Angel: So uh...turns out I majorly fucked up.
See, because season three came out much later since the show was cancelled when it aired, the episode order is all over the place from all the sources that I look at. Pretty much the wiki page, Wikipedia, and Paramount+ all disagree with each other on which episodes aired and in what order. The episode I uploaded last week was either aired first, somewhere after the first one, or near the end because it's just that complicated. And I messed up the name of the last episode on top of that because I'm stupid.
I'm gonna stick with Paramount+ for the order because if I try to rearrange chapters now, I'm gonna fucking lose it trying to figure it out. And yes, it's not the proper order, but I don't know which source is the most accurate—unless someone wants to graciously help me out. Also to ButterGirl who said on a review for this that they don't care about the Last Kids on Earth (a review I deleted), from the bottom of my heart, fuck you. Stop acting like I'm gonna care about your opinions, especially after saying that. I've already had someone say that they don't care to my face before, you really think that's okay? And don't bother leaving reviews ever again until you get it together.
"Isn't this awesome?" Jenny wonders to her friends as they're walking to school in September. "The first day of school; I'm so excited."
"Give it a few days; you'll get over it," Brad complains to the robot girl.
"You're talking to the same person who desperately wanted to go to school," Amy gestures to their friend.
October rolls around, and then November, and the trio are struggling to trudge through the snow to get to school. "Could life get any worse?" Jenny groans as the snow was affecting her systems, so she couldn't fly, and neither could Amy either.
"Ah. Bright shining faces on a beautiful morning," Mr. Piggot greets the class, and pulls down a sign that says there's a pop quiz. "Pop quiz time; and this one counts for most of your grade." Everyone groans at this, Jenny looking especially annoyed.
Several people, girls and boys, wait in line for the disgusting bathrooms, where someone actually has to take a number just to use them. And apparently because it's a double bathroom, only one person can use it at a time. The next number goes off and Jenny...is number 467. Even though classes are still going and that amount of wait time would make her miss at least several of them. "Wait, you're a robot," A boy speaks up cluelessly to her. "Why do you need to use the-"
"None of your business!" Jenny shouts in defense to him.
Then gym glass is in the rain, because apparently they couldn't do this inside. And their exercise is jumping jacks as everyone is soaked. "Hup-two-three-four. Let's see some hustle, Wakeman!" However, Jenny is completely rusted and Amy turns to her in alarm.
"I...can't...move."
"I'll take her to her locker so she can oil herself up..." Amy drags her along, but because Jenny is heavy, she falls to the ground with the robot, groaning in disbelief.
"What a day; I can't wait to get out of here," Jenny states to her friend as she puts oil on herself. "I am seriously at my breaking point."
"School does seem to be getting a little ridiculous lately," Amy agrees with her wearily. "Especially with the bathrooms."
Jenny opens up her locker...and a bunch of bolts fall out of it to their confusion. A football player laughs at them nearby. "I put bolts in the robot's locker."
Both of them storm up to him, grabbing the boy and tossing him up in the air. Jenny holds up a trashcan for him to fall in. "You're not friends with him, are you?" Jenny asks the brunette in annoyance, who scoffs in return.
"Please, he always does dumb stuff like this," She waves it off. "I'm not that upset about it...uhh..." She stares at the trash can and Jenny blinks as she realizes...that there's no way for him to get out of there.
She, Amy, and Brad stare as they had to call the fire department since if they tried squeezing him out...it wouldn't be pretty. And they tried pulling as well, which didn't work. A fire fighter stares at the trash can, using a saw to cut through. Amy bites her lip as Vice Principal Razinsky comes over to them.
"My office, now!"
The two sit with their arms crossed as they watch Razinsky call Nora since Amy's parents are too busy. "Hello?"
"Noreen Wakeman?" He asks as the two sulk.
"Yes."
"This is Vice Principal Razinsky. Your daughter has been involved in a disturbance, and I was hoping you could join us for a bit of a discussion. And since you're the one most associated with Amelia's parents, I was hoping you would chat with them about her."
A car is heard running, and then footsteps as Nora simply walks inside and sits between the girls. He hangs up and turns around. "This is a place of learning, Ms. Wakeman. Would you agree that we cannot tolerate disruptions?"
"Yes," They all answer in unison, the girls responding bitterly. Nora and Jenny glance at each other before looking away.
"You need some serious attitude adjustments, young ladies, or you'll be suspended, sent home for three days!"
Amy gasps sharply at this. Because of her parents being Skyway Patrol, her getting suspended would make her subject to ridicule and punishment by Skyway Patrol themselves. Mainly because they want the girls to follow in their example, so if they ever got in trouble, they would NEVER hear the end of it.
