A/N:

Brenda: I think now would be a good time to tell you how important questions are.

Clockwork: You see, the A/N was supposed to be for answering questions, telling you what's coming up in the stories and explaining why certain things are in there in the first place.

Teller16-djb: But since our minds tend to wander a lot, the A/N has mostly been used as a way to let you, the reader, know what we talk about while or after the chapter is published. The questions are nice to answer just because it gives us a goal. Surprisingly, we haven't gotten any flames so we must be doing something right.

Brenda: Or nobody has the patients to tell you how wrong you are. Nobody has that kind of patients.

Clockwork: I don't even have that kind of patients anymore.

Teller16-djb: You can just feel the love in the room. Let's get to the chapter. Silver tongue…ACTIVATE!

Chapter 9: Old Habits

Shawn's POV

The day, in one word, was weird. But isn't that always the word. How about strange, odd, peculiar and unusual? Whichever one you choose, that's how things were going.

Just like I thought, nobody seemed to really care that Luna and I were back. They were open to the new arrivals though. In fact, not even a day in and they already got into groups. Gym was the first class of the day; we all had that class together. Finn, to no ones surprise was wanted by the jocks. Well, he was after they couldn't catch up to him. After a lot of convincing on both ends from Natasha, Fionna went into cheerleading.

Our next class was Physics. Only Natasha, Oliver, Olivia, Luna and I had that one. So Finn, Fionna and Nova were on their own for that period. Olivia was one of the best students Mr. Kelmer had. She and Star were actually competing against each other for the answers. Nobody stopped them. Who really wanted to? They were basically telling us everything we needed to know. But when they were on the verge of giving away Ooaa, the bell thankfully rang.

One more class until lunch, and it was Science. Why'd it have to be science? I understand why but couldn't help laughing when both Finn and Fionna came into the room wearing the Glasses of Nerdicon. I finally calmed down after halfway through the class when they MADE A BOMB! I took the glasses off of them and Star shut it down. In hindsight, that was probably a bad idea because the bomb shot out blue slime a few seconds later. Our prize? A one way ticket to detention.

"You're idiots," I gritted through as we got our lunch.

"It wasn't that bad," Fionna defended them.

"We barely made an explosion," Finn laughed.

"But you made a mess," Luna fumed. "And uncle is making us clean it up."

"Why do I have to clean it when I didn't do anything wrong," I asked.

"A leader takes responsibility. They mess up, you help them clean it."

"Who made him leader," Finn questioned.

"You're pink haired bosses did," I smugly answered.

Luna and I took them to sit at our usual table by the window. The cafeteria hadn't changed at all. I was actually surprised when Brad Fisher didn't show up. They were wondering why Natasha wasn't in the room, but I explained that she doesn't eat lunch in the room.

"Did you notice how cloudy it got since we've been back," Cosmos, Nova's human form, asked.

"That's probably Oliver's fault," I punched his arm.

"I said I was sorry," he whined.

"What happened," Olivia asked us, mostly glaring at me for that punch.

"Remember the first day we got here and we met you girls at noon?"

They nodded.

"Jack kicked us out of the house because we were trying to make him comfortable without his powers, so we were up early and decided to have an Awesomeness Contest. Jolly was our judge because we didn't want him getting hurt. Marshall flew past the few clouds that were there, dived at us, and landed without breaking anything. A new record for him."

"I climbed to the roof," Cosmos started excitedly but went back to quiet. "A-and jumped a f-few houses."

"I danced," Finn wiggled his arms making us all laugh.

"But as soon as this butt chicken went the rest of us couldn't get a turn," I crossed my arms.

We all looked to Oliver to tell that part and he smirked.

"Well," he said rubbing the back of his neck, "we went to the woods and I was trying to make it snow…buuuut I accidentally got a verse from the spell crossed and unleashed Brauggi."

"You didn't," Olivia face palmed.

"What's a Brauggi," Fionna asked.

"It's a crazy to the max, three story tall, snow beast that used a fallen tree as a club. If it wasn't for Jake, I'd be pancakes," Finn exclaimed.

"He's right," I told them. "Jake ran up him and bit down hard on Brauggi's head."

"Then Brauggi turned to snow," Cosmos added.

"And it's been cloudy ever since," we concluded in unison.

The girls shared a look in between a laugh and a glare. Just as we were all comfy, Finn, Fionna, Olivia and Oliver were called to their new groups; Oliver getting summoned by a drama group probably the class before lunch. They looked to me passive-aggressively because they must've really wanted to go. I couldn't blame them, which is why I waved them off and said:

"Go on. Go to you're groups."

"Thank you," Fionna, Finn, Oliver and Olivia unitized excitedly before walking away.

"Don't you have a group to go to Nov-I mean, Cosmos," Luna asked him.

"I don't r-really have a-a group," Nova lowered his head.

"I guess that makes you one of us then," I smiled.

