Angel: The 2016 Powerpuff Girls is no more. HELL YEAAAAAAAAAAAH!
Powerpuff Girls was probably one of my favorite cartoons when I was growing up, and I honestly hated the 2016 one with every fiber of my being. It was so disrespectful to the old one, and I stopped watching it after episode 4 *fake coughs* Because of a certain scene that was not appropriate for ANYONE to see *fake coughs twice* I've only been keeping up with the status of the show to see when it would end, and I saw that it's most likely cancelled at this point because it hasn't been doing well. We honestly did not need this 'reboot' of Powerpuff Girls, the other one was more than enough since it went through 6 seasons AND a movie.
Everyone is standing in front of the cafeteria at school, a ribbon and balloons in front of the double doors. "Attention, students!" Principal Slimovitz announces from a megaphone. "The moment you lined up for is almost upon us."
"Come on, back up. Back up!" Randy shouts as he and Howard are blocking the rest of the students up in front. Amy keeps getting pushed slightly from her end, much to her annoyance.
"Savesies, savesies!" Howard warns them. The crowd is pushing and cheering behind them.
"As you know, last month our beloved cafeteria was destroyed by a certain mutant student who shall remain nameless-"
"He gots a name!" Bash grabs Bucky by his underwear. "It's Bucky! Says so right here in his underwears!" He points to Bucky's labeled underwear.
"No wedgies!" Slimovitz gives Bash a detention slip on his face. "See you in detention. Now, while the Ninja and Kunoichi were able to protect our students..."
"Woot, woot! Ninja! Kunoichi!" Howard cheers, pulling up his shirt to reveal a painting of the duo side-by-side on his stomach. Amy sticks out her tongue in disgust at it. She's flattered, but she didn't need to see that.
"They were unable to protect the tables, chairs, floors, and ceiling."
It was a total mess after that battle...
"But only four short weeks and one year's Twirl Team budget later..."
"That is so the boo," Theresa growls while gripping her baton.
"We are ready to open our new cafeteria!" All the students cheer. "Now, I know you've all lined up to 'score' the 'illest' table, but let me assure you they are all equally ill."
Amy rubs a temple upon hearing the awful slang.
"Wrong-o, Slim-Diggity," Howard comments smugly.
"There is one that stands above the rest. Tab-El-Dorado!" Randy's eyes shine at the thought of the table.
"Wait, I thought we settled on Shangri-Lunch," Howard points out.
"Oh, yeah, that's way better," Randy agrees with him. "Shangri-Lunch. The single greatest place to sit in all of the lunch room. Perfect proximity to the snack bar. Centrally located for hearing what's up with the what's up. And thanks to a perfectly positioned skylight, even the lighting makes you look cooler. Shangri-Lunch, here we come."
Principal Slimovitz holds up a big jar of mayo. "I hereby declare this cafeteria...a place to eat!" He grabs the jar by the lid and smashes it against the door. It's mayhem from there as the students storm inside the cafeteria. All of them are trying to claim tables. Amy slides past the students, running after Randy.
"Come on, Howard! Pick up the pace!"
Howard runs even faster than his best friends, Shangri-Lunch in his sights. He looks over his shoulder, not noticing the lunch lady passing by with a cart full of donuts.
"Howard, look out!" Randy calls out. Howard jumps over the cart, grabbing two donuts from the top and stuffing them into his mouth. He lands on his feet, looking up to see Bash running past him. He grabs a chair.
"Sit on this! Cause it's a chair. And you sit on it!" He throws the chair in front of Howard to block his way. He jumps onto the chair and slides past the bully, blowing a raspberry. Once the chair hits the table, he flies into the air, landing on top of it. Amy and Randy join the table.
"Oursies!" Howard exclaims at him, the two friends beaming with pride.
"Howard," Randy looks up at him. "That was incredible!"
"I know. Those donuts were gluten-free. Didn't think I could keep 'em down," He slightly hits his belly.
"So you can run that fast in the cafeteria, but not in actual gym or track," Amy comments with an amused smile.
