AN: So this is a thing I'm doing now. There's this fusionfall RP that I'm a part of, and here we have a concurrent story featuring my OC Amp. Because of that there's some plot points and stuff that's going to be a bit confusing until I can work in a naturally flowing way to explain them. For now just know that as far as set up goes, this takes place months after the Fusions destroyed quite a few lives with the help of a mind-control virus.
The main purpose behind this is to build Amp's character, but also explore his interactions with CN properties not yet (and likely never to be) utilized by Fusionfall or the RP for various reasons.
Also, for the very few that care, this isn't overtaking my Doctor Who stuff or that Baccano fic. In fact, both of those will likely be updated very, very soon. So sit tight and enjoy this
Chapter 1: Fusions in Fugue
"Does anyone know where Sunny is?"
"My man said he was gonna be late today."
"Lemme guess, construction still gettin' in the way?"
"Bingo."
It was an average day at Westley's school of Performing Arts, and the first year music class had been doing some improv during the expected absence of their teacher Sunny Bridges.
"Ooh, ooh, are we playing bingo!? I can so win this time! Who wants to place bets?" Said Madison, the groups vivacious violinist, hopping up and down on her heels.
"Nah," came the response of the genius-level bassist Philly Phil. "Bingo's more of a Baby Boomer's game. I prefer High Stakes Holographic Laser Bingo."
"That's only cause you invented it." Said the cymbal-rocking Kim with a wry smile.
"So?"
Kim rolled her eyes. "Living with a stuffy, paranoid twin brother, you'd think I'd be used to our group's collective weirdness."
"I am not paranoid!" Came the response of her piano playing brother Kam. "I told you I wasn't imaging those red eyes following me around the school!"
A scoff was heard from Lil'D, the group's self-appointed ringleader.. "Man, l would feel for you, but last time you saw red eyes followin' you, turned out it was just Principle Luna with pink eye."
"Yeah," continued the boisterous harpist Tamika "And you kicked him so hard in the shin he needed a cast for a week."
"I thought he was a fusion! I panicked!"
Kim sighed, "Remember the good old days, back when fusions were the rest of the world's problem?"
The group all nodded in agreement, before a rattling sound brought them out of their banter.
"Did y'all here that?" Eddie asked, before all eyes turned to the rack of unused instruments in the corner of the room, which all fell over onto the floor along with a young man who seemed to have appeared out of nowhere nearby them.
The boy stood up and brushed himself off, giving the class a moment to take in his strange appearence. He was dark skinned with striking blue hair, which looked messier than Lil'D's room. Also present were a white dress shirt, fingerless gloves and a pair of dark grey pants with purple x's scattered about them that looked distinctly like pajamas. In his hand was a metal baseball bat, which he quickly dropped and kicked to the corner of the room.
"Heyyyyyyy..." He drawled awkwardly. "How's it hangin'?"
"And who exactly are you?" Tamika said, breaking the silence amongst her classmates.
"Uh... I dunno. I mean- My name's Amp, hello!" He gestured to the top of his head before looking slightly put off, as if he was expecting something to be there. "I was just hanging out, you know, and I was missing school, so I ended up in a school. This is a school, right?"
"If it wasn't, that would make the desk and chalkboard about misplaced, wouldn't it?" Eddie asked rhetorically.
"Yeah I was gonna say..." Amp trailed off, before waltzing over to the far wall. "Is that a Beatle's poster?! Oh, ohohohoho, tell me you guys can rock out some Fab Four!"
Tamika narrowed her eyes, and as Amp passed by her, quickly grabbing a book off of Sunny's desk and whacking the boy upside the head. The intruder stopped dead in his tracks, a gasp ringing out from the other musicians. The boy Rose a hand to the back of his head and turned to look at Tamika, his face the picture of indignant.
"...OOOOOWW!" He yells, before falling over unconscious on the ground.
"...What?" Tamika directed to the sets of eyes looking skeptically at her. "Don't tell me none of you found him creepy!"
