Agura slowly opened her eyes, checking the clock. 9:00 am. Training started in an hour. She sighed, slowly sitting up and recalling the dream, or rather nightmare, she had had in the night.
"STACI! CAN I BORROW SOME GEL?"
"GET YOUR OWN FRIGGIN' GEL!"
"I RAN OUT!"
"TOO FRIGGIN' BAD!"
"HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO DO MY HAAAIIIIRRR?"
"I DON'T GIVE A CRAP! GOD!"
"GEEZ! NEED A TAMPON WITH THAT MOOD SWING?"
"SHUT THE FREAK UP, SAMMY!"
Right.
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Sammy, with slightly messy hair, walked into the kitchen.
"Veronica? Does we has to train today?" She asked, batting her brown eyes.
"That doesn't work on me anymore, Sam. So yes." Veronica replied, taking a bite of cereal. Sammy huffed and sprawled into one of the chairs.
"I don't think…I can make it." She gasped, laying a dramatic hand across her forehead.
"What's your excuse this time?"
"Cramps." Sammy clutched her stomach in pretense agony. Agura's eyes widened, then squinted with anger. The guys had no idea how many times she had trained with cramps!
"Sammy, shut it and suck it up. We all have to train with cramps!" She snapped.
"Snap!" Zoë shouted, walking in and bopping her head along to her Ipod. "Maybe you aren't the only one on a "lady day," Sam." Agura rolled her eyes, remembering that these teammates had to be dealt with a bit differently than her real ones. Just a few more days, she reminded herself patiently.
"Maybe she isn't, but I'm still training." She said, spreading peanut butter on a slice of toast.
"Amen, sista!" Veronica said, raising her fist for a knuckle touch. "You guys should listen to Agura. She's a good influence." She smiled at Agura to show she was partially kidding.
"Yeah, good influence like my mother." Sammy huffed, getting out a box of Froot Loops.
"Hey! Our mother's a great influence!" Shannon protested, entering the kitchen.
"Aw! Shannon loves her mommy!" Stacy followed into the kitchen, making a heart with her hands.
"Shut up." Shannon grumbled, pouring an algae protein shake. (A/N: See webisode: "Splashback").
"That stuff is like, totally nasty." Stacy commented. "How can you like drinking something that's like, green? It's so not natural."
"Oh, and like your "hair enhancing" vitamins are?" Shannon shot back.
"Hey! My locks will be voluptuous in six to eight weeks results may vary!" Stacy replied.
"Really, ladies? Can we at least eat breakfast in peace without an argument?" Veronica warned them.
"We could, if Stacy moved." Sammy fired at the red-head. Agura groaned, hoping this wasn't how guys thought girls acted.
"Guys!" The word slipped out, but her voice got their attention. "So, you're not morning people and you're PMS'ing. GET OVER IT, and get along." The girls were silent after that.
"Thank you." She breathed, easing into a chair. Veronica raised an eyebrow at her as if to say "Impressive."
"Since when are you so bossy?" Sammy grumbled.
"Since you became a gir-ANNOYING." Agura saved. "I'll see you guys at training." She quickly departed, leaving her teammates to shrug at each other.
"What's got her knickers in a twist?" Stacy commented dryly.
"IDK. I'll go check on her." Veronica stood to leave.
"Right, BFF's and all that." Sammy said.
"Don't be hatin' on what you can't have!" Veronica smiled. "See you guys soon." She said, leaving.
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"Hey! Agura! YO!" Veronica called. Agura tried to walk faster, but Veronica caught her. "You okay? You've seemed sort of weird lately." Agura sighed. What was she supposed to say, "I'm fine, but you and the rest of the team used to be guys, so it's throwing me off a little. No biggie." ?
"I'm fine. I just…didn't sleep too well last night." She admitted, not untruthfully.
"Been there." Veronica smiled. "Hey, we're here for you. And trust me, I know Sammy and Stacy can be." She pulled Agura into a friendly hug, and Agura awkwardly received it, unsure of how to respond.
"Thanks." She said, and her "BFF" pulled away.
"See you at training. Take it easy, k? You work too hard." She said, leaving. Agura moaned. Her relationship with Vert had been complicated enough when they were different genders!
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"Ready girls?" Veronica asked, standing in front of them.
"Bleahgh." Sammy stuck out her tongue, clutching her stomach.
"Tone down the drama, crampy. I've got 'em too." Veronica joked. "Alright, today we're going over defense strategies. You guys remember the wedge?"
"No, we completely forgot the first strategy you taught us." Sammy said dryly.
"Great, why don't you draw a diagram for us and write a three page essay on why it worked effectively on all those Sark?" Veronica said seriously.
"What?" Sammy exclaimed.
"JK. But I do have a variation on it for you." Veronica grabbed a whiteboard marker and outlined a basic plan.
"Now, let's say we fuse Agura, Shannon and Sammy. They've got the strength, so-"
"Hey Veronica? Do you work at the grocery store?"
"Uhm, no." Veronica replied to Stacy.
"Then why are you labeling people?" Stacy and Sammy burst into laughter, high-fiving. Even Shannon, Veronica and Agura couldn't resist a chuckle.
