fandomhigh | Superheroing 101, Thursday, Period 4

"Today's topic is super teamwork," Electroclash announced once most if not all of the students had made their way into the room they were meeting in this week. It was a regular classroom, and she was standing up front with a projector. By the look on her face, the topic seemed to be particularly displeasing to her, but wasn't that always the case? "Which I think is a load of bollocks but the SPA want it covered and apparently they're spying on me through the radio like utter creeps so I guess I have to."

Your dedicated teacher, ladies and gentlemen.

She sighed. Heavily. Then she got out a paper with a big SPA logo on it, and consulted that for the next bits. "So this is different from having a sidekick. We're gonna get to that later. This class is about teaming up with another superhero, whereas working with a sidekick is about getting stuck with some whiny kid who's basically a glorified assistant." ... Okay so she may have been ad libbing some of the stuff. "I was in a superteam once ––"

The SPA mandated projector had about five seconds to show the front cover of the first and only issue of Ladytrouble's comic book before Electroclash snapped in her electronic voice, "|Projector don't work.|" to shut it down. Too bad about the rest of the SPA's slide show.

"–– and it was shit. I don't recommend it. But the SPA wants you to consider it so I've divided you into teams and I need you to think about team names and what your joint shtick is that makes it seem like you weren't just randomly assigned into groups. Extra credit is both are equally stupid."

Ladytrouble because they were both ladies (well, women) and caused trouble, see? Sigh. It had been She-Force's idea in the first place, yes.

"Right. The teams are as follows: Flamemover with Average Girl, Invisihair with G.I. Blast, The Flying Sycophant with Magic Slicer, Magicka with Ghost Hotline, Imagilad with Excelsor Jr. and Guardiangifted with Emotion Taxi and Slightly Less Average Boy." Yeah, she was going to keep using those names. (Sorry, Raven.) And no, she didn't care whether all of the named students were actually present or not. "Get to work."

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Stephanie had no room to judge, but she thought so too, going by the look on her face. "I dunno, I think that lacks a little pizzazz, don't you?"

Elphaba nodded. "Not that I can think of any better names," she admitted. "In our case, Average and Flame? It's not exactly like they have a built-in theme."

"Ooooo." Stephanie tapped a finger against her lips. "How about Medium Heat?"

Painful wordplay was part of the Robin job.

Elphaba's brow creased, but she smiled as well. "Well it's as good of a name as any," she said, thinking about it. "And our 'schtick' would be leaving evil-doers... slightly reheated?"

"Stewing in their own juices," Stephanie decided. "For a long time."

"Stewing in their own juices," Elphaba repeated. "I like that. Making them suffer in extreme discomfort."

"And," Stephanie added, holding up a finger emphatically, "making them think really good and hard about what they've done."

More Bruce's MO than hers; she'd rather just let them rot (and didn't really think there was anything wrong with killing the worst offenders), but she was working on keeping that whole secret-identity thing secret.

"I really like the way you think," Elphaba said. She smiled. "I'll have to thank the teacher for pairing us up."

"You do?" Stephanie, still unused to compliments, blinked in genuine surprise. "Wow. Um, thanks. I try my best, you know?"

"You definitely know more about this whole superhero thing than I do," Elphaba said. "Though we don't really have them as a 'thing' in my world, so that's probably a bit of it."

"They're common enough at home that I have posters on my bedroom walls," Stephanie explained. Not that there was much in the way of wall space for the posters, but . . .

"The news eats that stuff up. Zingy catchphrases and fancy onscreen graphic slogans galore."

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