At Cartoon Network School, the students were in the gym, sitting in the bleachers, talking to one another until their principal would come out.
"I wonder what the big announcement is this time?" June wondered. "Dress Code?"
"I hope they get better cafeteria food." Eddy commented.
"The BS Anti-Bullying Campaigns?" Cindy narrowed her eyes.
The others looked to her in shock.
"Well, it's true." Cindy defended.
"All right, everybody settle down, and let me explain of why you're all here," Skarr told the students as he soon came to address them. "I bet you're wondering why you're all here. Well, this year is going to be fun for us. Each city, even like Nicktropolis and Disneyville, and even we will pick a group of students to enter The Tournament of Games."
"The Tournament of Games?" Double D repeated, curiously.
"That's right, almost like the Olympics in a way with many activities." Skarr nodded.
"I have a question," Sarah spoke up as she raised her hand. "So, who are we competing against?"
"Let's see..." Skarr said, checking his list. "Nicktoons High, The Disneyville Academy, and, oh, yes, of course, Lemon Brook Junior High School."
"Lemon Brook?!" Kevin asked.
"Are you serious?!" Eddy added.
"We might die!" Cindy cried out.
"Oh, please, it's just another school, don't be so melodramatic." Skarr told the students.
"So, uh, how will this work then?" Kevin asked.
"By the end of lunch time; I will pick out a group of students, then next week, we will visit Disneyville for The Games." Skarr informed.
"Why bother?" Kevin scoffed. "Everyone knows you're just gonna pick Mike Mazinsky and her dorky friends!"
"Jealous that we're more famous than you, Shovelchin?" Eddy mocked.
"As if!" Kevin scoffed. "Who would like a dork like you?"
"At least my middle name isn't Mary!" Eddy glared.
"Dork!" Kevin glared back.
"Shovelchin!"
"Loser!"
"Box Head!"
"Skipper!"
"Why, you!" Eddy glared as he was soon going to his rival, but Trent and Justin grabbed a hold of him. "Oh, come on, let me go, I wanna wring his neck!"
"Save it for the Games, you two!" Skarr scolded. "We'll find out the results at lunch then."
Eddy and Kevin just growled at each other.
"I hope you get broken bones." Kevin threatened.
"I hope your bike gets run over by a semi truck." Eddy glared.
"I hope that blue-haired witch dumps you forever!" Kevin glared back.
"I hope that Becky bimbo gets rid of you!"
"I hope-"
"Shut up!" Jo glared in annoyance. "Both of you shut up, you're giving me a headache!"
"He started it!" Eddy and Kevin blamed in unison. "What? No, I didn't, you started it!"
"I don't care who started it..." Jo said softly before yelling. "BUT I WILL END IT WITH BOTH OF YOU SIX FEET UNDER IF YOU DON'T STOP RIGHT NOW!"
"But-" Eddy and Kevin tried.
Jo grabbed Eddy and picked him up like a little kid then put him on the other side of her. "Stay, got it?!" she then demanded.
"Uh..." Eddy and Kevin shivered.
"Mike?" Eddy called.
"I'm not helping, you guys got yourselves into this mess, get yourselves out." Mike told them both.
"Don't even look to each other or even talk to each other." Jo told them.
"But Kevin-" Eddy tried to tell her.
"I don't care," Jo glared. "He's not worth it."
"I'm sorry they're bugging you." Mike said to Jo.
"It's fine," Jo replied. "As much as I'd like to kill Kevin, this isn't the time to do it."
"I know what you mean." Mike agreed.
Eventually, the students were dismissed, and they walked off, though Jo seemed more distant than usual.
"So, who do you think Skarr is going to pick?" June wondered.
"Probably us because we're awesome like that, right, Jo?" Eddy smirked.
"Whatever." Jo shrugged.
"What's with you today?" Eddy asked.
"It's none of your business." Jo said firmly.
"Whoa, take it easy there," Eddy told her. "I'm your friend, dude."
Jo soon walked off, not wanting to talk with anybody.
"What's her problem today?" Eddy asked the others.
"Maybe she got brainwashed by the aliens." Ed suggested.
Everyone, minus Dee Dee, just looked at him in deadpan.
"It's best to leave her alone," Justine advised. "If she wants to tell us, then it's her choice, not ours."
"Even you don't know?" Mike asked.
"I try not to get involved when she's like this no matter how worried I may seem." Justine nodded with a sigh.
"Good girl... I'm sure it's probably nothing major..." Mike told the others. "Come on, let's get going, guys."
Everyone soon got what they wanted/needed from their lockers before leaving the hallway.
Meanwhile, Skarr was on the phone with the principals of Nicktoons High, The Disney Academy, and Lemon Brook Junior High.
