Chapter 341 - 341. Workload

"Waaakkkeeeeeee Upppppp!"  Cara became the human alarm clock to wake everyone in the living room up. The only people who had been exempt were Asher and Art who were already preparing for the morning work out. "You may not need to be at school early because of vacation but our extra classes are not going to wait for us. We need to be there in three hours. It's enough time to jog to everyone's house and get what you need. Full gear work out people!" 

"Why are we so loud…" Sammy rolled over and glanced at the three who were already stretching. She was completely stunned by the fact that they looked so well put together before the sun had even risen. 

"Come on! I'm already eating breakfast and you are still napping." It was clear that Laura was moving way faster than any of them had noticed since she had somehow made herself a bacon egg and cheese sandwich in a flash. 

"How can you eat so early? Shouldn't you be still tired or something?" Louis was pushing himself up from the spot on the floor he had claimed and copied Art's stretch. 

"You remember that if I don't eat you will be calling the ambulance to save my life, right?" Laura stuck her tongue out at Louis who pretended not to see. 

Surprisingly, Jackson was the slowest to get up. Even after he had started to move everyone was pretty sure he was not fully awake yet. "He's like a bear coming out of hibernation." 

"Hey Jackson, I thought you had to get up early to water plants before the heat got too strong?" Asher tried to tease Jackson a little but Jackson was able to reply instantly on auto pilot.

"Plants are better watered at night so that they can slowly absorb the water and slowly adults as the sun naturally heats the ground hours later." 

"Dang, I thought I would be able to mess with him more. But even when he's tired he knows his plants better." The group ended up teasing Asher a little as they moved from the living room toward the door in a line. They had already decided to set themselves up on a line jog. The person in the back would sprint to the front every few minutes repeating until they finally got to school.

By rhw time they all got to the school with their bags of spare clothing and note books they were all fully awake. It was still up for debate if Jackosn even remembered waking up and getting to his house since they had to make him put his gardening tools away. He was about to walk right to the garden and start the day since that was his normal before school routine. 

"Alright. Here's the plan. For the next hour, we are going to do circuits then we will head inside to the front office where they will tell us where we are meeting. I think our group will have its own room since we are a larger group sticking together. Last year they had us in a group of four for classes and even that was split up after a few days." Cara was giving them the rin down. Louis and Sammy were the most tired after the run and looked to be about to complain until they noticed the elite home gym app telling them about their progress to their newly set goals. 

"It's good to see you have already started your punishment for skipping out on me and the principal." Coach Winters waltzed out of the front of the school looking at them as if she had just found her prey. 

"Really? I was there too and you said it that way on purpose. I'm only here to beat you down for another week and you treat me like this." Garnet was behind her already starting to taunt her rival but also looking at the group the same way. 

"Were we supposed to meet up again? I swear you said we were good to go watch the seniors." Art tried to feign ignorance but flinched when Garnet and coach Winters gave him a death glare. 

"First you will all run three laps around the school. Then you will head to the weight room with this tacky gem stone. After you will spar with me. Lastly, you will get work books to complete before the end of the break. The academics are last because we all know you have caught up on them. Our program for you is to catch you up to where Cara is at this moment. Then, maybe, just maybe, we will allow you to learn some rescue tactics if we deem you to be making good progress." 

"What? Why do you all look so downtrodden? You will get so much stronger after you are no longer sore." Garnet just smiled as sweetly as possible while they all started the running again.

By the time they had finished some sparring and been told they could stop for lunch before academics, every single one of them looked as if they had been nonstop working for a week. "I'm so glad I brought extra clothes and that the school lockerrooms have showers." Sammy was stuffing a sandwich from the cafeteria in to her mouth as she made a direct line for the locker rooms. There was no way she would sit in sweat soaked clothes for another minute. 

"I second that"

"Third" 

"The girls are right" Jackson pushed the boys towards the mens locker room to shower and change too. It was not the most elegant sight as they all stumbled about out of the locker room after but they were in the very least clean. 

"My legs are even more like jelly now that I have relaxed and showered. I tried stretching but it didn't help." Laura was rarely this sore from running. She moved much faster than everyone else and her body had already started to try to repair her muscles. This led her to have the sore feeling faster and more intense since she was still moving while it all happened instead of sleeping as most people would be. 

"I just don't get how Garnet had so many lifting techniques for us. I thought my arms would fall off and then she would pull out another one." Garnet had succeeded in pushing Jackson to his limit. She had made him work out with heavy weights but continuously added more and more repetitions until she saw that they had the desired effect on him. 

"That's your own fault for having a better body due to your super powers. You have to work harder to build even a little more muscle. You should have wished on a star or something to be skinny like me so that every work out lets you build muscle." Louis pretended to flex to show off his thinner body. 

"But you aren't really skinny anymore. All the work outs and training even gave you abs. Weirdo." Sammy jumped right in to argue with Louis and it started the two bickerings while everyone walked to the classroom they had been assigned. 

"I'm actually pretty impressed. The training today has been all around. The cardio and muscle training flowed right in to the moves and sparring. I feel like we made a lot of improvement even though we won't see it right away. Look at how Jane was moving earlier. She was able to hide her bursts of speed better after coach Winters lectured her. Now she can surprise everyone better." 

"Ashers' point is valid, but I also think we could have been better off using team work strategies." Art was still thinking of what the group needed the most and how they would go about getting to where they needed to be. 

"I don't think they will let us leave here if they think we can train again at home after. This all seemed to be set up to tire our minds and bodies out." The look on Janes' face said that she had a bad feeling. 

This feeling was proven as they entered the classroom left for them and the principal himself was standing at the podium. "Afternoon. I decided to come personally today to congratulate you again. I also had another bit of paper work to do. But that doesn't matter. On the desk, you will find your small binders of book work for the week. That holds every pop quiz and mini test for all academic subjects you need to be caught up on. You have four hours to get a head start and ask me any questions. After that, you have only each other for the week." 

Everyone could feel that this was to push them to get better but at the end of the day, the principal looked a little too happy to be telling them of the work load they had in front of them. It was definitely a slight revenge for leaving and not meeting with him, Garnet, and coach Winters after Cara had finished.. But, it was a consequence the group needed to accept since they made the choice themselves.