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Romantic Sap : I apologize for skipping it, but yes, it is beginning to get a little redundant. Berri and Ace revisit it, due to him being worried about telling Beaux and Mara their powers. So, the chapter may have been 'skipped' for now, but it'll eventually be revisited in a different way. Not to worry. Like said, it's just too repetitive, and due to Berri wanting to pry answers out of Turbo, I didn't want each chapter to practically be a re-hash of my entire saga. And yes! I'm very excited to be writing about Academy again, it's very special to me! I haven't been doing a lot of drawing lately due to my job, planning my wedding, getting in shape and I also have a pet to take care of. I have a LOT of stuff I AM working on, it's just slow moving. I have a ton of works in progress I can't wait to finish and upload. But yeah, I'm just extremely busy and can only really squeeze in these chapters every other day.

Snake557 : Same! And, I sort of don't understand what you're asking here, friend. Sorry D:

CHICKENM4N : MOOD

Jay Sketchin : LOL! It's okay, yeah it's because of those night terrors she had, or Tessa's memories of Lash, in which sort of bled into Berri's coding, and she was also saddled with said memory, because although Tessa regenerated due to Berri's coding, Tessa was only running off of Berri's coding and nothing more. So that whole scene burned into Berri's coding and, even well into her's and Turbo's friendship, she constantly makes clear that his eyes scare her. He helps her get over it via -non-spoiler-fluff-filled-activity- something to look forward to :]


*Chapter 33*

"Lookit her, getting all dolled up, like Gunner himself is going to come scoop you up," Koko choked as he pointed to her cute, girly niece.

Berri haphazardly sat cross-legged on her mother's and father's bathroom counters, her mouth agape, applying eyeliner with skill and diligence. Berri furrowed her brow in a rise of impending annoyance and could only simply huff a breath of protest, lest her eyeliner be crooked. Penny, who stood next to her, also excitedly fixed her cute, choppy, golden haircut. Every woman, that was due for a new day at Academy, had easily crowded Tessa's and Zed's bathroom. Berri, Penny, Koko, Tessa, Emery and Tammy all had a grand time, loudly chatting, excitedly swapping schedules and planning just where to lunch, Berri applied her natural-styled makeup as fast and as neatly as she could. She finally leaned back, peered to herself in the mirror and inspected her work.

"You NEVER know," Berri retort, to which Koko and Tammy blurt a laugh, "Mom, would you be mad if I came home with an awesome super star boyfriend?"

"Uh, if he didn't treat you like the princess you are, then yes," Tessa barked, she sat on the closed lid of their toilet, elbows on her knees, chin plastered into her opened hands. She looked entirely unamused, knowing full well she was eager to just throw on a cute pair of jeans, alongside a nice top and a zip up; she appreciated that the other women in her life wanted to doll up, though she nearly sulked in hot, anticipated wait, patience quickly running out.

"Like hell we're ever going to be able to even say two words to the dude," Tammy barked as she crossed her arms, she finally moved away from the mirror and joined Tessa on the other end of their massive, sprawling, pearly white bathroom, all clad with a gorgeous amount of sun kissed skylights, "We'll have to go through his body guards."

"Like a screening process?" Emery mumbled as she began to tidy her long, gorgeous emerald colored hair; each girl was dressed in nice clothes, warm cardigans and zip up hoodies alike.

"Hi, my name is Berri Schweetz, and I am a future Mrs. Gunner Berri Ko. How dare you withhold my husband from me, like this," Berri snapped her finger and gestured to herself in the mirror; everyone was easily lost in laughter.

"Are you telling me you want Sugar Rush's future King to be a rock star?" Tessa blurt through her laughter, she loved how much zest and cute amount of girly energy Berri harbored, a bottomless pit of excitement.

"Are ANY of us complaining?" Penny stabbed as she, too, continued to prod at herself in the mirror.

"No, that guy is yum," Tammy muttered as she crossed her arms, though she lazily pointed back to Tessa and cocked an eyebrow in her direction, "Don't tell Finn."

"It's okay, Orph already feels like chopped liver, over here," Tessa mumbled as she cocked an eyebrow and eyed the back of Penny's head.

"He's fine with it! What, I'm not allowed to like certain musicians just because they're guys?" Penny argued, Tammy gestured her arm towards Penny's little figure and thanked her for the sentiment.

"I mean, the amount of fawning, over Gunner, that you do," Tessa eyed her cousin with a smile, all notions in good faith.

