11 Sneaking Out to Join the Circuits

CHAPTER ELEVEN SNEAKING OUT TO JOIN THE CIRCUITS Erin, Lawrence, and Phil crept quietly into the school. They were wearing outfits unlike any they had worn before. They were dressed like mad scientists.

They had tools and notes and devices that no real scientist would use to finish a partially built robot. And yet that is exactly what they intended to do.

They surrounded the robot and waited for one of those brilliant "thoughts" to pop into their heads. But Franny wasn't there with her invisible whispers, so they just stood there, looking at each other.

After a while Phil became impatient and decided to pretend to have a brilliant thought. "It should be able to squirt ketchup from its nozzle right here," he said. The other two nodded. "It needs to be able to extend this, like so," Erin said, also faking an idea.

"And I have a few changes I think we should make to its brain," said Lawrence, who sometimes had trouble changing his pants, much less a robot's brain. "We are totally mad scientists now," Erin said as she pulled carelessly at wires in the robot's chest. "There's nothing to it," Lawrence said, recklessly joining circuits inside one of the robot's brains.

"And Franny hardly did any of the work on this robot. It's really more our robot than hers," Phil added, and the robot beeped.