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Breaking Things 101, Wednesday, Period 3

"Today, we are smashing watermelons!"

Electroclash just wasn't going to greet the students like a normal person anymore. They were in the Danger Shop, once again, and there were tables with watermelons on them, and... piles and piles of rubber bands. Yes. Oh, and cameras set up to record each table's goings-on. She should probably say something about that, right?

"Watermelons are hard on the outside but squishy on the inside, and while it's pretty bloody satisfying to just smash them to pieces with a hammer or some shit like that, we are going the slow route today. You are going to pair up, take a watermelon, and start putting the rubber bands around it. It'll seem pointless fr a while, like all things in life, but if you keep putting more and more rubber bands around the fruit, there'll be more and more pressure on it, and eventually it will explode all over you."

Which Electroclash thought would be hilarious all on its own, but she gestured towards the cameras. "And at the end of the class, we'll watch your fruit explosions in glorious slow motion with the help of these high speed cameras. Trust me, it makes it all worth it because it is fucking hilarious. Now, get to pairing up and slowly breaking things."

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"Just us," Sparkle agreed, taking another handful as he waited for his turn at the melon, "being attacked by elastics. Way not fun. Those things leave welts."

Raven winced at the idea, even as she snapped the rubber bands into place. "I admit, I've never been hit with these things before."

"You so don't want to change that," Sparkle shared, even as he stretched one of the elastics around his fingers, thumb up and index finger pointed at the far wall, aiming his hand like a gun. "I mean, I could indoctrinate you into the cult of 'ow that fucking hurts what did you do that for,' but I'm sure you'd appreciate me not, huh?"

"Very much so," Raven said. "I'd hate to have to think about getting revenge."

"Really? I thought girls ate that kind of thing up with a spoon," Sparkle mused. "All the ones I ever knew, anyhow. Used to live with one in Toronto who hated everyone, but especially squealers. Took this one kid, once, and dragged him to the middle of the city in the middle of winter and took his coat and shoes and all his money, told him to try to find his way back, and if he squealed on them again, if he even dared to call for help, he'd get it good. Almost lost his feet."

Sparkle was probably making this up. He tended to do that.

"That's horrible," Raven said. She would be way more creative about revenge than something like that. "What was he squealing about?"

"I don't know," Sparkle replied with an easy shrug. "Probably she was out stealing things again. Or she beat someone up. She does that a lot. Lewis hates that."

Well. That much was true.

Sparkle put a few more rubber bands on the watermelon.

"Did she have a good reason?" Raven asked. "For the stealing and beating people up. Because if it was for no reason, then that's terrible, but sometimes those are just things you have to do."

"Yeah. No. I don't know. She was bored?" Sparkle didn't seem terribly concerned about her motives either way. "I'm not going to hang out with the kind of person who, like, throws people into the tiger pen at the zoo when they piss her off. I like being, you know, whole. It's a hobby of mine."

Along with trying to explode watermelons. As of, like, right then.

"Anyhow, some people don't need to steal but they keep doing it anyhow so they don't get rusty or something. Never know when you'll need to again, you know."

Raven blinked, fingers full of rubberbands stretched to various lengths. "I hadn't thought of that." Look, she'd gone from street kid to pampered rich girl at around the age of seven. She'd still been reveling in 'I don't have to break into mansions to feed myself' before coming to Fandom. "I hope I haven't lost my touch."

"It'd be a crappy touch to lose," Sparkle noted, nodding. "I mean, not that I'm supposed to be encouraging it or anything, but... you know... you have a useful talent, you don't let it rot, right?"

Sparks was going to encourage, and he was going to do so shamelessly.

He had a point.

"It'd be a little hard in such a small town," Raven mused. "You wouldn't want to get reputation for it."

That way, in her experience, sometimes led to angry mobs.

"That," Sparkle replied knowingly, "is what Baltimore is for."

Naturally!

"You're just full of interesting ideas." This was possibly not the best influence for a potential future evil mutant.

Sparkle was possibly not the best influence for anyone.

"What can I say? I don't like to stagnate. Things get boring fast that way."

He slipped another dozen rubber bands around the watermelon, wrinkling his nose. This really was taking a while, here.

Raven started stretching another set, getting it ready to wrap around the watermelon, then paused. "It looks like it's starting to leak a little."

That had to be a good sign, right?

It kind of had to be, didn't it? Sparkle nearly leaned forward for a better look, but stopped as he remembered his mental image of the flying attack elastics.

"So the next rubber bands could be the ones that mean we end up wearing it," he noted, pleased. "Or the ones after that. It could be, like, literally any moment now."

Raven moved to hold the rubberbands over the watermelon, leaning back as far as she could while she did so. "Brace yourself!"

"Okay, I'm ready! Let's do this!"

He was sort of bracing himself, if 'bracing himself' meant holding his hands up slightly so that he could protect his face in a hurry.

With a great cracking sound, the watermelon exploded open before Raven could even get her rubber bands on it. She shrieked as watermelon juice and bits sprayed all over her.

"Oh, SHIT!"

At least Raven wasn't alone in her shrieking, but Sparkle was almost immediately following that up with a hoot and then a fit of laughter as he tried to flick some of the juice from his soaked arms.

"That was freaking awesome!"

Raven shook her head, dislodging a few watermelon bits as she did. "Look." She pointed to the bottom half of the watermelon, still sitting on the table. "It cut it in half!"

"Hah, you did!" Sparkle leaned forward for a better look. "... I wonder if we could slice this thing into like edible chunks with rubber bands."

He was willing to give this a shot.

"Maybe if you got really thick, strong ones? So you don't have to use so many. You could get more precise, then."

"... I want to try this. Damn, who knew putting rubber bands on fruit would be so awesome?"

Apparently Electroclash had.

"God, I love this class."

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