Eventually, the next day came and it was time for them both to go to their new schools for the week.
"Now Mike, I hope you don't mind, but my father would like some of your help in his store after school, he just wants to get to know you better." Susan told Mike as she was about to go to Disneyville Academy for the day.
"Um, okay, I can do that." Mike shrugged.
"Thank you, don't worry, he just wants to see you, I'm sure there's no harm done." Susan told the young tomboy.
"I guess we'll wait and see." Mike said before she walked off to the school she was going to for the week.
"Have a good day, dear." Susan smiled.
"Thanks, ma'am, I will." Mike smiled back.
Haley looked very happy about going to school which made Mike chuckle as they soon both went to school together.
"I really hope Olivia Mears doesn't try anything funny today." Haley said as she was on her way with Mike.
"Who's Olivia Mears?" Mike asked.
"A girl in my school," Haley huffed. "She's always trying to one-up me."
"I guess every school has one." Mike rolled her eyes about that description.
"Well, let me tell you; I'm better than her." Haley replied.
Mike just chuckled, shaking her head.
They soon came to the school. Haley soon went to be with her friends who were age known as Stanley, Mimi, Marcy, and Lester. Mike smiled to that as she let Haley go to be with her friends as she took a look at her temporary school schedule for the week.
"Let's see... First period is English class..." Mike said to herself. "That's not too bad."
"So, you must be the new transfer student." A hoarse voice said to her.
Mike turned around to see an older woman with curly gray hair, white earrings, horn-rimmed glasses, a yellow dress with pink diamonds on it, stockings, a pink bracelet on one hand with a wristwatch on the other, and black shoes.
"Haven't I seen you somewhere?" The woman demanded.
"Uh, no, I don't think so." Mike shrugged.
"I'm Miss Finster and you better be on your best behavior, otherwise you and I will have some problems." The woman warned.
"Yes, ma'am." Mike replied.
"Very good, welcome to our school though," Miss Finster replied, even if she didn't sound very friendly, she still meant it since Mike was just a visitor in this school. "I expect your best behavior."
"Yes, ma'am, you can count on me." Mike reassured.
"Good, as long as you're not like Dettweiler." Miss Finster replied.
"Oh, I'm not." Mike promised.
"I have to go get some coffee, I'll be back for class." Miss Finster said before walking off.
"Well, that wasn't too bad." Mike said to herself about Miss Finster.
Mike walked into English class and looked to see that Spinelli was in her class. She smiled and sat down next to the tough girl of Disneyville.
"Glad to see you made it." Spinelli said.
"I just hope nothing goes screwy with my friends, they act like they're lost or something whenever I'm not around." Mike said to her.
"That's how my friends get whenever TJ's not around." Spinelli replied.
"I love them and all, but sometimes I just want to be away for a while," Mike said. "I mean, there are times I just don't want to live in the city. Is that bad?"
"No, of course not," Spinelli replied. "That's normal for some people."
"Thanks, Spinelli, sometimes I just want them to solve things on their own or maybe just get away..." Mike said.
"Is that why you became an exchange student on the Albonquetine Island back then?" Spinelli asked.
"Well, I was with my adoptive parents then, but I didn't know I was adopted yet, but I began to suspect something when I was almost turning 13," Mike said. "Don't get me wrong, they were nice people and all, but I started to feel like maybe I didn't belong with them somehow. So, I went to the island to find myself and maybe have a little vacation away from them. I didn't know what to expect either, being an exchange student on an island in the middle of nowhere."
"Maybe that's what you need: a vacation." Spinelli suggested.
"Yeah... Just get out of the city for a while." Mike smiled.
"I suppose we could all use a break." Spinelli said.
"So, are you and Miss Finster friends?" Mike asked.
"I guess you could say that," Spinelli said. "She knows my grandmother. They were the best of friends."
"All right, quiet down, you little hooligans!" Miss Finster sneered as she then came in with a cup of coffee.
