fandomhigh | Phys Ed, Thursday, Period Two

The subject of today's class? Horseback riding!

In the Danger Shop, with simulated horses, rather than making use of the ones in the stable in town, because, you know. Liability reasons, apparently. Sure, the school regularly held classes where students went on trips to other realities, but horseback riding was where the office wanted everyone to sign a waiver.

Still, it wasn't like Liam and Verity had any idea of the competency level of any of their students, after all, and so an artificial environment with safety controls probably wasn't a bad idea.

Surely that little glitch from last time was just a glitch, and wouldn't repeat itself, right?

"Welcome back to Phys Ed," Verity said when everyone had arrived. "Once again, sorry about last week. But as you can see, we've got the Danger Shop working properly today," she leveled a glare towards the machinery, hidden behind the stable, but everything remained the way they'd programmed it. "So today we're going to practice horseback riding. Does anyone here have horseback riding experience?"

"For those of you that would like a bit more of a challenge, we've set up a course with some jumps," Liam added. Because these were Fandom High students, chances absolutely were that they'd want a challenge.

They walked the class through how to properly saddle a horse, as well as mount and dismount, and then led the group outside of the stable to demonstrate walks, trots, and canters. True to their word, there was a portion of the simulated field set up with fences of varying heights if anyone wanted to try some jumps at a gallop.

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Jumping!

Wayne

Grog Strongjaw

Trevor Belmont

It...seems normal?

Oh, sure, Wayne knew horses. He didn't keep any himself; didn't seem like much of a point to horses when you had perfectly good truck and tractors. But he'd taken up with a horse girl or two (never. again.), so he knew the run-down and the basics, and, honestly, he was just sort of excited to be working with animals for this class period, even if they weren't real ones.

He missed working with big old animals so much he was excited about horses. Fuck.

See? Just a nice, normal horseback ride.

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Yeah, like anyone here would be surprised that Wayne would take to nice, normal horseback riding with an assured, stoic ease. And even if the horse wasn't even real, he gave it some attention and got to know her a little before saddling her up and swinging on up easily and given a few practice trots around and thinking, fuck, this was nice, and he didn't even really like horses that much, but this was all just so comfortable and familiar and he didn't get enough of that around here.

Grog had never been around horses that weren't being used as pack animals, so his first concern was finding one that he wouldn't crush. Luckily, the Danger Shop had a draft horse available that seemed like it could handle him, and he approached it cautiously with the saddle.

"I'll be gentle, and you don't throw me off, deal?" He couldn't actually Speak With Animals, but he eventually managed to get onto the horse and trot around, so he was taking this as a victory.

...And suddenly you're on a unicorn. Leaping through the air as 80s pop-synth plays.

OKAY THEN.

...and there it was.

Of course there couldn't have been a nice, normal horseride for one of his classes. Of course, he had to be there galloping across the field on an honest-to-God unicorn now.

Which meant, eventually, he had to slow the unicorn down and pull out his phone, holding it up awkwardly in an attempt to get a picture. He didn't really do the whole selfie thing, but if Katy found out he'd been riding on a unicorn and he didn't even send her pictures, he'd be in a whole load of trouble...

They looked so hopeful when this class started.

Why. Why was the Danger Shop like this? Liam was resisting the urge to facepalm.

Robot Unicorn Attack is an endless running game where your robot unicorn is jumping from platform to platform, collecting pixies and trying to avoid crashing in to giant crystal stars.

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