Flask In The Glory (Closed to all but FLSQ)

The sun was just starting to set as Flash finished tidying up the classroom. His lack of a need for sleep had made him an unpaid janitor, wanting to clean up rubbish so the cleaners could get more time to rest. While cleaning the room he had came across three notepads, all of which were owned by people he had met. Liona; a nice faunus girl he'd bumped into near the dorms once, Sno; a nice android he'd met in the courtyard and Quartzella; another nice faunus girl that he had accidently covered in snow.

He was conflicted on whether or not to take the jotters to their owners or leave them here. On one hand just showing up and handing them to their owners would be easy, on the other their owners might come around here looking for them and get caught outside past the curfew. He didn't want his friends to get in trouble so he decided he could wait, after all it wasn't like he really had anywhere to go this late.

The heavy robot jumped up onto the teacher's desk, sitting cross legged. He sat his own notepad down alongside the others, in the order FLSQ. Due to his lack of mouth he hadn't noticed that when in a line the letters (when pronounced) sounded like the word Flask, then again he had never had any reason to even own a flask what with him being a robot and not drinking. Regardless the heavy metal man pulled a comic from his hoodie pocket and started to read, waiting to see if the three of them came to retrieve their books.

Sno was in her dorm trying to get things a little more organized until she notices one of her notebooks was missing. "Oh no! I could of sworn I brought it back after class. Class, maybe I left it in the class room! I better go check." She said as she made her way into the practically empty hallway. "Its kinda creepy without alot of people in the hallways.  she said while making her way through the hall, "I know maybe a song will help me take my mind off the fact that no one is here!" She then began to sing a song called Circle You Circle you. "There's a building hidden in the dark, long abandoned in which no one talks. Down the hall into the farthest room, children gather children gather in this ghostly tomb and smile. For they were waiting here especially just to play with you. All the happy faces, such happy faces they know you'll join them soon. Circle you, circle you stay with us and play forever. Circle you, Circle you close the door and leave us never. 'Til we see the rising sun, this is only the beginning. Circle you, circle you aren't we having lots of fun? There's a home within the forest clear, hiding secrets that no one can hear. Shred the broken body from the mind, immortality through death's design. While laughter and the children's hands, they come together in the room. Its is time they said, close your eyes they said, and we'll all play Circle You. Circle you, circle you can you feel time creeping closer. Circle you, circle you I'm so sorry your turn's over. 'Til we see the rising sun, they take heads from off our shoulders. Circle you, circle you aren't we having lots of fun?" She stopped her song realizing it was creeping her out even more "Why did I have to pick such a creepy song?!" she said then she heard someone talking in a classroom, Sno was already scared but the fact that she now realized she wasn't along creeped her out even more. She felt as though she had to check to see who it was, she didn't want to but she felt that she had to. So she walked to the room where she thought she heard the voice, she opened the door being prepared for anything that might try to come at her. When the door was opened she say a faunus that she thought she saw once leaving the courtyard, she also saw another android that she met before in the courtyard. When just them she let out a sigh of relief and then she spoke Oh Flash its just and.. Oh! I don't think I have ever introduced myself to you hello my name is Sno Lagu." She looked down at the desk to notice her notebook and she picked it up and said "Oh here it is!" She then looked at Flash and the faunus girl "So what are you two doing here?"

Song:

Quartzella was exhausted from sitting in lecture after lecture today and was already halfway back to her dorm room when she remember something. Normally she carried her notebook within her clutches on the stroll back but today she wasn’t holding anything in her stylish kimono. Hanging her head a bit disgruntled she would began to scan the hall a bit for a clock that usually was near the end of a hall. Eying the time she would groan as she rotated about and began heading back down the hall shuffling her feet across the tired a bit upset that she managed to forget her notebook in class. “Normally I’m so good at remembering that how on earth could I have forgotten it.” The two pale palms reached up and began to massage her temples as if she was still recovering from a headache. “What a pain.” As she continued she heard a voice echoing to an interesting tune, “Huh maybe that was Sno?”

