It was a very annoying night's sleep that night, just being worried about the next day. The ROR frat had been cheating against us before, now that they had nothing to lose, who knew what would happen. So, having a problem sleeping and waking up at night for about an hour at a time, I finally got up at 3 o clock and told the ones who were watching at this time, those being Sully and Don, that I needed to go for a night stroll to get myself tired enough. They said to be careful and I proceeded to the football stadium, me going there and trying to look around before I then saw... something that made me frown. Right there, in the room that was made for my team on the left, was none other than Randal, Johnny, and Reggie, all three of them were looking at our names that had been listed on the thing and trying to decide which one was going to be last on the list.
"Which one of those wimps would be last, do ya think?" Reggie asked in annoyance.
"I overheard from Hardscrabble that they want Mike to go last. Something about a secret bet, but I didn't hear too much, they were speaking real soft-like," Johnny frowned, me growling internally as I edged closer while they stayed in place, me then taking out my phone and hiding it just enough where I could record them.
"Then we'll make it so that Mike ends up getting the easiest score! And if they happen to win, we out them to the whole school as being no-good cheaters! HAHA! It's foolproof! Then they'll finally get kicked out and we can rise back to the top next year!" Randal smirked, me frowning at him as I then videoed the trio tampering with the final settings, me then smirking as I then got a genius idea, but it was for sure a risky one. I would switch which one I would choose for being my room, since I still had the rules that I could choose who goes where. And I could very easily show this stuff to Hardscrabble, since they ended up breaking the setting meter in the process so it wouldn't be upped back to 10.
After witnessing this, I then went straight for Hardscrabble's place at the campus, it being the mansion that we hid inside during Hide and Sneak. I knocked on the door at least five times before ringing her doorbell thrice. And when I waited for about a minute, Hardscrabble opened the door, her top being in the form of a very silky nigh shirt, which made me smile at how she was half asleep... until seeing that I was the one to wake her up.
"What are you doing here at this hour? It's not time for scaring, you know," she frowned at me.
"I just wanted to show you some evidence," I said as I then played the video of recording that I managed to snag, which she watched before then gawking in anger.
"Why those no-good cheaters! Why would they do this?!" she growled at me.
"Because of me. They overheard that we made a bet about Mike being the last on the list, but they didn't know what the bet really was. They plan to have Mike get the perfect score at the end to make you think that we cheated, then, if we were to be the winners, we'd end up getting outed as being such. They have no idea about the repercussions of their actions. That I'd get banished if I lost or that you'd step down if we won," I frowned, which made her pout.
"Fine, then. I'm willing to renegotiate our terms so long as you do the same," she said, me nodding at that.
"We'll make it a little more menial than our prior big bet. If I win, I want you to give me a recipe to the tastiest cake you know how to make. I want to get a birthday cake for my little sister," I said, her smiling at me.
"Very well. And if I am the winner, then you'll simply need to make it so that you work back to the scare program from the start," she said, me gawking at that. "You've surprised me more than any student thus far in this competition's history. If Mike does happen to win this with the highest score, I will also give you, Mike, and Sully straight tickets to Scare Program 2, rather than Scare Program 1," she said, me smirking at that.
"Thank you, Dean... and sorry for waking you up so late at night," I smiled at her.
"It's quite alright. After all, scarers work best in the dark," she smirked, me nodding as I then went back to my place, now feeling contented and knowing that we had a good way to succeed, we'd just need to work way harder during the finals.
After sleeping until 7 in the morning, which was enough to get me rested enough, we then got our morning routine finished up and, after a quick refresher of our scare skills, we were now ready for the final round, but I did let the team know that ROR was hoping to cheat against us once again and hope to get us busted for cheating.
"How so?" Narleen asked.
"By making it so that the last one to go, which I bet with Hardscrabble that it'd be Mike to prove a point, that their scare simulation would be on baby bedwetter. Level 1. They wanted to make it so Mike got a perfect score and blame us for being cheaters. They did not, however, account for the fact that I was recording them doing said sabotage," I said, the group smirking at that as I then went to the Scare Games and, when we got to the stadium, I then saw the entire stands were filled with students, and it even included Bill Sullivan and one of Mike's relatives, her being a taller and skinner version of Mike.
"Hey! That's my aunt Gertrude in the stands! I guess word spread far, haha!" Mike smiled, which I smirked at as well.
