Kid shrugged. "Beats me," the answer was that they were probably magical, but the blonde didn't really have much of a mind for all that science-y explain-y stuff. That was Sis' expertise, not hers -- even if she had been around machines of all sorts during most of her early life.

"All I know's that they work again, so that's good enough!" she bellowed, following it with a laugh, and replacing the plates in a pouch on her belt. "There's lousy ones and there's ones more powerful'n a super nova itself!" the thief boasted.