High School from HELL

Daniel Ocean

Warning: All respe©t warnings are in effect.

Heero and Relena just looked at their stalker for a few seconds, silent. Both were stunned. "It just couldn't be," murmured Relena. "It just could not be possible."

"Amazing," said Heero. "Simply amazing."

"Well, okay, this was really fun for a while." He scratched his nose again. "Well, it was a good thing that the school was empty, I guess. Made it a lot more believable that there was a stalker out on the loose out after you."

"Wow, Traize," said Relena. "You must have fallen far from your days at OZ."

"Yeah, I have," responded the former OZ head. "Ah well. Having fun in my retirement. Especially this time around. Hee hee." Another massive thunderclap, and everyone jumped. Once Traize got himself vertical again, he said, "A good day for this sort of thing, too."

The moans and screams from the other part of the school could be heard. "I guess that's more of your fun, isn't it, Traize?" asked Heero.

"Uh, no, it isn't. It's someone else that's going after whoever-they- are."

"I bet it's the others, making their way back up to us."

"But whatever are they screaming at?" asked Relena, who was instantly answered by the distant screamers. Everyone craned their ears.

"I think that they are saying there's a fire over there," decided Traize. Everyone listened for a little bit longer, and then there was a long fwoosh sound of an opening fire extinguisher. "Well, at least it's all taken care of now, as far as we know."

"Probably Duo juggling his flaming clubs again," said Heero. "It's so _wholly_ inappropriate in here, so he must have done _exactly_ that."

"Yeah, probably." Relena nodded. "We all better make sure that they're all okay, though. Remember the time he almost burned down the Peacecraft mansion? And don't forget the potato incident.*"

"We better run on over," aid Heero.

The foam fumes rose off of Duo's formerly smoking sneaker and hung over the room like a London fog. Wufei was not in the least bit pleased. "Thanks a lot for that nice little magical trick, Trowa. Almost made the whole school disappear-with us in it-in a big puff of smoke."

"It's out," he replied simply.

"Okay now," said Duo, well shrouded, "what am I going to wear on my foot on my way out of here? I just can't hop down all those stairs and I'm wearing a good pair of socks."

The was silence. "Kind of weird to hear something like that there, Maxwell."

"Well its _true_. I need to borrow someone else's sneaker, if possible."

"Oh, no. We all have nice socks as well. Just wear.no. Just walk on out of here barefoot. It's all nice and pleasant out there now anyway." Dorothy was groping along the walls, trying to find the door out. "I think I've found the doorknob." She grabbed what she had and pushed far too hard, making her spill out the door out to the hallway, right in front of Relena, Heero and Traize.

"Oh, hi." She spat it out to the first two. She then looked up and saw the former OZ soldier. "Why hello there, Traize. Interesting to find you here. And to find you here with these two."

"Yeah, well, I'm in retirement. I'm doing the dumb crap they don't allow in the military and such."

"I see. You were the one that was kinda killing people, almost?"

"Yeah. Just found a Relena doll and I dressed it up really well. Left rest of it all to the imagination."

"And the disappearing everyone?"

"I'm worth billions, I can bribe people."

"So why didn't you bribe the principal to get rib of all of the things that got us in his office in the first place?

"Didn't think of it."

"Gee, thanks. And I guess that all of this toxic goo is yours too."

"What toxic goo?"

"All the toxic goo Hilde and Braid Boy found."

"I didn't _have_ any toxic goo on me. I mean, toxic goo is.toxic, you know?"

"So who put it there?"

"Where?"

"Wherever they found it."

"Thanks for being specific. I don't know who put the mystery goo in the mystery place mysteriously. I don't know, maybe there really is a serial killer that is out there and going after the nine of us."

A squishing sound started down the hall. "Did you here that?" Heero's eyes darted around nervously. "I don't think that I like that."

"Oh, _now_ you are here to be the scared one and not go around blowing everyone's explodable stuff up."

"Dorothy-"

"We had to hide all of our explodable stuff for the longest time to keep it away from you."

"Dorothy, I saw something dart around a corner back there." He pointed down the hall.

She turned around. "I don't see anything back here." She turned back around. "You can be a major weirdass sometimes."

"It's back!"

Dorothy sighed and turned full around. The thing went back around the corner, but just not fast enough. "Uh.okay.there maybe kind of sort of be a snowball-in-hell chance that there is something around the corner. No problem, I'm going to see what it is." Dorothy went back into the smoke and came back out with the now half-empty fire extinguisher. "I'm going to spray it if it jumps out at me."

"Good luck." The trio outside watched as Dorothy made it swiftly down the hall to the corner. She paused, and then jumped around, out of view.

"Great Jesus!" she cried.

Smoke poured into view, and some gurgling sounds and more of Dorothy's screaming could be clearly heard. The fire extinguisher switched off for a second, then the gurgling returned and more smoke poured out into view.

Dorothy staggered back around the corner. "Look over here," she said. "Come and take a look at this." She staggered around some more then sat down hard next to the wall.

Everyone had left the computer lab by then, and followed Dorothy's suggestion, turning the corner to face what she had battled.

"It's.a blob," said Hilde finally.

"Did you get this from a movie warehouse, Traize?" asked Relena

"I didn't get _shit_," he replied.

"Ahhhh it's moving again!" Duo saw a twitch and picked up the dropped fire extinguisher, emptying it and stopping the monster.

There was a pause.

Relena sighed. "I guess that the author couldn't afford a monster with arms or legs or anything like that. A blob? That is so seventies."

* Read more on this in "One Potato, Two Potato."

Author's notes: Well, Chapter Nine is finally up. Sorry for the long wait. I've been doing two things with my time: being on vacation, and seeing what effect two hours of baseball has on the body. I've been pitching so much my left leg is getting compressed down at the knee. Once I get some ice on it, I'll start Chapter Ten. Finally, there will be death that will make this worthy of horror. Yay!

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