I do not own any of the characters except for Arabella.

~Arabella's POV~

"All right guys, your homework was to

watch the video of the "soaring crow" kata." Rudy reminded us as we were all stretching, Kim wasn't here, she was on vacation with her family, "Let's see what you got. And... begin."

Jack and I perform random karate moves, as Eddie, Milton and Jerry were jumping and cawing, and doing some random karate moves.

"None of you watched the video." Rudy realized.

"Rudy, we're really busy at school." Jack told him.

"We're really busy with school." Rudy mocked, "You want to feel pressure? Wait till you're my age."

"Oh, be single with a sad life eating cheese doodlers in your office, it's so stressful." I said sarcastically as Rudy grabbed his mail.

"Trust me, no one gives you an award for being an adult." He argued as he opened his mail, "I don't believe it... I'm getting an award for being an adult!" He says excitedly.

"What do you mean?" Eddie asked as he walked over to see.

"Seaford High is inducting me into its Hall of Fame." Rudy answered.

"Why?" We all asked in unison.

"Starting to lose it." Rudy said, "Someone please read this." Rudy handed it to Jack's hand, "Read it with some pizzazz."

"We are pleased to formally acknowledge

your contribution to the youth of Seaford,through your leadership and commitment to physical fitness". Jack read excitedly, taking a seat in front of me. I wrapped my arms around his shoulders, and lean against him.

"In your face, mother!" Rudy shouted in the air, as I looked at him weirdly.

"And they're giving you a black tie pork chop dinner!" Jack continued. "Black tie?" Rudy snatched the letter back, "Pork chops? It's all happening so fast."

Don't you get all tough with me, I'm saying won't you come kick it with me? and we can have a ball,

run up the wall, this is how we do, and no matter how much, I chop and punch, it's not as cool as kickin' it with you.

Here we go, let's start the party, chop it up

like it's karate.

everybody, don't you get all tough with me, I'm saying won't you come kick it with me? and we can have a ball, run up the wall, this is how we do, and no matter how much I chop and punch, it's not as cool as kickin' it with you.

"Hey, guys. I have favor to ask for you." Phil told us as he approached our table, "My niece, Mika, she moved here from Hachmakistan. She will be ninth grader in your learning house. And I was wondering if you would make the friendships with her." We all agreed. "Oh, thanks. There is something that I need to tell you though. I love her very much, but... she is, how do you say...

Ugly like a pig."

We shared a confused glance but Phil continued, "I will show you. Let me summon the beast." Phil let out a tribal shriek.

A similar tribal shriek came inside the kitchen, but this one was clearly female. The door of the kitchen opened and we all turned to see her. A larger build back out from the kitchen but it was a bearded man.

The boys screamed, thinking that was a fifteen year old girl. "That's not her, guys." I deadpanned.

"That is my new busboy, Rafael." Phil explained, "That is Mika." Mika came out, she was a pretty girl. "Question, is she is a pig, then what are you?" I asked him. "She is not like the beauties that we have in my country." All the boys were gaping except for Jack.

"Poor thing, with her separate eyebrows, hairless nose, and complete... Lack of tail." Phil gagged. "Mika, these are the boys and girl that I was telling you about. The ones who do the..." Phil did a very bad impression of some karate moves.

"Nice to meet you." Mika grinned with a similar accent like Phil's.

"What it do, Mika?" Jerry flirted.

"Oh boy." I muttered, "Please, ignore him." I said holding out my hand for the girl to shake, "I'm Arabella, it's a pleasure to meet you."

"You too." Mika smiled, shaking my hand.

"Okay, come." Phil said to his niece, "I'm going to teach you how to make sandwich."

"Okay. Bye-bye, boys. Bye Arabella." Mika walked away and the other except Jack got out of their daze.

Jerry whimpered, "Phil's niece is hot!"

Rudy came sprinting up to our table, "I just autographed my first baby." He told us excitedly.

"You did what!? That is illegal to do a baby, Rudy I will hurt you!" I said angrily and was about to attack him, but Jack grabbed me before I can. "Hey, calm down, you can get him later." Jack whispered in my voice softly. I grumbled at this.

"When his mom gets out of the bathroom, she is going to be so proud!" Rudy replied.

