Jack walks into room wearing a green jacket with a scarf and mittens.

"Sorry guys, after a ridiculously long hiatus, im finally continuing this story. I could go on about how school life and junk has been keeping me busy, but that would only waste time. anyway's here's the next chapter of musical virus.

Grojband: The musical virus.

Chapter 7:Slowly breaking away.

"LENNY?! Corey, kin and kon gasped at the same time.

"Ah, there's our best mole man on the job. I assume you've retrieved good information for us?" Chief nerd asked as he adjusted his glasses.

"Well, I got info, but It depends on what you call good." Lenny replied as he walked down the stairs stuffing his hands in his pockets. When he had began to hand the chief nerd a strange box, he had noticed his rival band was there.

"Oh it's grojband, you here on vacation or something?" Lenny asked sarcastically.

"L-Lenny? What the heck are you doing here?" Kin asked in disbelief seeing being surprised seeing Lenny in the room.

"Um, same reason as you noobs, trying to figure out how to get peacevile back." Lenny replied .

"No, I mean how are you here? We saw you under the influence of that witches spell, how did you break free?" Corey pointed out. "Sorry, but I really don't have much time to explain things right now. I will say it was a good day to be a guy thought." Though Lenny's answer only made them confused.

"Look, if I had the time to tell you noobs on how smart I was wed have already won this thing already." Lenny replied quite harshly.

"Well, good to see your attitude is still in tact." Corey replied sarcastically

"I'm sorry Corey, but Lenny is right, we need to get things in motion now before things get out of hand." The chief nerd said adjusting his glasses.

a few moments later, everyone was prepared to fight the mysterious force that had seemed to appear out of nowhere. Nick was in his shadow outfit as the jocks were in their specially designed battle suits as well. While the nerds were geared up with some weird tech that Corey couldn't identify at the moment.

"Ok guys, were going into a battle, against someone we know nothing about, and I'm not going to lie, there will likely be casualties," the chief nerd began as he was the first to step on to the large elevator.

"But that's not going to stop us from letting someone just barge in and take over our town. Let's show this enemy just what happens when you mess with peacevile!" chief nerd shouted as he raised his fist in the air as did the other jocks and nerds.

"Alright! It's time to kick some bu-" Corey began as he tried to join the others on the elevator. But Lenny had outstretched his arm preventing Corey from getting on.

"H-HEY! What's the big idea? I'm helping too!" Corey said glaring at the rival band member.

"Sorry Riffan, but you were told to stay put right here until further notice remember?" Lenny smirked.

Corey wanted to shove Lenny out of the way, but he knew that wouldn't be helping anyone.

"He's right Riffan. You got to distract your red head friend while the shadow's kicking but on the battlefield." Added Nick.

"Yeah… I know." Corey agreed with a depressed tone.

"One of my men will be here to remind you what you have to do in case you forget." Spoke Chief nerd as he had directed his attention to another brainiac manning one of the computers.

"Don't worry Corey, I'm sure we'll get Laney back in no time." Said Kin as the elevator doors began to close.

"And besides, it's not like anything worse can happen right?" Asked Kon. Though soon after everybody was shooting a mean glare at Kon..

"What? what did I say?" Kon asked unaware that he might have just jinxed them all as the elevator doors had closed.

Corey could only sigh as he knew that he was going to have trouble trying to find a way to bring Lanes back.

"Don't worry , I'm sure that you'll do great." The braniac reassured as he had took a beanbag chair next to Corey.

"I hope your right, honestly I was hoping I'd have a little more time before I had to do this, the way Laney looked the last time I saw her, it was…." Corey could not even finish his sentence as he couldn't find the words to describe it.

At one point he was scared that something had took over Laney and was trying to take over him too. But on the other hand he was a bit excited cause he himself never had the courage to kiss a girl, And Laney for that matter. He didn't even have to worry about things like kissing or girls or kissing girls at that time, but now he's finding himself thinking about things he never thought about before.

"If I'm not being rude Mr. Riffan, the staff nerd had began drawing Corey from his thoughts.

…just what did happen when Your friend began changing anyway?"

Corey had looked down and had blushed a little bit still feeling embarrassed from earlier. He had took a deep breath and looked back at the staff nerd.

"Well, you see…." Corey began

Evil rock transition!

"Meanwhile, as The last survivors were about to fight the mysterious forces that suddenly appear in peacevile, The mysterious woman in the mask was in a black limo being driven through a quiet forest. The trees were so lush and tall that their leaves had only allowed streams af sunlight to pass through.

