woot woot! expect to see tons and tons of lyrics guys! the battle is finally starting! -though it's a freindly battle to see who's better...

MARSHALL'S POV

"okay everybody! The moment you've all been waiting for, the talent show auditions! Let's see our first contenders! Each group will be allowed to perform 1-3 songs as long as the songs they perform are in the genre specified to them by the judges" the speaker paused and brought out a piece of paper

"okay… for everyone who didn't see the list of genres here it is; for the populars they'll be performing rock songs or pop rock songs. For the hard metals: folk, the' hip hoppity hipsters' *pfffffft* they'll be performing reggae songs. For the 'country side meadows' they'll be performing blues and lastly the punks will be performing pop or pop rock songs" [very confusing paragraph sorry]

"hey marsh!" I heard bubba whisper

"yeah?"

"did you see who was first?"

"um… I think it's the hip hop people, then country um… hard metal, us, then the punks"

"oh… that's good were one of the last"

"second to the last actually" bonnie added

"so you guys decided to go first huh?"

"of course! We want to see if you guys could follow our performance!"

"oh, we can and we will!" finn said happily "I'm just worried if Marceline and gang can follow our performance" he added. I gave him a quick glare and he freaked out at once

*sigh*"I know they're gonna beat our performance" I said sadly "with all of them together… they're invincible!" I said slowly

"tch, you're still saying that!" Fionna said angrily "jeez! How are you our leader!?"

"umm, you guys wanted me to be the leader?" I said "but I'm serious… you guys haven't seen how serious they can get! If they give 100% today the judges will just give them the trophy"

"why do you believe in her so much!?" Ashley screamed

"why don't you guys believe in her?" I raised an eyebrow

"because!" she said. I looked at her.

"they're gonna do great! But we're gonna do great too guys" I gave them a reassuring smile, even though it wasn't real they believed me "good luck guys"

MARCELINE'S POV

"hoo!" lily huffed

"what's up lil?"

"n-nothing! It's just that… it's our first time performing as a group again –but… without Marshall"

"oh yeah…" Kaitleen said. Kicking her feet on the desk she was sitting on "I bet we'll still do good! We have Marcy with us!"

"—but if she left we'd be screwed, dead meat." Kris added quickly, he was sitting on a few boxes that were piled up right beside Kaitleen

"tch, when will you stop being such a pessimist!?" Kaitleen smacked him on the head and Kris muttered a sorry. "hmph!" she said. I couldn't help but laugh

"queen?" Alex asked

"haha, it's nothing! I just missed seeing all of us together!" I said while waving my hand jokily "you guys are so cute together!"

"I guess it is good having you guys around!" Alice said

"yeah, it's great seeing you too lis [short cut for Alice. It should be 'lice but… you know why] afterward we ended up laughing for the rest of the time. When I looked at Marshall's side they all looked stressed and unhappy. If only—

If only you were here, laughing with us… like old times… everything would be perfect…

if only= scary words! just like 'what if'