AN. Here is my second story ever on FanFiction! I just thought it would be a good idea, because what would happen if it were like this? I dunno. It will get better in the next chapter, cause this is just a prologue. Anyhoo, I hope you enjoy, and please leave a review!

Ella


Prologue.

It was here! It was finally here! The day Mike had been waiting for. Mike had been counting down the days, he had worked so hard, he had done everything, and now, the day he had waited for for almost two years, was almost there. It was Mike and Sulley's first day as Scarers. Mike could almost taste the sweet smell of victory. Even if Mike wasn't a Scarer, he still got the glory and happiness, and happily, he got to live threw Sulley. It wasn't exactly what he wanted, but, the perks of living threw his friend was for one thing, he got to do tons of things he was never able to do before.

Mike walked threw the doors of Monsters, Inc., but this time it was different. Now Mike was wearing a Monsters, Inc. uniform, even if it was just a hat, for him. He wanted to get straight to work, but first he thought it wouldn't be to bad for him to miss three or four minutes, to talk to this...girl. She was his first crush, which was sad for him because Mike was twenty two. He never had a chance with her, but Mike liked to think he did. She was probably the prettiest girl at the entire factory. Mike happily walked up to Celia's desk, with a large smile on his face.

"Good morning, Celia" He said, pretending to read the newspaper that sat on her desk.

"Morning" Celia said, not looking up for a few moments. When she did, she tilted her head, until she finally figured out who he was. "Are you Mike Wazowski?"

"Yes" Mike said, a bit upset she didn't recognize him. He had gotten her a coffee a couple weeks ago. Of course, he had ran down to a coffee shop to get it, came back, in which Celia only gave him a thank you and took the coffee from him.

"Oh" Celia said, digging threw her files. "You have a meeting in Mr. Waternoose's office, about this time today."

"Huh?" Mike asked. "But this is my first day as a Scarer!"

"You're a scarer?" Celia asked, eying Mike.

"Well, not technically" Mike said with a nervous chuckle.

"Alright" Celia said. "Look, I have to get back to work. See you again, sometime."

"Okay" Mike said. He began to walk away, than walked back. Celia rolled her eyes.

"Mr. Waternoose's office is down the big hall to the right. Just keep going down the hall until you reach the big shiny blue door that says 'Waternosse' on it" Celia said.

"Thanks!" Mike said, hurrying off down the hall. He looked back at Celia, who was going threw her notes. Mike ran to the right, and down that hall, for about a minute or two, until he reached the door that Celia told him about. He opened it.

"Ah, Mr. Wazowski, now our meeting can begin" Mr. Waternoose said. Mike looked around the room. It was filled with all the new Scarers, and their assistants. Mike's eye searched the room for Sulley, and he walked over to him and sat beside him.

"You're late" Sulley whispered.

"What is this meeting about?" Mike asked, ignoring Sulley's question.

"I'm not sure" Sulley answered.

"So, you must be wondering why all of you are here, instead of working since this is your first day, which I shall congratulate you on" Mr. Waternoose said, clapping his hands. "But, we have had a change of plans. This will be unfortunate for some of you, but this year, we will be choosing your assistants for you."

"What?" Mike whispered. He looked at Sulley, who also looked shocked.

"Some of you have been friends for years, which makes it hard to work. From experience of last year, and the year before that, when the scarers picked their own assistants, no work came of it. All our energy was slowly disappearing, because they were to close. Working with your best friend may make it easier for you, but not for the factory. So this year, we've made a list of who will be whose assistants, and please do not be offended if you were paired with someone you don't like particularly, but it will all be for the best. We'll start off at the top" Waternoose said. He named off a number of monsters, until he got to the row of Scarers that Mike and Sulley were with. At this point, all the other scarers and their new assistants were all getting acquainted. Apparently they had today off, to get to know each other. Most had scowls on their face as they left. But now it was just a few monsters left.

"Johnny Worthington" Waternoose said. Johnny raised his hand, and stood up. "Johnny, your new assistant is..."

Waternoose searched threw his notes for a few minutes, when a smug smile appeared on his face. "Michael Wazowski."

Mike's jaw dropped. He turned to Sulley, who grunted angrily.

"Sorry, buddy" Sulley said. Mike was angry that that was all Sulley had to say. They had been working for this for almost three years, and that was all he had to say? Sorry Buddy? Mike dramatically pushed his seat back, stood up, and walked over to Johnny. He looked back. Sulley's name was being called, and he looked sick to his stomach. Mike sighed, and looked up at Johnny. Johnny's eyes narrowed.

"You" He said. "You were that beach ball in college."

"Yeah, and you were that jerk" Mike said.

Mike and Johnny, without saying anything, walked out of Mr. Waternoose's office. Both Johnny and Mike stayed silent. They sat at the table together. They had to get to know each other, even though neither of them wanted to. Everyone else in the room was talking loudly, and laughing. As the other workers became friends, Mike and Johnny were both boiling in their hate for each other. They didn't know how to react, and they didn't want to. They both hated each other, and weren't afraid to show it. They were never going to be able to work together.

Mike turned in his chair when he heard the door open again. Randall Boggs, and Johnny's friend from college, Jack, walked threw. Jack was the only one complaining, and Randall was about to flip out. Mike was afraid for Randall's sanity. He would never be able to deal with Jack. He wondered how Jack became an assistant. He was a pretty scary monster. Most likely he wanted to be Johnny's assistant, but wasn't as lucky as he could have been. Johnny smiled when he watched Randall walking away with Jack, to a table near the door.

"I am so grateful they made that new rule, because I would never be able to deal with Jack for the next few years" Johnny muttered to himself.

"I'm not so happy" Mike said, turning away. Johnny just grunted.

"It's only during the day, and than you can go back to your apartment, and mourn in the loss of your glorious job with that big bolder you seem to be in love with" Johnny said.

"Took you forever to think of that, didn't it?" Mike asked, with a chuckle. "That's true, it is only during the day. And I'm not in love with Sulley. It's pathetic that you'd use that as in insult. And I'm not even mourning it. Yeah I'm upset I have to work with the biggest jerk from college, but I work at Monsters, Incorporated. I'm pretty happy."

Johnny rolled his eyes. This was not going to be easy.

The door opened again. Sulley and his new assistant, Fungus, walked out. Sulley looked indifferent. Mike got up from his seat and ran over to him.

"Sull, you've gotta get me out of this! It's been ten seconds and I already can't stand the guy!" Mike said, with a twinge of whine in his voice.

"I know, Mike. But hey, it's just during the day. I'll see you tonight. But we just have to deal with it at the moment" Sulley answered.

"You're joking. You have to be joking. You won't even be able to scare without me! Johnny won't listen to me!" Mike complained.

"I know. That's why you're my coach in the morning. And once Johnny's scare records start going down, he'll listen to you" Sulley said.

"I can't believe I'm listening to this. Sull, can you even hear yourself?" Mike asked.

"Wazowski!" Johnny yelled. Sulley gave Mike a look of sympathy. Mike groaned and turned away from Sulley, and clomped back to his table, sitting down, and holding his head on his hand, and looking at the table.

"Lets begin" Mike said, not looking up.


AN. I know it's a rocky start, but it will get better. Besides, this is only my second story. Speaking of which, if you like couples in Monsters, Inc., please send me prompts for my first story about different couples in this fandom! There are some (that mostly involve Boo) that I'm not okay with writing, but otherwise, I'm open to anything! Please send me prompts for that story, and I'll write a story that is about a little over a thousand words long! Anyhoo, bye for now! Please review!

Ella