"Meh." Kim said with a shrug. "Like I said, used to it."
Amp woke up to the sound of arguing.
"One of y'all wanna tell me what the deal is with an unconscious teenager tied up in the middle my classroom?" Questioned Sunny Bridges
"He just sort of...appeared, out of nowhere." Kam said.
"He was just waltzin' around here like he owned the place, who knows what he even wanted to do!? I don't feel bad for knocking him out."
"He did bring up us playing some Beatles tunes, and I'm all for that!"
"Hmm." Sunny said, tapping his chin, "We could do that, but let's first deal with our new, uh, friend."
"I'm awake!" Amp calls, jolting everyone out of their conversation. "Oi, you, in the blue- you have got a nice swing with that book. I'll tell you, it usually takes more to knock me out."
"Ahem, the names Tamika, and I can pull off a mean swing with more than just a book if you try anything!"
"Noted." Amp said, giggling nervously. "The name's Amp. I already said that, right?"
"Ooh, ooh, introductions!" Madison said happily, clapping her hands before pointing to each of the others in turn. "I'm Madison, that's Lil'D, that's Kim, that's Kam, that's Phily Phil, Eddie, and our teacher Sunny Bridges!"
The girl then walked over to Amp and crouched down next to him
"Ooh, I really love your slippers!" Madison said earnestly, referring to the pair of fuzzy bunny slippers on the boy's feet, complete with upright ears. She tapped one of the bunny's noses, making the boy attached to them giggle.
"Haha, aren't they awesome?" Amp said with a smile. "I like your dress; love me a purple-green blend. Also your hat!" He switched his attention to Lil'D. "I want that hat."
"Uh...well you can't have it."
"Figures."
"So what exactly are you here for?" Sunny asked curiously.
"I dunno. I dunno, just kinda, um, hangin' out?" Then, he tilted his head. "Wait a minute. That clock said 2:03 when I came in! I've been out for two hours!? That hardly ever happens."
"Well, it's not like we don't already have a surplus of the bizzare in this place." Sunny said, no one else being sure how to respond to the boy's odd observation. "So long as you don't mean any harm, I don't see why keeping you around is a problem. You want me to untie ya?"
"No no, I got it." Amp said, before he suddenly disappeared into thin air, the rope that had previously been tied around him falling onto the ground. The class gasped in shock, before turning to see Amp sitting cross-legged on the desk.
"Yo man, how the heck did you do that?" Lil'D asked, astonished.
"Do you have some kind of teleporter?" Phily Phil asked, searching around Amp for any bits of technology to rival his own.
"Have one? I'm my own teleporter, dude!" Amp said, warping from the desk to the middle of the room as if it were nothing.
"Well that explains how he got in here." Kim said.
"Ok, now how exactly is he gonna get out?" Tamika demanded.
"Now now," Sunny said, "lately we're not exactly in the position to kick anyone out of the school. Amp here can stay if he wants."
"Yes, please." Amp said satisfactorily, as Sunny's students all looked at him skeptically.
"So, who wants to give him the tour?"
"And here we have the indoor pool." Sunny said, gesturing next to Amp.
Amp winced involuntarily as a group of synchronized swimmers arose, twisted their bodies into a giant 'WELCOME'.
"Yikes." The boy said. "Doesn't that hurt?"
"Don't even get them started." Sunny answered as they left the room. On their tour, they had already stopped by the indoor circus, the dance class, stage theater, and several others. Amp was a bit confused about that first one, but he shrugged it off.
"Don't feel to bad about the kids getting on your case." Sunny said as they approached another room. "They've been a lot less trusting as of late."
Suddenly, a man around Sunny's age walked out of the room into the hallway, wearing a robe and slippers.
"'Ey Sunny! We got another one?"
"Mornin' Chedderman." Sunny said as the man passed.
"What does he teach?" Amp asked.
"Skating."
"..."
"Cheap-skating!"
"AAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaah I get it!" Amp yelled, throwing finger guns at the man.