"Shangri-Lunch. Oh, it's ours," Randy hugs the table. "This is the beginning of something big, Howard." He wraps an arm around his friends. "Things are about to change for us, I can feel it."
"New cafeteria rules," Slimovitz walks up to their table. "No sprinting," He hands both Randy and Amy slips. "See ya in detention."
Stevens plays the sad trombone tune as he walks past, all three of them annoyed. Randy groans at the slip.
"Man, another one?" Amy sighs, pinching her nose. She's already had detention in the past…Bash holds up the boys by their arms.
"Thanks for saving my table for me!"
"No, Bash. We got here first," Randy defends as the brunette stands up.
"Put my friends down, Bash!"
"First is for losers!" He throws the two away and Stevens comes by with the tune again. The two had landed near the trash can. Amy runs up to them.
"Bash..."
"Is a jerk," Randy finishes for him.
"Are you guys okay?" Amy asks her friends just as the principal comes back.
"Also, we now have a strict 'no soaring' policy. See you in detention," He gives all of them a slip, to Amy's disbelief.
"But I didn't even do anything!" She calls out after him as Stevens plays his instrument for the third time. Randy stuffs the detention slip he got into the instrument.
"Three times? Really, Stevens?"
The band member just scoffs, walking off. "What I wouldn't give to jam that trombone straight up Stevens' wah-wah," Howard says irritably as Amy helps them up.
"Maybe you can," Julian holds out a 20-sided die from his hand. At his table are Accordion Dave, Theresa, and Juggo. "All you have to do is roll."
Randy takes the die, Julian giggling.
"What the juice?" He stares at it.
"Cunningham! Don't talk to them or we're gonna wind up...sitting at their table," Howard has a deadpan look as the two are sitting at the table.
"Join me, my muse," Julian holds out his hand to the brunette, snapping his fingers. Accordion Dave and Juggo bring a throne for Amy to sit besides Julian as if she's his queen.
"Oh my god, you're scaring me," Amy smiles awkwardly as Julian takes her hand like a gentleman, helping her sit down to his right. Randy glares at Julian. He's caught on long ago that Julian has a crush on Amy, and thankfully she shows no signs of returning those feelings. She was his partner first and foremost, and having a relationship with someone else would just damper that. What if there was a stanked monster or a robot nearby and she was out on a date?
Not that he was jealous! He totally wasn't...
Is what he would say if he wasn't lying to himself right now.
"Welcome to Der Monster Klub!" Julian announces to the table.
"Cloob? What's a cloob?" Howard asks, but he doesn't look that interested.
"It's the better, more strangely European way of saying club," Julian explains to him.
"Ah, hate to be that kind of person," Amy speaks up as she smiles nervously. "But it's German, specifically."
"Of course you would know," Howard rolls his eyes.
"I am your Klub Master!" Julian looks away to whisper to himself. "And perhaps afterwards, Amelia will be my Klub Queen!"
"What was that?" Amy raises a brow at him, as she thought she heard him say something.
"Oh, nothing! Your roll, Accordion David," He holds out his hand that has the die. Accordion Dave takes it and rolls.
"Yes, a four. I give Bash a wedgie," He takes the Bash figurine and holds up the underwear.
"Is this one of those in-your-head games?" Howard twirls a finger near his head. "Cause I'm so not down with imagination. Smith, what's the name for it?"
"Role-play?" Amy answers, staring at him.
"Exactly! Not down! At all!"
"Every day at lunch, we play as monsters, pretending to strike fear in the hearts of jerks everywhere!" Theresa explains, holding her fists into the air.
"Like Stevens. He sad-trombones me every time I drop a juggling pin. Every time!" Juggo exclaims in exasperation. Like the one time he was juggling bowling pins on a wire, and when he dropped them, Stevens did the sad trombone.
"And Bash. He resents me for my great skill on the accordion," Accordion Dave states as once, Bash played him like an actual accordion.
"And Slimovitz," Theresa glares at the figure of him. "This is for canceling Twirl Team!" Theresa swings her baton at the figure.
"Uh, what about the Ninja or the Kunoichi?" Randy asks Julian curiously.
