POST-SCRASH SESSION 3: SPECTATORS OF THE HOST
Chapter 9: A Cold Landing, Part 2
Vraiment le plus important à ma connaissance,
Le plus important à ma connaissance concernant les enfants,
C'est de jamais jamais les laisser devant la télé
Et mieux encore n'installez pas cette chose idiote qui rend gaga…
When Skepness Man arrived at Portal High School Principal Business Man was long gone. Upon the entrance he finally had the time to pick up the chewing gum bullet Violet had shot and throw it in the trash bin. He entered Portal High School fairly confidently because he was there many times before but when the bell rang Skepness Man was suddenly lost since he had no idea about the lesson order. He stood like a statue for 5 minutes and Mr. Sanpe found him.
"Skepness Man Beauregarde." "That's correct." "I was informed about your arrival. I just need to mention you'll need a briefing on what precisely is wrong with this school and how you can help to fix it." "You are especially angry that Principal Business Man has stepped up and his IQ has begun to decline and the overall situation is quite poor." Mr. Sanpe was stunned for a while and "Very good. I'll pass a note to your History teacher so he can write you an A. But you see, the problem is I am not your History teacher, I am your Maths teacher. Now let's go to class." They started walking.
When Mr. Sanpe and Skepness Man entered a the classroom one girl immediately asked "Hey! I thought this kid only gave us rare visits and was too smart for school anyway!" And Mr. Sanpe said ""This kid" has a name, Miss Aranna Sorket. And if you never asked him what it was during any of his "rare visits" your entire average should be lower." "Alright, then what is it?" "Well, he's Skepness Man Beau-"
"Skepness Man, the author of Enchiridion Marrissa? I actually got into your universe!" "Oh. Yeah. That." "Well, thanks for shedding light about Sgrub. Though, your universe is still pathetic." "Stop" Mr. Sanpe interrupted and Mr. Sanpe said. "What did you say?" "Your universe is pathetic?" "You know patheticity is relative. For example, you may see our universe as pathetic and yourself as all fine, but our universe now thinks that you're pathetic and we're all fine. And that you need to sit detention. Unfortunately, Principal Business Man is currently unavailable, so I want you to sit in his room and pretend that you're being punished and need to be sorry." Aranna reluctantly left and Skepness Man could faintly hear Mt. Sanpe locking her inside, as well as saying a few things to her, and returning to class.
"Now, let's see if this kid knows his way around maths just as well as history." Mr. Sanpe wrote a complex maths equation and Skepness Man was solving it. When Skepness Man was distracted enough Mr. Sanpe told the class "I'm joking, that's his punishment for somehow conveying to Aranna that "our universe is pathetic." Pathetic little man... kid... man." One bell rang after another and children were all over school and the room the equation was in but Skepness Man was still busy solving the equation.
Meanwhile, while locked away, Aranna Sorket noticed that there were some newspaper clippings and photos. They were both related to Skepness Man, but standing beside him was an unfamiliar blonde part-blue-haired girl. But because Aranna couldn't put two and two and realize who she was someone knocked on the window. It was… Lately Pirate was trespassing! "Aranna. Psst. You're in a detention with literally no one! Just open the window."
Aranna opened the window but just as she was stepping out the window closed back down and slammed her right in the fingers. "Okay, I'll admit, Principal Business Man is clever." Lately thought a bit and wondered how to fix it when the same window catapulted her across the city. She could no longer contact Aranna in person and as part of her detention Mr. Sanpe had taken away her mobile device but there was still Principal Business Man's computer. Aranna turned it on but it turned out there was a password so that plan was to be scratched.
Aranna then looked more carefully. There was in fact a copy of Enchiridion Marrissa among the papers so another look couldn't hurt. But then she realized that Skepness Man only makes an appearance in the post-Marrissa Games part so that didn't lead to any discovery. Aranna then thought "well, the problem will solve itself" when Mr. Sanpe came again. "You actually tried to escape your detention. From now on" he pulled out a list of students and crossed Aranna out "I am forced to announce your expellance from Portal High School. Go home." Aranna reluctantly went home.
Meanwhile Skepness Man finished his equation. Mr. Sanpe checked the answer, and, seeing that it was correct, and wrote an A besides it so everyone knew Skepness Man was a maths genius as well as a history genius. The teacher also handed him an envelope. "This is for your mother. Don't open it." Skepness Man nodded and left Portal High School and started his long boring walk to Tbilisi, Georgia. Halfway through however he couldn't resist the temptation of opening the letter and consuming information so he opened the letter and read it.
Dear Ms. Violet Beauregarde,
It has come to my attention that your son, Skepness Man, is immensely knowledgeable and as such could possibly put an end to our entire universe. I hope that as a sensible person, you will take action against it. Him. It. Thank you for letting me be heard.
Yours sincerely,
Mr. Sectumsempra Sanpe
Skepness Man put the letter back in as he walked further. By now knowing what Violet was like, he had to fight his best and survive as the smartass he is.
TO BE CONTINUED
Seriously Written Note: I had re-thought what to write here several times. My current choice is Violet's response to the above letter.
Dear Mr. Sectumsempra Sanpe,
I actually expected that the transfer of Skepness Man to Portal High School would solve the problem itself. However, as an added measure, I confiscated all his time travel devices. It turns out I am vulnerable to them as well (haha). The issue has had my full attention ever since I learned about Skepness Man, and is the sole reason I'm looking after him.
Thanks for your reciprocal attention,
Ms. Violet Beauregarde
