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Unconventional Tactics, Tuesday, Period 2

"Yo, Rookies!" Reno gave his students a lazy grin as he settled back against his desk. This week, we're gonna touch on somethin' that you all probably ain't strangers to, havin' all been on the island as long as you have. We're talkin' alternate realities, timelines, universes, that kinda shit."

Reno's colorful vocabulary knew no bounds. Truly.

"I ain't in the business of actively tryin' to dig up trauma for those of you who have found themselves thrown somewhere they don't expect to be," lies, "but this is one of the important ones, yo. It's happened more'n once. Never know if it'll happen again, right? Somethin' breaks, or somethin' calls out from somewhere else, and suddenly, Fandomites find themselves in a radioactive wasteland, or another version of Fandom that's been turned into a livin' hell, or France." One of these things is totally like the others. Shut up. "And it's up to us to find our ways back home, yo."

Yeah, Fandom was home.

"Anyone who was in my Doomsday class has probably already got a crash-course in this junk. But it all boils down to the same thing, no matter where you end up. First, for the love of Ramuh, stay calm. Scope out the situation, make sure you ain't in immediate danger, and if you are, deal with it. Odds are, if you wake up and you ain't in Kansas no more, you ain't the only one. Try and find someone you recognize. Bonus points if they look as lost as you, because you never know if that someone you think you know is a nasty from whatever world you wound up in. We get doppelgangers here, so you gotta be used to that idea by now."

And if you weren't, Reno would laugh at you. So there.

"The next step is gonna be the same whether you're alone or you managed to find someone," he said. "Scope out the situation. Lay low if things look hostile. There ain't no tellin' what out there wants to stab you in the face or make off with your spleen. Take stock of the resources you got available to you, yo. Bein' in another country, world, or timeline ain't gonna change the fact that you gotta eat, you gotta sleep. Is the food safe? Is night gonna make things more dangerous? Do you have weapons or magic, and is where you're stuck gonna mess either of those up?"

He smirked a bit and shook his head.

"Ain't no knowin', right? Obviously, once you know you're gonna be able to survive on the chance that you're gonna be stuck wherever you're at for an extended period of time, the next step is to figure out how to contact Fandom, figure out what went wrong, and how to get home. We already covered communication earlier in the semester, yo. Maybe you can't get a phone call or a letter through. Maybe it ain't as easy as someone wakin' up again to explain what's goin' on. These are the kinda things you can't plan for, because the possibilities are as big as the multiverse itself." A shrug. "So. A recap. Find out if you're in danger and if you're alone, make certain you got what you're gonna need to keep alive, and then try to find out what went wrong, and how to get home. That's about as basic as I can get it."

He waved his hand, jumping up to take a seat, cross-legged, on the desk.

"Discussion class again, zoto. I know some of you got experience with worlds that are way different from this one, or the one you're used to back wherever you're from. So spit it out. What did you do when you found yourself thrown into somethin' like that? And if you ain't been in that kinda situation, I want you to start thinkin' about what you have at your disposal that can help you out if you ever find yourself there in the first place, yo."

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Out of your element!

Raven

Yamanaka Ino

Dolf Wega

Kennedy

Alex Russo

Jacob Black

Zatanna Zatara

Lindsay Weir

Kate Gregson

Effy Stonem

Tara Maclay

Karla

Claudia Donovan

Andros

Jason Todd

Noah Puckerman

Try to get past the trauma, doodle in the margins, pass notes, whatever it is you're prone to do when Reno is talking about at least three horribly traumatic occasions all in one fell swoop.

Raven was paying close attention for this class, despite being tired. Alternate worlds were of great interest to her because of how she could travel between them, and alternate timelines as well since she knew there was at least one future out there where she became something she didn't want to be.

She'd be making faces at his topic but in all honesty, he'd mentioned timelines and her mind had gone immediately to her tangle of them.

Which meant there was sighing. Much sighing.

Kennedy was listening very, very intently this week, yep. She'd never woken up in any of the other worlds he'd mentioned, although her experience in France hadn't been great either, so there wasn't a huge trauma factor going on.

Well, not directly.

Still, all very useful stuff to know, so she was leaning forward with her arms folded on her desk, looking quiet, serious, and... not studious, because Kennedy, but some more combative equivalent.

Zatanna knew one or two things about alternate planes of existence...but so far Fandom hadn't thrown her to another world. So far, reminded herself as she decided she wasn't going to lose anything by paying attention and taking some notes.

Yeah. There were reasons Effy tried very hard not to think about that weekend.

So she was going to spend most of this class examining her desk and trying not to imagine how much some of the marks might resemble things she'd seen in that other world.

Not that Karla needed to go to alternate dimensions to get a faceful of trauma, but the other-Fandom still made occasional guest appearances in her nightmares even now. Plus everything she'd heard about Rapture from Warren and Sookie...

Yeah. Over here, taking notes, not thinking too much about past events, thanks.

What did you do when you were thrown into another reality or timeline without warning?

Or, alternatively, if you were to find yourself suddenly thrust into a situation so completely alien as the ones that have been mentioned, what do you have readily at your disposal that you can use to get you through?

"I am able to travel between dimensions," Raven offered up quietly. "The first thing I could do would be to see if I come return to Fandom, and if nothing prevented me, I could bring people back home if there were not a task we had to undertake in this other reality."

That was rarely the case, however.

She lifted one shoulder.

"I'm a spy," Ino said lightly. "I'd go spyin' 'bout."

Actually, what she'd probably do was drop her shields and go looking with her mind first, but it amounted to the same thing.

"Can't say that's ever happened to me," Kennedy began. "I'd probably at least have some kind of weapon on me, and other than that?"

She shrugged, casually, but she wasn't as brash and cocky about it as she might've been a year and a half ago, and she actually looked thoughtful. "I'd pretty much have to figure out who else was around and on my side, and-- if it's not people I know-- what they can do. So I'd know what kind of resources we have."

"I scoped out the place, tried to find whatever exit there was and look for anyone else who was stuck there," Jake replied, trying not to think too hard about that place.

"I've got some advantages. I can pick up on familiar scents, and if there is someone trying to get to me..." He shrugged. "I'm strong and I heal fast. I won't go down easy."

"The first thing would be make sure I'm not somewhere about explode, or fall apart, or...you get the idea. Safety first. Then...try to contact the others? Unless there is something blocking my magic, I can use a tracking spell to see who is around, and teleport there." She couldn't do the whole dimension jumping thing -a least not without leaving half her body behind, she supposed- but making a portal to travel back? Maybe. Perhaps. Such a big 'if' she wasn't even going to say it.

"I tried to figure out where I was and then tried to find an exit," Lindsay explained, remembering waking up in that creepy underwater reality. "I also looked for others who might have ended up there, too."

She shuddered at the memory of feeling so alone, and then continued. "And, even though I have no self-defense skills at all, I still found something to use as a weapon."

Who probably have some idea as to how to hold their own if they're thrown out of their element, right?

Jake thought he knew how to hold his own, but then he wasn't entirely objective on the matter.

Who makes a living dealing with what goes down when he gets thrown out of his element.

And kind of enjoys the hell out of that sort of thing, too.

OMG DAY OFF. DAY OFF FOR MEEEEEEEE.

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