One foot after the other would keep being placed before the other till she finally made her way back to the room that she suspected the notebook to have been left at. Looking about she was rather surprised that she wasn’t the only person who had decided to return to the scene as it seemed like she wasn’t the only person who had left her notebook. It was a rather odd coincidence that three people had all left their notebooks behind today until she noticed that the android Flash was sitting there beside them all reading his comics. To the casual observer they would have noticed that he had been busy at work cleaning up but Quartzella just saw that troublesome box of bolts who had dumped snow on her at their first meeting. A larger shock was another faunus girl who was apparently picking up her own notebook from the group. Quartzella raised a brow toward her curious as she hadn’t seen many other female faunus about lately.

Stepping in she would then peer down toward the counter to figure out if her grey colored pad of paper was among the notebooks. “Excuse me I think I left that one here from earlier. Hello Flash.” Switching her view from the larger android she then looked back to Liona and then realized that Sno was in fact among the people who had left her notebook as they were all in the room getting theirs. “His again Sno.” She stated with a smile across her face.

Sooner than Flash had anticipated the room filled, he looked up from his comic. The words on his face reading; "Hello Liona, Quartzella, Sno. It's going good, little bored, not having sleep coupled with the curfew gives a bot little to do at night. I was just here tidying up when I came across your notebooks, didn't want to leave them to be stolen or lost so I decided to hold up here for the night rather than going back to the broom cupboard- I have no need for a bedroom so I stay in there." The bot angled his head so his monitor could be viewed with ease by all.

The android quickly shoved the comic back into his pocket, remembering not to be rude, and placed his hands in his lap. While it seemed that he knew all three of the females it appeared that Sno and Quartzella had not met Liona. "Hooray, now all the friends are meeting! I thought I was going to sit here for hours before even one of you showed up. I am happy to see all :) Are you all functioning properly? The sunset is beautiful tonight."

"Oh my! I am sorry I didn't give you my basic information, I usually tell people my basic info when I first introduce. Well first off I am Sno Lagu, I am a female android, I was born in Atlas my weapon is throwing knives I use air dust, I enjoy to sing in fact I was made to have a beautiful voice that way I could sing for my team, I currently do not have a team though. Also my semblance is Ice Requiem which allows me to make icicles fall from the sky. That should be all the information you need to know about me." After giving her basic information to the group she then read Flash's screen and then looked out side a window to see the sunset "Ah yes it is a beautiful sunset indeed! I am kinda surprised though that we all lost out notebooks and we all came here to get them. Well atleast I am not alone a practically empty school at sunset can get kinda eerie if you are alone.

Qaurtzella watched Flash’s screen as he rolled through various messages in a rather interesting manner as he seemed to have known the rest of them while she herself only knew him and Sno. The white haired android continued through the same basic introduction of her name and basic information which quite honestly she didn’t even remember from the first time besides the basics that her name was Sno, she was an android, and she looked human unlike flash. Watching the three converse about why and how long it had been since they saw a sunset brought her back a bit zoning out till she remembered her family. In an instant though she snapped back recalling what Liona had said as she had just introduced herself. “Oh yeah, I almost forgot to introduce myself although I imagine both Sno and Flash recall my name but I’m Quartzella. And yes Flash I’m functioning properly as far as I can tell, is it just a coincidence that you happen to be here with all of our notebooks?”

Strolling forward and past the Faunus and androids her own fingers would quickly snatch up her little pad of papers that was filled primarily with doodles of her teachers and classmates she didn’t like. “Was there a particular reason you were watching over all of our notebooks by yourself when curfew was nearly upon us?” She questioned him more like a drill sergeant as she wasn’t the largest fan of Flash after her previous encounter with him.

Flash was rather caught off guard by the sudden accusation, arms quickly raising to either side of his head flinching. His head itself was shaking in the typical style of a fleshy one conveying no. He quickly stopped and up on his screen popped the words; "No I was just letting the janitors get a bit of time off when I came across them, fleshy ones need their sleep. I didn't want them hurting themselves so I told them I'd do this room; while doing it I came across these and well seeing as you're all my friends I decided I shouldn't let them get lost or torn up in the morning classes. I doubt it makes much difference if I hold up in here or in the cupboard for the night, either way I'm away from whatever is outside and the whole point of the curfew."

The android paused, holding his head perfectly still so they could read, realising it could take a brief while. Well, wasn't like he had anything else planned for tonight, company was nice; least they weren't running scared. Once they had finished he erased the text and a final line appeared;

"I just wanted to help out is all, it's pretty lonely being awake all night and I've read this comic near twenty five times. I like having friends to talk- er- text to."

