fandomhigh | Wednesday Assembly, Wednesday, December 1, 2020

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Wednesday Assembly, Wednesday, December 1, 2020

Today's assembly was being held in the Danger Shop, which was mocked up to look suspiciously like downtown Fandom--including all of the tinsel that had invaded--but weirdly empty of any people aside from the students who'd found themselves there.

"Right," Anakin said. "This will hopefully not end up in another food fight. Today we have a guest from out of town," he said, pulling out the card from the front office from the pocket of his cloak. "Please welcome Lord Shaxx and his discussion on...The Crucible!! With two exclamation points."

Anakin had such a bad feeling about this.

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Take it away!

There was boisterous laughter from the very large man in the bulky armor at Anakin's side. He had his hands on his hips as he surveyed the gathered people before him.

"Welcome to the Crucible, Guardians! Where you will test your might and see who has the skill to come out victorious and who needs to spend more time honing their skills!"

There was a slight pause as a floating shape zipped up next to his ear as though to whisper something.

"What do you mean they're not Guardians? Of course they are!" Shaxx never learned how to modulate his voice for what could be considered the indoors. It was part of his charm. "In their hearts lay the burning desire to protect the weak and crush those who oppose them, I can feel it!"

Hopefully everyone was ready for some video game bullshit, because they were in for some video game bullshit.

"Now get in there and fight! Don't just look at me, go. And remember! If you're losing, you're not throwing enough grenades!"

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There were multiple sets of armor at the ready should anyone wish to take them along with the provided laser tag guns for each participant.

"Show us what you're made of! In a fireteam or on your own, I believe in you!"

Oh, it was a battle royale, folks. Don't let his supportive words fool you. Get in there and 'kill' each other as a training exercise.

Anakin was trying to get the hell out of the way but nooooooo. Now he had a laser tag gun and was floating a few feet off the ground, shooting electricity from his hands.

Great. Just great.

Lana also was floating (she had a glowy purple ball), but she was definitely side-eyeing the Jedi with lightning.

And surreptitiously taking pictures.

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Anakin smirked a her. "I see you taking pictures."

Lana smirked. "Just admiring the technique."

Which wasn't going to stop her throwing a glowy purple ball at him.

Which Anakin tried to repel like he would Force lightning, hands outstretched before him.

But it wasn't Force lightning and now Anakin was fake dead and really cranky.

And Lana was smug, which was probably going to get her fake-dead in turn if she didn't get over it. Still, she thought she deserved a second or two.

"I HAVE A SWORD MADE OF FIRE!"

Guess who definitely should not have a sword made out of fire? That's right, Tahani al-Jamil.

"Anyone who says that probably shouldn't have a sword of fire," Sabine noted under her breath.

Tahani made a face at her. "That's what jealous people say."

"I'm good here," Sabine told her, holding up her golden gun.

"Oh, that's pretty," Tahani said, missing the entire point of this exercise.

"See? I'm good."

And trying to give Tahani a sporting chance to not get shot at.

That would require a modicum of tactical awareness, which Tahani did not possess.

"Just not as good as I am!" Tahani said, running at Sabine in stilettos while wielding a sword she'd never held before.

This would end so badly.

Honestly, Tahani, she tried.

But now Sabine was shooting at her, so.

And now Tahani was fake dead because she had the survival instincts of a lemming.

"Rude!"

You know what Sabine was happy to use? A cool golden gun. Even if it wasn't what she was used to, she could adjust!

And she was a great shot! So good luck there.

Anakin floated by, cackling a little to himself and just leaning into the whole Palpatine aesthetic.

Weirdo.

"Weird look for a Dean!" Sabine said, a second after shooting at him.

"It's only pretend!" Anakin yelled back, shooting lightning and feeling really weird about it.

Was getting electrocuted also pretend? Because look who was getting electrocuted.

And shooting at him for it. Could she do that right away? Because she was.

Anakin was not used to being able to just...float fly...thing, so he avoided getting shot but only by cunningly smacking himself into the roof of the coffee shop.

"Ow."

'Yana looked at the floating ball of purple energy that appeared next to her. She would swear it was looking back. Wait. Why was she now floating?

"This isn't *my* magic," she muttered, reaching out with both her mind and hands to get a feel for her New Friend and how to control it.

"So don't blame me when it does... whatever the hell it's going to do."

Shuri waved around her on-fire axes. "Yes, I have no idea, either, but if we write it down, that's science!"

"If we write it down, that's also magical theory," 'Yana joked. And promptly threw two purple glow-y grenade-things at Shuri.

For Science. And Magic.

"Those are neat!" Shuri yelled as she dove behind a bench.

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