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Flight- Monday- 3rd period

By third period at least, the Danger Shop had been programmed, and once again the students would find themselves in a field, with Jaina standing next to a couple of crates.

"Welcome back, everbody. We're obviously not in ships today, but you do get to use something that you probably don't get to much in your normal lives." And with that, Jaina reached into one of the crates and pulled out a jetpack. "This a jetpack. It's from my galaxy, because while I know you occasionally hear about someone trying it here, it's often terrifying. At least I'm sure we've worked out this particular technology. You're going to wear a helmet so that you can control it using voice commands. Basically what you're doing today is getting to try them out and fly around as you want without burning off any body parts. Just as long as no one crashes into each other in purpose or tries to pick midair fights. For some reason I want to get that out there before anyone tries it."

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You get to go zoom!

Listen, put on the jetpack and helmet and talk about how cool you look...

Go fly.

Who might have been checking to make sure Anakin was around, shh.

Credit to

craftyladyparts from weeeeks ago.

Korra

Atton Rand

Cade

"I look so much better in this than Mandolorians ever did," Cade declared.

Karina Lyle

Evan Sabahnur

Evan quirked a little bit of a tired smile as he listened to Jaina talk, today. Jetpacks- He knew those. It would be something nice and familiar, to ease him back into classes and the second half of the semester.

The helmet part was kind of new. He let himself get lost, for a while, in poking at how it was put together before finally pulling on all of his gear.

Evan wasn't really paying any particular sort of attention as he flew around, today. Once he had the voice commands nailed down, a jetpack was really a jetpack no matter how you looked at it. He was thankful for the opportunity to use something that he was pretty thoroughly familiar with, if you didn't count every spectacular failure he'd ever had when attempting to land properly.

He was kind of steering away from the rest of the group, though. Being up in the air... it was a good, kind of calming place to go to think.

... Yes, even with a rocket strapped to his back.

Jetpacks? Yes!

She wondered if she could get Titan Industries to alter her costume to give her one. Probably not since it didn't fit in with her image and Poseidon Line might complain but...

It was fun to dream.

So, like, jetpacks were a bit harder to voice control than she'd thought. So sue her.

She wasn't meaning to wind up by Evan, really, but that was what happened. Mostly because she'd gone up higher and then wound up drifting his way and... well... yeah. That was a thing that happened.

Karina still wasn't sure how it had but whatever. "Do you think if we use a directional word in a totally unrelated sentence the jetpack will respond anyway?" she called to Evan.

Because she could. It was possibly things like this that were making Karina's flying more than a bit erratic but hey, at least she hadn't managed to crash herself. Definite win!

"Huh?" Sorry, Karina. Evan's mind had been anywhere but on who was flying near him, today. "Sorry... I wasn't paying... You mean, like if we say the opposite of wrong? Or ask what's... um..."

He pointed up with one hand. He suddenly wasn't all too keen on risking losing control over a conversation.

"Exactly," Karina said, nodding. Which was a bit weird with a helmet on. Was this how Sky High felt all the time? "Which seems pretty inconvenient to me but I guess it'd be hard to program this thing that strictly, right?"

She was totally going to give it a shot. Soon.

"I... guess." Noncommittal answer was noncommittal, right there. "When we used jetpacks at my last school, we usually had hand controls. Or I'd just use my rocket boots."

Way easier to steer, those rocket boots.

Ace McShane

If you thought Ace's erratic flying was caused by nervousness and not distraction as she tried to figure out how to smuggle one of these things out of here under her jacket, you didn't know her very well. Or were stupid. Or you didn't know her very well and you were stupid.

“Rocket boots?” Excellent way to distract her, Evan! “Wouldn’t those be heavy? The packs are pretty heavy on the ground after all…”

Wouldn’t boots just, like, slide off?

If Evan wasn't wearing a jetpack, he probably would have just defaulted to a shrug of his shoulders, here. Fewer words.

"Different world, different technology," he replied. "I'm usually wearing my rocket boots... I just don't really notice them anymore... but they're not as heavy as these jetpacks are."

Or, rather, he'd probably never leave home without his rocket boots again. Not after the way his spring break had gone.

Karina kicked her feet out idly. Okay, it was kinda cool to look way, way down.

“I guess if they weren’t as heavy…” Yeah, that would probably work. “How do they work? Like, not voice, I’m guessing?”

"Not voice," Evan agreed, looking down toward the ground, and then muttering a command to the jetpack. He turned mid-air to face Karina, and held his position there, hovering. "You steer with your feet. Where you point them is where you're headed away from. It's pretty simple."

"That would so suck if you had twitchy feet," she observed, because that was where her mind went first today. "But that does sound simpler than this."

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