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Fandom Gladiators Part DEUX! - First Period, Friday, 7/12.

Because smoke-filled skies during the day and creepy-ass nightmare fuel during the night wasn't disorientating enough, Rosa decided this week might be a good week to debut the Sky Track. So when the gladiators entered the Arena that day, they'd find a sort of race track set up for them. Only it was on the ceiling. And upside down.

Of course, esepcially considering the proclivities of certain people to be able to just hang from stuff like it's no problem, upside down racing seemed just a little bit too simple, so Rosa had added another element on the ground, because flanking the whole course were several little turret stations with some guns that might look familiar to those who were in the class last semester.

"This," Rosa announced, "is the Sky Track. It's an upside down racetrack that you'll be harnessed into and have to race each other while upside down. Easy, right?" Well, for some of you, Spider-Man.

"I've broken everyone down into heats; you'll race each other, and then the winners will go up against each other tournament style until there's only one person standing. To make things more interesting, when you're not racing, if you'd like, you can man one of these turret stations and try to make things a little more interesting for our racer by shooting either foam balls at them or water; there are guns that shoot both. Use these weapons to try to impede your competition or help out your allies. Just remember, kids, we totally kicked your butts last week," granted, there had been quite a few more teachers than students due to, you know, dumb labyrinth stuff. "You think you can handle it if we do it again this time around?"

Because, spoiler alert: they totally would.

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Hanging in there.

~~Prince Sidon~~ Leviathan

~~Vette~~ Lilac

Gratuity Tucci

Shuri

Bobby Drake

Anyone susceptible to vertigo? Afraid of heights? This should be fun!

Hey, Miguel couldn't help it if he was naturally better at this sort of thing!

...well, "naturally".

The first round has four heats: two sets of three, and two sets of four. Those not participating in a race have the option to just sit and watch, cheer and jeer from the peanut gallery, or man either a ball-shooter or water-gun turret to try and shoot at the racers because crawling around on the ceiling upside down isn't enough, clearly.

Winners are RNG'd and will be moved on to the Second Round, but how you get there is up to youuuuu!

The winner for this round is Chill, followed by Leviathan, with Anakin and his hair in last place.

Sidon was discovering that swimming upside down and crawling/running upside down were not even remotely similiar, and then there might have been at least a brief moment of discomfort in realizing that the way he needed to move in this harness against this track was a bit too similar to how he'd sometimes lope around as a monster a few weeks ago, but he quickly banished that from his mind, figured out a good approach to it, and managed to find his stride.

It might have been a bit too late, though, even if he could cover quite a bit of distance rather quickly thanks to his size, though he was pretty sure, since this was the danger shop, those straining creaks he thought he heard from the apparatus were just put in to make him and his competitors feel nervous about the structure's ability to hold his weight. But why would Detective Diaz do something like that??

Anakin was moving slowly in part because of the Force migraine the island was giving him and ~~mostly~~ also because he was pretty sure whoever was manning that water cannon was aiming directly at his hair and that was just NOT ON.

Ugh. This class was the worst.

The winner for this round is Liam, followed by Hurricane, with Spider-man ironically in last place.

Edited 2019-07-12 12:38 (UTC)

Okay, so Miguel was trying to be good. He strapped himself into a stupid contraption he didn't need, just to be fair.

And wound up fighting the damn thing most of the time. He scowled. "Next time, shock 'fair'," he muttered.

The winner for this round is Spectre, followed by Throatpuncher, then Shadowcat, with Shuri in last place. Maybe due to throat punching, who knows?

You know, with all the crazy going on around the island, Kanan's training really hadn't been as up to snuff as it could have been. And so you had better believe that a certain Spectre was throwing himself into this one with the same sort of focus he put into his meditation exercises and lightsaber training. Because you never knew when this sort of thing would be useful, really, did you?

A little bit of being upside-down was nothing.

Right, so Shuri knew she should be racing. She was just...distracted by the cool engineering, okay?

This was so neat and she could think of a thousand ways to inflict this on T'Challa under the guise of Black Panther training.

Ahahaha her brother was toast.

The winner of this round is Exterminator (RNG I PROMISE), followed by Tip, then Lilac, with the Hammer (she handwavily picked hers earlier in the week) in last place.

Okay, so, Vette was really great at getting places she wasn't meant to be and all, but running across ceilings was not really her whole deal. Need her to squeeze through some ventilation shafts? Sure!

But suspend her from a ceiling racetrack, and what you had was a girl who could barely reach the handholds half the time and who wasn't terribly thrilled about that. UGH.

