fandomhigh | Heroing [Tuesday, period 2, class #5]

"HELLO CLASS!" boomed Captain Hammer, as soon as everyone was assembled in the Danger Shop. "I'm sorry you had to bear on without my presence last week. I had a superhero emergency." In that his cave had flooded, because Captain Hammer had not yet realized that basing his Ham-Lair on the beach wasn't the best idea. "Today... we are learning about the wonders of transportation!"

He passed around a few pictures of his various Ham-vehicles, mostly to show off. They were awesome, after all. "Every hero needs a way to get around. You can't run everywhere. What if you were busy entertaining until the last second, and needed to get somewhere extra-fast? These things," he said sagely, "do happen. So, today, we're going to play pretend!"

Hammer pressed a few buttons, and a small assortment of vehicles -- all state of the art -- appeared, each reasonably far apart from the other, with a small portion of vehicle-appropriate landscape before it. "I put you in pairs, and you're going to go play with one of these, and then report back to the class what you thought. I know both villains and heroes who all use these things! Keep that in mind! Tell us why it worked, and why it didn't. Now, shoo."

[~~please wait for EXTENSIVE~~ OCD up. ETA: and yes I am aware I marked all the OCD as February 5th. Hush.]

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"I can do that," Romeo nodded eagerly and slowly moved to take the oar and move to the side of the raft. "I shouldn't let you do all the work anyhow, it wasn't very chivalrous of me."

He prodded at the water, and the raft moved a little more.

"I've long ago given up on boys being chivalrous around me," Momoko laughed as the raft moved forward. "That's not it. If this was a normal row boat the sides would be closer and also built-up, so it's like the boat helps you hold the oars. This raft doesn't help at all."

She sighed and pushed her oar through the water again, shaking her head. "You know? As nice and relaxing as this would be for a date, just floating and watching the clouds and the river bank passing by, I don't like it at all for a quick get-away. Or a chase and capture. I mean, even if we do catch up to anyone, how do we stay caught up with them and grab them? And then get them back to land?"

"Boomerangs to knock them into the water," Romeo said, completely deadpan. The water was harder to row in than he liked, and he frowned a little in concentration. "I don't know, maybe they could be like raft bumper cars, and we ram the other raft until they fall off into the water."

"And boys should be chivalrous around you."

"Whoa! That's a cool idea!" And she was perfectly serious. If she was sure the raft would stay steady, she'd be bouncing at the image. "Boomerangs and bumpercars! Hmm. I wonder if that would work? But then we'd have to fish them out, too, so maybe industrial strength fishing poles? Or nets? Could we balance well enough on this raft to do that though? Hmm." Momoko pulled her oar and frowned in thought. "And of course, they should be, but where I'm from boys are only chivalrous with their girlfriends, or at least with girls they like. Are things that different where you're from?"

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