nullofscience | Not Terribly Portable.

That was how he descriibed it, after Enzo's excitement of the car that Dot was getting him. He told the boy that they needed to go back to Mainframe in order to show him... Bob obliged in sending them back, and soon they were zipping back before the Principal Office, through to the main doors where naturally they had access. As they proceeded down the halls...

"Best place to hide a gift until the time is right."

Because now that he was a full Guardian, he could come and go as he pleased, but before...

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From:

a1enzo

"What, me being in the Supercomputer wasn't enough?"

Actually, it might not have been. Thanks to Milliways, he does come home now and then to visit with his nieces. Still, he's not in permanent residence, and this is not exactly the top shelf of the hall closet.

From:

nullofscience

Walking along the hall, heading for a particular security door, the null's exo-frame shrugged...as did the null himself via pseudopods.

"It's a graduation gift. Where better to put it than somewhere you can only come and go after you graduate?"

There were other reasons, of course, but it would all make sense once he actually saw the gift.

From:

a1enzo

"I guess that's true."

It still seems a little excessive, though. He wonders if there's not another reason.

From:

nullofscience

Yeah, there are other reasons. Good ones. Welman stepped over to the entryway keypad and entered a code. Directly after this, the machine scanned him, then produced a polite 'Ding' sound, like that of an elevator arriving. And then, the door opened...and opened, and opened, and opened... Inside, Enzo would find a portal machine that looked somewhere in the neighborhood of Welman's own...but also that of the Fenton ghost portal.

Edited Date: 2013-09-22 05:48 pm (UTC)

From:

a1enzo

At first, Enzo thinks he's just seeing the Gateway command. Then he realizes that this is a new, or modified, device, and his jaw slackens.

It's...

It is.

Is it?

From:

nullofscience

Welman doesn't SAY anything. He just steps over to the controls and - in the words of Herr Doktor - throws the switch, activating the smaller monitor attached to the device.

Edited Date: 2013-09-23 02:11 am (UTC)

From:

passthefudge

The screen lights up, displaying three faces who just bid them farewell a few nanoseconds ago, albeit considerably less colourful than they were at the graduation.

"Hello, Internet!" Jack Fenton might be said to look far too pleased with himself, if the accomplishment weren't genuinely astounding.

From:

ami_imperfect

Sandwiched between her father and her mother, Dani rolls her eyes. "Dad," she groans with a little shake of her head.

From:

a1enzo

Enzo is too overwhelmed for even Jack Fenton to spoil the moment. Slowly moving closer, he stares at Dani, then at her parents, and then tears his eyes away to stare at his own father.

"You did it."

From:

ami_imperfect

"This is much better than a moose," Dani comments with a wry grin.

From:

passthefudge

Hush, you. He was under pressure.

From:

a1enzo

"They did it. You did it. They..."

Enzo tears his thoughts out of a potential infinite loop and, tentatively, approaches the main control panel. "How do I...?" He points at the portal itself.

From:

nullofscience

Well, the control panel isn't actually that complex. A few buttons and switches, nothing fancy. Hey, it only has one destination. Welman turned to the controls as he explained them.

"For the time being, it has limited authorization, but I'm importing a Friends List. Place your icon on the scanner."

He would push a button once this was done in order to scan it into memory. Next, Welman indicated a shiny candy-like red button, which would activate the machine. He would then be scanned again to verify who he was, and the portal opened to reveal a chamber within...

"Once activated, you step into the conversion chamber to allow metamorphosis from sprite into User. The other side of it will open once this is completed, allowing you to enter through the Fenton side of the portal."

Edited Date: 2013-10-19 12:43 am (UTC)

From:

a1enzo

Enzo silently takes it all in, pressing the button and letting the machine take his checksum. He all but stumbles into the... airlock? Reality lock.

The door slides shut behind him. "Converting to matter," announces the calm female voice which announces such things in Mainframe. Lasers flash out of apertures in the walls, and there's the same sensation he gets when using the digimat in Milliways, and then "Conversion complete" and the door in front of him is opening and he steps through and he's in FentonWorks and holding Dani's hands and he was just at home.

From:

ami_imperfect

And Dani's holding his hand and she's so excited that she can't even speak; all she can do is giggle intermittently.

From:

a1enzo

It takes a while before he can get words out, too.

"Hi."

From:

ami_imperfect

"Hey."

From:

a1enzo

His eyes are still glued to her face, but he addresses the portal's monitor.

"Dad? Can you... come here?"

Presumably it can handle Welman's ghost form. They must have tested it somehow before letting Enzo try it. One would think so, anyway... Maybe that should have been his first question. Oh, well.

From:

nullofscience

Welman pressed a different button to set up a null-scan for his latent code, activated the machine, squiggled out of his suit into the chamber and...voila'! Exiting the other side of the portal was the hovering ghost of Welman's past.

"We tested it thoroughly beforehand."

From:

a1enzo

Enzo releases Dani's hands reluctantly. Apologetically, even. Then... Welman had better be solid, or Enzo'll end up bear-hugging himself.

"Good. Hugging your suit sucks."

From:

nullofscience

Don't worry, it's hovering that he forgot to check this time. Father and son hugged in a proper 'Awwww' moment now. And since this was a Moment, it stands to reason that someone has a camera ready, right?