"In this world, there are only monsters," Julian holds up the stanked figure of himself with a creepy look. Amy recoils back a bit at the look on his face. "There is no Ninja or Kunoichi." He giggles and the two teenagers gasp sharply. Nevertheless, Howard rolls the die.
"Ha! A nine! I'm giving the Lunch Lady a swirlie!" He rubs his hands, dipping the figure of the woman in his milk carton. "Cunningham, Smith, you gotta try this game. It's the cheese!"
He looks up at Amy, both of them having skeptical looks on their faces. "Yes, come, Randy and Amelia," Julian holds out the die to the boy. "Savor the power of Der Monster Klub!"
Randy looks up at the principal, who's giving detentions for really no reason, and he did the same thing earlier to him. Then he sees Stevens and remembers his annoying trombone playing. And then he sees Shangri-Lunch, which Bash himself stole from him even though they were there first. Randy takes the die with a hesitant frown on his face.
"Eh...i-it's just a game. Right?" He glances at his friend, who looks just as skeptical as him. But then she shrugs it off. There was no way that the game could really harm anyone...
Randy rolls the die.
When I first met you
Howard holds up confetti, everyone laughing.
I thought I wouldn't like your game
Howard stomps onto the table, Slimovitz cringing.
But then I rolled the dice
Howard sits on top of the Mick figure, causing all of them to laugh.
And things will never quite be the same
Randy and Amy go for the die at the same time, recoiling their hands back in unison. He smiles at Amy as she brushes away a bang bashfully. Everyone except two gives the two teasing looks. Theresa glares at Amy, taking the figure of her and smashing it while gritting her teeth. Julian seethes while looking at the two.
Not quite friends but someday
Julian's hat is snatched away by Randy, Howard laughing at the two.
We can hang out after school
Juggo juggles some figures of the staff.
Not quite friends but someday
Everyone around the table laughs.
Actually, today I'm kind of busy
Randy shakes his hand, letting Howard blow on the die. He rolls it and everything seems to stop once there's a five. All four of them gasp at the number.
"What just happened?" Randy asks in confusion.
"You rolled the dreaded five. Tis the 5th day in a row your enemy has worn his underpants. Therefore, he turns into a...a monster!" Julian tells him.
"Huh?" Amy blinks at the boy.
"What?" Randy asks incredibly. "No, that's not how you turn into a monster. Guys, you turn into a monster when you get bummed." Amy cringes, gesturing for him to stop talking. "Like humiliated or something like that, like there's-"
A thump shakes the table slightly as Randy winces. "Ow!" He glares up at Amy, who kicked him in the leg.
"Cunningham," Howard warns nearby and he looks at the four students. He finally realizes the hints his friends have given him.
"Or...the underpants thing makes a ton of sense."
"H-He doesn't mean that," Amy bites her lip, waving her hands nervously. "He takes it back!"
"And how would you know?" Theresa retorts back to her.
"I-I don't!" Amy shakes her head rapidly. How could she make this less worse than it already looks? "But I do know that Ran tends to be a shoob sometimes because he doesn't know when to shut his mouth," She glances at Randy with an accusing look. Theresa growls at the nickname, taking the figure of Amy and then slamming it against the table. The brunette slides back a bit, a little freaked out by that reaction.
"Of course. Bummedness!" Julian smiles widely. "That's the key!" He giggles and Amy stands up, backing away.
"Oh no..." She murmurs by the smile he has. He stands up from his make-shift throne.
"My dear Klubers, forgive me for the humiliation I'm about to inflict." He stands up onto the table. "Attention, classmates. I must inform you that Juggo sleeps with a stuffed kitty named Admiral Cuddles!" And he knows this because they have sleepovers together.
"You said what happens at sleepovers stays at sleepovers!" Juggo points at the goth boy accusingly, horrified by him saying it. Everyone around the cafeteria laughs at him.
"And my good friend Accordion Dave shaves his butt."
Amy covers her mouth in slight disgust. "If I don't, it looks like I'm wearing fur underpants," He says and the brunette takes a deep breath.
