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Fandom High Welcome Picnic, Front Lawn of the School, All Day: Part I

Whoever worked their magic to ensure that the welcome picnics had nice weather had cut their mojo very close this time around. The weather was lovely today - sunny and hot enough to make it clear that summer in Fandom had finally begun - but the overnight thunderstorms had left puddles all over the lawn that hadn't quite dried up yet.

Still, the tables and chairs had managed to be scattered around, along with the buffet table of ~~moddable~~ food and drinks, and the information table with name tags, the Big and Little Sibling list, and the list of new roommates. The only thing missing was people to enjoy the festivities!

[OCD is up! This is part one of the picnic, specifically for meeting siblings, roommates, and teachers. The rest of the picnic is happening here in an effort to keep browsers from breaking for as long as possible. Since it's outside, the picnic is open to all students, teachers, and townies!]

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A sleek, black jet zoomed by in relatively low airspace above Fandom. Specifically, above the picnic itself. After the jet continued past, it eventually banked and returned toward the mainland. But the sky was not yet empty.

Anyone who was still looking up would see what appeared to be a large, black bat swooping toward the ground. But as it got ever closer, they might realize that it was a man. A man with a billowing, scalloped cape, who wasn't so much 'swooping' as he was 'falling with complete confidence and plenty of style.' As he came ever closer to the ground, he seemed to shoot a bat-like object from his hand, and it was attached to a cable. This bat-grapple caught a sturdy part of a tower on the school, and the caped crusader's fall was officially turned into a swing.

At a precisely timed moment, the grapple line was cut, letting the caped man fly through the air toward the teacher's area. As gravity took hold and brought him back toward the earth, the cape billowed once again until he landed in a crouch.

With his cape falling neatly over his shoulders and covering his gray and black costume, he slowly rose to his full height.

He was the Batman. And he liked to make flashy entrances.

Electroclash noted this flashy entrance.

A beat later, and she rolled her eyes and scoffed, "Bloody showoff."

Batman caught the eyeroll and glared a Electroclash. "I see I'm not the only costumed person here," he said. Was he maybe making a point that some people were throwing stones in their spandex houses? Did that metaphor make any sense? These were questions better left unanswered.

Electroclash had at least had the decency to walk to the picnic.

"Nah," she rasped. "Just the only one making an arse of himself."

Why walk when you had a highly advanced jet and the skill to jump out of it without a parachute? Use what you have.

"Find me some private jet parking and I'll be more discreet," Batman lied.

She was just going to keep looking unimpressed and rolling her eyes at him. Like the working class superhero that she was.

"Sure you will."

"I assume you're school staff," Batman said, totally judging the school for hiring her.

Oh, she could tell. She looked obnoxiously smug about it, too.

"I'm the fucking guidance counselor."

There was absolutely no reason to swear. That, in itself, was reason enough to do it.

"I feel sorry for the students," Batman noted.

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"You know how to make an entrance," Jack said -- which felt a bit like stating water was wet, but seemed as good an excuse to talk to a stranger as any.

Batman gave a small nod. He was slightly disappointed that there wasn't a skylight to crash through at the end of it, but you took what you could get sometimes. "You're another teacher?"

Jack nodded. After four years in Fandom, he wasn't surprised the man with the cape and mask was a teacher -- if anything, he was surprised the school didn't attract more obvious heroes. "My name's Jack," he said. "The class this term is about old-fashioned games. What's yours on?"

"Survival," Batman said. "It should be a useful workshop from what I know about this place. I'm Batman."

"When we're getting swept into magic dungeons a week at a time, I can't argue with you," Jack said, tilting his head to one side. "Which came first, the name or the costume?"

"They went together," Batman said. "Magic dungeons?" He was intrigued.

Jack shook his head, as if he was about to say Batman didn't want to know, and proceeded to tell him anyhow. "Most of us woke up in a labyrinth a few weeks back," he explained. "If you can imagine something awful, it was probably behind one of the doors in it. Took the best part of a week to get us out."

Batman didn't ask any questions he didn't want to know the answers to.

"You don't want to know the awful things I can imagine," Batman said, mysteriously. "Did everyone make it?"

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Anakin's eyebrows arched up. There hadn't been a drama queen like that since Magneto.

"Really?" he asked.

"Really," Batman said as his cape caught a slight breeze and swayed a little.

Jealous?

Did he have a wind machine under there? Anakin's cape wasn't rustling nearly as photogenically.

"Where's the plane going to land?" he asked.

"I have a location on the mainland," Batman said. "Close enough to get here quickly if I need it."

Anakin was jealous at all. Really.

"I drive a hybrid," he shot back. "More fuel efficient."

SO THERE.

"The Batwing doesn't use traditional jet fuel at all," Bruce said.

Thanks, WayneTech, for innovative technologies that aren't ready for the public, but could easily be used in a war on crime.

"Can it go into space?"

Anakin, Anakin, Anakin...

"No, but I'm working on something that will," Batman said. "The Batwing is specifically designed for use in a city."

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