"Wait, so you signed a baby?" Jack repeated.

"Right across the face." Rudy confirmed, " Got some more pictures of me from my Hall of Fame induction video."

"Rudy, I think we have enough." Milton said, "We went through your school records, photos, and video clips."

"Yeah, we got a great five minutes." Jack smiled.

"Five minutes?" Rudy said then chuckled, "Oh, no, no, no, no. That's not gonna work." We all looked confused, "Don't forget, this night is about me and me alone."

"Whoa, this isn't good." Milton spoke as he read Rudy's records, "Rudy, you have a problem here.

According to this, you missed five days of mandatory attendance in ninth grade."

"Yeah, and?" Rudy asked.

"That means... Technically you didn't

complete high school." Milton answered.

"Wait, if he didn't graduate... Then he's not eligible to be in the Seaford High Hall of Fame." Eddie pointed out.

"What?" Rudy exclaimed.

A woman screamed, I am assuming it the mother of the child, "What kind of animal

would sign a baby's face?"

"We should probably get him out of here." Jack suggested. We all agreed, holding Rudy, back as he was about to confess that he did it.

...(‿)

So, we walked up to Rudy who was going to be attending Seaford high for 5 days to complete his high school credits and He came with a Seaford hoodie on and a backpack on as well. "Wow. Rudy, you've actually come back to school." Jack said.

"Yeah. I was the King here, once." Rudy recalled, "Figured I'd spend five days back on the throne."

"No, I don't you were a king here, because I had a feeling that you were a weird kid that wears his karate gi to school, and got bullied for it." I said to him.

Rudy scoffed, "No, I won't. Well, guys, you got one week to learn all you can from the king of cool." Rudy spins around and walked over his locker. He walked up to the locker next to Jack's and struggled to open it. "Will one of you guys please help me?" He asked. Milton jogged over while me, Jack and Eddie slowly walked over.

"Sometimes I wonder why he is this way." I sighed, I grabbed Jack's arm and lean on it.

...(‿)

"I remember health class." Rudy smiled as he walked in with me and Jack. "I wonder if my old

girlfriend's still here." Rudy opened the back cabinet, revealing a 40 year old CPR dummy. "There she is." Rudy took out the dummy, and looked at it, "Hello, beautiful." Then he placed it down on a table.

"Rudy, I wouldn't touch that thing. It's a 40-year-old slobber-bag." Jack grimaced.

"This doll is not a slobber-bag. It's designed to teach you CPR." Rudy corrected, "Watch and learn."

Rudy, I wouldn't do that. That thing had probably got a lot of dust collected and weird liquid inside of it." I warned him.

"Relax, Bella. I'll be fine." Rudy assured me, "After pinching her nostrils, you use your breath to fill her lungs with life." Rudy latched his lips onto the doll. I stare at complete disgust by this.

"Rudy, are you sure you're doing this right?" Jack asked.

"Yes. Now, her stomach is filling up with

air. Gently apply some pressure." Rudy instructed.

"He is/I am not touching..."

"Do it! There's a life at stake!" Rudy cut us off.

Jack hit the doll's stomach, hard, and it spraying in Rudy's face. "So I was right there was weird liquid inside of it. I tried to warn you." I informed.

"Little too much pressure, Jack." Rudy spoke through a mouthful of muck.

"What is going on here?" Ms. Applebaum asked, making us all rush to our seats.

"Learning." Rudy answered, wiping the muck from his face. "Learning's going on here. And who might..." he cut his himself off, gagging as he swallows some of the muck, "You be?"

"I'm Bethany Applebaum, the teacher." Ms. Applebaum answered.

"I'm Rudy Gillespie...The teacher's pet." Rudy replied.

"Oh, right. You're the student who

came back to graduate." Ms. Applebaum nodded. "Finishing your education. That is so...Adorable." I watched the two interact with complete disgust, confusion, and concern. "Come here." Ms. Applebaum started to wipe the muck off Rudy's face with a tissue.

"Hello, Bethany." Coach Funderburk cleared his throat as he entered the room, "Who's this loser?" He asked before obnoxiously laughs

"He's not a loser, Martin. He's my student." Ms. Applebaum corrected.