"Now, the rules for the final round are simple! You'll compete head-to-head in the Scare Simulator at its highest level! You'll be graded as individuals on scales of 1-20, with the final score being up to 160! Whoever gets the highest score will be the winners of the Scare Games!" Brock shouted, which got the crowd to cheer as about half were chanting OK and the other half were SCP. "Now, according to the Scare Game Rules, we asked the leader of OK, that being Barri Bigfoot, what the final lineup would be. And here it is!" Brock said, the list being shown after. The crowd ooed and ah'd at how my listing I made started with Don going up against Undine, then Sully against Catra, Squishy V Dapper, Art V Bile, Narleen V Voicebox, Terri and Terry V Oozeback, myself V Bucky, and finally, Mike V Shapeshifter, which Ursa Shift actually changed her pass picture to look like her true form, which I smiled at how she was in said form with a smile at me.
"No hard feelings to whoever wins. Give it your all, because we will too," she smiled at me.
"Exactomongus," I smiled at her as we then had it so that my side was on the right while SCP's was on the left, which I could tell that the remaining members of ROR were shocked at, which I smiled at how they were grumbling, since they knew they couldn't interfere until the end. And then, the scaring began, with Don rushing as fast as he could alongside Undine to the door, him reading up the scare before then entering and us seeing on the big screens on how they proceeded. Undine did a good scare and managed to get to 12, but my training with Don had paid off, as he managed to net 14 points, getting Oozma in the lead!
"Haha! Nice work there, old codger!" Undine smiled at him after they exited their rooms.
"This old dog still has a few tricks up his sleeves," Don smirked back at her as we then had Sully against Catra, the duo rushing off the start and going to their scares, me wondering if Sully's would be the same as in the movie or not. And shortly after, we saw it actually was different. His was to do Tired Phyllis in the morning, with a hissing chortle, which he had improved so well, he got 17 total points while Catra managed to get 18! A very close one!
"Whew! She wasn't kidding when she said she was training ya! Good work there, big guy!" Catra smirked at him.
"Same to you, big girl," Sully smiled back as we then had Squishy rush off alongside Dapper, his being the silent sneaker with a freaky face. And Squishy? He got 18 points while Dapper got 15!
"Oooh wow! This is tense! SCP better get back in the running soon!" Claire shouted on the PA system, obviously loving it. And PNK was cheering wildly at us.
"GO GO, OOZMA! SCP! LITTLE GUYS AND SCARY CREEPS! GOOOO!" they cheered like a cheerleader band, me smiling at them rooting for both sides. Then came Art and Bile, Art doing his scare to net a total of 16 and actually tying his score with Dapper.
"Dang, robbed. Good job, Artie," Bile spoke to him.
"You're doing good yourself, Bile," Art smirked, which was now time for the next one, Narleen V Voicebox. And considering Narleen had the widest range, she proved how great she was at scaring when she managed to get a total of 19 points while Voicebox got a 20, which the crowd cheered at how close of a match it was getting to!
"IMPRESSIVE showing from Narleen and Voicebox! Can this event get any more hype?!" Brock shouted out loud, the next being the twin T's versus Oozeback. The Terri and Terry twins managed to net a total of 15 while Oozeback got a 14, which now meant it was me going against Bucky next, who looked a lot like a wendigo when you really thought of it.
"When we end this, no matter the winner, we're holding a party with tons of sweets. You're cordially invited," Bucky said, me smiling at her as we then rushed off and I saw that my scare would be the same as Sully's in the final movie, that being a girl that was afraid of thunderstorms and lions. So I needed to give out the loudest roar that I could! I did the deed and roared super loud, to the point the ground shook slightly! And after I succeeded, I then walked out of my room to see that... I got a perfect 20! And Bucky had managed a 19, meaning that Mike really needed to get a 20 on his turn if we wanted to win the bet, but we did still have a good lead of 114 to 119. We just had to make sure that Mike got a 15 or higher, which, if we got a tie, then the final would be a tiebreaker between the two leaders of either team, going to scare a last-minute scare simulation right after.
"Okay, here it is. The coup de grace. Let's prove that the little guys have the biggest bites, right, Mike?" Ursa smiled at the green cyclops.