"I hope you losers are ready to cry, because my team is going to win." Skarr bragged.
"Oh, please, Reginald," Prickly scoffed. "I bet you don't even have a team."
"Are you forgetting who you're dealing with?" Skarr smirked.
"Yeah... You..." Prickly replied.
"I bet you don't even have a team either, Pete." Wartz commented.
The secretaries/assistants of the school principals looked annoyed, thinking that they were behaving like children.
"You three are all morons, and you will never succeed," The principal of Lemon Brook Junior High scoffed. "But, we shall soon see who will win in the end."
"Yes, we will see about that, Principal William Rossford." Skarr scowled.
With that, the principals hung up.
At the Lemon Brook Junior High School, William looked at the window with an evil grin. "Those morons are a bunch of fools," he then grinned. "They will all know of and fear Lemon Brook."
The students of Lemon Brook looked very aggressive, especially the football team who often pulverized Cartoon Network School's team back when Ed became the mascot with Nazz, Jimmy, and Sarah until Mike managed to save the day as the new football quarterback. They made Gumboot look like a good school. Even Kelsey and Leslie who had to go back to their old school after losing the Best Friend competition. They had a dart board with pictures of Katie and Sadie, and not to mention, every one apart of The Howling Wolves.
"I hate that group so much!" Kelsey sneered.
"I don't even get what makes them all so special," Leslie scoffed. "You'd think they were gods or something."
"Ah, there you are, girls." William said as he approached the two teenage girls.
"Principal Rossford, what are you doing here, sir?" Kelsey asked.
"I'd like to talk with you... Right now." William demanded.
Kelsey and Leslie looked nervous at first, but followed their principal into his office.
"What did we do, sir?" Leslie asked.
"It's what you're going to do," William told them. "I'm entering you two, along with a certain group of students I picked to be entering The Tournament of Games."
"Both of us?" Kelsey asked.
"Oh, sure, why not?" William smirked. "You two are two of the most devious students I know in this school... We nearly won that football game last year until that lesbian with the pigtails won..." he then narrowed his eyes about last year's football game back when Mike was a girl and was dating Eddy before she soon realized that she liked girls and became more masculine.
"Who's the group who's going to be with us then?" Kelsey asked.
"Follow me." William told them.
Kelsey and Leslie then followed after the principal.
There was a group of students there which made the two girls gasp.
"They look like the group from Cartoon Network School." Kelsey commented.
"Well, they're not, okay?" William said to him before going up to a boy who was almost like Mike. "A very smart and athletic type: Nicholas Nikonov."
"Hello, ladies," Nicholas smirked. "It's an honor to be in the tournament with you."
"Likewise." Kelsey said.
"These boys," William introduced a group of three boys who almost looked like the Eds. "Ted, Theodore, and Teddy."
Leslie nodded to the three boys who all seemed to have the same name.
"A hardcore girl, August Yee," William introduced. "She says that she wishes to control magic and the magical world... Whatever that means."
"I will avenge Kai Yee." The girl bowed her head.
"Kelly Kendra, also known as Kiki Loftsky." William then gestured to a girl who almost looks like Dee Dee.
"What's up?" Kiki greeted.
"This is really freaky..." Leslie whispered to Kelsey.
Kelsey merely nodded in agreement. It was almost like when The Recess Gang met 98th Street School for the first time for a game of kickball. A shadow soon hovered over them, glaring at them angrily who almost looked like Jo.
"That's Alexis Melin," William then introduced. "Or as most people call her: Alex."
"You two witches got something to say?!" Alex glared.
"No, sir!" Kelsey and Leslie gulped.
Alex lightly growled and stepped back.
"And of course, who could forget the lovely and wonderful Clover O'Sullivan, the lovely and gorgeous twin sister of professional model: Cliff O'Sullivan?" William then showed an Irish girl who looked a little like Justine.
"Top of da mornin' to ya, laddies." Clover waved.
"And Cliff O'Sullivan himself." William then introduced the Irish girl's twin brother who looked almost like Justin.
Cliff nodded in silence.
"This is Derek Nicholson, and his sister, Andi." William introduced.
The two punks who almost look like Duncan and Abby cracked their knuckles which made Kelsey and Leslie gulp in fear.
"What do you think so far?" William asked the girls.
"Uhh..." Kelsey and Leslie blinked, not sure what to say right now.
"Answer!" Andi demanded.
"It's good!" Kelsey and Leslie spilled out. "Very good!"
"This is Brooklyn Spring, and Trevor McStevens." William then introduced.
The girl and the boy who almost looked like Brianna and Trent nodded to them.
