Fandom High School

"Hey guys," Sam said, standing in front of a long table filled with pretty much every weapon the students had gotten a chance to try over the course of the semester - swords, bats, guns, bows, knives, and all the goodies in between. "Today's our last class, but since this isn't the type of course to lend itself to a final, I figured our 'final' would be one last look at whatever kind of weapons you guys wanted to practice with the most. Pick something you didn't get to look at very much, or what you consider the weapon you're least skilled with, and work with that today. Oh, and have a good summer, if I don't see you."

When Sam was done tinkering with the Danger Shop controls this week, the classroom looked the same, but the weapons looked different. Instead of regular guns, there was now a table with futuristic looking weapons - blasters, tasers, and lasers, oh my.

"A lot of you said you might be using weapons in the future, and since we can't be sure what that future might look like, I figured we could play around with a few possibilities," Sam said, looking amused. "Please be careful as you practice today, and don't pick up something bigger than you think you can handle."

When the students arrived to the Danger Shop today, they'd find it looking like an old junkyard, with piles of junk haphazardly balanced against each other behind Sam.

"Hey guys. I know some of you are probably armed most of the time, and after living here for long enough, I certainly can't blame you," he said. "But there might be times when you don't have a weapon on you, or maybe you don't have your weapon of choice. Maybe it's early in the morning, or you're on a mission where you had to dress up and didn't have a good place to stash your typical arms. At times like that, if something goes wrong, you might have to improvise a weapon." Sam motioned to the piles of junk and grinned. "I want you to go through here and find something you could use as a weapon, like an extension cord you could use to choke an opponent, or something that might have been overlooked, but is still sharp. You might have to think a little violently, but... just be creative."

When the students arrived to class today, they'd find that the usual dummies had been replaced by a Danger Shop-generated gun range.

( Pew pew pew! )

When the students arrived to class today, they'd find the dummies set up as usual, along with all of the weapons they'd already discussed - knives, swords, clubs, sticks, etc.

"Hey guys. Those of you who have been here for a while probably recognize what kind of... er, situation we're dealing with in town right now. If you're new, I apologize for any possibly unwanted feelings the island's hormones are giving you. I wasn't sure how focused everyone would be today, and I thought some of you may have some tension you want to release, so we're going to call this a general practice day. Please don't abuse the Danger Shop's mechanisms, and try to stay safe, okay?"

If anyone got close to Sam when they came in, they'd find him grumbling and saying very unkind things to the controls of the Danger Shop. "Okay, it looks like this place doesn't want to be nice to me today, so we're going to watch a movie with a lot of different weapons in it instead. And some people who are supposed to be British but couldn't do an accent. And weapons that shouldn't exist in the setting of the movie. But, uh, it's still good, I swear."

Speaking of swearing, that's what Sam would continue to do while the movie was going on. Thanks, Danger Shop.

Today, the students would find Sam standing in the Danger Shop holding a baseball bat as he adjusted one of the training dummies to make sure it was steady.

"Hey guys. We're going to continue with some basic weapons today, all from the blunt family," he said, pointing to a table with clubs, bats, nightsticks, and other weapons of various sizes and weights. "It really doesn't get more basic than a blunt weapon, but that doesn't mean you can't still do some damage." Sam demonstrated this fact by going up to one of the training dummies and taking a swing that knocked the dummy's head clear off. "In a best case scenario, that was someone you didn't like, or someone trying to invade the island."

Sam showed the students a handful of the weapons--mainly where to hold them, and how much they weighed so no one would grab something they couldn't lift--and then stepped back from the table. "If you want a safe option today, find a partner and fight with these," he said, pointing to some brightly colored Nerf bats. "It's the same concept, just slightly squishier. Or, you can pick a real weapon and go at one of the dummies, or pair up together."