fandomhigh | Show and Tell, Tuesday, Period Two

Funny thing about teaching a no-brainer class? Sparkle looked way more comfortable up at the front of the classroom this week than he did at the front of the classroom last semester. This one, hopefully, was going to be way less intimidating to teach than that one about 'urban survival.'

Which was not a hard bar to skip over, admittedly.

"Hey, guys," Sparkle said, offering people a little grin. "I'm Sparkle," yes, really, shut up, "and this class is basically my excuse to keep my teaching cred without putting out any real effort."

He gave the students in the room a grin. Maybe he was even joking! Who knew!

"Fortunately, it's easy marks for you guys, too, right? If you aren't from a place where 'show and tell' was a normal thing when you were growing up, it's pretty much exactly what it sounds like. Presumably it's supposed to help people work on, like, public speaking or whatever, so sure, we're gonna go with that. You bring something in, show it off, and then tell the class a little bit about it. I'm not going to leave you at a total loss for what to bring in every week, hell, I'm gonna try to keep this fun, too, but this week we're gonna have to keep it pretty simple. Name, how you ended up in this class, and show off and tell the class about one random piece of clothing or item in your pockets."

He grinned.

"I'll start. I'm Sparkle, I already told you why I'm teaching this class, and..." He reached into his pocket and pulled out a blue, kind of plastic-looking bill. "... And I guess I still have Canadian money on me because, hell if I even know. This is five bucks. Five bucks Canadian. It's pretty useless here, but it's got some old guy on the back and space dudes on the front? I think that's the Canadarm or whatever it's called. You can pass it around if you want while you guys do your introductions, just so long as I get it back when you're done. And go."

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"I'm Ringo Noyamano. I thought it would be interesting to learn about things that other people are excited about?" Ringo had loosened up a lot over the two years she'd been on the island, so the bow she included with her introduction was quick and informal.

"And is it cheating if I share something from my backpack?" Ringo looked hopeful. And for anyone who knew her, that might lead them to suspect that she had ATs in her backpack. Which, well, she did.

"So long as you don't have to go running back to your room for something, it's all good," Sparkle replied, grinning. "You have something cool in there, huh?"

"I do!"

Ringo beamed as she rushed over and grabbed her bag. She pulled out a pair of AirTrek. They weren't shiny or anything, as they were her everyday pair, and had seen a lot of wear.

"Tada!"

"Tada!" Sparkle echoed, grinning. "Nice! What are those, like, rollerblades or something?"

This was where the 'tell' part came in, Ringo!

"No!" Ringo exclaimed, shaking her head emphatically. "It's way better!"

She was still beaming. "These are AirTrek. The original concept is, like you said, based on inline skates, but these have very powerful little electric motors in them that allow them to go really, really fast."

Really fast.

"With practice, you can use them to do things like ride up walls and jump between the rooftops of buildings and stuff."

Wasn't that the most awesome thing you'd ever heard?

"Omigosh!" Pinkie glee'd. "My friend Rainbow Dash would die for something like that!"

"Yeah?" Ringo grinned. "What about you? Want to see if we can find some that'll fit you?"

"Do you think we could?!" Pinkie was super into this idea.

She would absolutely end up leaving several Pinkie shaped holes in walls around Fandom.

"We can't know until we try, right?" Ringo beamed.

And, hey, what was a little property damage in the interest of AirTrek?

"That's so true!" This was clearly the beginning of a beautiful and potentially horrifying friendship.

The most magical kind of friendship.

"I don't have the stuff with me right now, but we could get together sometime soon and try it!" That wouldn't end in disaster, would it?

Without a single doubt.

"Yay!" Pinkie glee'd. "Let me give you my number. I'm the best texter!"

Her texts were almost entirely made up of emojis.

Ringo grinned, pulling out her phone. "Awesome!"

She was going to text Pinkie right there in class, yes. Hopefully Sparkle wouldn't mind the not-at-all-subtle distraction?

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