"You got it, Ursa," Mike smiled as the duo then rushed down the field, them then reading their roles and me waiting for the final results... we saw Ursa scare the kid to get the perfect 20 from her scare, which was actually hard to tell if it were a fluke, since it was awesome! As for Mike? His was the very same scare that I'd first pointed out his execution issues with. The screeching monkey. And after he did his scare, we then gawked at what happened. Mike managed to get a perfect 20! The entire stadium erupted in cheers and applause as I looked over at ROR and the members looked at me with their mouths agape in disbelief. The entire stadium was chanting for my team in glee.
"OOZMA! KAPPA! OOZMA! KAPPA! the crowd cheered, me going to Mike and smiling at him, giving him a fist bump before then holding him over my shoulder.
"And thus, we have our winner! WOOO!" I cheered loudly. And once the excitement had finally died down and after we got our big, shiny trophy, the crowds dispersing was the time for ROR to come over to us and look at us angrily.
"You broke the rules, OK! And we're going to show you up BIG TIME for this!" Johnny growled at me.
"Oh, really. And how, pray tell, did we cheat again?" I asked them, Johnny growling at me.
"I saw everything! You walked over here and tampered with both of the scare simulations! Here, watch," Johnny said as he proceeded to show that the machines for BOTH machines had been busted! And only for the final members!
"Hmph. And how did you know EXACTLY where to look to know where we supposedly cheated?" I asked him before then pointing something out about the one on my team's side. "Also, you really think that I'm dense? None of us in Oozma Kappa have scales, so explain why there's some purple scales on the dial button," I said, Johnny then looking at Randal, who looked at him with concern, me frowning at him. "I already have video evidence that it was you messing with the one on the left side, ROR. Specifically, Johnny, Reggie, and Randal. I saw everything," I frowned at them, the trio then gulping as I then saw the sight of Hardscrabble appear from behind them.
"HAH! And we could just take it from you right now after we beat you up! You don't have anything to stop us!" Johnny smiled, trying to sound tough.
"Is that so, Worthington?" Hardscrabble asked as the ROR frat leader then tried to feign innocence.
"AH! D-Dean Hardscrabble! Oozma Kappa cheated! They fixed their side so that they'd get a perfect score for Mike!" Johnny shouted, which Hardscrabble shook her head no.
"You are so dense. You think that you can just coast through life with your money. I was shown everything already by miss Bandifoot, here. She showed me you were messing with the one originally meant for Oozma Kappa, so I decided to watch over you after she showed that you did so. And what do I see? Fixing one machine wasn't bad enough, you also had to fix this one, too," Hardscrabble said angrily, the group then growling angrily at that. "I expect you, Roar Omega Roar, to pack your things and leave this campus by tomorrow!" she growled, which the group then gulped at.
"Y-Yes ma'am..." Randal said with a sigh.
"You are a disgrace to this university! And the name of Roar Omega Roar," she said, her venomous words making Johnny gawk in bafflement before then growling.
"You... YOU!... I can't believe this!" Johnny shouted in anger, me then delivering the biggest shade ever.
"Hey, don't worry about it, guys. Besides," I smiled as I then held up the flyer for Monsters Inc's mail room. "They're always hiring in the mailroom," I said, which OK gawked at.
"OOOOH! Stick that in yer craw, ya punks! BOOYAH!" Narleen shouted at them, which made Hardscrabble do the impossible. She giggled!
"That TEARS IT!' Johnny shouted before then proceeding to do something that made me shocked. He proceeded to tackle me to the ground, me then needing to fight back against him... but then, I gawked at what happened after. Reggie sent a scanner at me... from the CDA! And once the beeping happened? I gulped.
"Human detected! CODE RED! CODE RED!" the machine beeped, which I then gasped as I then pushed Johnny off of me and I saw the entire campus... the whole place suddenly got its lights to dim and for a whole slew of CDA helicopters to fly in from above!
"YOU IDIOTS! I-I... I GOTTA HIDE!" I shouted in fear as I rushed away... I needed to find a place to hide myself. The last thing I needed was to get captured by the CDA!... But then, a genius idea came up! I could ask for Shapeshifter's help! YES! I then rushed straight to SCP's house and, when I did, I barely made it before the CDA members started to zip down from above!
"Hey! What are you doing here?! What's going on out there?!" Ursa asked me when she saw me, me then going to her and hiding behind the couch.
