Smash Kinematics

[trustycrowbar]

Who: Gordon and you. YES YOU.
What: Physics class
Where: Gordon's teaching lab & the immediate grounds outside
When: Mid-Morning
Warnings: Ethically questionable treatment of sandbags.

Unlike most teachers here, Gordon had handled a physics classroom before--Grad students go to extremes for money. He figured a multiple-tier structure would work, two difficulty levels covering the same subject.

In this case, their first set of homework could either be a tame block of algebraic expressions or a sultry set of differentials depending the student's level. Either way, the the lecture and lab would essentially be the same.

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[trustycrowbar]

That raises a few questions, not least among them being "anyone from his world?" and "who the hell makes a bipedal TANK?" but what's most astonishing to him at the moment is:

"--You're old military?"

Literally it was the last possible thing he could have expected her to be.

[icequeen_aran]

A nod.

"Galactic Federation, if you're familiar."

[trustycrowbar]

So the secretary's an ex-soldier, and not only that...

"'Galactic?' As in 'outer reaches of space?'"

[icequeen_aran]

"I'm also part alien."

She says this very dryly, making it incredibly difficult to discern if she's being serious or just messing with him at this point.

[trustycrowbar]

"--Okay, now you're just joking with me, aren't you?"

[icequeen_aran]

Samus merely SHRUGS with nothing more than a fleeting smirk, probably to his frustration. (Don't worry Gordon, you aren't the first...)

"Either way if you ever need a hand with class need to know how something here works, I'm just down the hall; room 214."

[trustycrowbar]

"I might just stop in. If nothing else, to sit in on your classes. Bioengineering is far from my specialty but I've seen more than enough of it to be curious about what an expert has to say on the subject."

"...Not as curious as I am about your armed weaponry class, however."

[icequeen_aran]

"It's a hobby, really." Or at least Bioengineering was something of the sort prior to coming here. Teaching it has, by necessity, broadened her horizons beyond the need to repair a technologically advanced suit of alien armor biologically unique to her and her alone.

That, and it's always been fun for her to tinker with things and take them apart just to see how they work. If Gordon ever peeked in Samus's class or office after class hours, he'd probably find her desk littered with mechanical parts and blue-prints.

Weapons on the other hand... have always been an ever-present part of her life.

"I try to teach the kids to not shoot their eyes out. So far I think I've been pretty successful in that regard."

She was still waiting for the day, however. And that unfortunate kid would get no sympathy from her.

[trustycrowbar]

He may, eventually, see the pile of tinkering projects in her office, especially if she stops by it as they happen to wander past. As it is, he's content to take her word for it. Someone who takes bioengineering as a "hobby" is quite all right in his book.

"Considering some of the kids here," Yes, he's thinking about you, N. "That's the best you can hope for. I had figured that because this is a fighting academy they'd all, you know... actually know how to FIGHT."

[icequeen_aran]

"You'd be surprised." An answer that could have easily been taken one way or the other. Some were incredible fighters, and some, well... weren't. That was the purpose of school and teaching though, wasn't it?

If there was anything she could rely on about this school, it was that it always managed to surprise her.