I could sympathize. Nova was usually timid; being Cosmos must not have changed anything. Still, it was always nice to have another friend in the "Outcast" group. Cosmos seemed happy enough to be one of us, but that was a short lived joy. Why? Brad Fisher. The last time Luna and I saw him, this happened-

Brad Fisher's his name, but Luna and I just call him Fish Face Fisher. Neither of us understands why but the name just sticks. Anyway I was in the lunch line when Brad Fisher showed up out of the blue and pushed my food all over me.

"Watch it Weston," he laughed to his friend mocking me.

I heard Luna growl but I was too focused on not dealing with Fish Face.

"Why don't you freak off Fisher," Luna spoke.

'What are you doing,' I mouthed.

'Trust me,' she replied.

"What was that Note," Fisher asked her.

"She didn't say anything," I defended.

"Butt out wimp," he said pushing me to a nearby table.

I bumped into it and shook my head. I saw Fish Face moving closer to Luna who just stood her ground. Brad took it a step too far when he grabbed her shirt collar.

"He wouldn't hit a girl would he," a boy at the table I was next to asked.

Fisher raised up his fist.

"Yes he would," a girl sitting with him answered.

I saw an apple he had.

"Mind if I borrow this," I said taking it.

I aimed fast and threw it at Fisher's head.

"Bull's-eye."

Fisher put his hand down and glared at me.

"You did not just do that," he said through gritted teeth.

"I'm calling you out Fisher," I smirked. "Now let Luna go."

"Want her? You can have her!" He pushed her towards me and I helped her stand. "Look out," she screamed.

A glob of food flew passed us as Luna pulled me down. We looked over the table and saw that the kid I took the apple from got hit. The girl he was sitting with started laughing. He grabbed some chilly from his plate and threw it at her. She smirked at him and tossed her Shepard's Pie in his direction. He ducked and it hit a group of kids.

"You thinking what I'm thinking," Luna asked me.

I reached and grabbed some chilly, handing her some.

"Let's do it," I answered.

"FOOD FIGHT," we shouted in unison.

We threw our chilly and the chow clash was on. Everyone was in on the act. Luna and I stayed under the table dodging the rations that came our way.

"You are the weirdest girl I've ever met," I laughed.

"You say that like it's a bad thing," she giggled. "Now what?"

I looked around and saw the door to the halls.

"Let's bail."

We crawled mercenary style under the tables. Only scraps reached us but we brushed them off.

"Look out," Luna shouted pushing me out of the way of a hunk of meat.

It hit her in the face and she lay on the floor defeated.

"Go on without me," she said dramatically.

"Yeah not gonna happen," I said.

"Why?"

"For two reasons. One, we're best friends so we're in this together…"

This made her smile.

"…and two, you were hit with a chicken leg. You can go on."

This made her laugh.

"Let go once in a while buzz kill," she smirked.

We continued our voyage and made it towards the door. We high fived and kept crawling. I pushed the door open and Luna crawled through.

"Come on," she said.

She grabbed me hand to help me up, but my foot was being pulled back into the cafeteria. Luan pulled hard but lost her balance. I was pulled up by Fish Face who held his fist up to me.

"Any last words," he said.

I heard a throat clear causing us to look to the left and see our principal.

"We are so screwed," I face palmed myself.

-so to save you another trip with that…

"FOOD FIGHT!"

A/N:

Clockwork: Another memory I don't like reliving.

Brenda: The detention Clockwork gave them was to clean up the mess.

Teller16-djb: That seemed fair. Short chapter but another is on the way soon. That story they told about Brauggi was actually from a scrapped episode of Adventure Time called Jake-Less. I had the idea to use it in Into the Wormhole, but as you all know...

Clockwork: Sorry.

Teller16-djb: Somehow it managed to surface again here. Anyway, I opened a poll on my page and it's kinda opinionated.

Brenda: The question is "Should Finn and Fionna be together?".

Teller16-djb: But the question, to me and Brenda, has a sub-meaning.

Clockwork: Which is?

Teller16-djb: Do people want to be with someone like them or their opposite.

Brenda: Not you too. I thought we were past this a few seasons ago.

Teller16-djb: Well it resurfaced.

Brenda: I think people would be happy with someone like them.

Teller16-djb: I do too. But then I think it would get boring after a while. So I think they'd be fine with there opposite.

Brenda: But that would be a constant battle.

Clockwork: Why are you two doing this now?

Teller16-djb: We've been trying to figure this out for years. I think I came up with a solution. People would be happy with someone like them…to a degree.

Brenda: Right. Sometimes different opinions, but still kinda the same. Good compromise Pipsqueak.

Teller16-djb: It's what I do Sissy. But that's just our opinion. Send in yours readers. It'd be interesting to know what you think on it.

Brenda: Clockwork, what's you're opinion.

Clockwork: I've seen many different timelines. Do you really want to go into this?

Brenda: Never mind.

Teller16-djb, Clockwork & Brenda: See ya around!