Video Log #1, Grade 10:

"Hey, it's Azura Jamal, or you can call me AJ. You may not know me that well because I'm the one behind the camera doing the magic for the school news since joining them after Grade 9's winter break. I could've been anchorwoman during the start of Grade 10 but I'm just really camera shy, so I'm starting this log to boost my confidence while Tina takes over our ex-news reporter who graduated from high school.

What I really want though, is to start a literary magazine in school. I mean, who doesn't like poetry and prose? But I'm still not popular enough to be able to convince people to join a club that I might start. I really admire Chaz's charisma and I'd love to be popular enough to get people to start liking me and release their inner Shakespeare. But for now, I'm happy just doing the staging stuff. Speaking of which, I gotta get to school early so I can set it up before first period. Until then!"

The teen girl shuts off her camera, grabbed her packed breakfast, and then walked down the street to the nearest bus stop. Azura was clearly excited about the new school year as it signified new aims for her, and she was determined to get herself out there. "A. Nigma, here I come!"

9:01AM

As Azura walked into the newsroom, she greeted Stepak, Tina and Chaz, whilst putting down her school bag on a nearby chair.

"Excited to be the new anchorwoman, Tina?" AJ asked casually.

"Yeah, and quite nervous at the same time." replied Tina.

She then instinctively set up the lighting and staging of the newsroom, being familiar with the place since 6 months ago. The other news club members set up their place according to their roles. Moments after the school bell rang, she cued Stepak to roll the camera and pressed the button that activated the school's TV.

"Welcome back to A. Nigma High, students, to the first day of the new school year…I'm…um-" Tina stuttered while Chaz gave a chuckle.

"She's Tina Kwee, and I'm Chaz Moneranian, and I'm your school news team."

Azura noted a grammatical error and wrote that down in her notes for Chaz later. Tina straightened herself up and continued with her news report.

"We are excited to have everyone back in school, but some of our faculty members like Coach Pummel and Ms. Lob have seemingly resigned without any proper explanation," continued Tina.

"Which I'm sure they're just merely on a sabbatical or a honeymoon." Chaz emphasized the word honeymoon with a gesture.

"Anybody else notice the disappearance of last year's principal? We, the student body have the right to know." Tina continued with a serious tone.

"So true, Tina. But don't you frown A. Nigma High, we're getting a whole new principal. For an exclusive first look, head straight to gym after lunch." Chaz pointed his index finger and gave a wink to the camera, and Stepak cuts the camera on cue.

"Great job as usual guys!" Stepak puts his heavy equipment down and gave a thumbs-up while Azura nodded.

"How did I do, AJ?" Tina asked excitedly.

"Awesome, you could be less tense though. Chaz you've also kinda made a grammatical mistake on air-" Azura said with a tonal change when she went on to critique Chaz.

"Eh, who cares," Chaz shrugged. "As long as I cover the contents it should be fine, right?"

"Eheh, yeah. Right." AJ replied, scratching the back of her head.

"AJ has a point, Chaz." Tina defended AJ's point. "Just because we don't have Dylan and Amy anymore doesn't mean you get to run the show on your own."

"Oh come on, Tina." Chaz continued whilst walking out of the newsroom with the clique. "Of course I need you guys! Who else can replace our cameraman to capture the awesome, a sidekick to make fun of, and a backstage woman who takes care of the stuff that makes me look good? Speaking of which…" Chaz directed his attention to AJ, "Have you got the scoop on any hairspray discounts? Or facials? Spas?"

"I'm afraid not," AJ sighed. "We probably have to wait till it's the mid-Autumn sale. I just hope my hair doesn't frizz until then."

"Well, you know what's best." Chaz gave AJ a pat. "I'll see you guys at lunch!" He waved while walking into the biology lab with Stepak.

"Since when have you also become his beautician?" Tina asked, crossing her arms.

"I have no clue," AJ responded while walking into her first period class with Tina. "I guess it started last year when I had no use for the extra product vouchers."

1:06PM

"Shucks! Sorry I'm late!" Azura rushed into the newsroom, bringing lunch for her teammates and then frantically turning on the lighting, dusting the table, and then taking her seat at the control stand. On Stepak's cue, she pressed a button and the news team is on air.

"Uhh…attention students we've just received-" Tina was cut off once again.

"Breaking news!" Chaz elbowed his way through, "Back off, Tina. Your new principal is in the building! Go to the gym pronto!"

"Oh man!" AJ muttered under her breath. "Eating while walking again."

