I know I have another story I should probably be doing, but I got distracted. XD...Because Superheros are awesome. =D
~Christino
Avaric Tenmeadows sat at the back of the chemistry class, texting. To who, he wasn't exactly sure, he was on spam mode; sending pictures of kittens wearing sunglasses, walruses hugging chickens, messages stating that you would die in a week if it wasn't passed on, pretty typical stuff.
Chemistry's stupid. Why do I care if noble gases have full valence shells? Is that going to make me rich and famous? Noooo.
He turned to his right, to find his friend, Fiyero Tiggular, wearing his not so inconspicuous headphones, blasting music.
What a dumbass. I can hear his terrible music from here.
As Avaric put his head down, ready to start napping, when the chemistry teacher suddenly cleared his throat and tapped a metre stick on his desk.
"Class, I want you to partner up. I have an experiment planned for you to do."
Avaric shifted his sleepy gaze over toward Fiyero and mouth the words, "Get over here, fool."
In turn, Fiyero gave him a dismissal wave as he flipped his black hair. "No, you get over here." He mouthed back.
Avaric crossed his arms as his green eyes gave Fiyero a bored look. "I'm not moving you queer."
"Oh, grow up!" Moaned Fiyero out loud, "Just come over here!"
"Is there a problem, Mr. Tiggular?" Asked the chemistry teacher as he glared at Fiyero.
"No, Professor Sedgwick." Grumbled the young man.
"Then I suggest you quickly partner up with Mr. Tenmeadows, we're all waiting for you, Mr. Tiggular." Said the professor.
"Condescending asshole." Growled Fiyero under his breath as he moved two seats over to sit next to Avaric.
"Now then," Started Professor Sedgwick, "On the tables in front of you, you'll see that I've placed a few labeled beakers containing various liquids, a Bunsen burner, and your instructions. You have the rest of the class to finish this experiment, you may now begin."
With that, Professor Sedgwick sat down at his desk and unfolded the day's paper.
"Alrighty! Fiyero, you heard the man, do the project while I try and score with the group beside us."
Fiyero grabbed his friend's shirt just as Avaric started to turn away, "Oh no you don't. If I'm the one doing all the work, I'm bound to blow something up."
Avaric just stared at him.
"Ok, granted, you being here might only make that more probable, but…then…it won't be completely my fault."
"I hate you," Sighed Avaric, "But alright, let's do this."
The brunette picked up the instruction sheet, "Ok, it says that the outcome should be a bright pink foam." He looked up, "Dude, get some pink food colouring and some soap."
"Why?"
"Cause there's no way we can do this without cheating."
"Man up." Sighed Fiyero as he ran a hand through his hair. "Step one, pour one pint of the liquid gallium into the glass burette containing the piece of copper. Did you get that, Av?"
"Uh…sure."
"Ok, step two, turn on the Bunsen Burner."
"Uh, Fiyero?"
"What?"
"What's a Bunsen Burner?"
Fiyero stared at his friend, "To be honest, I have no idea."
"B-but, what do we do then?"
"Uhh… Oh! My kindergarten teacher always said that if we didn't know how to spell something, we should sound it out. Let's try that."
"Ok, Bunsen…Buunn siiiinnnn..burneerr..oh! Burner! It's the fire making device!"
Fiyero flipped a switch on the odd metal device; a small flame flickered into existence.
"Genius!"
"Ok step three, you mix…uh, hey Avaric, how do you pronounce that word?"
Avaric leaned over to read what Fiyero was pointing at, "Solution? It says you're supposed to mix the solution."
"I totally freaking knew that. Asshole, why'd you tell me? Are you trying to make me look bad?" Scowled Fiyero.
"You don't need my help for that."
Fiyero punched Avaric on the arm.
"Anger management dude."
"Phff, whatever. Just follow step four."
"Uh huh…"
There was a poof of purple smoke as Avaric poured the liquid of two containers together.
"Was that supposed to happen?" Asked Fiyero.
"I-unnooo." Mumbled Avaric.
