Chapter 6: Battle of the Bands Elimination
December 28, 2009; 8:00 am
After months of pratices, the day came for the Battle of the Bands Elimination. Summer, being the bossy band manager told them to wake up early andto get dressed. Billy brought clothes. Simple teen clothes but some of them has instructions like Zack's clothes is supposed to be a black polo with the top two buttons unbuttoned and at the back saying "Read this then promise me you'll kill yourself afterwards." together with a torned pair of pants. Freddy wore a black loose shirt with one sleeve ripped and the other should be half folded because it's a long sleeve then his pants are supposed to be khaki colored but Billy sprayed it with some blue and black graffiti paint saying "I'm Spazzy McGee". Lawrence wore a red polo shirt with a black and green necktie and a black cape that said "Good Knuckle Crack" like before coupled with a white knee length shorts and chucks. Katie wore a leather jacket which at the back said "If you want to know what an idiot looks like, look at the mirror" with a simple white spaghetti top and boots. She also put on a torned pants. Then Alicia had a white cowboy hat and a sleeveles pink and white jacket with a pink fitted top with a mini skirt with beads and sequins forming a sentecnce "Stickitodamaniosis!" she just put on a step in for her feet. Marta wore a bolero, blue tube, and a skirt with chucks and white and pink knee length socks. Tomika dressed up with a violet blouse with glitters saying "Teacher's Pet? Forget it." then she wore stockings and knee length skirt with red chucks. Dewey wore a bussinessman jacket with matching green shirt that said "Pick us!" and an above knee lenghth of shorts with matching black school shoes. The band were the ones who were to do their fashion stuff first. The groupies and Billy did the make up and accessories. They highlighted Freddy's spikes with blue dye. Zack, who hasn't had a haircut since summer were left like that. Lawrence had his hair done green. Katie had the tips of her untidy ponytail violet. They fountained Marta's hair and cornrowed Tomika's. Billy tied half of Alicia's hair and left the other side untied. Then they put on their accesories like wristbands, chained wallets, earrings and the girls applied some light make up while the others put some henna's that said things like "Shove my drumsticks down your throat!" on Freddy's left arm. On Lawrence said "Mr. CooL", on Zack "We're on tour!" and on Dewey was "Sorry. No autographs."
(A/N: I just want to clarify what they wear!)
Then when everybody was fully dressed up (band, roadies, securities, groupies etc.) with their high voltage clothes they rode to the Johnson Ridges Stage. Summer told them the list of the bands they'll compete with and some bands she mentions, they give a comment.
"So the bands we're about to compete are: The Klux," said Summer as she read the list on her clipboard.
"They totally suck dude!" said Zack and gave Freddy a high five
"Senotsenhir" continued Summer
"They're chicks who totally mess up!" said Alicia
"Please don't interrupt me," pleaded Summer "guys give you comments later. So then there's Clap Your Hands, Dodong Supershine, Start and Reset, Pink Punky Pancakes, Rock Teachers, No Vacancy, Amoeba Takers, One Shot, Burning Ice Cold, NutriFacts, Rock 24/7, i Rockdotcom, Maggot Eater, Platinum Album, Anti-Nerds, Goth Death Metal, Younger Zeppelin, Shut Up, Crazy Doggs, My Favorite Rock Band, Rockin' Zone, Euthanasia, 50/50, Jailed Rockers, Rock's Hostages, Slam Drunk, and Shit Stains. Now you can give your comments." she finished and suddenly they all together said their own comments. "SHUT UP!" yelled Summer "ONE BY ONE! Zack go on."
Then they continued giving their comments one by until they arrived at the Battle of the Bands Elimination. They met the band though some made friends with them but they just ignored some of them. Then a group of some eleventh graders went to them and said "Rock Teachers" said one of them and he held out a hand to Freddy who shook it. "School of Rock, Freddy Jones, Drummer" he replied .
"Odd. Kevin Frederick Clark Alexander Jones too" said the boy "drummer. This is our band. She's the Bassist, Rebecca Black, lead guitar's Joey Sunnyham, keyboard's Robert Chai, back up singers Marti Hassan, Tamika Allen, Ali Hail and lead vocals and guitar Kewey Tinn. We're from Horace Blue" he said as he indicated his bandmates.
They oddly looked like the band. Kevin has a spiky blonde hair like Freddy and they both played the drums. Rebecca and Katie were both female bassist with surnames as colors. Joey and Zack were talking about their last name. Zack having Mooneyham and Joey having Sunnyham and they were also lead guitarists. Robert and Lawrence has the same last name pronunciation and they are both keyboard players. Marti has just made a difference on her and Marta's name by a letter and they're both blonde and small. Tamika and Tomika differ from a letter on their name too. Only Tamika braided her hair. Ali and Alicia just had some few letters in their names. They're both small, braced, and small too. Apparently, Dewey didn't know about this so there...
