Disclaimer: School of Rock and its characters do not belong to me. Neither do any pop culture references I may choose to make.

Author's notes: Thanks for the reviews. As promised the explanation is in this chapter. Isn't that amazing? I worked on it a bit, and decided it's semi-believable so I hope you find it the same way. I'm not positive on the medical facts I'm using. I read them in an old Nancy Drew. I honestly tried to find something that confirmed it, but no luck, so I'm going on what knowledge I have. Actually, part of it is confirmed information. And Dani is the way she is in this chapter because I like the idea of it happening and Summer simply can't be that way with her issues. And while it's not realistic, metal bars are always just lying around in parking lots. That's just how it works for this story.

ch5

"Dani!" Summer called quickly. "Dani are you all right?" Summer tried looking around to see the small girl but couldn't find her.

"I'm fine." The small voice replied. "I hid under this lean-to like thing so nothing fell on me. And I tucked my head between my knees, just like you're supposed to in an earthquake. But I don't think that was an earthquake. No I do not." As rambling continued about how she was safe, the voice got closer. "What about you and Zack? You didn't have any lean-to thing did you?"

Summer shook her head. The second Dani was close enough she was in a tight hug. "I'm fine for the most part. Zack's unconscious. I wish he would wake up. That way we could get out of here."

Dani pulled from the hug, and looked at Zack, who was still in the same position. "First we should get this rack off of him. Just flip it off with me on the count of three." Both girls grabbed an edge of the rack, though Summer didn't believe it would work. "One. Two. Three." With a bit of effort, the rack was off of Zack, lying on the floor next to him. "Now we shouldn't move him yet. There might be injuries we don't know about."

Summer nodded, still in a half-panic mode, and only half paying attention to Dani's instructions. "Dani, is there anyway to wake him up?"

Dani looked up. "I'm thinking. But I'm only eight years old. You probably have more information on the subject than me. And you have a cut right next to your eye. It's bleeding really bad."

"I do?"

"Yeah. Do you like not feel pain or something? That looks like it hurt. And if it were like a centimeter longer it would be in your eye."

Summer took her left sleeve in her right hand and tugged until it ripped. Somehow, she was no returning to normal Summer. Behind her was a rack of shoelaces. She quickly grabbed a pair and opened them. She held the shirt sleeve on the cut, then with the other hand began using the shoelaces to tie it on. "OK. Now that we have that taken care of... I know I already asked you this, but does anything hurt?" Dani shook her head. "Good. Umm..." she began thinking again, looking towards Zack. "We have to chaff his wrists. It gets blood flowing."

She quickly began work doing just that. It was after a few minutes of work that Zack's eyes fluttered open. "This is interesting. Summer, since when are you a pirate?"

Summer rolled her eyes. "Can you feel and or wiggle your fingers and toes?"

"Uh yeah. What exactly happened?"

"We don't know yet." Dani answered. "All we know is that there was a lot of shaking, the power went out and that rack fell on top of you. Knocked you right out. You shouldn't be moving." She informed, just as he began sitting up."

Zack half smiled at the eight year old acting like she was his nurse. "I have full confidence that I'm safe to move. It doesn't hurt to in any case. So what's with the pirate look?"

"Just a cut." Summer answered. "And Dani's fine. Think you can walk? We should try and get out of here. Something else might happen."

"Give me a minute. I wanna see if my head will stop pounding quite so hard." Zack replied. "Dani. Can you do something for me?"

"Sure thing. I am ready. This is really kinda cool if you think about it. I mean the dark thing with all this fallen stuff. I want to explore."

"Good. Because that's just what you're gonna do." Zack nodded." I want you, really carefully, to see if we can get to the front of the store. As soon as you know, come back here, OK? If anything happens, I want you to scream as loud as you can. And you are not going to touch anything that you don't have to OK?"

"I got it. Be back soon." Dani hurried off, and then Zack turned to Summer.

"Are you OK? Really?"

"Physically, yeah. I'm not feeling anything anyway. Dani had to point the cut out to me. And I'm better otherwise now. Just had a bit of a freak out."

"That's not exactly what the almost running mascara tells me."

"Look. You're the one that was just unconscious, I'm supposed to be worrying about you." Summer moved her hand to move a strand of his hair.

Zack gently grabbed her wrist. "You promised you would tell me Summer."

Summer looked down. "I know. I just freaked out because of the dark. I'm still not handling it well. And it didn't help that no one could help me, and I know how selfish that is..."

