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Fandom High Graduation Ceremony, Class of 2013, Early Saturday Evening [Part 2]

As the last graduate took his seat with his diploma, a faint rumble rattled the folding chairs.

The noise grew louder and the tremors grew worse and true to Fandom graduation protocols, a invisible, impenetrable dome came down to separate the graduates from the rest of the audience.

The rumble faded away into uneasy silence.

Then:

"Dig...Lett...DIG!"

Now might be a good time to see what's in those ACME boxes, grads...

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WTF earthquakes! React to being walled away from the graduates! Wonder about the Digletts!

There are giant ACME Hammers in those boxes for those of you who might not have prepared for having to deal with the dozens of adorable Digletts, the occasional Dugtrio, and some generic whack-a-moles at graduation!

There are also chairs to climb on top of and yell bloody murder if that's more your style.

Arm yourself (with the giant hammers or whatever you brought with you) and get to whacking!

[OOC: Ping us down in the OOC thread and we'll send someone after you!]

If fighting isn't your style, there's a safe space behind the stage that the Digletts and their friends haven't discovered yet!

After the Digletts and friends have been properly be-whacked, a cackling laugh echoed from...somewhere...and the pests that were still left by the graduates disappeared in puffs of smoke.

That wasn't creepy at all, really.

The invisible barrier lifted to release the smoke--and the graduated.

[OOC: Reactions, ho! Meet up with friends and family and try to explain what happened!]

Or a whack-a-mole or a Dugtrio, if you have a preference.

HAPPY GRADUATION!

Zayne had his hand on his lightsaber if anything threatening made its way out into the audience, but otherwise he figured they were actually safe and the graduates could handle this.

Bruce was no longer in his seat.

If someone was being VERY observant, they may have noticed a dark figure almost perfectly hidden in a nearby tree. The Batman was waiting for a threat to spill outside the wall.

Once it was clear this wouldn't happen, he was gone.

Toward the end of the fighting, Bruce made his way back to his seat with a flask in hand. "I didn't miss the whole thing, did I?"

Kate looked surprised, but only for about a dozen seconds or so. That was about as long as it took to realize something like this had happened at every graduation she'd been a part of.

Everyone would be fine. She was sure. Mostly.

Natalie wasn't even surprised.

She had a giant hammer, yes, although the graduation robe didn't entirely keep her from executing some successful kicks too.

And lo, Natalie Adams had graduated! And survived graduation without a scratch on her. And getting her phone out from her pocket underneath the robe informed her that her parents were stuck at a Portalocity hub in a 22nd century Caracas.

She could actually have felt happier right now. Definitely.

"Really?"

Robin, horrified at the merciless malleting of the adorable Muppet-like creatures did not stick around to watch.

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Ender sighed and rubbed at his face. He glanced towards Ben.

"You did bring snacks, right?"

... Well.

This was not going to get out to the media, no. Rebecca was already considering just fleeing.

Yeah, Jeremy was going to scream, flail, and then clamber onto a chair.

And he wasn't even going to be ashamed of it later.

"DIGLETT-DIG! DIGLETT-DIG!"

This little Diglett was literally jittering with excitement to be here! Or... no, actually, that wasn't what he was doing. He was going too fast too deliberately for that to be a genuine happy jitter--

--and then the ground started shaking around him.

"DIGLETT-DIG! DIGLETT-DIG!"

Several dozen of his friends popped up out of the ground to follow suit. Hold on to your hats, kids. These Digletts aren't stopping.

Neither are the localized earthquakes. Was that the empty graduate seating section that just tumbled into a fissure in the ground? Why yes, yes it was.

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"Oi, no FAIR! Why do they get all the fun?"

Pounding against the invisible dome with her baseball bat just threw sparks back in Ace's face, but it didn't stop her from trying.

Juliet had been screaming bloody murder on a chair like a sane person, thank you very much, when one of the localized earthquakes tumbled her off the chair and right into the path of a burrowing Diglett.

She screamed more bloody murder, kicked the creature hard with her conveniently spiky shoe, and kept kicking until she could get to a safe area. She'd made it through two and a half years of this; she was not going to get killed just days before she would have gotten back to New York.

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Ryan was struggling to keep on her feet as the ground shook, but she didn't hesitate in arming herself with a hammer. "This is actually pretty fun!" she shouted as she kept whacking the random Digletts that popped up.

Ryan was still grinning. She wasn't going to let some burrowing pests ruin her day.

She was also rather grateful that her parents couldn't make it so that she wouldn't have to explain what just happened.

"Seriously?" Olive asked, somewhere between desperation and amusement. "Like...are you serious?"

And after a half-hearted attempt to throw her mortarboard into the fray (it hit exactly nothing, but even if it had, it wasn't her best plan), she ducked behind the stage.

Sure, she was totally a wuss. But whatever, there were like, people with powers here. No need to get buried or killed or something on her graduation day.

"Of course," Ben said, holding out a bag. "Pretzel?"

Sam knew she could handle herself in a fight so he wasn't concerned about her there. But, she didn't look all that good when he saw her through the crowd of people.

He made his way over and said, "You all right?"

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Fandom High Graduation Ceremony, Class of 2013, Early Saturday Evening [Part 2]

AUDIENCE!

Graduates!

Re: Graduates: FIGHT!

Re: Graduates: HIDE!

Success!

OOC: I want a Diglett!

OOC: And we're done!

Re: AUDIENCE!

Re: AUDIENCE!

Re: AUDIENCE!

Re: Graduates: FIGHT!

Re: Success!

Re: AUDIENCE!

Re: AUDIENCE!

Re: AUDIENCE!

Re: AUDIENCE!

Re: Graduates: HIDE!

Graduates: Fight!

Re: AUDIENCE!

Re: Graduates: FIGHT!

Re: Graduates: FIGHT!

Re: Success!

Re: Graduates: HIDE!

Re: AUDIENCE!

Re: Success!