fandomhigh | Fandom Gladiators; First Period [05/31].

Okay, Rosa might be sort of wanting to take back what she said about being pretty down with this week's little whatever; it sort of got old real quick. But at least she had her class this morning to look forward to.

And, yes, that was an actual thing that she thought. Yes, it weirded her out significantly.

But the arena that morning was set up in a big pit and there were seven large metal ball cages just waiting for some ~~victims~~ students to be put inside of them, so it wasn't really that weird of a sentiment, now, was it?

"Today," she informed the class, "we do the Atlasphere, which is basically just an excuse to roll around in big metal cage balls. There are five slightly raised scoring pods on the field; your goal is to try and activate as many of them as possible in the allotted time by rolling your atlasphere onto it. You'll know you got it because it'll emit smoke into your atlasphere when done right, then move on to the next and try to prevent the others from scoring more points. You've got five minutes to gear up and get settled in your sphere, then then we're off. Lilac, since you managed to catch the dumb dog the most times last week, you get an advantage of starting with, I don't know, two points right out the gate. Any questions?"

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Having a ball!

Lana Beniko

Vette

Mae Borowski

Keyleth

Bobby Drake

Because who doesn't want to roll around in a big metal cage ball?

On the count of three, push off of your platforms into the area and have at it! Since it's a bigger space with more competitors, there's a score pad on each side of the pit as well as one in the middle. Careful not to get stuck! No, no, you'll definitely get stuck at least a few times. Or just roll around trying to run into the other gladiators. Rosa would definitely find this an acceptable strategy.

Do your thing, roll around, have fun (or hate every moment of it), but the RNG has decided that Crap Horse is the victor with the most points, followed by Janet, then Lilac, Nexu, Nightmare, Chill, and finally Hurricane.

... This was officially, very clearly, Vette's favorite class.

"Cage ball! Cage ball!"

Vette could try to get more points, sure, but she figured she was doing pretty well with her two-point lead, and so naturally she was going to get carried away trying to just wrecking ball her way through her competition. By the time she realized she was behind by two, it was too late to try to pull back ahead, and so... Well, naturally she had to double down on her wrecking ball strategy, right?

"Cage ball! Cage ball!" Mae responded. She flung herself at the side of the cage and it . . . wobbled. "WHY DOES IT WEIGH SO MUCH?"

Being tiny occasionally made this class slightly harder.

Vette wasn't laughing at you, Mae. She was laughing with you, truly.

"Metal cage ball! Metal cage ball!"

Helpful, Lilac.

"LILAAAAAAAAAAC!" Mae yelled. "I WILL STILL HAVE MY REVENGE!!!!"

She flung herself against the side of the cage again, and got it to roll a little.

"Oh hey, yelling helps. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

Inertia was also helpful. Mae was now rolling right for Vette.

Well, if Mae was going to yell, so, too, was Vette, who rounded about as well as she possibly could while inside a big metal cage ball, pulled in a breath, and started to charge.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIEEEHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHAHAHAHAHAHAWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"

These two girls were menaces.

Good thing they had this nice simulator in which to get all of this energy out!

"RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!"

Mae would get to the actual goal of this challenge later.

Vette had already gained immunity twice in this class; her priority here was to have fun and make everyone else take themselves a little less seriously.

If that meant that these two were going to charge at one another like crazed rams, well...

"AAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRG--"

When the inevitable collision happened and Vette rocked forward against the bars of her cage-ball, which was trying to bounce backwards and off to the side without her say-so, she was going to just proceed to laugh like an idiot.

"THAT WAS SO GREAT."

Mae almost never took anything seriously. So she was a great coconspirator in that effect.

She ricocheted right off one side of the sphere and into the other, landing in a heap on the floor.

"WE TOTALLY NEED TO DO THAT AGAIN!"

Really, the rest of the class was just lucky to have them around.

"WE REALLY DO."

Sure, it took Vette a moment to get to her feet again. Since... the ball kept trying to roll away whenever she got them planted.

"IN A MINUTE."

Mae, on the other hand, was back up with a simple hop.

"NIGHTMARE WILL PRESS ANY ADVANTAGE!" She flung herself at the side of the ball -- and slid back to the bottom as the ball rocked back and forth. "JUST AS SOON AS SHE MANAGES TO GET THE BALL MOVING AGAIN!"

"ALL SHALL FEAR US," Vette declared, managing to get her feet under her again, only for the ball to go rolling backwards on her. "EVENTUALLY."

That was really the crux of it right there, huh?

Lana could do this! Between the telekinesis and the lightning of the Force, she could totally...overshoot the score pads.

Hmph.

She lost concentration, fell over, then determinedly climbed back up to try again.

She just may have been looking forward to this one for a while now.

I, too, may have been looking forward to this one for a while now! =D

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