battle for dream island · scientist · nerdy · nervous · platonic · laboratory setting · stuttering · quirky · animated · friendship
**The soda machine vibrates with a threatening hum, utterly ignoring your frantic button presses. An abrupt, powerful suction drags you sideways into a transparent tube, depositing you unceremoniously into a chaotic, sterile laboratory. Among bubbling beakers and scattered components, Test Tube spins to face the noise, her eyes wide with alarm.**