"You...should really see a doctor about that," She tells him. "And I mean it."
Everyone laughs again as they point at the table, Juggo already crying.
"And Theresa..." Julian gestures to her. She drops her baton in panic.
"Julian, don't you say it!" Tears well up in her eyes.
The laughter echoes all the way into the Sorcerer's lair. He sniffs the air, a delighted smile on his face. "Ah. I have not sniffed this much simultaneous humiliation since the Great De-Pantsing of '81! The moment of my escape is nigh!"
He gathers up stank, the rat squeaking as if asking what that word means. "It means 'near.' Now back up. You're standing too nigh." He releases the stank upwards, laughing evilly.
"Like none of you have ever tasted it before!" Theresa defends in tears, the whole cafeteria laughing at the table. Julian just stands there with a proud look on her face. Amy opens her mouth, horrified by what he's done.
Green comes out from the vents and Amy steps to the side. The three humiliated students all turn into monsters and everyone runs off in a panic.
"Yes! It's working," Julian declares in wonder. "Go, my Klub. The power of monster is yours!"
"That's right. The ad should say For sale: 200 gently twirled batons," Principal Slimovitz is on the phone in his office.
Monster Theresa suddenly storms into the office with a screech. He turns around in fear, looking at the receiver. "I'm gonna have to call you back." He hangs up and lets out a terrified scream.
Stevens is practicing the sad trombone in the band room when the wall is broken open by Monster Juggo. He gasps at the monster.
People scream in fear as they run away from the cafeteria. "Monster or no monster, I ain't giving up this table!" Bash gestures to Shangri-Lunch. Monster Dave steps up behind him, and his friends run off screaming. Monster Dave growls behind him. "Hey! You're makin' weird sounds."
The monster grabs Bash while Julian is just laughing at the chaos. Monster Dave then starts playing Bash like an accordion, like the bully did to him in the past.
"Bash no likey!"
"Epic brain-fart, Cunningham," Howard places a hand on his shoulder. "Epic. Brain. Fart."
"You just had to tell them how people turn into monsters," Amy crosses her arms at him. "Why did you even say anything?"
"It slipped out!" He defends as they watch Monster Dave. "We have to stop them."
"Or you could just let it happen. The monsters get to monster and we get Shangri-Lunch back," He gestures to the now-empty glorious table.
"Howard!" Amy exclaims at him furiously. "We can't just leave them like this, it's not right."
"No, Howard! She's right, we have to fix this," Randy jumps over Howard, Amy running off to the bathroom.
"Oh, you're out of the Klub," Howard points at them, but they could care less. Randy pulls out his mask and jumps behind the counter while Amy slides into the bathroom. Both of them come out of their hiding spots at the same time, rushing towards Monster Dave. He's shaking Bash in his hands.
"You stupid jerk! Put me down!"
"Smoke bomb!" The two ninjas shout, a cloud of pink and red smoke appear. The two are standing on the tables.
"Alright, I know Bash can be a jerk, but that doesn't mean he deserves this," Kunoichi gestures to the situation, looking at the monster.
"Dave, drop the-"
Julian comes in and grabs onto Ninja's leg. "No, Ninja. Don't stop Dave's rampage."
"Sorry, Julian," Ninja grabs his leg back. "Nobody gets monstered on our watch."
"Stay here," Kunoichi warns the goth boy before they jump, landing in front of the monster. "Dave, we ask again, to put him down-"
Julian crawls over to the girl and clings onto her leg instead. "No, Kunoichi, no!"
She sighs slowly as she looks at him, glancing at Ninja. "We've got a clinger on our hands..."
"Would you stop?" Ninja gently kicks him to a chair, grabbing some wrapping and trapping Julian in the chair. "Ninja Wrap!"
"It's not fair!" Julian protests from the chair. "You're ruining it. You're ruining everything!" He falls to the side, sobbing. He lands in a box which covers his head and the Sorcerer catches wind of it.
"Four monsters for the price of one," There's a whirlpool of stank around him. "I love a bargain." He chuckles as he releases it upwards.
