Chapter 7: Ms Baclay Disrupts Lessons
A/N: Hello you people! Actually, I wanted to type "Ms Baclay Disrupts Lessons (But it's Not Her Fault)" but I was afraid it wouldn't be able to show up in the text box or whatever.
By the way, FA stands for Forever Alone. I've no idea how it became a noun when it's supposed to be an adjective, but who the poo cares?
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"Let's go," Blue said. "She won't be deterred for long."
Red was about to run, but then stopped. "Go where?" he asked innocently.
Blue was about to face-palm but then realised that for the first time in a long while, Red actually did make sense. "Um..." She rubbed her head slightly. "Cut school?" she suggested in a small voice.
Three pairs of eyes - one pair red, one pair green and one pair yellow - widened like balloons. "C-cut school?!" the three of them echoed incredulously.
"It's not like we have anywhere else to go," Blue said defensively. "The library is a big no-no, we can't hide in the loos because we're a pair of girls and a pair of guys and we can't hide in the toilet for handicapped people."
That would be disturbing, Red thought.
"How about the Pokéteria?" Green suggested with slight desperation in his voice.
"Nah, too easy," Blue replied. "Outside of school, it would be hard for her to find us anywhere but inside school, she can find us anywhere, and who knows what will happen!"
The other three mulled over it in silence. Blue did make sense after all.
"Oh, fine," Green muttered. "But if we're caught, I'm blaming you."
Blue grinned. "Fine with me."
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The students in Gold's class blinked when they heard Pokémon cries and the commands of Trainers.
"Don't tell me there's some people up there having a battle?" Gold remarked.
"Blue-san's year so rocks like heck!" Lyra cheered.
"I wouldn't wanna be there if you ask me," Silver muttered.
"We weren't going to anyway," Gold replied.
Silver continued as though Gold hadn't spoken. "Far too noisy..."
Lyra counted on her fingers. "You hadn't said more than... thirty words for the entire day," she said casually. "Give or take, that is. My math isn't rocking the world."
"Students!" Mr Draymond boomed. "Get back to your test!"
"It's not like we can concentrate with all the kerfuffle upstairs," Gold pointed out.
Lyra's hand shot up. "And I second that!" She grinned.
Gold and Lyra were the hugest troublemakers in the class. People often thought they were a couple but they denied it (without panicking) and just said that they were good friends. Besides, Lyra had a major crush on Silver while Gold had a thing for Crystal (maybe it was her outfit that was wooing Gold - the red top blue overalls outfit).
"Lyra, Gold! After school, the two of you will stay back for detention!" Mr Draymond barked.
Lyra and Gold looked at each other and shrugged; after all, detentions were practically their daily timetable. Detentions weren't the end of the world to them - sometimes it's the start of the world.
Lyra fiddled with her denim shorts. "Fine... Whatever you say... Mr Almond," she added in a whisper.
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"Wait..." Red said.
"Wait for what now?!" Blue exploded.
"How are we gonna escape?" Red asked.
Blue blinked. Was Red in practical mood that day? "Um... Ditty, I suppose," she answered, feeling slightly unsettled.
But before Blue could send Ditty out, Ms Baclay burst out from a broom cupboard, with mop-strings or whatever they're called on her head like mad wigs and even more sticking out of her mouth, ears and nostrils. Blue, Green and Yellow made "ew" faces and Red started laughing until his sides ached terribly and begged him for mercy.
"Seriously?" Red scoffed while howling his head off. "A broom cupboard? Where else will she appear out from next? The pond, dressed like a Magikarp?"
Blue was ignoring Red. "Crud," she muttered. "Even if we cut school, she'll somehow find us. Maybe she's stalking us?" She paused. "Wait, that sounds very wrong. And it would be more wrong if she were a guy..." She paled.
"Let's just stop wondering if Ms Baclay will suddenly poof out, looking like a Magikarp or whatever," Green said dangerously, "or if she's stalking us and the aspects of stuff that sound wrong. And I don't mean 'wrong' by 'wrong answer' kinda wrong." He looked rather uncomfortable.
Yellow was about to burst. Ms Baclay was merely metres away from them! "Look, take the arguing somewhere else!" she (Yellow) cried.
Blue nodded in agreement. "Let's go somewhere... Anywhere! As long as we're dead away from the woman of death markers,"she said.
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The students in Mr Draymond's class were (forced) back to the test after loads of screaming on "Mr Almond's" part and loads of arguing on Gold's part.
"YOU SHALL COME BACK HERE!"
"MAKE ME!"
The class of thirty-four students looked up from their test about Pokémon Evolution. "What the heck?!" all of them muttered (some yelled).
"HEY HEY HEY!" yelled a teenaged guy's voice. "WAIT FOR ME!"
There was a female giggle. "WHO WOULD WAIT FOR AN FA LIKE YOU?"
"I'M SO NOT AN FA!"
"YES YOU ARE!" the female retorted. "EVERYBODY KNOWS THAT!"
"EVERYBODY KNOWS BULL CRAP!"
"SHUT UP!" a different voice roared.
The door was kicked open. Red, Blue, Green and Yellow dashed in.
"Real sorry, guys!" Yellow cried in between pants. "But we're escaping the teacher of doom - EEK!"
"MARKERS! IT SHALL BE RAINING MARKERS!" Ms Baclay, who just burst in, shrieked. "I'LL MAKE SURE OF THAT!"
"Oh, shucks," Red commented. "You three are gonna be toasted FAs! JK," he added when he saw the other three glaring at him. "Well, we'll be toast if we linger, so we'll be going right now...!" He ran out while making loud stomping sounds.
