A new day has dawned at camp, Nigel gets a lay of the kid's cabin area interacting with some of his camp mates before heading to Sarge's class
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DM77's Psychonauts Chapter 1
The Morning before Class.
Nigel woke up the next morning refreshed, although he had a weird dream, he was in a dark void like room with a figure this person as a dark skinned woman with mint cloured hair with white streaks on the bottom and green eyes.
She wore what looked to be a blue jumpsuit of that of a janitor along with glasses and a single gray earring onher right ear. The woman was apparently giving Nigel and eye exam before sending him off, what was odd is Nigel thought the woman looked familiar.
He looks around the room and sees everyone else had already left the cabin. He gets his shades on and gets out of bed and exits the cabin.
"Hey Nigel." Tony said as he ran past with Cheese Sandwich, Veronica and Mr. Hippo as they run to the big tree in the cabin area and begin to go up "Hurry up, you don't want to be late from Basic Braining."
"Woo-hoo! Basic Braining is the best class ever! Woo-hoo-hooo!" Cheese Sandwich cheers
"I love Couch Sarge." Veronica says "He's so nice and he knows everything."
"I heard this one time, a kid was late for Basic Braining, and Couch Sarge held him upside down until he turned blue but the kid drank a six pack of soda and so when the Couch shuck him up he exploded." Mr. Hippo said
Nigel looked around the grounds some glowing purple rocks that resemble arrowheads. As he walks around he spots DJ surrounded by squirrels and hears him talking to them
"I'm telling you for the last time no!" DJ said to the squirrels as he looks at them and was clearly getting angry as the squirrels keep chattering to him "I would never do that. I could never…. KILL EVERYONE." He then sees Nigel approaching "Oh…hey Nigel!"
"Hey DJ, are you having squirrel trouble?" Nigel asked concerned.
"They're liars, that is all. Whatever they say to you it's nothing but lies." DJ told his friend.
Nigel unfortunately likes the psychic ability to talk to animals so he really doesn't know what they are saying and says "I'll just take your word for it. You going to class?"
"Oh yeah, I'll meet you up there." DJ said nodding "I just need to make sure these guys shut up!"
Nigel nods and turns and walks away, however after taking a few steps forward he hears something explode behind him. He looks and sees DJ securing his helmet and then smile innocently but no sign of the squirrels, he just shrugs and walks away but after he does, we see remains of squirrels rain down around DJ.
As he continues to enjoy the fresh air before heading up to Basic Braining he overhears a conversation between Kristoff and Flash Sentry
"So, you're dating Heather now." Flash said and then asked "Does that mean we won't hang out as much?"
"Come on pal, I don't think things will change that much." Kristoff said smiling "Trust me, no girl is ever going to never…"
Just then Heather walks up to them and said to Flash "HEY! You're going to make my boyfriend late for class." She then begins to head to class "Come on Kristoff. COME. ON." The three then head for class.
"Boy…talk about drama" Nigel said to himself. He then passes by and overhears Luna Loud and Lucio talking.
"Uhhg! That has got to be the worst band name I have ever heard, in the history of ever, of all time, ever." Luna said to Lucio annoyed.
"And by 'worst' do you perhaps mean, 'The best'?" Lucio asked, "Because that's what I was thinking."
"No, I meant worst, as in I can't even believe we're friends it so bad." Luna explained.
"Look deeply into your heart, Luna, and I think you'll find that even you believe 'The DJ Levitates' is pretty much the dopest name a band could ever have." Lucio said grinning.
"The DJ Levitates?" Luna asked "Are we some sort of cover band that only plays graduation ceremonies for motivational seminars?"
"Look, I've been practising, and I think I could levitate us both during our gigs. For real now." Lucio explained.
"No way. Last year, you dropped me, and I broke my drums." Luna told him.
"Hey, at least those got fixed." Lucio told her "I'll never get back those records you melted with that unplanned pyrotechnics display of yours."
"Look, you know that when I get a good solo going, things sometimes get a little hot." Luna said rubbing her head "I can't help it. And it'd seem like part of the show if we named the band the right thing…"
"Oh geez, not this again…" Lucio said facepalming.
Luna grins and clears her throat "Ladies and Gentlemen!"
"Please don't." Lucio begged.
"Would you please welcome…" Luna continued.
"No…" Lucio begged more but it was on deaf ears.
"The Fiery Rockers" Luna announces.
"Oh, god." Lucio said shaking his head
"Raaaaa!" Luna lets out in fake audience cheer
"If we're gonna call it that, we might as well call it, 'Burning Itch'" Lucio told her
"What?! Ooooooh! Rrrrrr!" Luna said getting angry.
"Hey, how's everybody tonight?" Lucio said smirking "You feeling itchy? I said, YOU FEELING ITCHY?"
"Watch it, Lucio!" Luna said getting angrier.
"Or what. You'll burn me?" Lucio asked not scared "You know you can't burn me. You got a block remember. That's why we're friends."
"Aw, you're right." Luna said calming down, it was true Lucio was the only person that Luna is able to never set on fire and she was thankful for that.
"That's why we're in a band together." Lucio added to it.
"Yeah…" Luna said nodding
"And why we should call our band The DJ Levitates." Lucio said with a grin.
"Did you say PJ Tates? Because that's what I heard." Luna said not falling for the trap. The two then begin to say the name they want repeatedly to each other.