"Gotta admit, Veronica, that was a good one." Shannon laughed.
"Not your best. I'd give it an eight." Veronica grinned. Stacy huffed.
"Always an eight!"
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"Alright ladies, good job today." Veronica said, finishing up. Everyone groaned and got up to leave when the StormShock alarm rang.
"Stormshock in T-minus 5.3 minutes." Sage's voice rang over the intercom.
"Let's go girls!"
Agura wondered what Krytus and the Reds would think of the Female Force 5.
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"Woah! This Zone is tight!" Zoë said, driving the Chopper off a wall and launching into the air.
"It appears to be a sort of maze, or labyrinth. The Key must be in the center." Shannon mused, checking her screens.
"And we've got to beat them to it!" Veronica yelled, referring to the Reds.
"Humans…detected…destroy?" Kytren rasped, looking at Krytus.
"Not quite, Kytren. They appear to have altered their physical appearance somehow." Krytus mused, examining a scan of the team.
"All but their Hunter." Kyburi hissed at the ATV, looking at the same set of screens.
"Capture Protocol! We shall show them that Red Sentients are not so easily fooled!" Krytus snarled, in hot pursuit as his team followed.
"Hello! Is it just me, or is it getting a little hot in hee-yah?" Stacy shouted, cranking the music on the Reverb.
"Somebody call 9-1-1! Shawtie fire burning on the dance floor! Woah-oh, oh!"
"What is coming from that car?" Krylox groaned, covering his ears.
"I believe the human referred to it as tunes." Kyrosis muttered, firing at the Reverb.
"Hey! Watch the paint job, hothead!" Stacy snapped, pursuing the Red.
"So, someone's not the only female anymore!" Kyburi grinned as she fought Agura.
"Aw, come on, Kyburi! Don't you wish you had someone to share bras with? A gal pal? BFF?" Agura smirked as her teammates and even a few Reds snickered. The Sentient howled in rage.
"I'll destroy you for that smart remark, human!" She snarled.
"Aw, come on, Kyburi! She's just saying, it must be hard to be the only one with a vagi-"
"SAMMY!" Her teammates cut her off, and she smirked as they raced through another corridor of the maze.
"So, human," Krytus spat, "Why the change in appearance? Did you really think it could throw us off?"
"I don't know what you're talking about, Krytus, but I did get my bangs cut.
Thanks for noticing." Veronica said, opening the blades on her Saber.
"Not that!" Krytus roared, ramming her.
"Hey, guys! There's the Key!" Zoë pointed to the hovering BattleKey.
"Mine!" Stacy called, activating her cannons and bouncing up. Using the maglev grabber on her car, she snagged the Key, landing to cheers and a ram from Krylox.
"The Key is mine! And turn off that grating noise!" He shouted, referring to the music.
"What? Oh, that does it! Stacy's out; PEACE!" She yelled as the team opened a portal and drove into it.
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"Nice work ladies!" Veronica announced as they pulled into the Hub.
"Your Key." Stacy handed it to Sage.
"Thank you, uh, Stacy." She said, leaving to store the Key.
"So, Zeke's?" Sammy asked.
"Uh, still closed!" Agura exclaimed. "Sorry! Let's just pop in a pizza or something." She tried to hide a blush.
"No way! Boh-ring! Let's have…" Sammy held up a finger as if to say Wait for a burst of genius. "Breakfast for dinner! Shannon can fry the bacon!"
"Hey! Since when did I volunteer?" Shannon held up her hands defensively.
"I'll help you Shannon." Agura said, eager to have some normalcy.
"Yay! Agura's making waffles everyone!" Sammy announced, running out before she could argue. Veronica laughed.
"I'll help, if you want." She offered.
"That's fine!" Agura immediately said. "Er, we can do it." Veronica shrugged.
"Alright." In about half an hour, they were all seated around the table, eating. Sammy was spreading peanut butter on her waffles.
"Ew! How can you like, eat that?" Stacy asked.
"Yeah, sis, peanut butter is good on lots of things, but one of them is NOT waffles." Shannon added.
"Don't be hatin'!" Sammy said. "You just have to try it!" She dumped a bowl of chocolate chips on the creation, then drowned it in syrup and liberally applied powdered sugar.
"Hey Sammy, your waffle called. It's suffocating." Veronica joked.
"My waffle loves it toppings!" Sammy defended, taking a heaping bite.
"Yeah, like Bigfoot loves his tank." Zoë joked, spooning strawberries on her waffle.
"Bigfoot loves his tank, OKAY?"
"Why would you name your fish that?" Shannon groaned, to murmurs of agreement.
"Ya know what? YOU ARE CREATING A HAZARDOUS EATINHG ENVIRONMENT, MA'AM!" Sammy jumped up, grabbing her plate and leaving the kitchen. "GOOD DAY TO YOU!" She left.
"Think she's on her period?" Stacy asked after she had left. Everyone looked at each other.
"Yup."
A/N: The waffles thing was homage to Donkey from Shrek. "Let's have a sleepover, stay up all night, and in the morning? I'm makin' waffles!" And the hazardous learning environment is for my friend Alex. He says that at school ALL. THE. TIME. Well, hope you liked!
