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Jubilee and Leo | 11/16/15
Jubilee and Leo do what they do best - and this time, they film it. 'Teen 'Technics' is born.
It had taken some pooling of resources, but finally, Leo and Jubilee had managed to buy, borrow, and steal (except seriously, was it theft when it was the school kitchen? Leo thought not!) enough popcorn for their purposes. Which were awesome, obviously. After all, if there was one thing You Tube needed, it was mutant myth busters, right?
And more explosions of the non-harmful variety. Because hey. No matter how you looked at it? Explosions were awesome.
Leo patted the resultant two foot ball of popcorn kernels, encased in its aluminum foil wrapper, then turned to Jubilee. "Popcorn ball, check. Fire extinguisher?"
"Check!" Jubilee announced, patting the top of the equipment like it was a well behaved pet, sitting at attention. "We aren't going to need it though." It was probably the thirtieth time she's said it - because yeah, they weren't! - but part of her definitely thought Leo was right to insist they had one on hand.
She wasn't going to admit it though.
"What's next on the list?"
Yeah, fine. They probably weren't going to need the fire extinguisher, but it didn't hurt to be safe. He might be fireproof, but Jubilee wasn't. Neither was the clearing where they were conducting their experiment. Fire extinguishers on hand was definitely the way to go.
Besides, at this point, Jubilee almost had to be objecting just on principle, right? Right. "Umm...camera!" he replied instead of debating it further, and grinned as he held up his phone. "Got that. Fireworks, duh, you got those covered. We still need a name, though. Something that'll totally take the YouTube world by storm."
"I don't think we can be Mythbusters," she sighed. Arms folded over her brightly colored sweater that looked like it was straight out of the 1980s, Jubilee wrinkled her nose. "One, we're gonna get sued. Two, we're not busting myths; just blowing stuff up."
"Yeah." Leo's enthusiasm faded, leaving him looking downcast, but a moment later he looked up with a grin. "Mutant Marvels?"
"Teenage Mutant Pyro Squad?" Naming was hard. Who knew that was going to be the difficult part of all this? "Amazing Pyrotechnic Kids?"
"Hold it, combine those." Leo grinned and reached up with both arms, mimicking someone reading a billboard. "Teen 'Technics - Movie Marvels Unmasked."
Jubilee's eye lit up as she dropped her arms and started to bounce. "Oh my god, yessssss!"
Leo, for his part, didn't bounce, though he looked as if he might like to. "Awesome! This is so going to rock. We can come up with a logo and stuff later and patch it in."
"And t-shirts! And hoodies! Duuuuude!" She squealed again, bouncing over to him, clapping happily. "So going to rock! We're going to be internet famous!"
Leo laughed, then tried to pull a serious face and held his hand out, pretending to hold a mic. "Miss Lee, how did you come up with the idea for the most amazing webshow to ever hit the internet, let alone one that's been trending non-stop since its debut? Tell us your secret!"
She brushed her hair back out of her face and leaned into his hand. "Well, Anderson, I can't take credit for it alone because my awesome friend Leo is the genius behind it. I just do the actual blowing up of things. We make a great team."
"The best!" Leo dropped his hand and grinned. "So alright, are we ready to start filming?" He headed over to an odd contraption made largely of what looked like wire-wrapped popsicle sticks and fit his phone securely into the receptacle at the top he'd designed for that purpose. "It should focus in well enough to handle the intro and stuff," he explained as bits of clockwork that looked like elongated fingers moved in to manipulate the controls, "but I'll take it over manually when you're ready to do your thing."
"Let's rock and roll!" Jubilee hollered, hand in the air. This was going to be incredible - and if it all worked out right, there was food in the end which made it even better! "You wanna do the intros and explain-y parts and I'll make the big boom?"
"I am so up to the explain-y parts!" Leo moved around to the front of the camera and grinned. He pulled the old Atari joystick he'd rewired for the occasion out of his pocket, pressed the red button once, trusting that his automatated camera-man would focus in, and counted backwards. "Five, four, three, two -" he pressed it again, grinned broader, and began.