Kunoichi and Ninja crawl onto a table, flipping towards the monster and Bash. Together, they kick him, releasing the bully.
"Bash, run!" Ninja shouts to him as Monster Dave gets back up.
"You run!" He calls out, much to Kunoichi's annoyance. He gets snatched up by Monster Dave again before the monster runs through the wall, getting away. Both Ninja and Kunoichi have deadpan looks on their faces over what just happened.
"Is...is he serious right now?" Ninja asks his partner.
"Yeah, I don't...I don't know how someone can be that defiant," Kunoichi shakes her head slowly.
"Got the table back," Howard speaks up from the table. "You want in?"
"If you couldn't tell, we are too busy dealing with-!"
An explosion occurs behind them, interrupting Kunoichi. They turn around to see that Julian himself has turned into a monster. He crawls around and goes out the door.
"Well, that," Kunoichi gestures to where he left.
They burst through the doors, running down the hallway to go after Monster Julian. He bumps into a student using the waterfall, jumping above the gym doors to make a way in. The two jump through the giant hole, landing in the dark gym. The only source of light was from the hole that was just made.
"Ninja Glow Balls!" Ninja throws them onto the ground, and they land in the middle of the gym. The gym is now covered in spiderwebs by Monster Julian. Trapped in it are Bash, Principal Slimovitz, and Stevens high above the ground.
"Hey! Check it out. I'm stuck in some kinda sticky string thing that came out of a spider's butt!" Bash says and Kunoichi sighs, facepalming herself.
"It's a web," Principal Slimovitz corrects him. "Sweet school board, I need to have a talk with the Science Department. Oh, also GET ME DOWN!"
Something screeches, dashing behind the two. "What the juice?" Ninja turns his head, seeing nothing. Kunoichi sees it pass by.
"Uhh...I think we're in trouble," She murmurs as Ninja holds up another Glow Ball. They both turn around to see Monster Julian standing behind them. It growls in their faces, scaring the two.
"Yikes!"
"Holy cheese!"
They jump away...only to land near the web and slow down. "Why are we not landing?"
Kunoichi struggles in the web, trying to get something free. "That jump scare made us land in his web, didn't it?" She closes her eyes, chastising herself for not realizing how close and sticky the web was. Monster Julian hisses as he makes his way towards the two.
"Listen, Monster Klub," Ninja starts off.
"Klub," Monster Theresa tells him.
"Kloob," Ninja rolls his eyes as Kunoichi glances away in slight annoyance. "We know that you feel powerless and weak and picked on. But mutating yourselves into hideous rampaging monsters is never the answer. If you do this, you're as bad as they are."
"I know that it's not fair. Bullying is normal to someone like Bash," Kunoichi jerks her head to him.
"Hey, she said my name! That means I'm important!" Bash shouts nearby.
"I'm talking," She gives him a look to keep quiet. "Anyway, it sucks. And there are...others out there who feel that way too."
Ninja glances at her, wondering if she was bullied herself. "But becoming the bully isn't the proper way to improve yourselves. And I bet that eventually, you're gonna feel pretty bad about what you've done. Because violence never solves violence."
Ninja smiles up at her and she returns the gesture. Then it turns into shock as Monster Julian shoots more webs at Ninja.
"No! It came out of his butt..."
Kunoichi manages to dig into her wrist, slowly pulling out a knife. "Now we finish the game," Monster Julian rolls the die.
"A four?" Ninja gasps and Kunoichi's eyes widen. "That's wedgies. Everyone's getting wedgies!"
"If I could just move my hand to the right angle...!" Kunoichi looks up at her left hand. Every monster goes up towards their tormentor. Monster Theresa roars in the principal's face.
"Please, I'll find the money for Twirl Team. Just leave my skivvies alone," He begs in fear.
"I got it!" Kunoichi beams, slicing her left side free. Then she does the same with her right side, soaring towards the ground. Ninja grunts before red spikes burst out of the web.
"Ninja...Finger...Slicey Thingies!"
"Is it really that hard to say Ninja Spikes?" Kunoichi looks at him, hands on her hips.
