An annoying sound rang through Elizabeth's ears. She groaned and shifted around her bed.
"What is that sound…?" she muttered. She shifted around to see her blackbox lighting up and sounding like a dying cow. Elizabeth snapped awake and sat up on her bed. She grabbed her blackbox, flipped the top and pressed on the touch screen. HIVEmind's face appeared on the screen with an unemotional face.
"Classes will begin in ten minutes," he said sternly. Elizabeth let out a scream and jumped out of bed. She ran to Karen's side of the room to see her sleeping soundly on her bed. Elizabeth glanced at Karen's blackbox to see a flashing red screen that says UNABLE TO WAKE MISS FOXX.
Elizabeth rolled her eyes. Like she had explained before, getting Karen out of bed was mission impossible.
"Karen, wake up!" Elizabeth screamed. Karen merely shifted around and muttered in her sleep. Elizabeth groaned and rolled her eyes. An idea suddenly crept into her brain.
"Karen…Nero's making chocolate-chip pancakes for you…" Elizabeth whispered, "Shirtless."
"I'M UP!" Karen sat up quickly. Elizabeth dragged her out of the bed. "C'mon, classes start in ten minutes!" Elizabeth grabbed her new jumpsuit from her closet and dashed into the bathroom.
"Elizabeth, hurry up already!" Karen yelled. Elizabeth scoffed. "Excuse me for liking the scent of pomegranates!"
"I'm going to shove that bottle up your ass, Elizabeth!" Karen threatened. Elizabeth came out of the bathroom shortly after that and Karen took a shower faster than light itself.
After getting dressed, Karen realized that there were three more minutes for classes to begin. They dashed out of their room and ran down the empty hallways. Elizabeth flipped open her blackbox. "HIVEmind, what's our first class?" she practically screamed.
"Dr. Nero's class," he said simply.
Meanwhile in Nero's classroom, the Fabulous Four sat at their desks worrying about the new Alphas.
"Where's Karen and Elizabeth?" asked Laura. "They're going to be late."
"They're newbies; they still haven't gotten the hang of things around here…" Shelby inquired. Otto nodded. "Good point," he then glanced at Dr. Nero, who was calmly stacking papers at his desk. "But I wonder what Dr. Nero would do…"
The bell let out its evil laugh, signaling classes were beginning. As the bell rung or better yet laughed, the door was slammed open, revealing an out-of-breath Elizabeth and Karen.
"We're here!" Elizabeth said. Karen straightened out and pointed at Nero. "Where are my chocolate-chip pancakes?" she scanned him with her eyes. "And why aren't you shirtless?"
Nero blinked quizzically as Elizabeth laughed nervously. "Karen, I actually told you that so you would get out of bed…"
"You lied?" Karen turned to her and her expression saddened. "Why would you lie to me? I was looking forward to those pancakes!" Karen complained. "When have I ever lied to you?"
"Oh; you've never lied to me?" Elizabeth flared. "Yeah ok, disco bunnies? Huh?"
Everyone in the classroom, including Nero, was dumbstruck. Karen blinked until the memory crawled into her brain again. "That was third grade Elizabeth; get over it!"
"Can you two take a seat?" Nero's deep voice echoed through the classroom. The two friends jumped at his voice and nodded. "Yes sir…" They walked over to two empty seats near the Fabulous Four. Nero sighed irritably. "Alright students take out your textbooks and turn to page 150," he instructed. "We will be learning about how villains across the globe have tried to take over the world and how they're failures aid us in the present time." Nero began writing some information on the smart-board behind him. Mixed with the sound of rapid pages flipping, was a crunchy sound that annoyed him to the fullest.
"What is that noise?" he cried and turned around. The page-flipping stopped, leaving the crunchy noises roaming the silence. Nero looked past some students to see Karen with a bowl on her desk pouring Lucky Charms into it. She then put it down and poured milk. Nero's eyebrow twitched.
"Miss Foxx…what are you doing?" Nero watched the teen look up at him. She put the milk carton down and sunk a spoon into the bowl. "Eating,"
"There's no eating in my class Miss Foxx," Nero advised but then jumped at a sudden pop sound.
"God freakin' damn it!" Elizabeth cussed, holding a bag of Salt-and-Vinegar Lays that was ripped right through the middle. The crunchy chips all spilled to the floor. Nero's blood boiled.
"Do you girls want detention on your first day?" he asked sarcastically. Karen swallowed a spoonful of cereal. "What if we say yes?"
Everyone gasped at her bold answer, but the Fabulous Four snickered. Nero smirked and pointed at his new student. "Good answer Foxx," he turned to Elizabeth. "Pick those chips off of my floor Sparrow." He then turned back to write on the smart-board.