"Really? That's a start, but not really long enough," Jenny states hopefully to him. Amy gives her a shocked sound as she stares at her with an open mouth.
"Are you telling me that you want to be expelled?" The vice principal demands from her.
"Maybe I am," Jenny stands up with a smirk, looking down at him.
"Jen, stop," Amy whispers to her pleadingly, waving a hand in front of her neck.
"Because I'll do it, young lady! Just say the word."
Amy chuckles nervously as she stands up, waving her hands. "Uh, no, she doesn't really mean that! Because we both know that I can't get expelled," She narrows her eyes at her friend angrily.
Jenny rubs her chin in thought after hearing this. "I'll have to get back to you on that," Jenny turns around and Amy grabs a book, using it to slam her head gently against it in frustration.
"I'm serious, I really can do it; just-just say the word," Vice Principal Razinsky stammers as she leaves, and he chases after her. "Uh, Jenny?"
"Whatever."
"That's the problem with your generation; you slackers can't commit to anything!" He shouts and then storms back into the office. "As for you, Ms. Smith, because of your parents, I won't consider expulsion just yet because of your insistence to stay. But I will say that you have detention for the entire month!"
She groans while sagging her arms.
"Maybe I should get myself expelled," Jenny wonders as she walks out of school. "Or maybe I should drop out and become an outlaw."
"Dropping out, huh?" She looks towards a homeless man a few feet away. "That's what I did. Yee-haw!" She then turns right back around to head back to the school. She approaches her mother who was waiting for her, along with Amy.
"You know, XJ9, there is another alternative; home school."
"Home school?" Jenny asks in confusion since she wouldn't know what that means.
"You basically learn at home with a parent or a tutor or with the computer. And usually they have their own lesson plans for you to follow along," Amy explains to her friend, rubbing a temple at the thought of it. She could never do it because a, her parents spend all day at work, so they'd have to pay for a tutor. And b, she and her sisters all in one room to learn would result in not much getting done.
"I've always wanted to try my hand at teaching," Nora gestures to herself happily.
"That's a great idea!" Jenny beams happily as Amy silently tries to convince her to not go through with this. "No more classrooms, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks!" The brunette raises a brow on the rhyme. The school bell then rings and everyone rushes out of school in their coats. "Hey, Brad, I'm gonna go to home school!"
However, everyone hears her and they freeze in place. Brit and Tiff run by cheering happily at this news. Amy gives them a blank look.
"Home school?" Brad then gets back onto his feet, everyone still surrounding them. "Are you sure about this, Jen?"
"It'll be great; no concessions to Razinsky, and I can coast through school with my addled mother for a teacher."
"JENNY!" Sheldon shouts in agony from the school entrance. "NO! JENNY!" He runs up and falls into some nearby sewer water, swimming in it.
"Uh, she's not moving away. She's just learning at home. She can still go out and do stuff," Amy deadpans at Sheldon in annoyance.
"Wanna learn with me?" Jenny offers the girl. Amy winces a bit while looking away.
"Ahh, I don't know, Jen. You really think you can handle your mom's teaching?" She asks while hugging her books close.
"What makes you say that?"
"I've lived across from you for over a decade, remember? You've only been active for only almost half the time. I've seen and heard a lot of things go on from her. And she doesn't seem to be the type to back down from anything," She explains to Jenny.
"I'm sure it'll be the best!" Jenny cheers, not getting the point. Amy sighs while staring after her friend, slowly shaking her head. Sheldon comes up behind Nora's car just as it's leaving. A girl stops Sheldon with a stick, picking him up with it.
"Do you wanna talk about it, Sheldon?"
"XJ9, time for school!" Nora calls out while Amy is getting into her car and driving her sisters to their own schools.
"Okay, Mom," Jenny walks over with an amused smile. "You're the teacher. We can play school if you want."
"Rest assured, XJ9, education doesn't have to be boring," She leads the robot into her lab, where there's a holo chamber nearby. "This is my holographic chamber, where we can create a world as limitless as our imagination."
"Wow!" Jenny looks at her in awe. "So we could go to ancient Greece or China and watch history unfold right before our eyes."
"Oh, sure," Nora looks over nervously as she has something else in mind. "In theory I guess you could, but for our purposes, I have made...a virtual classroom." Jenny's smile turns into disappointment at the environment created for her. The woman clears her throat as she stands in front of a chalkboard with her name on it. "Good morning, class. My name is Dr. Wakeman, and this is my first day. So let's um, take roll. Um...Jennifer Wakeman."