Sno was walking around the class as she spoke "It's kinda creepy without anyone else here isn't it?" When she said that she heard a loud crack and looked out of the window to see that it started to storm. The lightning strike caused the power to go out and left the group sitting in the dark. All Sno saw was the light from Flash's monitor, her voice when monotone as she spoke again "Activating emergency lighting system." When she said that her eyes became like flashlights however since they were emergency lights they were a sorta dim red color. Her voice returned to normal and she spoke again "And I thought it was creepier before.. Maybe my lights aren't helping but I am unable to change the color.. Maybe a song might help ease the creepy atmosphere." With that she began to sing a creepy song called Dark Woods Circus "There in the woods, deep in the darkness there it lies the dark circus. The chairman With his wide eyesAnd stilted height of ten meters. The actors Trampled and misshapen. Their bodies Odd but also Very Entertaining. At the circus Deep in the dark woods. A two headed person ----show A singing chimera wonder and Something that eats his own kind A blue beast that you see here. We never hoped for this life That a cruel god gave to us Why do people watch me with eyes that say A decaying face! It's painful It's so very painful is what she said to me But still it goes The circus goes without any regard to what we feel. We're having fun We're having fun We're having fun at this circus Rotting apples Rotting apple eyes have weathered skins. Please kill me Please kill me Please kill me to get me out of this place I once had asked and got replied With No, that's asking the impossible. She finished and it was only till after she had sung it that she realized she probably just made things worse so she began to speak again "I am sorry that probably didn't help. You see my system selects what song I sing based on what I am seeing and so since I saw darkness it gave me a dark song. However I don't always pick the songs I sing. If I am with a group or in a team I sometimes see if they have a song request... I guess I should of asked if any of you had a request before I began to sing.. Sorry."

Song:

Quartzella continued to eye the android who had taken over the even shift of the janitors still fit with her own suspicions of what and android would be doing wit three females notebooks. "Fine if you say nothing happened then I guess I have to believe you now won't I. Still this doesn't mean that I forgive you for dumping snow on me that long while ago." She then stood their still as an owl perched upon a branch as the power suddenly crashed to darkness. Listening and peering through the darkness she would notice as the female droid began to sing with her eyes now growing a dim shade of crimson which was a bit ominous and frightening to say the least. The song was also quite dreary and began to make her mind a little bit on edge. Thankfully she wasn't scared of the dark though as she did enjoy it just not with other people intervening on her solitude. As her song came to an end Quartzella would agree with her thought that it was a bit disturbing to have such a song play in this scenario. "Yeah maybe next time you could sing something a bit less gloomy thanks. Shuffling over in the darkness she wouldn't really know where she was as her eyes hadn't quite adjusted. Shortly she felt her foot gently tap into something and reach out her arms to try and grab ahold of it hoping that it was the wall.

Flash quickly answered Liona's question, not wanting his friends to turn against him, "I would never do that, I wouldn't want anyone going through my databanks so I won't go through yours :) and I'm really sorry Quartzella I didn't mean for the snow to-" The lights suddenly faded from the room, plunging them into darkness. He quickly adjusted the brightness on his screen to illuminate the room slightly, a phrase plastered on his screen, "Allow me to shed some light on this situation." If he had a mouth he would be laughing out loud at his own pun, but he didn't so he merely anticipated their reaction. A source of sound coupled with a red light surprised him, cutting through the darkness and picking up on his receptors.

The light emanating from Sno's eyes surprised him even more than the sudden outburst of singing. Seeing as he didn't really have eyes like her or either of his other companions he hadn't really expected them to have any function outside of just looking at things and being nice to look at as most eyes were for. Kinda made him feel a bit more normal to know his friend did have more of a mechanical side than he had previously realised, he showed a message that read; "Don't worry about it Sno, I've got some functions I cannot control to, your singing was very good... even if the song itself was a bit creepy."

The bot stood, "Well, lighten up, I can probably fix this." He walked over to a nearby plug socket and began to tear it's insides out. He had done this to recharge broken down cars the school wasn't that different... right? He turned his head a full 180 degrees, his hands still working away at the plug point, partially to be courteous but mostly so that they could retain a light source and talk to him. "Don't worry I'm sure we've all seen darker days."

