fandomhigh | Fighting With Powers [Monday, Fourth Period]

The Danger Shop was set up to look and feel like a warm spring day in a nice open grassy field. Max could have picked just about anything with space to move in, but it amused him to go for something incongruous with the actual weather.

Again his voice was loud, but at least they were outside so the effect wasn't quite as bad as it had been last week. "Welcome back to Fighting With Powers. Last week we talked a bit about what each of us is capable of. This week we're going to take that and put it into practice."

Max took nearly an entire minute to study each of his students in turn. Eventually he nodded, more to himself than to them. "Since I want as much time as possible to evaluate each of you, there's no lecture or anything today. We're going straight to today's exercise."

"The activity comes in two parts. First, each of you will spar with me for a couple of minutes. This will allow me to really gauge what you already know and what you can do while allowing your fellow students to get a feel for the same thing. Then you'll break into pairs and practice with one another. Try to pick a partner who can teach you something, or at least challenge you with a power or technique you haven't dealt with before."

Any questions? No, of course not. Good.

"That's it. Let's get started."

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Cassidy had been surprised, so she didn't dodge out of the way fast enough.

"Well, damn."

"That's how you'll respond to someone grabbing you?" Max asked. "Standing there and swearing?" He didn't sound impressed.

She shook her head. "But you're my teacher," she tried to explain. "It goes against Protocol for me to attack my teacher."

Oh Cassidy.

"You're going to have to learn to do it in this class," Max warned her. "Otherwise you won't learn anything."

Her reluctance to strike out at her teacher was probably all over her face.

Then she raised her free hand and fired a blast of power at his arm that was connected to the hand he had grabbed her with. At the same time she tried to jerk her arm free.

She didn't use her strongest blast, just the amount that she would use on her brother if he was trying to tackle her.

Max just narrowed his eyes. Really?

Frowning, Cassidy fired another, slightly stronger blast at his hand while trying to kick him in the leg.

"Better," Max told her, knee bending slightly and forcing him to step back.

Before she could talk herself out of it, Cassidy fired a blast of power at the leg she had kicked and again tried to jerk her arm free.

Max let go of her arm as his knee twisted and he went down.

"Much better."

The Queen in her wanted to help and make sure he was okay, and that she hadn't hurt him.

The student in her was glad that she had been able to do what he had wanted her to do.

Compromising with the two, she stayed standing back and bit her lip. "Did I hurt you?"

Max snorted. "Cassidy, I'm a soldier. I've been in combat." And his step-mother kept almost assassinating him. "This is nothing."

"Oh." She thought about that. "I guess I shouldn't keep worrying I might harm you if I want to be successful in having you teach me how to use my powers in a fight?"

"Probably not," Max agreed.

"Now, try that again." He stepped toward her again.

Cassidy attempted to dart to the left while firing a blast of power at his leg.

Max stepped to the side, both to keep her from getting too far away, and in an attempt to dodge the shot. He caught the edge of it and winced, but didn't go down.

Cassidy stepped backwards and then went the opposite way, trying to get around him and stay out of his reach.

"You can only run away if you're either faster, or have more endurance than whoever you're running from," Max said as he shifted to follow her again. He lost a little bit of ground to the change in direction, but not so much that she was clearly outpacing him.

Oh she hoped that she didn't get into trouble for this...

Cassidy brought up her sight shield. Then she stepped to the left, before darting back to the right and sending a blast of power at his other leg. (The one she hadn't hit before.)

That one hit and Max's knee crumpled. He hit the ground again, but he was grinning. "Excellent. You were paying attention."

Cassidy looked absolutely thrilled that she had managed to do that.

She nodded and couldn't help but smile. "I remembered what you said about not assuming and then when you pointed out that I may not always be able to outrun someone, I had to try something new."

"Good." Max cocked his head from where he knelt on the ground. "And how would you follow that up?"

Cassidy's answer was immediate.

"I would fire a blast of power at the attacker's head in an attempt to keep him down for awhile. Then I would keep up the sight shield and run like hell to get to safety."

"Good plan."

Max smiled. "Next time, do it."

He'd recover.

Cassidy's eyes widened at that, but she nodded obediently.

"Yes, sir."

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