"Cool. Good. --So, essentially, the problem is, TNT, as you know, doesn't detonate through water, and Las Nevadas is quite a large amount water--" He points to the fountain. "However! Quackity really seems to care about the inside of the casino, which I've peeked in and there's no water, and the outsides of this tower section, this spire, right--" Point at the Space Needle. "--so what you could do is easily make a section in the Casino that has a chain reaction under to a button somewhere, and each of one of those detonates and hits each next consecutive one. It would take a little bit of work. I know a bit about TNT, I could help you." He's talking fast, almost tripping over his own words, and his hands are animated; he can't quite stand still, shifting from one foot to the other.

He did not in fact know that at all but that sounds easy to sabotage. If absolutely nothing else he can ask for a favor from Fundy but he's not even sure he'll need it. 

"I would appreciate the help, yeah, all my experience with explosives was somewhere with really different physics." 

Wilbur claps his hands and bounces on his toes. "Great! Great. I trust that you will do good work with that-- but remember, make it safe! We don't want it going off by accident."

"I will make it very safe." This is even true. "...do you want to come with me to place it now, or would you rather wait until a few days from now, or...?" 

"Whatever works for you! Whatever--whatever is best for you, man."

"Then I'll see you in the next couple days." He's going for cheerful, chill, normal; it falls a little bit flat, not so much that he thinks Wilbur would notice but enough that Ranboo probably would. 

"Sure, yeah, okay! And you're gonna-- you're gonna tell me where you put the button, and you're going to tell me where everything's set up...?"

"I, um, kind of was thinking we'd do it together? Since I haven't actually done this before and you offered to help?" 

"Right! Sure, yeah, I just--wasn't sure, since you said a couple days, but--yeah, of course! I'd love to, man!"

"Then it's a date." He smiles; it only feels a little bit like his face is made out of plastic. 

"A date, huh?" Wilbur winks and then laughs. "Right, I'll--see you then? It was good seeing you today, I love seeing you, man, I love--you, and Ranboo, and everything we're doing, it's great, man. See you--see you around."

Fond smile, like he's picked up on that slip and is happy about it and there isn't a pit of nausea in his stomach that's just growing and growing. "You too." 

"You too, Ranboo."

"What? Oh, um, yeah, see you around."

Wilbur--doesn't quite skip, but definitely walks very jauntily to the portal.

Good for him. 

Q... kind of doesn't want to go back to Kinoko but kind of really doesn't want to stick around, so, Kinoko it is. It's quiet but maybe that's a good thing; if he's going to be miserable with a voice from the back of his head screaming at him about whether or not he counts as someone, he might as well be miserable somewhere pretty. He doesn't talk to Sapnap. He does manage to choke himself hard enough that he's coughing intermittently for an hour and a half afterwards. It's fine, probably. 

He doesn't find Wilbur the next day, isn't ready to put a smile on and pretend everything's totally okay yet. The day after that, though, he shows up at the Arctic in the late morning. 

Phil and Techno and Ranboo are there; Wilbur isn't.

Okay cool nevermind bye. (He does, kind of, want to figure out how to pitch himself to Phil and Techno at some point, but not right now; right now what he's prepared for is interacting with Wilbur.) Paradise, then? 

Yeah, Wilbur's there! So's Tommy.

"Hi! Should I, uh, come back later, or—"

"Now's fine! We were just making concrete. Are you here for the TNT or--"

"Wilbur, you didn't tell me--"

"Shut up, Tommy." Back to Q. "--so, are you here for the TNT or are you just happy to see me?"

He shrinks, just a little bit, at shut up Tommy. 

"I'm here for the TNT, yeah. Not that I'm not happy to see you." 

"Tommy. Stay here, don't cause trouble."