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Welcome to the Program

Good Morning, Champions. In the interest of maintaining healthy sleep patterns, a day/night cycle is in effect. Your presence is expected in the cafeteria in exactly one hour.

[The voice comes through not a large speaker, but through the device that's attached to each Champion's arm. Further investigation of the features of the device will reveal a list of profiles, a mini-map, and a list of rules. The hallways are shiny white and silver, with running lights along the floor and lights on the ceiling, and at the junction of the hallways is a sign with a knife and fork icon and an arrow pointing down the hall.

Welcome to the Excellence Program, Champions. Time to get to know your teammates.]

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Oh-- I am not actually used to explaining that part. [said with a nervous laugh.]

I don't have any water on me, but I'll show you the other ones.

[first-- how about a small flame, coming from her hand?]

Holy shit -

[OKAY OKAY give him a second to observe that the fire is not harming her or causing the space station to explode]

How the fuck did you do that?

It's bending!

[the fire disappears, but now? Now she's making a little whirly-ball of air between her hands.

And it's clear? She's delighting in his reaction.]

Holy shit, you're a wizard.

.........Harry.

... Harry?

[oop, ball gone, confused face]

...he's a wizard. That was a stupid joke, don't worry about it. Do the - wait, can you do the earth one without any dirt?

Uh...

[she glances around them and-- this one. Might? take a lot more effort?

She can feel the earth particles in the metal when she holds her hand out to the wall, but manipulating them is way harder than she expected.

in fact, she can only manage a minor dent]

That-- should be easy?

[MINOR PANIC AT DAMAGE TO SPACE STATION]

Okaaaaay wow, forget I said anything, and please never do that again!

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[she looks at him, looks at the space station

and... fixes her dent]

Sorry, I'm normally a pretty good metalbender.

It's fine! Just, uh, I'm pretty sure if we break through the walls even a little, then all the air and then all of us will get sucked out into the cold dark vacuum of space! I mean, that's how space works.

It is?

Well, I could keep the air inside, if it came down to it... I think.

...you think so? It's a lot of air. And you'd probably have to sleep sometime, unless wizards don't sleep, but that sounds stupid now that I'm saying it out loud.

... Fair enough. I don't think I'm good enough yet to metalbend and airbend at the same time.

Heeeeey, don't sweat it. You can set our new alien overlords or whatever on fire, and we'll just get outta here the normal way!

[that's right. SHE'S GOTTA PUNCH THEM.

She frowns.]

I'll try talking to them first-- but if it comes down to it? I'm not afraid to play rough.

I'm Korra.

My name's Max. [He starts to offer a handshake, hesitates because her hands were just full of fire, and then goes for it anyway.] I mean, I'd definitely like to think we could talk our way out of this. I'm not much of a fighter to begin with. I just can't think of any good reason for this, you know?

[oh, hey, handshakes. WITHOUT terrible photo ops. That's kind of nice.

She's got a pretty firm handshake, and no fire.]

I can't either... but that doesn't mean there isn't one, you know.

Guess not. But I had shit to do back home. I'm sure we all did - no one ever really makes room in their lives for kidnapping.

You're telling me. I've always got something important to do back home.

[not always, shut up Korra]

Evil spirits to punch and stuff? [...wait, they totally got distracted from her telling him the giant evil spirit story. And now that he's thinking back on it, it sounds like maybe it wasn't that fun a story?] Shit, I hope the thing about your uncle turning into a giant monster wasn't a bad thing to bring up?

No! No, he's gone.

That fight's done. This one is different, and probably less dangerous. We just have to trick the Red Lotus.

I don't know what that is, but that does sound better. More, uh, diplomacy-y.

I wasn't doing anything like that, but uh, my mom's been pretty sick lately. I just moved back to help her out - except now it's probably like ten times worse if I just vanished.

Oh no-- I'm sorry.

I couldn't imagine vanishing like this if something was happening to my parents like that?

Yeeeeah. [He tries to slip his hands into his pockets, forgetting for a second that he's in a weird jumpsuit, and instead just sort of awkwardly puts his hands on his hips.] Well, I mean. Hopefully it'll be okay, I dunno.

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