http://badassbutler.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] badassbutler.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] fandomhigh2006-08-02 10:59 am
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Steath and Deception #4, Wednesday Morning, Dangershop

The students had received a handwaved e-mail to come to the Dangershop in the morning as opposed to Cafe Fina.

When the students arrived, they found themselves in the most varied landscape they had ever seen. Three kinds of forests, two kinds of swamps, a desert, two plains, a snowfield, and an urban environment.

A noticeably clean and shiny urban environment. Complete with a newspaper vending machine with a headline that read "Superman saves Metropolis from Giant Spinning Top!"


Then the students heard some cursing from the side. "How does Barbra deal with these things... wait, here we go."

The clean urban environment shimmered and was replaced by a dark, dilapidated cityscape. The newspaper headline was replaced with "Who is the Batman?"

A man stood up from the console and ran a hand through his hair. "Hi kids. I'm James Gordon, commissioner of the GCPD. I was also in the Special Forces when I was younger, so Alfred asked me to come talk to you guys about cameoflage."

He shrugged off his coat and walked over to the center of the danger room, where a table with a selection of military camouflage options in various sizes was sitting.

"The important thing to remember about camouflage," Gordon said, pushing up his glasses, "is that despite what television may tell you, there is nothing to make you disappear completely. Not even the Batman," he continued, nodding towards the newspaper vending machine, "can pull that off. All it can do is conceal you, force someone to actually look harder to find you. Ideally, you want to be harder to find than they are willing to put into looking."

Gordon looked down into his notes, pushed up his glasses again, and launched into a lecture on millitary camouflage.

"Alright then," he said. "I've got a bunch of environments up to practice on and a selection of uniforms here. Try to match the right camo to the right environment and see if you can find the best place to hide to make maximum use of the camouflage. I should have sizes for everyone here, but if you can't find something in your size, just tell me and I'll see what I can do."

He pulled out a small jar. "I also have camoflage face paint. See if you can figure out how to best use it in conjunction with your camouflage."

[[Wait for le OCD! Have fun kids! Don't break Gordon!]]

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[identity profile] dude-its-jude.livejournal.com 2006-08-02 09:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Which of course meant . . .

"Hey, bra!" Jude bounced over to her. "Camoflage! Maybe I won't totally suck today!

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[identity profile] bound2blade.livejournal.com 2006-08-02 09:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Sakurazaki winced a little at his bouncing, already being seized by guilt. But it was just a dream, right? A mess-up dream wrought from training too hard; that was all. No need to feel guilty. She gave Jude a little smile. "You say that as though you totally sucked before, which you didn't." And you won't ever because you're amazing and, God, I'm sorry. Going crazy, just a dream, just a dream; I'm such a horrible person...

She groaned a little, holding her head to stop all the nagging streams of consciousness.

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[identity profile] dude-its-jude.livejournal.com 2006-08-03 07:40 pm (UTC)(link)
"I totally . . ." Jude trailed off, frowning. "Hey. Hey, Setsuna, you okay? Something wrong?"

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[identity profile] bound2blade.livejournal.com 2006-08-03 09:14 pm (UTC)(link)
"I..." Shaking her head lightly, Sakurazaki tried to figure out exactly how to say this. If she should say this. She sighed. "I think maybe I've been training a little too hard this week; had a really messed up dream last night, and it's kind of got me in a little bit of a funk." That had to be it. She smiled lightly. "I can't wait for this weekend to just be over and out of the way, you know?"

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[identity profile] dude-its-jude.livejournal.com 2006-08-03 09:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Jude nodded and offered her a smile. "Yeah, bra. You've been really kinda unmellow lately. Want to tell me about the dream? Sometimes it helped. Like this one I had where there was zombies and hot sauce and . . . yeah."

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[identity profile] bound2blade.livejournal.com 2006-08-03 09:31 pm (UTC)(link)
"Zombies and hot sauce?" Sakurazaki smiled at him a little. "I think I would have been able to handle one like that without a problem. But, I dunno, I think I'd just like to try and forget about this one. It was pretty out there." Another light shake of her head, accompanied by a sigh. "Just been training too much, getting a little apprehensive about the job..."

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[identity profile] dude-its-jude.livejournal.com 2006-08-03 09:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Jude looked around before hugging her quickly and dropping a kiss on her cheek. "It'll be over soon, bra. You're gonna rock."

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[identity profile] bound2blade.livejournal.com 2006-08-03 09:39 pm (UTC)(link)
A quick hug and a kiss on the cheek definately work marvels toward making her feel a little better. "Yeah," she said quietly. Just a few more days, no more demons, no more obsessive training, no more weird dreams or guilt or confusion. Just life as usual, with maybe a little bit of jet lag. She smiled lightly again. "I hope so."