Hey guys, this is it. My actual School of Rock fanfic. Like I said before, this will be based on the movie, not the show. I will be using certain elements from the show such as: characters, locations, and anything else I think would work here. But for now, let's get started.
It has been four years since School of Rock has formed and played at Battle of the Bands. Dewey Finn had moved away years ago and the kids were all starting high school now. They had had a few gigs since Battle of the Bands, but not alot and with Dewey leaving, they pretty much consider the band to be over. Or at least, that's what they thought.
Zack was walking to school, still very tired from little sleep and waking up early. He had his headphones in his ears and wasn't really paying attention to anything around him. It wasn't until he felt someone tap his shoulder that he turned back into reality. He turned his head and saw Freddy Jones walking beside him, holding his skateboard. "Oh, hey Freddy." He said, perking up almost immediately.
"Sup Mooneyham? You seem tired as Hell." He asked, in his usual cocky voice.
"Didn't get a lot of sleep last night, that's all." Zack told him.
"I get it man, You stoked for high school?"
"Yeah, I guess." He said with a sigh.
"What's wrong?"
"I think I'm just a little nervous that's all."
"I would be to. You know, if it weren't for all this." He said gesturing to himself. Zack laughed a little bit and looked into Freddy's eyes. "Do I have something on my face?" Freddy asked.
"Oh, no. Sorry." Zack said looking away in embarrassment. Zack knew he liked Freddy, but he knew it couldn't work. Freddy's dated a lot of different girls. The two of them arrived at school and parted ways.
Katie sat in her desk, waiting for class to start when she saw someone familiar walk in. She couldn't put a name to the gorgeous face she saw, but then it hit her. "Frankie?" She said standing up.
"How's it hanging Beautiful?" He asked as the two of them hugged. Frankie worked security for their band, making sure they weren't caught. He had gone to a different middle school then the rest of them, but still kept in contact, being Freddy's best friend. She heard he'd lost weight, but damn did he look cute.
"It's so good to see you. How have you been?"
"Pretty good as you can see. I'm so glad to be back with you guys. And that I can finally look you in the eyes." They shared a laugh and sat down in the seat next to her.
"Tomika, come on." Lawrence pleaded, walking into the school with her.
"No, I'm not pressing that button." She told him walking ahead of him.
"Please, I promise you'll like it." He said holding a box with a button on it.
"Ugh, fine." She groaned and pushed the button. Nothing happened. "Wow, what a pleasant surprise! Nothing." She said sarcastically. He looked curiously at the box when it exploded intp feathers in his face. Tomika tried to keep herself from laughing, but to little avail.
"Marco said it might backfire." He said to himself.
"Just stick to what you're good at Larry." She said walking off.
Summer was texting Michelle and Eline when she noticed someone else in her class. He looked too old to be freshman. She kept looking trying to figure out what he's doing in this class when he spoke up. "Take a picture it'll last longer." He said annoyed.
"I'm sorry, I'm just wondering why you're in a freshman class. And where the teacher is, now that I think about it."
"Well, you're looking him." He responded, with a thick Japanese accent now present.
"Wait, you're the teacher? But you look so young."
"Thank you."
"Why aren't you doing any teaching?"
"It's too early."
"Well, school started ten minutes ago."
"And I'm tired. Who else is tired?" He asked the class and everyone raised their hands. He looked over at Summer who slowly put her hand up. "There you go. If you can't be honest to yourself, who can you be honest to?" He said getting up. "Now, instead of butchering all of your names, I'm just gonna pass the roster around and you check yourself in. My name in Chiaki Tani and I just moved to America a few months ago. Pleased to be here." This is going to be an interesting class I can tell. Summer thought.
Later at lunch, Katie was going about something to Zack, but his mind was clearly somewhere else. Freddy was across the quad doing different tricks on his skateboard in front of a large group of girls, though it was having a bigger effect on him. "Zack? Zack?" Gordon snapped his fingers in front of his face. He blinked and looked at his two best friends staring at him.
"Sorry guys, I guess my minds somewhere else." He told them.
"It's fine, so are you actually going to eat or just check out Freddy all day?" Katie asked.
"W-what? Freddy? Freddy Jones? That's rich Kate….is it that obvious?"
"Yes." Gordon answered immediately.
"Why don't you just talk to him?" Katie asked.
"I'll have you know, I talked to him this morning."
"I think she means 'tell him you like him' genius." Gordon berated.
"How well do you think that'll go over? I like that he's willing to talk to me right now."
"And you think he won't after because…?" Katie asked.
"It'll just complicate things ok? You two are the only ones that know I'm gay, I'd like to keep that circle small if you don't mind."
