Power of the Cybernetic Soldier

by HeartfireFirebrand


Chapter 2: Teaching

Tempest Shadow blinked as her copy gigged before bursting into a flash of blue flames revealing a blue skinned female with hardened carapace covering her shoulders, it extended down to cover her arms and chest. She had a pair of buglike wings sticking out of her back, she smiled as gave a small Tempest a small kiss on her cheek “Relax dear it was just a little joke.”

Tempest groaned “Snowy River that wasn’t funny, why are you even here?”

Snowy pouted “I just wanted to see my wife before I had to fill out hive paperwork, you now how boring that is?”

Tempest giggled “Remember when we first met, you were a powerful Queen and I was a recently augmented soldier.”

Snowy grinned “I’m still a powerful Queen, we should have one of our sparring sessions. Anyway I gotta go, I’m a busy Queen.”

Tempest saw her wife to the door and waved goodbye before turning around walked past a small oven and a large steel bench top with drawers underneath, Tempest giggled “I’m married, I just can’t believe I’m married.”

She pulled out a carton of milk out of a pale white fridge, she then opened one of the brown cupboards taking out a box of Weet-bix. She put them down before grabbing a bowl and laying it in front of her, she then crushed the weetbix and then poured milk into the bowl. She returned the milk to her fridge as she grabbed a spoon and began heartily devouring her food, she began to cry surfaced“So good.” Just as she finished her meal she felt a sharp pain in her mind.

Tempest’s Past Life

The red haired girl at the age of five was pulling rotten scraps out of a rusty garbage can, a tall giant of a man stormed out and grabbed her by the her hair “You drily little thief get out of here!”

He threw her onto the footpath, her back slamming into the ground, she forced herself to her feet as she began to run with a fire in her eyes as she thought to herself (My name is Thief)

Present Day

Tempest groaned “I am not that person, I am Tempest Shadow, I have a wife and a job, I have a life.” She then looked at the antique wooden clock attached to the wall “Shit I have to get to work.” She grabbed her bag full of her school paperwork and jumped into her car chuckling slightly as she revved up the engine of the small white buggy (I’ve always wanted one of these.) She began to drive to the school, she then frowned (I wonder if any others in my situation are here?)

She parked in the Gym Teacher’s Car park, Vice-Principal Luna smiled “Tempest Shadow how’s you day been.”

Tempest grinned “Great, I better get ready for the first class.” She walked into the school with a grin, she entered the hallway only to frown as students of different groups glared at each other, Tempest thought to herself (What’s going on in this school!)

Tempest walked into the staff office, she frowned as Mrs Harshvoice one of her fellow teachers groaned “Why do I have to teach those kids, their accents are horrible as if they think speaking that way makes them special.”

Tempest frowned “Who are you talking about?”

Mrs Harshvoice grimaced “Those two apples kids, their accents are horrible and…”

She had frozen as she saw Tempest glaring at her with cold fury “Listen here Harshvoice, I’m going to tell your right now you don’t judge someone for their accent it’s part of who they are. That kind of attitude is rude and bigoted, I don’t know how such a bigot like you could be a teacher!”

Tempest took a deep breath as laid her bag beside her desk, a simple PC sat in front of her, on her left several stacks of tests were neatly piled up ready for marking. She opened the draws from the bottom to the top, the bottom draw was filled with student files from her classes , the second was filled with files for field trips and other events. She frowned as she looked at third which had a lock, she pulled out a key and opened it revealing a glock handgun, she frowned as she then locked it again (So I’m the security officer.) She frowned to herself (It’s double PE last period so I better head to the gym).

She exited the room giving a quick glare at Mrs Harshvoice before leaving the room, she walked through the hallways. She was scowling internally as student shot insults at each other across the hallway, she smiled in relief as she entered the massive empty gym room. She smiled at the two basketball hoops one either side of the massive basketball court, she then looked at the red line in the middle.

She chuckled “I think it’s time for a team building exercise, she walked over to a large metal door and unlocked with a silver key, she sled as she saw thousands dollars worth of gym equipment. Her eyes were drawn to a large pile of over one hundred dodge balls, she grinned a mischievous glint in her eyes “Perfect.”

Hours later in the final two periods of the day, Tempest was standing in front of a huge line of dodgeballs. She grinned as her students piled in, she eyed two girls, one cyan with rainbow hair, the other a light amber with red hair with yellow stripes. Her voice boomed “First I want you all to jog ten laps of the gym in the first periods if you can, those who are exempt from gym should head to the Library and study! Now go!”

Tempest’s eyes were on Rainbow Dash and Sunset who clearly were at the front of the pack, she frowned slightly as they bumped each other. She knew about Rainbow Dash, she was a guaranteed athlete if only she bettered her grades, the one that really interested her was Sunset Shimmer, a student who excelled in almost every class with the exception of History, one she knew would have a bright future if she just dropped that bitch queen demeanour of hers.

After fifth period finished Tempest boomed “Finish the lap your on and then stand at the back wall!” After the last of the nerdy kids finished Tempest looked at them “So this is a teamwork exercise whether you are…”

Sunset Shimmer walked over to her with a grin “Good luck” she then stands in the corner.

Tempest shook her head “Ignore that spoilt brat, if she doesn’t want to take part in the team building exercise so be it! Now as I was saying whether you are a jock or a nerd or a punk or a cool kid you will need to work together for this next task, all of you are going to try and hit me with one of the dodgeballs, go!”

Tempest frowned as the more athletic and fit kids left the weaker kids behind (They’re already failing). Rainbow Dash grabbed one of the balls and pegged it at her head, she simply moved her head to the side so the ball flew past, her frown grew deeper as she continued to duck, dodge and weave avoiding each shot. Sunset grinning all the while.

Within in ten minutes all the balls lay behind her, she boomed “That was most pathetic attempt at teamwork I have ever seen, you have to work together, rely on each other’s strengths and cover up each others weaknesses, we will repeat this for the rest of the period until you can land a single hit on me or until the bell rings at the end of the period.”

She returned the balls to their places and after another ten minutes she sighed as she approached all of them “What is the problem? Why are you all acting the way you are?!”

Rainbow growled “Trixie and her nerdy crew are slow, Rarity and the fashionista group don’t want to get their hands dirty, the cool kids think they are too cool for the rest of us and don’t forget that everyone wants the glory of taking you down.”

Tempest stomped “Fine how about a little incentive, if you fail to this by the end of the period, you will all have to write a one thousand word essay on teamwork since you don’t understand it!” Sunset scowled in the corner as the students intimidated by the threat started to try and work out the differenced between each other, with the help of the nerds they better co-ordinated their fire, with help of the fashionistas they were better at predicting Tempest’s movements.

Tempest chuckled as Sunset growled in the corner as a ball hit her in the chest, she smiled “You hit me impressive you had one minute left, now you see that despite some of the difference between you when you work together you can achieve great things. Now remember that just because someone is in a different group than you are in doesn’t mean that you can’t be friends.” She left the room with a smile not noticing that Sunset Shimmer was glaring daggers at her back.