Aww gross, who left the Assist Trophies lying around?!

[pknothing]

[Boy, it sure is a calm peaceful day on campus, huh? The skies are clear, the birds are singing, there's an earth shattering kaboom coming from the science wing--

Ah. Well. Earth-shattering might be a bit of an exaggeration. But it was certainly loud, breaking the tranquility without warning like that.

The exact cause is as of yet unknown, but the culprit's pretty easy to spot. Just look for the freckled boy shuffling into the hallway, coughing and trying to wave away the thick black smoke that follows him.]

That-- that didn't work.

[Hack. COUGH.]

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[pkrockin]

[And lo, a striped child is vaulting on to the nerd's shoulders, a picture of excitement.]

But it was AWESOME.

[pknothing]

[Ness do you really expect a scrawny nerd to be able to give you a piggyback ride because you would be CORRECT. All that lugging around heavy weapons and broken equipment does the body good, after all. Sort of. He doesn't collapse in a heap, he just wobbles a little.]

Awesome and educational! We learned that gooey bomb launchers don't work if the bombs stick to the inside of the tube.

[The most valuable life lesson of all. Aaand Jeff can only handle Ness for so long before he finally does have to just topple over, dragging the other boy down with him because BROS ARE IN THIS TOGETHER.]

Oof! Ha ha... [Hold on, let him fix his glasses, theeere we go.] What else did we nab?

[From storage. Without asking. But the door was wide open, and anyway, nobody can get mad at them for taking items that are there for students to use!]

[pkrockin]

[Well duh, of course Jeff could carry him, he was the best. Bro doesn't even mind going down for the ride, he's laughing all the way.]

UHH. [Ness rolls over to hoist his backpack off his bag, its legally obtained contents practically spilling into their laps.]

A bunch of those capsules, these rainbow things, a super scope, flower... [He is pulling things out and setting them down around them in a circle.]

This... tomato... They've got some weird things in these closets, man.

[pknothing]

[They really should have used a little more discretion when selecting test subjects than "oh god grab what you can and run." Oh well, it's not like Jeff's not used to working with what you've got. He holds the tomato up, miraculously undamaged. For now.]

This couldn't possibly be just an ordinary tomato... Say, are you feeling hungry?

[He waggles it in the direction of Ness' mouth. Do it for science.]

[pkrockin]

[He flutters his eyelashes at him.]

Hungry for knowledge.

[THERE IS HIS OPEN MOUTH because the boy would eat anything this wasn't even a question.]

[pknothing]

Cheers.

[Of course. He's watched Ness eat directly out of a garbage can, after all. Ain't no way he's scared of a little old tomato that may or may not actually be some kind of explosive.

And thus began the most sensual hand feeding of tomatoes from one guy to another, right there on the hallway floor. However sensual you can make shoving a huge squishy fruit against someone's teeth. No bromo.]

[pkrockin]

[It was one of those moments where you instantly remember this might be a bad idea but the tomato juice is already getting all over you and you have no choice but to brave the vegetable fruit you allowed to get shoved in your mouth.

Ness instantly sparkled.]

[pknothing]

[AHH maybe Jeff should have watched him eat it from a distance or something, oh no--

Orrr it could end with just sparkling. Seems harmless enough.]

How do you feel?