"Uhh, present," Jenny casually leans while sitting in the desk.
"Very good. Now, it is my understanding that you are currently studying the War of 1812, so we'll pick it up there. But first, let's do a quick review of what led up to that. It all began with a huge explosion!" She says dramatically, holding out her arms. "Gradually, the universe cooled, and the planet Earth began to form."
Jenny just laughs for some reason. "Yes, Nora laughs along with her. "It does seem unlikely, however-"
"Did she really say that, because if she did, then I'm gonna have to say that Markie is not the cutest of the Cutie Boys."
"Reggie is the cutest one," Sheldon states from a pay phone at school, even though classes have already started.
"I know, everybody knows that!"
Suddenly someone else joins the phone line. "It all began with a huge explosion!" She mimics an explosion and it freaks him out as he runs off. "Eventually, the first planets began to form, drawn into orbit around..."
Whoa. She's really into the school thing, Jenny thinks to herself in alarm. She thought she could just goof off for the rest of the semester instead of actually learning. Well, that makes one of us. She puts fake eyes over her face so that she could fall asleep. Suddenly a paper is slammed in front of her, waking her up instantly.
"...A pop quiz?!" Jenny holds it up in disbelief. She raises a brow as she stares at it. "I don't know any of this!"
"Well then, that's an F," Nora slams down a stamp to mark it as such. "You have to learn this information, so you'd better start paying attention."
"This is gonna be harder than I thought..." Jenny muses while rubbing her chin.
Sheldon bumps into Amy, both of them falling in opposite directions. "Ow..." She rubs her butt in pain, looking up at him and sighing. "Sheldon, I thought we discussed the whole running with Jenny in mind thing."
"Well...actually, I was talking to her about the Cutie Boys, but then her mom scared me. You were right; Jenny's not gonna be gone for long."
"That wasn't exactly what I sa-"
"I mean, it's not like she's moving or anything right...right?!" He freaks out while hugging her waist and she pushes him away.
"Look, I can't speak for her living situation, but what I CAN say is that this whole home school thing isn't gonna last forever. She can't handle her mom for that much time on her own during school hours...and I would know," She shivers as she walks away, since Nora...has sometimes been difficult when they ask her to not do certain things that would involve them with her inventions. As in, to not have her inventions break loose and stumble into their house.
The phone rings late at night and she answers it. "Hello?" A voice speaks to her. "Sorry, Brad. Mezmer's sounds great, but I've got homework to do," She narrows her eyes, which turn on as lights to look at Nora. She looks at her watch and leaves for bed, turning off the light. Jenny sneaks in, plugging in something and using sound waves from her finger. The sound waves come from the computer and she narrows her eyes mischievously.
"Huh," Brad walks over to Amy and her sisters back at their table. "That's weird. Jen's never had a problem doing her homework before. She can do it within minutes."
"Probably something to do with her mom," Amy shrugs a little. "It's like I told Sheldon earlier, this little plan of hers isn't gonna work."
"I'm sure she'll realize that sooner or later. School's just part of being a teenager," Brad waves it off and the girls glance at each other. He was right, but at the same time, Jenny is a robot. And with the way she's being, there are ways to get what she wants...
"Well, let's go back to the beginning," Nora states the next morning, pulling slides all the way to space. "It all began with a..."
"Huge explosion!" She and Jenny say in unison.
"Mom, we went over all of this," The robot retorts back, Nora raising a skeptical brow.
"So you were listening to me yesterday?"
"Of course," Jenny smiles knowingly, thinking that if she shows her mom she knows the lessons, she wouldn't have to do this anymore.
"Then when were pulsars first discovered?"
Jenny holds up a finger, using the information from the computer to look it up. She had used the drive from herself to download the lesson plan. "1967."
"And how much do three-"
"$2.67 kilograms," Jenny interrupts, not even letting the question be finished.
"And who-"
"Marconi!"
"Invented wireless transmissions?" Nora finishes knowingly to her. "That's very good, XJ9. Now, could you tell me what this is, please?" She puts down a large model of something.
"That's a frequency jammer," Jenny answers without hesitation, not realizing what was going to happen.
"And what happens when I turn it on?" Nora presses a button and it goes off.
"It, um..." Jenny stammers as her frequency is now messed up. "It messes up wireless transmissions," She says in realization.
"So, XJ9, could you please remind me who invented wireless transmissions?" Nora asks with a smug smile.
"Let me think..." Jenny puts down her hand as her finger detaches to go to the mainframe panel. She pushes it up and plugs herself in. "Marconi!" However, a security alert goes off.
