Editing Teacher (section)

===Post-[[Gold Morning]]===
Following the death of Scion Teacher sets up multiple villains, helping them to become powerful by providing instructions to be followed. [[Imp]] speculates that Teacher does this to spread his chances, to be connected to someone in power if at least one of the villains succeeds.<ref>Nero gave the youths a wary look, then broke into an explanation, rushing a touch, “Teacher. He gave me the plan, told me what to do. So long as I follow his game plan, I get supplies I can’t get with my power, stuff you’d need forged. Documents and hard cash. He unlocked my power, too. Used to be I could only make a few things. Darts, I know where my stuff is, so I could tag people, track-”<br><br>“You’re rambling,” Imp said. “Rambling is good. Better than playing stupid. But maybe focus a bit, here.”<br><br>“Um. Uh.”<br><br>“The game plan,” Imp prodded him.<br><br>“He gave me guidelines. There’s a whole list of things I have to do, times to do them. I send in weekly reports, he sends me updated instructions. I, um. I’m not the only one. There are others. He told me he knows there’s no guarantee I’ll work out, so the instructions differ, and so do the people following them. If one of us succeeds, he steps up the rewards, helps us become even more powerful. We fail or we tell someone, and we’re on our own.”<br><br>“And, so long as someone succeeds,” Imp thought aloud, “He’s connected to someone in power.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/11/05/teneral-e-2/ Excerpt] from [[Teneral e.2]]</ref>

Teacher himself is seen together with [[Satyr]],<ref>“A shapeshifter,” Ingenue said. “Do I know you by another face?”<br><br>“I wasn’t in the Birdcage,” the viking said. “Satyr.”<br><br>“Charmed.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/11/16/teneral-e-5/ Excerpt] from [[Teneral e.5]]</ref> rescuing [[Ingenue]] from [[the Wardens]]<ref>He stopped. He’d turned, and she wasn’t there. Invisibility wasn’t one of her powers, but-<br><br>The dressing gown flew into the air, draping itself over the top of the dragon-print folding screen in the corner. She was on the other side.<br><br>“I see you’ve decided that you’re coming.”<br><br>“I’m bored,” she said, from behind the screen. “They can give me my art, good food, entertainment, chaperones to plays, but I want ''one'' thing, and they won’t give him to me.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/11/16/teneral-e-5/ Excerpt] from [[Teneral e.5]]</ref><ref>The blinking light turned yellow, then green. A mist erupted around the pad. The foam that bound it in place broke down. It skidded across the floor, propelled by small wheels.<br><br>Teacher let himself topple. His shoulder hit the teleportation pad. Crackling swept over the length of his body.<br><br>His students were waiting as he appeared on the other side, dragging him off. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/11/16/teneral-e-5/ Excerpt] from [[Teneral e.5]]</ref> before meeting with [[Contessa]].<ref>In the silence, he could hear footsteps behind him. He, Satyr and Ingenue were joined by a third person.<br><br>Teacher spoke without turning his head. “You’ve seen this video already, I expect?”<br><br>“Yes,” Contessa answered.<br><br>Lung tore into the casing, much as he’d torn through the vault door.<br><br>There was a scratch as Lung’s claw touched glass.<br><br>He tore at the metal, peeling it away while preserving the glass.<br><br>There was fluid inside.<br><br>The light caught the glass, at first, obscuring the contents.<br><br>A baby. Male. With large ears and a large round nose. Not attractive, as babies went. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/11/16/teneral-e-5/ Excerpt] from [[Teneral e.5]]</ref> Next, Teacher meets with [[Marquis]] as he tries to recruit [[Panacea]].<ref>“Your daughter ''is'' an adult. Capable of making her own decisions. I was going to bring her up later.”<br><br>“You’re not winning me over, Teacher.”<br><br>“I’ll make you a deal. Let me make the offer to her. She accepts or refuses it herself. If she says no, I leave it be and find someone else. Either way, you respect things with your silence. I won’t take any action against you, but I can’t promise my partners will be so polite.”<br><br>“Mmm. A counteroffer. I make the offer, as you outlined it here, and she decides from that.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/11/16/teneral-e-5/ Excerpt] from [[Teneral e.5]]</ref> Teacher claims his plan is to create a team bigger than any other, with powers bigger than any they have seen so far; by bringing the Shards back together into their greater whole, allowing a joining or sharing of different powers.<ref name="final">Teacher nodded a little, but he continued, unruffled. “I’m looking to put together something ''bigger''.”<br><br>“Bigger than?”<br><br>“Than any of the teams currently in operation. Than any of the powers we’ve seen yet. Call it megalomania, if you will.”<br><br>“Why? Before you say anything, you should know that ‘because I can’ isn’t an answer.”<br><br>“It was never the answer.”<br><br>“You’ve done a lot of things, and everything indicates it was for that very reason. Cas Raul?” Ingenue asked. She was relaxing now, the guise dropping. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/11/16/teneral-e-5/ Excerpt] from [[Teneral e.5]]</ref>

Meanwhile, [[the Undersiders]] plan to take down Teacher.<ref name="smug_dick">Imp sighed. “Teacher’s plan. It’s dumb. We’re supposed to worry about this shit?”<br><br>“No,” Tattletale said, watching on the monitors as the others from the meeting made their way downstairs. “Teacher isn’t a threat. Or he isn’t a big one. You were talking symbols before?”<br><br>“Symbolic shit, yeah.”<br><br>“Consider Teacher a symbol. Things are starting into motion, the quiet is coming to an end, and he’s… if not a threat, he’s a gatekeeper to one.”<br><br>“He’s a smug dick,” Rachel said. “You give the go-ahead, we tear him apart.”<br><br>[...]<br><br>“Keep that up and I’m telling those Heartbroken kids you ate cupcakes while they waited downstairs,” Tattletale said.<br><br>“No,” Imp said. “Nope. Nuh-uh. You would be signing my doom warrant.”<br><br>“Doom warrant? Nevermind. I think we have an understanding,” Tattletale said, grinning as much as Imp had been a moment ago.<br><br>“That’s it, then? A big bad that needs dealing with, a few little bads that need an organized clean up job, and we stay in touch,” Imp said.<br><br>“That’s the gist of it,” Tattletale said. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/11/19/interlude-end/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude: End]]</ref>