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Wednesday, Period Three: What was the school board thinking giving Jamie Madrox a teaching position?

When the students entered the danger shop today they would notice that it looked just like a normal classroom.

With the exception of several couches pushed up all against the walls of the room.

They would also notice a very stern looking Jamie standing in front of the classroom.

"Good morning class," Jamie said with a scowl. "Did anyone remember your assignment last week? Did you?"

He shook his head and threw his hands up in the air in disgust. "Not one of you completed your assignment. Not one of you introduced yourself falsely. How do I know? It wasn't on the news. And if the squirrels didn't see it? It didn't happen."

He then made a "tsk-tsk" sound. "You kids give me no choice. As of now? You are all failing my class."

That ought to give the A-Type personalities in class a kick in the gut.

"If you want to pass this course? You better be prepared to do what I say. Your assignment today is to learn how to Duplicate. Yep. Like me. How does that work? Using kinetic energy as the key, the danger shop will then create duplicates of yourself to interact with. Like me they will show various aspects of your personality at the time of your creation. Your assignment is then to convince your duplicates to work together to do this simple task..."

He gave his students a big grin.

"Build the ultimate pillow fort from these couch cushions. Sound simple? Well start smacking yourselves and see how easy it is."

Jamie started to turn before he remembered one important thing.

"Oh! One more important thing. No matter how tempting it is, don't make out with yourself. It'll just lead to social awkwardness later on."

...

"Not that I know anything about that. Let's get to work!"

[OOC: Please read the OOC thread before pinging into the class activity]

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"The set that looks like they were drawn by a six year old given a pack of color sticks and no motor control," Karla said. "And that's why I'm here. To do better. Darkness knows you need to be told what to do by someone who knows what she's doing."

As soon as the real Karla saw this, she was going to be tackling this duplicate and apologizing to Annie for a week.

Annie herself sort of noticed something going on, but as long as the duplicates were occupied while she was trying to get above a C- she did not even care right now.

The second Annie gasped, completely outraged. The third Annie burst into tears.

"So what, your fort's so great it's done already or something?" the second Annie pressed. "Or were you just so annoying they sent you to sabotage my work?"

"Mine was better!" the third Annie managed between sobs.

"I'll be going back there just as soon as that one stops crying into the building material," Karla said airily. "But until my minions get her under control, I decided to go and see where my leadership skills were needed most. And here I am."

"Sorry, but your leadership isn't needed here," said the second Annie, folding her arms. "All that's needed is you getting a punch in the nose!"

"You're just mad because I liked her plans better," Karla said, pointing to the third Annie. "It's all right. You can admit to being jealous of her. We're all friends here."

"I knew it!" said the third Annie, tears suddenly ending.

The second Annie was not so pleased. "Listen here, you little blonde hussy, if you think hers were better, then you're just too stupid to know any better!"

Sorry Karla sorry Karla sorry Karla.

Karla actually didn't care about the third Annie's plans. It had just been a clever ruse to get an ally on her side in case there was more hitting. Besides, that Annie seemed a little easier to boss around than the other one.

"Who're you calling a stupid?!" Or a hussy, but that duplicate was currently being sat on by the original and pouting. "I'm not the one who threw up all over a piece of paper and called them plans!"

This could only end in blood. And tears. And possibly a trip to the clinic.

The second Annie's jaw dropped, and then she reacted as an Annie with too much stress and frustration is wont to do: by punching her in the nose.

For a sweet little thing, she had a habit of hitting hard, too. Oops?

Karla's hands flew up to her her now-bleeding nose. "You hid me!" she said, voice thick. "You hid me in da node!"

Very good, Karla. Your powers of observation are startling.

"You bid!" It was probably for the best that Karla couldn't make certain sounds right now. "I can beliede you hid me!"

And then she was lunging for the other girl, intending to take her down in a flying tackle.

...One that was accidentally aimed at the pillow fort the first Annie was hard at work on. Oops.

And with a shriek, the second Annie fell back into the pillow fort, and she was determined to grab onto Karla and take her with her.

Of course now it was really hard for the real Annie not to notice something, so she immediately jumped up, "Oh my gosh"ing all over the place, wondering if she could intervene without getting in the middle of it. Because guess what was not needed right now? More dupes.

"Go, Karla!" cried the third Annie.

Karla was going to do her damndest to land on the second Annie elbows-first. Ha! Take that, nose-puncher.

"I'm gonna break your node, doo!" Karla shrieked, trying to headbutt Annie in the face.

"Awww, Hell!" Karla said, jumping off the other duplicate and running towards the tangle of limbs. "What are you--no!"

The Karla she'd been perched on immediately hopped up, stuck her tongue out at the original's back, and darted off to make more mischief.

The second Annie was not at all happy about getting elbows in her ribs, nor about the sudden headache she had. But now she going to try and claw her a little. Or a lot. Whatever. As you do.

And at that, the real Annie was yelling, "Stop it! This is not how we behave in class!" and trying to pull her dupe away and out from under Karla. It wasn't easy when the dupe was flailing around trying to grab and claw someone...

Ow! Okay, Annie wanted to claw? Karla was going to try and yank her hair out by the roots if she could. "See how many votes you get when you have to name yourself Patches!" Her face was bleeding freely now, both from her nose and from a nasty scratch along her cheek. "I will snatch you bald!"

"Mother Night!" Karla skidded to a stop next to the flailing pair and looked at Annie in shock. "I grab you, you grab me?" she suggested. "The last thing we need are more of them."

While the vote comment got a "Hey!" from the real Annie even as the second one was shrieking, "Leggo! Leggo!" and slapping indiscriminately, it was clear Annie wasn't doing a ton of good in stopping herself.

So that's why Karla got a "Done!" and moved to try and pull the other Karla off of the other Annie.

Yesterday she was talking about the nutritional value of lemurs and now this. Oh, Fandom.

The Karla duplicate wasn't going to make this easy for Annie. While she wasn't actively fighting the original off, she wasn't willing to be separated from her prey yet--as the handhold of hair she was clutching might have suggested. "No! No! Lemme go, I'm nod done killin' her, yed!"

And Karla wasn't having much better luck. She kept trying to grab for the second Annie's wrists to try to pull her out from under the Karla dupe, but with all the slapping, she couldn't catch her.

"MOTHER NIGHT! THAT IS ENOUGH!"

Any Annie would react to getting yelled at, so the fighting duplicate froze, looking chagrined. And trying to stay out of reach of everyone- at least, at much as she could with her hair being grabbed.

Meanwhile the real Annie was trying to pull the Karla dupe off of her own dupe, really really hoping that that had been a cease fire.

Karlas weren't as well-behaved as Annies, so the duplicate just snarled an epithet or two and kept trying to adjust the second Annie's hairline. Trying not to snarl, Karla used a phantom hand to smack her dupe's knuckles. Hard.

Hissing, her dupe let go of Annie's hair, and was yanked off by the real Annie. Karla snagged the other duplicate and pulled her away, too, helping her to her feet.

She thought it prudent to stand between them. "That's enough."

"Sorry about this," the real Annie said to the real Karla, not entirely willing to let go of the dupe till she was sure it wouldn't end in more trouble. "I look away for a minute, and..."

The third Annie was already studying the pillow fort, figuring out how to improve on the design.

That's because Annie was smart. Karla's duplicate was still baring her teeth at Annie's dupe. Considering half her face was covered in blood, it was a rather unsettling image.

"Not your fault," Karla said, rubbing the bridge of her nose. "I got jumped by this one and another one earlier."

She was tempted to just whack this one on the head and be done with it.

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