Around the island, then back in front of Flamingo [late morning]

[emo-padawan.livejournal.com]

Alec's motorcycle didn't look much like a motorcycle any more. No wheels, for one. And it was kind of, well, hovering, thanks to the repulsorlift engine that Anakin had installed.

With a small smile, Anakin sat down and pushed the accelerator pedal with his right foot. The swoop bike took off with a satisfying roar.

He took it slow for the first trip around the island, carefully listening for anything that sounded unusual. Not that he normally doubted his mechanical abilities, but it had been that kind of a week, and it wasn't going to be a machine for his personal use where he could catch something later. Plus, it would be bad to have one of the new kids explode.

When he was finally satisfied that the bike was in working order, he pressed the accelerator all the way down with a fierce sort of joy.

500 kilometers an hour, even for the short trip around the beaches, was nothing to turn down.

He turned back towards the camp, slowing down to a more reasonable speed, parked in front of Flamingo, and left a handwavey message for Alec.

Nice to see something had worked this week.

[OOC: Open to Alec and anyone who wants to try to wheedle a ride on the new shiny thing...]

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[x5-alec.livejournal.com]

Alec, having no classes on Wednesday and only one other important thing in the afternoon that he Could Not Miss OMG, was on his way towards Flamingo cabin in a matter of minutes after recieving the message. "Hey Anakin!"

[emo-padawan.livejournal.com]

"Alec," Anakin said, nodding at him. He swept his hand towards the swoop bike. "This is yours."

[x5-alec.livejournal.com]

Alec's eyes widened as he looked the bike over. "Wow." He shot Anakin a huge grin. "She's beautiful. Do I owe you anything for this piece of amazing work?"

[emo-padawan.livejournal.com]

"I already took her for a ride," Anakin admitted. "So other than that, I'm good." He leaned over, pointing out the various modifications. "Acceleration and braking are in the same places," he finished, "but she goes much faster. So when you floor it? Be sure you mean it."

[x5-alec.livejournal.com]

"How fast are we talking?" Alec leaned over with Anakin, peering at the new and remodeled bits and pieces admiringly. "She take any kind of fuel I need to know about?"

[emo-padawan.livejournal.com]

"Fuel's the same," Anakin said, "though she won't win any awards for fuel efficiency." He shrugged. "We don't use the same stuff at home, but I figured that making you have to travel all the way back to my home galaxy for another tank was a little cruel."

He grinned. "And properly motivated, she'll hit 500 kilometers an hour."

[x5-alec.livejournal.com]

Alec snickered. "Very nice. I can live with gas-guzzling, really."

He did a little bit of a double-take at the speed. "Five hundred? Holy crap." Alec looked at the bike again, trying to picture it. "It's not a jet, but that'll do on land, really."

[bruiser-in-pink.livejournal.com]

Having just come back from a handwavey trip into town, Molly heard the speeder returning. After dropping off her purchases at her cabin, she went back to Flamingo to see about getting the ride Alec had promised her.

"Hey, Alec. You're bike all ready to go?"

[x5-alec.livejournal.com]

"Apparently!" He grinned at Molly. "You ready to do a run with me?"

[bruiser-in-pink.livejournal.com]

"Sure!" Molly said. "I just can't be gone very long. I have plans before the meeting this afternoon."

[emo-padawan.livejournal.com]

Anakin glanced at Molly and Alec. Telling someone to be careful had never been high on his list of priorities when it came to things that flew. But it was Molly...

"Try not to crash it," he said to Alec. He turned to Molly. "I know that you were fine falling from a building. But if you get slightly broken on something I made, I'll feel bad. You don't want me to feel bad, right?"

[x5-alec.livejournal.com]

Alec's eyebrows raised and he nodded shortly. "Hey, I've got no intention of breaking my new toy straight out of the box."

[bruiser-in-pink.livejournal.com]

Molly grinned at Anakin. "I promise I won't get broken. Not even a little. Because I really don't want you to feel bad."

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

Of course Sam hadn't seen Anakin flying overhead, caught the reflection of the sun off metal, and gone running to see what was going on--the fact that she showed up in front of Flamingo excited and out of breath was just coincidental. She tried for casual. "Anakin! Hi! What's going on?"

[emo-padawan.livejournal.com]

Anakin gave her a pleased smile. "I fixed Alec's motorcycle," he said, pointing to it. "Now it flies."

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

Sam was pretty close to drooling and couldn't resist running her hand along the side. "This is what you were flying?"

"So, um, how long did it take you to adapt it?"

[emo-padawan.livejournal.com]

"Couple of days," Anakin said. "It would've been faster, but I kept getting interrupted." He smiled again. "You like it?"

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

"Oh yeah," Sam squatted down to get a better look at the engine, then glanced back up at Anakin. "How fast?"

[emo-padawan.livejournal.com]

Anakin's eyes were shining. "When you really let it go? 500 klicks an hour."

[apocalypsesoon.livejournal.com]

John walks past and wonders how to hotwire it admires the work.

[emo-padawan.livejournal.com]

Anakin waved and smiled a little proudly at the bike. "Not bad, huh?"

[apocalypsesoon.livejournal.com]

"I suppose. What is it?"

[emo-padawan.livejournal.com]

Anakin watched as Alec and Molly took off. "That is a swoop bike," he said. "Motorcycle without wheels. Pretty standard where I come from."

[apocalypsesoon.livejournal.com]

"Wow. How's it work, anti-grav or something?"

[emo-padawan.livejournal.com]

"Something like that," Anakin said, nodding. "We call it repulsorlift."