Again, I really would like help with my writing skills, so, if you see anything that I could improve upon (and not just spelling mistakes, I mean like general improvements on like the script or something) please inform me, and I will imply it to my future stories. Thank you!
Now, I hope you enjoy.
As Daisy and Brunis marched happily, or seemingly happily in Brunis's case, into the gym, they couldn't help but notice three things. One of which was that the teacher was not present. Daisy, Brunis, nor any of the Prower family for that matter, actually knew that XT-421 had signed himself up as the teacher. The second thing that they noticed was that all of the kids were gossiping about how everyone else totally loved the new gym teacher; and how he put up both a show, and got them all enrolled in activity, even if they didn't know the sport; which was something that no other gym teacher had done yet. The third thing was that how radically changed the gym was. Before, the gym was like any other gym; with the boring, rundown wood floor, the irritating white bricks, that had all seen graffiti and gum stuck to them, and the florescent lighting that gave some kids seizures. All of that was completely gone. In its place, was a gym, seemingly massive now that it had been redone, with a chrome-like finish about the walls and floor, and with lighting on the ceiling that created pictures on the walls and floor. Everyone looked at awe at the room as Daisy and Brunis came into the crowd.
"Wow, this room is awesome!" The small squirrel that threw the ball up for the basketball game yesterday stated.
"I know, it is huge now. I wonder what this teacher is going to be like."
"I heard that it is some robot dude from an evil planet trying to mind control us all!"
"I heard that it was a robot too!"
"What is it going to do to us?"
"I heard that people actually like his gym classes!"
"Maybe he is brainwashing us!"
"Yeah, gym cannot be fun!"
"I know, I mean, just look at what the last gym teacher almost did to me!" Daisy added, Brunis just standing by her side.
"Yeah, Mr. Brown tried to maul Daisy here in the face!"
"Maybe this teacher will punish us, and make us do work."
"Yeah, then the dude will mind control us to forget the whole thing!"
"Where is this teacher anyway?" As soon as that kid finished speaking, the lights began to dim, causing everyone in the room to clump together in fear.
As the lights went out, a few new ones, which pointed into the center of the room, appeared and began to shine brightly. A small fog appeared, and a figure arose from the floor. The class, stricken with fear, almost screamed, as the figure approached them. As it moved closer, it was obvious that the figure either had metal shoes, or metal feet, because every step it took made a clinking noise on the metal floor. As the fog dissipated, Daisy and Brunis sighed with relief, they knew the figure's identity; XT-421. Though, to be funny, they pretended like they knew nothing.
"Greetings class." XT addressed in a sly, mechanical purr. "I am Xavier, model number XT-421 of the Rinocian Empire. I am a fully sentient, artificial intelligence life form. I'm off duty from my main job, and decided to fill the position of gym teacher, in the absence of Mr. Brown. You may address me as either XT, or Mr. Xavier. I really have no care as to what you call me." The class just stared at their robot teacher in total fear of everything that they had come up about him.
"M-Mr. Xavier, sir, um, are y-you g-going to mind control us?" One kid stuttered in fear.
"No, but I could if I wanted to." The class gasped, all of them, except Brunis and Daisy, too afraid to run away.
"Ok. As a first note. I already know all of your names, and have used my metal mind to upload the attendance sheet as soon as I first saw you. So there will be no need for attendance sheets here. Now, who here is ready for a new sport that nobody has seen before? Or, wait, better yet. I can tell by the way that you are shivering, and the way that you're all thinking, that you are beyond scared of me." XT laughed, the class didn't think it so funny. "Ok then, for the next ten minutes, I will do everything, and anything you tell me to as long as it doesn't involve leaving this room."
The class stared at him in disbelief. Daisy and Brunis knew that he was serious, if not trying to be humorous, about the situation.
"Um…" One kid boldly spoke, "Stand on one foot." XT obeyed his command, and stood on one foot. The class looked at their teacher as if he was an idiot, but it worked, they started to be less afraid of him.