She turned off the station and Chaz grabbed his lunch from her bag. "Thanks for this!" He makes a swift move out of the newsroom to go to the gym, obviously excited by the new principal's arrival, while the rest of the team pack up the equipment and notes to prep themselves for the Principal's speech and eventual interview.

As the student body assembled and got ready for the principal's arrival, metallic stomps could be heard coming from the stage. Thump, pause, thump, pause, and then, the cyborg principal reveals himself from the curtains, giving out an intimidating aura.

"Listen up, you snot-nosed-baggy-pants-wearing-maggot-covered-pudd les-of-vomited-puke, strolling through life like some kind of mini mall!"

The new principal definitely frightened the students, seeing how his attitude was starkly different from Mr. Wurst. He eventually got to introduce himself as Principal General Barrage, but he got cut off from his speech as two other students were laughing at the back of the hall. He promptly told the students to shut up, but his speech was interrupted again when there was a beeping noise in the gym.

"Who, in tarnation, is beeping?!"

Before anyone knew it, techno music was blasting from the amplifiers, stink bombs were activated causing some students to puke, potato flakes were raining from above, the red tazelwurm let loose, disgusting green paint was showered and then the sprinklers activated. The entire gym's atmosphere was chaotic, students were screaming and scrambling away, trying to avoid the catastrophe, some could be seen trying to find a way out of the gym but the doors were locked. Tina, however, seemed excited, shouting at Stepak repeatedly "Are you getting this?!" When the smoke cleared, Lee Ping, a Korean student with red and black hair, stood at the entrance to the gym, bursting out in laughter.

The new principal walked threateningly towards the ectomorphic student, pointing a menacing robotic finger at him and sentencing him to a full year of detention. Chaz took advantage of this and immediately told Azura to take notes. He needs to ask the right questions like the who, how, and why to get the scoop. On the other hand, Stepak was frantically trying to find the video camera that was lost during the commotion, but before he could get to it, the students had to be dismissed into their respective classes so that the cleaners could clear up the mess.

3:02PM

Tina, Chaz and Stepak frantically dashed out of their respective classes to find Lee.

"Lee," Tina extends her mic out to the boy, "Tina Kwee with A. Nigma High news, looking to secure an exclusive on this scoop of the day."

Lee stuttered in front of the camera, "Uhh, hey…hi!"

Another mic extends out to Lee, "Chaz Monerarian."

"Chaz, I've got this one!" Tina elbowed Chaz and he gagged in response, but he persisted, "Come on, Ping! How'd you do it?"

AJ wasn't aware that the news team had gotten to Lee in order to get the scoop of the day. Before AJ knew it, people surrounded the prankster and she had to push through to get to her club mates. "What's with him?" she noted as she saw him running the other direction.

"I don't know," Stepak shrugged. "He just took off after I told him I lost my camera in the gym."

"Did it catch some prank footage or anything?" AJ asked.

"Yeah, it caught everything." Stepak replied.

Chaz gasp upon a realization, "Idea! I've gotta get the video camera from the gym!"

"I have other plans though." Tina noted whilst setting her smart phone into an audio recording app.

8:39PM

Azura sat in front of her laptop in her room, still disoriented from the major prank pulled at high school today. It still seemed surreal to her, and was Lee Ping the type of student to plan such a commotion? Nevertheless, she brought up a point in her video conversation with Tina.

"It's a shame we couldn't get anything from him today." said Azura.

"We might not have, but I've got something more interesting." Tina then transferred an audio file via the web server. AJ listened to the notes intensely, and agreed that there was something suspicious going on. Why did the new principal have a classified folder with Principal Wurst's data in it?

"We're gonna need more research into this," AJ thought carefully. "I could start looking for Principal Wurst's professional bio on the Internet somewhere. Maybe it'll drop some clues."

"Good idea," Tina agreed. "I could then look out for the new coach tomorrow and ask him questions too. Maybe he'll have something."

"Tina, this sounds like we're getting the scoop of the year!" AJ squealed excited, wanting to work on this project more. She minimized the chat box and opened up a web browser to begin searching for clues on her former principal. Little did she know that her search wasn't going anywhere and she has to delay her search until tomorrow. AJ doesn't want to mess with her body's circadian rhythm, but hopes that the excitement and mystery doesn't disturb her sleep pattern.

Author's Note: It's been a while since I've written fanfiction. Now that I'm in an all new fandom, it's time for me to exercise my creative writing skills again!

Those who know me well know that I don't do OC/canon ships, and that I work with developing OCs a lot better since canon characters already have their set path in developing themselves. You're basically gonna follow investigations around A. Nigma High via AJ's point of view the same way the TV series follows Lee's POV and the web exclusives via Tina's POV.

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