A/N: I'm just feeling awesome with these more than 1,000 chapter submissions, that's usually my limit on chapter submissions on stories unless they're based on RP's I do with friends. Another chapter, enjoy!
"Come on, you wanna piece of me? I'll show you!" Mike's voice came from inside the arcade. She had been playing a Snake Cowboys from Outer Space video game. She wiggled her hand on the joystick and bashed some buttons as she had an aggressive, determined look on her face. "Take that, you alien invader! You messed with the wrong girl!" She hit the last button and she had won the game. "Whoa! I won and I never played this game before! Who's the girl? Who's the girl? I got 50,000 points!"
"That girl got 50,000 points." a boy whispered to the other.
"A girl got the high score in a video game?" the other asked, in shock.
Mike turned to them with a smile. "50,000 points!"
"Did you just get 50,000 points?" a geeky teenage boy asked. He was your average nerd stereotype and had pimples on his face with square glasses with tape on, he even wore a bow tie.
"That's right." Mike liked the attention she was getting.
"Congratulations, little girl," the teenager shook her hand. "No one's ever beaten the old high school of 12,300 points, especially a girl like yourself. Would you like to be on the gamer wall of fame?"
"Boy, would I?"
"Say, cheese!"
The teenager took out a camera and flashed a photograph of Mike. She was then awarded on the wall of fame. She then checked the time. "Whoa, I've been gone longer than I thought, it's close to dinner time." she left the arcade with a bunch of boys worshipping her. "Now, where's Lu...?" she asked herself.
Mike went around seeing the shops she would expect Lu to go to. She asked around for a girl with long brown hair with golden hoop earrings. She went to the shoe store, the perfume shop, the make-up salon, the hair stylist, but so far no one had heard of or seen Lu. Mike was about to give up, then she saw Lu with a bunch of city girls having a milkshake together with four straws.
"Lu, there you are!" Mike came over.
Lu stopped sipping and turned her head. "Oh, hi Mike!"
Mike smiled back. "It's about time for dinner, let's go find Jamie."
"Okay, hang on." Lu told her.
"Who's that?" Samantha wrinkled her nose.
"Uhh... No one, Samantha..." Lu turned back to the blonde girl nervously.
"You just became our friend, do you wanna lose our friendship already?" Samantha glared. She then snapped her fingers which made Lauren and Briana glare too as if they were under her alpha popular girl hypnotic trance.
"Yeah!" Briana and Lauren agreed.
Lu looked back at Mike nervously, then looked back at the girls. "I swear, I don't know that girl!"
"She just said your name..." Lauren accused Lu.
"Oh, umm... She's the poor savage girl that lives with my family back home," Lu boasted, folding her arms and sticking her nose in the air snooty. "She's from a deserted island."
Mike's eyes widened. "What! You're the one from an island!"
"Girl, you better check yourself," Briana scoffed at the red-head. "This girl's father is the governor!"
Lauren nodded, not saying anything, but nodding toward Briana.
"Look girls," Lu turned to her new posse. "I better take the savage girl home, she probably needs to be locked back up in her cage before she attacks again. She was so close to killing a baby the last time I let her out and didn't bring her leash."
Samantha, Lauren and Briana shrugged.
"It's cool, we out anyway, we'll see you later, Princess Lu." Samantha said, snapping her fingers to have the girls follow her.
Briana and Lauren followed Samantha.
"Okay, let's go." Lu told Mike with a smile.
"What was that about?" Mike asked, folding her arms. "I'm a savage girl that sleeps in a cage and walks around with you on a leash."
"Hey, I need to make myself sound interesting if I'm ever going to have friends."
"Yeah, but calling me a savage!? You know, if I wasn't as nice as I was when I came to the island, I'd probably call you a savage since you're an island girl!"
Lu gasped, feeling hurt. "How dare you!"
Mike rolled her eyes. "Come on, we better meet Jamie for dinner." she walked off.
