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[Color=DodgerBlue][INDENT][B][SUP][SUB][H3]H U B  C I T Y,  I L L I N O I S[/H3][/SUB][/SUP][/B][/INDENT][hr][INDENT][sup][COLOR=SILVER]May 15[SUP]th[/SUP], 2019- 2:00 PM | [url=https://youtu.be/4yVEGAuj8RM]Ted Kord's Workplace Laboratory-KORD Inc, Business District[/url][/COLOR][/sup][/INDENT][/COLOR]

Ah, the private workspace of Theodore Stephen Kord! A place where miracles of science were born every day, the cradle of innovation that drove forward one of the world's foremost technology companies with cutting edge inventions that brought the future to the common man! Here Ted Kord, one of the brightest minds of his generation, worked tirelessly to solve the many problems facing mankind while building fantastic, wondrous and reliable gadgetry for the masses-[h3][color=dodgerblue][b]-**"OMNAMNARM!"**[/b][/color][/h3]

When he wasn't using it as a space to eat junk food while he worked without being judged. But then, was it really his fault that Big Belly Burger was both addicting and a perfectly portable food for science-on-the-go? This way, he could eat his lunch, brain-storm with a full stomach and occasionally break out into spontaneous dance if he needed to work off the extra calories all without Tracey or the boys in Applied Sciences staring at him. 

That was what he was doing now in fact, his feet tapping to some music to keep a rhythm going as he alternated between bites of a Big BBQ Burger and minor adjustments to the internal circuitry of his multi-setting sidearm, The B.B. Gun. Between his legitimate scientific and business work for the company, his secondary career as the Blue Beetle and his life outside of that, he needed to multitask just to keep up with everything. Besides, his natural ambidexterity meant he was more than capable of operating a multi-tool with one hand and scarfing down fries with the other. Even if he did need something done that would need two hands and no burger grease, he had plenty of help for that. Speaking of which-

[color=dodgerblue][b]Hey Ted, would you hand me that miniaturized multi-setting spectrometer?"[/b][/color]

As he asked, a shimmering hologram manifested across the room from him in the form of his own grinning self and picked up the tool off of a wall filled with many others before walking back over and handing it to the inventor. The entirety of KORD Inc's headquarters was equipped with hard-light hologram projectors of his own design with an extremely humanlike AI that aided in everything from giving tours to building defense to helping with lab work. The fact that they were programmed with a fairly accurate summation of his own genius mind was just an added bonus.

[color=dodgerblue]"Sure thing Ted, and may I just say you're looking particularly handsome today?"[/color]

[color=dodgerblue][b]"Right back at ya Ted-ster!"[/b][/color]

As Ted checked the flash intensity of his B.B. gun, the doorway slid open behind the tinkerer and his slightly translucent duplicate to reveal a third Ted- Or would it be considered a second Holo-Ted?- running into the lab from the experimental vehicle hangar, his arms waving excitedly.

[color=dodgerblue]"Hey Teds! Progress alert! Ted, Ted and Ted just got the new version of our KORD-Electric Solar Cells up and running! We're at 90% power efficiency and we- I mean you oh great Bossman Ted Prime- were right that the prototype should work great in the new version of The Bug!"[/color]

Ted grinned and wiped his hands down on a paper napkin, then gave his shimmering simulcra a big thumbs up!

[color=dodgerblue][b]"Great work guys! Let's give ourselves a pat on the back for our in-TED-ible work today!"[/b][/color]

In unison, each of the Teds reached over and patted one another on the back, literally.

[color=dodgerblue][b]"BWAH-HAHAHA!~"[/b][/color]
[color=dodgerblue]""BWAH-HAHAHA!~"
"BWAH-HAHAHA!~"[/color]

Ah, sometimes, he made himself laugh. But the joking around and junk food and casual super-science was interrupted by an alarm blaring out and cutting through Ted's music. The Holo-Teds snapped to attention as they reported the cause.

[color=dodgerblue]"We're detecting a massive influx of tachyons signatures and a growing chronoton field right here in this very laboratory room! You've got an incoming time-traveler, bossman! Should we prepare to go mano-a-machine-o with Chronos the Time Thief again!?"[/color]

Ted held up a hand, noticing a familiar shimmering golden figure coalescing in the center of the room.

[color=dodgerblue][b]"Nah guys, it's fine. It's just our buddy Booster."[/b]
"Booster? I love that guy!"               "He still owes me twenty bucks!"[/color]

Ted reached over and tapped a device on his wrist with a finger, dismissing the holograms in the room with him since keeping them active would be distracting. He glanced forlornly over at the Big Belly Burger bag on his work table. Well, if it was for Booster's sake, he could hand over the second burger within if it came down to it. For now, best to see what this was all about and hope he hadn't just dropped by for lunch-

-Or maybe that he had. With Booster it was hard to tell whether the emergencies or the social calls were more fun.

Ted spoke up to the glowing outline of Booster as it finished manifesting.

[color=dodgerblue][b]"Booster! Whatsup buddy? Normally present you could just walk in, you have a key after all."[/b][/color]