Alanek2002 said:
Well Kelenas, You are awesome.
Much appreciated.
And here's the Omake in question:
The Little Intruder
"Wow, cool! Hey, what's that you doing there?" a voice sounded to Revy's left, causing her to pause in her work and turn to look for the source, which turned out to be a young girl with asian features, who was currently busy trying to look everywhere at once, but stopped to wave at Revy when she noticed her attention.
"Hi, I'm Kasumi!" she greeted cheerfully, prompting Revy to introduce herself as well, just to be polite.
"So," she then asked, "how'd you get in here, anyway?"
"Dad brought me to work 'cause Mom's off to visit her mom, who's sick, and he couldn't find someone to look after me so quickly. But his office is boring, so I took his door-card and snuck out."
"And then you went exploring and found your way here?" Revy guessed, earning a nod in return and leaving her torn between burying her face in her hands that her security team had apparently been outsmarted by a girl about 10 years old, and being amused and impressed by said girl. Probably a mix of both, and she decided that she'd definitely record her chief of security's face when she confronted him with that particular tidbit.
"Well, the simplest answer would be that I'm tinkering," Revy finally answered her young guest's initial question.
"Whenever I have some free time I come here and start working on whatever catches my fancy at the moment. Sometimes it's something we - as in, the company - are already working on, other times it's just… stuff. Things I get ideas for, regardless of whether it's useful or profitable or whatever."
"Oh," Kasumi seemed somewhat abashed. "Sorry; didn't mean to disturb you, then…"
"It's no problem," Revy waved it away with a smile, "I'd have to stop soon enough anyway. How about I show you some of what I've been working on, instead?"
That got a very enthusiastic nod from the younger girl, prompting Revy to look around her workshop what she could show her.
To be frank, it was a complete and utter mess, with tools, materials, and half-started projects, drawings, and whatnot spread around everywhere, which was also why Revy wasn't too concerned about espionage; leaving the existing security measures aside, she was one only one who had *any* idea what was what inside here.
After thinking it over, she stuck to her more "harmless" projects; things like a pair of antigravity skates (because nowadays all the kids had hoverboards, and she'd wanted something different), a fully automated kitchen that could make her pretty much any type of food she wanted and even stocked itself via drones (which actually started out as a simple coffee and snack machine, for those times she'd wanted something to drink or bite, but didn't want to tear herself away from her current project), her training-suit (which she still worked on from time to time, given how useful it'd proven itself), and more, until Kasumi finally interjected.
"So, where's your army of deathbots?"
"Deathbots?"
"Yeah! You're like some kind of super-scientist, right? Doesn't that mean that you have some secret bunker where you store vast numbers of robots ready to carry out your every command, to defend the colony or the like? Oh, or maybe you got giant mechs, instead?"
"Well, I've got my security teams; they're equipped with my suits. No mechs or bots, I'm afraid. Although…" Revy adopted a thoughtful look, "it shouldn't be too difficult to build them."
Walking over to a (relatively) empty table, Revy called up her holographic design program, while Kasumi sat down on a nearby chair, legs swinging as she watched and occasionally provided ideas or comments.
Much of those would undoubtedly never make it to a final version ("Chainsaw Katanas? Really, Kasumi?"), though she included them for now anyway. It was kinda fun to just let her inner child out a bit and run with all kinds of ideas that were rather silly from a practical viewpoint, but sounded absolutely cool, while the science and engineering part of her personality took a step back.
When they had to stop for the day, the end results looked like something more fit for a movie or video game rather than a production line, even discounting the fact that the design itself was completely non-functional, lacking various crucial systems.
Still, it had been fun, and she could probably re-use some of the ideas she and Kasumi had come up with if she ever decided to go and design some infantry-bots or pilotable mechs for real, leaving Ravy in good spirits when she returned Kasumi to her father.
"Once again, Miss Shepard, I'm *so* sorry for any trouble our behavior might have caused! It won't happen again!"
"It was no trouble, Mr. Goto," she replied, rather uncomfortable with the way he was bowing to her. "Your daughter is good company, and it actually gave me a bit of chance to stretch out my mental legs and just relax for a bit."
She took on a mischievous demeanor. "Honestly, my chief of security has much more reason to be embarrassed. And, I did kinda promise your daughter to get her a picture of his face when I told him about this…"