"Says the one with web in her hair," Ninja retorts back and she looks at her braid, gagging as it's covered in webs.
"Gross!"
"Time for a bulk de-stanking," Ninja lands next to Kunoichi, looking up at the monsters. He then turns to her. "How do you destank an entire Klub?"
"What's something that they all hold in common?" She asks him, combing through her hair to get rid of the webs.
He gasps as he realizes where she's going with this. There's only one consistent thing that the Klub holds most dear. They look at the red die in Monster Julian's hand.
"Twenty-sided die. It's our roll, Julian."
"Stop them!" Monster Julian orders, Monster Dave stretching his arm towards them. They dodge in opposite directions before jumping onto his arm. Monster Juggo throws bowling pins at the two and Kunoichi pulls out her fans.
"Yah!" She throws them and they go spinning, slicing off all the pins. The pieces land in the web as she catches her fans. Kunoichi releases her hair and swings it towards a big piece. Ninja wraps an arm around her shoulder as she jumps off, swinging upwards.
Monster Theresa throws a baton at the two. "Ninja Stretch!" Ninja grabs it with his scarf, using both the scarf and the baton to fly. Kunoichi, suddenly feeling inspired, spins her hair around. Then she flies into the air with her long locks.
"Ninja Helicopter Baton/Hair Flying Maneuver!"
Ninja pulls out his sword, using it to knock the die out of Monster Julian's hand. Everyone sees the die fall onto the ground. Ninja and Monster Julian turn to each other before racing to get to it first. Ninja is first and is about to destroy it when Monster Julian shoots a web at his leg.
Kunoichi lands on the floor and snatches the die with her hair. She throws it up into the air and throws both her fans at it. She watches as the two weapons meet, slicing the die to pieces. She holds up her hands and catches her tessen, throwing them into her wrists.
The stank exits the die and all the monsters, turning them back into baffled students stuck in the web.
The Sorcerer watches the stank disappear, his orbs landing nearby. "Next time, Ninja and Kunoichi. Next time!"
The rat crawls onto his shoulder with a squeak before he slaps the animal off. Ninja lands next to his partner, grinning behind his mask as he holds out his fist. She grins back and together they fist bump for the job well done.
"Hey, you there. Help me, I'm stuck," Dave calls out and they look up at the 7 people stuck.
"What happened? I don't remember anything," Julian looks around in confusion.
"Nothing? So you don't remember how to become a monster?"
"Well, I remember that," Julian looks away. Kunoichi smacks him slightly on the head.
"Ow!"
"We both know how it happens, you don't ask him that," She scolds him. Ninja groans in annoyance.
"You wear the same underpants five days in a row."
Kunoichi gags a bit, but they'll leave it at that. No matter how disgusting it is. "Ha, you keep on believin' that, buddy. Smoke bomb!" He turns around and disappears. Kunoichi coughs from the smell of farts, waving a hand in front of her face.
"Uh, Ninja. Scuse me? You gonna, uh...you gonna cut us down?" Slimovitz asks, getting her attention. Stevens plays the sad trombone once again.
"Oh sure. He tells people how to turn into monsters and I get stuck with his mess," Kunoichi turns around, grabbing her tessen. "He's just lucky this all worked out...alright everyone, hold still."
"See, this is why getting the perfect table is so important," Howard states to his friends while they have a slice of cake in front of them. "You sat with the weirdoes for ten minutes and you started a monster uprising!"
"So I accidentally told them a Ninja secret," Randy looks away sheepishly. "The important thing is I fixed it. We stopped the Klub."
"You owe me for cutting those people down, by the way," Amy looks up at him. "I had to listen to Stevens play the trombone the whole time. But at least the Klub seemed to have learned their lesson, even if they don't remember what happened," She giggles a bit.
"Sorry," Randy smiles a bit apologetically. "But thank you, and another important thing is, you didn't get hurt."
"Heh," She blushes slightly, brushing away a bang.
"No," Howard cuts in. "The important thing is, while you two were running around like shoobs-"
"He's the one who shoobed it up," Amy points to Randy.
