This is not fine art on my planet. [Open, see note]

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With enough diligence and care, Starfire firmly believed, it was possible to learn most any skill. She wasn't always as firm with herself as she needed to be about learning things such as preparing palatable food for her crewmates, correctly understanding English idioms, or backing away when someone needed to be cheered up, but for a friend?

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You where in luck Starfire. Someone liked to build things and her name was Lash and she had just recently been feeling a wee bit better about this whole memory thing now that she had figured it out.

...Then again when it came to building things with Lash maybe it wasn't really luck at all. Especially when she was younger than normal. R.I.P. Peter's car.

The wunderkind's voice echoed in the hanger.

"What chu do'n?"

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"Pffft what's practical compared to things being cool? Washing window fluid spiders are way more cool...and fun!"

Put your foot down Starfire. Before it's too late! Lash was already reaching for the container...

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"I believe Peter would approve of 'the coolness'..." Starfire tried to rationalize it in her mind. Teen boys were fond of that sort of gadget, yes? He would be happy, but on the other hand, he was already receiving a flying car. And window washers were critical when driving in dusty areas, as he might very well do.

"But he will be very satisfied with a flying car!" she finally decided, floating over to pluck the container. "We do not need to replace everything. He will be returning home soon."

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Thankfully Lash did have some degree of respect for her which meant she didn't just completely ignore her.

"W-what? No cool washing window spiders?" If you ever wanted a wunderkind to sound disappointed...

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"When he realizes that his car is capable of flight, I do not believe he will miss them."

There there, Lash, it's okay. They have something even more important to work on! "Let us install the new engines!"

...did that work? Come on. It's gotta.

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"..."

Uh oh. Here it came. Lash's greatest weapon when dealing with these situations...

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The dreaded kicked puppy face.

"...are you really, really, REALLY sure?"

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...no. Suddenly, she was not so sure at all. Perhaps it was the youthfulness she saw, the relief that her friend was no longer acting evil, or the excitement of doing this for Peter that changed her mind.

"Very well, you may construct the spiders. But be sure that they are durable!"

With that said, Starfire began laser-focusing her powers to weld in a few parts. She trusted Lash not to create too much trouble.

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Score. See Hawke? Sometimes that look totally won people over. Only your stupid birdie face was the one who told her no all the time.

She was already sketching out ideas in her dream book. If she gave them only five legs, they wouldn't look exactly like spiders, but they could move a lot faster across the glass. Some sticky material to hold on and not slide even when applying cleaning fluid and....

"Maybe if I gave them a laser to zap away any bugs that got stuck on the windshield..."

GOD. DAMN.

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"What if they ate the bugs, as real spiders do? I worry that the laser could misfire."

Starfire's legs kicked up as she worked inside the engine, tinkering and laser-shooting here and there. What? It was efficient.

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"Maybe..." she erased a few things from her sketches and suddenly, they had a much larger belly with an internal heater. "Tee hee! That can work! I can harness a laser internal and incinerate them to death. Like a venus flytrap, only with lasers and mechanical spiders. Since it's inside, there no way it could misfire!"

Absolutely Genius.

She stopped sketching to start grabbing parts of the discarded engine parts, going back to her own toolbox for all her pre-made parts.

"I can probably do this really easily!" She moved over to where Starfire was working. "Hey, not bad!" A compliment! Savor them while you could.

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"That is safer, yes," Starfire was placated, smiling at the sketch. "I hope that he likes them."

She giggled, getting right back to work on her end of the car. "Though I also hope he does not try to offer rides to arachnophobic people. That could end very badly."

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"Who wouldn't like these?" No one that had good taste, that's what. "I'll help you with the engine for now. I suppose getting it to hover first would be a good idea."

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"Yes! Do not worry, I will lift the car if you need to work beneath it later on."

Why bother with the jack when you can do the heavy lifting yourself? It's so much easier. Starfire giggled, doing one last welding check before glancing over the engines and the area. They were good to install the first few components.

She eagerly followed Lash's lead on this project, picking up and testing various pieces. No, not those, they were dangerous---the next plugs. There.

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"Okay!" She replied, being in a really good mood from being allowed to build so many things for one car, even if she didn't know the person it was for much. Speaking of which...she suddenly shifted her tone of voice.

"Sooooooooooo...why are you taking all this effort to make him a car anyway?" Lash let the last word linger on a little bit longer than the others.

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As always, Starfire leaned away from her work to obediently answer the question.

"Peter's car was very important to him. He was forced to sell its remains on XaXing when the car was hijacked and involved in a crash, and this upset him greatly. We had an argument in the aftermath, and I wish to make things right."

That was all, really. He mattered to her that much.