"I need help! My secret's out because of ROR, and now they're trying to hunt me down!" I said, which made the others in SCP gawk.
"You... You're human?!" Undine asked me.
"Part human! Part monster! I need to hide! Please, help me!" I said with fear.
"S-Should we... should we help her out? Bile asked, which Catra frowned at.
"I don't know... why should we help you? How poisonous are you? Are we infected from you constantly touching us?" she asked.
"Humans aren't toxic to monsters, trust me, I should know," Ursa said, making the group look at her in surprise. "She kicked me when we first met, and I came into contact with her numerous times, and I never once got poisoned to the point of death. AND she kept us in the race when she could've very easily gotten us eliminated in game 2! We need to help her out," Shapeshifter said, which the others looked at her and nodded.
"Right, you make a good point, Ursa... so what's the plan?" Oozeback asked.
"I'll change my form to look like her, and Voicebox will try and get the CDA agents away from our house by throwing her voice to match what I say to them," Ursa said, me nodding as the duo then helped me out big time, me continuing to hide behind the couch with invisibility, us doing so as the duo then went out and proceeded to take one for the team. Ursa managed to allow the agents to capture her before they then checked her with their scanner and saw she was not a human.
"False alarm, everyone! No child breech, I repeat, no child breech," said none other than Number 1, Roz herself. And she looked at Ursa as I watched from afar while invisible, looking at everything from an open window. "But then where did that human go to, then?" she asked. Then, Voicebox matched her voice to mine while lip syncing for Ursa effortlessly!
"It was a false alarm. Some bully tried to say that I was human by using a scanner, but placed a child's toy that they smuggled into the final event of the Scare Games. Search for that toy high and low, because that's how they got me to be a positive match," they said, Roz then nodding as she then told her troops to inspect the toys. And sure enough, I was lucky enough to have accidentally touched a single toy in the room and it was one of the stuffed walruses.
"Okay, boys, we've found the culprit among the toys. But you can be sure that we'll be watching you, miss. Always watching... aaaaalllllwaaayyyysss," Roz said creepily, me gawking at that. And once the CDA finally left the schoolgrounds, I sighed an amazing breath of relief.
"Whew... that... was... intense..." I sighed out loud.
"You're telling me, I've been out of practice from that voice throwing technique!" Voicebox said from the nearby hedges, me smiling at them. "You owe us for this," she said.
"Right... so what do I do to make this up to you?" I asked, them looking at me before then gaining a smile.
"We want you to make us the best cake that you can. And we'll enjoy it rather than destroy it. See, the last day of the semester is Undine's birthday," Catra smiled. And when I heard that, it made me smirk widely.
"Well, lucky you, I made a secret bet with Hardscrabble before the game today. That, if Mike managed to get the highest score of our group of monsters, I'd get a recipe for the best cake she knows how to make... it was originally something else, but then... well, I'll burst the bubble to you so you can spread word of it, uh, Roar cheated for both of our teams," I said, which the group gasped at.
"HOW?! How did they cheat FOR us?" Ursa asked in anger.
"They tampered with both of our scare simulators, having it so that our final members would be given the lowest setting and also breaking the settings so they couldn't be fixed. So if you're wondering about that whole 20 vs 20 thing, we're gonna need to get a repeat of that, since I want to do it fairly," I said, them nodding at that.
"And how! I want to know the truth, so we're going to ask Hardscrabble together!" Ursa said.
"Um... not gonna lie, but I'd rather stay here until tomorrow, because she said that Roar would be kicked off of the campus by tomorrow morning and it was them that sent that scanner at me. How, I have no clue, but they knew my secret because of one of their members being a no-good cheating sneak," I said, me then catching something with my ears. The sound of a plant being bumped into. And upon looking in the direction, I saw that the wall was slightly in motion. I grabbed a whole plastic bowl of cheese puffs and hurled them at the moving wall, which caused Randal to get cheese dust coating his body, exposing him!
"Ack! Um... Grr!" he said, before the girls then glared at him.
"GET HIM!" Catra shouted, all the SCP girls going and grabbing Randal and proceeding to beat him up, making him change tons of different colors before I then slapped him across the face, him groaning after before I then looked at him in the face.
"WHY?! Why won't you just leave me the heck alone?!" I growled at him.
"Says you, halfbreed!" he growled at me.
"And how is that an insult? I'm proud of it, I just know that the CDA would possibly kill me if the found it out," I growled at him.
