A/N: So, I've had this in my head for a while, wanted to see if you guys would like it or not.
As usual, I dont own anything, not making any money, just for fun.
If you like, tell me, if you dont, keep it to yourself.
Rockport High's seniors, the current graduating class of 08, were, as the teachers had willingly admitted, the best and closest senior class Rockport had seen in years. The kids had bonded and united when they were freshman, endured the senior's punishment and had torn a war path through the school. They had won everything, from the spirit weeks to the powder-puff football games to the pep rally competitions.
Now they were seniors, and it was their turn to create a dynasty. The current senior class president, Stephanie Ratigan, had wanted to go out with a bang, and with her ideas, the class of 08 would be the most remembered at Rockport High. She had hand picked five seniors, who she thought, would be the best execution team. Jonny Quest had been Stephanie's first pick. His disregard for the rules had made him a legend throughout the school. Jessie Bannon, his closest friend and partner in crime followed. Kaylyn Shaffer, Kristen Norkus, and Josh Bray completed the five man team.
The following weeks after the forming of the team, the five were never seen apart. Where one was, the other four were close behind. The five were a unit. They could finish each others sentences and voice each others thoughts with ease as they continued to grow closer together.
In the weeks that followed, the senior class was never so united. The preparations for the pranks were designated to the art classes who posted signs all over the school declaring: "08 Appreciate," "The Champions Are Coming," and the most popular "Fear the Five." To the fives delight, the Principal, Miss. Davidson, was furious. Apparently the art students who were seniors weren't talking, and she had no idea who the so called "Champions" were. With the administration frantically trying to prepare for what they thought the seniors might do, the five were free to move unnoticed and complete their pranks.
Friday, 3:17 AM - Rockport High
The five champions where mere shadows amongst the two stories of Rockport High. Today was the last day of the last week, and it was going to be and eventful one. A senior prank had been pulled one day of every week in the month before the senior's graduation. Today was the day for the last prank which consisted of 3 parts. Two were to be executed on the football field in the stadium, while the other was a surprise for Miss. Davidson and her car. Each of the five had a reasonably size pack on their back filled with spray paint, and thanks to Jonny, lots and lots of nylon wire. Their destination: the football field. A week ago, they had finished the preparation for the "final task" as it was so called. The first part consisted of 40 sheets sowed together with the ever so popular saying, "Fear the Five" panted across it. They had placed their most prized possession in the POD storage container hidden in the woods bordering the school. The sheet had been removed from the POD, spread out, and placed in the middle of the field early this morning by Kaylyn. The five stood on the hill that surrounded their football stadium. The four light towers that overlooked the field were their first target. Jonny looked down the line at his four friends.
"You guys ready to make school history?" he asked with a smile. He was greeted with four nods and an especially wide grin from Jessie. They descended the hill and walked to the center of the field where their giant sheet was spread out. Kaylyn and the others pulled out the nylon wire and secured it around the four edges of the giant sheet. Jonny then attached one end of the wire to Kristen's backpack and they walked to the first light tower. Kristen stepped up. The others watched as she reached out grasped the closest rung that stuck out of the sides of the tower. The plan was that four of them would climb up the individual towers and make it to the basket at the top, they would then haul the sheet up and stretch it out until it was tight and in doing so make a roof over the field with the words "Fear the Five" to look up at. Although the sheet was big, it didn't quite cover the entire field, which was a little disappointing, but it couldn't be helped. The sheet already weighed a lot, any bigger and it couldn't be lifted.
Jonny looked up the tall tower then to Kristen who was beside him. He paused and then said with a smile, "looks like a good 30 feet to the top Kris."
She didn't even glance at him, "Do me a favor Quest…keep that kinda shit to yourself," she advanced forward and started to climb the light tower.
The four laughed, then Jonny, Jessie, and Josh made their way to the other three light towers. Kaylyn had stated before they left Jonny's house, that their was no way in hell that she was going to climb one of the towers, so instead, she positioned herself in the middle of the field underneath the enormous sheet to make sure when they lifted it that it was centered. Soon the four were at the top of the towers and lifting the sheet into the air.