Sno saw that Liona was beginning to look very uncomfortable, Sno seemed to be right about her song only making things worse. Sno decided it was best to not try singing again since the only songs she was able to pick were dark and creepy ones. When Liona suggested that the group head but to their dorms Sno replied with "I suggest that we wait and see if Flash can get the lights working again, that is if he can get them working again." Sno was bored and had nothing better to do since she couldn't find a song to sing that would help the atmosphere. So she decided to take a seat at one of the empty desks and pull out a pencil that she had in the binding of her notebook and began to just draw random pictures while she waited for Flash to see what he could do about the lights.

Quartzella's ears began to twitch as the second crash sounded causing little shock to herself. She then looked about the room to locate the two androids that were both attempting to lighten up the room. As she began to grow more accustom to the darkness she would watch the other faunus girl begin to quake a bit in her place. She wasn't sure about it but the same reaction usually happened to herself when she was by large body of waters so she couldn't help but ask. "Umm. Leada was it?" Trying to not sound to forgetful as she honestly didn't remember the name after all the excitement that had just fallen onto them. "You aren't by any chance afraid of thunderstorms are you?"

Quartzella walked toward the frightened Faunus and was prepared to offer her a reassuring pat before answering her requests. "If you need someone to help take you back to your dorm I'm more than willing to assist you. Besides, I highly doubt that the lights will be turned on that quickly although I will say that when Flash is determined he doesn't stop working no matter what the consequences." Ella glared toward his back wishing that he had sensors that could sense the tension between them.

Flash shuddered slightly under Quartzella's glare, evidently his puns had not quite hit their mark. He would have to try harder, more puns were necessary, but he did hear about them leaving and so responded; "Wouldn't it be a little suspicious for a power cut to happen and then suddenly you two are running back to your dorms? You might get the blame for the power cut on top of being out in the curfew. Sno's right, I'll have this fixed in a Flash. I just need to...erm"

He scanned the socket, it looked like he'd accidently torn a little too hard, he'd need a conductor to bridge the new gap in the wires. Well he had an easy way to get one, it wouldn't be too difficult, but he realised he should probably give a warning before doing this; "Sorry in advance for the noise."

Flash looked over his arm for a second, debating where would do the least damage. He decided he didn't really need the upper side of his lower right arm (just before his hand), he had plenty of spares anyway. The droid reached beneath his metal skin and tore the top half off, the sound of metal screeching sounding throughout the room. The top half came off pretty easily and he checked the hand itself, still working at optimum capacity, it didn't look like he'd really damaged himself this time. He began to attach the wires to his old skin, "Sorry about that, I think I'm almost done though. Shouldn't be too long now. Wire you all panicking? It's just a little storm. I'm sure it'll blow over soon, then you can go back."

Sno heard a loud screeching sound coming from Flash's direction, she looked over and saw him tearing off part of his own arm. She walked over to where Flash was and said "Are you alright?" Sno then heard a sound it wasn't thunder or Flash's arm, the window of the classroom was thrown open causing a mixture of wind and rain to come into the classroom. The wind caused Sno's notebook and some papers she had stuffed in it to go all over the place. Sno went over and closed the window, then she looked at all her scattered papers. She walked around collecting them and counting them to make sure she had them all. As she counted them she realized she was missing one, so she looked around and saw the the final paper was resting right above the door frame. Sno tried to jump and get it, however she was unable to reach it. She then got an idea and began stacking chairs up, and stood on the chairs to reach the paper. It wasn't the best idea but it was all she could think of, while she was standing on the chairs another unexpected loud crack of thunder occurred. The thunder was louder than the other times and it made Sno jump a little which caused the chairs she was standing on to fall. Sno fell along with the chairs, when she hit the ground she said "I am okay...I think." Sno then stood up to see that the piece of paper was still up on the door frame. Sno then noticed the scattered chairs and began to pick them up and place them back where they belonged.

Quartzella made a note to herself mentally as Liona corrected her previous mispronunciation of the name as she just couldn't remember. "Liona ... Flash ... Sno," She said pausing between each of the names as she was trying to keep it all straight as this was getting rather hectic especially in the dark. Taking into account what flash had to say she would sadly have to agree with hi conclusion on the matter as to faunus did look a bit bad wandering about the floors of the school at night especially given their heritage and stereotypes. Sighing she would nod before wandering over to try and comfort her fellow faunus when she heard Flash begin peeling away the metal from his harm. Cringing she would clamp her hands over her ears that were flattened against her head at the discomforting sound completely neglecting the thunderstorms as that high pitched screech pierced the air.

