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Flight Club [Tuesday, early evening]

Even after a workout in the gym, Anakin was still in a bit of a Mood.

He didn't slam open the door to the Flight Club shed, but it's a near thing.

He took a deep breath, fired up the sim--still set with up with the Jedi Starfighter programming--and waited for the rest of the club to arrive.

"With the new regulations about off-campus travel, and my trip home this weekend, I didn't have a chance to talk with the Dean about how that might effect our work with actual flying. I'll get to that this week. I apologize for not doing so earlier."

He gestured at the flight sim. "You have been making some pretty great strides towards learning the way that the Starfighter flies. I've increased the difficulty of the programs tonight and included a few more combat runs." He rubbed his hands together. "One's so new I haven't even gotten a chance to try it."

Anakin cleared his throat. "Have fun, blow off a little steam. But as always, break the sim and we'll have to have a bit of a discussion."

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"One order of stuff to shoot the frak out of, coming right up." She says with a wink, and goes about activating the easiest of the combat sims Anakin has programmed in. Not that she doesn't think could handle worse, she just wants him to have a good time and not get more frustrated, that's all.

Lee picks up the console and figures out pretty quickly how the thing flies and shoots. He's biting his lip tightly as he finishes the first round. "Something a bit more challenging next time, Cally?" he asks, breathing normally but eyes on fire.

"You want harder, we got harder." She amps up the difficulty on the scenario, pressing the buttons as she's been instructed.

"There. Should be up to a level to match your mad pilot skillz, Lee." She laughs.

"Thanks, Cally," he says gratefully and flares up this second program. In under a minute, he's sweating, a maniacal grin on his face as he zooms through artificial space, destroying a rather irritatingly difficult-to-kill foe. "Frak!" he squeals when he's cornered into an astroid and blows up. Shaking his head, he pulls out of the sim and smiles at Cally. "That's a good one. Real good." He looks a bit dazed.

Anakin smiled at Lee's reaction.

"That was a hell of a battle," he commented. "You did really well for a first attempt."

"Thanks, Skywalker," Lee says teasingly and follows up in a more serious tone, "Glad you think so --- I'd love to spend a couple of hours in that sim. I miss flying out there in the black."

Cally coughs. "Erm, I've actually been, erm, meaning to tell you something, Lee. Kinda got busy and forgot..."

Lee looks at her curiously, "Yes?"

"We might have a Mark II viper on campus soon. Not sure if it'll run, but we're gonna have one."

"A...A what?" Lee says startled, pleased, excited and hyper all at once.

"Viper, Mark II. All my Dad has sent me so far is an engine, fuselage, and I got in a wing this morning. Eventually, I'm gonna have all the pieces to put back together. Now, it didn't run the last time it was all together, and it doesn't have any guns, but I'm hoping with some extra help from folks around here we might get her space-worthy again."

"Oh, FRAK yes, this is awesome!"

"Hee! Don't get too excited quite yet, cause I don't know how fast my Dad is sending the parts, but I hope it'll be done before Semester is over, you know? And you totally have first dibs at flying the thing, assuming it flies."

Cally beamed at Lee, really glad to have changed his mood around.

Anakin grinned back. "It took me three runs through it myself before I didn't end up spattered against that rock. The trick is to throttle back a little coming around and then banking hard to starboard. The R-2 unit'll scream, but you don't end up dead."

His tone turned more serious as well. "Yeah. Fifteen minutes at a time isn't any way to get a serious workout. I've got the keys with me most days--if you need to blow off some steam that doesn't involve any real life fatalities, let me know and I can open this place up for you."

"You're the guy, Anakin," Lee says with a charming smile. "Thanks."

"Sure."

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