Fandom High Graduation Ceremony, Class of 2011, Saturday Early Evening PART 2!

[prof_of_cunning]

Once all the graduates had returned to their seats, with their diplomas, Zoe turned to address the audience.

“Ladies and Gentlemen, may I present --- ee da tuo da bien!”

No one should translate that. Just know that it wasn’t Chinese for ‘funky looking red and green spacecraft twice the size of the school that just zoomed in to hover above the lawn.’

A beam of eerie green light shining down from it, straight onto the stage, and from that pool of light stepped... no, surged, a horde of men in hairy, horny helmets, waving battle axes and growling in ...something Nordic? Eric could tell you, if he could make it to the stage, but unfortunately ? Not so much.

Those other beams of light that shot from the ship took care of that issue. Both the audience bleachers and the area of the stage roped off for the faculty were enclosed by shimmering fields of energy that let air and light through, but were frustratingly solid to the touch.

Sadly for the graduates, there was no annoying force-field separating them from the hairy-hatted men -- who were headed straight for the Fandom High Class of 2011.



[Open for your umlaut-ridden pleasure! Audience | Grads: Fight! | Grads: Hide! | Aftermath | OOC]

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The Battle’s Done, and We Kind of...

[prof_of_cunning]

We kind of had a big pile of sore, bleeding, tied-up, passed-out, and otherwise incapacitated hairy dudes in the middle of the stage, that’s what we kind of.

We also kind of had a high, staticky whine coming from the spacecraft overhead. A long, green tentacle poked out from one of the pulsating red windowy things. It slithered down to the bound-up Vikings and … formed a big pair of purple lips at the tip.

The language coming from it might have been alien, but the message of the yelling was clear, as was the final SMACK! across the red-bearded face of the nearest horny hat wearer: get out, stay out, good freaking riddance!

With that, the tentacle was sucked back into the ship, and so were the beams that had been holding the audience and faculty. (And Apu, and three mystified teal deer, and the entire Cafe Fina kitchen staff, because, um, Vikings? Good at fighting, not so good at operating high-tech alien equipment.) The ship rose quickly into the sky again, and zoomed off, up, and away.

The horny-hatted dude just groaned and passed out again.

As the Clone Troopers arrived to haul the invaders away for incarceration, de-lousing, and possible interrogation once anybody figured out what the hell language they spoke, the graduates, family, and friends were finally free to make their way across the mess of knocked-over chairs and scattered programmes, to congratulate, hug, freak out at, and
otherwise meet up with each other again.

[React, meet up, have hot but comm-safe post-battle makeouts... the possibilities are endless!]

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[vanillajello]

So. That had happened. Kate had gotten through it relatively unscathed, although she'd managed to get the hem of her gown caught on something on the stage, and subsequently ripped it.

She still had her diploma, miraculously. That was something. And right now, she just needed her boyfriend, her brother (her brothers?), and her friends. And lots and lots of congratulatory hugs.

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[eyelidkisses.livejournal.com]

Marshall was the first to reach her. "Kate?" he asked, frowning, as he came closer. "Are you--" What was he supposed to ask when he'd just watched her hide from Vikings that had come from a space ship? "Are you okay?"

He guessed that was a good start.

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[therewaslife]

Bod found his way over to her as soon as he could, frowning and quickly checking her over before he said anything. Relieved that she didn't look that worse for the wear, he stopped in front of her and took a deep breath to calm himself down.

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[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

"Do you want a high-five, or some ice cream?" Dinah asked, making her way over to Kate.

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[furnaceface]

Jono was almost instinctively edging back behind the other graduates as the shields went down, patting down his pockets for his spare roll of wrappings. The ones he'd been wearing on his way up to the stage... had seen better days.

Jonothon really needed to find a tidier way to remove his wrappings than the ripping them off that he usually went with.

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[not-crucified.livejournal.com]

"Man, what the hell was that?" Angelo yelled. "This happen around here a lot or something, that there were weapons on stage?"

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[trigons_child]

Raven hurried over to check on him.

"Are you all right?" she said. Stupid space vikings were not allowed to stab at her friends.

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[heromaniac]

Blossom floated a few feet above the ground, frowning as the troopers carried off the vikings. She wondered if Sheriff Vimes would let her help with these guys? She totally wanted to know what had happened.

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[lordofthecats.livejournal.com]

Lion-o made his way over to Momoko as soon as he could. "Congratulations. Not just for graduating, but surviving all of that," he said.

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[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

"SMILE!" Dinah called, and snapped a photo of Blossom. "Way to go!"

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[brat-intraining.livejournal.com]

When Kennedy finally made her way out of the chaos, winded and sweaty and kind of in need of a shower, she was still in possession of her diploma (and phone!), panting a little bit, and grinning from ear to ear.

"That. Was. Awesome."

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[svetocha-blooms.livejournal.com]

Baseball bat still in hand, Dru pushed her hair back and shook her head.

"You're nuts."

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[justwantsquiet.livejournal.com]

"And that," Sookie said, looking fine if a little dirtier than when she'd started, mostly from other people's scuffling around her, "is why you are crazy, and I'm going to miss you."

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[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

Dinah took a picture of Kennedy looking Straight Out of Sunnydale, then laughed. "Niiiiiice!"

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[justwantsquiet.livejournal.com]

Because the last week hadn't been enough. Sookie was exhausted, her powers felt drained, she felt yet another headache coming on, and she now had Swedish vocabulary that she didn't know what to do with (other than ask Eric to translate.)

But she had her diploma. And because of that, she was still smiling pretty widely.

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[barksinsleep.livejournal.com]

After that kind of ceremony, of course Sam was going to make it a point to find Sookie, and he was glad that she still looked so happy about it.

"That was very..." he began, and realized he had no words for it. "Congratulations!"

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[fairygodcousin.livejournal.com]

"Well done," Claudine said softly, coming up to Sookie's elbow.

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[fuzzy-scientist.livejournal.com]

Hank was going to stand there. And growl.

Someone had neglected to tell him about some of the more dangerous aspects of her school.

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[elephantgadget.livejournal.com]

Helen's arm was a bit bruised and sore, but she was all in one piece and finally a graduate.

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[likes_scoundrels]

The battle over, Leia went looking for her family. She hoped Luke wasn't horribly traumatized by meeting them and the graduation fight.

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[stylin-wizard.livejournal.com]

It was over. Finally. Somehow, Alex had managed to survive that encounter, coming out of it relatively unscathed. She hoped to avoid any future situations that involved swords. They were way too sharp for her liking.

Her wand had gone back into her boot and she had a bat in one hand, her diploma in the other. She'd managed to keep it safe during the fighting. Alex hoped her family wasn't too taken aback by what had just happened. She really wasn't in the mood to come up with a good explanation.

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[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Alex was just going to find an empty chair and drop down in it. He hadn't done much of anything besides do his best not to die but he still felt exhausted.

God, graduating was not supposed to be this hard.

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[weetuskenraider]

That hadn't been the hardest fight she'd ever been in before, but it was the first battle in Fandom that she'd ever had in front of so many people from home. So many different versions of people from home, for that matter.

That in itself was a pretty huge feeling of accomplishment, and Tahiri was beaming.

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[anarchist-queen.livejournal.com]

Leda might have been almost disappointed at how little fight the Viking had put up, but she was too busy examining the energy pistol in her hand.

"I think I just figured out a way to make guns work in Faerie."

Then she was stunned into incoherency by her foster parents' abandoning all pretense of decorum, and embracing her.