Everyone then kept quiet.
"Now, before we get into our lesson for the day, I'd like to introduce you to your temporary transfer student: Mike Mazinsky, who is here all the way from Cartoon Network City." Miss Finster told her students.
"Hey, it's good to see you guys," Mike said as she stood up. "Just a head's up: I'm a girl, and not a guy."
"Aww..." Ashley Q complained. "Like, that's a bummer."
Mike just rolled her eyes and shook her head.
"Now, it's time for a pop quiz!" Miss Finster announced.
The students groaned to that.
"No groaning!" Miss Finster scolded before passing out their papers. "Now, I hope you all have your #2 pencils today, and Randall was kind enough to make copies of the essay before class."
Randall grinned while everyone else just glared at him as they found him to be quite annoying. "I got my eyes on you guys," he then warned them all. "Just making sure that you don't cheat."
"I hate that weasel so much." Spinelli snarled.
"I'll just take your word for it." Mike said.
"You have 20 minutes... GO!" Miss Finster told the students before setting a timer on her desk.
"Hey, this is kinda similar to Ms. Keane's lesson from about three weeks ago..." Mike said to herself as she looked down at her paper.
"NO TALKING!" Miss Finster snapped.
"All right, sorry, sheesh." Mike muttered, but she filled out her test as she knew most of the questions from her own school. She then looked over to see that Spinelli was struggling.
However, Spinelli actually smirked as she appeared to be cheating.
"Sorry, Spinelli, but I have to do this." Mike whispered as she soon pulled out a dog whistle and blew it.
"Why?" Spinelli groaned.
"Sorry Spin, I don't want anything to be suspicious." Mike told her.
"Fine... Man, my ears are ringing." Spinelli complained.
"No cheating then." Mike said.
Spinelli muttered and soon filled out her test her own way while Miss Finster stared at the timer.
"Time's up, you little hooligans!" Miss Finster told her students.
Everyone soon put their pencils down. Miss Finster soon walked by and collected their test papers.
"Miss Finster! Miss Finster! Jackson Stewart was cheating!" Randall complained.
"I was not and you can't prove it!" The blonde boy glared at him.
"Yeah, yeah... Tell it to Principal Prickly." Miss Finster told him.
"You can't do that!" Jackson cried out.
"I can and I have." Miss Finster said.
Mike looked like she wanted to help Jackson, but she didn't know what she could do since she didn't even know him.
"Aw, man..." Jackson complained and he soon got up and walked off to Principal Prickly's office.
"Poor guy." Mike commented.
"All right, either read or stare at the board until the bell rings, I gotta grade your papers." Miss Finster told her students.
"Ooh, Miss Finster, can I help?" Randall asked innocently.
"No one likes a kiss-up, Randall." Miss Finster muttered as even she thought that was too much for him.
Some couldn't help but snicker to that until Miss Finster made them shut up. Mike then pulled out her Action Guy comic book and began to read it until the bell rang.
"Miss Finster! Miss Finster! The new kid is reading a comic book!" Randall tattled.
"Not now, Randall, I'm grading papers, I'll deal with her later." Miss Finster said.
"Oh, sure, side with a gender confused kid." Randall muttered in defeat.
Mike was smirking in victory as she thought this wasn't too bad, then the bell rang and everyone got up from their seats to headed down to their next class. Jake wandered around the hallways of Cartoon Network School. It seemed like a nice school and all, but he just couldn't help but miss Erin since he hadn't seen her in a while and she didn't even go to this school. He just hoped he could make it until 3:00 because then he would be allowed to see her once he would be done for the day.
Miss Finster looked to Mike as the other students left and she went with them. "I know I've seen that face somewhere before..." she said to herself. "Uh, Spinelli, do you know a lot about Mike?"
"She's kind of my best friend outside of Disneyville actually." Spinelli said to her since they were alone and were actually good friends with each other since Miss Finster knew Spinelli's grandmother.