Lu looked around to make sure her new friends weren't watching, so she hopped out of the stool she was on and quickly followed Mike to find her brother.
The girls looked all around as the mall was closing soon. "There he is!" Mike pointed and went toward her older brother. "Hey, Jamie!"
"Oh, there you are, kid!" Jamie laughed, holding her tight into a bear hug.
Mike laughed and saw someone with Jamie. "Oh, who's this?"
"Mike, this is my other friend, Kiva," Jamie introduced the future girl. "I like to call her 'Red'." Jamie nudged her shoulder.
"Don't touch me." Kiva darted her eyes at the black-haired boy.
"Kiva, huh? Are you an alien?" Lu raised an eyebrow. She had never heard that name before.
"No," Kiva shook her head. "Are you a spoiled brat?" she asked, seeing how Lu's nature was and the way she was dressed.
Lu gasped and glared at the red-headed older girl.
"Come on, we're meeting Coop at his place for some chow." Jamie said, gesturing for the girls to follow him.
"Coop smells like a guy I sat next to at a baseball game," Mike spoke up, voicing her opinion. "He was really big and fat, his belly button showed with hair all over his body and his burps smelled like chili cheese nachos."
"Oh, Mike, how unsanitary!" Lu grunted, plugging her nose.
Mike came back to her, glaring. "You didn't have to come, Princess..."
Lu scoffed and kept walking her best.
Coop's mom came over by them and made them some dinner. A bunch of mixed vegetables such as carrots, cauliflower, and broccoli was the side. There was honey baked ham as the meat along with another side with creamy mashed potatoes with gooey, melting butter on top. Coop's mom also gave them water to drink.
Lu stared at her dinner as the others ate.
"Aren't ya gonna eat?" Mike asked, smiling from the deliciousness of the food she had eaten so far today. It felt like ages since she ate food that wasn't coconut based.
"I don't know what I'm eating..." Lu pushed her food aside, refusing to even give it a try.
"Little girl, we eat everything on our plate in this house if we want dessert." Mrs. Cooplowski scolded the 'princess'.
"Yeah, kid, eat your vegetables!" Coop urged her.
"Harold, don't be such a hypocrite and eat your own vegetables or you won't be getting a slice of banana cream pie I made earlier today!"
"Aw, Mom!"
"Harold..."
Coop grunted and forced himself to eat his vegetables.
"That's a good boy... Now, you kids can play video games, as long as you're in bed by 9:00."
"Mom, I'm a grown man!"
"Sure, you are..." Mrs. Cooplowski mumbled under her breath, leaving the kitchen to let them eat in peace.
"So, how are you liking New Jersey so far, Mike?" Jamie asked his sister, as he finished his food.
"It's okay, I guess, but I can't wait until I go back home to New York, but it's nice to have a week off the exchange program and get a taste of my city life roots," Mike smiled, her face in her hands. "No offense, but home's a lot better."
No one was really paying attention to Lu, but she didn't care. She kept staring dreamily at Jamie like he were the most handsome man she had ever seen. Probably a given since her father hadn't found her a suitor yet, this is likely granted since she is only ten years old.
"You guys can stay at my place after we get finish eating." Jamie told the girls for their sleeping arrangements.
Coop coughed a little after drinking some water. He gaped at Jamie. "You had your own place this whole time and you never told me?"
Jamie stared back at him. "I usually come over to avoid paying rent... Plus, there's no way I'm going back to my parents."
"Why don't you come back?" Mike's voice cracked.
"Oh, it's nothing against Mom and Dad," Jamie assured her with a friendly smile, sensing her sadness. "I just don't wanna tell them that I dropped out of college."
"Oh..." Mike seemed to understand now.
"Seriously Jamie, why didn't you ever tell me you had your own place?" Coop demanded.
"You have the world's comfiest basement couch, okay, dude!?" Jamie glanced at him, sighing heavily. "Geez, get off my back, you're worse than my mother..."