"Whatever, let's go, we're going to be late," Penny sighed as she fixed her curl, one last time, and in a bustling, excited herd of women, everyone began to gather and file out of Tessa's and Zed's large bathroom, a giddy mess of chatter and excitement.

As the group hooked about Tessa's and Zed's massive, tidy bedroom, up the stairs of their little love-nest of an alcove, and into the King and Queen's gaping, open-aired corridor of a main hallway, Zed patiently hung with Oliver, Theo and Wren in the dip of an entry way that lead to Berri's staircase and bedroom. Zed cocked an eyebrow, gave Tessa a kind smile and was briefly greet by the group of women that continued to chatter, all moseying in a mass to the teleportation pad.

"For User's sake, it's not like its your wedding day, or anything," Wren snapped at Berri with a playful smile, she linked arms with him and firmly nudged Theo's larger arm as he, too, loudly agreed with Wren. Wren tucked Berri's wrecking hand tight into the nook of his arm and began to lovingly lead her to the teleportation pad, as well, alongside everyone else, "...Save it for after New Years."

"We're only kidding ourselves, you now," Berri sighed as the first small batch of girls began to zip away on the coded teleportation pad, a make-shift front door area. They set the teleport to a small alcove near Sugar Rush's entrance, so to skip the entire journey all the way from the palace. Berri continued on as her mother and Theo hung close behind Berri and Wren, "It's nice to think about, but you and I both know that guy is never going to look our way."

"But WE can look HIS way," Wren shrugged as he waggled his hand and shook his head, "Admire from afar... Sigh."

"You guys are hilarious," Zed choked a laugh as all five of them eased onto the teleportation pad.

"So it begins," Tessa stated through a soft sigh, she shook her head and peered into Zed's eyes with a twinkle of excitement. The five easily landed, all their pixels corrected, on the teleportation pad safely tucked inside a sealed off room hidden in the walls of Sugar Rush's waffle cone entrance. As everyone eased out of said room, with a massive wall that heavily slid into the ground, they loitered in Sugar Rush's brisk, cold winter air for a moment as they said their goodbye's to Zed. In the midst of it all, Tessa sunk into Zed's arm, for a loving hug as she bashfully carried on, "Wish me luck..."

"You won't need it, my Queen," Zed grumbled into the top of her head. He gave her skull and auburn hair a firm few smooches and a good squeeze about her shoulders, "I'm so proud of you... I can't wait to hear about everyone's first day."

"It's gunna be a doozy, that's for sure," Berri bobbed a nod and gave her dad a nervously excited smile, in which Wren slumped his shoulders and rolled his eyes.

"For no one BUT me," Wren blurt, the group began to slowly mosey away from Zed, who stood stationed near the secret, hidden teleportation room tucked away in the walls of the entrance, "You and Theo have first hour together... Seems like everyone has class with SOMEONE in this group. Except me!"

"Oh, you'll be fine, all three of us have second hour together," Theo chuckled as he slung his arm over Wren's whole shoulders, he and Berri now properly sandwiched Wren, who scrunched in disgruntled defeat.

"Not to mention lunch," Tessa shrugged, "Too bad I don't have proper classes with Throttle, anymore."

"But you're tutoring with him after school, though, right?" Oliver pressed as him and Tessa fell into step together.

"Well, yeah, but it's not going to be the same," Tessa complained as she quickly began to file onto the moving platforms that were to properly whisk everyone straight to Game Central Station, "I loved going to his secretive atrium classroom via dark and mysterious elevator."

"For User's sake, was he even legally a teacher there? Or just created a spot for himself in the attic and prayed not to get caught?" Tammy blurt with a hard laugh, everyone joined in as they sectioned off in groups of two and three, on each moving platform that slowly bobbed in single file.

"Y'know, I wouldn't be surprised if the latter was true, now that I look back on it," Tessa muttered as she fingered her lip and looked off in cheeky, smiling contemplation, which had everyone's laughs easily soaking Sugar Rush's wires with excitement.

In the ease of strolling out of Sugar Rush and into Game Central Station, the lot was as cheery and as excitable as usual, though it was clear that Berri had taken her very first castle meeting seriously, and had remembered everything her mother diligently laid out in front of said castle meeting group. The danger of the random delete-spree of faux-codes, Tessa noticed Berri gently looking around, like an owl on a branch, her eyes scanned the station. Tessa crossed her arms and gave the back of her daughter's head a proud smile, she knew that Berri was a rather mature individual for her age, something Tessa envied, as selflessly as she could, though she was glad Berri was going to be safe inside of Game Central Academy, including the rest of her precious lot.

