Locomotive Engineering Class 01

[dothelokomotion]

Who: Byrne and you!
What: The very first Locomotive Engineering class
Where: In a bland classroom, not outside on the rails, sorry :c
When: Monday January 19th
Warnings: Byrne can be kind of a douche probably

There was nothing about this place that was familiar to Byrne at all. Nothing here resembled any part of Hyrule that he knew of. He was so close, too. So very close to obtaining the power he had always desired, and now he was here in this strange new land, back to square one. All day he had tried to figure out where he was, tried to look for clues or any sort of landmark that might indicate how to get back to where he came from. But there was nothing. Zelda's body was back at the Tower, and Byrne bristled at the thought of Cole continuing on with the ritual without him. He would probably do such a thing too, the slimy bastard.

Once it became apparent that Byrne was not anywhere close to Hyrule, his next step was to figure out how he actually got here. Nobody seemed to be able to help him out there, and they offered shrugs in response. But what he had found out was that he was on the grounds of an Academy, apparently a fairly reputable fighting academy. That was something, at least.

Byrne had found the so-called leaders of the place, the Hands, and he observed their power quietly, trying to figure out their motives, their wishes, how they came to even be here. There was little he could figure out until they graciously offered him a teaching position. Normally he would have declined, having no desire to teach anyone anything, but perhaps there was an opportunity here. Upon finding out that someone else already taught Martial Arts, his first choice and what he considered himself best at, he begrudgingly suggested locomotive engineering, as to him, it was a very useful skill. Nothing that would harm him or get in the way of any of his plans, of course, but still something that would serve of value to the Hands if he ever wanted to get anywhere with them.

He never traveled by train much in his recent years, but it was certainly in his blood to operate one.

Conveniently, there was a set of rails recently added to the campus. They went through various parts of the campus and into town, and did eventually connect to some of the major railways used by places beyond the city for shipping and travel. But would they use the rails today in class? No, they would not. Driving education always started in the classroom, didn't it?

On each desk was a large paper with a picture of a train on it. It was, upon closer inspection, an unlabeled diagram of a train with so many parts. So many. Except instead of the example in the link whereupon everything was conveniently labeled, everyone had no labels. To someone with zero knowledge of trains, that was probably really difficult to fill out. Except Byrne didn't care, because he really didn't care about teaching this class or any of these people.



Byrne stood at the head, introducing himself and the purpose of this class.

"Trains are a reliable method of travel," he stated. Though under his breath he muttered, "Unless you have no tracks."

With his normal flat affect, he continued, "To operate one, you must know how it functions. Fill out the diagram and pass it into me when you are done."

There was a hint of amusement in his gaze, but it was also masked by boredom and annoyance at having to do this job. Really, he should be on the rails himself trying to get back home, shouldn't he?

Comments

ROLL CALL/QUESTIONS

[dothelokomotion]

[tempus_fixit]

"Here!" Lucca chirps when Byrne calls her name, waving.

[dothelokomotion]

Nerdy girl in glasses, check.

[almost_a_mermaid]

"Hi, Lucca," Chiyo said softly as she took a seat beside her. "Remember me? Chiyo?"

Beep boop

[operatingbuddy]

R.O.B. was silent and paying careful attention.

He would be disappointed.

[dothelokomotion]

What the hell is that thing.

Byrne stared at it for a while. It was quite obvious he had absolutely no idea what to make of this robot thing.

After a few moments, he quietly asked, "What... are you?"

Re: Beep boop

[monotreme_101]

Knuckles took his seat next to R.O.B.

Unlike Autoshop, where he'd sat next to Sonic? R.O.B. was unlikely to get him in trouble and land him with a detention.

"Hey, man."

[megabuster]

Rock loved the idea of learning more about machines, even more relatively primitive ones. It was perhaps the lab assistant in him, or perhaps he just wanted to learn more about his roots.

"Here, sir!" he said.