"Welcome to the first ever episode of Teen 'Technic, Movie Marvels Unmasked. I'm Leo, and this is my partner Jubilee," he waved towards Jubes, thumbed the joy stick over, and watched as the camera stand moved to focus in on her before coming back, "and today, we're taking the epic popcorn scene from Real Genius and giving it a new twist. Because lasers? Totally 80's."
He waited for Jubilee to move into position, then stepped to the side, making the camera follow along. "Mutant powers on the other hand? The best. Do fireworks plus popcorn kernels equal hot, buttery popcorn? LET'S FIND OUT!" He pressed the button to pause the camera, then ran around to remove it from the stand. "Right. You're ON!"
"Hello interwebs!" Jubilee said, waving frantically at the camera. "This is going to be totally awesome and you are gonna want to try it in your own home but don't! We are trained professionals... Unless you are the Mythbusters watching this, then we are just kids trying to blow stuff up and not steal your gig so please don't sue us!"
Another smile and she did a twisting jump in the air so she was facing the popcorn.
"We are ready to rock. We are ready to roll. We are ready to pop! Countdown please, Leo!"
Leo grinned. "Five. Four. Three. Two. One - POP!"
With that, Jubilee sent a multitude of multicolored pafs in the direction of the tinfoil, making them sink beneath the shiny surface and into the bottom of the construction.
"Here we go!" Or she at least she hoped!
It took a few moments - okay, she really hadn't been expecting them to pop on immediate contact, but it was sill disappointing that they didn't! - during which she murmured a quiet little 'c'monc'monc'mon' under her breath, bringing the plasmoids to the bottom of the container to act like a traditional stovetop until finally the noise being heard wasn't her pafs. The tin foil started to jump and the faint but unmistakable sound of popcorn started to fill the air.
"HOLY SHIT! IT'S WORKING!" Jubilee hollered over her shoulder at Leo and the camera.
"Yes! I mean, of COURSE it's working!" Leo corrected quickly, remembering they were recording. "You saw it here first, ladies and gentlemen - fireworks popped popcorn! Look at it go!" Because yeah, now that it had started? That foil package was definitely expanding. Fast.
She squealed again, bouncing happily as she fed more pafs into the experiment; the popping noise almost reaching a roar. "She's gonna blooooow!"
"Holy shit! Ladies and gentlemen, we have popcorn! Leo announced as the foil package exploded and popcorn began raining down in front of the camera. "And so, as you can see, mutant powers? Totally awesome for food preparation! Just add butter and salt!"
"Best rain or best rain ever?" Jubilee bounced as she turned to the camera, popcorn flying and falling everywhere. "BEST EVER! I wish everyone was here to have some!"
Leo set the camera back into it's docking bay, and zipped off to join Jubilee. "But we are going to share it with our friends!" He gestured to the variety of bowls, cups, and baskets that were scattered around the area. "Because hey, who doesn't want popcorn, am I right?" To illustrate his point, he caught a few pieces and popped them into his mouth.
Jubilee was attempting to catch the puffed pieces on her tongue like they were snowflakes when Leo slid next to her. "Sharing is caring! And we want all you wonderful people watching to share your ideas with us in the comments. What should we do for our next show because even with how cool this is, we know this can be the coolest thing to be seen on the Internet. Ever."
"So, your comments? We love them! And don't forget to like us and share Teen 'Technics with all your friends! But for now - we have popcorn to eat!" Leo waved at the camera, then clicked the remote to shut it off. "Okay, did we rock or what?"
"Dude, we rocked harder than Vesuvius!" Tossing handfuls of popcorn into the air, Jubilee gave him a huge hug.
Whoa, hug! Surprised, it took Leo a moment before he remember that hugging back was probably the way to go. Because yeeeaaah, cute girl? Hugging was in order, right? Besides, she was right - they'd been awesome! "So, brainstorm!" he said as he pulled back. "You know that online mutant mag? I heard the editor's from Xavier's - want to see if he'll give us free ad space? After we get this posted?"
"Dude you keep rolling with these fantastic ideas!" He really was a genius! "I love that magazine and I bet he will totally do it!l
Well, hey, having cute girl call him a genius? NOT something Leo was going to turn down, ever. He grinned broadly instead, and shrugged. "What can I say, I'm on a roll! But yeah, let's go get this uploaded so we can show him our genius, and then give a yell? Pretty sure Sharon'd have his number."
