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[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

Bridge is here. He's kinda bored. He's working on a random somethingorother, ever so often glancing suspiciously at the scooter in the middle of the room.

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[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

The thing leaps out of Anders' hands and starts spinning in midair. There's a whirring sound and a tiny holographic projection of Earth appears just above it.

At the same time, a root beer float appears in Anders' now-open hand.

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"Dude! Dessert!" exclaims Anders, happily sipping away at the float as he watches the holoprojection. "And . . . okay, is this a funky clock or something?"

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

"I..." Bridge looks at it. He reaches out and presses a button. A section of the globe- specificially, Eastern North America- lights up. And the current time appears underneath the globe. "I think yes, actually."

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"Dude! That's so cool!" Anders bounces and accidentally sloshes root beer float into his lap, yelping at the -- "Cold! Cold cold cold!"

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

Bridge facepalms. The clock-thing spins.

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

Anders sticks his tongue out at Bridge. "Is that what time it is here?" He cross-checks with his watch. "Oh, I guess it is. Does that just do local time, or can you, like, figure out what time it is anywhere on the planet?"

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

"I think it can do anywhere?" Bridge says. "At least, I'd guess that's why the globe is there. Try pressing a button maybe?"

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

Anders scratches his head and pushes a button . . . and immediately discovers the exact time, to the second, in southeastern Sumatra.

"Huh."

He pushes the button again, and for some reason the clock seems to think it's the same time in Auckland, New Zealand as it is in Reefside . . .

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

"Okay, obviously I need to work out a few bugs," Bridge admits. "I wonder if it can tell the time on other planets?"

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"That's a lot of planets, dude," Anders says before leaning over to poke a few more buttons. "Okay, where the frak is Ithor? I have no idea, but it looks like the clock does."

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

"Me neither, dude," Bridge says. "But now we know what time it is there!" Bridge presses some buttons. "Oooh, Bookala."

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"My turn!" says Anders, after another gulp of root beer float. He pokes at the buttons some more, and a new planet shows up in the projection. "Where's KO-35?"

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

"Ummm, in the Kerova system, I think?" Bridge asks. "Hey, how come you got a root beer float and I didn't?"

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"Um. Because I turned it on?" Anders shrugs. "Turn it off and turn it on again and see what happens."

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

"Good plan, dude." Bridge hits the off-switch, holding out a hand to catch the clock-thing as it deactivates. He then turns it back on, resetting it to Earth and gaining a root beer float in the process, yay!

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"Huh. Must be its way of making sure you don't let it run out of battery."

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

"Cool," Bridge says, sipping at his root beer float.

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"Also? Awesome floats." Anders nods and holds his glass (because hey, the clock is spiffy enough to even give them old-fashioned soda-fountain style float glasses) over for Bridge to clink his against it.

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

"Cheers man," Bridge clinks his glass with Anders. And then looks up to see Logan (http://community.livejournal.com/fandomhighdorms/474807.html?thread=22271159#t22271159) standing in the doorway.