CrazeTheWaffleCat you mad genius! This story line was her idea. When Skipper boasts about his team bravery and strenghth Marlene dares them to spend the night in a haunted middle school where three hundred students were trapped and burned alive in a fire. Creepy, huh?

"W-why are we here, again?" Private asked.

"Well, Marlene dared us didn't she?"

"All night long." Kowalski said emotionlessly.

The four boys stood in front of the abandoned school hesitating before its decrepit look.

"Ghosts do not exists! It is against all science." Kowalski said summoning confidence.

"Yeargh!" Rico said nodding vigorously

"Well, that's good to know, you nancycats are really manning up."

"Skippah, should we REALLY go in there, it's dark and dusty and broken..."

"Well, he IS right..." Kowalski said examining the crumbling concrete steps and rusted green doors.

Rico shrugged and pushed Kowalski in. Suprized by the sudden motion Kowalski screamed. Rico laughed at him. "Florrsnuhbroke."

"Come on, Private, time to go in!" He dragged the younger boy in with him.

"Skippah!"

"Stop being such a baby Private." He led the way down the dusty hall to a door labled office.

In the office was a main desk with broken cobwebbed phones, a computer and several wheeled chairs. Behind the desk was a door.

"Come on lets go this way." Skipper said. They went through the door and into a closed hallway of four doors. One labled Princeipal, one vice princible, a counslers office and a nurses office. "Split up men everyone take a door."

"No!" Private cried causing the others to jump.

Skipper gave him an annoyed look. "What is it now Private?" He said already moving on to a door.

"Something bad always happens when peolpe split up!"

"Nothings gonna happe- Ahh!" Skipper screamed and jumped away from the door he'd opened.

His men not knowing what happened also screamed and moved in the direction he did. They clumped together screaming and hugging. Private was the first to stop screaming.

"Wait guys." Private said. "It's only insulin needles from the nurses office."

Kowalski and Rico calmed down, but Skipper continued to panic. Kowalski shut the door to the nurses office and Skipper calmed down.

Skipper cleared his throat. "Hem. Moving on, but uh.. lets stick together."

Private snickered and quickly acted innocent when Skipper shot him a look.

In the princibles office they found a surplus of paper work spilling from fileing cabnets, a larg worm eaten desk and two plastic chairs right in front of the desk.

"Add stone walls, lose the windows, put a lock on the door and you could have a real torture chamber here." Skipper bemused with mild approval.

The others shrugged and moved on, but Skipper stayed to fish throught the papers. "Ooh! Food fights, thumbtacks, signs on peoples backs, ha even a swirly or two! This kid was a real hell raiser! Lets see... This one says insubordination, threats on students, threats on teachers, fights on school property, disordly conduct during recess, incomplete work." Skipper read a few more then moved on with his team.

They stood in the doorway of the counslers office it was a complete opposite to the priceipals office. Minus the dust that has made a layer over time it was spottles. Pencils in a cup all at a 95 degree angle to the right. A laminated planner on the desk and a copy of it on a wall. There were no posters or rugs or personallisations of any kind.

Private clicked his teeth. "Rather emotionless for a counsler. Maybe..." Private checked the top desk drawer. It was organized as were all the other drawers, but under the desk was a waste basket full of tissues and colorful pictures and a framed photo of a family. "There it tis." Private said showing them the burst of color and emotion the counsler had hid.

"Now just the vice principals and we'll be onto the classrooms." The vice principle's office was on a thin line to becoming like the principle's office. Dust lined the shelves and table. The chair looked like it was about to fall apart, it's stuffing falling out of it.

Skipper walked forward and looked around, "Wow, awards for karate and judo by... "

"By who, Skippah?"

"A Ha and a Te is all I can make out!" he dusted off the pictures, a white-haired male and a brunete stood in the picture.

"Hmm... They seem... Familiar..." Kowalski rubbed his chin, Rico stared at it jumping when a creak was heard. They turned to the chair, it spun around like someone was sitting on it.

"Oh, this is... Creepy," Private shuddered.

"Perhaps we should move on." The scientific boy said trying to hide his fear.

"Right. Move out." Skipper order leading them out of the hall and out of the office.

They looked down a long hall of doors, but near the end hardly any of the little sunlight from the door reached it.

"Rico! Flashlights!"

"Waithuminit swithbord!" The large boy grumbled pointing into the office.

"Aha! But wait it could be broken." Kowalski said. "What if one of us gets electricuted? They've probably shut the power off by now-."

Rico opened the switch board. "Lessee..." The lables next to the switches were peeling and unreadable so Rico decided to presh a bunch at random. Nothing. Rico growled at the switch board and pulled a rench out of his backpack and hit the switch board with all his might. Nothing. Panting from the exertion his tounge hung out. A string of drool touched an exposed wire and ZAP! Blue electricity surged through Rico and he fell.

"Rico!" The others shouted. Kowalski rushed over to his fallen freind "Rico! Rico you madman!"

"Whu?" The crazy boy asked. The the lights snapped on overhead creating a halo over Kowalskis head. "Oh Walski. Yougehscarehed?" He taunted.

"Yes you scared all of us we thought you were dead!" Kowalski cried.

"Or worse." Skipper added solemly.

"What's worse than dead Skippah?" The youngest boy asked.

"Pray you never find out Private." The leader said. "Now lets move! Go! Go! Go!"

"Skipper if we divide the school into sections I'm sure we can be out before midnight." Kowalski said. "I have a map I printed off last night-."

"The bet was that we couldn't stay in here all night. We'll adhear to that bet or lose."

"But Skipper morning starts at twelve A.M-." Skipper glared at him. "I mean 2400 hours. We only need to be here that long."

"That's right, but we can do better than that. We'll be here till an hour before roll call, shaken or stirred." He said proudly.

"Yuh!" Rico agreed feeling the emotion in Skippers voice. "AutatechMarlene!"

Kowalski and Private gulped. "Yes sir." Kowalski said.

"Kowalski you take the doors left, Rico the right, Private and I will take point."