Though she wasn't alone, the store clerk from before was driving the limo through the forest.

"Melissa, how much longer till we reach it?" She asked lounging back in the cushioned seating.

"Not much longer now milady, everything we'll be set in motion soon enough." She replied confidently.

"and the girls? I do hope they don't get bored with me away."

"Not to worry, all of them are set up in there designated places. Assuming that there won't be any unforeseen mishaps of course."

After a short while, they had finally came up to two large doors. The doors had etchings of numerous vegetation's all surrounding separate figures. The first was a male figure in white with a jeweled crown , the other was a female figure which was similar except for the tiara.

As soon as she got close to the double doors, a camera had came out of a section of the large wall and zoomed in on her.

"Attention unknown civilian, no one goes beyond this gate without a permit from the mayor of peacevile. Unless you have this in your possession, I suggest that you leave immediately, or you will be removed from the area." The computerized voice spoke.

But the warning didn't phase the blue haired mastermind as she had walked up to he gate with a confident smirk.

"I'm so sorry, I had the permit on me, but I'm afraid I lost trace of it on my way here, but I give you my word as a woman that the mayor himself had gave me his permission to enter, now if you would as be so kind as to open the gates?" She asked politely.

"I'm sorry madam, but I do not open the gates for people unless they have the required permit, and since you do not have one, I'm afraid I'm going to have to ask you to leave, or else…" the computerized voice spoke

"How unfortunate, I was hoping that I wouldn't have to resort to getting my hands dirty, but I guess I have no choice.." The masked woman smirked as she had put one hand to the door.

After a few seconds, the doors were forced open, denying any remote operations from the controls.

Beyond the door was a strangely shinier town compared to peacevile. There were scaling buildings everywhere with pavement so slick and smooth you could slide on it.

The buildings themselves were nothing to sneeze at either. It had seemed as there was hardly any flaws that could be spotted in the walls, which itself was eerie because considering the heights were around just as long as peacevile was, at least some of the buildings should have withered or grew rusty with time, but none of the buildings seem to be affected. In the center of a town was a large statue representing a beautiful woman who was wearing a leather jacket, with her driving a rocket powered chariot.

To the far left of the statue was a fancy high class museum.

"WARNING! WARNING! Someone Is breaking into the heights, security requested at the gates.

WARNING! WARNING! Someone I s breaking into the heights, security requested at the gates." The computerized voice continued as the mysterious woman had returned to the limo as they leisurely drove in as if nothing was wrong.

"All it needed was a little push., now make way for the old museum, there is little time to loose."

But as they had began to make their advance, multiple guards wearing a slightly different police uniform then the police in peacevile wear.."

"Well, I guess it won't be as easy as I thought, though I really don't feel like moving, I just got comfortable." The woman complained.

"Would you prefer if I took care of them mistress?" the former clerk asked politely.

"If you would be so kind, but do try to hurry, we have a schedule to keep you know, and I'm sure those toys of ours won't keep those kids busy for long.

"As you wish." The woman had got out of the car and had stood in front of the limo letting the guards circle her.

"We have orders to personally escort you out of the heights, this is your last chance to leave this place without getting hurt." Said a squad leader.

"If I were you I would take it, I wouldn't be able to sleep right if I ended up breaking a woman's arm with just a pinch on her shoulder." One of the grunts laughed. Though that comment alone had managed to anger her.

"I see, so another pile of men who have a one track mind, so the mistress was right to carry out this plan." She spoke as she had put her hand to her chest.

"Huh? What plan? Just what were you planning to do here anyway?" The grunt asked already pulling a gun.

"There's no point in telling you, you won't be around for it, at least your mind won't." She spoke in a sinister tone as the pupils in her eyes flashed red.

"hey? What are you doing?" the guard questioned.

But in just a short second, he had found himself not being able to move at all.

"H..hey! what's… happening … to me…?" the guard struggled as he couldn't move any part of his body no matter how hard he tried.

"Now….raise your gun and point it to the person next to you." she grinned not even moving a muscle.

The guard who couldn't move had began doing what he was told and had raised his gun to his fellow comrade.

"H..hey Charles? What do you think your doing?" the man next to him asked.

"I…I don't know… I can't…." the grunt known as Charles began before he was cut off.

"Now shoot him." she said simply.

