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A few minutes later, Acid entered his office, once more chuckling at the irony of that while he was working on a machine to allow people to get to work faster, he himself only lived a few blocks away from his office.
Joe, Acid's assistant, had miraculously gotten there before Acid, and was once more surveying the OTOTM (Other Type Of Time Machine) from all angles, jotting down notes and sketches.
"Hey, Joe." said Acid, untieing his bag of power sources and leaving it on a table. "What's with you? Copy machine not working?"
"No.." sighed Joe, glaring at the coffee maker shaped bulge in Acid's bag. "I misheard you when you said to put the blueprings in the Copy machine, and the papers were rather illegible afterwards.."
Acid rolled his eyes skyward. Joe, though paitent, hardworking and possessive of an easy to remember name, was not the brightest pixel on the monitor. A few weeks ago, he had come to the door of Sulphuric Labs, with no references, wanting a job. He had been dumped on Acid by the HigherUps, as he had been complaining about the job being too hard to do alone for some time now. Since then, a friendship of sorts had grown between Acid and Joe, but Acid still got annoyed by Joe's less-then-decent IQ.
Several minutes later, after trying Diamondus gems, batteries, a mouse with a toejam high running along a treadmill, a portable banshee scream (complete with sound-to-energy converter) and clicking two rocks together, Acid got out the coffee maker. "If this won't power it, nothing can." he said, as much to reassure himself as to flaunt the power of his coffee maker. Since hAcid had first thought of that Chaos Mage, thoughts of him kept recurring, despite their obvious impossibility.
The obvious problem of how to turn a coffee maker, supposed to run on power, into a power source, was solved by Acid brushing against it. There was a large explosion, and when the smoke cleared, there was a power outlet in the side of the machine. Shaking his head, but deciding not to ask, Acid inserted the OTOTM's main plug into the power outlet.
Edit: You posted first.. feh.
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