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kristenskYes, it's another Villainous/Villanos drabble. Mostly, I'm tossing out my random headcanons with these shorts.
Recording Evil
The most complex device Flug had designed for Black Hat Org. wasn’t what anyone thought. It wasn’t the Evil Materializing Ray or the Medusa Device or any of the countless death rays and robots he’d created.
No, it was a camera. Specifically, the Cam-Bot, but the important part was the camera. A camera designed to record Lord Black Hat’s evilness.
Or, more accurately, to survive recording Lord Black Hat’s evilness.
Flug still couldn’t quantify what it was about the boss’s wrath that caused electrical failure and data loss even when Black Hat wasn’t trying to destroy anything. (Though he usually was.) It was an energy field, but the exact nature of that energy eluded him. Mostly because of its tendency to destroy every instrument he attempted to record it with.
But, from a distance and with heavily shielded equipment, Flug was eventually able to get some baseline readings. (That he fortunately backed up immediately because the drive that initially recorded the data had melted a few minutes after.) Enough to realize that the energy given off by Black Hat was similar to that of the H3-X component. Incalculably stronger. (Literally. Three calculators, two computers, and an abacus melted, and his written equations turned into incoherent gibber.) But, it was similar enough to provide a starting point.
He had already successfully harnessed H3-X for numerous inventions. A process taking years. But, he knew the levels of containment it required.
It still took another year from that discovery to develop a (semi) reliable camera.
He knew he’d succeeded when Lord Black Hat raged for a solid twenty seconds on camera and only finally broke the lens by grabbing him and throwing him bodily into it.
The Cam-Bot was a success.
The experimental politeness filter that had so enraged the boss… was not.
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Author's Note: Yes, the last bit about the "politeness filter" is a reference to the 10th orientation video, "The Lost Cases of the Treehouse". It's never said, but I can only imagine the polite voice overlay on Black Hat was another of Flug's desperate attempts to keep his boss from relentlessly insulting his own customer base.
Recording Evil
The most complex device Flug had designed for Black Hat Org. wasn’t what anyone thought. It wasn’t the Evil Materializing Ray or the Medusa Device or any of the countless death rays and robots he’d created.
No, it was a camera. Specifically, the Cam-Bot, but the important part was the camera. A camera designed to record Lord Black Hat’s evilness.
Or, more accurately, to survive recording Lord Black Hat’s evilness.
Flug still couldn’t quantify what it was about the boss’s wrath that caused electrical failure and data loss even when Black Hat wasn’t trying to destroy anything. (Though he usually was.) It was an energy field, but the exact nature of that energy eluded him. Mostly because of its tendency to destroy every instrument he attempted to record it with.
But, from a distance and with heavily shielded equipment, Flug was eventually able to get some baseline readings. (That he fortunately backed up immediately because the drive that initially recorded the data had melted a few minutes after.) Enough to realize that the energy given off by Black Hat was similar to that of the H3-X component. Incalculably stronger. (Literally. Three calculators, two computers, and an abacus melted, and his written equations turned into incoherent gibber.) But, it was similar enough to provide a starting point.
He had already successfully harnessed H3-X for numerous inventions. A process taking years. But, he knew the levels of containment it required.
It still took another year from that discovery to develop a (semi) reliable camera.
He knew he’d succeeded when Lord Black Hat raged for a solid twenty seconds on camera and only finally broke the lens by grabbing him and throwing him bodily into it.
The Cam-Bot was a success.
The experimental politeness filter that had so enraged the boss… was not.
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Author's Note: Yes, the last bit about the "politeness filter" is a reference to the 10th orientation video, "The Lost Cases of the Treehouse". It's never said, but I can only imagine the polite voice overlay on Black Hat was another of Flug's desperate attempts to keep his boss from relentlessly insulting his own customer base.
