle...and looks up at Tyler (recognizing him after an embarrassing split second). "Hey, Tyler. Nice robots."

[tyler_marlocke]

"Hey, Bonzo." Tyler says puttering with the capacitor on a little wheel-bot.

[mandercommander]

"How'd you put them together?" He didn't know there were this many little parts floating around the Bar, but then again...this is the Bar.