"Really? Is she a troublemaker like your friend, Dettweiler?" Miss Finster asked.
"Not really," Spinelli said. "She's a good kid. Always likes to help out people."
"I swear I've seen her somewhere before..." Miss Finster said. "Do you know who her parents are?"
"John and Miranda Mazinsky." Spinelli said.
"I see... All right, thank you, Spinelli, you can go now, and just in case you're late to class, here's a note." Miss Finster said before giving her a note.
"Thanks, Miss Finster." Spinelli replied before taking the note and went into the hallway.
"John and Miranda Mazinsky, huh?" Miss Finster pondered to herself. "Hmm... Those names sound familiar."
Eventually, the students changed their clothes and went to the gym, but since it was nice outside, that meant that they were going outside for the class.
"Ah... It's a sunshine day..." A brown-haired man with a deep voice smiled with a light chuckle. "A perfect day for a baseball game."
"Aw, man, I love baseball!" Mike beamed about playing the sport. "Baseball is my all-time favorite!"
"Ah... A new face... You must be that transfer student..." The man said.
"You must be Mr. Barkin." Mike replied.
"That's me," Mr. Barkin replied. "You seem like a pretty athletic young lady."
"Thanks; I always like to maintain a healthy body." Mike nodded.
"I think I'm gonna like having you around..." Mr. Barkin smirked. "You remind me of a young me."
"Uh, thanks." Mike replied.
"We're going to play baseball. We're going to have two captains to pick their teams," Mr. Barkin told his students. "Let's see... How about Lawson and Martin?"
"Which one?" Zack and Cody asked.
"Umm... Zack." Mr. Barkin decided.
"Step aside, Junior, he wants me." Zack smirked to his twin brother.
"You're only ten minutes older than me!" Cody complained.
"Still lets me be older than you." Zack smirked.
"I wonder what it's like having a twin?" Mike wondered to herself.
"Martin! Focus!" Mr. Barkin told Zack.
"Yeah, yeah." Zack replied as he stood beside Lawson so that they could pick out their teams to start the game.
"Okay, Lawson, you're first!" Mr. Barkin called.
"Easy," Lawson replied. "I'll pick Gelman."
Gelman soon walked over when he was called.
"Big guy." Mike commented.
"I'll have to go with my brother, Cody." Zack decided.
"Wow, you picked me first, I'm shocked." Cody commented.
"Don't get used to it, K?" Zack replied.
Cody rolled his eyes.
"Eh, whatever, come on, Brad!" Lawson called out to the blonde jock which reminded Mike a lot of Dash Baxter back in Nicktropolis.
"Let's see... How about the new kid?" Zack replied. "Um... What's his name?"
"Her name is Mike." Cody reminded.
"Yeah, that." Zack said.
Mike then went over to Zack's team, looking between him and Cody as they were identical twins. "Wow, and I thought Amy and Sammy were the only identical twins." she then commented.
"What the heck is that supposed to mean?" Cody asked.
"Huh? Oh, I was just talking to myself, that's all." Mike replied.
"Yeah, Cody, that's normal," Zack smirked. "You talk about Cornelia all the time."
"Well, what about you and Alex Russo?" Cody retorted.
"She just can't resist the old Zack Martin charm." Zack smirked boastfully.
Cody and Mike just looked at each other with a deadpan look on their , all of the teams were picked and Mike's team was going to bat first as they did the baseball bat tradition that Mike taught Lu, Og, and all of the Albonquetine Islanders about and Lawson was going to pitch for his team.
"Okay, since I'm the team captain, who wants to go first?" Zack asked his team.
"You mean you're actually asking instead of making yourself go first?" Cody asked. "Are you sure you're my brother?"
"Hey, I gotta make a good first impression for the new kid, but thanks for volunteering, Cody." Zack replied.
"Wait, what?!" Cody asked.
"Come on, you can do it." Zack told his twin brother.
"But... But... But..." Cody stammered.