"Yes! Oh and we need to let everyone know there is a ton of popcorn to eat." They could carry the bowls into the kitchen and leave the rest to the birds - or the shifters if they were so inclined. One arm over Leo's shoulder, Jubilee looked up at the sky. "I think the freak popcorn storm has ended captain."
"We will TOTALLY tell people to come collect popcorn." He grinned and headed over to start picking bowls up. "Y'know, I really need to build a walking table or something. Make a note?"
"Only if you promise you will make the entire cast of Beauty and the Beast. I totally want a closet that will pick out my clothes for me." Not that she didn't like picking them out but she had so many awesome pieces it was hard to make a decision sometimes. "But walking tables. Yes. Check. Mental note made. Are we going to name it?"
"Well, yeaaaah. Can't have an unnamed table wandering around." Leo paused, holding a stack of precariously balanced bowls. "I'm thinking Buford."
Jubilee froze where she was picking up a basket and wrinkled her nose at him. "Buford? I'm pretty sure that's a made up name."
"Hey, don't dis Buford before I even build him!" Leo protested, making a grab for the top bowl before it could fall. "He might be sensitive! Besides, it's an awesome name for a walking table."
"I guess I'll have to take your word on that." Even though she was still, like, 99 percent sure, it was a fake name he'd just made up. But hey, it was his table. He could name it whatever he wanted.
"When I build you a talking closet, you can name it whatever you want," Leo offered in compromise.
"Deal." Arms full of bowls all threatening to fall, Jubilee started toward the mansion, hoping someone would see them, have pity, and open the doors. "Can you grab the camera or do we need to make a second trip?"
"Uh, no, got it." Leo shifted the bowls, winced a little as they wobbled, and grabbed the camera stand. Which, at least, he'd put wheels on, so it was easy (ish) to tow it along. He grinned, though, as he hurried to join her. "You figure if we yell free popcorn, someone'll open up?"
"Only one way to find out," she answered with a devilish gleam in her eye - then opened her mouth to test their next hypothesis.
It had taken some pooling of resources, but finally, Leo and Jubilee had managed to buy, borrow, and steal (except seriously, was it theft when it was the school kitchen? Leo thought not!) enough popcorn for their purposes. Which were awesome, obviously. After all, if there was one thing You Tube needed, it was mutant myth busters, right?
And more explosions of the non-harmful variety. Because hey. No matter how you looked at it? Explosions were awesome.
Leo patted the resultant two foot ball of popcorn kernels, encased in its aluminum foil wrapper, then turned to Jubilee. "Popcorn ball, check. Fire extinguisher?"
"Check!" Jubilee announced, patting the top of the equipment like it was a well behaved pet, sitting at attention. "We aren't going to need it though." It was probably the thirtieth time she's said it - because yeah, they weren't! - but part of her definitely thought Leo was right to insist they had one on hand.
She wasn't going to admit it though.
"What's next on the list?"
Yeah, fine. They probably weren't going to need the fire extinguisher, but it didn't hurt to be safe. He might be fireproof, but Jubilee wasn't. Neither was the clearing where they were conducting their experiment. Fire extinguishers on hand was definitely the way to go.
Besides, at this point, Jubilee almost had to be objecting just on principle, right? Right. "Umm...camera!" he replied instead of debating it further, and grinned as he held up his phone. "Got that. Fireworks, duh, you got those covered. We still need a name, though. Something that'll totally take the YouTube world by storm."
"I don't think we can be Mythbusters," she sighed. Arms folded over her brightly colored sweater that looked like it was straight out of the 1980s, Jubilee wrinkled her nose. "One, we're gonna get sued. Two, we're not busting myths; just blowing stuff up."
"Yeah." Leo's enthusiasm faded, leaving him looking downcast, but a moment later he looked up with a grin. "Mutant Marvels?"
"Teenage Mutant Pyro Squad?" Naming was hard. Who knew that was going to be the difficult part of all this? "Amazing Pyrotechnic Kids?"