"Rock Teachers!" said the announcer
"Guy's that's us! C'mon!" said Kevin "See ya!" and the Rock Teachers quickly went to the stage for the Elimination. They sang a good song but they were awesome. Kevin told Freddy that it was their first time. The School of Rock made friends with the Rock Teachers. Finally, School of Rock was called and they played "First Day Back At School" which they perfected. They finished it with triumphant faces. Then after the Eliminations, the top 15 were:
Top 15: Shit Stain
Top 14: No Vacancy
Top 13: Senotsenhir
Top 12: i Rockdotcom
Top 11: Rock 24/7
Top 10: NutriFacts
Top 9: 50/50
Top 8: Clap Your Hands
Top 7: Burning Ice Cold
Top 6: Dodong Supershine
Top 5: Start and Reset
Top 4: Pink Punky Pancakes
Top 3: Rock Teachers
Top 2: The Klux
Top 1: School of Rock
The judges told them that the highest ranker will perform first in the semi finals then they will choose only 7 bands. The grand winnes will recieve fifty thousand dollars plus a six-month friday gigs at The Basement. Upon hearing these the School of Rock jumped with victory. They also bid the Rock Teachers goodbye. Then they went home to the pad to celebrate. They're already sure that they can win at the semi-finals. When they arrived at the pad, the boys played their Playstation Portables and Playstation Twos (except Billy who thinks that those toys are just silly boxes which made Gordon angry by the way) while the girls decided to order some italian food and the boy's request -non stop Double Supreme Cheese Deluxe To The Highest Level Of Roasted Spicy Beef. While the boys were playing Midnight Club Dub Edition, THAW (Tony Hawk's American Wasteland), Tekken 5 and Need For Speed Underground Black Edition, with their PSPs and PS2s the girls went off to the entertainment room and played Karaoke Interaction...something like you read the lyrics, but your company plays the sound. Though the understudies are pretty good, still no one can top the original (they still entertained themselves even though two of their friends ignored each other). They ate immediately when the food came. After that, Katie went up to Summer's room to talk to Summer privately who was ironing her clothes for tomorrow. Unforunately this is what happened...
-----Outside the open door of Summer's room-----
Katie knocked on the door after some hesitations. She gathered up all the courage she has right now just to talk to her bestfriend.
"Summer..." started Katie nervously afraid that Summer might shout at her "I hea-" but before she could finish...
"What do you want Bass Player?" she asked her while she continued ironing her pants. Katie who is currently dumbstrucked by what she answered her said:
"Nothin'" she replied
"Then what else are you doin' here? Just go." she said firmly as she started to fold her clothes. Katie can't do anything just followed her and went out Summer's room. Time passed and she drifted off to sleep on the couch since that incident with Summer a while ago. Then she felt someone holding her. She opened her eyes a bit to see who's holding her. She saw a blond spiked hair guy. Freddy. She saw Freddy look at her and said:
"God, your heavy Kay!" he teased her as he shifted a bit her carry
"Then drop me down Jones!" she answered her
"No." he answered her firmly
"And why is that?" she asked
"Nothin'" he answered her and he opened the door of Katie's room immediately. He laid her on her bed and kissed her forehead and bid her goodnight.
-----After a day, they were back at school-----
December 30, 2009 ; 3:30 pm ; Horace Green High Dismissal
Each band member went to their separate lockers and stuffe everything inside it. The only thing left carried home were theirselves. Since they've no assignments, they left their stuffs, jammed in their locker.
When they left school, the others decided to go home. They split up and did what they wanted. Eleni, Michelle and Katie decide to stop by a music shop near Butterbeer Avenue, the music shope Katie bought Freddy's customized signature drumsticks. When they entered, they saw Freddy holding a bass guitar which he nearly dropped luckily, the salesman caught it.
"What're you doin' here gurls?" he asked them
"Nothin' we're just lookin' for some stuff that'll destroy our boombox." Eleni answered
"Is that for Katie?" asked Michelle and went over to Freddy who nodded.
"I'm gettin it customized too like what she did to her gift for me," he said to Michelle "look." and he pulled out the drumsticks given to him by Katie.
"That's so sweet." exclaimed Eleni who's holding a Tenacious D cd "It's even got Spazzy McGee and Posh Spice engraved on it."
"Hey Katie!" Freddy called from the other side of the room "C'mere." and Katie went over to Freddy "What d'you want?" she asked
"I want you to pick you bass." Freddy commanded her
"Oh...okay...well what should I pick girls?" she asked the two
"I don't know." answered Michelle "Anyway we still need to look for some new rock." then she and Eleni went to the Rock Section of the music shop
"How 'bout that red black thingy over there?" Freddy asked her
"Nah. I'd look like a bassist holding a U2 iPod. I like that plain navy blue there." she said and went over the bass she wanted.
"Sure?" asked Freddy for her confirmation and Katie just nodded.
"Ok." then Freddy turned to the salesman and said "I'd get that bass and I'd like it customized."
"Do you have that much?" asked the salesman "It costs $350 all in all coming with a free case."
"Yeah. Anythin' for Katie. Why?" he answered him with full interest. The salesman just shooked his head and got a new stock of the bass. Freddy told him what he'd like for it to be engraved and the color. He said "Sky blue thingy that says Posh Spice and Sapzzy McGee." Then the girls waited for Freddy and the bass while they already paid their CDs to the other cashier. After they got everything...
"You guys wanna walk home with us?" asked Freddy
"No thanks. We're goin' to Marco's to crash," answered Michelle "see 'ya guys tomorrow!" and they parted ways.
-----Infront of Katie's house-----
"So uhmm...see you. Go online if you want tonight." said Katie and he planted a kiss on Freddy's cheek
"No. Take the bass." he said and handed her the bass "Early present too." and this time he kissed Katie on the lips. After a few seconds they broke apart, bidding each other goodnight.
(A/N: Sorry if it's short. Anyway there's some chapter 5 mistakes. First, it's Summer Miranda C. Hathaway not Summer Mirands C. Hathaway. Next, it's not 'ever wonder WHERE Summer dedicates this song?' but 'ever wonder whom Summer dedicates this song?'. Please review! U2, The Basement, iPod, anything related to School of Rock, PSP, PS2 and all the games are not mine.)