Lyra's face lit up. "Yeah!" she cheered. "Now it's our turn for some fun!" She stood up and got into a fighting stance (think Kong Fu Panda). "Oi, lady with really long grey hair on her head, growing out of her nose and ears and grey hair in her mouth! Have you been eating you hair lately?" She shrugged. "C'mon! Let's fi-"
Silver grabbed Lyra's hand and hurried out of the room. "Lyra..." the redhead muttered. "There's a time to fight and a time to say 'crap' and run. And I don't see what's so fun about being beaten up by a bunch of markers."
"Markers won't do that much damage," Gold said, sauntering out with a very agitated Crystal pushing him forward. "However, Crystal's kicking is a whole other story."
While they were running (Crystal had finally succeeded in making Gold run), they passed a very oddly-placed shelf thingy-jamig. Oddly-placed because it was filled with sports equipment, when the actual room for sports equipment was downstairs (though it was more of a hole in the wall).
"You know, I've always wondered why they placed this closet whatever here instead of downstairs at the sports equipment room!" Gold said.
"And I've always reasoned it's because the room isn't really a room and more of a hole someone made in the wall," Lyra replied. "It doesn't make sense because the classrooms and science labs and whatever are all way bigger. Isn't sports just as important?"
"Let's discuss the architecture and layout of our school another time, perhaps!" Crystal suggested, feeling more and more like a babysitter.
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The class was absolute chaos. In fact, Ruby felt like he was the only person who hadn't lost his marbles in the entire class (or school, if you look at it). The students made use of the teacher's absence differently. The girly girls were painting their nails and gossiping. The tomboyish girls (except Sapphire) were hanging out with the manly dudes. Sapphire was humping (sort of) the table (which didn't make much sense). Emerald was sleeping, so maybe he was another sane person in the class.
Just when Ruby thought the class couldn't get crazier, something just had to prove him wrong. Ms Baclay, an insane teacher as defined by the students, blasted herself in (apparently she was blasted by a Hydro Pump). The students freaked out and fought fiercely to get out.
"You get out!"
"No you get out!"
"Hey, I was there first!"
"Y-you guys are so childish..." said a wimpy voice.
"And you're so frail," snapped Sapphire, shoving her way out.
Ruby was about to leave but then saw Emerald still snoozing in lalaland. "Oi, Emerald! Wake up, man!" That last word coming from Ruby didn't make sense since the said boy was kinda... Homo.
"Nngh..." Emerald rubbed his eyes. "Why is it so noisy?"
"It's about time you realised!" Ruby burst out. "It's been this chaotic for about forty-five minutes!"
"Oh, well-"
Ruby could not hear what Emerald said because there was a whole new commotion outside. There was a lot of yelling (besides the ones emitted from Ruby's classmates) and mentions of FAs.
"Ugh, who's the FA?" Ruby groaned. He stomped outside to see what the whole shebang was about.
Apparently, Red was the FA, or as according to Blue.
"Look, the two of you can argue all you want," Green snapped at the said FA and the girl identifying the FA. "Just be prepared to get bombarded by markers and whatnots."
"What an emo..." Red grumbled.
"What an FA," Green shot back.
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Diamond, Pearl and Platinum were smart and very social. The news about the marker-flinger Ms Baclay had travelled speedily across the school. That's how they were very social. They were also smart because they decided to make a run for it while they had the oppurtunity.
The trio tore through the school and hid themselves in the tall grass after spraying themselves with some Max Repel, the longest lasting Repel of all the Repels.
"Okay, this is not very elegant, but at least it is harder for anyone to spot us," Platinum mumbled.
"Oh, so even in a dire situation like this," Pearl teased, "you can still worry about elegance, huh?"
She rolled her eyes but let the matter drop.
Crunch...
"Okay, who's the cool dude eating?" Pearl said, the crunching getting on his nerves.
Diamond happily raised his left hand, his right scooping up the potato chips from the bag. "Me!"
Pearl face-palmed. "Ugh... The two of you are insane! A certain lady is freaking out about elegance and all that crap and then there's this guy-" He pointed at Diamond. "-who's actually eating when our survival is at risk!"
Platinum's head turned sharply. She focused her steely gaze to Pearl, who suddenly felt the temperature drop a little. "Touch wood," she said in a low and dangerous tone. "You hear me?"
"Y-yes ma'am!" Pearl replied with a salute, terrified. "I'm too young to be deaf!"
Damn, she's scary when she does that, the blond with gravity-defying hair thought while a shier snaked down his spine.
The blond felt something tickling his back. "Okay, who's the smart-ass tickling my wonderful back?" he snapped.
"It's just grass, Pearl," Platinum informed the impatient boy.
"Says the girl who's worrying about elegance in grass when there's this lunatic storming our school," Pearl huffed, folding his arms.
"Of course!" Platinum said indignantly. "This skirt is unimaginably expensive!"
"Like all your other clothes," Pearl retorted, grinning. He liked teasing and arguing when it came to Platinum. He even liked her, but just a teeny bit. "Besides, aren't you rich?"
The rich girl opened her mouth, but she didn't know what to say, since Pearl had a point. She shut her mouth and glared at Pearl, who had his victory smirk on.
And this is the same guy who said I'm nuts, Diamond thought with a sweat-drop.
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A/N: I said "an FA" because "a FA" doesn't sound right to me. Does it to you! Tell me in the awesomely cool of form of a review.
Yeah! I introduced a bit of SoulSilvershipping and Haughtyshipping. I'm so happy.
Anyway, I know the part about Sapphire doing who knows what to the table doesn't make sense. Especially since the word I used... Doesn't make sense...
A Repel is something that keeps weak wild Pokémon away. I kinda took that from the game... And yes, a Max Repel is the longest lasting Repel of all of them.