With Thanksgiving over, the seemingly biggest problem was dealing with all the food, and not just the leftovers. Fortunately there was a rather clever "cooking class" that involved making use of Thanksgiving leftovers, such as using the leftover turkey to make a turkey stew. But the biggest "class" was the post-Thanksgiving weight loss classes at Claw Coliseum. While most of it was serious, there was also a class that helped lessen the stigma of overeating during Thanksgiving. The simple fact that those classes were coed classes, it did involve some unusual things.
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It was during one such class that Sara-Jane was able to catch up with Archie during one of his workouts. While she did attempt to engage him in conversation (and really tried to), it wasn't really successful. But there was one good thing to come out of it.
"So..." asked Sara-Jane, beginning another attempt, "Is it true that you do know a lot about ancient Roman fertility rites?"
"Actually, no." answered Archie, a little confused. "My specialty is actually ancient Roman warfare and history."
"Really?" asked Sara-Jane before muttering under her breath, "such a shame..."
"Why do you ask?" asked Archie, catching her off guard.
"Ah... no reason." said Sara-Jane, clearly uncomfortable being caught.
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There was also an incident where a nerd from out of town tried to show off to his peers by asking Allura what was clearly a science-fiction-inspired question: "When are the spawnlings due?"
"Spawnlings? What spawnlings?" asked Allura, clearly annoyed, "Can we help having an expandable stomach? And can't we have a Thanksgiving dinner without that question being asked?" The end result was that said nerd went off a little more wary (and scared), and when the video of the question inevitably made it to the internet, there were those who made cringe-based comments as well as comments that were along the lines of "That's not how you ask a girl out... or impress them."
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There was clearly something that would end up as an internet meme later during the classes. It involved one of Sgt. Bash's "recruits" seemingly crying, with her eyes swollen and nose running saying "I'm not letting you bully me like this ever again.". Sgt. Bash, however, wasn't impressed and inadvertently revealed what it was to those who didn't know while also reminding her, "It was a sit-up. She did just one sit-up."
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There was also another incident where Lenny and Steven were wrestling with each other in the Octagon. What had originally started as an arm-wrestling competition got a little out of control when their straining muscles accidently broke the table they were using. After both of them paid for the table they had wrecked, they had decided to take their rivalry to the UFC-A. But because of how they were wrestling with each other, it ended up becoming an official match. The incident wasn't due to any unsportsmanlike behaviors from the competitors, but due to the fact that the, mostly female, audience seemingly didn't know or care that both of them had bondmates and were shamelessly being "rowdy" for their favorite fighters.
"We might need to limit how many matches we do of this kind." said one of the UFC-A organizers.
"Agreed, this kind of thing was too embarrassing for even the commentators." said a second.
"So what was the result?" asked a Sports Center representative.
"Inconclusive, due to fangirl interference." said the first organizer.
"Let us never speak of this again." said the second, with a flat expression that clearly said, 'no more questions please.'.
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While things were getting ready for Christmas, there was plenty of things going on to keep things from getting boring.