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Shop Class [2/6]

As the students enter the Danger Shop, they'll see that Mac has set up what appears to be a long hallway. On a table there by the hallway are an assortment of cleaning products and other goods that you could pick up at your local Kwik Stop.

Yes. There are Twinkies.

"Your assignment today is to come up a way to walk down this hallway. The only trick to this is that there are several security lasers scattered about the hallway at different heights and angles. Your job is to come up with a way to detect the lasers and navigate the hallway without tripping the alarm."

The following Students will have detention this week for missing class more than three times in a row:
Yuffie
Sydney Bristow
DEATH

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John spends a long time thinking about this assignment. Easy way, if the movies are correct, would be to spray in front of him and look for the beam of red.

Deciding to get a little creative, John grabs a lot of Twinkies, some tongs, and duct tape.

Then he steps up to the hallway, puts one Twinkie at the end of his tongs and slowly runs the Twinkie up and down, looking for the beam of red. Upon finding it, he slowly walks over to one side of the doorway and tapes the Twinkie just under where the beam hit the Twinkie so he's got a marker of sorts.

He continues doing that slowly as he goes up the hallway. Soon, there are Twinkies taped all over the walls and John's succesfully made it to the end.

Nadia wondered tiredly if Mac expected them to build a mirror out of duct tape.

Which was silly; duct tape wasn't that reflective.

Some candy wrappers were, though. She grabbed a handful of Nestle crunch bars, unwrapped, and started munching as she flattened the wrappers as much as possible. She had chocolate on her hands and a stomach ache by the time she was done, but she also had several small, very flexible, mirrored surfaces.

So she grabbed a can of aerosal deodorant and stood next to the wall, spraying up and down until she spotted the first laser. She had to respray several times before she was sure of the position, since the deordorant settled much too quickly, but soon enough she was able to tape the first foil wrapper in the right spot to reflect the laser back on itself, and walked through.

The second laser went much the same way.

With the third laser, she got a little lazy, and tried to save resources by not spraying to deordorant that much, and she put the foil wrapper in the wrong place and set the alarm off.

She sighed and sat down on the floor. You couldn't win them all.

"Nice technique, Crichton," Mac said with an approving tone. "I never thought of the Twinkie technique."

"Good technique Santos," Mac said with a grin. "You'll do better next time."

Sam, still trying to figure out what she was going to do, had an idea. "Hey, Crichton? Mind if I use the cardboard from your Twinkies for my assignment?"

Nadia shoots Mac a quick salute and curls up to take a nap.

"Go for it, Sam." John pushes the cardboard towards her.

"Thank you, sir." John smiles. "Just don't tell Xander I wasted Twinkies."

*totally SAW you*

"Thanks, John," Sam said, making a little pile out of the cardboard, then lowering her voice and asking, "So, is everyone in your room recovering from the study session?"

John goes about peeling the duct tape off of the Twinkies and tossing them away. Poor Twinkies, alas.

"Yeah, think so," John says, lowering his voice as well. "Aeryn finally got some sleep last night, I think. She's been edgy since Friday, hasn't been sleeping."

Working slowly, but finally back on both feet, Sam went over to the safety supplies and pulled out a fire extinguisher, just in case. Then, she took out a small metal pie plate and placed the used Twinkie cardboard she'd gotten from Crichton into it.

She arranged the cardboard pieces in a pile that allowed for a great deal of air circulation, then used matches to set them on fire. The cardboard lit immediately, but the plastic covering and Twinkie grease on it made the fire smoke a lot, which made the lasers visible.

Once she was sure the fire wouldn't go out while she was walking, that it wouldn't leap into something else, and that she could actually see the laser beams, Sam made her way slowly and awkwardly across the room, coughing the entire time.

She should have made an air filter.

"Yikes. I can't imagine what would make Aeryn edgy. She's like a rock in emergency...study...situations. I'm glad she finally got some sleep, though." She looked at him with some concern. "And you? How're you doing?"

"I'm fine," John says. "Worried about her is all. And she hates when I worry so, you know how it goes. I'm okay though. Last night was good. We both slept well, I think."

Xander was not above cannibalism, as has been previously demonstrated - of his own or other people's assigments. He was, however, above cannibalism with Twinkies.

Shooting a disapproving frown in Crichton's direction, he sorted through the supplies until he found a tin of Nestle Chocolate Quik. Or as the heathens were calling these days, Nesquik.

Folding a piece of paper into a tight cone, he poured powder into the base, then blew it out into the hallway, watching the laser light bounce momentarily off the tiny sugar crystals.

The he did the exact same thing John had done. Only, you know. Without abusing the Twinkies. Since taping a piece of duct tape to the wall where the beam started and ended worked just fine, without the involvement of cream-filled, spongey tubes of Love.

Somewhere, someone was apologizing for that last metaphor, but not in this dimension.

Then he walked to the end of the hall, avoiding the beams.

Until he turned around to ~~stare~~ glare smugly at Crichton, totally tripped over his own shoelace, and broke the last beam, setting off the alarm.

"That's wrong, dude. So totally wrong."

Sam rolled her eyes. "Yeah, I've got one of those of my own, thanks." She wiped her hand off on her pants. "It's good you're sleeping again. But, y'know, if you ever just need to talk it out, feel free to knock on the door. I may throw things at you if you interrupt my train of thought, but it's really nothing personal."

"Will do," John says. "Everything's okay now but who knows what might happen later. And, of course, Valentine's Day is coming up. Haven't even told her what that is yet."

John eats a Twinkie in order not to laugh.

"Can I be there when you explain it? Please? I'll bring popcorn."

Xander very pointedly did not stare at John eating the Twinkie. Except for that one quick glance to make sure he knew where John and the Twinkie were so he could not stare there.

It's possible that he was sulking while he unwrapped a Twinkie of his own and sat against the wall not staring at John.

John feels bad so he grabs another Twinkie and some juice and walks down the hall to sit next to Xander.

"Twinkie?" John asks, offering the tasty treat.

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