"I am extremely uncomfortable." I whispered to Jack.

"I am also extremely uncomfortable as well." He agreed.

"I'm Coach Funderburk. Me and Bethany kind of have a thing." Coach Funderburk said.

"No! No. We don't." Ms. Applebaum intervened then chuckles, "There is no thing..."

"Pretty big thing!" He cut her off, "Everybody's talking about it."

"Um... Rudy, I think you're having a reaction to that -year-old phlegm?" Ms. Applebaum spoke, concerned.

"So, Bethany. You want to split a Panini?" Coach Funderburk offered.

"I already ate, Martin." Ms. Applebaum harshly declined.

"I'd get in on that Panini." Rudy smiled.

"You're not touching my Panini." Coach Funderburk immediately shut down the offer, "So... Step off."

"Yeah, I think you should probably get to the nurse's office." Ms. Applebaum suggested.

"Yeah, you should go." Coach Funderburk agreed.

"All right. I'll go." Rudy said, "But because m'lady asked me. Not because of you." He glared at Funderburk. " And certainly not because of the excruciating, burning sensation that is taking over my entire face." Rudy sprinted out of the door and screaming the second it closed.

...(‿)

"I gotta give Rudy credit." Milton said as we sat in the cafeteria for lunch, "This Hall of Fame thing is really important to him, and he's really hanging in there."

"Rudy's tough. He'll never let you see it's getting to him." Jack added. "I feel he is not having a good time." I said.

"Whoops." Funderburk laughed as he tripped Rudy. "Pudy! Pudy! Pudy!" He chanted.

"Aw, shut it!" Rudy snapped, "That's it! Stupid classes. Stupid school! Stupid... Fork jammed into my thigh!"

Rudy pulls off out the fork, whimpering, "I'm done. I'm dropping out of high school."

...(‿)

"Come on, Rudy. You can't drop out of school." Milton told him as we all walked after him into the dojo, "You won't get into the Hall of Fame."

"I don't care. School is a mean, dark place. And if you kids had half a brain in your heads, you'd drop out, too!" Rudy exclaimed with frustration and sat down on the bench.

"Come on, Rudy. Don't doubt yourself." I told him.

Jack walked over and sat down across from him, "Rudy, I had a teacher once. And he always taught me that no matter how difficult something is...You can't quit. School seems difficult now but, in a couple of days you'll be through it and in the Hall of Fame."

"You've helped us all." Eddie added, "And tons of other kids. You should be in the Hall of Fame."

"And we'll help you get there. We'll all help you." I added as well.

"Thanks, guys. It really means a lot." Rudy smiled at us.

...(‿)

The students chattering while Ms. Applebaum wrote on the white board, "Class." She said loudly in an attempt to silence them but me, I was taking notes. "Stop talking, please?" Ms. Applebaum turned around just as an airplane that one of the boys in the class threw it and it was about to hit her.

Rudy entered the class and caught it. "Hey. Your teacher said stop talking. Punks!"

"Rudy, you've come back." Ms. Applebaum spoke giddily.

"Yes, I did." Rudy said, " And I just wanted you to know that after class I was hoping to... Clap your erasers."

"Oh." Ms. Applebaum squeaked, "I'd like that. I'd like that a lot."

"I, uh, brought you this." Rudy showsd Ms. Applebaum an apple. Ms. Applebaum took the apple and started to bit on it. He grabbed her arm and pulled the apple so he can bite it. And they continued to bite the apple.

I was watching this scene with complete disgust and horror. "Is anybody else as creeped out as I am?" Jack asked.

"Yep." I popped the 'p'. Everyone else raised their hands.

...(‿)

We all filed the gym class again to be met by a snotty Funderburk. "Well, Pudy." He said as saw Rudy, "Looks like the only thing standing between you and a Hall of Fame, pork chop dinner is passing my class."

"Oh, I'll pass it." Rudy said confidently.

"I went through your records." Funderburk told him, "And it seems there's one thing you couldn't complete. So, your final exam is..."

"Not the rope climb!" Rudy cut in.

"Oh, I was gonna have you do sit-ups. But rope climb it is!" Funderburk laughed. Rudy walked up to the rope, hugging it.

