[Network Video]

[doubled_speed]

Hey all!

[Are you shocked to see Tommy? Probably not. Someone said something about cooking, of course he's going to weigh in. At least the video is a rather stationary thing, his comm clearly propped up on a counter in the diner's kitchen.]

I don't know about you, but I'm in for the idea of us getting some good food in us. Maybe we can talk too when we're there? If we're going.

Anyway, gonna say that the diner is pretty stocked up and I'm happy to be prep assistant on any cooking in the Diner. Just remember Diner Rules. Don't be a dick and all of that.

And anyone cooking has to promise to help carry their own shit to the thing.

[Says the guy currently, on screen, cutting a tuber with enough speed that his hands are a literal blur.]

So, uh, food time? We could use it?

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[crystalmaster]

"That would be pretty cool. Maybe I could figure out how to do it."

He was certainly curious to try, at least.

[doubled_speed]

“It’s probably a chemistry thing. You any good with chemistry?”

Because Tommy was decidedly not.

[crystalmaster]

"Hmm. Maybe. I haven't done it much outside of school experiments."

[doubled_speed]

“I only was in chem lab for the start of the year.”

Then the chem lab blew up. It was hard to take chemistry then.

[crystalmaster]

"Oh? You were able to get out of taking it?"

[doubled_speed]

"Well, there stopped being a chem lab."

Completely accurate statements which do not allow for culpability for five hundred, Alex.

[crystalmaster]

Radley quirks an eyebrow. There must be quite a story behind that.

"That's a valid reason to stop going."

[doubled_speed]

“Trust me I’m we well aware of that. Plus this whole cooking part of my powers? It’s based on molecular acceleration. You don’t want that around chemicals.”

Ever. It’s a bad combination. Ask his chem lab.

[crystalmaster]

Radley winces. "Oh yeah. That's a disaster waiting to happen."

And probably did. He suspects that is what happened to the lab, but doesn't like to ask.

[doubled_speed]

Good that he doesn't ask. Asking would be bad.

"Goes bad with cooking sometimes too. I've learned not to cook fish like this."

[crystalmaster]

"Ooh yeah, I can see that going all kind of wrong," Radley winces.

[doubled_speed]

"Hard to clean up," Tommy points out with a smile.

Well, more like laughter. At his one expense.

[crystalmaster]

"Yeah, no kidding." He's picturing a grotesque explosion. Probably better to stop thinking about it.

[doubled_speed]

Definitely better.

"I'm good for dealing with ruins though. And making doors."

[crystalmaster]

"Cool. Yeah, those powers would come in really handy there."

[doubled_speed]

Tommy snorts.

"Nah, undermining structural integrity can blow here. Don't wanna collapse things."

[crystalmaster]

Radley snarks. "Yeah, no. We don't wanna make more ruins. You seemed to be talking about things already ruined."

[doubled_speed]

“Yeah, sometimes that’s a thing that is around. Already ruined things.”

Things like him. Things left in his wake too.

[crystalmaster]

Radley picks up from his tone that he may mean something in connection with him.

"Well, your powers have been really useful today," he said. "This food is excellent!"

[doubled_speed]

The change of mood earned a smirk from Tommy.

"I just wanted passable. Glad to hear I've built skills over the years."

[crystalmaster]

"You sure have. These will make the big Thanksgiving party great!" Radley tried some more of the food.

[doubled_speed]

Tommy smiled to himself. To hear someone who could actually cook say he was doing well wasn't a bad thing.

"Well, at least I'm not poisoning people then."

[crystalmaster]

"Oh, far from it," Radley smirked.

[doubled_speed]

Another brief flicker of a blush and then Tommy was trying to focus on more chopping. There is always chopping needed.

"Thanks."

[crystalmaster]

"You want some help with that?" Radley asks, eager to get on with working in the diner. It's so empowering to finally have something he's really good at.