"Hold it, combine those." Leo grinned and reached up with both arms, mimicking someone reading a billboard. "Teen 'Technics - Movie Marvels Unmasked."
Jubilee's eye lit up as she dropped her arms and started to bounce. "Oh my god, yessssss!"
Leo, for his part, didn't bounce, though he looked as if he might like to. "Awesome! This is so going to rock. We can come up with a logo and stuff later and patch it in."
"And t-shirts! And hoodies! Duuuuude!" She squealed again, bouncing over to him, clapping happily. "So going to rock! We're going to be internet famous!"
Leo laughed, then tried to pull a serious face and held his hand out, pretending to hold a mic. "Miss Lee, how did you come up with the idea for the most amazing webshow to ever hit the internet, let alone one that's been trending non-stop since its debut? Tell us your secret!"
She brushed her hair back out of her face and leaned into his hand. "Well, Anderson, I can't take credit for it alone because my awesome friend Leo is the genius behind it. I just do the actual blowing up of things. We make a great team."
"The best!" Leo dropped his hand and grinned. "So alright, are we ready to start filming?" He headed over to an odd contraption made largely of what looked like wire-wrapped popsicle sticks and fit his phone securely into the receptacle at the top he'd designed for that purpose. "It should focus in well enough to handle the intro and stuff," he explained as bits of clockwork that looked like elongated fingers moved in to manipulate the controls, "but I'll take it over manually when you're ready to do your thing."
"Let's rock and roll!" Jubilee hollered, hand in the air. This was going to be incredible - and if it all worked out right, there was food in the end which made it even better! "You wanna do the intros and explain-y parts and I'll make the big boom?"
"I am so up to the explain-y parts!" Leo moved around to the front of the camera and grinned. He pulled the old Atari joystick he'd rewired for the occasion out of his pocket, pressed the red button once, trusting that his automatated camera-man would focus in, and counted backwards. "Five, four, three, two -" he pressed it again, grinned broader, and began.
"Welcome to the first ever episode of Teen 'Technic, Movie Marvels Unmasked. I'm Leo, and this is my partner Jubilee," he waved towards Jubes, thumbed the joy stick over, and watched as the camera stand moved to focus in on her before coming back, "and today, we're taking the epic popcorn scene from Real Genius and giving it a new twist. Because lasers? Totally 80's."
He waited for Jubilee to move into position, then stepped to the side, making the camera follow along. "Mutant powers on the other hand? The best. Do fireworks plus popcorn kernels equal hot, buttery popcorn? LET'S FIND OUT!" He pressed the button to pause the camera, then ran around to remove it from the stand. "Right. You're ON!"
"Hello interwebs!" Jubilee said, waving frantically at the camera. "This is going to be totally awesome and you are gonna want to try it in your own home but don't! We are trained professionals... Unless you are the Mythbusters watching this, then we are just kids trying to blow stuff up and not steal your gig so please don't sue us!"
Another smile and she did a twisting jump in the air so she was facing the popcorn.
"We are ready to rock. We are ready to roll. We are ready to pop! Countdown please, Leo!"
Leo grinned. "Five. Four. Three. Two. One - POP!"
With that, Jubilee sent a multitude of multicolored pafs in the direction of the tinfoil, making them sink beneath the shiny surface and into the bottom of the construction.
"Here we go!" Or she at least she hoped!
It took a few moments - okay, she really hadn't been expecting them to pop on immediate contact, but it was sill disappointing that they didn't! - during which she murmured a quiet little 'c'monc'monc'mon' under her breath, bringing the plasmoids to the bottom of the container to act like a traditional stovetop until finally the noise being heard wasn't her pafs. The tin foil started to jump and the faint but unmistakable sound of popcorn started to fill the air.
"HOLY SHIT! IT'S WORKING!" Jubilee hollered over her shoulder at Leo and the camera.
"Yes! I mean, of COURSE it's working!" Leo corrected quickly, remembering they were recording. "You saw it here first, ladies and gentlemen - fireworks popped popcorn! Look at it go!" Because yeah, now that it had started? That foil package was definitely expanding. Fast.
She squealed again, bouncing happily as she fed more pafs into the experiment; the popping noise almost reaching a roar. "She's gonna blooooow!"