[dothelokomotion]

This guy didn't look like a robot, so Byrne assumed he was a normal (albeit dumb) kid.

Kid named after sediment, check.

Re: ROLL CALL/QUESTIONS

[monotreme_101]

Of course, this Knuckles had never met Byrne. And this Byrne had never met Knuckles. Oh, if only they knew their destiny - their ultimate lot in life. To become fierce rivals in the art of annoying the snot out of one another. A beautiful dance that had been done previously, a twist in the fabrics of fate, as yet to be repeated.

Or perhaps... perhaps things may come to pass differently this time? Mayhap the universe had conspired with itself to see a different outcome unfold?

"Present."

Only time would tell.

(Probably not though. Just saying.)

[dothelokomotion]

Perhaps in one universe, Byrne would have scoffed at having Knuckles in his class.

Actually, he does in this universe. Not because he knows Knuckles, but because he looks annoying and Byrne doesn't actually want to teach this class.

But Byrne had never seen any sort of thing look like this before. He stared at it. Yeah okay. Red thing taking the class.

Re: ROLL CALL/QUESTIONS

[kumagypsy]

TRAINS

....were not quite as cool as cars or motorcycles but they had a certain appeal to them. So, Kumatora was here.

"Yo."

[dothelokomotion]

Another student. There wasn't anything interesting about this one, so Byrne didn't say anything as he marked her name down.

Re: ROLL CALL/QUESTIONS

[almost_a_mermaid]

"Here, Teacher Byrne!" Chiyo called out happily, raising her hand up. She was excited to be studying in school again, even came to class with a big textbook on locomotives like Lucca. Her textbook was from the library, though, not store-bought. And she brought it because she didn't have vast knowledge on the subject, but she was eager to learn and that eagerness shone in her eyes.

Re: ROLL CALL/QUESTIONS

[dothelokomotion]

"Teacher Byrne." That phrase almost made Byrne want to cringe. It sounded so... trite. He never saw himself as much of a teacher, but here he was... teaching a class.

"Just Byrne will do," he muttered back, marking Chiyo as being here. He did notice the book that she brought, and hoped that maybe she had some prior knowledge of the subject.

"Where did you get that book?"

[fakespeech]

Ecolo had no clue why he was assigned to this class because he sure wasn't interested in learning about trains. But he knew enough that as a student, they had a job to learn things. So that's what he'll do.

A shadowy figure is seen sitting in a seat, waving his hand(?) in the air.

"Here, here~!"

[dothelokomotion]

Byrne had no idea what this thing was so he blinked a few times at it.

Well, he'd seen stranger things.

DO THAT DIAGRAM AND STUFF

[dothelokomotion]

Fill out this unlabeled diagram and hope you don't fail! All those labels there don't exist on the one your character has, sorry.

Re: DO THAT DIAGRAM AND STUFF

[operatingbuddy]

"Query: Do you not intend to instruct us in the nature of locomotive engineering so that we may successfully complete this assignment?"

[dothelokomotion]

Ah ROB, you poor creature. Don't you know that Byrne doesn't care?

"I will instruct you," he confirmed, "But I'd like to think you have some knowledge of the subject beforehand."

[kumagypsy]

Kumatora leaned over.

"Psst. What'd you put for G15?"

Re: DO THAT DIAGRAM AND STUFF

[monotreme_101]

The heck is this thing. The heck is that thing. The heck are all these things. The heck is this thing in particular.

He labeled 'wheels' for everything that looked like a wheel. He also got 'whistle' right. And some 'windows'.

Everything else just got question marks.

Freakin' nailed it.

[fakespeech]

No way Ecolo would know any of these things. Nor he had any intention of trying to answer them.

Instead, he drew flowers and happy faces all over the paper.

OTHER STUFF

[dothelokomotion]

Other faculty coming in, students staging an epic revolt, anything you want.

Re: OTHER STUFF

[iamtheeggman]

Guess who decided to just stand at the back and watch?