(A/N: Hey all, sorry it's been so long, but here it is, as promised, and in full working condition. ;-)

"Hello? Anybody out there? Helllllllooooooooo!?!"

"Thomas! Stop that!"

"But I like the echo!"

"It's annoying."

"Sorry."

"There it is!"

The group did a domino effect as Diana and Amanda stopped suddenly outside a large oak door. HIS door.

"Well, knock already."

"What? Knock on the door of a psychopath murderer? Are you NUTS?!?!"

"Fine then. I will."

"Sara! DON'T YOU-"

"I'VE BEEN EXPECTING YOU."

Lauren spun around.

"Ok, WHO said that?"

"I DID." Said a voice over the P.A.

Tom smacked his hand to his head.

"The last security camera! I forgot to GOO! it!"

"COME IN ICKLE FRESHIES. I HAVE ICE CREAM."

The great oak door creaked open, ever so slowly.

"Don't listen, it's the principal!" Tom said frantically.

"I HAVE VALVE OIL."

"Valve oil?

"Tom, no! Do not give in! Remain strong!"

"I HAVE FRESH VANDOREN REEDS, SIZE THREE."

"Size three? Really?"

Lauren took this opportunity to smack Diana upside the head. Amanda flinched.

"Ow..I mean, you cannot bribe us principal!"

"WANT TO BET ON THAT?"

"Er, now that you mention it..no."

"STOP THIS CHARADE AND REPORT TO MY OFFICE. NOW!"

The team backed away.

"GAH! THAT'S IT! MINIONS, ATTACK!"

"Ah! Look! It's that creepy lunch lady!" Amanda shrieked.

"And some other guy!" Tom pitched in.

The two minions advanced, mop and a plate of tuna fish surprise at their disposal.

"Oh no, not the tuna fish." Sara whispered, closing her eyes.

The freshmen were now in a tight pack, crushed in a corner as the minions advanced.

"Please, just make it quick." Lauren remarked, covering her face.

Then suddenly, the most unexpected thing happened.

Danielle flew in from stage right, swinging from a rope, Tarzan style.

"Here I come! Ahhhh!"

Danielle swung down, knocking the mop out of the janitor's hands. Suddenly the hallway was filled with the remaining members of Danielle's team.

"You'll never defeat us," The lunch lady sneered, "we're minions!"

Asa then calmly walked up and picked the tuna sandwich off the plate. Looking the lunch lady of doom square in the eye, he took a big bite.

Cue the collective gasp.

"But..but..how?" The lunch lady sputtered.

"He lives!" Amanda cried.

"It's a miracle!" Sara proclaimed.

"Wow." Val added helpfully.

"So, Danielle! What are you doing here?" Diana asked.

Danielle glanced at the freshman as she swung by again, but didn't answer, because the janitor chose that moment to get his second wind.

"Allow me." Chris said.

"Of course." Diana remarked, bowing.

Chris then picked up the janitor's fallen mop and stuck it in his face.

"Agh!"

"There." She glanced over at the lunch lady, who was attempting to slink away.

"I don't think so!"

"Wait! Allow me." Clarinet Sarah said.

"AHHHH!"

With the two minions lying prone and unconscious, Danielle's team huddled around the freshmen.

"You never answered us," Lauren began. "What are you guys doing here?"

Sarah came over and put her arms around the two clarinet freshmen.

"Come on, you're our freshmen!" She glanced over to Danielle.

"Oh yes, it was our duty to protect you." Danielle said with barely contained laughter.

Val put on a joking face.

"We simply looooove our freshmen!"

Everyone laughed.

"WHAT'S SO FUNNY?" Boomed the P.A.

"Oh yes. I forgot about him." Danielle stood up straight. "Troops! Move out!"

Then the rescue team marched single file into the principal's office, and closed the door. Amanda, Lauren, Diana, Sara, and Tom all crowded around the cracks of the door itself.

"Ahh! Ah! No, nooooo! Please! Don't! That doesn't bend that way!!!!!"

The freshmen snickered in unison, and backed away as Danielle and Mr. Cree threw the principal out on his behind.

"You can't do this!" The pathetic excuse for an administrator wailed. "I'm the principal! I'm giving you all detention." He turned to the band director. "Especially you! Wahhh!"

The living Mr. Cree shook his head. "Oh please, at this point, that's just sad."

* ********************* (A/N: And so all of bandom was free, free! from the terrors of the evil principal. Well, at least for now. Oh yeah, anyone know of a good principal?

Hope you enjoyed this, I know I had fun. Check out some of my other stories while you're out there, and oh yeah, review! (Or my bunny will rip out your spleen.) :-D

-Cheers, Silinde