"Holy shit! Ladies and gentlemen, we have popcorn! Leo announced as the foil package exploded and popcorn began raining down in front of the camera. "And so, as you can see, mutant powers? Totally awesome for food preparation! Just add butter and salt!"
"Best rain or best rain ever?" Jubilee bounced as she turned to the camera, popcorn flying and falling everywhere. "BEST EVER! I wish everyone was here to have some!"
Leo set the camera back into it's docking bay, and zipped off to join Jubilee. "But we are going to share it with our friends!" He gestured to the variety of bowls, cups, and baskets that were scattered around the area. "Because hey, who doesn't want popcorn, am I right?" To illustrate his point, he caught a few pieces and popped them into his mouth.
Jubilee was attempting to catch the puffed pieces on her tongue like they were snowflakes when Leo slid next to her. "Sharing is caring! And we want all you wonderful people watching to share your ideas with us in the comments. What should we do for our next show because even with how cool this is, we know this can be the coolest thing to be seen on the Internet. Ever."
"So, your comments? We love them! And don't forget to like us and share Teen 'Technics with all your friends! But for now - we have popcorn to eat!" Leo waved at the camera, then clicked the remote to shut it off. "Okay, did we rock or what?"
"Dude, we rocked harder than Vesuvius!" Tossing handfuls of popcorn into the air, Jubilee gave him a huge hug.
Whoa, hug! Surprised, it took Leo a moment before he remember that hugging back was probably the way to go. Because yeeeaaah, cute girl? Hugging was in order, right? Besides, she was right - they'd been awesome! "So, brainstorm!" he said as he pulled back. "You know that online mutant mag? I heard the editor's from Xavier's - want to see if he'll give us free ad space? After we get this posted?"
"Dude you keep rolling with these fantastic ideas!" He really was a genius! "I love that magazine and I bet he will totally do it!l
Well, hey, having cute girl call him a genius? NOT something Leo was going to turn down, ever. He grinned broadly instead, and shrugged. "What can I say, I'm on a roll! But yeah, let's go get this uploaded so we can show him our genius, and then give a yell? Pretty sure Sharon'd have his number."
"Yes! Oh and we need to let everyone know there is a ton of popcorn to eat." They could carry the bowls into the kitchen and leave the rest to the birds - or the shifters if they were so inclined. One arm over Leo's shoulder, Jubilee looked up at the sky. "I think the freak popcorn storm has ended captain."
"We will TOTALLY tell people to come collect popcorn." He grinned and headed over to start picking bowls up. "Y'know, I really need to build a walking table or something. Make a note?"
"Only if you promise you will make the entire cast of Beauty and the Beast. I totally want a closet that will pick out my clothes for me." Not that she didn't like picking them out but she had so many awesome pieces it was hard to make a decision sometimes. "But walking tables. Yes. Check. Mental note made. Are we going to name it?"
"Well, yeaaaah. Can't have an unnamed table wandering around." Leo paused, holding a stack of precariously balanced bowls. "I'm thinking Buford."
Jubilee froze where she was picking up a basket and wrinkled her nose at him. "Buford? I'm pretty sure that's a made up name."
"Hey, don't dis Buford before I even build him!" Leo protested, making a grab for the top bowl before it could fall. "He might be sensitive! Besides, it's an awesome name for a walking table."
"I guess I'll have to take your word on that." Even though she was still, like, 99 percent sure, it was a fake name he'd just made up. But hey, it was his table. He could name it whatever he wanted.
"When I build you a talking closet, you can name it whatever you want," Leo offered in compromise.
"Deal." Arms full of bowls all threatening to fall, Jubilee started toward the mansion, hoping someone would see them, have pity, and open the doors. "Can you grab the camera or do we need to make a second trip?"
"Uh, no, got it." Leo shifted the bowls, winced a little as they wobbled, and grabbed the camera stand. Which, at least, he'd put wheels on, so it was easy (ish) to tow it along. He grinned, though, as he hurried to join her. "You figure if we yell free popcorn, someone'll open up?"
"Only one way to find out," she answered with a devilish gleam in her eye - then opened her mouth to test their next hypothesis.