In the sweep of excitement, Tessa and Emery eagerly inquired, to Koko and Tammy, about the things that had changed, new teachers, new corridors, new rules, anything to anticipate. Although Tessa had only been absent for about two years, as they approached the gorgeous, gleaming, golden pillars of Game Central Academy, a hub at the opposite end of Game Central Station, Tessa ogled the glorious stoop with tears in her eyes. To see self-programmed gamers, of all kinds, loosely filing into the main hub, Tessa bit her lip in entire excitement and was so thrilled to ease back into her education, to finally have a handle on running her kingdom and to really be that well rounded gamer she always desired to be. Everything right at her fingertips, every last pixel she ever desired, was all sealed with entering into Academy's doors, and started with Vanellope crowning her as Queen. She knew hardly anything could top this feeling.

As everyone eased inside the schools incredible, massive, open-format styled foyer and great area, the schools incredible library could be seen just beyond the break of the first story, two stairwells that lead down into an incredible sprawl of a room with tables, bookshelves to the ceilings, chandeliers and sliding ladders galore, Tessa eased to the railing, that over looked said library, and held her breath. Gamers were everywhere, a seemingly quiet bubble of a hub just underneath the bustling hallways and great-hall style foyer of Academy's main hub, Tessa inhaled a deep breath, closed her eyes, and could swear she was sat right in the memory of Zane asking her to dance.

"Everything you ever remembered, huh," Penny's sweet, tender voice eased to her best friend of a sister, although Penny's shell had hardened over the years, being inside Sugar Rush's sweet, loving and gooey palace easily brought her back to a place of tender warmth. With her little hand that held over the back of Tessa's, on the golden railing, both girls peered hard into each other's eyes, "Full circle... You made it."

"Feels good," Tessa bobbed a nod as big tears welled in her eyes, and although she wanted to get lost in this moment, she flinched and peered over her shoulder in nervousness for Berri's whereabouts; Penny gently caught her movements and lovingly grappled her shoulder.

"Ah-ah, Berri's fiiiiine," Penny cooed with a small laugh as both girls lofted their gazes across the way; Berri, Wren and Theo had successfully began to happily chat and laugh with a newcomers counselor who was diligently passing out school maps and making first-time Academy students feel more than welcomed. Penny sighed and shook her head with a smile, "Must feel weird to have a child in school, now, huh?"

"Forgot that poor Mr. User boy can't come to Academy," Tammy mumbled as her, Emery, Oliver and Koko eased into Tessa's and Penny's vicinity.

"He's not bent up about it," Tessa chuckled as a tear escaped her eye, and although she desperately tried to catch it and clear her throat, everyone softly began to loft knowing notions of love in her direction; Oliver easily pulled her into a hug.

"You've earned this, sis," Oliver chuckled into the top of her head as everyone easily crowd around her with hugs and loving pats to her back and shoulders.

"And you and I have first hour together," Koko stated in whole entire excitement as she bobbed on the balls of her feet, as if she could hardly contain herself, "I can't believe my luck."

"It's so good to be back," Tessa sighed as Oliver softly unhanded her, and as Tessa gently peered off to find just where Berri, Wren and Theo had gone, she was thrilled to see the three begin to meander down a specific corridor, in search for their classes; it seemed as if they had tagged along a few other newbies as well.

"Already making friends," Emery narrowed her eyes at the sweetness, though she gently nudged Tammy's arm, "C'mon, we're gunna be late."

"You ALWAYS want the seat in the back, what is with that?" Tammy argued as her, Oliver and Emery began to stride in the opposite direction of Berri, Wren and Theo. Tammy looked back to Penny, Tessa and Koko and waved her hand with a wide smile, "See you guys at lunch! Our usual spot?"

"Really? Th-that awesome spot by the tree?" Tessa gawked in excitement, "It's still ours?"

"Still ours, babe," Tammy pointed, to which Tessa heaved a sigh of relief and shook her head.

"Feels as if nothing's changed," Tessa furrowed her brow and peered to Penny in soft surprise.

