SCHOOL OF ROCK-BATTLE ROYALE STYLE
CHAPTER ONE-NEW LESSONS LEARNED
Disclaimer: I do not own Battle Royale or School of Rock
Authors note: This story is very much like Battle Royale but set at a different school (Horace Green). Some of the deaths will be varied and there are 52 students instead of 42. Please don't flame me for having the whole story based on the movie but I couldn't think of how to take the story off in a different direction without sounding stupid. R&R because this is my first full length School of Rock fic.
I have already posted this on Battle Royale but I don't get many reviews because not a lot of people read those stories. So hopefully I will get a wider range of reviews from the wider range of people who read SoR fics.
At the dawn of the millennium the nation collapsed. At 15 unemployment, 10 million were out of work. 800,000 students boycotted school. The adults lost confidence, and fearing the youth, eventually passed the…Millennium Educational Reform Act V.
It was a bleak day, the sky was a murky grey color and the wind roared in the ears of the hundreds of reporters who were all walking together down the dirty mud path towards something at the bottom.
"This years Royal High School year 3's Class E was chosen from among 43,000 Ninth grade classes." A female reporter was shouting over the chaotic mob of reporters who were now running into each other as they made their way towards a helicopter that was high in the air looking down over them. "This year's game, said to be more blistering than the last…Oh look, there!" The reporter was cut short when she noticed an army truck filled with no less than a dozen soldiers heading towards them at tremendous speed. Many more of the soldiers were trying to hold back the excited mob as the truck drew nearer to reveal a young girl who was nestled in-between two of the camouflage clad men. "There she is!" The reported yelled at her camera man as the truck came to halt in front of them, "The winner's a girl! Surviving a fierce battle that raged on for 2 days, 7 hours and 43 minutes, the winner is a girl!" The young girl that was inside the truck was covered head-to-foot in numerous peoples blood but looked up smiling as she held on to an equally blood covered doll. "Look, she's smiling! Smiling! The girl definitely just smiled!" And the young girl smiled menacingly as the photographers took her picture, she was the only one who survived out of all her friends. The last one standing in Battle Royale.
The very old "Orlander" school bus was slowly driving down the highway. The sun was shining high above it and cast a sheet of warmth across this part of the country. One class was on board the bus; it consisted of fifty students of Class 3B from the Horace Green Prep School . Twenty five of the students were girls and the other twenty five were boys. They were all wearing a uniform that consisted of a navy blue blazer with the school emblem on it, the boys were also wearing black trousers while the girls wore plaid skirts that went down to 3 inches above the knee. All were wearing white shirts but the girls wore red ties while the boys wore blue…very sexist but compulsory. The 15 year olds filled up every seat on the double-decker bus but none of them were sitting down; many different groups of students were standing in the isle, leaning over to talk to their friends while others stood up and sang the school song for no apparent reason with spontaneous gusto lead by their teacher. The conversations between the friends were mostly about the eventful day they had just had at Orlando Towers, a theme park in their state of New York. The bus was filled with laughter as a group at the back of the bus burst into hysterics because of a joke one of their friends had said. The teachers themselves were amazed that so many students had even turned up for the field trip as many of the students in the country of America had unanimously decided to boycott school when the Millennium had come around…but that was about to change.
At the front of the bus a group of seven students were happily taking pictures of each other with a Polaroid camera one of the girls had. These seven kids were called Katie Brown, Freddy Jones, Zach Mooneyham, Summer Hathaway, Eleni Afflerbach, Michelle Green and Lawrence Tsai. These seven were all part of the infamous band called School of Rock, they were quite popular in their class since they had previously taken part in a competition called Battle of the Bands but had had their chance of fame stolen from them by a former band their teacher Dewey Finn.
As the other six crammed haphazardly together and stood on the chairs in dramatic poses while waiting to get their picture taken, Katie was leaning back against the grime covered window with a camera poised ready in her hands. Katie had long, straight, brown hair with red highlights, and dark chocolate brown eyes. Not exactly your average type of teenager, Katie was somewhat hyperactive all he time and extremely loud but at the same time warm at heart and caring. "Say cheese you guys!" she said as he friends immediately stood on the bus chairs to take another one of their famous retarded photographs.
While waiting for the Polaroid to develop Freddy, Zach and Lawrence returned to looking out the window. Freddy had blonde brown hair and brown eyes. He was quite tall and was a definite lady's man, every girl got a fair share of him. He is very smooth talking and always speaks his mind without caring who it will effect. Zach had brown hair and blue eyes. He was another extremely tall boy who spent most of his time devoted to guitar and who mostly talked about music but he was also a closed book, the band found it very hard to get anything out of him. Lawrence was an average sized boy with brown hair and brown eyes who was very quiet and devoted to school. He loved to read and could always be found in a corner reading his favorite novel. "It's ready!" Summer shouted as she took the photo out the camera and ran over to show Eleni and Michelle.
Summer was a lovely girl with long brown hair with electric blue streaks through it, she also had blue/grey eyes and had a great personality. She was extremely smart but very funny at the same time. Although in front of her friends she came across as being confident Summer was a really bossy girl. Eleni was below the average height and had long blonde hair and blue eyes. Eleni was extremely smart and was head of the year. Eleni was really sarcastic and was a quick thinker and often came across as a bit mischievous. Michelle had long blonde hair and blue eyes. Michelle was extremely funny and full of witty comments. Also quite artistic, Michelle loves drama and spent most of her time taking part in the school plays. "That's a cool picture!" Zach said as he looked at the small photograph, "But my face is cut out!"
"Oops," Katie said taking the picture and quickly scanning it, "Sorry, Zach but you were standing up and I did try to get you all in." She said with a small laugh before handing the picture back to Zach who stuck it in his pocket and returned, once again to looking out the window. Following his lead the other six also looked out the window and noticed a number of army trucks lining each side of the road through the strips of light that reflected against the glass. Many of the other students had also spotted the trucks and were soon craning their necks to see over everyone else's heads while holding their hands above their eyes, trying to stop the sun from obstructing their view, but before any of them had time to ask each other why they thought the trucks were there the bus was swallowed by a long dark tunnel. Everything went dark and each of the 50 students could feel themselves slowly drifting into unconsciousness. The last thing any of them saw was their friends falling asleep across chairs and showing no sign of waking up soon, but before any of the others could try to wake them up the gas that had caused them all to fall unconscious took control over them and they fell asleep like those around them.
Freddy was asleep, leaning on his arm which was balanced on the side of this chair. As the bus drove over yet another pot hole in the road his arm slipped and he jerked awake as his head hit the arm rest where his elbow was moments before. Realizing how quiet the bus was he looked around and found to his horror that his classmates were still soundly asleep all leaning on each other. He then looked at the bus driver for help and realized he had a gas mask on. He immediately fell to the floor and tried to wake up as many students as possible, but when a woman dressed in a maroon uniform got up from one of the chairs in front also wearing a gas mask he regretted that he had made so much noise when trying to wake everyone. Freddy cowered on the floor as the woman advanced on him with a black club in her hand. Knowing what was coming next he braced himself and surly enough the woman raised the club in her hand and brought it down across the back of his head knocking him out instantly. Once again he was swallowed by darkness and put into a deep sleep.
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