"Dude, we won't tell anyone. But you need to tell Freddy eventually." Gordon told him.
"I know," Zack said with a sigh.
Freddy finished showing off and sat down to eat. Some of the girls were trying to talk to him, but he was tuning them all out. He was just glad that a certain brunette had been watching. He'd dated most of girls that he went to middle school with, so imagine his surprise when he found himself thinking of Zack as being cute.
"I think I know what went wrong," Marco said looking at his dismantled feather bomb. "Tomika, when you pushed the button, did you push it straight down or at an angle?" He asked.
"Angle," She answered not looking up from her book.
"There you go. It didn't fully register, so there was delay." He explained to Lawrence. Lawrence answered with a nod.
"Hey Lawrence, how's your black belt coming along?" Marta asked, walking up with Alicia next to her. Lawrence had begun taking Karate in middle school. He was actually pretty toned now. He also had contacts instead of glasses.
"Not there yet, but I'm getting close. I can practically feel it." He told them.
Summer was eating with Leonard. They hooked up near the end of last year and were still going strong. "I'm telling you, he reminds me of Dewey." She told him, finishing her story about her new teacher Chiaki.
"Man, I miss him. Easily the best teacher we ever had."
"That's not the point of my story." She complained. Afterwards, the two of them heard what sounded like guitar playing and followed the noise. They rounded the corner to find Summer's teacher playing a song and shared a surprised look.
"Baby we was making straight A's
But we were stuck in a dumb daze
Doesn't take too much to memorize your lines
I feel like I've been hypnotisized"
"That's our song. Or Zack's song." Leonard said in awe. Summer texted everyone from the band (except for Michelle and Eleni who had gone to a different school). All over the school, the various band members saw Summer's message on their phones and ran towards where she was. All of them stayed behind the wall as the new teacher finished playing the song.
"This is my final exam
Now you all know who I am
I might not be that perfect son
But y'all be rockin' when I'm done"
When he finished playing the song, he turned and saw all of the teens had been watching him. "How long have you kids been standing there?" He asked, trying to act innocent.
"The whole time." Freddy told him.
"Ok, you caught me," He said taking a deep breath. "I'm really into School of Rock. The whole reason I came here to teach was because I was hoping to meet them, but they've dropped off the radar completely. It's like after Battle of the Bands, they just stopped." He said, looking disappointed.
"Their rhythm guitarist/lead singing left." Summer told him.
"How do you know that?" He asked.
"Cause I wrote that song you were singing." Zack piped up, stepping forward. Chiaki looked at them all, puzzled a first, before his eyes went wide with shock.
"No, it can't be." He said. Zack held his hand out and Chiaki cautiously handed him his guitar. Zack took in a deep breath and then played his solo from the song he wrote and then gave the guitar back to Summer's teacher. The older man stood there with his jaw hanging open at what he just saw. "It...it is you! You're them! I mean, they're you! This is...this is just….wow." He leaned against the wall, putting a hand to his forehead. "I can't believe I'm actually meeting you here."
"Believe it baby." Freddy said smugly.
"Man, I wish you guys were still playing."
"We do too, but we would need a new rhythm guitarist that loves rock just as much as Dewey Finn." Katie said.
"Well, I think I know a guy." Chiaki said with a smile.
"You do? That's great, where is he?" Freddy asked, excited. Everyone looked at him judgingly. "Oh, you meant you. Yeah, I knew that. I was just making sure everyone else did too." He said, laughing nervously. Summer shook her head.
"Billy, text Michelle and Eleni. Tell them to update the blog, because School of Rock's coming back." All of them started cheering and jumping.
"Uhh, Zack?" Freddy asked after calming down and realizing that Zack had started hugging him.
"Got a little too excited, sorry." He said letting go.
"Don't be," Freddy said pulling him back into the hug, much to Zack's surprise. "I'm excited too man!"
"I'm in?" Chiaki asked Summer.
"Duh," He started to shake.
"Excuse me for a minute students." He walked behind the wall where they could all clearly hear him cheering. "Sorry, you were saying Summer?"
"You're in the band."
"I know, I just wanted you to say it again."
The group walked back out into to quad where they could already overhear many students talking about School of Rock's announcement. "Alright everyone, hope you kept your instruments. Cause we got practice tomorrow. Meet in Mr. Tani's room after school." Summer told the band. School of Rock was back, and this time, they're going to straight to the top.
There you have it, the first chapter. I actually don't know how long this series is going to be, but I do have plenty of ideas. Mostly character driven rather than story focused, but I'll figure out something soon I guarantee it. I'll try to update this weekly, just a heads up. Until next time, bye y'all.