"No." Zack cut her off. "It's not selfish for you to want help for something like that. You aren't a selfish person. You've been working non stop for the band, when you should be working on helping yourself. That's not selfish at all."

Summer looked up. "When you put it that way it's not." She paused. "Anyway, I'm fine now, and we need to concentrate on the boy with the head injury. How's it feeling?"

"I've had worse. Let's head out and meet up with Dani." He pushed himself up. Summer did the same, but when weight was placed on her left foot, she found herself stumbling to the floor, pain coursing through the foot. Zack caught her before she hit the ground. "I thought you said you were fine."

"I must have missed that."

"I suppose it is minor..." Zack trailed off. "Lean on me."

She gratefully put on arm around his shoulder, and they began hobbling to the front of the store.

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Katie was frantically surveying the makeshift triage, seeing no sign of her sister, or best friends. But walking towards the triage now were two people she didn't want to see. "Oh no."

"What's oh no? Did you find them?" Freddy asked.

"No." Katie shook her head. Freddy gave her a look. "But we are about to get caught."

"What?" Freddy dragged her to behind an ambulance.

"My parents are here. They must have heard about what happened and came straight here."

"I knew something like this was gonna happen." Freddy groaned and ran a hand through his spiked hair, which had no effect. Suddenly though, inspiration struck. He quickly grabbed a forgotten metal bar, and thrust it into Katie's hands. "Hit me in the head with this."

"What?!"

"Hit me in the head with that. We can say I paid for a taxi to come here and it happened in the...whatever happened. Just do it before they spot us."

"Are you crazy?"

"Will you just hit me already?"

"I am not going to hit you over the head with a metal pipe. That's called assault."

"But I want you to do it Katie." He glanced around the corner quickly. "Come on. We only have so much time, and if you love me, and don't want to get caught, you will hit me over the head with that metal pipe."

"You are more delusional that Dewey!"

"Katie? Freddy?" A female voice gasped. "What are the two of you doing here?"

"We heard about what happened." Katie informed. Freddy cursed under his breath before turning around.

"And how did you get here?" Her father asked.

"Shouldn't you be worried about your other daughter?" Freddy tried to intercept.

"Freddy drove your car." Katie admitted quietly. "But it's not like he didn't know how to drive, and he is right we should be worried about Dani right now."

"We'll talk about this later with Freddy's parents." Her mother said sternly. "However right now we need to find out about Dani, and your friends. Have you seen them?"

"They're not here." Katie sighed. "Either they're still inside, or they're..."

"They're still inside." Freddy confirmed.

Katie's dad looked around. "We're going to go find out what happened. You two stay here, and stay out of trouble."

"We will dad." Katie confirmed, as her parents walked off.

Freddy sighed, closing his eyes and leaning against the ambulance. "Don't you understand the concept of lying?"

"You wanted me to hit you over the head!"

"Well now I'm really regretting that you didn't. Do you have any idea how grounded we are?"

"At least it's not arrested." Katie pointed out, tossing the pipe to the ground. "This is insane. Do you remember when the biggest problem we had was how to tie our shoes?"

"Ahh...The days before Dewey."

Katie's mother came back. "This is the information that we have." She said hurriedly. "Apparently a gas main in the basement blew, and that triggered the water main. That's what caused the problems. Now the good news is that there's a very good chance that they're alive right now. "Everyone breathed a sigh of relief. "The bad news is that there's a forty percent chance of an explosion."

Freddy closed his eyes again. "That would be bad."

There's chapter five.

Kristine- I got myself a bit paranoid with Strange and Beautiful. And Summer has been through a lot...I might start going a bit easier on her soon. And as you can see, Zack's not dead, which I would not live with myself if I did that.

t dot chick- Wow. Thank you very much first of all, and may I point out that your review was very much like a Dani conversation. Again, thank you very much.

augur-cursed-I was thinking about the officer too. I was tempted to do either that, or have them get into a car crash while they were arguing, but I decided that was a bit too much drama for one story. Up where I am in Maine, we get permits at 15 and licenses at 16, if you were born before a certain date, but if you were born after that date you get your permit at 16 and license at 17, because the law is changing.

wyverna-As much as I hate cliffhangers myself, they're just so easy to write.

Chinsky- Of course Zack is OK...I wouldn't kill him. I love Joey too...but the hair is just too much.

ProjectPink-Thanks.

Swimmerkitti- Thanks.

Rhun-Thanks.

SarahLou-I could hear them too... which is kinda freaky if you think about it, but I suppose its a good thing and means your in character.

Silverkid-No, it wasn't a good spot to stop at, but I had to have a cliffhanger somewhere.