"Start hopping on that one foot." Another kid said, much more courageously. XT, doing exactly as he was instructed, began to hop on one foot. The class began to laugh.
"Stick out your tongue!" Another shouted.
"Sorry, invalid command. I have no tongue." XT spoke, still hopping on one foot.
"Hey class, watch this." Daisy slyly said, "Mr. Xavier, fly into the air and stay hovering." XT smiled as his wings shot out from his back and he hovered in the air above them.
"How cool!" Everyone said as XT remained in the air, flapping his wings like a bird.
"Anything else?" XT asked.
"Do a somersault in the air!"
"Spin around!"
"Fly around the gym in less than twelve seconds!" The class looked at XT as he did all of that in order. When he came to the around the gym command, he used his boosters on his feet. The kids covered their ears as he broke into a sonic boom.
"Whoa!" they all said as XT now fluttered above them.
"How fast can you fly?" One kids asked.
"That depends on why I'm flying. These commands will only get me to about mach two."
"Then fly around us as fast as you can for a few seconds!" the kids commanded.
"Ok, five seconds…" XT's rockets could be heard charging for a burst of speed. When he did launch off, he was almost invisible to the kids. He was flying around them so fast, that a grey tornado began to pick them up and make them float in the air.
Daisy though, being the lightest person there, was almost thrown away, if it weren't for the fact that Brunis weighed a lot more than she did, and acted as an anchor for her.
"Ok, now what?" XT asked, still flying.
"Sing!"
"Yeah sing!"
"Sing what?" XT asked them all.
"I don't know; the first song that comes to mind." One kid offered.
"Then, I'll pick one from Mobius, the first one that comes to mind… is…" XT had trouble because his mind brought up every song at once. "I can't do that… all of the songs… in my head, at once…" XT's eye's color changed so that it was different in both of them, his way of stating that he was about to go insane. At once he began to play all of the songs that came to his mind all at the same time, creating an inaudible, irritating, static noise.
"What song is that?" A few shouted at him.
"All of them, at once." XT smiled as the kids yelled at him to turn it off; and he listened.
"Now what?" He asked them, knowing that he had only about a minute or so left.
"Use your mind control powers on someone!" The class at first cheered at this, but then became a bit frightened as XT landed nearby them.
"Who shall I choose then?"
Everyone in the gym pointed to someone else.
"Pick on Jake over there, he's the kind of guy that is daring like that."
"No I'm not! I swear it!" The figure named Jake said.
"Ah, aren't you the same kid that was parading around my room earlier? And also the one that said, 'Yeah, gym cannot be fun!'? Hmm, yes. You'll do perfectly. Now, what shall we make him do? Ah, but first." XT took the boy in front of him and stared deep into his eyes. The kid's eyes changed a bit, as his attempts at breaking free of XT slowly subsided. XT put the kid down, and walked backward a few steps, the class did the same.
"Make him hop up and down like a frog!" One kid asked. XT's eyes flashed a bright white light, and Jake began to hop up and down like a frog. The class laughed at him.
"Make Jake dance like a ballerina!" A few kids fell over backwards in laughter, as XT repeated the process and Jake became an expert at ballet.
"Does anyone want to dance with him? He's right now going to be better than he ever will be at it, and won't remember any of it." XT asked.
"I want to dance in ballet with Jake!" A bunch of girls jumped up onto the stage and tried to mimic Jake, but failed as they fell down. The whole class nearly died laughing.
"Now we'll make him do something that he normally wouldn't, just to be funny…" XT said, as his little mind pet walked into the crowd and gave a girl, who, the whole time was watching him with an obvious crush on him, a big kiss on the cheek. The girl passed out, and XT released Jake from his enslavement. Jake saw the girl on the ground and, completely unknowing of what just happened, helped her up kindly.
Daisy walked up to XT and softly asked him a question.
"Was that really necessary?"
