fandomhigh | Battles That Changed History, Second Period, Friday 2/5

The students had ~~handwavily~~ been informed that they would be meeting in the Danger Shop today. When they arrived, they would find themselves in a mountain pass. Their teacher was standing next to a pile of red and blue jerseys, and another pile of assorted weaponry made out of Nerf foam. As the students entered they were advised to select a jersey.

"Welcome to Roncevaux Pass," Steve said once they were all assembled. "Modern-day Spain. It wouldn't have looked like this, exactly, but we'll take what we can get. This is an interesting battle; its actual impact on historical events has little to nothing to do with what actually happened here and a whole lot more to do with what people who weren't here would claim had happened hundreds of years later. The year is 788 AD. Charlemagne's forces meet with a Basque army. Charlemagne's army is defeated. His nephew, Roland, is killed, inspiring the famous Song of Roland. The Basque establish their independence." He paused. "Some people believe this was a battle between Christian forces, under Charlemagne, king of the Franks, and invading Muslim forces. This is not so. Both belligerents were Christian, in fact. Elsewhere, in other campaigns and other battles, Charlemagne did hold off the Muslim invasion, keeping them to Spain and keeping the rest of Europe Christian, which resulted in a lot of cultural developments on both sides and a lot of problems between the two religions regarding territory that persist to the present day. Charlemagne united Europe and helped set what it would be...but he didn't do it at Roncevaux. Here, he had a bad day. It's funny how legends get built, isn't it?

"So!" he clapped his hands. "Reds, you are the Franks. Blues, you are the Basques. Reds, see if you can change history. Blues, try to preserve it. Select your weapons, and begin."

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"You're like crazy observant," Rose told him. Not that she wasn't pretty happy to see him.

"It's one of my better skills. What did you do all week?"

"Found evil post-it notes and destroyed them," Rose said, making a face. "And killed gremlins." She shrugged, giving him a grin. "As weeks go, it wasn't that bad really."

"Yeah, you might have had to go without destroying or killing anything!"

Rose snorted. "No, this week I just get to guard a jackass until whoever attacked that girl gets found out." And then she could kill them.

"What about you? I might've been a bobca, but I didn't notice you around that one class of Bond's."

"I fell into a locker and ended up some place called Vancouver. Someone got attacked?" He didn't really sound too up in arms about it. People got attacked all the time at home, but here it was a curiosity. Who, why, how - all of those questions came to mind. "And jackass aside, isn't the guarding thing good?"

She twisted her mouth. "Yeah, it'd good, just - " she shrugged, glancing over at him. "Not supposed to be yet, you know?" Also there was the whole bit with Dimitri there and Adrian and wow, too much weirdness.

"By a vampire," she explained. "Thus the whole guarding thing coming up since it's our job to protect him from the bad ones. The other night - it was that girl Raven who was in Ethics."

Kyle nodded in understanding. "I remember her. Think they'll find who did it?"

"God, I hope so," Rose said, fingering the silver stake that she hadn't managed to leave in the weapons locker oops. "Cause then I can stake his ass and never talk to Adrian again."

"Adrian's the jackass?"

"That'd be the one," Rose replied. "He's just a spoiled royal. No big." She looked over at him. "Vancouver, huh? How the crap did you end up there? Did you see any whales?"

"A locker sucked me in. It was weird. No whales I think." He didn't sound too sure since he'd never seen a whale before. "Lots of squirrels, but they didn't have hats."

"Or notebooks?" Rose asked, just smirking a leeetle.

"Not that I saw. They didn't even seem interested in what we were doing unless we had food."

"That's what real squirrels are like," she told him. "They're just messed up here."

"I thought maybe they were a special kind of weird species out here since none of the squirrels I've eaten had hats."

"...maybe their hats fell off when you cooked them," Rose tried.

Um, eating squirrels, what?

Kyle gave Rose an incredulous look. "I prefer to think they're different kinds of squirrels. I'd feel bad about eating one of Fandom's squirrels."

"Fair enough," Rose agreed, reaching up to ruffle his hair.

You know, if he didn't duck away.

"Though I'd eat the ones that repeat just wrong stuff."

He ducked his head for a mock scowl, but didn't pull away from her. "Had a problem with them telling lies about you?"

"More like had a problem with them telling on me," Rose said, grinning at him.

"You could probably fix that by not getting into so much trouble." His tone gave away the fact that he never believed she'd stop getting into trouble.

"Maybe you should get into trouble more," she pointed out, perfectly happy to relax a little by teasing him. "Then you'd understand."

"I get into plenty of trouble without even trying," Kyle reassured Rose. "I don't even need to try."

"Since you've gotten here?" Rose asked doubtfully. "Because that's the kind I'm talking about."

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