Fandom High School

The class was send handwavey messages to meet at the Danger Shop. When they got there, Karla and Chloe were still listening to a message on Karla's phone. “I really don’t think that's a word,” Karla hissed. Chloe shook her head. “I'm pretty sure that Ive never heard of something like that,” she whispered back. “Maybe he drank something unexpected.”

“Well, it is--time for class; hi!” Karla said brightly, glancing up as people started arriving. “So, Reno couldn't be here today. We just got this message from him...err, something about a ninja-ferret and a duck and his suits needing to be drycleaned. Or something. There's a lot in the message we couldn't make out.”

“Genesis also won't be showing up today, and we're not sure when he'll be back, because he's been called away on something. Therefore, until Reno gets back, you get these Rookies teaching you class today.” Chloe was a little nervous facing her classmates.

“But since we're just coming back from break, we decided to go with a little more of a relaxed atmosphere today.” Not that they could get more relaxed than Reno usually was, but whatever. Karla pushed a button and suddenly the room looked just like Caritas, complete with zombie band and karaoke machine. “So, in Hawaii, I heard about a new kind of teamwork,” Karla was sometimes an shameless eavesdropper in public, okay? “It's called wingmen. Or wingpeople, I guess, because both genders can be one or have one.”

“According to what I found on the Google, a wingperson has lots of duties--” and most of them struck Karla as unsavory “--but one of them is helping their friend get out of trouble when a date starts going sour. Whether calling their phone with an emergency or pretending to recognize a long-lost acquaintance to pretending to be choking and needing the Heimlich maneuver, a good wingperson can get their friend away from a bad date without the date ever suspecting.”

Karla frowned at that. “Though it would probably just be better to tell the date you're not interested. But that doesn't involve teamwork, I guess.”

Chloe smiled slightly and looked back at the class. “Which is where this class is going to come in. You're going to break up into teams of two. What you groups need to decide is who is the person who needs a ruse to leave, and who is the wingperson.” She grinned. “We have NPC dates from the Danger Shop and each one comes with one of those annoyances that you just have to get away from.” She grinned. “Karla has the list of bad dates."

"Once you've successfully rescued your friend, swap!" Karla finished, handing out the lists.

[Reno and his pets modded with permission; co-written with the Queen of Sock-rocking, awakestheghosts. OCD coming up!]