Exclaiming quite annoyed afterward at flash, "What the heck was that!" Squatting now as she still had her palms cupping her ears she was hesitant to open them up again as that was quite irksome. "Ow, please be a bit more quiet next time when you do that for my ears and Liona's sanity. Please?" Rising again she would return to her height as she then squinted to notice the dangerous predicament Sno was setting up. "That doesn't look-" it was to late though as Sno crashed to the ground. After she impacted Quartzella finished her statement. "Safe."

Flash quickly responded to the group, "Don't worry, there's nothing wrong with me. I've got plenty of metal back at my resting place to fix this little hole...also sorry again Quartzella, I'll try to bear your ears in mind." Flash shoved the scrap of metal in, using it to act as a conductor, wrapping the wires around it.

His screen read, "3-2-1-CLEAR!!!" before he let out a sudden burst of electricity, he had decided an hours worth would do. Enough to shock the systems into restarting. Suddenly the darkness was lifted and the room suddenly lit back up. He was about to celebrate his victory when he heard a sudden sharp clunking. He immediately rose from his position, hastily kicking the plug back into the wall.

"Sno are you sure you're okay?" he quickly made his way over to her, seeing the chairs stacked up toward a dangling paper. He easily pulled it down and held it out to her, "Here, :) next time just ask for a piggyback. I won't say no." He then began to help, picking up chairs with his left hand; trying not to deal any more damage to the right. He turned his head to the faunus duo, "Are you two okay? I think the storm's getting worse. We should probably hold up here until it blows over, I have no idea if the power's still out in other parts of the school... sorry again about the noise 0///0 I forget how sensitive fleshy one's ears are."

When Flash asked if she was alright Sno replied with "Yeah I am alri-" She stopped in mid-sentence because she noticed something was off. Sno heard a few little clicks coming from her arm when she tried to move it. Sno then said "It must of locked up on me after I fell... Oh well I will try to find a way to fix it later, its isn't much of a problem right now." She then head the blonde faunus asking then what they should do so Sno said "Maybe we can go around telling people more about ourselves?.. Like favorite color.. or maybe some likes and dislikes?.. I will start I guess.. My favorite color is white because it reminds me of the beautiful snow that is always seen during winter. One of the things I enjoy doing is singing and I don't like hot things like the summer time."

Quartzella stood their among the group a bit concerned about the well being of the others. "I feel like the longer we stay in this class room the worse some of us feeling. Particularly Sno and Liona, although that could just be me misinterpreting all of this." Watching her faunus kin shrivel up each time the clash of thunder made a frown appear across her face. "You really sure that you will still be ok around here? IF you want you could try and blought out the sound with your hands maybe, not sure if that will help but when I don't want to hear things that is what I do." She also read Flash's screen before nodding the sound is worse in most cases for faunus as we have finally tuned ears, part of our nature depending on what species you're based on I guess.

Flash sat the last chair in place gently, not wanting to annoy the faunus pair any more than he had previously. His robotic mind was running the numbers on the possible damage a fall like that could cause, nothing too major came to mind; probably just a lose wire or two. Maybe in out of place joint.

He made his way back over to the trio, fiddling with the exposed parts of his hand. "I'm sure we'll be okay, when this weather is gone it won't be mist." The android assured Quartzella, sitting back up on the table, "Well, if we were going over likes and dislikes... Puns (obviously), comics and hugs are the first three things that come to mind as for dislikes well erm... how robots have been made out to be in movies? I guess it's kinda a bit racist to me some of them do it in a nice way though. Big robo-world domination ones are a bit bad though."

Flash's optics couldn't help fixating on Sno's arm, if the weather really was awful and things were blown in a way to block her path it would make things difficult for her, "Erm Sno, could you hop up here so I could get a look at your arm? Don't worry I'll be a lot more gentle with it than I was my hand."

Flash cleared a space on the desk next to him, accidently knocking a flyer into the air; reading something to do with teams of some sort.