The Millennium Penguin sailed down the Senior Wing with two cheerleaders hot on its tail.
"Chewie, when can we make the jump to 5 mph?" asked Hanna impatiently.
"Grr-rrr-ah-ah!"
"What d'you mean the 5 mph isn't working?!"
"Um... that's bad." added Gretchen.
Hanna flung herself under the desk to try to fix its faulty motor. After pulling out and putting back several wires, Hanna felt the ship jolt. Hanna raised her head to the main deck.
"That wasn't a blaster jolt. What was that?"
"Rrr-chee-neh."
"Aww crud."
Directly in front of them were a few scattered freshmen. A biology class had just let out. Once the Penguin turned the corner, the hallway would be almost completely blocked with them.
Hanna looked back at the gaining cheerleaders and the Faculty Cruiser, a big teachers' desk that was pulled be four cheerleaders.
"You know what, Chewie?" Chewkindy looked at her apprehensively. "We're goin' in."
"But Hanna," Chii-3P0 chimed in, "the odds of successfully navigating a freshmen field are... really, really bad!"
"Never tell me the odds!" yelled Hanna.
Princess Gretchen smirked. "Thy said that in the movie!"
"The faculty wouldn't follow us in. C'mon, Chewie. We can out maneuver them."
Chewkindy growled something about not wanting to scratch up the desk but willingly turned the corner. Just as expected, the science hall was flooded with freshmen. Hanna gulped nervously and adjusted herself to take the controls.
* * *
One of the cheerleaders slowed her desk until it was adjacent with Prucnell's cruiser.
"Uh... Your Evilness?"
Prucnell sighed. "What?"
"Like the Millennium Penguin like went into the like freshmen field.
"That is not my concern."
"So you like want us to like go in there too?"
"Yes. I want that desk."
"Like whatever you say."
* * *
Smaller freshmen pelted the exterior of the Penguin as Chewkindy and Hanna did their best to avoid the bigger ones.
"Hanna, I think we're gonna die." said Gretchen.
"No, we won't." Hanna said absently. She took the opportunity to dive down the obscure hallway that led to the back of the Library. She set it down in Agnes' office. "Now, we wait."
* * *
"Like where'd they go?" the head cheerleader demanded. "A desk like that small couldn't have like vanished!"
"We like lost them, Commander."
The head cheerleader sighed. "I guess I'm gonna hafta tell Miss Prucnell."
* * *
"You what?!"
"We like lost them."
Prucnell sighed. "You're being stripped of your rank and are hereby sentenced to the Scrabble Club!"
The ex-cheerleader fainted.
Prucnell turned to another skank. "Commander, find me that desk."
"Yes, your like Scariness."
Prucnell looked at the cheerleaders pulling the desk. "Why are we going so slow?"
* * *
"We're gonna just hang on until they go upstairs."
Chewkindy had hooked a tow-cable to the Faculty Cruiser, and the Penguin was being dragged along behind it.
"Then where will we go?" asked the princess.
"Not sure yet. We should end up somewhere around the cafeteria..." Hanna flicked on the tablet computer they'd nicked off a teacher. "Well that's interesting..."
"What?" squeaked Chii-3P0
"Sandra Rodrizzian. She was in my freshman journalism class and my sophomore bio class. I wonder what she's doing up in the Balcony... That'd be a good place to hide, anyway."
"Grah-teh-wah? Chee-no-ahrr-weh."
Gretchen and Chii-3P0 simultaneously looked at Hanna for a translation.
"She said: 'Why not? We've got nothing else to lose." And she's right."
Gretchen sighed. "Whatever works."
The group waited until the Faculty Cruiser started to ascend the stairs to the Attendance Office. Chewkindy bit through the tow-cable and the Penguin sailed off through the Auditorium Lobby to the opposite staircase.
