[Tony, meanwhile, is really enjoying having another person his own age to geek out with. Aya is a very good friend, but she's almost more of a mentor, and she's less, um, excitable than Tony. Frank is gone, and he's never sure if Hayley is his friend or hates his guts. And Gene is... Gene. But between Sokka and Akito, his actual-definitely-mostly-normal-friends count up will be up to what it was back home! Just to be clear: that's two. He has two friends.]

The science always comes first, [Tony agrees. He's always just done the inventing, and let his dad worry about all the minor details like 'cost effectiveness' and 'scalability' and 'marketability' and 'legality.']

But yeah, it looks like you've pretty much got a handle on it. Do you think you can keep coming in over the next couple days to help me and Akito churn these out?