Team Socket: The Beginning

It was a bright, shiny day in a suburb off of Denver. Well, okay, so the sun hadn't risen yet. Whatever. In one particular neighborhood, middle schoolers were boarding a bus.

A big, yellow bus.

With windows.

Yep.

One little 6th grader (I'm using the term "little" quite loosely) was looking for a seat where she could sit and slice things with w00t scissors. Of course, as things quite often do in the suburb called Nerima- whoops, wrong story- any way, somebody knocked the scissoring sixie into a seat (ooo, alliteration). The girl shrugged and started to stab random objects with the scissors.

She turned to her seat partner to ask something. The seat partner was a sevie (albeit shorter than the sixie) who was currently engulfed within an Animorphs book.

The sixie (being slightly slow) then noticed that the sevie was reading Animorphs. "Hey...you like Animorphs?" she asked the short blonde.

The blonde, not looking up, nodded. "Yeah. So?"

"So? That's like, weird, cause nobody else does. Who's your favorite character?"

She shrugged. "Probably Marco. Or Tobias."

The sixie practically jumped on the seat. "Tobias rules!!!" she half shouted.

Ignoring the disturbed stares of the other students, the shortie looked up at her. "Really?!"

The sixie nodded slightly hyperactively. "Uh-huh! What other things do you like?"

"Well, Pokemon, Harry Potter..."

This caused the sixie to jump back on the seat. "You like Pokemon?! No way!!"

The blonde winced. "Please don't kill me."

The sixie was confused. "Why would I do that?  You're the only other person I know that likes Pokemon who's not an idiot!"

They both then noticed the bus driver yelling at them to get off.

They had been sitting in front of the school for 8 minutes.

"Oops," the blonde remarked.

"That would be an accurate statement." said the sixie wisely.

They got off the bus and stood on the frostbitten field in front of the school. "So...what's your name?" asked the sevie as they stood there, waiting for the bell to ring.

"My name's Lee. What's yours?" asked Lee as they watched a kid skateboard off of a wall and onto a sewer grate headfirst.

"Katrina," replied the sevie, snickering at the sight (woo, more alliteration).

"How old are you?" asked Lee as they dodged a herd of ferrets that had escaped from a science room. Oddly enough, one was screaming "Go, go! Take the cheese!" as it ran past.

"Eh...12. I'm in 7th grade, in case you didn't know." One ferret, a peculiar shade of white, almost seemed to be bouncing down the hall.

"Ah, I'm 9. 6th grader." said Lee as she watched the science teacher chase the ferrets with a blowtorch.

Kat raised one eyebrow. "You skipped a grade, I assume?"

Lee shrugged. "Second. No biggie. In Virginia they were still teaching the alphabet in 2nd." They both stared as five kids tried to smuggle a tree into the building.

Kat nodded. "Cool."

They then sweatdropped as a kid attached wings to his bike and cycled off the roof. "You ever think that maybe, just maybe, our school is weird?" Lee asked, wincing as the kid with bike landed on the tree-smugglers.

Kat shrugged. "I dunno. Pretty normal compared to those in Arizona."

"You're from Arizona?" Lee asked as they walked into the school.

"Yeah," she said, ducking a low-flying squirrel. "I moved here two and a half years ago."

"Really?" Lee asked interestedly as they made it into the school. "I moved here from Virginia two and a half years ago, and the people across the street from me moved here from New Jersey at the same time. Weird."

Kat shrugged again. "Not so much, considering."

"Considering what? This school? The people who go to it?" Lee responded, nodding at a girl with her hair in spikes that scraped the ceiling walking with a boy with pink skin dressed as a girl.

Kat nodded.

The first bell rang. "Well, I'm off to the 500 hall. See ya." Lee said to Kat.

Kat waved. "See you on the bus!"

Lee nodded. "Save me a seat!"