"Yet the whole entire world was seemingly turned on its head not one year ago," Koko choked a laugh, the three girls linked arms and slowly pressed on down an entirely different corridor from the rest of their family group.

"Biggest understatement of the year," Tessa sighed in wistful, ironic detest.


"This is INCREDIBLE," Berri gawked, she successfully lead both Wren and Theo in a slow mosey down Academy's C wing, an incredible, glowing corridor with an amazing amount of sun beaming through the sky lights, golden arches and white pillars amidst the gloss of the tiles underneath, a decent amount of their school's mascot artistically plastered in proper places, the three looked on with twinkling eyes of unadulterated excitement, "Can you believe we're ACTUALLY here?"

"I can't believe I have to go to my very first class ALONE," Wren stabbed in hard annoyance.

"What IS your first class anyways?" Theo choked a small laugh. He wore a dark green zip up, a white t-shirt and a faded pair of light blue jeans, alongside his signature, wrecker-styled bare feet. He brushed his dark green hair out of his eyes and peered to Wren with a wrinkle of a curious smile, "Can't be too far from mine and Berri's class."

"Applied Coding," Wren muttered, he shook his head and peered back to Theo in entire detest. He wore the sharpest outfit he could, his favorite grey coat with the brown buttons, a nice button up shirt with a delicate pin-stripe and black jeans. His white hair was nearly perfect atop his head, "I-I know it's a mandatory course, but... I wish I had an elective first thing in the morning. You two REALLY lucked out."

"Grid Physics I," Berri stabbed in solid confidence and her and Theo high-fived. Berri wore a nice black jacket, a flowy cream top and faded grey skinny jeans. Although she was a wrecker and typically lived up to the no-shoes rule, the more girly side of her personality, more often than not, got the better of her. She sport a cute pair of canvas shoes to match her jacket. Although she was due to make a comment about her and Theo being glitches, she wiggled her hand and was floored to find that her glitching abilities were disabled behind Academy walls. She gaped and stabbed her now nervous look of terror into Wren's beaming, cheeky smile, "M-My powers!"

"Oh NO! What will you EVER do now that you're-" Wren dramatically gasped and cupped his cheeks, "NORMAL!?"

"Oh damn, forgot," Theo muttered in whole dismay as he peered down at his hands, "How else am I gunna impress the ladies."

"You may have to use that thing you have, uh... Your personality," Wren muttered in annoyance as he dropped the act and was entirely eating this up.

"Amongst other things," Berri groaned in annoyance, to which Theo wrinkled his nose and shot Berri a wildly bewildered smile, though the second he was going to retaliate to the two, the three drummed to a gentle halt due to a rising commotion about them, in the corridor.

Although it wasn't chaos, Berri's eyes glossed about the tops of everyone's heads, in the massive, crowded corridor they strolled down. People began to urgently pour into nearby classrooms, due to somehow seeing a shred of any television within their reach, teachers began to instruct everyone to remain calm, the air about Academy suddenly grew stiff and tense with action and reaction. Berri, Wren and Theo urgently peered to each other in whole confusion, and just as the crowd had begun to grow just a little bit more hectic, they bumped shoulders with each other before urgently grabbing the wall of the corridor, opposite the wall of classroom doors. Berri softly panted and peered about the stir of now chatty commotion, from all sorts of gamers, though just as she was about to open her mouth, a group nearby began to loudly and urgently spill just what was going on.

"I don't know, something about a game jump?" Someone urged in shock, the three people chatting nearby continued on in stammering nervousness, the urgency to get to their first hour but to also discuss the extremely hot topic at hand.

"Game jumping? W-Wasn't that what Turbo was known for?" Another voice staggered in fear, the group rushed off in a drifting echo of their conversation, "Hopefully nothing got unplugged?"

"Someone from Super Mario Bros. went Turbo!" Barked another person from the opposite end of Berri's tightly huddled little group, though said person loudly continued to gab with their friend from ten feet away, all while people pushed between them, "The whole game just got unplugged!"

"Street Fighter went down too!" Yet another person urged in horror, and although the corridor before them was now rising in an entire tilt of impending fear and chaos, Berri held her breath, furrowed her eyebrows in bulged confusion and peered her entirely floored gaze to both Wren and Theo, who very easily matched her expression.

"Th-they're not talking about... OUR Turbo..." Berri staggered in a wash of an entire galaxy worth of questions that flood her pixels. She grit her teeth and froze as she meeped her conclusion, "...Right?"