"I don't think I can do this. Don't look down. Don't look down, Rudy." Rudy told himself as Ms. Applebaum approached him.

"Come on, Rudy. You can do this." Ms. Applebaum encouraged, "Your kids believe in you. And I believe in you."

"You do?" Rudy asked.

"Yeah, I do." Ms. Applebaum confirmed.

"This is the most saddening flirting, I had ever seen." I deadpanned.

"Get up that rope and ring that bell!" Ms. Applebaum ordered. "When you get down, I'll

have this waiting for you." Ms. Applebaum kissed her hand, showing Rudy.

"Wow, that's was something." I said with a look of concern. Jack chuckled and pulling me to a side hug.

"Did you just take out your teeth?" Rudy asked.

"Oh my goodness." I exclaimed walking over to them. "She will give you a kiss when you succeeded your role climb, dummy."

"Alright sheesh." Rudy said, "I'm gonna go." I sighed walked back to my previous position next to Jack. We cheered for Rudy as he climbed the rope. Rudy was almost at the top when Funderburk blew his whistle.

"Listen up, class. The first person to knock Pudy off of that rope with one of these balls, doesn't have to run laps for the rest of the year!" Funderburk announces making my eyes go wide. The kids started throwing balls at Rudy who was helplessly dangling on the rope.

"Whoa, whoa, Eddie! Eddie! Are you really gonna knock Rudy off that rope?" Milton stopped him.

"To get out of running laps, I'd knock my mother off that rope." Eddie said seriously and when he tried to throw the ball Milton jumped on him which started a wrestling match for the ball.

The rest of the class, Jerry included, threw ball at Rudy while Funderburk egged them on which almost made Rudy slip down.

"How good are you at climbing a rope?" Jack asked me.

"Well, I'm not wearing gym clothes, but better than that." I said as we ran one to one rope each on different side of Rudy.

We climbed up with ease and started to block the balls of our classmates were threw by kicking and punching them away. Meanwhile one of Rudy's hand slipped off causing him to dangling with one arm attached, "I don't think I can do it, guys."

"Don't you quit on me now, Rudy." Jack shouted, "You're so close."

"You gotta keep going." I pepped him, "Both of us are here to help you."

This seemed to give Rudy a new energy because he started climbing again. But coach Funderburk had enough as he took a ball and threw it at Rudy only for Jack to kick it back down, hitting him in the face.

Just as this happened and Rudy was about to ring the bell another kid threw a ball which I kicked away. Unfortunately I managed to kick the ball in Jack's face.

Luckily the brown haired boy didn't loose his grip but he turned around and glared at me, I was apologetic, "I'm sorry," I apologized.

But before Jack could say anything Rudy rang the bell and everyone started to cheer, "Yes!" Rudy shouted, letting go of the rope and while he fell to the floor he let out a loud scream, "Noooo!"

I slid down the rope in a smoother way, as crowd surrounded Rudy while Jack approached me with an unreadable expression.

"Nice aim," he said sarcastically.

"Thank you, but again, I'm so sorry about your face." I patted softly.

"Uh-huh," Jack smiled sarcastically, "I think I deserve an apology," he pointed at the side of his face the ball had smacked into. I jumped hugged him and started kissed his cheek and then his lips, which he respond too.

...

"Thank you. Thank you very much." The girl who was given her award before Rudy, said, earning applause from the audience as she walked down the stage. Rudy sat on a chair on the stage in a tuxedo looking bored, clapping his hands slowly.

"Wow. That was one amazing story, Dr. Hanft. You saved more than a village. You saved 10,000 lives." The host said like he was about to cry for the touching story. "Up next is Rudy Gillespie, a karate guy." We applauded as Rudy approached the mic.

"Uh thank you so much Sherman um. I could begin the story of my life by starting with the day I was born, but that wouldn't be fair to you," Rudy began. "For my story begins when my great great great grandfather, Jebidiah Gillespie, came to America with nothing in his pocket, but a spare pocket in case the first one ripped. And rip it did."

"Ok, this will be long, so I'm out." I told Jack, getting up to leave. "No, no no no," Jack pulled me back down.

"You're gonna suffer with us." A couple minutes later, we were all leaving, letting Rudy finish his speech to, only, Ms. Applebaum.