Chapter Four: Of Fritos and Glowing Red Eyes

The house is quiet. Not a single creature was stirring, especially Katie. After all it was 6:00 a.m.

Ping: sighs She'll be late if she doesn't get up… Jumps on the bed and clears throat Get up please… clears throat again NOW!

Katie: Wow, hey! Um…what's up?

Ping: Oh, not much…just that you'd best get up.

Katie: Eh? Oh right…school… looks at Ping and throws him out of the room with telekinesis

Ping: Heeyy! Katie just closes the door

A loud beeping noise pierced the dark room, causing a cat and person to jump in surprise.

Laurie: Where's the fire! Looks at alarm clock Oh… The small black object with blood red numbers and an annoying sound suddenly blows up Oops…Brock…I need you…

In the early hours of the morning the entire house was deadly silent, except for in Vinnie's room where a yellow duck sat in the middle of the floor watching TV.

Vinnie: Quack!

Vin's Dad: Hey, stop quacking at the TV and get ready.

Vinnie: Looks at the strange man, blinks, waves his wing, and then turns back to the TV Quack.

Vin's Dad: Blinks, sighs, and walks on

School, 8:05

Everyone in the classroom was silent except for the sound of pencils scratching on paper. When a loud bang erupts it's followed by an exclamation and a string of words in many languages.

Laurie: Ouch! Sorry everyone…Kinda ran into the door there… rubs head

Laurel: Guides Laurie to here seat Move on people, nothing to see here, everything's ok.

Class: Chuckles in unison, then they all start talking to each other

Mr. Kaiser: SIT NOW! Everyone abruptly stops talking and turns to their work

Laurel: (to Laurie) Tough crowd… Laurie only nods

Mr. Kaiser than takes his own seat and starts typing on his computer. Leaving both girls clueless as to what they 'should' be doing.

Laurel: playing with a piece of lint Boring…

Laurie: twirling her pencil while making various objects outside explode while looking at her brooch Yep…

Laurel looks at Mr. Kaiser notices he's wearing sunglasses, shrugs, turns invisible and walks out the door

Laurie: Blinks and quietly mumbles Gee thanks…

Katie slips into class alters the teacher's memory slightly to make it seem like she was only returning from the bathroom

Brock/Vinnie: Show off…

Katie: Big smile Thank you! Now, what are we doing?

Brock: Um, nothing…the sub gave us a free day.

Vinnie: nods Quack.

Several people look at him, but he shrugs it off. No one seems to notice the look of pleas on a passing students face

Katie: Well, I'm bored… makes her pencil float

Brock: Fiddles with his knife

Vinnie: Stares at the door where he sees TJ run by with a terrified look on his face TJ!

Class: Looks to the door to see many stampeding kids running past, each is angry oo…hehehe…

Brock: Poor TJ, I knew him well…

Katie: Poor TJ I hardly knew you…

Vinnie: Poor spork…That crowd'll destroy you. TJ you'd better hide it!

Ping: pokes his head out of Katie's backpack Spork? shakes his head Uh, uh I don't wanna know.

Lunch

Katie: sigh I am even border than I was in 1, and that's saying something!

Brock: I dunno, the mishap in 2nd was good…

Laurel: Hello everybody! Anyone else notice the teachers' behavior today?

Everyone: Blinks, then in several languages No…

Mr. McMurry: Strange group of kids…

Laurie: gasps Mr. McMurray! Your eyes are glowing! everyone turns to him and gasps

Mr. McMurray: Um…they've always been like this?

Everyone: blinks Oh, ok then… they return to their boredom as Mr. McMurray walks off

Ping: Okay…Vinnie why are you laughing?

Vinnie: Quack! laughs so hard he falls off his chair

Everyone: looks at the newly formed rock in front of them Ri-ght… So, anyway…

A random kid comes in and trips over the rock, falling on top of Ping

Ping: Ouch! Get off!

Random Kid: You can talk! promptly faints

Katie: Oh boy..

Mr. McMurray: trips over the rock/boy combo What's this? And why is there a cat in my room?

Everyone: Uh….

Mr. McMurray: Glances at them, then advances

Katie: Uh, time to go?

Ping: Yes, lets…

Laurel/Laurie: Right behind ya! a quack sounds from the rock

Brock: Now would be good…

Brock waits for a second while Vinnie changes back into human form and then they quickly follow where the rest had gone with McMurray and a few other teachers following them

Ping: I do believe we're being followed.

Laurel: What's going on?

Katie: Dunno, but it's freaky.

Laurie: Yeah, lets go to the courtyard. We'll loose them in the crowd.

Vinnie: All right lets go.

Brock: We still go 20 minutes…so why not?

Courtyard

Laurie: Ok…maybe this wasn't one of my best ideas… looks around at the many teachers in the courtyard, and lack of kids as well

Katie: Ping? Do you have any idea what's going on?

Brock: Yes, do tell…

Laurel: Uh…he's gone…

Everyone: Great…

Laurie: Guess we're in for a fight…

Katie: Remember, some of them are slightly ok…don't kill them.

Brock: Under his breath All….

Vinnie fires an arrow at the feet of Mr. Carlson, causing him to trip up and fall into the milk machine. Of course it falls causing an explosion

Laurie: Mumbles Huh, I coulda done that…

Laurel, while invisible, was making sure she only hit the teachers she didn't have, or else would end up getting in serious trouble. Whether consciously or not, everyone she attacked, at some point, hit some type of soda machine

Katie: ((Laurel! I think you found the problem…There's a mind control device in the Frito dispenser!)) Keeps a random teacher away

Vinnie: I knew that thing was evil!

Brock: I'll take care of it! Hurries to the machine and melts it down to scrap metal

Laurie: And just to be sure…. causes a small explosion, making Brock jump back in alarm

All Teachers: Uh…what happened, where are we?

Brock: S'okay all….'cept maybe the courtyard… A strange group showed up and helped out.

Intercom: All students, due to extensive damage to the school courtyard, the school will be closed for the week.

Katie: Looks around Heh…oops

Vinnie: Oh fun…another boring week.

Laurel: Lets have a party!

All: Huh?

Laurel: Maybe not 'party' exactly, but a get together it could be fun…

Laurie: Yeah, If we had something to do.

Brock: I'm sure we'll think of something…

To be continued…..