A Puzzling Occurence

    It took some time for Killer Kangaroo and Megano to adjust to life on Quexxiji, and even RoboRabbit had to get used to it.  At the beginning they had all the food they could want and many forms of entertainment.  The three of them once went to a meeting of many friends who lived nearby.  Directly after arriving there RoboRabbit entered alone into a small room with many buttons on the walls.  He was unaware of any events that took place involving Killer Kangaroo or Megano.  After examining the room he found that every white wall was seamless.  The entrance seemed to have stopped existing.  The buttons, he found, occupied every inch of the walls as well as the ceiling, and they were all either red, green, or blue, thought they appeared to be in no order whatsoever.
    Turning to the general area from which he knew he had entered the room, he pressed the first green button he saw.  It changed from green to blue.  He pressed it again and it changed to red.  When he pushed it a third time, it reverted once again to green.  He then began pushing all of the blue buttons and about half of the red ones until half were red and half were green.
    "Christmas," he said playfully.
    Then he noticed that the floor had also changed color.  He hadn't noticed it before because the change was so gradual, but the floor underneath him had changed from white to yellow.  He pressed all the red buttons and this time watched the floor slowly fade from yellow to green, and the entire room was green.  Then he once again began pushing all the buttons until the floor was blue.  When he pressed them all again, it changed to purple and thence to red.  As he brought to floor back to yellow again he began to become slightly frustrated with these colorful circles encroaching upon the room.  He sat down and began to think.  He noticed a corner of the floor which appeared to be peeling off.  He grabbed it and pulled and shortly discovered that it would only allow itself to be pulled far enough to reveal a small square button set into the floor so that he could not press it with his foot.  He pushed the button and watched two screens come down from the ceiling near opposite walls.  They showed him what happened concerning Megano and Killer Kangaroo.
    Megano was viewing a screen which showed the activities of Killer Kangaroo, and RoboRabbit noticed that his screen had the same feed as hers, except hers appeared to have a blue tint.  Megano was examining the screen as if she had just noticed.  Perhaps she had found a button like his which had revealed it.  Her room was round and entirely black, with the screen set into a part of the wall.  Along the rest of the wall was written a sequence of numbers, all of them integers from one to seven, and all of them one of seven colors.  In the center of the room was a console with an array of white, square buttons, seven rows of seven.  RoboRabbit saw that Killer Kangaroo had the same array of buttons, but each row had a different color of buttons and each column was labeled witha  blue number, though they were not in numerical order.  This console was the only thing in Killer Kangaroo's blue room.  RoboRabbit observed that the colors of the buttons could not be determined on Megano's screen and the numbers were invisible.  This was due to the blue tint of the screen.  This must be why the numbers were blue and why the screen was tinted.  Megano had no clue which button was which.
    This was a big puzzle which involved all three of them, and RoboRabbit knew they all would have to figure it out to some degree.  he also knew his part of the puzzle had to interact in some way with the other two parts.  So he changed his room once again to green, and he looked at the screens to find that the blue tint was not purple, and Killer Kangaroo's room had changed to match it.  They were both perplexed at this phenomenon and were examining the objects which had changed color.  RoboRabbit quickly reverted his room back to its general state of white.  he looked back at the screen to find that Megano's screen showing Killer Kangaroo had gone black, and so had the room containing Killer Kangaroo.  Their colors were opposing his.  He knew that to enable them to complete their puzzles he had to give them white by making his room black.  But he knew his buttons would not go black.  No combination of red, green, and blue would possibly make black, so his buttons would have to become blank, but how?  He attempted smashing a button, but only succeeded in nearly damaging himself.  Then he heard a female voice come from everywhere and nowhere.
    "Need some help?"  the voice asked gaily.  RoboRabbit could tell by its pitch and accent that it was the voice of an owl.
    "Who are you?" he asked.
    "I'm the little red owl here to help you," she replied.
    "Well I'm certainly ready to be helped," said RoboRabbit.
    "Good, now let's get started.  Close your eyes."  He complied.  "Spin around three times."
    "I think it's working," said RoboRabbit as he spun.  When he finished, the little red owl said, "God, now keep your eyes shut.  With my Leporidal compassion, and my knowledge of these facilities, I command you to turn these buttons off!"
    "What?" said RoboRabbit.  "I don't feel any diff- oh my cow, you're right!"  He had rotated one of the buttons counterclockwise while talking to discover that this was the brightness control.  When he turned it all the way, the button became blank.  Looking at his screens, he saw that Killer Kangaroo's room had become white and that Megano's screen was fully on with no tint, so that she saw the different colors of Killer Kangaroo's button console as well as the numbers.  She looked at the first number on her wall, then at Killer Kangaroo's console, and she pressed the corresponding button on her console.  The button of Killer Kangaroo's console became white.  He had long since given up pressing buttons, but as the opportunity appeared to arrive, he pressed the button.  It went out and became black.  Megano followed this procedure for the next number int he sequence, and RoboRabbit watched as each of her buttons took on the color that Killer Kangaroo's button lost.  Soon Megano had all the colored buttons and Killer Kangaroo's were all blank.  But nothing happened.
    There had to be something else for one of them to do to finish the puzzle.  RoboRabbit went tot eh button he had only pressed once, the buttons which controlled the screens.  He pressed it, and as soon as the screens disappeared, the entrance to his room opneded.  He left the room and saw the two doors leading to Megano and Killer Kangaroo.  They were locked.  RoboRabbit saw that their doors were glowing like fluorescent bulbs, but his was dark.  He must have to turn their doors off to release them, but there seemed to be no way to do so from here.  His door was off.  It had turned off when he turned the screens off.  RoboRabbit walked back into his room and turned one button clockwise.  The door instantly shut.  It only opened when everything in the room was off, so it must be the same for Megano and Killer Kangaroo.  Their colors opposed his.
    RoboRabbit turned on his screen so he could view their situation.  He reverted his room back to its original state of white and saw the screen Megano was watching go blank.  Killer Kangaroo's room went black, but his door remained shut.  There must be something else to turn off in it, but if it was something for Killer Kangaroo to turn off then RoboRabbit would have to just wait for him to do so.  So he sat and waited.  He saw Killer Kangaroo sit down in frustration, for RoboRabbit's camera could still see the room clearly.  His camera.  A camera can't run without power.  RoboRabbit turned off his screens again.  He waited a minute, then he turned them back on.  Killer Kangaroo had vacated the room.  RoboRabbit swiftly went about making his room blank again.  He saw Megano get a view of Killer Kangaroo's now empty room and knew she understood that she had to get herself out now.  RoboRabbit opened his door, invited Killer Kangaroo in, and closed it again.  He quickly informed Killer Kangaroo of the whole situation.  Killer Kangaroo resolved to inform Megano of what to do next via the video screen.
    RoboRabbit let Killer Kangaroo out of the current room and into his.  He turned on Megano's screen and, after a minute or two, Megano watched Killer Kangaroo motion the pressing of his buttons in sequential order.  He then pointed at the camera, signaling for her to press the buttons.  After he signaled to wait, RoboRabbit once again let him out of one room and into another.  They watched as Megano pressed the buttons in order and their colors were transferred back to Killer Kangaroo's console.
  At the same time each corresponding number on her wall lost its color.  RoboRabbit turned her screen off for her when she was almost done.  Then, when she was finished, he turned his screen off.  After waiting a minute for her to leave, he turned his screen back on to find the room empty.  He opened his own door and they were all reunited.  Still there was no way out.  Then the little red owl which had spoken with RoboRabbit appeared through a hidden door in the wall and they all thanked her and rushed through and onward to their next adventure with their new companion in tow.