"Well, you see little Ms. Prower, Jake also sort of liked her, I could tell by both how he acted, and thought about her. So, I still hold my title as master catalyst." XT laughed softly back.
"Ok!" XT called out to the class. "Now that we've had our fun. Now let's get down to learning." The class openly showed their disgust with a large groan.
"What is this? Groans? Why my dear little children, you've never been taught by me yet have you?" XT backed away from the group a bit, and spoke again. "The game that we shall be playing is a game that originated in a place, so far away from here that no measure of distance can measure it. This place, whose name I shall not mention due to its unimportance, lies within a parallel dimension. I assure you, that even if you can't play the game well, you will have fun." The kids looked skeptically at each other in disbelief.
"Daisy and Brunis, I know you two the best. Come here." The couple came up to the center of attention unwillingly. Brunis was always trying to stay away from the crowds of people, as did Daisy, but Daisy actually was teased by them. Being made an example was not their idea of fun.
"Ok, this game is called, Kolhii. And is the favorite sport of that faraway planet. It consists of teams of two, and guard and an offense, each wielding their own Kolhii stick." XT stomped his foot on the ground and a couple of Kolhii sticks appeared on the ground nearby, as if by magic.
"This is a Kolhii stick." XT explained, picking up the lightweight object. "They are made out of a durable, lightweight material that is probably unknown in this land, so I won't go saying it. As you can see here, each stick has two ends. One is a hammer end, and the other is like a scooping device. The rules of the game are really quite simple; the defender must defend his or her goal using a shield and a Kolhii stick, while letting their partner, the one on offense, get the ball to another teams goal without using their hands, or hand like feet for those of you who are monkeys…" A few laughs could be heard, as a few monkeys covered their hand like feet. "Well, everyone, please take a Kolhii stick, seeing as everyone will play in this game soon enough." XT, again, hit the floor with his foot and more Kolhii sticks came out of the ground. The kids all scrambled to get some, but there was exactly enough for everybody, so the scramble was unnecessary. "Okay, now, the Kolhii stick's design gives you a variety to hold it. You can hold it by both of the handle bars, or you can hold it from the center. Now, get yourselves into teams of two." In less than a minute the class was already set. "Wow, you move pretty quickly, now, down to the field, everyone, to the side of the gym!" Everyone moved quickly to the wall in the gym as XT stood in the center. He clapped his hands, and a large sound echoed in the gym.
The floor beneath XT-421 sunk so that he couldn't be seen. Then, section by section, the floor began to drop, in pie cuts of the gym, starting at the center. Slowly but surely, some parts of floor stayed erect, creating a large, circular playing field, with individual team sections. It was then apparent, that XT was still in the center, conducting the machines as a music director directs his band. The semifinal step to this transformation was the dropping of a ramp from one of the team's sections, so that the class could enter the field with their equipment.
"Ok, now every team, go to a station in the field!" XT called out. "One of you will be offense, and another will be defense. There is already a shield in each station, so pick away." After the picking was done, XT walked over to the center again.
"I'm so sorry; I forgot that you people probably don't like this chrome color that I've picked for everything. Ok, then. I'm going to change that." XT made a whistling noise as the ceiling came down on top of the field as a dome to cover the field. Then, at another odd call from XT, the lights began to change to create a scenic view on all of the walls. It almost appeared as if the entire class had been taken to an old temple, with brilliant beige sandstone as their walls, and a sky above their heads. A section of the wall even looked like it over saw the ocean. If one really looked hard, they could even see the small flora growing through the sandstone. To the class, this all seemed like a miraculous dream.
"Ok, now, a demonstration of how Kolhii is played. Daisy, Brunis, you are going to be the first example. Because Brunis is more agile than you Daisy, I recommend that he is on offense and you on defense. Ok, now, my little helper." XT pulled from inside his chest a small round ball. And out of this ball, wires came out to form small legs, arms, and hands. It picked up a Kolhii stick and stuck next to the goal for now.