"And who could forget folks like Day Saulteaux and Randy Brynn?" William then introduced, actually, two boys, who were like Sky and Sammy.
"Hello, ladies." Day flashed a wink to Kelsey and Leslie which made them blush a bit.
"And Brittany Peterson." William continued.
There was a punk girl who almost looked like Ashlyn.
"Can we go now?" Leslie asked.
"Sure, but first, you must get acquainted with your team: The Savage Coyotes." William told them.
"Right." Kelsey said.
William nodded and walked off as Kelsey pulled out a picture of the group.
"Who are they?" Brittany asked.
"Your target: The Howling Wolves." William told the students.
"They look like weaklings, especially the guy in the gray hoodie." Alex commented.
"I know you all can do it when our time comes." William said before putting the photo away for now.
"Oh, don't worry, sir; we will destroy those losers." Nicholas promised.
"And break every bone in their body." Andi added.
"I know you won't fail me, it's apart of the legacy that is Lemon Brook Junior High." William replied.
"Don't worry, sir, we will defeat them no matter what." Teddy nodded.
"Just give us the when to." Brooklyn added.
"Next week, we're going to Disneyville," William replied. "That's when you will defeat them, and use anything that means necessary."
Everyone nodded, and there was going to be heavy training involved. William had a rather sadistic grin for his students, almost like a crazed man as he looked excited.
Meanwhile, at Cartoon Network School, Skarr was crying, hugging Mike's legs in the office.
"Please, Mike, you and your friends have got to enter the tournament!" Skarr begged.
"Why is it always us?" Mike asked. "Why don't you just give us a break and let someone else have a chance?"
"Well... I can't..." Skarr smiled nervously. "I sort of bet you guys in a Poker game."
"What?!" Mike asked.
"Hey, you're my best athletic students, I don't see what I have to lose." Skarr shrugged innocently.
"But what about Lightning?" Mike suggested. "Or Buttercup? Heck, even Wallabee Beatles. They're athletes too."
"It's too late, I already picked you guys." Skarr said.
"I don't see why you always have to pick us." Mike rolled her eyes.
"You guys are the best students I've ever had," Skarr begged. "Please, just do this just this once, please?"
"Just this one?" Mike deadpanned. "I've heard that one before, Principal Skarr."
"Fine, what do you want?" Skarr asked.
"What do I want?" Mike asked back.
"In exchange for you and your friends doing this for me, just name it, and it'll be yours." Skarr begged.
"Well, make sure that we can get better food in the cafeteria, first of all." Mike began.
"Very well, what else?" Skarr asked.
"Well, this is mostly a thing everyone agrees on except for maybe Mindy, but no school uniforms." Mike said.
"Very well, anything else?" Skarr asked.
"I'll have to ask the others." Mike shrugged.
Skarr and Mike then shook hands and the tomboy came out to see the others.
"Well, what'd he say?" Sky asked her cousin.
"Well, he's entered us in the Tournament, but we can have whatever want in exchange." Mike replied.
"So, we're going through with it?" Sky asked.
"We might as well..." Mike shrugged.
"Yaaaay!" Ed and Dee Dee cheered.
"Now I just wonder who will be entering from Nicktropolis and Disneyville?" Justine pondered.
"I actually don't know for sure." Mike shrugged.
"I guess we better get ready if we're gonna compete." Sky said.
"It's always about you, Mike, isn't it?" Lu asked.
"Come on, Lu, Mike is our friend." Og told his cousin.
"Don't you wanna be in the tournament?" Mike smirked to the island kids.
"Please," Lu rolled her eyes. "I don't wanna ruin my hair."
"That's too bad, because Manny is probably going to be there." Sky replied.
This made Lu gasp. "Manny Wanny?!"
"Is there any other Manny Rivera?" Mike teased the island girl.
"Ooh! Ooh! Let me enter the tournament!" Lu begged. "Please, please, please?!"
"I dunno, it might not be for you..." Mike said. "You're not quite the athletic type, no offense, Lu."
"I could be your cheerleader, or I could be your manager, or even your head coach!" Lu begged.
"Well, you would make a good cheerleader like Little Suzy... Okay, but you better not make us mess up." Mike replied.
"I won't, Mike, just as long as I can help the team as charity for my princess career~" Lu smiled boastfully.
"Og, would you like to be our coach?" Mike offered.
"Yes, I would like that," Og smiled. "I won't let you down."
"I know you won't," Mike smiled. "You're a good kid."
Sky smiled to all of Mike, Lu, and Og, appreciating their friendship, even after all these years.
"We better tell the others the news." Mike suggested.
"And after school, we'll start with the training." Og added.
"Good thinking." Mike nodded in agreement.
"Come on; we better tell the others." Sky said.