Today was Iyo's third science fair. Iyo always won because his projects were at college level. A lot of the teachers liked him because he was good hearted and very smart. A lot of the other kids liked him because he always acted cool and never lost his cool. The science fair was the one place Iyo could forget about his wimpy life and focus on the genius of people like him.
Jake and Priscilla were planning on sabotaging Iyo's project. They did it for the sake of making Iyo very upset. Priscilla watched her boyfriend sneak under Iyo's project. She was between a volcano made of Dorito's that erupted salsa and a structure of the solar system. Priscilla talked to Jake in her talkie.
" Are you set?"
Jake saw a vacuum container on the bottom shooting pink mist into whatever was hidden under his towel. Jake turned the knob to the right. The mist shrunk. Jake turned the dial to the left and the mist returned to its former size. Jake smiled sinister smile thinking about his ploy.
" I'm set. This is going to be hilarious."
Iyo looked at all the other experiments kids worked so hard to make and laughed inward about how much little effort they made trying to present. Iyo had his mean side. Everyone was mean in some ways or another, Iyo just liked to make fun of other people's work as he was sure some would do to him.
The teacher grading Iyo's project was Principal McGarth. Principal McGarth was once a news reporter, spent some time in jail, and left jail to become a teacher. After half a dozen years he became the principal.
" Can you please tell us about your experiment?"
" Certainly." Iyo pulled the blanket off. Underneath the blanket was an aquarium. In that aquarium were butterflies and chrysalis, and one spider crawling over the aquarium." As we all know spiders are insect eating arachnids. They'd eat anything from flies to butterflies. Butterflies help with pollination, eating rotten fruit, and help us with our food sources. That's why we need to keep as many of them alive as possible. Watch what happens when I throw these Forest Spiders in there."
Iyo knew that Forest Spiders liked to eat butterflies. He threw six or twelve spiders from a plastic jar into the aquarium. In just one second the spiders would crawl over the aquarium preparing to eat his butterflies. The spiders ignored the butterflies and moved sideways through the aquarium.
" Amazing. It's like they can't even see the butterfly."
" That's because they can't. I made a type of pheromone that camouflages butterflies rather than make members of the opposite sex fall in love. I also used an anthropomorphic battery. With this gas butterflies from all over the world can be safe in forests from predators."
McGarth was already kissing Iyo raving about his science experiment. He then called a few more teachers over to come over and look at Iyo's science fair project. First one student looked at the science fair. More students crowded the science fair. It didn't take a university professor with a 190 IQ to know Iyo was going to win.
Priscilla had a rueful look on her face. Her narcissistic side wanted to see the student who beat her in the last exam make a fool of him when her boyfriend Jake turned off his propane tank and the spiders ate the butterflies in a massacre.
" Jake, what's taking so long?"
" Turning off this nerds invention is hard!"
" Well keep changing dials until it turns off!"
Jake hated when Priscilla ordered him around. It made him feel like less of a man. Jake just did everything to make her happy. He turned the dial in a cartwheel, spinning the dial as long as he could. The pink cloud changed from bright pink to dark orange.
For the first time in a row Iyo had won the science fair. This wasn't just a little handy down like a blue ribbon or a gift certificate, Iyo was given an excellent grade. The grad he received would bring him into the nicest school.
" Iyo, for a superb job in science and astonishing each of us, I would like to present this science fair award-"
Explosion strong enough to blow through body parts blew McGarth, Jake, and Iyo engulfed them. Time went one half of a second. A teacher running towards the exit moved slower than a snail in autumn, a boy whose soda splashed out of his drink looked like tiny snowflakes, and a boy's mouth was so openly agape they looked like railroad tracks. A demon used his powers to slow down time; could only affect humans and would never work on demons. A big blue scaled man wearing a big brown jacket for a disguise and pulling a baby stroller walked into the gymnasium.
" You were right, Koenma. Iyo really does die from an accident."
" It's a shame. And he tried so hard…We have to stop this."
Koenma stopped the bomb before it killed everyone in the gymnasium. It was too late to save the three closest to Iyo's project: Iyo, McGarth, and Jake. Jake was saved by Ogre pulling him out of the table. Ogre grabbed McGarth and carried him on his shoulder. As for Koenma, the little baby carried a fire extinguisher too big for him and put out the fire.
Ogre dragged Jake to his girlfriend Priscilla. She was still looking at Iyo's science project. Ogre took McGarth to a spot safe from the fire, surrounded by teachers like him. The last person to help was Iyo. Koenma summoned a giant light ball in his arms. A light ghostly figure moved out of Iyo's body. The figure was Iyo himself. Koenma had Iyo's soul in his hand. Koenma would materialize Iyo's soul into the first stage.
" Mr. McGarth!" The school cooking teacher saw Mr. McGarth unconscious on the ground. She shook Mr. McGarth on the elbow. The gym teacher put his mouth on Mr. McGarth lips and woke Mr. McGarth up. " Are you alright?"
" I'm fine," he said wiping his hand against his mouth. " is everyone else alright?"
" Jake is alright." Priscilla said. " Where's Iyo?"
Iyo wasn't seen by anyone. Iyo wasn't on the podium, wasn't hiding under any of the other science fair projects, and wasn't in the crater where the explosion took place. No one saw Iyo standing beside Principal McGarth.
" I'm right here, guys," Iyo said.
" I can't see him," Priscilla said.
" I'm right behind you!" Iyo shouted. " I'm right here."
Iyo shivered from the inside of his stomach. It felt like a ghost passed through him. Iyo realized it wasn't a ghost passing through him, a second year high school student walking through him. Iyo was a ghost.
" Aaaaaaaaa…" Iyo felt the same shiver run down his spine. Iyo looked at his hands. He started at his fingers—he saw the wooden gymnasium floor. " He just walked right through me. It was like I wasn't even there."