"Without hesitation, the grunts finger pulled the trigger shooting his comrade.

"CHARLES! WHAT ARE YOU DOING SOLDIER?!" the squad captian bellowed.

"I..I didn't do it sir! I'm not in control of my body!" the man shouted as he tried to lower his fire arm. But his efforts were in vain.

"That's it! Take those witches down now! we can't let some women run us over!" but as soon as the commander yelled that sentence, he along with the rest of his team were in the same position as the grunt Charles.

"Tsk, tsk, tsk, this is why men like you are so despicable, she began as she walked up to the commander.

Men like you have been staying up here for so long that you don't realize that things have changed from the days of old…. She had let out a disappointed sigh as she took another look at the police commander.

"Unfortunately it doesn't seem like you've learned your lesson, if you did, maybe this wouldn't be happening to your people right now."

"Curse you…. vile temptress." The commander struggled to say.

The former clerk had turned back to the limo.

"Mistress, do you want me to take care of him too?"

"Hmm, you can put down the rest of them, but let the commander live, I'm a good woman, I believe in second chances, so we'll keep that one as a pet and teach him his lesson, the hard way if need be."

The store clerk had nodded as she turned back to the others.

"Well, I guess it's your lucky day, you get to live by the mistress's side, now be a good pet and stand beside me." The former clerk smirked as she made a 'come here' motion with her index finger.

"HA! As if I would ever…wha?! The commander became shocked yet again as his feet were moving on their own.

"Wh…what sort of… trickery is this?" the commander growled as he was being forced to stand beside the enemy.

"No trick, just simple mind over body. though it only works on people with weak minds." She explained as the commander was now standing beside her forced to face his own comrades.

"As for the rest of you, fire at each other until no one's left standing." She commanded making the rest of the police force turn on each other.

"No, DON"T DO IT!" the commander bellowed. But it was in vain. As if it was at the same time, every grunt pulled the trigger on each other….

the sound of multiple gunshots filled the air.

Meanwhile on the outskirts of peacevile…

The strange azure armored women had began moving towards peacevile. The only thing between them and peacevile was the two large mountains in the way.

The expressions on the faces of the soldier seemed to be blank and soulless with their skin ghostly pale.

The weapons they carried were strange spears that weren't seen ever since long ago.

But they had all came to a stop when Nick Mallory otherwise known as the shadow was standing on top of one of said hills.

"The shadow doesn't understand why ghostly women would want to attack peacevile, but the shadow knows he doesn't appreciate someone wrecking his home." shadow said as he had picked up a pebble by his feet and had began tossing it up and down.

Though the azure clad ghosts seeming to have no emotion had continued their march. As they continued to move closer, nick had remained in the one spot continuing to toss the pebble up and down.

When little space were between the single jock and the army, they had began to raise their spears ready to impale him.

at that point nick had flicked the pebble in his hands towards the ghostly army, though the pebble had no effect as it simply passed through them. Seeming like it was just a weak attempt of an attack, they paid no attention to the rock and continued their march. But it soon showed that nick wasn't aiming for them, but instead a gong placed near where the ghosts were attacking.

Somehow the pebble alone was enough to make the gong make it's sound.

The sound of the gong alone caused the ghosts to clench their ears and howl in agony.

"Well looks like the guys ere right, you ghosts have no taste for music, too bad, cause theirs a lot more of it."

As the spirit of the warriors were struggling to get up, other shadows had began to loom over the hills.

Kin, Kon, along with half of the J.O.C.K's were standing beside Nick with all sorts of different instruments. Kin and kon having the most unusual looking of instruments.

Kin's instrument had looked like a key tar /blade sort of weapon, while kon had the sort of drum that band guys would usually carry, but it was made to be super light so kahn could run…well maybe run is stretching it..

"Guess the shadow has nothing left to say except.. GET EM!" nick shouted telling his fraction of both boys and girls to start charging at the ghostly army with their instruments as the ghostly army did the same. Though they couldn't even reach the kids as the sound frequency from each of the instruments would reach their ears before they could actually harm any of the kids.

The whole fight seemed like a one sided battle, which made Kin a little nervous.

"Hey kon? Kin asked as he played a few notes on his key tar, crippling another ghostly soldier.

"Yeah Kin?

"Doesn't this seem a little odd to you?" "what do you mean? Kon asked as he turned to one of the ghosts and banged on his drums defeating another one.

