fandomhigh | Summer Camp Wednesday [The Docks], Wednesday, May 16, 2018, mid-morning

Anakin stood on the edge of the docks, a dozen rowboats bobbing the water around him. The clouds above were looking threatening (and kind of...not gray, which was odd), but so far the day had been dry. There was a set of bleachers (with canopies above them) set up for any spectators to cheer from, and the ambitious vendors from Mooby's were selling burgers and fries.

"Welcome to our first day of summer camp activities," Anakin yelled through the megaphone he'd acquired from...somewhere. "Our first community building activity will be a teachers versus students rowing race from here to the Isle of Ikea. The winning team receives a Big Mouth Billy Bass because I don't want it in my house any more, and all the Swedish meatballs they can eat. The losers get sore arms and the pleasure of not owning a singing fish award. In the event of a rowboat flipping, our PE instructor Steve Rogers will be out on a jet ski for rescue missions."

He looked at all the contestants. "I'll know if you're capsizing on purpose. Also, he's not that good looking. Contestants, please put on your life preservers while I call out the teams. For the students: Sabine and Beaker, Astrid and Jason, Rufus and Aloy, Theron and Tip, Norman and Khadgar, Peebee and Bobby, and Jaylah and Peridot. For the teachers: Amaya and Tony, Kanan and Magnus, Reno and Jenkins, Cara and Deadpool, and Liam and Zoe. Racers, man--or woman, or other--your ships."

Once everyone was in place, Anakin raised his hand. "On your marks, get set...go!"

...And that was when it started pouring rainbow colored-rain.

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Peridot had no idea what any of this was, except that she got to take a break from the library in order to attend it, and she was all for new experiences! She looked around for Jaylah, quite pleased that she would get to participate in this aquatic human rite of passage.

"Why can we not just take the singing animal?" Competition seemed stupid if you asked her.

That... that was a very good question. Peridot turned to look at the singing fish thoughtfully.

"... I bet we could."

This would go well.

Jaylah narrowed her eyes at Anakin in the distance, already trying to decide their best course of action in this. "You can distract."

"I... I think I can do that," Peridot said, looking around, trying to find something-- Aha! A garbage can!

"HEY LOOK. A FLYING REFUSE RECEPTACLE COVERING DISC."

There was a metal garbage can lid just, you know, flying around the bass now. As they are prone to do. Ignore the way Peridot was waving her arms around. That was clearly to get someone's attention.

When no one seemed to pay attention to their shenanigans, Jaylah frowned and put her hands on her hips. "The refuse will get everywhere," she tried.

"AND YOU WOULD NOT WANT REFUSE TO BE EVERYWHERE," Peridot agreed, loudly.

And then banged the lid against the garbage can, just to make extra racket.

Okay, that seemed to be working better. Or maybe people thought this was some street theater with two aliens.

That was distinctly possible.

Jaylah nodded at her that this was working--kinda--and slowly made her way over to The Fish.

Peridot continued banging the trash can lid against the trash can, until it looked as though maybe people were losing interest.

And then she did the only thing she could think to do in order to keep whatever attention might be turned toward them... toward them.

"I SHALL STOP THE REFUSE FROM BEING EVERYWHERE!"

She ran and took a flying leap into the garbage can.

Desperate measures!!

It was a worthy cause as Jaylah took that distraction as her queue to dash over to the fish, leaping over where it lay to snatch it up and roll away to safety.

Alien parkour, motherfuckers.

So they were both like masters of alien parkour! Only... Jaylah's leap was far more impressive than Peridot's and didn't leave her looking like a trash goblin.

Peridot peered out of the garbage can.

"I'M A HERO."

Yeah, that garbage totally wasn't going anywhere.

Until she decided it was time to get out of the garbage can.

It was okay, trash goblins were what she was used to!

Jaylah shoved the fish into a bag, casually rejoining Peridot by the garbage. "She has defeated the refuse."

In case anyone questioned it.

And at that, Peridot threw her arms in the air.

"I am victorious! Worship me!"

The garbage can fell over.

Jaylah scooted out of the way of the garbage before offering her a hand to help her back up. And away from their defeated foe.

And Peridot took that hand, ignoring that she still had an empty drink cup stuck in her hair like some sort of sticky cylindrical hat. She looked up at Jaylah questioningly as people once again lost interest and wandered off.

"Are we victorious?"

She smiled back at her, all teeth like she was sort of working on the details of the gesture. Then opened up her bag just enough for Peridot to catch sight of their prize.

Jaylah might feel more guilty when she realized she stole it from her roommate. Maybe.

"Yessssss!" Peridot threw her arms up again. "It's gonna get so much better."

Fear for the fate of the fish, all.

Fear for it.

"What do we do now?" She had mostly just wanted to circumvent the rules presented to her.

Peridot considered the bag, and then she considered the boat, and then she considered Jaylah.

"I suppose we should race," she decided, "so that nobody suspects a thing."

"A good plan," Jaylah replied with a firm nod. "None will suspect."

As they moved super normally over to the boats. Nothing suspicious here. Noooope.

Peridot was even whistling! Super casually!

They were innocent and nobody could prove otherwise.

Summer Camp Wednesday [The Docks], Wednesday, May 16, 2018, mid-morning

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