"Where was the Declaration of Independence signed?"
Jenny's finger goes unplugged, therefore she's drawing a blank. "Um..." The outlet is switched and once she's plugged herself back in, she's immediately electrocuted. She then gives a blank look towards her mother.
"First man on the moon?"
"Neil Armstrong," Jenny answers her slowly.
"First woman president?"
"Um..." The robot squints at the paper specifically. "I can't tell; it's hard to read your writing."
The woman just laughs it off. "I know. It's just atrocious." She then looks up in alarm...to see that Jenny's using a bunch of mirrors from her body to cheat. She turns around to a mirror in annoyance. "No more cheating, XJ9! You need to learn this information. It all began with a huge explosion..."
Jenny sits there with tired eyes as she listens to her mother go on and on. "Which pretty much held as the dominant theory until the advent of plasma accelerators."
"Wow, who would have thought that you could give a three-hour, non-stop physics lecture?" She asks in disbelief as her mother has written all over the chalkboard, using a ladder.
"Oh," Nora laughs at her while smiling. "I'm just getting warmed up! Chapter 2: physics enters its middle era."
Jenny slams open the door and storms off. Her mother stares after her with a glare, hands on her hips. "Excuse me, young lady, shouldn't you be attending your physics lecture?"
"Come on, Mom. To be a well-rounded student, I need extracurricular activities," Jenny lies as she's just actually gonna go to the mall or somewhere else fun. "Colleges eat that stuff up."
"Let's see," Nora rubs her chin, walking in her lab. "If I was on a college admissions board, what would I want to see? Lots of activities! Ooh, that could be fun." She spends all day and night to come up with all sorts of stuff. "And...there it is, a masterpiece of extracurricular curriculum! XJ9's gonna love this!"
Jenny sleeps in bed with a smile as it's peaceful... "XJ9?" She opens her eyes immediately once she hears her mother's voice. "Get up, get up, get up!" She jumps up and down like she's drunk a bunch of coffee. "I've got a surprise for you!" She somehow carries her daughter over to the virtual classroom, slamming her into the chair. She slides over to the chalkboard. "You are one lucky girl, because today the Wakeman School proudly offers a complete and unabridged selection of...extracurriculars," She smiles widely at Jenny, pressing a button to change the environment. "We've got sports. We've got choir. Would you like to try out for band?"
"No," Jenny answers simply.
"Or how about the school newspaper? Or the chess club?" However, the holograms were getting to be out of control now as dinosaurs and cakes had nothing to do with either of those.
"Uh..." Jenny stares at her, wondering how much time she took for all this.
"Or another time-honored tradition: the prom." She goes over to Jenny, wearing a Bo Peep-like dress. "Do you like my prom dress? I'm Little Bo-Peep."
"Okay, Mom," Jenny looks at her wide-eyed, hoping to calm her down. "I think you've been working a little too hard on this school thing."
Nora wraps her arms around her. "I fixed you up with a prom date!" That date just happens to be XJ8, wearing a tux.
"You look lovely tonight. Would you like a nosegay?" She slams down a flower, but it gets crushed instantly.
"Let me see if I got this right. We're gonna sit in our imaginary school, and we're gonna have a make-believe prom, and my prom date is my sister?" Jenny points at her tallest sister in disbelief.
"That's right."
"Will you take our picture?" XJ8 wonders, seeming to have no problem with this. Jenny rushes out the door, breaking the glass in the process.
"Hey, you don't have a hall pass!" Nora points at her.
"You're crazy!" Jenny shouts as she calls Amy. Luckily the girl is in the restroom at school as she taps her brooch to make an antenna appear. She holds up the makeshift phone to her ear.
"Hello? Jen?"
"Amy! Thank goodness you picked up! I tried to cheat with my mom's plans, and it didn't work!" She exclaims into the girl's ear, who rolls her eyes to the ceiling.
"Uh, no wonder why it didn't work; you really thought you could cheat when you have an inventor for a mother. Especially since she would know how to counteract you," Amy gives her a really look. Did Jenny really think her mother wasn't going to notice any of her attempts to get out of it?
"But now she's gone insane, talking about prom with my sister and Bo Peep and sports and-"
"What?" Amy asks in bafflement, not sure if she heard that right. "How is that worded in a way to make sense to me? Anyway, you got what you wanted, didn't you? You're the one who wanted to try homeschooling."
"Amy! Help me," Jenny whines at her.
"What am I supposed to do?!" Amy gestures to herself in annoyance. "You got yourself into this, Jen. Not to mention that I still have detention to serve later."
