fandomhigh | What NOT To Do In A Fight / Wednesday, Period III / Week 3

After ~~handwavily~~ informing class to dress in clothing they didn’t mind getting dirty and to meet up in the danger shop, they were greeted by the most awesome of all things:

Paintball. Enough paintball guns of different sizes and shapes for everyone to have two, even.

"Now, we have a couple things to cover, since most people seem to learn how to use firearms from television and not actual instruction," Ghanima said. "Such as there is no such thing as a bottomless magazine - you always need to reload - and it's nearly impossible to walk, let alone run and fire a weapon with any accuracy. Learn poison instead," Ghanima suggested. "...Which is not this class."

Yet. Sadly.

"Holding your gun sideways does nothing but throw off your aim unless you’ve spent all your time practicing it just like that. If you have been practicing that, there are better things you should be spending your time on." Not that Ghanima was biased or anything, except that she was. "And unless you’re not firing real guns or have the right amount of upper body strength to deal with the Mexican stand off that will come from it, don’t use two guns at once. It merely doubles your chances of missing entirely or causing collateral damage."

"Not to mention the sheer number of movies that teach you people how to use firearms fails gun safety forever," she continued. "And you cannot just 'aim to wound' or blast a gun out of someone's hand without injuring them. There's also no such thing as a flesh wound in real life. There's no 'safe' place to shoot a person, not even in a seemingly non-vital extremity like a leg or arm. So don't try it, you'll just feel guilty when you fail."

"So today, you get to have fun and not worry about any of that, or you can try and practice proper firing techniques." With one smooth motion, Ghanima pulled a small paintgun from the sleeve of her tunic and fired a pink, glittery round at a student. "All guns are already loaded, because you should always assume a weapon is loaded. Begin."

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He had a tiny robot too! It sounded like demonic nails on an evil chalkboard. It was adorable.

"Oh!" He looked way too relieved about that. "That's horrible."

And yet he was so glad she wasn't a vault hunter who might shoot him in the face.

Maybe their robots could be friends! Could Rhys's robot understand written Boov? Bill didn't have a voicebox.

"You know it's the weirdest thing," Tip said, eyebrow raised. "You almost look happy about it."

Dumpy was an Atlas bot, so it was mostly just a wonder it still functioned.

"I thought you were from Pandora. Thank god, right?"

"I'm guessing you don't mean an ancient Greek box."

That was some high brow thinking there, Tip. Wrong canon for that.

"Uh, no. It's a murder planet."

Tip blinked harder at that than at the robot hand.

"Why would anyone ever go there?"

"Money." Wasn't that always the reason for these things?

That or "resources" in general, really.

". . . People suck."

By 'people', of course, she meant 'sentient beings'. Sometimes she thought J.Lo was right, and they really were all glitches.

Yeah, distinct Sasha vibes still.

Rhys coughed awkwardly. Because he was totally one of those people. Then again, so was everyone on that crapsack planet and anything orbiting it. "Never go there and you should be fine. And if anyone mentions a vault, run the other way."

"You know there are a lot of vaults out there in the world, right?" Tip asked. "So how'd you end up in Fandom, then? Instead of --" on a murder planet "-- in your office?"

Yeah, but there are vaults and there are vaults. Ignore how they also factor into some other video game franchises.

Damn it, 2K.

"I woke up at the airport after, uh, passing out." Possibly dying. Since there was a New-U station there and all.

"And you just wandered onto the first shuttle you could find?"

"Yeah?" It wasn't the ruins of Helios and he wasn't being attacked. It seemed like a good idea at the time.

But, this being Rhys, it wasn't. Try to keep from being shocked.

". . . well okay then."

What else was she supposed to say to that?

"At least you managed to find a place that only gets attacked semi-regularly, instead of, like, a murder island."

"Is there a murder island?" Because, honestly, he wouldn't be surprised.

"If there's a whole murder planet, an island doesn't seem like much of a stretch."

"It's moon was pretty murderous too," Rhys replied. "Even the plants wanted to kill you. And people live there."

"They must be getting paid a heck of a lot of money," Tip observed. "Or been dragged there as punishment or something." Australia apparently had its share of plants and animals that wanted to kill you, after all.

"...I think it was a Dahl prison planet for a while," Rhys said like it was dawning on him.

And yet the Aussies lived on Elpis. Imagine that.

It was entirely possible that the Aussies knew better than to find themselves another murder home.

"There, see?" Tip said. "You can't blame people for living where they were born. It's the ones that move there that should get the stink eye."

He could and would! And then would feel sad and miss Sasha and Fiona a little bit. But not August. Fuck that guy.

"And then there were Hyperion settlers. That... was not a success."

"Ugh," Tip said. "Colonists."

She had Opinions about colonialism, yes.

Rhys was forced to agree, but only on grounds that it had been Jack's plan. And he was a petty, petty man.

"Yeah," he agreed with a sigh. "Everything about that place sucks."

"Sounds like." Tip side-eyed him. "That's not where your office was, was it?"

"No, I worked on Helios." Oh, right. No one knew Hyperion here. "It was a space station orbiting Pandora. Which then crashed onto Pandora. And now I'm here."

And clearly he had nothing to do with the crashing. Nothing at all.

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