Okay, no, today was not Topher's Stark Industries day.
However, he was missing his meta Mass Effect hoodie, and he kind of thought he might have left it in the shop. Problem was, searching for the hoodie meant going into the lab proper, because he'd been running all those tests on himself last week, and, well, you try putting a Topher in a lab and not having him get distracted by all the shiny, shiny technology in the place. It was a hard thing to do.
To make a long story short, the end result involved the sprinklers coming on by accident. And since Topher was already dressed for prom -- what? you could put a hoodie over a suit, right? -- that meant that it was a formalwear-clad Topher who got soaked by the sprinklers, adding insult to injury. He tossed his jacket over a chair before doing his best to repair the situation quickly, but after fifteen minutes and his dress shirt getting all but plastered to his skin, he decided that maybe science wasn't the fastest route to profit on this one, and made a
phone call.
Yeaaaah, Topher wasn't making it to prom tonight.