"Pull it tighter guys! We want this to go as high as it can!" yelled Kaylyn.
"Easy for you to say!" Jonny, Jessie, Josh and Kristen yelled back with smiles.
"Jonny, a little tighter on your end," ordered Kaylyn, "Kristen let it go about an inch. Jessie, Josh, hold it steady!"
They all nodded and soon the sheet was centered and towering 30 feet off the ground. The four climbed down the towers and joined Kaylyn in the center of the football field.
"Looks good guys," Kaylyn complimented, staring up at the giant sheet over her head.
Josh looked at his watch, "that took an hour and fort-five minutes, so we have about…" he took in a deep breath and scratched the back of his head, "another hour and thirty seven minutes before the teachers start arriving."
"Good, I don't think the field will take as long," stated Jessie.
"We got plenty of time to finish," Jonny said with a smile, he then turned to Kristen, "grab all the spray paint out of your bag. Me and Josh will go get the field liners out of the utility shed." They all turned and set off at a run to accomplish their goals. Josh and Jonny came back with the liners and Kristen soon returned with all the paint. Soon the football field was covered in the words that the class of 08 had lived by since they were freshman. The five retuned to the top of the hill and admire their handiwork. The football field read:
"Party hard, rock an' roll, were the class you can't control, fine boys and girls, were hard to hate, cuz were the class of 2008."
-Seniors
The faces of the Five Champions were glowing. They turned to each other and exchanged high fives and smiles.
"It's so beautiful," Josh replied, wiping an imaginary tear from his eye.
"Quest, Bannon," Kristen said with a smile, "it has been an honor serving in battle with you."
"We leave the final part of the task for you to complete," declared Kaylyn. Jonny and Jessie stared at their three friends.
"Were the five Champions," Jessie argued pointing to all of them, "you guys deserve to finish it as much as we do."
"Out of all the people in the senior class, you two are the ones that should administer the final blow, not us," stated Josh.
"The both of you have been doing this for three years, its only right that you guys are the ones to finish it," put in Kaylyn. Jessie began to argue, but Jonny put a hand on her shoulder. Her emerald eyes met his blue ones. "You know we can't change their minds." He turned to the three and stuck out a hand. "Thanks." Josh reached for it, but in an instant, Kristen and Kaylyn were on him. The hugs were short, but strong. After the two girls finished with Jonny they whirled onto Jessie and bombarded her with hugs as well. Josh stepped next to Jonny and placed a firm hand on his shoulder.
"Silly girls, don't know how to control their emotions," Josh laughed out.
"Yeah," sighed Jonny. He looked at the group. "Ihop on me guys." The three girls shot up from the ground where they had fallen, huge smiles on their faces.
"I was waiting for you to say that," breathed Kristen.
The five laughed and walked to their cars as the sun came up over the horizon, illuminating the giant sheet that hung over the football field.
Friday, 7:23 AM – Rockport High
Jonny and Jessie filed into first period two hours later. The fact that they had even accomplished the tasks that morning in the amount of time they had was a miracle. The restless night showed on their faces and now all that was left of the final task was up to them to complete.
Jonny sat down in his seat as Jessie sat in the desk next to him. The bell rang and they stood for the pledge. Then, as they were sitting down, Miss. Davidson voice boomed over the speaker system.
As many of you all know, another prank was pulled last night. It is my job to announce that this has gone on long enough. These so called Champions of the senior class will be caught and punished for their actions. Meanwhile anyone with information concerning these vigilantes should report to the principal's office immediately.
During the speech the school had erupted into cheers at the thought of the prank. Jonny smiled to himself. He was jarred from his thought as his teacher, Mr. Connelly shut the door. He strolled to the board as he started writing down the warm-up. Jonny was startled when he called his name.
"Mr. Quest, Miss. Bannon," He turned to face the class, which had gone silent, his eyes staring at Jonny and Jessie, "The giant sheet was a nice touch." With that, he turned back to the board and finished writing the warm-up. The class shot into applause. Jessie and Jonny were speechless.
