Author's note: The series continues with this season 6, episode 17. The series doesn't reset, but follows the show's story sequence.
One of my readers requested adding pictures of the new characters, but this is not allowed by Literotica. When a new character is introduced, I will put in parenthesis the character's real name so you can look them up on the internet.
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Raj took Lucy (Kate Micucci) for coffee after Stuart and he hosted a single's Valentine's Day party at the comic book store. He talked continually and scared her off. She excused herself to go to the bathroom and snuck out the bathroom window. She was broken far worse than Raj was. He found out she snuck-out and vowed never to leave his apartment again.
While Howard, Leonard and Sheldon were at the comic book store when Lucy came in and wanted Stuart to deliver Raj a message. Howard intercepted it and promised to give it to Raj.
Howard gave Raj the note; he was a mess, lounging around in his jockey shorts, eating food that was delivered to his apartment. He read the note and after refusing to keep it, he hurried after Howard, catching him on the street, still in just his jockey shorts and a lobster bib around his neck.
In the end Lucy came over to Raj's apartment to apologize and after a lot of begging, she agreed to go out with him on a date.
A couple days later Leonard found out they were all under contract to serve on a university committee. They were assigned to encourage more women to pursue a career in the sciences.
Sheldon was against it saying, "I don't appreciate being forced to do banal committee work."
Leonard retorted, "I know, you're too smart for this."
He almost spilled the tea he was brewing, "Exactly, it's like asking the Human-Torch to heat up your frozen burrito."
Leonard tried to ignore him and turned to Howard, "Got it, all right, I'm thinking one way to counter bias in the peer-review process is for papers to be submitted under gender-neutral names like S. Smith instead of Samantha Smith. "Guys, our topic is "Encouraging Women in Science!" Sheldon, you're always pointing out how much smarter you are than me. Spend five seconds and come up with one idea on how to get more women into science."
He paused the video game he was playing with Howard, "All your ideas address the issue at a university level. By then it's too late. You need to design a program that targets girls at the middle-school level and sets them on an academic track towards the hard sciences."
Leonard nodded, "That's actually good. Why didn't I think of that?"
Sheldon scoffed, "Some people are otters, some people are rocks."
Leonard ignored his sarcasm, "I wonder if there's a way we could give the idea a trial run."
Howard put down his video game controller. "Maybe I could call my old middle school, see if we can talk to some of the female students."
Leonard loved that idea, "Great, try and set up something for the three of us to go over there."
Sheldon didn't like the idea, "Hold on. While I'm comfortable speaking about science, I'm not sure I know how to spark the interest of school children. Better Google it." He sat down before his computer and began typing, "How do I get 12-year-old girls excited?"
Both Howard and Leonard rushed over to stop him, yelling "NO!"
Over at Penny's apartment, Penny, Bernadette and Amy were having s girl's night out and Raj crashed it. He wanted to find a place where he could take Lucy on a date. Everything they put out there, he shot down. But in doing so, Bernadette mentioned Disneyland, but he thought there were too many people there.
Both Amy and Penny loved the idea of Disneyland and the three women decided to blow-off work later in the week and spend the day at Disneyland. On the way to Disneyland, while Bernie was driving they discussed what to see.
Amy leaned over from the backseat, "So, what are we gonna do first?"
Bernie was grinning from ear to ear, "I don't know about you, but I'm going to make a bee-line the place that gives you a princess makeover."
Amy loved it, "Ooh, that sounds like fun"
Penny, not so much, "You're kidding, right? We're not gonna get drunk and go on rides?"
Amy tried to change her mind, "Come on, do it with us."
Penny rolled her eyes, "Ah, all right, whatever. How does it work?"
Bernie perked up, "Okay, so you pick your princess, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, Cinderella. They give you hair, makeup, the works."
Penny chuckled, "I guess it would be fun to be Cinderella."
Amy chimed in, "I wanna be Cinderella too."
Bernie blurted out, "We can't all be Cinderella"
Amy leaned in, "Then how do we decide?"
Bernie growled out, "Well, it's simple. This was my idea, I'm driving, I'm Cinderella. You bitches got a problem with that, we can stop the car right now."
While this was going on, Raj set up a date with Lucy at the library. With no talking allowed, it was more of a text back and forth date. It eased the tension between them to the point where Lucy tried to give him a kiss at the end of the date. She ended up chickening out, but Raj was more than happy with the outcome.
The guys went to Howard's old middle school to speak to the girls about the field of science. They were bombing terribly and Sheldon came up with a fantastic idea. It would mean a lot more coming from actual females in the field of science. Unfortunately Penny, Bernadette and Amy were at Disneyland when Sheldon called. He spoke into the phone, "Dr. Rostenkowski, Dr. Fowler, are you there?"
Amy replied, "We're here."
He replied, "Thank you for taking time out of your busy schedule to enlighten these young women." He was unaware that they skipped work and were at Disneyland, dressed in their female, fairy tales garb.
Amy replied, "It's our pleasure, I'm Dr. Fowler, and I'm a neuroscientist." She was dressed as Snow White, wearing a blue and yellow dress that resembled Snow white, along with the red bow in her hair and lipstick to match.
Bernadette added, "I'm Dr. Rostenkowski-Wolowitz, and I'm a microbiologist." She was dressed as Cinderella, wearing a powder blue gown that accented her perfect breasts. Her long, golden blonde hair was pinned-up and held up by a matching powder blue ribbon. A darker blue ribbon was around her neck and she also had matching powder blue elbow-length gloves.
Amy continued talking into her phone, while she applied more lipstick, "The world of science needs more women, but from a young age we girls are encouraged to care more about the way we look, than about the power of our minds."
Bernadette added, "That's true, every one of you has the capacity to be anything you want to be."
Penny, who was sitting on a bench, dressed as Sleeping Beauty, in a pink gown and a gold crown replied, "Unless you wanna be Cinderella."