"Glad to finally meet someone who appreciates that one."
"What did he mean by 'another one' anyway?"
"Well..." Sunny opened the door from which Chedderman had just left to reveal a room full of folks in sleeping bags.
"When I said you could stay at the school, I assumed you were comin' in from the streets like everybody else."
Amp stood, looking over the sleeping people and didn't say anything. For a moment, at least.
"Uh...Um, Um- what?"
"Check it out man." Sunny gestured to one of the windows. Looking outside, Amp saw Atlanta, Georgia in tatters. Half of it was painted a sickly fusion green, with a constant pulsing denoting several infected zones.
"I dunno where you teleported in from, but for months this whole town has been broken down from that Fusion infection Dexter cooked up. People went to town on their own homes. We've been working for months to fix things up, but some places were just too far gone, and folks have been using the school as a sort of shelter. Even some of the kids have been sleeping here. Honestly, no one' seven sure how the infection GIT to Georgia anyway."
Amp stared on, his face looking as if his heart had dropped into his stomach. Sunny looked down at the young man.
"Uh, you ok man?"
"...Yeah."
Amp shouted in animal rage, tossing several lunch trays into the wall. Sunny had continued their tour, introducing him to Principle Luna, and asking if he intended to stay at the school. Amp had basically been on autopilot the whole time, and simply nodded in the affirmative. It was now nighttime, and the moment Amp had somehow found himself alone in the lunchroom, he began screaming. And screaming. And panicking. And destroying.
He picked up another tray and slammed it against his face. Then again. Then-
"Ahem."
"GYAH!" Amp yelped, the sudden noise snapping him out of his rage. Throwing his hands up in surprise, the tray flung out of his hands. He spun on his heels to see Lil'D and Madison standing in the doorway, looking at him wide-eyed.
Amp chuckled nervously at being caught in the middle of an outburst.
"Heyyyy." He drawled, before flinching as the tray landed behind him. "I take it you guys are sleeping over. Er, not sleeping right now, er... What-ah, what-what brings you here, huh?"
"Oh, I just wanted to get myself a midnight snack!" Madison tittered, heading over to the food.
"And I was wondering what the deal was with the lunatic makin' noise while I was trying to sleep." Lil'D said.
Amp ran a hand through his hair, before shrugging nervously.
Once Madison had completed her meal, she and the two boys found they couldn't go back to sleep and began pacing through the hall.
"I ain't gonna lie, I'm fine with livin' in school. Sleepin' in the music room beats my house any day."
"Yeah!" Madison said, before her eyes widened. "Ooh, 'beats', like musical beats! That is so funny, Lil'D!"
"Yeah, sure Madison."
Amp's eye was caught by a closet full of props and costumes, and before he knew what he was doing he was burrowing through it.
Lil'D and Madison were too wrapped up in talking to each other to realize he had even left, before they both turned to see a giant walking peanut with Amp's face.
"...Man, what're you doin'?"
"What, you guys leave a peanut costume lying around and expect me to NOT put it on?"
Lil'D facepalmed, while Madison nodded, stone faced.
"Makes sense, makes sense." She said.
"Hold up." Lil'D said, "Y'all here that?"
"This costume is covering my ears, so I can barely hear anything." Amp said matter-of-factly,
Moving over to a nearby door, Lil'D heard louder and louder a scratching noise. Opening the door, the three looked in to see a large, green, red-eyed version of. Lil'D himself, crouched next to a big green parasitic bulb planted into the floor.
The three kids stared disbelievingly, before Madison waved her hand dismissively.
"Don't worry," she said, "it's just Lil'D!"
Lil'D and Amp barely had time to exchange bemused glances before the Fusion darted out of the room, tackling Amp to the ground and shattering the peanut costume. Running on all fours, it tore through the hall and into the music room.
Lil'D and Madison both shouted, while Amp struggled to stand up.
"We have t- mmm...is this costume covered in nougat? Whatever-!?"
Standing up, he ran a few steps before stopping in his tracks and turning back to the room where the fusion had emerged from.
