Characters: Sunny and OPEN! Setting: Quodpot field, Tuesday after class Rating: SFW, probs? Content: Sunny is practicing quodpot drills on her own when...
It was the perfect weather for practicing drills. It wasn't too hot and it was just cloudy enough to block the heat from the sun but still bright enough to see what she was doing. As soon as classes were done Sunny booked back to her room and changed into her workout clothes and grabbed her broom. It was just too perfect to pass up the opportunity.
The quodpot field was empty so after a quick warm up Sunny started running the solo drills she had been doing all summer to keep in shape. She flew high up and dove back down, holding the quod right. She made quick turns on the field and then tossed the quod hard into the goal. With a satisfied little smile she flew back down to the ground to retrieve her quod.
Bubo 2.0 had been coming along nicely in the past several months. Well, about as nicely as it could go with limited finances and lots of bugs to work out. The metal bird had been having some difficulty with flight, but it was time to test it after several adjustments.
The best place to go for that was the quodpot field. It was a nice open area where there wasn't much traffic when the teams didn't have practice. There was the quidditch field too, but at least if he lost control of the bird it had room to fly through some more open parts of the ground and the other sports field.
Casey noted he wasn't alone, though. Someone was taking some time to practice and on closer inspection, he saw that it was Sunny. He refrained from going too far on the field, instead waiting until she saw him to give her a little wave.
Sunny was about to take off again when she saw someone else on the field. Instead of flying back up she landed softly on the ground and put her broom near her bag.
"Hey Casey!" Sunny waved and bounded over to her fellow Beauregard. "What's up?" she asked, holding her quod under her arm. "Ooooo! What's that?" she asked when she saw Bubo 2.0. "New project?"
"Hey, Sunny." Casey responded with a smile as soon as she was in hearing distance. His attention went to the metal bird in his hands and his smile grew wider with pride.
"This," he held the bird up a bit for better inspection, "Is Bubo 2.0. Not exactly a new project, but a bigger one that's been in progress for a while."
She took a closer look at the metal bird, noticing the little details. "It looks so cool!" she beamed at her friend. She fought herself to not say that Bubo 2.0 was cute, boys had a tendency to not like it when you called their things cute.
"It must have taken you a long time," she said. "Do you know if it flies?" she asked clapping her hands together excitedly.
Casey nodded. "It flies. Well, the last time I tried it, it didn't fly too well. But that's why I'm out here: to give it another test run after a few modifications." A better charm to keep the thing light, a few tweaks to the wings, better connection to the controls to guide the flight. At least for testing.
"Ooo!" Sunny's eyes went big. "That's kind of amazing Casey," she grinned. "I could never make anything like that," she shook her head. "If it's not out of an oven anything I make just turns out to be rubbish," she joked.
"Can I watch you test it out?" she bounced excitedly.
Sunny only made Casey's grin grow wider. Even with a little hint of pink in his cheeks. He couldn't help it. Being told he was doing something amazing tended to do that.
"You sure can. And," he adjusted his hands so that he was holding the bird in one hand and the controller in the other. "If it happens to go astray again, you can catch it for me."
He's so cute! Sunny couldn't help but grin. "Sounds awesome!" she said excitedly. "Accio broom," she said swishing her wand. Her broom flew right to her hand. "Just in case," she winked.
"Yea, of course. Here's hoping we don't need it, though." Casey mentally crossed his fingers as he set the bird down on the ground and took a step back after flipping a switch on its back.
"Once the bird can fly right, it won't need the remote control. I'll be trying to make it work on a GPS system so it knows where to fly." Casey said idly as he began to work the controller. The metallic bird began to beat its wings and after a moment, began to lift into the air.
“Yep,” Casey answered quickly as he watched the bird lift itself into the air, glancing down at the remote a few times. “If I can get it to work as I want it to, it’ll be able to replace actual owls for long distance flights. Makes it easier on the birds. All you’d need is to lock in an address as it doesn’t have the mental capacity to locate a single person like our owls do.”
Carefully he pushed forward on the stick, causing the mechanical bird to do the same. Slowly Bubo 2.0 began to move in circles at his command.
"You should get like the wizard equivalent of the noble prize," she grinned, watching the bird fly. "All wizarding families should have one." She said firmly.
"Nice!" she said excitedly watching Bubo 2.0 begin flying circles. "Can it do flips?" she asked, only half joking.
"I should," Casey said with a bit of a smug grin. Well, once the thing was completed and working correctly, anyway. "If the whole thing works when it's done, I'm going to see what I can do about patents and all that. However it works on the wizarding end of things."
Casey glanced over at Sunny, then back at the owl. "I... well, if I had a better controller it might." He had borrowed one from a remote control car, and those weren't really equipped with a flip command.
"That's a good idea, don't want anyone stealing it," she nodded. "Dude you're going to be a millionaire," she laughed. "Well... at the very least you'll be able to pay for college."
"Oooh!" she said looking at the controller. "We probably have an extra toy helicopter remote laying around the house if you ever want to try it out some time," she offered. "With twins in the family it's like double everything."
"Here's hoping," Casey gave Sunny a small wink and turned his eyes back to the owl.
He pushed the right buttons to make the bird begin climbing to test that out. He was out there to test the thing, and not just to be social. "I'll let you know if I need it. If this thing passes this test, I may not need it. I'm only using the controller to test the flight for now, and if it goes well, then it won't need a controller at all as it will operate off of a GPS system and battery power."
She nodded and a big grin and her eyes flew back to the owl as she watched him maneuver it. "Looking good so far!" she said brightly.
"Are you going to use rechargeable batteries?" she asked. "Alternative energy is kinda the only thing I know about when it comes to technical things," she grinned.
Higher and higher the owl went, and it was at this point last time that it faltered. So far it went well, and so Casey kept having the bird climb. "Yup. Want something long lasting so that it can make the trip, but rechargeable."
He let out a little sigh. "It sucks that magic doesn't really work on electronics. It would make things so much easier."
His eyes remained on Bubo as it climbed, though he snickered at Sunny. "Always so easy to blame it on the man. But yea, I suppose. Never makes anything easy."
Casey's eyes did shift to her for a second before going down to the controller, seeming to check something before he looked back up towards the bird. At his command, it began a slow decline. "Bronze. It was a statue I found at some antique shop near home. It was hollow and I just altered it to make it work."
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