"PEH! And why would I care, Bandifoot?" he growled at me.
"Fine, you want the truth, here's the truth," I frowned at him as I got into his face. "Randal Boggs, in one timeline, second best scarer to James Sullivan, best scarer. Current timeline? No-good bully who wants to make one person's life the worst possible, just because she's better than he ever will be," I frowned, Randal looking at me in confusion.
"Timelines, what the... what aren't you telling me?" Randal growled.
"That secret is one that I am taking to the grave. You will NEVER get that found out. So I suggest you just give up. And take my advice. After the stunts you've done during these scare games, I doubt even the mailroom would hire you! Maybe you should stick with being a deli worker or something," I frowned, Randal then growling at me as I then grabbed him and placed him on the ground, right in front of my foot. "Want to see if I can beat my record, or are you going to apologize?" I frowned, him gulping at that.
"I... I..." Randal gulped.
"Okay, one, two," I was about to say before he shouted.
"OKAY! I'm sorry, okay?!" he shouted with fear, me then dropping him on the ground and placing a potted plant onto his head.
"Clean yourself up, ya filthy animal," I frowned as I then went back into the SCP house and we proceeded to lock up every single door and window so Randal wouldn't snoop here again. And then, finally, Ursa called up Hardscrabble on her office phone.
"Hey, Dean Hardscrabble? Can you do me a couple favors?" she asked, which I couldn't hear the dean on the phone, but I had to wonder what she was saying. "I wanted to request you to get your guards to find and detain Randal Boggs, since he broke into our sorority to try and hurt Barri... yep. And second, I was told that Ror rigged mine and Mike's results. Can I ask for us to get a fair redo of mine and Mike's scare simulation? I want to know the truth of how good we are," she said. "Oh, great! I agree to that! Thanks so much! Okay, bye," she said, which Ursa then hung up and smiled at me.
"She said that, if Mike ended up beating me in the simulation, that you'd be given free reign to use that secret door whenever you wanted, whatever that means... could you explain?" Ursa asked me.
"It's the door that leads to my little sister's bedroom. It's how I was able to get to this world in the first place, when I saw that a couple monsters were coming in to scare her... and she's actually more human than monster, looking nothing like me at all," I admitted.
"Aw, poor thing... well, if you win, you'll get to see her no matter what, and Hardscrabble will even give you the opportunity to go straight to Monsters Inc as a scarer," she said, me gawking at that.
"W-Well... what if I lost?" I asked.
"If you did lose, all Hardscrabble asked for was for you to get her scream tank repaired. You know, the one you broke?" Ursa smiled, which made the other girls ooh at that.
"In my defense, it was because of another secret that should also be kept secret... I accidentally laughed when I managed to catch it, and it ended up filling the tank to the point it was overflowing," I said, the girls looking at each other before then looking at me again. "Yeah... human laughter is apparently way stronger than human scream... even if I am 3/4ths monster, just a couple seconds of laughter made the thing overfill... so I'd recommend not telling jokes to me, or the entire house will get a power-outage," I smiled.
"I'd test that. What has four wheels and flies?" asked Dapper.
"I... don't know," I admitted.
"A garbage truck!" she said, me thinking about it before then laughing for about three seconds... and then, almost on cue, the entire house got all the lights and power to get burnt out, which the girls groaned at. "Dammit... you weren't lying, then, obviously... we're gonna need to sleep in the dark tonight, I guess," she groaned, me smiling at that as I managed to find my phone and I then put on the flashlight feature, which I then used to find some spare bulbs that I used to replace the lights, which the girls were relieved at.
"Thanks for doing that, even though it was our fault," Oozeback said with a smile.
"It was my laughter that made the lights burn out, I don't want to be held accountable... that, and I can't sleep without a night light," I admitted.
"I guess you are more human than I thought. You're afraid of the dark," Ursa smirked at me.
"And heights, don't forget heights," I smiled back as we then finally went to bed with the nightlight, me sighing contentedly, but before doing so, I had to text the others at Oozma Kappa that I was staying at SCPs for the night and that, in the morning, I was going to have a true recount of Mike and Ursa's round. And that no matter what, we were still going to be in the scaring program, which they were shocked at, but were happy regardless. We then finally went to bed... and I had to hope Roar was, indeed, kicked off the campus.