"We have to...we have to, uh..." He said, turning constantly between the two rooms.
"Man, forget that!" Lil'D said, pulling Amp toward the music room. "The rest of the class is in there with that thing!"
"No!" Amp said, yanking his arm away. "That is, important! It's a terrafuser, that's bad! You two go, make sure everyone gets out, I'll be with you in a second!"
The two younger kids nodded and ran into the music room, while Amp turned to the terrafuser, and reaching into his pant pocket, pulled out a stylized gun that didn't look dissimilar to a toy. Pointing it at the terrafuser, the clear rings at the nozzle of the gun began to glow blue before out of it shot a blast of pure cold. The terrafuser was frozen solid, and Amp grinned, before realizing the problem was only half solved, and he still needed a way to detach it from the ground.
Madison and Lil'D arrived in the music room to find their classmates already awake and freaking out. Fusion Lil'D was advancing on Kam, who was cowering in the corner. Before it could pounce however, Kim whacked it in the face with one of her cymbals, the fusion reeling back from the hit.
"Stay away from my brother!" The girl yelled.
The fusion stumbled to the point where it was face-to-face with Tamika. With a scowl, Tamika punched the fusion square in the nose. She grinned to herself as the monster recoiled yet again.
"It wasn't the real thing," she said, "but that STILL felt good."
"Gee, thanks." Lil'D said from the doorway. "Now can we ditch this place!?"
Suddenly, Amp appeared in the room. All eyes turned to him as he snapped his fingers several times, looking around the room.
"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuh, there we are!" He said, before running to the corner of the room and picking up his baseball bat.
"Be right back." He said, before warping away again.
"Really?" Tamika said, before the Fusion put its attention back on her and lobbed a glob of fusion matter at her. Phily Phil and Eddie both pulled out of the way, and the three of them attempted to leave the room. The fusion was too fast however, and blocked the entrance. They retreated, joining Kim and Kam in the corner of the room. Lil'D and Madison turned to each other, not sure what to do.
Then, Amp reappeared yet again behind the advancing creature. Held high above his head was the frozen terrafuser. Amp yelled before bringing the terrafuser down, breaking it across the fusion's head.
"God, that's heavy." He muttered, before the other kids all rushed past him and ran out of the room. The fusion turned to him with narrowed eyes, kicking Amp in the stomach so hard he was sent flying out of the room.
Amp slid across the hallway floor for a moment, before leaning up on his elbows. The kids had all apparently found somewhere to hide, as he couldn't see hide more hair of any of them.
"I'm ok." He said to the ether, before the fusion grabbed him by the foot and swung him into the nearby lockers.
"AUGH!" Amp yelled, before falling back on the ground with a thud. "Slightly less ok! Ow."
Rolling himself onto his back, Amp looked up at the fusion.
"Alright," He said, as if the green thing was listening to him, "Gimme a second."
*warp*
The Fusion looked around in confusion, before suddenly it's life (if it could be called that) was over. Having warped into the music room, Amp returned directly behind the fusion with one of Kim's cymbals held between his outstretched hands. Amp had warped so that the cymbal appeared directly through the creatures neck. The boy stepped back, gesturing as if he had just performed a magic trick, before the fusion melted into a puddle of goo. The cymbal fell to the ground, spinning on the ground at the boy's feet.
Amp inhaled, staring at the puddle, before scowling to himself. At the sound of approaching footsteps, Amp's eyes widened and he warped away on instinct.
Amp looked in on the music room from outside the window. The class had brought Sunny and Principle Luna with them, frantically explaining what had happened. While the adults where clearly happy to have the children safe, they also looked visibly put off. None of them had noticed him.
Amp sighed. He knew it was a mistake to do this. To go anywhere where people where. He was such an idiot. He reached into his pocket and pulled out his nanocom. Looking at his list of contacts, he homed in on the word "Fear".
He lightly tapped the nanocom against his head, before putting it away again. He cast one last glance at the music room, before warping away.