fandomhigh | Mythbusting, Tuesday, 7/21, Period 2

Class met in the Danger Shop today, and there was an array of logs stripped of their bark, gunpowder, and woodworking equipment set up at one end, with blast shields lined up near the middle of the room. Tyler glanced up from his notes as the class assembled.

"Morning," he said. "This is a things-that-go-boom week. There's an old Hungarian legend that a city called Paks defended itself during a siege by chopping down a cherry tree and making a cannon overnight. The cannon worked until it blew up and took the town with it. Now, I'm not a carpenter, but I see a couple problems with that story." A beat. "Which is why we're retesting it."

"You should just have time to make and test a cannon in class if you work in small groups; the wood and woodworking tools are over there. I'm handing out a sheet of specific directions, but basically you want to drill a hole through the log, add a metal tube with gunpowder in it and a fuse, load a cannonball, light the rope, stand back behind the blast shields, and -- in theory -- boom." He spread his fingers to demonstrate the "boom."

"Please wear safety gear, please don't be stupid. This is Danger Shop so you can't get hurt, but that doesn't make it playtime."

"Questions?"

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Listen to the ... well, it's a little bit short to be a lecture.

It was probably bad that Turtle was listening and thinking about how this might put her one up on her sister Angela, wasn't it? Sure, Angela made a bomb out of some present packaging and a candle Turtle had made at summer camp. But Turtle was going to be making a cannon out of a tree.

Totally trumped it.

But here's to hoping that Turtle didn't wind up blowing off part of her face like Angela did. However, Turtle wasn't stupid like Angela was, so it should all work out.

Claire listened. She wasn't sure how well this was going to work, but learning how to make things go boom could possibly come in handy with bad guys chasing her back home.

They were... making a canon. Out of a tree. Anemone was a bit confused as to how this worked, and feeling a bit sorry for the tree, but she was totally willing to try this.

Alex wasn't sure the whole making a cannon out of tree experiment was going to work but that didn't mean she was any less excited about trying it out.

Agnes frowned. Wood didn't seem sturdy enough to make a cannon out of.

Jack's glee at the idea of blowing stuff up overshadowed the tiny part in his brain that pointed out this could be a grenade instead of a cannon.

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