"I mean it feels as if things were kind of rushed, one minute were trying to figure out a song's secret code, and now were fighting an army of ghosts, I mean you'd think they would at least take the time to make an enemy that wouldn't be defeated so easily, it feels sloppy on their part." Kin explained as he hit another ghost amazon.

"oh come on it's not that bad, everyone's a little sloppy sometimes." Kon replied, not paying attention to the incoming ghost trying to grab him. luckily kin had blasted her before she could reach him.

"Yeah, but your sloppy almost all the time."

Meanwhile on another part of the battlefield, a small blonde kid was running as he was trying to run away from the multiple enemies, but he had soon found himself surrounded.

As they were all prepared to subdue him at once, a wicked grin appeared on his face as he had took out a musical triangle. Not having much time to react, he had quickly dinged the triangle creating sound waves that made the surrounding enemies disappear. (lucky for him he was terrible at the triangle.)

At an area not to far from where the triangle kid was, nick along with the rest of peacevile's football team were setting up in formation.

"Blue,42, hut,hut… HIKE! Nick shouted as he had tossed a metallic looking football towards a larger armored jock. (yeah I don't get how football works)

A part of the army had began chasing that one jock while he was trying to capture the ball. As he got a good distance between him and the rest of his team, he had jumped into the air and had caught the ball.

"YEAH! TOUCHDOWN!" the jock yelled as he had pressed a button on the metallic football and had tossed it towards the feet of the soldiers that were chasing them. The ball had exploded releasing a high pitched sound wave causing over half of the enemies to vanish.

"Were totally kicking butt over here, at this rate were going to save peacevile in time for dinner." Chief nerd had bragged as he was to into the battle that he didn't notice a shadow slowly creep up on him.

"U…um sir…" the assistant nerd muttered . what is it? Can't you see that I'm… the chief nerd had trailed off as he had saw who was standing behind him.

"Oh no… Requesting back up! requesting ba…ACK!" the chief nerd was cut off as his throat was being clenched in someone else's grasp.

"You boys should know better, going around making noise isn't very polite." As the chief nerd struggled to open one of his eyes, he had saw that it was laney that was holding his neck.

"It's really hard to concentrate when you kid's make noise."

"O..oh no! I got to warn the others." The assistant nerd had quickly began to run attempting to warn the others, but laney had tossed the chief nerd onto him before he could even get far.

"Owie…" the assistant nerd groaned.

"Now why don't you two relax, someone will be here for you guys soon so just stay put.

Laney grinned as she had took out a handheld communicator .

"It's me, you were right, they showed up here just like you said they would."

"I knew it, i thought things were going to be easy but geez." Mina laughed.

"U..uh mina… do you think I could see if… Corey's there?" asked a timid voice in the background. It sounded like it would belong to Trina.

"WHAT DID I TELL YOU ABOUT INTERRUPTING ME WHEN I'M ON THE PHONE?! Mina shouted as the link was cut off.

"though as she was looking out to the battlefield as soon multiple women and men that used to be just regular citizens of peacevile were now wearing matching black and red uniforms that had a blackened heart and demon wings on the front of their shirts..

All of their eyes were red yet eerily blank, as if they weren't in control of their own minds anymore.

"the people of peacville, what did you do to them?! The chief nerd questioned as he gritted his teeth.

"Me? Nothing, they just did the easy thing and submit to mistress's power, while as you and your little play group choose to rebel, your only making things harder on yourselves." Said Laney as she turned back to the fields.

"What… the shadow can't hurt the people of peacevile, the shadow's suppose to save them." Nick spoke as he had dodged one of the hypnotized peacevile residents trying to grab him.

"This is beyond bad…" the chief nerd had reached into his coat pocket and pulled out his own communicator.

"CHIEF NERD TO BASE! CHIEF NERD TO BASE! We have a code teil! I repeat, code tiel! Deploy plan C now! Deploy plan C!" the chief nerd yelled sending the message back to base under peacevile school.

Meanwhile back at said base, one of the assistants was watching the event happen thanks to an aid of a secret hidden camera on the hills.

"Uh Corey, you should probably take a look at this. " the assistant spoke in a nervous tone. As Corey had entered the room, it had showed that he was now his hair was combed , either that or hat hair, and he was wearing a black tux with a red bow tie and a white shirt underneath along with matching slacks and shoes. Judging by the attire it seemed like he was getting prepared for a date.

