Who: Sparx Larsa<br/>For: Siren, Van, and Open<br/>Where: Heading to the Mission Board.<br/>When: Mid Afternoon, Sunday<br/><div class="floatleft">(http://img259.imageshack.us/img259/3635/sparxlarsa.jpg)</div><hr/><br/>So they wanted him to design a program that would help them find fungi? His blank expression was exaggerated by the bright glare of his glasses and his parted lips. You can't just develop a program to interact with the outside world. It just didn't work like that. He'd need a lot more than a string of codes to find a fungus in the back yard. He'd need entirely new hardware: sensory equipment at best, and designing something like that would take time, materials, not to mention research on how Truffles are different from other fungi so an X-factor can be developed... Who did they think he was?<br/><br/>That's when he remembered he probably did have something like that lying around his room. It was way back in middle school when he was attempting to modify his grandfather's metal detector. Sparx hooked it up so that it would be smaller, portable, and even installed a screen in which would only display the type of material it was programmed to pick up. The brown-haired teen could easily reprogram the device to pick up fungal spores in the air, which would allow him to follow the trail all the way to the source.<br/><br/>After some research, he could probably attune it to the specific characteristics of Truffles and single out all other fungal types. He wouldn't need a new program at all; just to retune an old dusty device from a few years back. He fell silent for a moment as he tore through volumes of WakiSpace and Yehoo Answers for as much information as possible. He then realized he was probably being awkwardly silent while the others stood there, and he looked up with an embarrassed smile. "Oh, sorry!" He laughed a bit and rubbed the back of his head with an awkward smirk. "I, umm... yeah, I could do that. Shouldn't be too hard."<br/><br/>His attention slowly drifted back to the datapad and he resumed reading the information on display. "Yeah... I think I can hook something up. It might take awhile though..." And then a breakthrough. Sparx found some information about the fungi's specific traits and scent that trained animals use to sniff them out. A lightbulb turned on above his head as he started forwarding the information to his main computer back at home. Oh yeah, this would be perfect. And with Van and Siren doing all the fighting, all he had to do was find them. Oh yes, this will be brilliant. Maybe he won't die this year after all.