Chapter 4!
For the longest time, this chapter had no name. I recently remembered an old episode of Family Guy.
Secret Squirrel, Morocco Mole, Huckleberry Hound, Boo-Boo Bear, Penny, Dee Dee, Magilla Gorilla, Super Snooper, Blabber Mouse, Chance Furlong, Jake Clawson, and Adam 'Atom' Ant belong to Hanna-Barbera
Bunny belongs to Craig McCracken and Cartoon Network
Chapter 4: The Lunch Hour
After skating at the park with Huck recording, of course, everyone decided to visit the art museum.
"Just like in Ferris Bueller," commented Huck, with glee.
Yes, the teens only went to the museum to make Ferris Bueller jokes, at least Secret actually tried to appreciate the art. Only Morocco notices his frustrations at this.
By the time, they got back to school, the lunch bell rang so, off to the cafeteria, they went. As they did, Boo-Boo decided to talk.
"Those were some neat tricks, Secret."
"Thanks."
"I can teach you my tricks," continued Boo-Boo, "if you teach me yours."
"I... don't know."
Bunny then decided to butt into this conversation by saying, "Huck wants to know if he put the video he made on YouTube."
"Why?" asked Secret.
Huck then answered, "'Cuz, your skateboard is...just wow."
Penny then said, walking next them, "You should call the video: Secret Squirrel: Best Skater in Town," looking at both Secret and Boo-Boo, before adding, "Next to Boo-Boo Bear," with a smirk.
"Alright," responded Huck, not noticing that Penny may have not been serious. Both the squirrel and the bear rolled their eyes.
Secret suddenly remembered that he had some money on him that he could use to pay for lunch.
...
"This pizza tastes like cardboard," Secret thought to himself as he chewing, sitting in a table all by himself, until Morocco joined him, followed by Penny, Bunny, and Dee Dee. Soon, the table was filled with students.
Secret was so used to sitting alone that he was surprised at how fast the students showed up at the table. He decided to just ignore them while he finished eating. As soon as he finished his pizza, Bunny asked rather casually, "You gonna eat that apple?"
Secret looked his apple for a moment and back to Bunny. He then made his decision. He threw his apple at Bunny, who caught it with her teeth and quickly ate it.
"Thanks, S. S.!" she shouted, cheerfully.
"Um... you're welcome, I guess," replied Secret, unused to this particular nickname.
Morocco then suddenly asked, "How's first day going, Secret?"
"Well... a lot better than expected, considering I was unconscious for most of it. It was better than the time I had to go to an all-human school."
"All-human school?" asked both Bunny and Dee Dee, "Like on TV?" None of the human students who grew up in this town ever been to an all-human anything.
"Yep," answered Secret with sarcastic cheerfulness, "Just like on TV but a million times worse!"
Penny, sipping soda from the vending machine, asked, "Really, how?"
"Picture this, a lone animal kid among specists in a building for eight hours five days a week. Now, obviously, he wants to left alone but, no they won't have that. So, the kid gets pushed around, knocked to the ground constantly, insulted in many ways, teachers doing nothing about it... they tug on my tail, yank my fur out," he said, gripping his tail tightly as he relived that memory, "They THREW acorns at me! All the time!"
Penny then angrily slamming her hand on the table, shouted, "How awful!"
"Yeah!" agreed Bunny, looking ready to bust some heads, just like Penny did.
"Yeah, well, I did put up with it until I made friends with this girl," he said, actually smiling and blushing a bit, "After that, anyone who messed with us got sent to the hospital," he added, cracking his knuckles.
Morocco then asked, "Who was she?"
"Just a really nice girl," Secret answered, "Her uncle's an ass, though."
Some of the students snickered at that comment, especially when Morocco said, "Okay."
"Care to elaborate, S. S.?" asked Bunny.
"No."
"Okay, fine," said Bunny, pulling out her cellphone and started texting.
Suddenly, all the lights in the cafeteria shut off. As crowds of people murmured about, looking around, wondering what was going on when out of nowhere, a sudden flash of purple pierced the darkness, which could only mean one thing: Bunny flew.
