Constant Vigilance #2: Friday the 21st, Morning. A Classroom.

[nine-and-ears.livejournal.com]

Today, the classroom is again arranged in a circle of chairs, stemming from the wooden desk. The Doctor is sitting behind the desk, today. Across the desk is scattered some strange mechanical parts, all wired together. On the dry erase board is one simple word, written in green.

'Plants'

After everyone has sat down, and the time to start has passed, he raps on the desk once, and stands up.

"If you could all pass forwards your essays I asked for, that would be fantastic. We'll be having a special guest in later, and I'd like to get the class formalities out of the way first. Hope you all took the first lesson to heart, after the incidents of last weekend. As far as I could tell, no fatalities, which is absolutely fantastic. Now today, as you can see from the board, we'll be talking about plants." He fiddled with the device he had constructed on the desk, which suddenly sprung to life and began projecting a three-dimensional hologram in the middle of the desk circle. The images began to match the things he was describing.

"Plants are one of the building blocks of an ecosystem. They cycle the air, they form part of the food chain, they're absolutely essential to most planets. The first lesson about plants is, don't take them for granted. The vegetation on a planet can mean your continued life. But I'm sure most of you are more interested in the opposite, which is when plants can mean your death."

The image flickers to that of a humanoid plant form, though very obviously still a plant.

"That, boys and girls, is a Vervoid. Intelligent plant life. Not the product of a planet's natural evolution, but genetic engineering. Last I checked, they still haven't managed to resurface into the universe, which means they are probably extinct. They have the same drives as everyone else, eat, sleep, procreate. The only difference is, they're plant based. Well that, and the fact they decided dead people was the best fertilizer they could get. That led to a bit of trouble. But, thankfully, not all sentient plants are like these fellows." The Doctor switched off the holoprojector.

"That's where the guest comes in. If you would please welcome a very classy lady, proprietor of The Sanctity in town, Pa'u Zotah Zhaan. Now, I'm not even going to give you any more of an introduction. I want you folks to put your skills to the test. Ask questions, learn, live."

After the students have had their discussion with Zhaan, the Doctor thanked her for her time, then knocked on the table again, to draw attention.

"Okay, I've told you a little, and you've met one. I now want you to all brainstorm about ways you deal with them. Hostile and non-hostile. Your groups, which will each be assigned a different form of plant life, are as follows. Conner McKnight and Willow Rosenberg, Cedric Diggory and Seras Victoria, Samantha Carter and Setsuna Sakurazaki, Kaylee Frye and Jack Harkness, Isabel Evans and Hermione Granger, Cordelia Chase and Peter Pevensie, Timothy Desmond and John Connor, Elizabeth Weir and Pippi Longstocking, and Stark is with Mister Belthazor. Come up with ideas, and propose one to the class. Got it? Good."

After the group activity, the Doctor smiled. "Done for the day, everyone. Quick assignment for next week. Come up with an event from Earth history, from two weeks ago to two million years ago. I'll tell you whether or not I was there, and if I was directly involved or not. There might be prizes involved, so come back with something good! You're all dismissed."

[ooc: Wait for OCD And now it is ready. I'll be falling asleep soon, and I'm actually at work tomorrow, sadly, so It'll be slow reactions from me until I'm home from there. Zhaan's availability depends upon her work schedule, which most likely means only in the evening, tommorow, CST.]

Comments

Re: Isabel Evans and Hermione Granger

[smartestone]

Hermione's a little disturbed that she's even considering it. "That would probably be possible," she says slowly, "but would require people who actually know how to do it. They might be hard to come by."

Re: Isabel Evans and Hermione Granger

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"That's another time where I think it depends on the situation. If the Vervoids show up here? We're probably better going with one of the things we talked about earlier," Isabel agreed. "But if we wound up in a lab with the scientists responsible for them and he's saying 'Oops'? Then I think it's a possibility."

Re: Isabel Evans and Hermione Granger

[smartestone]

"He'd better be saying 'oops'," says Hermione, and yes she is using her I'm-supposed-to-be-a-prefect voice. "He'd be responsible for a lot of trouble. He'd better be willing to rectify it."

Re: Isabel Evans and Hermione Granger

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"And if he's not, we'll just have run roughshod over him and fix it ourselves," Isabel said. "There's nothing wrong with duct taping him into a chair until we're done."

Re: Isabel Evans and Hermione Granger

[smartestone]

Hermione isn't sure she could do that, but still, might have to be done. Someone else just might have to do it. "Sounds like a plan," she agrees.

[Running off to work, woe!]

Re: Isabel Evans and Hermione Granger

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"Good. I'll make sure to bring the duct tape," she said, only half joking.