"Cornelia is watching, you gotta make a good impression!" Zack said as he soon pushed his twin brother into the batting area.
"People always forcing their friends and family into stuff, I swear..." Mike shook her head.
"You know I have astigmatism." Cody reminded Zack.
"Yeah, well, I did some research for ya, and I know some people that got over it," Zack said. "...I can't think of any right now, but look, there's Cornelia Hale!"
"Where?!" Cody asked.
"Sitting on that bench over there, looking for her smart and handsome boyfriend." Zack pointed out.
Cody looked over and Cornelia was sitting on the bench, applying some lip gloss. "She's not even looking over here!" Cody told him.
"Strike one!" Mr. Barkin called out as Lawson pitched the ball and Cody missed it because he didn't swing the bat.
"Focus, Cody!" Zack told his brother.
"Just don't focus on anything else and only focus on the ball." Mike coached.
"I can't do that!" Cody said.
"Strike two!" Mr. Barkin called out.
"This may be harder than I thought; why wasn't I an only child?" Zack sighed to himself.
"Come on, Cody!" Cornelia soon called out. "You got this!"
"Now she's watching... And now my hands are sweaty... Am I even still holding the bat?!" Cody groaned as he felt his heart beating fast.
"This is gonna be easier than I thought!" Lawson laughed.
"I can't watch this!" Zack cried out.
Lawson threw the ball and much to everyone's shock, Cody hit the ball without even looking.
"Did I hit it?" Cody wondered as he squeezed his eyes shut.
Suddenly, everyone yelled out to him which made him open his eyes and look around.
"RUN, KID, RUN!" Mike told the blonde boy.
Cody soon dropped the bat and began to run.
"No, no, the other way!" Mike told him.
Cody then realized that and turned the other way and ran to first base.
"All right, you did it, Cody!" Cornelia beamed.
"All right, I'm next, then the new kid." Zack told his team.
"The name is Mike." The tomboy replied.
"Sorry. Mike." Zack replied.
"It's fine." Mike shrugged as she knew she would do fine in this game since she loved baseball more than anything.
"Just watch a pro." Zack smirked.
Mike just looked at the audience with a deadpan look.
"Hmm... I wonder if I could talk Prickly into making that new kid stay here for a while longer and earn us a spot on the varsity team that travel all around the world for games?" Mr. Barkin smirked to himself, feeling the most impressed about Mike.
"Come on, Lawson, I'm ready for you!" Zack glared.
"Whatever you say, Blondie." Lawson laughed as he pitched the ball.
Zack swung the bat, but had missed.
"Strike one!" Mr. Barkin called out.
"The sun was in my eyes!" Zack said.
"No excuses!" Mr. Barkin replied.
"Okay, let's try that again," Zack said. "Lawson, pitch the ball!"
"So you can strike out again?" Lawson laughed before he soon pitched the ball.
Zack then swung as hard as he could to hit the ball this time only to miss again.
"Strike two!" Mr. Barkin called out.
"Okay, Zack, you got this," Zack told himself. "Don't get humiliated like Cody."
"I heard that!" Cody called out, off-screen.
Zack just stuck his tongue out at his twin brother while glaring towards Lawson. Lawson narrowed his eyes and soon pitched the ball to Zack as this was now his last chance.
Zack narrowed his eyes on the ball, but he then finally managed to hit the ball. "Yes! I'm that awesome!" he then smirked.
"Yeah, yeah, you're awesome, now stop gloating and run!" Mike told him.
"Oh, yeah!" Zack said before he soon began to run while Lawson's team tried to catch the ball. He soon ran to first base while Cody ran to second base. "See, Cody? I'm awesome!"
"Sure you are." Cody replied.
It seemed to be a pretty good game for everyone and it was a good school day for both Mike and Jake. Before they knew it, it was time to go and Jake left the school he was visiting and when he came out, he soon saw Erin in the parking lot, smiling and waving to him as she had a scooter.
