Summer Shenanigans- Wednesday, August 11

[solo_sword]

Oh hey, Anakin and Beaker weren't here today! Instead there was a short brunette with a megaphone. She didn't need it, she just liked it.

"Welcome to today's Shenanigans. Grandfather's not here. I'm Jaina and I'm going to be your drill instructor today," she announced. "Today you're going to be doing a mud run. You will get dirty, you won't like it, and I won't care."

Jaina hadn't realized it was Truth Day, that was just how she talked to people.

"We have five obstacles for you to get through to make it to the end, where you will win absolutely nothing. Maybe my grudging respect. No teams today, it's every being for themselves. And I don't know hardly anyone's names so whoever I point to has to come down here and participate, and I know who I'm pointing to so don't think you're getting away with anything."

EVERY BEING FOR THEMSELVES
Annie
Astrid
Belle
Din (and Grogu)
Dwight
Faye
Harry
Sakaki
Stark
Troy
Wanda

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Voluntolds, Come on Down!

[solo_sword]

You still get ugly shirts. How else is anyone supposed to know you're a voluntold?

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[scarlet_chaos]

Wanda had just stopped being surprised when she got called down. Instead she had the weekly dread of what her shirt looked like this week.

Honestly, it could have been worse. This would be a nice shirt to work out in if it wasn't totally ruined by the end of this.

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[stykera]

"I didn't realize it was a family trait," Stark grumbled, eyeing the shirt.

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[flourish_or_perish]

"I hope he's back for paintball," Faye said, more honest about that than she'd like because she would much prefer to pretend that she didn't even notice if Anakin showed up to things, so little did he matter to her, et cetera, et cetera.

But she was just chalking that honesty up to her lack of filter being perhaps especially strong today? She wasn't even drunk. Weird.

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[stykera]

"He's the reason I go to paintball," Stark agreed. "Shooting him is more fun than shooting anyone else. Although I didn't mind being on a team with him last week as much as I said I did."

He hadn't meant to add that last bit. It just sort of came out and now he was just looking a little confused by it.

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[flourish_or_perish]

"Aw, he's your friend. That's cute," Faye said with a smile, and then she immediately looked a little horrified at herself. "I didn't mean to actually say that out loud."

But she'd thought it in response, and...was this maybe a thing today? Because that was absolutely not going to work for Faye, no thank you.

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[stykera]

"He is," Stark said. "At least I think he is. I hope he is. He seems like a friend. It's a friendly rivalry. Or feud. I think. I don't want to know if it isn't really." Well. This was awkward now.

"I didn't mean to say any of that."

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[flourish_or_perish]

"That's...weird," Faye said slowly. "I kind of want to go hide but I'm really scared of that girl."

Not something she would normally just come out and admit!

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[stykera]

"I don't want you to hide," Stark said quickly. "But you can, if you need to. I'd understand if you did. I don't think she's actually going to do anything, besides cover us all in mud. Or make us cover ourselves in mud."

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[flourish_or_perish]

"She might chase me. That's enough," Faye told him, way too easily, before adding, "And I like that you don't want me to hide, you're so cu--"

And there went her hand, clasping quickly over her mouth as Faye looked over with wide eyes.

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[white_oleander]

"So what's the catch?" Astrid found herself asking, considering her shirt and the course and having been going to this school for way too long to think that was it. "Really?"

Her brain seemed to try to think of the most absurd shenanigan related twist.

"Is Dean Skywalker actually hidden in the course somewhere waiting to release gremlins on us when we least expect it?"

She sighed as she found herself admitting, "I really don't think I can deal with gremlins today."

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[defenderofdesmoines]

Annie had kind of accepted that if she was in town, she was going to be doing this.

And God, this was kind of an awful shirt. She'd totally wear it to sleep in (and Diego would probably think it was great) but this was the last time anyone would see it in the light of day, gross.

And really, as far as activities went, this could have been a whole lot worse. This was just like normal training, but...gross and dirty.

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[scarlet_chaos]

"This is actually almost normal this week," Wanda said as she approached Annie.

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[defenderofdesmoines]

"It's like a real activity," Annie agreed, pulling her shirt on with a little face. "I mean, people sign up to do these on purpose and everything."

Instead of something insane that Anakin had probably seen on Facebook and thought was funny, or whatever his normal selection process was.

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[scarlet_chaos]

"Do you have to do this kind of stuff for work?" Wanda asked.

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[defenderofdesmoines]

"Pff, no. Back before I made the team, sure, but mostly I stand around and look cute for work," Annie said, before looking a little puzzled because normally she might have softened that a little. "Do you?"

This seemed like the kind of athletic, team-building sort of thing Captain America might like, and all.

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[scarlet_chaos]

"The Avengers Compound has a gym and stuff," she said with a nod. "It's not used too much anymore because we're all scattered. But we used it for teamwork a lot--I spent a lot of time practicing lifting Steve up with my powers so he could do a cool guy roll through a third story window."

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[defenderofdesmoines]

"Does the cool guy roll actually help?" Annie wondered, while also looking impressed. "My team barely does anything like that. We don't work together great."

Though Annie sometimes entertained dreams of Maeve throwing her around while she shot blasts at enemies.

(They'd need, you know, real enemies. But someday!)

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[scarlet_chaos]

"It looks cool," Wanda said with a shrug. Whether or not it helped was up in the air. "My team has its moments of not working great. We all had a big fight once. I was locked up in a straight jacket in a high security prison for a bit afterward."

"...it's weird I shared that." Though to be fair to Wanda, it wasn't like that had been a secret to anyone in her timeline.

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[imawizard]

"Every week," Harry sighed, donning the shirt he didn't feel super comfortable in.

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[flourish_or_perish]

"I don't want to do this!" Faye announced as she took her shirt with a long, tired sigh.

It was both truthful and something she'd normally say, anyway.

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[kawaii_complex]

"I don't really like this shirt," Sakaki admitted, as if the decision that she would usually make inside of her head needed to be stated outloud for some reason today, but she still shrugged and pulled it on and started stretching a little so that she would be better prepared to do a good job on the run, even though this sort of thing really did come naturally for her.

Usually.

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[x_discospider_x]

"I'm only switch shirts instead of just putting one over the other so that I can show off my awesome muscles," Troy noted, unexpectedly saying the quiet part outloud.

There was...a pause. His eyes widened, and he looked up.

"I hope no one heard that."

"I didn't mean to say that!"

"Or that!"

"Damn it! It's like my words are leaking straight out of my brain and out of my mouth which at least sometimes," because, let's be honest, filters weren't always Troy's strong point, "stops them!"

The implications of this were starting to come to a full realization.

"Oh no!"

"Maybe if I just--"

The rest was just muffled, as Troy was trying the brilliant solution of just shoving his shirt into his mouth instead.

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[alwaysonguard]

This was by far one of the tamer shenanigans Dwight had gotten roped into- at least for now. And the shirt wasn't too bad by comparison either. Maybe this one wouldn't be so terrible? He pondered this as he changed into the shirt and waited to hear what all they were supposed to do.

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[noonedecidesmyfate]

"Oh, that's hardly an appropriate thing to have written on everyone's chests," Belle said as she pulled her shirt on. "It is a little amusing though."