Fandom High School

"Today we're going to continue to explore new games," Anakin said.

It was likely possible he'd spent the week finding new people to terrorize ala bumper cars. "This time it will be competitive axe throwing!"

What could go wrong?!

"You have a target to hit with one of these axes," Aeryn said, gesturing to said target with said small axe. "The areas are numbered, so should the axe actually stick when you throw it, you will be awarded that many points. You'll take turns throwing until the end of the period, or someone hurts themselves, and the highest total determines the winner."

"Throwing an axe at me, Aeryn, or another person will result in immediate detention," Anakin said severely. "I can catch them and I will not be pleased."

"The axe will probably bounce back towards you at least some of the time. You won't be penalized for that," Aeryn said. "Also watch for bouncing axes."

"I can't believe this is a sport," Anakin sad, snickering. "Sometimes this planet is amazing."

The island seemed normal! Normal-normal, as in there wasn't any creeping gray stuff or weird smoke, and so far everything was the color it was supposed to be. Therefore, class was outside today.

"We're going a bit simpler this week," Aeryn said, "with an Earth game I have never played."

Weirdly Talyn had never asked her to.

"I have played it many, many times," Anakin said, "and if you don't think it's a cut-throat game, you're playing with the wrong children. It's called Duck, Duck, Goose, and there are no animals actually involved."

Which had confused him initially.

"Apparently you all have to sit in a circle, and one of you is it. And then you walk around, tapping people on the head and designating them ducks, until you designate one of them a goose and then the goose chases you?" Aeryn was still confused on this.

"And if you beat them back to their place in the circle, you become a duck and they become the goose. But not literally."

This game made NO SENSE to two aliens from different galaxies. "It might have something to do with Santa and his flying reindeer? Perhaps this goes back to an earlier time on the planet where animals were more interesting?"

Anakin, no.

"Do not invoke Santa," Aeryn warned.

"I can take 'im," Anakin told her. "I have successfully defended myself for five years at various malls!"

Aeryn opened her mouth to say something, then thought better of it, and turned to the students. "Lana, you will be a goose."

There. That made this normal.

Extremely normal!

"Not an actual goose," Anakin reminded her, sitting down on the ground. "And complaining about how hard you get smacked in the head is traditional!"

At least with his kids.

Today was actually looking normal, so class was going to be outside today, in the park. There were several targets set up in the area, and Aeryn was holding… a frisbee.

"Today we're going to play disc golf," she began. "It's like golf, which is incredibly boring, but this is with wildly unpredictable discs that you throw."

"Even if they don't explode," Anakin said, "which would make this so much more fun."

Anakin, no.

"This is an individual sport," he continued, "so if you stink at throwing things, you only have yourself to blame and the wind that no one else is bothered by but you."

"You have a course to follow," Aeryn continued. "You throw a disc at a goal, and the fewer tries it takes for you to get it, the better you do. You want a low score. You get a goal, you move on, and leave everyone behind you to keep trying."

"If you throw a frisbee into a tree, we will very definitely laugh at you," Anakin said. "One person will play at a time and you cannot throw your frisbees at other people's heads for some reason." It would be so much more fun that way! "You have six targets to hit so that we aren't here all day."

"Good luck. I don't expect this to go well," said Aeryn, so feel good about that, class.

Today the class was meeting at the Danger Shop, which was set up just like Anakin and Aeryn's favorite paintball place... that they had been kicked out of for taking it way too seriously. And maybe some things had been damaged. Not the point!

"This is paintball," Aeryn said, passing out red helmets to the students she'd just now decided would be the red team. "The concept is simple: you will put on all the necessary safety gear, and then you will get guns filled with balls of paint. You will shoot at the members of the opposite team."

"And if they cry or whine about it, you can shoot them again," Anakin said.

And now you know why they had to create their own site!

He handed out blue helmet to the other half of the room, then put one on his own head even though it would mess up his amazing hair. The sacrifices he made!

"And since we have an uneven number, red team, you have him to face off against," Aeryn said. "All you have to do is be the last one standing. If you get hit, you're out. Good luck with this one."

Seriously. Good luck, red team.

...And, really, good luck to the blue team, too.