"To begin our game, all of the people on offense will get in a large circle, standing as if they were protecting their own goal. Brunis, if you would be so kind as to stand here." Brunis and XT stood in the center of the room, which was now a dome due to XT's meddling. "Ok, now, the ball. When you see it, do anything you can to get it onto my side of the court. The only rule here is that no one gets hurt. If anyone injures a player, they will have a good long talk with me about why it happened; am I understood?" The class nodded, making sure not to get on XT's bad side. "Ok, cue the ball! And thus the demonstration begins." XT leapt into the air with a tremendous jump and grabbed the ball that had shot from the ground upwards with the scoop end of his stick; he then hurled it towards the goal that Daisy was protecting. "Daisy," XT called out, "the ball is coming, deflect it!" Daisy raised the shield on her arm and closed her eyes. The ball, which was rocketing towards her, bounced off the shield without any repercussions on Daisy, instead, the ball went flying back, almost as fast as it had came at her, in reverse direction.
"Note how the ball seemed nonexistent. That is because the ball and the shield are made of material that are like ping pong balls. They are completely hallow, though completely durable and won't break easy. Allow me to show an example." XT caught the ball, and tossed it at Brunis's face. The ball bounced backwards at XT barely moving Brunis's head. Brunis stood not phased in the slightest, to him; it was like that ball barely hit him. The class laughed.
"This is almost a safety precaution for you, but it came premade. So, everybody, take a station, and get ready, to play. Oh yes, and before you do play, I have something to say, there will be far more than one ball for this place, try twenty." XT snapped his fingers and nineteen balls shot out of the ground. "And, ah yes. The team that gets the most points gets a prize." At this the class yelped with glee as they took their positions, and the game began.
Brunis and Daisy already had a great strategy. Brunis would go into the middle of the field and catch the ball with his scoop side, and the do a somersault, still in the air, to let the ball go flying into someone's goal at an incredible speed. While Daisy would stand at her goal and watch as all of the balls came at her, deflecting them, or sometimes even catching them and gently passing them to her beloved. It was rare, but sometimes Daisy even deflected the balls into someone else's goal.
By the end of the hour, Daisy and Brunis scored 118 goals, the highest in the class by only two goals. The opposing team was Jake and the one girl that he had kissed earlier that period, with 116 goals. XT-421 congratulated them.
"Now, your prize. One wish." The class looked at their teacher like he was crazy. A wish? Come on, that was childish and stupid; wishes never came true.
"You're serious?" One kid asked pugnaciously. Daisy and Brunis, both thinking very hard, came up with different answers. Brunis, of course, knew his wish from the beginning, but, was too afraid to say it. I wish that I could find a way out of this mess, and- Daisy spoke the rest of his thoughts.
"I wish that both Brunis and I could live happily ever after. And one day maybe even get married…" Daisy slapped her mouth shut, realizing that she was daydreaming in front of the whole class. XT only smiled. He had heard both of their wishes, and knew that somehow, he could grant them.
"So you wished it, and so it shall be… Class dismissed, everybody, into the center!" As XT called that out, all of the Kolhii balls and Kolhii sticks seemed to melt into the floor, as if they never existed. As the class got into the center, the room started to change back into its normal status, prior to the Kolhii game.
All of the kids mournfully left their new favorite class, and Daisy grabbed Brunis's hand and cheerily spoke to him.
"Did you hear that? XT-421 is going to make us have a happily ever after!" Daisy grabbed Brunis's hand and raced out of the chrome gym so gleefully that she almost made Brunis happy. But, Brunis knew that within the next hour, XT's promise was going to be broken.
I feel so sorry for Daisy, she is too innocent to understand what is gonig on... (Oh yeah, I may not have mentioned it, but that girl that Jake likes is called Iris. She plays an slightly more important role in another story that I wrote...)
I hoped you enjoyed.
More coming soon...