20th bomb || Hayato Gokudera || [in person]

[andsuddenlydynamite]

[anyone walking by the parlor will discover a rare sight. Hayato is resting relatively quietly. He's sitting on the couch his bad leg kicked up on the table, and he's watching T.V. more specifically, Star Wars. He's got a notebook on his lap, filled with his schematics and formulas, and off to the side he's got some of his tools and some unfinished mechanisms for his explosives. He's essentially turned the area into his little fort.

He looks up to the movie over the rim of his glasses from time to time, maybe grabbing a handful of popcorn, but over all he's focused on his work.]

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[suna_bitch]

[Leaning in the doorway, she quietly watches the movie, completely entranced by what she was watching. It was completely absurd, but there was something nice about the fact that such things weren't possible...that you could completely detach from your worries and just enjoy something like that.

Walking in after a moment, she leaned on the back of the couch, her eyes never leaving the screen.]

Do you mind if I join you?

[andsuddenlydynamite]

[Hayato looks up from his work, and smiles when he sees Temari]

Sure!

[He starts moving his tools and papers aside giving her a place to sit. Then he takes off his glasses and tucks them onto the neck of his shirt. He didn't need them to watch a movie.]

assuming you've never seen Star Wars before?

[suna_bitch]

[Climbing over the back of the couch, she settles herself next to Gokudera.]

Seen what?

[Star...wars...The name sounded stupider than anything she'd heard before, but if it was what they were watching, it was actually pretty good.]

We don't really have movies like this in my world. Space travel's a little ridiculous to make movies about.

[andsuddenlydynamite]

It's the name of the movie.

[He laughs at her statement]

You know, people in my world have been to the moon. It's not as ridiculous as you might think.

[Hayato offers her the bowl of popcorn]

All things considered the movie isn't all that impossible. Granted the explosions shouldn't be making a sound in space...

[of course he would know that...]

[suna_bitch]

[Arching a brow as he said people have been to the moon, she actually turned her eyes from the screen to look at him.]

Seriously? The very idea sounds like a work of fiction. [Something that irrational dreamers thought up...as though there weren't interesting real things happening in the world.

Tentatively taking a piece of the popcorn, she stared at it before actually eating it. Her eyes widening a moment later.]

That's good. [Taking a small handful, she pulled her legs up on the couch, getting herself comfortable.]

How do you know that? Have you ever blown something up in space?

[andsuddenlydynamite]

I'm serios! The first man to walk on the moon was Neil Armstrong in 1969. They recorded it and everything. I'm sure if I looked around I could show you.

Help yourself. [He places the bowl between them]

Me? No, not many people get to go to space. But the reason behind it is just simple physics. On Earth there's a bunch of gas molecules and stuff in the air for sound waves to reverberate off of, which is how we hear it. Space is a giant vacuum of nothing, so there's no was for sound to reverberate off of anything.

[suna_bitch]

I'd like to see that...the mere idea of walking on the moon sounds completely made up. How did he even get there? Certainly not walking.

[With all of the confusing technology in her world, there simply wasn't even a thought of rockets or spaceships. Space was something to look at, not explore.]

[Taking some more of the popcorn, she glanced over at Gokudera. He seemed completely in his element here, so unlike what she was used to...it was kind of nice.]

If someone's already been to space in your world, why can't everyone go? It was obviously deemed safe, so why not?

[andsuddenlydynamite]

Well, to get into space it takes a big-ass rocket and a shitton of fuel. It takes a lot of money to run so only one goes up every few years, and there's only been one trip that actually landed on the moon. There's a whole bunch of special training and stuff you need to go through too, make sure your body can handle the trip.

[Gokudera smiles, he was VERY MUCH in his element. Though he would also be more preferable to have the option of moving around. He knew it was only a matter of time before he started going stir-crazy.]

Actually, I can sorta show you how it works on a smaller scale...

[the teen reaches back and pulls out one of his rocket bombs, then sifts through his tools on the table and pulls out an exacto knife. He cuts the top off and dumps out the black powder into a small container, then carefully dissects the bomb down to the propulsion system. He holds it steady so the liquid wouldn't spill out]

Remember how my bombs propelled themselves and changed direction? When the rockets go up the have a big fuel tank strapped on the back.

[He untwists the cap on the end of the bomb, letting the liquid fall into another container, however there's another small compartment, still containing another bit of the strange liquid]

When the fuel in that tank is spent it falls off...

[He pulls loose another cap splitting the liquid in two compartments, and it drops into the container as well]

and then another tank takes over. By the time that one falls off they've made it out of the atmosphere... or in the case of this baby, explodes.[He waves the skeleton system of his bomb, proudly. He wouldn't show just ANYONE the complex bomb system he developed, be honored Temari]

[suna_bitch]

[Watching his actions closely, she ignored the movie for the moment, far more interested in the bombs. She hadn't actually seen one on the inside before...it wasn't like she needed them. She was powerful enough without the aid of explosives.

Scooting over until she was brushing against his side, her eyes easily kept up with the fast movements, studying how he did it.]

And that's it? It's that easy?

[She didn't see any reason why that would be expensive, no matter how big it was. Perhaps his world was more different than hers than she thought...]

So...when people go to space, do they live there? If it falls apart then they don't have any way to get home, right? [It made sense to her anyway. Had she not trusted Gokudera, then she would have called him out on lying to her.]

[andsuddenlydynamite]

[Gokudera's cheeks light up a bit at the sudden closeness, but otherwise this doesn't deter him. He's enjoying himself. It's not often he gets to talk to someone and actually have someone LISTEN to him.]

Well it's not that easy, the rocket is about twice the size of the manor. Takes a lot of man-power to build and it's real complicated. If something even like the weather isn't perfect the whole thing could blow up.

[Gokudera puts the skeleton of his bomb down and reaches for his note-pad and puts his glasses back on. He finds a page without too many of his formulas and schematics and his notes in Italian. He sketches out the basic outline of a space shuttle, and the corresponding parts]

Well it orbits Earth for a while, but there's a set of jets on the back here [he points to the parts on his little sketch] It doesn't take as much power to come back to Earth as it does to leave it. There's no gravity or air, so there's no resistance. Just got to get close enough and gravity pulls the shuttle back all on it's own.