"Dude, you gotta follow the rules! We might blow something up! Again!"
Avaric let out a growl of annoyance, "Screw the rules man! I have money!"
The brunette grabbed two flasks at random and started mixing them together with some copper ii sulfate.
"What are you doing?"
"Not sure, I just like it 'cause it's blue."
He was about to tip another container of fluid into his bubbling concoction, when a voice behind him suddenly spoke.
"I wouldn't do that if I were you."
Avaric twirled around to face the speaker, flasks still in his hands, "And why should I listen to you, Thropp?"
Elphaba Thropp, daughter of the governor of Munchkinland, was staring at the two men with an apathetic look on her face, "Because A: You've created something very unstable, and B: I'm the top student here, I'd think I know."
"Top student nothing! You're green, how much do you want to bet that's because of some failed experiment?"
Elphaba's skin was indeed green, unlike Fiyero's sprayed on tan, it was naturally this way.
"Fine. Don't say I didn't warn you." Shrugged the green girl as she stalked back to her partner.
"Hmpf." Avaric was about to pour the continents of the two flasks together when he heard someone else come up behind him.
"Hiya, Avaric!" Squealed a small blonde girl.
"What? What do you want, Galinda?"
"You know, you should really listen to Elphie, she's good at this chemistry stuff."
Fiyero coughed, "Yeah, well we're good at blowing stuff up."
Galinda pouted, "That's not a good thing."
"Galinda, we're smarter than you, I think we know what we're doing."
"Hey! I can be smart too! I just don't want to be. Sometimes... kinda."
"Hey, wanna hear a joke?" Smirked Avaric, "Ok, there was a blonde driving down the road, when she noticed another blonde on the grass nearby, in a canoe trying to paddle away. The blonde got out of the car, walked over to the grass' edge and shouted, 'What are you doing? It's people like you who give us blondes a bad name! If I could swim I'd come over there and kick your ass!'"
"I don't get it." Mumbled Galinda.
"It's ok, I didn't expect you to." Laughed Avaric.
"Are you trying to call me stupid?"
"No, of course not, Miss Upland!"
"You know what? I think you're hairist, Avaric Tenmeadows!" Huffed Galinda as she walked away.
"You got told, bro." Stated Fiyero.
"Go home." Muttered the brunette.
Behind the two, Galinda squealed as their flask started bubbling and produced a bright pink foam.
"Oh, Elphie! Look, its pretty!"
The green girl smiled as she pushed her glasses up, "It's a very simple chemical reaction, Galinda, you see-"
"Ah, ah, ah! I'll explain it, Thropp! After I finish the experiment…I can be smart too!"
And with that, Avaric poured the liquids of the flasks into the same container. Soon after, a purple-orange foam started bubbling out of the container in massive quantities.
"Av, is it supposed to be orangey purple?" Whispered Fiyero.
"Sure it is! Uh, you see, the blue…copper salt thing was like wooooosh with the gallium and then…purple puff of smoke and then…Einstein, Newton, black holes, something smart, scientific, big bang theory and poof! My experiment gone right!" Rambled Avaric as he waved his arms around.
Professor Sedgwick looked up from his paper just in time to see the very unstable chemical reaction oozing from the container.
"EVERYONE, GET OUT!" He shouted as he bolted for the door.
Panicked, the students began rushing for the door, screaming. Fiyero and Avaric's workbench was now completely engulfed by the foam.
"C'mon, Galinda, you heard the professor, we have to go!" Shouted Elphaba as she tried dragging the blonde towards the door.
"Wait! My purse! We have to go back and get it!"
"Galinda! It's just a purse, let it go!" Sighed Elphaba.
"No!"
"You have thousands of purses!"
"But that one's my favourite!"
"Fine!"
The two rushed back to their desks to get the blonde's purse.
"Avaric, dude, we gotta go!" Said an agitated Fiyero.
"Wait, I can fix this!"
"No you can't!"
"Can too!"
At that moment, the flask containing the foam shattered as the orange purple substance splattered everywhere.