Super-Duper

"Welcome, Guardians. You've come a long way since your revival." Commander Zavala addressed the small group of young Guardians standing at attention before him. "You still have a long way to go. Destiny is not a single challenge, but a series of steps. And today, you will climb one of those many steps."

The small team all had their helmets on, and though, from the outside, they seemed to be emotionless, many of them were grinning widely underneath their mouthpiece. They all shared a single thought: Today is the day.

"Today," Zavala paused for a second and stared straight at the team as though he was somehow making eye contact with each Guardian simultaneously. "you learn your super." Their grins widened at the sound of those words. The guardians had, of course, heard of the "super." They all knew the tales of the flaming hammers, and electric blades, and giant black orbs of death. Technically, the Guardians could already use their super as it is a skill that is inherent in each upon their revival. However, because of the sheer power of super, ghosts were required to inhibit the ability until the guardian had completed this training. This is because the lesson wasn't meant to teach a Guardian how to activate and use their super, rather, it was a lesson on how to control it.

"Now, each of you should already know how to use your super."

"Keyword: 'should'," Cayde-6 said as he walked in. The class turned to watch him as he took his place, leaning against a wall in the training room. He wasn't there to teach the class but to observe it. He tried to observe as many sessions of this particular lesson as possible. Whenever he's asked about it, he replies that he goes there to "Watch the fun."

"As I was saying," The Guardians' gazes returned to the Titan as he resumed his teaching. "The key to controlling your super is to channel the energy either outward, or to an outside object. Rather than channeling the light inward to create power, the super is a tremendous amount of Light channeled not through you, but from you. Do not allow that much power to be stored in your body, as you will not be able to handle it. For defenders, strikers, voidwalkers, and stormcallers, your energy must be channeled outward. Sunbreakers, sunsingers, gunslingers, and bladedancers channel the energy into an object, such as the arcblade, or, in sunsinger's case, their armor."

One hunter raised their hand. "Yes?"

"Umm... What about nightstalkers?"

"Nightstalkers are..."

"Weird." Cayde finished. "Unlike the other hunters, you do not imbue a weapon with power, you create the weapon. Once you do, however, you must fire it as soon as possible. Holding the arrow for too long will store up too much energy."

"Now, this may seem dangerous, but with enough training, you'll be able to deploy your super at any time. So, let's get started. First group." A fireteam of three stepped up, taking their place in the middle of the large training room floor. "Ghosts, deactivate the inhibitor. Go ahead."

All three guardians activated their supers at once. "Oh my god! My gun is on fire!"

"Dude?" Another member, a warlock showed himself off. His entire body was engulfed in flames, with a pair of wings made completely of fire had appeared on his back.

"Okay, you win." The hunter said, disappointed.

"Umm..." The final member, a titan, was flailing her arms outward, trying her best to create her dome shield. "Mine's not working."

"Figure it out!" The hunter advised her.

"Gunslinger!" Zavala called. "Don't just stand there twirling it around! Fire your weapon!"

"Oh right." The hunter took aim at the one of the target dummies standing opposite of him. But as soon as he fired the trigger, a round purple wall appeared in front of him. The bullet ricocheted off the dome and landed at his feet, creating an explosion that sent him flying upward.

"Got it!" The titan exclaimed, proud of herself.

"Good job." The Warlock congratulated as he juggled grenades in his hands.

The hunter landed face first, and as he was getting up, the dome disappeared, along with the fire that had engulfed the warlock's armor.

The rest of the students were laughing quietly to themselves. Cayde took a less settle approach, laughing wildly in his corner.

Zavala rubbed the bridge of his nose. "Okay, how about we try this one at a time."

The next one up was a striker, who managed to activate his quickly, but wasn't able to get the aim down. Fortunately, the guardians behind him were able to move out of the way in time. Unfortunately, the wall behind them was not able to move, and was gifted a rather large hole.

After that, a voidwalker, who held his Nova Bomb too long until he was holding a large orb with a radius twice his height. Zavala upon realizing the situation ran up and activated his own dome shield, causing the nova bomb to explode. The dome was quickly filled with void substance and smoke, with the warlock becoming unconscious inside.

After that, a stormcaller, who was able to activate and control her power quite well, though Zavala became concerned and stopped the warlock when she started laughing maniacally.

Eventually, every student got a turn to come up and inevitably fail. But this was the way it was taught, failing many times until success is achieved. After all the students had gotten a chance, Zavala dismissed them. By this time, Cayde was on the floor laughing as hard as he could.

The titan commander walked over to his fellow vanguard and stood over him, waiting patiently. After a couple seconds, the hunter rose, still chuckling.

"You laugh, but if I remember right, you weren't much better. You almost short-circuited yourself while attempting to unsheathe your arcblade, did you not?"

This shut the hunter up. "Oh and sure you were perfect? The wall caught every hammer you threw."

"Indeed. But at least I was able to draw my weapon." He reminded his friend.

The awoken returned to his place at the center of the room as the next group of 'victims', as Cayde referred to them, filed in, grins under their helmets.

"Welcome Guardians."

A/N I'm doing a new thing where if you review, you get a preview of the next tale in the form of the first 400 words (rounded up to the nearest whole sentence) in a PM as soon as they're written. So... yeah. Keep in mind that guest reviewers will not get previews since I can't PM them.