BXBX NOVEL Chapter 250 - 250. Sliding To Class
Asher knew that he was a little far from the back entrance to the school and the vast training area behind the school. He had kicked it in to high gear and sprinted through the halls. Before he realized it he had slid past a wet floor sign and managed to crash in to a set of lockers.
"I know you might want to get to class faster, but if I see you running through the halls again I will need to write you a detention slip." The speaker of this threat was a tall man who lacked a single hair on his head. His glasses and perfect ironed suit were the only discerning features.
"I am sorry sir. I was just in a rush to get to the disaster relief course. I was in the library and didn\'t want to be late." Asher apologized profusely afraid that the teacher would be writing him a detention slip anyways.
"You\'re heading to my class? Well, you would have been late anyways. Today we are inside and studying the dangers of forest fires. In a way you are lucky to have nearly run in to me." Asgher couldn\'t believe that this was the teacher for his new class. "Your paper work please." The man held out a hand and Asher fished out the paper for him.
"Asher Ronan, super power lucky jinx. Huh, no description, interesting. In any case, it looks like you are heading the same way as I am. I am Reach. No need for sir or Mr. those will lengthen the time it takes to communicate in a disaster situation. Follow me."
Asher followed his new teacher confused as to why he would be so worried about the fact that their communication would be too long. However, he easily brushed it off since he had not much knowledge on disaster relief and it was most likely something that he had yet to learn.
"We are meeting in this media room. We will always meet here when the class starts then head out if we need to. There is a place to change in here and store your bag when necessary. There are only two other students right now due to the normal class switch after camp week."
Reach opened the door to reveal a classroom filled with too much information to comprehend. The walls had various diagrams and how to displays of rescue methods, bandaging methods, and even some basic what to do when lost tips. It was also full of many mannequins wearing different survival and rescue gear.
"Hey, we got a new kid? I thought we were only going to lose people. Come over here new kid." There was a boy with very spiky hair wearing sunglasses inside, he had his hand raised high above his head while a girl with very long blond and grey streaked hair looked away from him in a frustrated manner.
"My name is Matt. I saw you totally wipe out and beat awesome lockers for their lunch money. It was hysterical. But luckily Reach was there to scoop you up. If I didn\'t read his lips as you two spoke I would have thought he kidnapped you to join the class." Matt laughed as he leaned back in his chair.
"You are so loud. Reach would never kidnap someone. He would blackmail them in to joining the class so that he had someone to teach." The blonde and grey haired girl looked at Asher and miraculously raised her hair. It took the shape of a grey and blonde shaped hand, "My name is Jess and I can manipulate my steel hair. Welcome to class. I am sure you will learn quick."
"Ohhh, that is so cool." Asher shook the hand that was made of hair and found it to be solid like steel just as Jess had said. "So the grey streaks in your hair must be the steel characteristics showing through. That is so cool. I bet you can do all sorts of stuff with long hair like yours." Asher had hit on a sensitive subject and was met with Jess turning her head away from him.
"Don\'t mind her. She hates the color of her hair now. But I always tell her that it still looks great. Well, not that I can see it so to speak. Not in the normal way." Matt slid his glasses down to reveal that his eyes were not there at all. "My super power is every sight. I can see everything somehow without eyes. I used to think sound waves but I can still see color, light, dark, shapes. Honestly, it is all just weird because walls don\'t stop me from seeing either."
Matt just laughed more. "That is why he will easily become an important part of any disaster rescue mission. Imagine a building collapses and rescuers need to see what is underneath." Reach had come to stand in front of the three. "Then Jess can act by manipulating her hair to get under debris safely then move it by changing the shape of her hair. It will fit through some of the smallest cracks."
Asher was impressed by the practical uses of these super powers. He saw how they both would perfectly fit roles in search and rescue. It was clear that Asher was with two experts. "Now how would you fit in to a search and rescue operation?" Reach asked this question to every single student when they joined his class. Their answer would give him insights in to their goals and what made them tick. He would use it to slightly alter the class structure to fit that students\' super powers in to the disaster simulations.
"Well, I am still figuring out the cut and dry description of how the jinx part of my super power works. I can potentially make enemies unlucky so that doesn\'t really apply. But I also kinda affect others around me with bad luck…" Asher started with this in a delicate manner before ending on the good part, "But my lucky part seems to make things work out for me. So if I was aiming to get lucky and rescue everyone hurt then I probably will succeed and just hap[pen upon those in need of rescue."
Reach sighed loudly, "So you could get lucky and save everyone or you could make a victim unlucky and they could die. Well, at least it sounds like you would be able to deal with enemies during a disaster situation." Reach had heard many answers to his question, but this one sounded more complicated than he liked.
"Wait, why don\'t you just go and play the lottery. When you hit it big you can come back here and give us a life of luxury." Matt was wondering why Asher wouldn\'t just go somewhere and live the easy life if he was always lucky.
"Well, I am underage to gamble so there\'s that. And my friends want to be heroes and I can\'t think of anything better than to strive for a better world. Imagine how lucky I will be to always catch the villain safely if that is my goal? If a villain is my enemy, imagine how their plans will fail? If my super power works think it does I can save so many people."
"That is some confidence you have there." Jess had raised an eyebrow at this display of confidence in front of them.
"I have some really good friends holding me up. I can\'t just sit around like a lump on a log with therm relying on me." Asher said this with the same confidence he was displaying in his previous words.
"That\'s a good point. Having a strong team in a rescue operation is extremely important. If the team does not have complete trust in each other they could waste time and the burn victim could perish or become trapped before the rescue team can arrive. Now look here and tell me what direction this fire would flow." Reach led them right in to the lesson without even commenting on the conversation further.
Asher spent the remainder of the class learning about fire dangers in dry areas and how a single spark could lead to many fires that burned at a furious pace. There were multiple videos of how firefighters would stop the fire by cutting the land down to nothing ahead of it or by dropping large amounts of water.
The rescue methods were also innumerable since there were multiple dangers stoping certain rescue types but allowing others. Helicopters usually couldn\'t respond due to smoke but could evacuate ahead of the fire. There were super heroes that were impervious to fire that could charge in to burning buildings while there were water super heroes that could directly put out fires.
Asher felt that he was seeing a side of super heroes that he had never seen. The possibility to form a group that totally focused on resues was very feasible. The only question that lingered in Ashers\' mind was, is this all we want to do?