True Engineering

  Seeing as you may very well have never seen a true engineer at work, it appears that my duty is to describe what exactly a true engineer does.  An engineer requires little or no knowledge of something to figure it out.  The best engineers can examine an obscure object and determine what it does and how it does it.  The best flavor of engineers had ADD or ADHD, allowing them to be more creative and to flourish when doing several things at once.  Such engineers cause total efficiency to be greater than the sum of its parts, meaning that doing everything simultaneously takes less time than doing one task after the other.  Finally, true engineers are capable of making things into something you never thought they could form.  They are inventors and problem solvers, working with what they have to make what they need.  This is where devices like the potato clock and the Raspberry Pi come from.  All this taken into account, RoboRabbit knew just what to do next.
    "Time to fly," he said as he began heading back to the vehicle which brought him here.  Unfortunately his head soon started to hurt so, rather than heading back, he decided to simply walk back.
    After arriving at their respective vehicles (aside from Bloopanda, whose vehicle was disrespective), they had taken off in a general that way direction (the direction in which I am pointing).  RoboRabbit had given the controls to Megano while he worked on some sort of project, but as they approached the edge of the galaxy he moved his project over to the turret controls so that he could access both at once, for there was a blockade blocking them and their aides from crossing the blocking blockade.
    Now RoboRabbit began shooting every which way with his turret, but not any warlock ways.  Every shot hit its target as they got closer and closer to the blockade.  Soon enough, Killer Kangaroo rook up the other turret's controls and began blasting away.  Than RoboRabbit remembered that he has a 20-page report on urchins to write, so he fashioned some spare parts into a typewriter with one hand while he worked on his other project with the other hand and took over the turret controls with his feet, all the while never missing an opportunity to destroy an enemy ship.
    But then his feet slipped on the controls, messing up his entire rhythm.  He dropped his tool in one hand and paused the writing of his report as he centered himself and, one at a time, began doing each task again.  The blockade was to thick that, with only one individual manning a turret, a path through the enemies took twice as long to make, so their ship had to slow to a crawl.  Its lack of appendages made such a feat nearly impossible, so it was really more of an inch or perhaps a slow slither.
    RoboRabbit placed his feet back on the turret controls and slowly got back up to speed, shooting the enemies.  With the ship completely surrounded and completely stopped, they were no longer forging a path but fighting to save their lives.  Then RoboRabbit had an ingenious idea, not than such a description really makes sense.  I mean, have you ever stopped to think about the word "ingenious"?  I'm not saying that the idea was not genius, because it certainly was, that's the point.  So where are we getting the "in" prefix, which typically means something along the lines of "not"?  One might conclude from this that the inventor of this word was not the sharpest carrot in the field, which is ironic because of the alleged meaning of the word.  RoboRabbit, however, was the sharpest carrot in the field, as demonstrated by the idea he just thought of and started implementing.
    While still controlling the turret very adeptly, he began dismantling the controls and altering them.  After various manipulations and additions of doohickies and thingymabobs, he remantled the controls and, once they were fully mantled again, then he programmed a few functions into the system.  All this he did while shooting down* every ship in sight, one by one.  Once he was finished programming the controls, he stopped controlling them, yet his modifications caused them to continue shooting ships with accuracy and precision at approximately the same speed he had been shooting them at.  This freed up all of his appendages to work on his project and report, which he made short work of.  Then RoboRabbit activated his project, which was some sort of complex device.  It took a few seconds to boot up, then a shield coalesced around the ship.  At the same time he wrote the last sentence in his report.

*This takes significant skill as there in no down in space.