Improving Your Skills [Friday, 3rd Period]

[so_hawkward]

When the students arrived at the Danger Shop today, they'd find it set up like a few weeks ago, with a variety of targets, training dummies, and the weapons.

Except this time, there were also boxes of chocolates set out. Hurray, discounted holiday candy!

"Hey folks. I figured it might be a good idea to get some more defensive practice in today," he said, feeling much more confident about the Danger Shop's programming this time. "If you want to use a different weapon this time, you can, or stick with what you picked last time to try to get better at it. Oh and, uh, try not to get chocolate on anything." In case that needed to be said.

Comments

Re: Whack the Training Dummies [02/15]

[new-it-girl.livejournal.com]

Hanna did have a lot of pent up anger, and so she was back to hitting a dummy like she did a few weeks ago. This time, she pictured 'A' as her target. It worked for her.

Re: Whack the Training Dummies [02/15]

[batwaffles.livejournal.com]

Stephanie had been planning on going over to flail pathetically at a dummy as if she had no clue what she was doing, but she couldn't help noticing what Hanna was up to.

"Whoa there, sister, everything okay?"

So she got concerned about people sometimes. Sue her.

Re: Whack the Training Dummies [02/15]

[new-it-girl.livejournal.com]

"What?" Hanna replied, unaware that her actions were causing concern. "I'm fine. Just practicing."

She landed a punch on the dummy's head as she said those last words.

Re: Whack the Training Dummies [02/15]

[batwaffles.livejournal.com]

Stephanie smiled slightly. "You remind me of me on a bad day -- or at least how I picture myself on a bad day when I don't have a handy training dummy to whack around, since I don't usually carry one around with me . . ."

Rambling, Steph. Stop it.

She cleared her throat. "Which is to say, hey, this is me not judging, 'cause why not have some cardio on the side to go with your venting, buuuuuuuut this may be me assuming things."

Sorry, Hanna. The vigilante instincts had to manifest themselves somehow.

Re: Whack the Training Dummies [02/15]

[new-it-girl.livejournal.com]

Hanna smiled sheepishly. "Am I that obvious?"

She took a break for a moment. "There are a few people at home I'd like to punch."

She wasn't one to sugarcoat. "Punching the dummy instead will get me in less trouble, I think."

Re: Whack the Training Dummies [02/15]

[batwaffles.livejournal.com]

"Oh, I know the feeling," Stephanie told her, waving one hand for emphasis. "And then I broke a finger on a heavy bag at my old school's gym after a really irritating day --" which wasn't quite true, since it had been in the Batcave and Bruce had been on her case all day about one tiny stupid mistake, but the point stood -- "and got in trouble with my piano teacher for it."

Again, for 'piano teacher,' substitute 'Batman.'

"So the moral of the story, I guess, would be to punch carefully," she concluded.

Re: Whack the Training Dummies [02/15]

[new-it-girl.livejournal.com]

Hanna nodded. "Sounds like very good advice."

She couldn't help wincing. "Breaking a finger punching a bag? Ouch."

Re: Whack the Training Dummies [02/15]

[batwaffles.livejournal.com]

Stephanie made a face. "I got way too carried away. But now it's something I can point to as a learning experience!"

That was a terrible pun, Steph.

Re: Whack the Training Dummies [02/15]

[new-it-girl.livejournal.com]

Hanna gave a bemused smile. She totally got that pun! "Did it help at all? The venting that day? I mean before the unfortunate broken bone incident."

Re: Whack the Training Dummies [02/15]

[batwaffles.livejournal.com]

"Fabulously. Too bad it got cancelled out by the lecture I got afterward," Stephanie said, rolling her eyes. Thanks ever so, Bruce.

Re: Whack the Training Dummies [02/15]

[new-it-girl.livejournal.com]

"So you broke your finger and got lectured because of it?" Hanna said incredulously. "Harsh."

Re: Whack the Training Dummies [02/15]

[batwaffles.livejournal.com]

"Mmmm," Stephanie said, her tone a little too noncommittal (the incident still stung a bit). "For some bizarre reason my piano teacher thinks I need those fingers, so I guess I should've seen it coming."

She snickered. "Unlike the punching bag, that time. Never knew what hit it."

Re: Whack the Training Dummies [02/15]

[new-it-girl.livejournal.com]

Hanna grinned. "Guess it's good it was a punching bag and not a person? Then you'd probably be saying, 'You shoulda seen the other guy.' Or something."

Re: Whack the Training Dummies [02/15]

[batwaffles.livejournal.com]

"Punching bags and training dummies," Stephanie remarked wryly, "are nine hundred and ninety-nine percent less likely to land you in detention, but I'd like to disclaim that by saying I'm not that great at math."

Re: Whack the Training Dummies [02/15]

[new-it-girl.livejournal.com]

"Well that's something we have in common," Hanna said with a laugh. "I don't get along with math. But that sounds right!"

Re: Whack the Training Dummies [02/15]

[batwaffles.livejournal.com]

"Works for me." Stephanie held a hand up in the universal (as opposed to multiversal) high-five gesture.