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So, Thrust thinks, this is a farm. Well, it's flat.

It's actually not impossible to keep a low profile if you're a big pink robot motorcycle, it's just tricky. It's particularly difficult when you're working on getting your refuelling station set up semi-permanently (Oliver had helped him move it somewhere out of the way, but Thrust is doing fiddly work, now, that he wouldn't trust to anyone else) and reliably running the way you want it to.

Really, being somewhere out of the way on the Cooper farm (at least Thrust hopes it's still the Cooper farm; he doesn't know where the territory ends) is only a marginal help. He is, after all, seven or eight feet of brightly-colored robot fiddling with a machine made out of part of a light pole with four rather small solar power panels, a pressure cooker, a toaster oven, and many other less recognizable small appliances securely welded to it. Further welded sections of light pole make up a sturdy square base. There are symbols carefully painted onto the pressure cooker-- one is pretty self-explanatory, even without the dialogue, but the other is a little more unusual. (Hey, it's technically a Vehicon refuelling station, even if it's a refuelling station in the same way a vending machine is a restaurant.)

Thrust fiddles with tubing and wiring and connections, now and then tossing a manipulatory-appendage full of organic matter (mostly grass, although with the occasional dirt clod) into the pressure cooker, then peering at the toaster oven before continuing to make adjustments.

He really wants just a vending machine, see, not a still.

The whole thing might look a little bit odd, to a passing human.

It looks, Steph thinks, like something Sokka is going to go absolutely nuts for. Machinery and tubing and stuff! Cool.

She slows to a halt and swings herself off her bike to come over and investigate. Waiting for invitations is something Steph has never found particularly useful.

Also.

Robot.

"Hi!"

Thomas can't help himself. He let's his muscles stretch, letting his body bend upwards, so he's on the same height as the weird robot thing. "Is that a still?"

Passing human? Yeah, that's Gabe all right.

He opens his mouth to ask how that works (where 'that' could as easily go for Thrust as for his kludge of a refuelling station)...

...and then shuts it again, smiling quietly. Huh.

"Hello," he greets, suddenly cheerful.

...

OH.

MY.

GOD.

Steve was having something of a bad week concerning one of the farm's new arrivals, which is the reason that he's come a-wandering. Now? If you think you've seen a face light up, you're wrong, unless you're seeing his expression right now. There actually are no words.