"How?" hissed Jessie, "We were so careful."
"All I know is that he didn't tell on us," replied Jonny, "so I don't want to think about how close we came to getting caught."
The day went by in a blur. First period ended with the snap of a finger, then came second, which trudged on like it normally did, which was bearable and then what Jonny and Jessie had been waiting for…lunch. They had to be done with the final part before sixth period started or they would be in big trouble. Jonny found Jessie and they made their way out of the lunch room and towards the faculty parking lot.
"You have what we need, Jonny?" she asked. Jonny smiled and pulled out three boxes of saran wrap. They had been informed that Miss Davidson drove a silver Honda Accord. Once they were in the parking lot, they found it and started to work. The Accord was soon covered in a thick coat of saran wrap. As the last box was used up Jonny and Jessie admired their work.
"We did it Jess-."
Jessie yanked Jonny behind the car and put a finger to her lips, then flicked her eyes towards the schools front door. Jonny's face dropped. He glanced over the top of the car to see a very agitated Miss. Davidson whose hands were on her hips. She took one look at her car then made her way towards the doors she had come out of, all the time muttering curses to herself.
"Quest, were dead!" cried Jessie as she stood up. "If were not in sixth block by the time rolls called, she'll know it was us."
"There's only one thing we can do," said Jonny, looking at Jessie. "Make a break for it. We can't go through the school, will have to go around the outside and try to find a way in."
"RUN!" Jessie said before taking off in the direction of their sixth block as Jonny raced behind her. They were half way to their destination when Jonny was hit with a deep, sinking realization.
"Hey Ace," he yelled over the noise of the wind passing them, "Information Technology is upstairs! How are we supposed to get in?!?"
"Its okay Hot Shot," replied Jessie glancing back at him, as she continued to sprint, "That's the class we have with the others, they'll know what to do."
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Kristen stepped into the sixth period classroom and took in a deep breath as she looked around. The right wall was lined with computers, while the left side had two huge windows that were separated by more computers. Mr. McClellan's desk faced away from the windows and she could barley make out his figure from behind the giant stacks of books and class work. She glanced out the window again as Kaylyn and Josh entered the classroom followed by two more seniors. The class was fairly small, with only ten students making up the roll.
Kristen eyes grew wide as they caught what she thought was long flaming red hair that was closely followed by short bleach blond. She stepped to the window and gasped. Jessie and Jonny were right outside, two storied below her. Why weren't they inside? She watched as Jessie drew a single finger across her throat. Kristen immediately spun around to face Kaylyn and Josh who had glanced outside as well.
"Code Red, distraction," she said as she flicked her eyes towards Mr. McClellan. Kaylyn and Josh nodded.
"Mr. McClellan, can you help use with something?" asked Josh, pulling his jump drive from his pocket.
"Help them, we'll take care of him," whispered Kaylyn. Kristen went to the window and opened it.
Jessie was glad when she attracted Kristen's attention. She was even more ecstatic when her friend opened the window and asked in a sarcastic tone if they needed help.
"How are we supposed to get up there?" asked Jonny, "I didn't think you could fly."
Jessie turned and smiled at him. It just so happened that the window Kristen had opened was right next to where two walls formed an indented corner of brick. Jessie smiled to herself.
"Well, watch and learn Quest," replied Jessie with a smile as she took five giant steps back. She shot towards the wall, jumped to the right side of the indented corner, made contact and then pushed off to the left side; she then pushed off back to the right as her momentum carried her up towards the window. She reached out her hand and to Jonny's amazement, Kristen stretched out her right as well and grabbed Jessie's forearm. With a grunt, Kristen hauled Jessie up the wall and into the classroom window. Kristen and Jessie's heads stuck out of the window, huge smiles on their faces.
"Quest, close that mouth of yours," Kristen softly yelled, "and get your ass moving!"
"Jonny, your turn! Quick, class is about to start!" cried Jessie.