"And I thought Mom was mad when she named me Michelene." Mike muttered quietly.
That night, Jamie took Mike and Lu to his apartment. Luckily, it had a bed for him and two smaller beds for Mike and Lu to sleep in. Jamie got in his normal clothes and brushed his teeth. "You girls must be ready for bed, you had a lot of excitement today."
"Yeah, I'm whipped." Mike yawned, wearing her short-sleeved pink nightgown with frilly white lace.
"I haven't been this tired in all my life..." Lu yawned too. She wore a red long-sleeved top with matching bottoms that had yellow stars designed around them.
"You should fall asleep quick tonight," Jamie smiled and turned out the light of their side of the room and opened the door to his part of the room. "Good night, girls."
"Good night, Jamie..." both girls said.
Mike and Lu really did fall asleep fast that night. Lu snored a bit loudly which made Mike wake up. The red-headed girl left the bed and opened the door to get a quick drink of water. While there, Jamie was on the phone and he quickly hung up. He turned and jumped back a bit as he saw Mike was standing right there.
"Jamie, what's going on?"
"Oh, sorry Mike, I didn't mean to wake you."
"You didn't, Sleeping Obnoxious did back there." Mike rolled her eyes, pointing back to Lu's snoring.
"Aw, I'm sorry Mike, I'm on my way with Coop and Kiva to ride Megas, we'll be back by breakfast for you two tomorrow." Jamie got on his knee, bending to her height.
"Can I go with you? I wanna see Megas up close, how do you ride a giant robot?" Mike was wide awake now with curiousness and excitement.
"Sorry, little sis, it's too dangerous for a kid your age. You might get hurt."
"Please Jamie, let me ride Megas with you..."
Jamie looked at her and sighed. "Okay, you can come. Should we wake Lu and take her?"
Mike looked back at the bed, then back at her brother. "Nah, I don't think she'll even notice we're gone."
"Well, okay... Get dressed, it's chilly this evening." Jamie advised.
"I don't have any jackets, they're all back home." Mike answered. She knew she would be spending a lot of her time on an island, so why bother pack something warm to wear when you'd be walking around on the beach every single day?
Jamie hummed, then had an idea. He went into his closet and took out one of his old jakcets. "Here, you can have this one."
"Are you sure?" Mike asked, putting it on and zipping it up with her socks and sneakers.
"I have a few extras." Jamie explained, showing he had several identical jackets that were the same size, design and color.
"Okay," Mike smiled. "Let's go."
Jamie went to meet Coop and Kiva. Coop and Kiva warned Jamie that it might be dangerous to bring a child, but he told them that she could handle it. They got into Coop's truck and Coop hit a button which transformed into the robot known as Megas XLR.
"THIS IS AWESOME!" Mike screamed.
"It's about to get even awesomer." Coop told her with a smile as he made the robot walk around the city.
Mike laughed as she watched the view with Kiva. The girls smiled at each other as they saw the views.
"Wow... The city looks so cool from this height..." Mike smiled. "You guys do this all the time?"
"Yeah, we're New Jersey's best protectors." Jamie told her, laying back, feeling proud and acting rather smug.
"Hey, what's that?" Mike pointed in the distance.
"What's what?" Kiva, Coop, and Jamie asked at once.
The four of them all looked within the sky and saw something coming for the surface to destroy the Earth.
"It's rogues, we better scare 'em off, Jamie, take your sister home, this could get too dangerous for a kid." Kiva sounded determined.
"Aw, come on, let me help!" Mike hated that she would be excluded just because she was a kid.
"Sorry, little sister, but you could get hurt, or worse, killed..." Jamie sounded like a real older brother toward Mike now.
Megas went to Jamie's apartment and dropped Mike off. She then stood outside the door with the room key and watched Megas walk off. She refused to be excluded like this.
"I'll show them... Mike Mavinsky is no little kid!" the red-headed girl huffed and walked into the room to get back to sleep with Lu.