After a few more minutes, a spotlight started shining on... Bunny, who was floating and clearly loving the attention that she was getting. She grinned as someone in the crowd threw her a microphone. As soon as she caught it, she said into it, "Lunch ladies and garbage man! Guys and dolls! Bunny Rabbit, here, and for your viewing pleasure, here's Magilla Ice!"
As that's when a young gorilla dressed in colorful, baggy clothes that would have been lame for even for late '80s, early '90s standards suddenly jumping on a table behind her with an entourage of various other students, some from that gym class, others not, dressed in in similar gear, and started performing with the music blasting as soon as Bunny flew out of the way to gaze at her masterpiece.
It... was interesting...to say the least. But at least, a lot of the students in the cafeteria were getting a kick out of it. Huck was clearly smiling as he recorded the thing.
As soon as it was over, as soon as the performers got off the table and to the restroom to get out those ridiculous outfits, as soon as Bunny stopped laughing, all was normal and the lights came back on.
Secret Squirrel just sat there, staring with one of the most epic 'WTF' faces of all time. It certainly didn't go unnoticed. Penny saw and smiled, trying not to laugh.
"Okay, come on, Secret, wake up."
He was still frozen in shock.
"All right, Secret. You made your point, everybody's a critic, come on."
Still, frozen.
"Come on! Wake up!" she started shouting, frantically waving her hand in front of his face.
No response.
"This isn't funny! You're starting to scare me!" she shouted, even more frantic, snapping her fingers by his ears.
Still no reaction.
Penny decided to really do something about this. She considered slapping him but decided to only use it as a last resort, so she started to take off his baseball cap so she can... well, she hadn't really thought that though. But as she started to get it off, he start to stir.
"What the-?" he murmured as he pushed his hat back down, "What was that? I don't even-"
"That was a Vanilla Ice parody, or something," answered Penny, "What I don't get is why Magilla Gorilla? I mean, really? Magilla Ice? Sounds like an incredibly lame pun if you ask me."
"Yeah...I don't get the reference."
Penny's eyes widened, saying, "You know, Vanilla Ice. Ice, Ice Baby? Ninja Rap? Jim Carrey made fun of him once?"
"...I guess."
"I've heard his newer stuff's good," she said, shrugging her shoulders.
That's when Bunny came walking back to the table with that gorilla kid, apparently named Magilla, telling him, "So come by to the restaurant and I'll make you that giant banana split, just like I promised."
"Gee, thanks Bunny," he responded.
"No problem, bud, anytime and thanks for being such a trooper."
Bunny then took her seat back, near the two squirrels, and asked them, Secret mostly, "What do you think?"
"Kinda random," answered Penny, "Even for us. I thought you were gonna sing."
"Yeah, not the you singing part," added Secret, "What was the point to that?"
"Well..." started Bunny, grinning, "I sometimes review cartoons online and I needed that clip."
Penny then asked everyone at the table, "Speaking of which, anyone catch Critter's review last night?"
A good portion of the table and this includes Secret said yes.
"Wasn't it entertaining?" she asked.
But before anyone could respond, Hall Monitors Super Snooper and Blabber Mouse came by, toward Secret, specifically.
When Secret first met Snooper and Blabber, he didn't pay that close attention to them, other than the fact that they were a kat and a mouse working together, something he found interesting or weird. but now, he has a better chance at looking at them.
Super Snooper, (where do they come up with these names!) was a red-furred kat wearing a gray long-sleeved shirt with a high collar and some sort of sash draped from his shoulder to his hip, with a green plaid cap. He talked like a New York bartender, which was pretty frickin' sweet. Blabber Mouse (Seriously?!) was a shorter grey mouse wearing a dark blue sweater vest and a Luigi cap, apparently, he's a gamer. He talked with a lisp, which made the little guy even more adorkable than he already was.
Snoop then asked Secret, intensively, "Where were you the afternoon of fifteenth of January?"
"My room, unpacking, watching a comic book movie," was the response.
"Oh, really? Likely story, how do you even remember all that?"
"Okay, okay," said Secret, rolling his eyes, "You caught me. I actually got bored so I snuck out-"
"And...?"
