Wesley works on their home security system. A little story I wrote.

The follow up to this will be posted soon!

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Professor Wolf sipped his coffee as he surveyed the various pieces of metal on the floor. "I really don't think this is necessary, Wesley"

"Sir, you encouraged me to have hobbies."

Wolf looked on as the protogen welded the metal together. "This isn't exactly what I envisioned. I was thinking something like knitting. Or crochet. You could make yourself and Bradley matching sweaters?"

"I assure you, sir, this will be far more useful than sweaters."

"It's just… I never really saw us as people with a pod in their house? Other supervillains, sure. But I didn't think of us as pod people"

Wesley glared, before continuing his welding. "The new security pod will be a valuable improvement to our home defenses."

Wolf sighed, "Wesley, no one is going to break in."

The protogen’s movement stilled, and he put down the welding torch before turning to face the Wolf. “It will make me feel safer, sir.”

Wolf’s expression darkened. "Do you have reason to think he's back in town?"

"No, but... a little extra security wouldn't hurt."

Wolf looked thoughtful for a second, before taking a sip of his coffee, and asking, "do you need anything else?"

"Just some quiet, sir, and creative control,” Wesley said as he turned back to the metal.

"I'm willing to give you creative control on the pod itself. Just… perhaps not its placement? I mean, I understand it needs to integrate with your new... security whatchmacallit"

"Security matrix."

"Yes, that... but I want to make sure it fits wherever we put it. I don’t want to put a vac-bed on the dining table, as it were.”

“Sir, this is me you're talking about. Have you ever known me to have bad taste?”

"Well… there was that time you programmed Bradley to—"

"In decorating?"

"...Fair enough… Still, I doubt we'll use it.”

Wesley paused, and turned to grin at the Professor. "Care to make a wager then?"

Wolf smiled. "Why not? If the machine actually captures an intruder, you get first dibs on our potential burglar. Sound fair?"

"That, sir, sounds delightful.”