"Wow, you guys know how to see through Nero huh?" Shelby leaned back on her chair to talk to Karen and Elizabeth who were sitting behind her. Karen shrugged. "What are you talking about; I answer my parents like that all the time…"
"Well you're really something," Laura said. "I think that if I ever answered my parents like that they would've given me such a slap to the face!"
"Touché Brand," Shelby said. "Although I don't recall my parents ever actually hitting me…"
"That's because you're a spoiled brat," Otto sneered. Shelby glared daggers at the albino teenager. "What was that Snow White?"
"You six are having an interesting conversation back here," Nero appeared out of nowhere, standing in the little space that divided their desks in rows. "Care to share?"
"Ha, that rhymes," Otto snickered and Nero shot him a look. "Be quiet Malpense."
"We weren't talking about anything Dr. Nero," Karen said boringly. "They were just asking me where I got the box of Lucky Charms."
"I see, pay attention all of you," was the last thing Dr. Nero said to them.
The bell rung for the next period. The laughing bell scared both Karen and Elizabeth. As they walked down the hallways, Otto informed them that they have the same classes, so they don't have to be checking out their schedules anymore; they could just ask them.
"So what do we have now?" Elizabeth asked. Wing raised his eyebrows. "Colonel Francisco,"
"Oh; and what does he teach?" Karen raised an eyebrow. Laura shrugged. "You could say it's P.E."
"LISTEN UP MAGGOTS!" The Colonel barked, making Karen and Elizabeth jump slightly. "Since we have two new Alphas here, we're going to review the grappler technique!"
"Yes sir!" everyone cried in union. The Colonel pointed his robotic finger at Karen and Elizabeth. "Step out of the line maggots!" he barked. Karen and Elizabeth stepped out of the line but the Colonel wasn't pleased. "I can't hear you!"
"Yes sir!" they both cried. The Colonel smirked. "Fanchu over here will give you a demonstration; then you're on your own!" his smirk got scarier. "And be careful, there might be something hungry in the water…"
Karen and Elizabeth eyed the bottom on the cavern to see great white sharks circling in the crisp blue water. They both gulped in union. Colonel Francisco crossed his arms over his chest as Wing put on the grapplers on both hands. He glanced back at the girls before literally diving down. Suddenly, a rope-like object shot from the bottom of the cavern and held on to the top of the cavern wall. Then another appeared and hooked onto the wall and simultaneously let go of the first one and so on. Wing gained speed shortly after this and soon landed on the other side of the cavern.
The Colonel nodded at Wing and then faced Karen and Elizabeth. "Which one of you maggots wants to try first?"
Elizabeth was slightly afraid of doing something like that, especially when there were huge sharks in the water but Karen was excited. Karen raised her hand. "I'll do it sir!"
"You want to try Foxx?" The Colonel squinted at her as she jumped up and down, waving her arm from side to side. "Yes sir!" she responded. "It looks so cool!"
The Colonel stared at her for a few seconds before shrugging. "Get your equipment Foxx…"
"Yes sir!" she responded happily and took the grapplers and put them on her hands. She stood by the edge of the cavern and smiled. She jumped off the edge. She quickly shot the hook and held onto the cavern. Karen swung forward and let go of that rope and shot out another. She did this perfectly without flaw and landed on the platform where Wing was.
Colonel Francisco blinked but nodded sternly. "You did better than I expected maggot!" he yelled loud enough for her to hear. He then turned to Elizabeth and threw her a pair of grapplers. "You're next."
Elizabeth gulped and shot the rope which gripped onto the cavern. Unlike Karen and Wing, she decided it would be better to actually shoot the rope before jumping. She swung through the air and retracted the first rope and then shot the other one. This is easy, she thought.
"Go Elizabeth!" Otto cheered. Elizabeth looked back and smiled but didn't realize where she was going and slammed onto the cavern wall. Everyone's mouth gapped, seeing the new Alpha peel off of the now slightly cracked cavern wall and make a loud splash in the water. Despite everything, Elizabeth resurfaced and spit out the water in her mouth. Karen sighed in relief but it was far from over; the sharks.
The great white sharks started to near Elizabeth's body. Elizabeth sighed boringly and turned to the dorsal fins coming straight for her. She growled in a nearly terrifying way that made the sharks almost whimper and swim away. The Colonel raised his eyebrows in amusement and the other Alphas gasped in surprise. Shelby, Laura and Otto stood by the edge, watching Elizabeth swim toward the platform where Wing and Karen were.
"That's an interesting way to get rid of sharks…" he muttered and Shelby and Laura nodded in union.