"You could just morph your suit to look like me to take my place? I know how much you love physics~!" Jenny suggests hopefully, and Amy hangs up because she wants no part of this. "Hello? Hello?!" She slides to a stop near Mezmers, opening the door to see Nora.
"A restaurant; the perfect place to study the human digestive system." Jenny slams the door, speeding over to the sewers and jumping in.
"Ah, the living classroom of the modern sewer," Nora says right next to her, somehow there quicker than Jen. "We can study water pressure, fluid dynamics-"
Jenny flies out of there, going past a desert, a volcano, and ends up in Antartica. She sits on top of a mountain, thinking she's safe until Nora pops up behind her in a jacket. "The science of altitudes, at this height, there's enough heat in my hand to boil water!"
Jenny takes off once again all the way to space, landing on a planet. She throws up a rock and hides underneath it, shaking in fear. She flinches, glancing to the side...to see her mother in a space suit. "The physics of space travel; now there's a good lecture."
Jenny breaks the rock, screaming her head off. "This is too much. I can't take one more day of home school. I miss my old friends. I miss my old school..."
"What?!" Nora recoils back in alarm. "I thought you hated Tremorton High."
"Gosh, it wasn't so bad, really. I wanna go back. I'll do whatever it takes," Jenny begs quickly while on her knees. "I'll change my attitude. Anything is better than this. Please?"
"Well, I'm not so sure of th-"
Jenny goes over and hugs her, picking her up. "Oh, thank you, thank you, thank you." She drops her mother and speeds off to school on a rainy day. "Hello, you ugly, old building," She pats the outside wall. She then waves to the gym teacher. "Hello, cruel gym teacher."
"Drop and give me 20!"
She waves to Mr. Piggot. "Hello, sarcastic science teacher."
"One more student; how wonderful."
Jenny slides over to Brit and Tiff...who are dressed as a pirate and Viking respectively. "Hi, Brit and Tiff."
"Ugh, you again?" Brit replies in disdain upon seeing her. "Oh, didn't you run off and join the park rangers or something?"
"How dumb do you have to be to flunk out of home school?" Tiff asks in annoyance and Amy walks by.
"How dumb do you two have to be to let yourselves leave the house dressed like old rags?" She remarks and the two gasp sharply as she smirks. Jenny gasps and then gives Amy a bear hug.
"Amy, I missed you so much!"
"And I miss having feeling in my back..." Amy says in pain as her back cracks a bit. The bully from earlier is shielding himself because of last time.
"Hi, school bully. Wheee!" Jenny throws him up...and he lands in the trash can once again. "Vice Principal Razinsky, you were totally right," She says once she sees him. "I did need to change my attitude. And I have! I'm so happy to be back!" She runs down the halls, Amy staring at her, wondering what exactly she went through...
"I'm really starting to like you, Sheldy-weldy," The girl from before hugs Sheldon.
"And, um, I'm really starting to like...oh my gosh, Jenny's back!" He drops her and runs off. "Hey, Jenny!"
"Sheldy!" She cries out, heartbroken over this. Amy puts a hand on her forehead, sighing wearily. Just another day at Tremorton...
Nora sits alone in the prom hologram. "Here's your punch and cookies, Mom," XJ8 rolls over to her.
"Thank you, XJ8," She replies sullenly, sad that she won't be a teacher anymore.
"Would you like to dance now?"
"I said no, XJ8," She answers in annoyance.
"Okay, how about now?"
"Stop asking me that!" She glares up at the robot, and realizes too late that she's unable to drink the punch. The phone rings and she answers it. "Dr. Wakeman speaking."
"Wakeman, Razinsky. You worked a miracle with XJ9. Have you ever considered being a substitute teacher?"
She then smiles widely at the question.
The bell rings the next day as Jenny and Amy are the last ones in. "Vice Principal Razinsky, have I told you how-"
"Happy you are? Yes, three times. Would you please take your seat?" He gestures to the room.
"I sure will."
Amy just shakes her head, wondering if this is just a phase or that she'd have to deal with this very chipper Jenny for a while. And she doesn't mind Jenny being happy; what she does mind is having to hear about it so far 9 times.
Every single hour.
"Ms. Fossilbottom is out sick today. Luckily, I found a substitute teacher at the last minute," He gestures to the door, everyone gasping as it's the homeless guy from outside. Amy twitches an eye as he's in a dress and wig...
"Uh, so with your studies, I don't know where you got so far, so, um, I'm just gonna start from the beginning. It all started with a huge explosion! Yee-haw!"