Non-Newtonian Logic

[trustycrowbar]

Gordon couldn't figure it out. The generator was obviously sabotaged during that snowstorm, but by WHAT? What the hell could slip in and out and leave not so much as a footprint, cut the wires and leave? The door was locked; there were no shears down there to even do it. It had to have been something incorporeal; a ghost wasn't out of the question, much as every cell in his physicist body protested the idea, but then how would the wires have been cut...? They couldn't have brought their own, how would they drag it through a locked door?

It was a puzzle, and Gordon was the kind of man that just couldn't leave a puzzle unsolved. Or maybe it was more accurate to say that puzzles couldn't leave him alone... Pondering it over a cup of coffee in the labs, leaning on the table and scruffing his hair, he found himself staring down the books on the table more than actually forming any ideas. Christ, what is he DOING? There's absolutely nothing in the world that could--

Wait.

He sets down the coffee and leans over the picture book. There on the page is a colorful purplish-pink blob with the legend "This is Ditto! He can turn into ANYTHING!"

[Video]

[Gordon abruptly turns on the video, He'd thought about filtering it to faculty but decided to broadcast instead, because he has no idea who would actually know about this.]

That generator sabotage wasn't a ghost. It was a slime. A ditto, I think... Nothing else I know of could go incorporeal to get downstairs into the generator room, yet be able to cut the wires without a tool! Thing is, we don't have any registered dittos in the Academy. Can anyone recall seeing one somewhere before the storm? Meeting one in the city maybe?

Comments

[will_be_god]

I see. If this is the case, then we are not dealing with a genius, at least not one in technology. There are those present who are more than capable of hacking though such security systems without bringing everything down. It is simply unneeded attention.

Unless, provided that your theory holds true, it is meant to be a distraction.