Well, Lilac should know from last session that the Exterminator clearly didn't take prisoners in these things when she competed; Gratuity would have to learn the hard way; and the Hammer knew her well enough to know that she didn't stand a chance, right? She was going to win this thing, and she wasn't going to let a little thing like, 'oh, this is a class that's supposed to be for the students to learn things and have fun in' stop her.

They'd learn how to lose, and they could have fun eating her sky dust!

...not that she was competitive or anything, though.

The Hammer....knew this was the danger shop, and therefor all a simulation that could just do things as programmed, but the Hammer was also hanging upside down in a contraption on a race track on the ceiling and it was utterly fascinating, and she was trying to see if there actually were legitimate specs on how this thing was designed and how difficult it would be to rig up something like this in real life, and it really seemed like pretty easy mehcanics after all, she could absolutely put something like this together, it would be a cinch--

---oh, right! She was supposed to actually be racing in this thing! So Amaya got a little bit of a late start in all of this, and she discovered she wasn't much of an upside-down racer, either. Seems her mind was going all the racing today, with all the ideas already starting to flood in.

The winners of the first round go up against each other one-on-one to see who makes it to the final race!

And all the losers can either sit and watch or shoot them with crap because, come on, it's fun. And there's literally ONE STUDENT, you other kids can't let the teachers beat you again, can you??

The students' last hope get bested by the sheriff in this one! Sorry not sorry, losers! I mean, students!

...yeah, Spectre wins this one. Exterminator does not want to talk about it. It doesn't even matter that technically they're on the same team anyway.

At least Spectre here could be a gracious winner. It wasn't so bad if he wasn't actively boasting or anything, right?

He, uh, wasn't going to tell Rosa that he was using this class as training, nope.

Miguel picked up one of the water blaster guns and aimed it at Kanan. Hey, he was a smart man.

Though if he maybe caught Rosa in a bit of it, too...hey, he also had a ~~dumb~~ wicked streak.

Rosa knew she was going to have a bit more of a challenge with this one, especially since the person she thought would be her biggest competition in the first round (hey, Lilac was small and swift and agile, she'd seen it in both that session and that dumb ballet class) turned out to have more trouble with it than she would have thought. So she was determined, and focuses...

...and occasionally hit with water, apparently, so maybe it was a good thing for whoever was doing it that she was trying to not lose that focus because then she might as well just hand it to Spectre.

But...there would be tapes to review later....

After considering it, Amaya would have felt bad shooting at any of the students, and most of the other teachers, but there was one competitor she didn't feel an ounce of concern about hitting with projectiles, especially since she was already guaranteed to be insufferable after making it further than Amaya in the first place.

And if Diaz complained about it? She would just claim she was trying to get a better look at the guns for research purposes. If anyone just so happened to get hit in meantime, well, then, that couldn't be helped, could it?

On the bright side, Amaya wasn't really a great shot, but she was definitely going for quantity over quality with this one.

Technically, the teachers have already won, so the final round is mostly just gratuitious and for some sort of weird bragging rights.

Which ultimately go to Spectre. You must be so proud.

... You know, Spectre kind of was proud. Go figure the bragging rights went to a guy who was going to be happy to have them, and then never actually flaunt 'em.

For general goofing around while your classmates and teachers are whizzing around on the ceiling and you're not actively shooting at them with balls and water.

Sidon was easily more the type to prefer to sit and cheer his friends (and teachers!) on from the sidelines rather than try to shoot at them, so that was where he would be for most of the class, especially since he didn't make it very far at all, and that was fine! He just hoped everyone else had fun and had a good time!

Because she's still the Teachery-est Teacher, even when she's clearly getting her ass handed to her by a guy with a bad beard.

Also, if you didn't get the chance last week and want to designate a gladiator name or change it from last semester's, she's listening.

Edited 2019-07-12 12:57 (UTC)

These are way too complicated, but I get way too excited when I'm figuring these out. XD

Alas, the video is only available in America!

BUT I ASSUME IT'S AWESOME.

WELL IT IS AMERICAN GLADIATORS.

BUT THIS ONE IS UK GLADIATORS? Maybe better luck with this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8io0XtnF8CM

This is a significantly better video, anyway, I should have gone with this one first, dayum.

Edited 2019-07-12 13:06 (UTC)

That one works, yes! Thank you! :D

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Fandom Gladiators Part DEUX! - First Period, Friday, 7/12.

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