fandomhigh | Summer Shenanigans, Wednesday, June 24, 2020

Today the shenanigans were inside the Danger Room because even Anakin couldn't source enough strawberry Jello powder to make a dent on the water surrounding the island.

The ~~unwilling victims~~ people showing up would find themselves looking down onto a huge rec room decorated for a child's birthday, complete with streamers, balloons, and a massive pinata (easily the size of a chair) swinging from the ceiling.

And the floor was entirely covered in red liquidy-goo..stuff...because Anakin wasn't actually going to cover everything in lava.

"Welcome to the Floor is Lava!" Anakin's voice boomed out to the audience. "...my son Christopher helped this week. You will work in teams of three to get from one end of the room to the other without falling into the extremely realistic lava...stuff. The fastest team will win a lava lamp but there are prizes for all! Listen for your names. Oh, and no powers, please."

Or sit around and eat fruit gummies, popcorn, cupcake, and goldfish crackers because Christopher had assisted with snacks, too.

TEAM ONE
Liam
Duke
Freya

TEAM TWO
Shuri
Astrid
Mae

TEAM THREE
Alexis
Shunsui
Summer

TEAM FOUR
Elli
Stark
Kitty

TEAM FIVE
Prompto
Wayne
Rey

TEAM SIX
Jaye
Tisarwat
Amaya

TEAM SEVEN
Tony
Sidon
Alara

TEAM EIGHT
Steve
Beaker
Magnus

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"Good, because I was going to do it anyway," Rey admitted, already giving herself a little start to make a careful jump onto the table.

She was going to excel at this.

And Prompto wasn't too far behind her, although he and his waving arms and attempt to kick out a flot in a desperate attempt to keep his balance were not nearly as confident. But what he lacked in confidence, he made up for in vivre!

"Come on, Wayne!" He laughed, calling back to their last lingering team member. "What it is you always say? Pitter patter?"

"Pitter patter," Wayne said with a grumble and a dispassionate glance down at the lava, "let's get at 'er..."

There was a glance over toward Team Two before he took a solidifying breath and took his leap.

Complete with something that sounded suspiciously like a 'hup!'

Rey had already made her way to the curtains and used them to swing over, though there was a little help when she realized the chair moved. She kept her balance, though!

"Maybe avoid this!" She called.

"Duly avoided!" called Prompto, who figured the Marshall would be pretty proud of how well he was following orders right now and that this could totally count as some sort of extracirricular training or something, as he changed his course quickly to another chair.

Which also moved.

"Err, this one? Not much better!"

But thanks to the power of flailing limbs, he was keeping his balance pretty well, too! Hell yeah! Training was paying off!

"Where the fuck all does that leave me to go, then?" asked Wayne, who was already having trouble with the curtains, the sort of trouble that meant that he didn't have a single solid chance of making it with one of the chairs, barely managing to get a workboot on the seat before the curtain he held ripped and sunk him into the lava.

"Aw," said Wayne, succinctly, "fuck."

"Okay," Rey said after a moment, "also avoid doing that!"

Could she get off the spinning chair? Could she get off the spinning chair onto a piñata?

Of course she could. She could probably do that even before the Jedi thing.

"Ha! Nice one, Rey!" Prompto cheered, and then glanced down at their fallen companion. "Sorry, Way--whoa!"

No time for condolences! The rocking chair Prompto was on was definitely starting to live up to its name and he focused on balancing a little, putting out his foot as if to judge the distance, and theeeeen...

"Yes!" he landed on the rocking horse, crouching down to lower his center of gravity as he perched on the very, very small seat and was maybe just going to let this one settle for a moment, yeah...

"This counts as training," Rey decided, swinging herself- did she cheat a little? Not knowingly, anyway!- so that she could jump off onto the other ottoman.

"Totally counts as training!" Prompto agreed, although he was pretty sure Gladio and Ignis and the Marshall would not be agreeing with him there.

And he might still be trying to build himself up for his next leap, because he was feeling like he wasn't quite in a good position to pull it off quite yet, and he wasn't about to totally pull a Wayne!

"You've got it," Rey called, vague and reassuring.

She eyed the rocking horse, and decided to skip it in order to back up as much as she could on the ottoman to get a start to jump onto the stairs.

Success! This was what happened when you grew up doing this. Minus the lava.

Summer Shenanigans, Wednesday, June 24, 2020

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