"Whatever. I got us Shangri-Lunch."
"That you did, Big H," Randy places a hand on his shoulder. "That you did." A basketball suddenly hits their table, and they look up. Because of the damage to the gym, they had to move basketball practice inside the cafeteria. And the net is right above their table...
"People, if we're gonna make this Lunch-Nasium work while the gym's being repaired, we're gonna need some rules," Principal Slimovitz announces from his megaphone nearby. "Basketballs on the left, meatballs on the right!"
The three clink sodas together before drinking. A basketball lands on their slices of cake, spraying them in the faces. Amy stands up, looking at her dirty clothes with a sigh.
"No standing up in the court," The principal gives her a detention slip.
"Oh come on!"
"I can't believe after all of that, we still have to serve these hours of detention," Amy deadpans as school is now over. She's in the middle of Randy and Howard, a hand to her cheek. The teacher is reading a magazine, paying no mind to them. "My parents are just gonna love hearing about this..."
"Yeah, but at least you aren't alone," Randy points out from her left side.
"You shoobs got 4 hours! I only have 2," Howard jerks a thumb to himself.
"And besides, it's not just us," Amy gestures to the students way in the back. Bash is giving someone a noogie. "This is gonna be so boring..."
"You brought your Nomicon, didn't you?" Randy whispers to her, making sure no one's overhearing.
"Oh, don't tell me you two are gonna spend your time by going into those stupid books," Howard facepalms himself.
"I would, but I can always do that later," She leans back in her seat, crossing her arms. "I can just imagine my parents' faces whenever they get back home."
"What is with your parents, anyway?" Randy asks her and she turns to him. "Spending all of their time away? What the juice is up with that?"
"McFist always chooses them to go out of town to deal with stuff that he either doesn't wanna do or is too busy to go there himself," She explains to the boy. "It's always business trips or meetings, introducing other companies about McFist products. They're always off in other states or countries that I hardly see them anymore...both of them are manager consultants, so it's always work, work, work."
"So they've been in the McFist Family..." Randy frowns a bit.
"Ever since we moved here, yes," She rolls her eyes. "I mean, I obviously don't like it, but I don't have a choice but to deal with it," The brunette has an annoyed look on her face. She'd rather have herself and her family associated with anyone else, but it pays the bills and helps Amy get groceries...
"Hm..." He looks away. Now that he thinks about it, he doesn't know much about her school life before she moved here... "Just curious, what was your old school like?"
"Hm?" She blinks before hearing snoring. They turn to Howard, who has fallen asleep a while ago listening to them. "I mean...it was like any other school. Well, we didn't have monsters or an evil Sorcerer around, but...it wasn't that bad most of the time."
"You got bullied like the Klub, huh?" He has a sympathetic look on his face. She nods slowly, smiling weakly.
"Yeah, but I dealt with it. Over time, I learned to have more of a backbone, but it still sucked. It was mostly because of my looks that I was even a target in the first place."
He tilts his head at her, thinking about something. "You don't look that bad to me."
"Ha. Thanks," She laughs at him and he smiles. "But in all honesty, I look like a nerd. At least I'm not ashamed of it. It's actually really surprising that you and Howard made an effort to be my friends...well, or should I say just you at first."
"Are you kidding me? I don't let it bother me," Randy tells her gently. "You're a cool person no matter what you look like."
"...That's really nice of you to say, Ran," She smiles softly and his face turns red, eyes wide. He chuckles sheepishly, rubbing the back of his neck.
"T-That's what friends do! So, um...what do you think of Julian?"
"Julian?" Amy asks in confusion. "He's sort of creepy, but he's nice to me...why?"
"It's cause he's jealous," Howard murmurs loud enough for Randy to hear, earning a punch in the arm from the taller boy.
"Just curious," Randy smiles widely at her, though it's somewhat strained. The obese boy glares at him, rubbing his arm. "I mean, you don't like him, right?"
"Not really?" She tilts her head at his behavior. "And not especially in that way..."
Randy sighs in relief for both her answer and that he doesn't have to worry about Julian...