"I walked to the nearest video game store and bought myself a new game."
"A-ha! Wait, what?"
"You heard me," answered Secret, shrugging his shoulders, bored, "I bought the last and greatest video game on fifteenth. Here's the receipt," he then reached down his hoodie and pulled out a folded slip of paper, handing it to Snoop.
Snoop, a little weirded out, examined the receipt, then looked up to say, "Okay, he checks out."
There was an awkward pause for a few moments until it was broken by who else, Bunny.
"Well, no shit, Sherlock, what did you think he was that thievin' rat?"
Snoop didn't answer but Blab nodded.
Dee Dee then asked, "How?"
"Even I find that ridiculous," commented Morocco, "Secret hasn't lived here long enough."
Soon, kids started arguing about who really was the thieving rat. It got so crazy that Secret put his hands in his pockets and walked way to buy a cup of coffee from the vending machines. As he soon as he took a sip, someone asked him, "You okay, New Kid?"
Secret looked up and saw that it was what's-his-face, name popping up in his mind, "Chance Furlong?"
"Yep!" he answered and tugged the arm of the nearest student, a skinnier kat with rusty red fur, fully dressed in a dark blue t-shirt and cargo shorts with black converse hi-tops, saying, "This is my best friend, Jake, Jake Clawson."
Jake then said, "So I finally get to meet the guy who blew up the gym teacher," smiling, rubbing his hands.
"Um...hi," responded Secret, awkwardly.
The three guys all watched the commotion at the table.
Chance then asked, "So... what's going on?"
"Um, well, that kat kid, Super Snooper just accused me of being some thieving rat."
Chance then burst out laughing, you couldn't really understand what he was saying except for words 'declawed' and 'loser'. Jake had to slap him on the back to clam him down.
"I'm...sorry," said Chance, breathing heavily, smiling, "I just can't believe that declawed kat honestly thought you were the thieving rat, I'm pretty sure you haven't been here long enough, plus, your tail's too fluffy. And he wants to be Batman when he grows up!"
Jake facepalmed saying, "Chance, he said he wanted to be the World's Greatest Detective or P.I, not Batman."
"Same thing."
"Well, so's Sherlock, what about that?"
"Well..."
Secret then said, "I'm gonna go. See ya, Chance, see ya, Jake," he headed back to the table but, someone tripped him, causing him to spill his coffee. Luckily, everyone manage to avoid the splash.
As Secret got back up, he heard some jerks laughing.
"It's that guy who tripped me earlier," he thought to himself and it took all his willpower to not punch him in the face.
He got back to his seat and the very first thing anyone said was, "Dude, you almost got hot coffee on Blab."
Secret, looking embarrassed, said, "Sorry, Blab."
"No worries," he said, turning to Snoop, saying, "Come on, Snoop," then he walked away with Snooper following, walking funny.
As soon they left, Secret asked, "So, what's this about a thieving rat?"
"Well..., we don't know exactly," explained Bunny, handing him a can of soda, "but like we said he'd been shoplifting for a year now."
"Why not do something about it?"
"Why?" asked Adam, "All he ever steals is a canned food and stuff. Us kids just don't see the big deal in losing some cans.
Secret almost choked on his soda when Penny suddenly shouted angrily, "Will you PLEASE shut up about the thieving rat?! GEEZ!"
Everyone in the table and a few others, in unison, said fine.
Now calm, Penny turned to Secret, asking, "Got any relatives nearby?"
"Just my uncle."
"Cool!" said Bunny, butting to their conversation, "What's his name and what does he do?"
"Well...," started Secret, "I don't know exactly but we typically call him by his old high school nickname, Undercover, I think."
Silence filled the air as soon he said that, eyes on him, until they all, like a tsunami, bombarded the poor squirrel with questions, comments, stories, all about how awesome his uncle is. It literally knocked him out of his seat. As he got back up, the bell rang and the crowd immediately started to disperse.
"Talk about being saved by the bell," Secret thought to himself as he went on his way to his next class.
To Be Continued...
You know what's weird? There are two Yo Yogi references in this after I put up that Yo Yogi story. See ya later dudes.