It was a new school year, and Tim was excited. He paused before the school building, and shivered. Somehow, the giant building intimidated him more than gave him hope of the new school year.

He took a deep breath, and went inside.

Tim was early, and no one was in the school yet.

"First one here!" Tim mumbled.

Suddenly, he blacked out. A few moments later, when he woke up, he was in a classroom!

"This is odd..." Tim looked around the classroom. The windows were covered with metal, and it was silent.

He got up and started to walk out.

"Oh!" Tim realized perhaps the opening ceremony was about to begin. He decided to not investigate and instead go straight to the gym.

At the gym, there were seven other students.

"Aren't there supposed to be more students?" Tim asked the boy, Ralphie, in the baseball cap.

"That's what I'm wondering!" Ralphie exclaimed.

And before Tim could respond, a strange creature popped onto the stage of the gym.

It was...

"Miss Frizzle!"

The students all exclaimed. Except something was off about her... She was...

"MonoFrizzle?!"

The students exclaimed once again.

MonoFrizzle winked and said, "hello, class. Welcome to the Magic School Bus of Despair."

The students gulped. This could not be good.

"Say goodbye to the outside world, class," said MonoFrizzle, "you're going to be staying here all your life! Unless you take chances, make mistakes, and get messy!"

"You want us to go on a field trip?" Asked Carlos.

"No, Carlos, I want you to murder." MonoFrizzle smiled.

"I knew I should've stayed home today..." Arnold moaned while the rest of the class was speechless.

Murder their own friends?! What?!

"Now class, here is your e-handbooks. Make sure to read the regulations because if you don't, you might die." MonoFrizzle gave everyone their e-handbooks, and the opening ceremony was over. "Bye-bye!" MonoFrizzle said before she disappeared.

"This is bad! Bad bad bad bad!" Exclaimed Keesha in a panic, "I don't want to be stuck here forever!"

Everyone was in a panic.

"Calm down, everyone!" Shouted Dorothy Ann, and everyone stopped panicking.

"Why don't we all read the rules in our e-handbooks?" As soon as Dorothy Ann said this, Tim got out his, and so did everybody else.

Tim shivered. These rules... They seemed to horrify him.

"Anyone who kills a fellow student and becomes "blackened" will graduate, unless they are discovered."

What did this mean?! He gulped... Tim already knew the answer...

It meant someone will die.

Phoebe interrupted Tim's thoughts with a gasp.

"At my old school, we never had to kill anyone to graduate!"

"Same here." Tim replied, "Something is weird about all of this."

"Why don't we look around? Maybe we'll find a way out?" Suggested Ralphie.

Everyone agreed, except Arnold, who was too scared to do so.

Soon, everyone gathered back at the dining area with no way found to escape.

"Ahem..."

Everyone looked up at the television screen and saw MonoFrizzle.

"It is now ten PM. As such, it is officially nighttime. Soon, areas including the dining room will be closed. Sleep tight, everybody. Don't let the bed bugs bite."

"I guess we should handle this in the morning..." Said Wanda.

"We can meet back here at the lunch room." Said Dorothy Ann.

"Okay." Agreed everyone.

Tim found his dorm room and went to bed. He felt exhausted.

"What is happening?" He thought as he drifted to sleep.