Atomic Puppet: New Adventures

Chapter 11: Atomic School Part 1

Mega City High School, a place where freedom comes at the end of the month, and last for two months. For a quarter of those students who attend this school will be leaving for good at the end of the June. Yet the last month of school was the most difficult, and stressful of all for students. Though for Joey Felt and Pauline Bell, they had a lot more than final exams to worry about.

After Joey's parents grounded Abby for hanging out with Scar Inflictor, the young teenager decided to get a little payback on her brother for spilling the beans, by tweeting about Pauline's pregnancy, (and how Joey was the father).

The news spread faster than wild fire, reaching all who saw Abby's tweet, and those who heard it from her followers. Within no time at all, everyone was talking about it. Some were wondering how it happened; though that quickly got figured out after a handful of students who went to Ball Gus's party reported seeing the expecting parents there, where it most likely that they'd drank the spiked punch, "it had become common knowledge by then that Scar Inflictor had spiked the punch". Others were wondering what gender the baby was going to be, would it would act like a wolf just like its great uncle, and if Joey and Pauline were going to tie the knot. Many of those who thought any of this kept nagging the teenaged couple for answers, which really pissed off Pauline, since to her, no one except hers and Joey's friends and relatives had the right to ask those questions; except the for the wolf question. That one just totally offended her, "F.Y.I. her uncle Wolf is completely with his niece's view on it".

To make matters worse, Joey and Pauline's enemies were starting to get in on the action: Warren was blogging about the baby online, calling it Atomic Puppet Junior. Stella was constantly mocking Pauline for letting herself get knocked up. Mookie attempted, "and failed", to kidnap Pauline multiple times in order to extract the baby after its birth and turn it into a weapon that he could use to accomplish his evil plans once and for all.

Though despite all the hardship, the young couple was pulling through, with their love for each other growing stronger each day. To them the baby was a gift, not a curse. A gift that they and their relatives and even AP couldn't wait to see born. Already the future parents were searching for a two-bedroom apartment, Phil got Joey and Abby's baby crib, toys, and clothes out of storage, "Vivian refused to part with any of her children's baby stuff so she convinced her husband to buy a storage unit and put all those things in it. They also put their wedding tux and dress in the storage unit as well",Vivian got Pauline subscribed to all the top magazines relating to babies, and pregnancy, (which Pauline really appreciates since she has no experience dealing with children), and AP, (knowing that the baby would grow up knowing that he wasn't just some sock puppet), was preparing himself for guarding the baby at night from intruders.

To make things even better, the talk about Pauline being pregnant was beginning to quickly die down as rumors were beginning to spread that Abby was in love with the dreaded Scar Inflictor. Unfortunately, despite how this was taking the unwanted attention from Joey and Pauline's future baby, it was starting to give people the impression that Abby was a horrible person. This of course made Abby, her friends, and family was furious.

Tuesday, June 1, 2021,

It was a great morning for our expecting, teen parents as they walked down the halls of Mega City High School towards their first period class, "coincidently, they had most of the same classes together". Or at least it was great till they overheard some students talking about Abby's supposed crush.

"Hey did you hear about how that dirty girl Abby is in love with that Scar Inflictor monster?" Asked one student to another.

"Ya," replied that other student. "I can't believe it. I mean after everything that monster did, I'm surprised that anyone, even his parents, would love him."

First Student: "Well she's clearly a heartless, soulless, bitch if she loves that monster."

Other student: "Agreed."

Unfortunately, hearing this made Joey more furious than when people were constantly talking about him and Pauline's unborn child. At least that was mostly just curious comments, (with a few negative remarks from their enemies), while now this was nothing but awful insults towards his sister.

Seeing the anger in her boyfriend's eyes, Pauline whispered, "I know what their saying is wrong, but you can't blame them. I mean, her resent behaviour doesn't exactly prove otherwise."

When I said in the second chapter that she had become a bit rebellious, "which I've now changed by removing the towards her parents and brother part," I mean that she's disobeyed some rules on purpose and has gotten suspended twice during her freshman year.

"I know Paula," agreed Joey. "I just can't stand seeing what my little sister is becoming. I really need to talk to her and try to start making things right between us."

Bing, Bing, Bing

"Better wait on that till after class," said Pauline after hearing the bell ring.

"Ya, you're right Paula," said Joey. The two then quickly went to their lockers to grab their books, then got to chemistry class right before the teacher arrived; or in this case, their surprise substitute teacher, Mr. McKinnon.

Mr. McKinnon: "Hello class. You all know me as Mr. McKinnon: the top substitute teacher in Mega City. Well that's no longer true as I've just signed a three year contract as a full time teacher at this school. And starting today I'll be replacing Mr. Chacko, "the original Chemistry teacher", as your chemistry teacher."

Raising his hand Ball Gus asked, "Uh Mr. McKinnon, what happened to Mr. Chacko?"

Mr. McKinnon: "Well you see Mr. Gus, Mr. Chacko invested everything had, and more, "he got a loan from the bank", on some new super drug that was being developed. He'd heard rumors that it would be able to cure any disease, and of course he wanted in on the action. During the final stages of testing it was discovered that the drug did not fact cure any kind of disease, but in fact caused toe fungus, blather infection, massive cramps, swollen eyes, and eventual death. So of course the project was shut down, all the members of the project were sent to jail, and Mr. Chacko lost everything. Knowing that he couldn't be able show his face in public after news of his involvement in the project got out, Mr. Chacko immediately handed in his resignation."

"Any who, let's begin by going over what will be expected on your final exam for this class."

."Uhh," everyone groaned as Mr. McKinnon began.

Stay tuned for part 2