come the fuck on

[hemomancer]

It's a bright New England winter day. Xan and Leo have elected to take the tunnels from Poe dorm to the Powers Theory classroom, because regardless of their Exemplar ratings, they're still from California and it's eight degrees out. And the tunnels have central heating. Glorious, glorious central heating.

In the middle of an extended diatribe against artificial turf, Xan opens the door to Schuester Hall, which is... not the door to Schuester Hall.

Xan peers at it. "Are we being pranked or something? Has someone not been informed that I piss napalm?"

"You bleed napalm," notes Leo. "If you were pissing it we'd have a medical issue on our hands. Somebody could've thrown up an illusion, but I don't really see the point of replacing Schuester with... a bar? With some chick inside? Like, what, we're going to whip out our fake IDs and get in trouble? But Mom always says that if you can't see the point of a trap then whoever set it is smarter than you are. Let's go down the hall and take the south door."

"Jesus Christ," Xan mutters, hauling Leo in by the arm. "Let's avoid the cool-as-shit magic bar, he says. You're such a fucking girl."

Leo makes a noise of protest. "I'm working on that! And I object to your manhandling!"

"Shut up."

"Okay."

They behold the bar. It's a very nice bar. It has a window to some exploding stars. "Huh. I'm... pretty sure that's magic of some kind," notes Leo.

"So am I, dipshit, we're both wizards."

"Just making conversation."

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[stonedtimewitch]

"Me?" she asks. She thinks about it for a moment and then shrugs. "If the teammates are hot and don't fuck me over somehow then I will work with them. So the fuck am I late to?"

[fortheliving]

He rolls his eyes. "Fortunately, all of your teammates are hot. Or, at least, they're all Exemplars, so they're symmetrical and they have clear skin. I can't guarantee Xan wouldn't screw you over, but you seem closest to him anyway, so what do I know? And you're not late per se, since you're not part of the team yet. But what you would have been late for if you were is the warmup exercises before they beat the hell out of each other and/or some simulated supervillain in the combat sims."

[stonedtimewitch]

"I want in on the beating the hell out of people," she says, doing a few stretches of her own. The idea of beating people up has her excited enough that she isn't going out of her way to be sexual about stretching out. "You are making this sound like the best gym class ever, don't fail to satisfy me."

[fortheliving]

"I won't, I'm sure. How experienced are you in combat? Tae kwon do classes when you were six? Street fighting? Having your My Little Ponies try to kill each other?"

[stonedtimewitch]

"I know how to fight, my ponies know to behave themselves around me," she says, not wanting to detail things further. "[Want to test it out by wrestling me to the ground?]"

[fortheliving]

"Well, I could. I've got two feet on you, though, so unless you screwed with the timestream it seems like it'd probably be a pretty short fight. And powers would kind of defeat the purpose, so I think you'd be a better match for Leo. He's stronger and faster than a human, but not by all that much."

[stonedtimewitch]

"[Don't underestimate my abilities with controlling men's bodies,]" she says, not being as actually malicious about her inappropriate comments as she was the night before. She looks Leo up and down and then shrugs. "Xan, am I allowed to kick your boyfriends ass?"

[hemomancer]

Xan looks over incredulously in between jumping jacks. "You kidding me? I'd pay to see that! If it weren't for the fact you're doing it anyway."

[stonedtimewitch]

"Can I still get paid?" she asks, cracking her knuckles. She is doing the creepily serene variant of her scary smile. "Don't worry Leo, I'll make sure not to hit the important bits too hard."

[hemomancer]

"I'll pay if you're shirtless," he suggests.

[fortheliving]

"Veto. Obviously."

[in_like_a]

"Can we try to break the veto?" asks one of the unknowns.

[fortheliving]

"This is not a democracy, Ariel."

[stonedtimewitch]

"[No it obviously isn't because I would have voted for someone more sexy.]" She has managed to go through every crackable knuckle. "Okay teacher, explain to me how this works."

[fortheliving]

"Take five, everybody. Kool-Aid, as usual, by the east wall. Leo, in five, you're going to be fighting this one. No weapons, no powers. Victory by tap-out or referee declaration; referee is me, obviously. Questions, comments, concerns?"

[stonedtimewitch]

Damara undoes the needles in her hair, they would just be too tempting to use if she were wearing them. "No questions, just try not to stop it before it gets fun." And then she goes for the sugary drinks.

[callmeleo]

"Fun is as fun does."

After the refreshments have passed, Leo faces off against Damara in a circle in the middle of the arena. He assumes the crane pose and issues an ironic anime martial arts beckon.

[stonedtimewitch]

Damara bursts out laughing, she doesn't break her simple fighting stance to do so but its very clear she'd be doubled over if she wasn't taking this fight seriously. "Xan, I want one of these, where do you go to find them?"

And then she goes for the safest move she can think of to open up the fight, a punch towards his balls.

[callmeleo]

Leo brush-blocks the fist and returns a roundhouse to the head.

He's fast, but he's not some blurry-limbed ninja. Also, his form's pretty sloppy for a Whateley kid.

[stonedtimewitch]

Damara ducks underneath the kick. She is not the most physically strong of people, but she knows how to best use whatever power she has. To her the mistakes in Leo's form are painfully obvious, the kind of thing that would have gotten her a broom in the face if she had done that while learning.

She kicks at his leg, not hard enough to break anything but hard enough to trip him.

[callmeleo]

He moves back, but only quickly enough to lessen the force of the blow. Somewhat frantically, he throws a jab at her face.

[stonedtimewitch]

Damara moves to the side, the jab going right past her. This entire fight is working much better then the Midol at getting rid of her headache. "Stop panicking," she commands, smiling. "If I gave enough of a shit that arm would be broken. Take a deep breath and fight me proper, I hope you are not this sloppy in bed."

Her breathing is steady and measured, anyone with martial arts experience who looks at Damara could tell that she has been very well trained. She switches styles entirely, very suddenly closing the distance between them as opposed to dancing around him. She aims an elbow strike in Leo's stomach, hoping to knock the air out of his lungs.

[callmeleo]

It does just that! He chokes for a second, but centers himself and returns a decent snap-kick.

"This- isn't my- specialty, you know! I'm a freaking wizard!"

[stonedtimewitch]

Damara sees two choices before her, to end the fight quickly or to be deeply inappropriate. She picks the latter, rushing forward and taking the kick to her side. She braces herself as much as she can and leans up, trying to kiss leo on the cheek in an attempt to toy with him.

[callmeleo]

She doesn't have to lean up that far! Leo's pretty short.

The kiss elicits a perplexed expression, some wavering in his stance, and an attempt at a close-in gut punch, in roughly that order.