Jonny took five steps back and ran towards the wall; he copied Jessie's movements down to the end. His momentum didn't carry him as high as Jessie, and his foot slipped as he pushed off towards the window. Sure that he would fall, he was surprised to feel two strong hands around his forearm. He looked up to see Jessie and Kristen hanging halfway out the window. With one great heave they pulled him up and in through the window and into the classroom. They collapsed to the floor, sucking in air.
"Nice one Kris," thanked Jessie, "you saved our necks."
"Yeah," said Jonny, "Ditto."
"Any…time," Kristen said between breaths.
They were jerked to their feet by Kaylyn and Josh. Huge smiles on their faces.
"Mission complete?" asked Kaylyn.
Jessie and Jonny smiled in assurance. The five let out a breath that they had been holding in ever since they had started the pranks.
"If you guys could get to your computes," said Mr. McClellan, "I would like to take roll." The five sat in their seats in front of their computers.
"Bannon, you hear?" asked Mr. McClellan.
"Yes, sir."
"Josh?"
"Here."
"Hayes?"
"Here."
"Amy?"
"Here."
"Norkus?"
"Present."
"Quest?"
"Right here sir."
The rest of the seniors were called and then the class started.
"Good, we have a full class today. Now, were going to start Flash today, so I have some notes for you to take," said Mr. McClellan as he passed out the notes for the class. As soon as he was done, there was a nock at the door. He went over and welcomed in Miss. Davidson. Her eyes scanned the room and she froze when they fell on Jessie and Jonny. Apparently, she wasn't expecting them to be in class.
"Um, I'm sorry for interrupting Chase, but I have to ask you if you had anyone who was tardy to class?"
"Well, no, everyone was here on time and a little early like they always are." He replied with a smile. This wasn't what she wanted to hear. Her eyes glared at Jessie and Jonny as she apologized again for interrupting and then left the class.
"Now, where were we?" asked Mr. McClellan.
"The Flash notes, sir," replied Jessie.
With a smile he thanked her and turned to his computer as he put a slideshow on the T.V. The five exhaled again, and finally felt comfortable, safe.
"That was way to close," stated Jonny.
"Yeah, but this has been the best month of my life," replied Jessie, "I mean, were seniors, what could have gon-
Four hands shot out and covered her mouth. They all knew the consequences of that one statement and they didn't want to try their luck. They had been doing that a lot lately, and it was time they gave it a break. The four withdrew their hands and Jessie gave a small sorry before placing a smile on her lips. The others nodded and smiled back.
Sunday, 7:15 PM – Cambodia
Estella stood at the edge of the waterfall. She looked out across the horizon as the sun descended behind the tall trees of the Cambodian rainforest. The setting sun illuminating her already fire red hair. She was so high up her emerald green eyes could see for miles, but it was getting dark and she needed to get back to the camp site. Still she stood, deep in thought about a certain red headed daughter. She felt the presence of Hadji beside her and it was only when he spoke to her that she looked over to him.
"It's getting late doctor," he said in a soothing voice, "we should head back to camp."
She smiled, she always liked Hadji. He was caring and kind and she had been glad when Race volunteered him to accompany her on the dig. They were looking for a precious stone that the locals called the Heart of Thunder. As described in legend, the stone had been blessed by the Gods and had many abilities- healing powers, granting wishes, turning solid objects to pure gold. As Hadji and Estella painstakingly searched the jungle for any signs of the Heart of Thunder, it happened that on the final day before the funding was cut, they stumbled upon the waterfall. With further examination of the rock wall behind the falls, they had discovered a huge hidden rock door. Although they hadn't set eyes upon the doors yet, Estella was sure the Heart of Thunder was there, it had to be. Her thoughts again drifted away from her work and towards her daughter.
"Do you think she's alright, Hadji?" she asked as she walked with him towards the jeep.
"She is fine my friend," he answered placing a hand on her shoulder, "besides, she's with Jonny."
"I know," Estella said giving him a side long glance, "that's what worries me."