"Woah, what the heck's going o…. Laney?!" Corey gasped in shock as he had saw laney toss one of the kids to the ground as she stomped on their instrument utterly destroying it.

"What the ? what's laney's deal? Is this more of whoever this mistress of theirs doing this?"

"it's possible, but that's not just her, over half the denizens of peacevile are under the control as well. At first it seemed as though they were acting opposed to their own specific way, but now all of them seemed to be mindless robots, I don't know what she did, but if we don't do something then all of us are going to end up in the same position.

"Tch, is the base board still here?" Corey gritted his teeth.

"Well yes but what do you plan on doing?" the assistant nerd asked.

"Something really stupid." Corey spoke as he had took out a crumpled peace of paper out of his pocket.

"What is that?"

"Sorry, it's a surprise, catch ya later." Corey waved as he ran out one of the backdoors and had jumped onto the base board.

Though as the two were distracted, they didn't see that the camera was on lenny who was climbing one of the hills with a bazooka in his arm for some reason.

He had hooked the special guitar made for him up to the amps as the garage door had opened revealing an underground hallway.

"Hang on Guys, I'm coming! Corey had began soloing on his guitar, launching him and the base board through the hall.

As he continued to advance, a part of the ground where the flag stood had opened up revealing the underground hall. A short moment after, Corey had launched out of the underground and onto the main road heading straight for the hills.

"Meanwhile… most of the peacevile kids were already being abducted now as their instruments while noisy, had no real effect on the hypnotized citizens.

Kin and kon were able to stand their ground as the frequency of their instruments were set a bit higher then the others. But they weren't going to last much longer.

"My arms are getting tired Kin! I can't beat it much longer!" Kin groaned as he started to feel cramps in his arms from drumming so long.

"Keep going Kon, we got to hold em off until Corey get's here!" Kin replied still playing multiple notes on his keytar.

But at that moment all of the hypnotized citizens had stopped and turned their attention to The twins.

"What did you two just say? You know where Corey is? Laney asked as she had walked up to the two pushing a few mindless servants out of the way.

"Uh… did I say Corey? I meant… Conroy! Yeah Conroy, that's who I meant." Kin smiled nervously hoping laney would buy it, but it was a no sell.

"DON"T LIE TO ME!" Laney's voice boomed making kin ad Kon quiver, making them almost forget that they had instruments in their hands.

"If you know where Corey is, I suggest you tell me now!"

"Uh… yeah, we don't think we should really be disclosing that information.." Kon spoke nervously.

"Oh? So you won't tell me where he is then? How unfortunate?" Laney growled. She had clenched her fists as she had began to move closer towards her former band mates. But before she had got and closer, Mina was contacting her on the communicator.

"Tch..What is it?" Laney snapped

"I don't think it would be a good idea to bodily harm those two, You know she said to bring back all of them alive, so if you hurt them you'd be disobeying a direct order!" Mina shouted back, but laney only rolled her eyes.

"Whatever, they know where Corey is and I'll find him on my own terms." Laney said as her finger was close to the end call button.

"Laney! Don't you dare…!" Mina was cut off as Laney had ended the call.

"Now…where were we?" Laney smirked as she turned back to the twins. But as she turned back, kin was prepared to play another tune.

"Sorry about this laney…" Kin had quickly played a short solo on his keytar sending a sound wave that should have pushed laney back, but it only pushed her back about a few inches.

"Was that suppose to do something?"

"W..what? how is that possible? You should have been rocked away." Said kin.

"Maybe your tech is a little defective, now I'll ask one more time, where is Corey?" laney questioned again as she began moving towards them again.

"any ideas kon?" Kin asked nervously turning to his brother for help.

"Surrender?" Kon joked.

"This is not the time for…YAH!" Kin gasped as Laney had pulled him up by the shirt collar.

"We'll if your not going to tell me, then I guess I'll just have to get the answer out of you another way." Laney smirked

"Oh sweet merciful rock lords help…"

"and that's chapter 7 finally up. apologies for the impossible long hiatus for those who may have been following this, but a lot of junk was piling up, that and two deadly forces attacked me.

Laziness and writers block.

Anyway it seems like that Kin and kon along with the other kids are in a bit of a pickle here. Will Corey get there in time? or are they the next in line to join the mistress's club of minions? And is laney really under the control of the mistress? Or is she somehow rebelling against her power?

No clue.. at least not until next chapter.

Until then this is jackthehedghog signing off.