Having been listening to the whole conversation, Nigel approaches the two and said "The Whispering Rockers!"
"Wait, what?" Luna asked confused as she and Lucio look at him.
"Oh, that's my band name idea" Nigel said with a smile "By the way, why aren't you guys in Coach Sarge's class?"
"Are you kidding?" Luna said shocked "A kid got killed in that class last year."
"I heard it was a bunch of kids Luna." Lucio added in.
"Well, I heard it was a bunch of blind kids, and the coach threw them off a cliff." Luna added on top of that.
"Yeah…. because they were late to class." Lucio said nodding.
Nigel thought of this, so the story Mr. Hippo was saying might not be so made up after all. This concerns him.
"You better hurry kid!" Luna said to Nigel and looks to Lucio "Now, where were we, Lucio?"
The two resume their argument and Nigel backs away. He then turns around and sees Alejandro standing by the girl's cabin peering into a hole.
Nigel approaches him and said "You know that cabin is empty, right?"
"Of course, I am only practising for tonight, when it will be full of ladies." Alejandro said with a grin.
"Wait…that sort of thing takes practise?" Nigel asked.
Alejandro turns to look at him and said "Um, excuse me, but my parents allow me to watch R-rated movies, so I think I know a little bit more about this than you do, okay?"
Nigel backs off and continues to look around the area just then a voice called out "Hey new guy. Have you seen a bear lurking around these woods?" The voice came from Buford who approaches him.
"No, I don't think I have." Nigel said shaking his head confused.
"You sure? I'm looking for a giant, hairless bear." Buford said.
"Again, the answer is no." Nigel told him.
"Where I come from, bears a smaller." Buford explained "They also have more hair, less lurking and always looking to a fight. The one here hides and run."
"Don't worry, if I see something worth noting I'll let you know." Nigel said nodding.
"That bear can't lurk forever." Buford said looking around scanning the area.
Nigel walks away and approaches the bride to the central camp area but was stopped by a familiar figure, the woman in the janitor outfit from his strange dream.
"Nuh-uh. The rest of the camp is off limits, until you have a Basic Braining Merit Badge." The female janitor told him "Now git"
Nigel decides to head up to the class to take part, he goes up the ramp and as he reachs the top where the class room is he sees Baljeet exiting the classroom
"Hey, where are you going Baljeet?" Nigel asked concerned.
"Shhhhhh!" Baljeet said to him and whispered "I snuck out. That class is a death trap for insane people! Listen, the couch is strong." He motions to the class where all the others in there were in a daze, except Lisa who was messing with the radio in the room, while Sarge stood in front head held eye and eyes shut.
"At the start of class he pulls you into his mind, and then there's nothing you can do about it." Baljeet explained "But once you're in, you can use these Smelling Salts to sneak out." He pulls out a gold capsule and hands it to Nigel "Take mine. I don't need them anymore. I'm calling my parents to come and get me, before I get seriously hurt."
"Too late nerd!" A familiar voice said and the two look to see Nelson and Pain there having just arrived for class.
"Nelson! Ahhh!" Baljeet screamed.
"Listen up nerd." Nelson said looking at Baljeet "You owe me five arrowheads for this week's protection service."
"Cough it up Ba-loser, or you'll be coughing up bloody tears." Pain said with a smirk.
"Hey, you both better leave him alone." Nigel said to the two bullies.
"I heard a rumour you were raised in the circus." Nelson said looking at Nigel "Well allow me to put this into terms you'll understand baldy. I'm the strong man around here."
"Really, because you seem to resemble the popcorn cart" Nigel fired back.
Nelson gasped in shock at that and got angry "Pain, put this kid's death on my to-do list."
"Come on boss, we'll see him in class." Pain said smirking as he heads into the classroom.
"Yeah, we'll settle this on the battlefield." Nelson said with a smirk as he follows Pain.
With that Baljeet runs off and Nigel walks in and looks at his classmates, he knew they were in a trance while they astrally project themselves into Sarge's pyche, which he found awesome. He walks carefully round the class but stops and looks at Rachel.
Rachel seemed to be in a trance but she then looks at him and said "Why don't you take a picture, it'll last longer."
"Oop…sorry." Nigel said awkwardly he then looks and approaches Lisa and asked, "Hey Lisa, what're you doing?"
"The couch uses this to broadcast his thoughts across the camp. I think I can tune it to reach the Pony people in space." Lisa explained.
"Wow…how does it work?" Nigel asked amazed.
"Sorry, I don't have time to explain the technology to you." Lisa told him.
Nigel nods and goes back and goes up to Sarge and said "Couch Sarge? I'm reporting for Basic Braining."
"Son, do you realize that to take my course I will have to pull you into my mind…" Sarge told him while also concentrating on overseeing the kids in his mind currently "And you will have to relive every bullet-scarred memory of every battle I have ever faced? It won't be pretty. You sure you wouldn't run around a bit more in the sunshine first?"
"I'm ready sir." Nigel said saluting.
"Well then…" Sarge said and looks down at him "You're late, soldier!" the top part of his helmet opens up to reveal on top of his head was a red camo door "Get in here and give me twenty!"
He taps on the door, and it opens up showing a beam of light. Nigel looking serious sorts his shades as he feels his conscious mind being pulled from him and go into the door and it closes.
Nigel's first step to becoming a Psychonaut has begun.
Nigel has taken the first step, but will he have the nerve to complete Sarge's training course?
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