Chapter 4: The New Teacher
09 is sitting at his desk, reading The Enemy by some guy with the last name Higson, when Masta confronts him.
"Hello, 09. How is that book you're reading?"
09 sighs. "Leave me alone, Masta. We both know you don't like reading."
Masta stomps his foot in frustration. "It's not fair! I don't get how you can stand reading. It�s quasi-boring."
"Well I don't understand how you can stand playing your barbaric football games."
"Can you guys shut up? We're talking about something important!" shouts Manly, who�s talking to R2, who, in turn, is playing Candy Crush on Manly's phone.
"So anyway, I'm trying to get Storm to notice me. How should I go about doing it?" asks Manly.
"Just talk to her, man. Be normal," says R2 as he matches a green jelly bean with two others.
"You really think I should?" asks Manly.
"Sure." Says R2. "Then once you ask her out and she rejects you, you'll stop asking me for advice on subjects that I'm not an expert at."
"THE TEACHER IS COMING!" sobs Omegap the stag.
The teacher appears at the door. He's wearing dark armor all over, a set complete with bloodstains. His face cannot be seen. The only thing that is illuminated are the glowing orange eyes.
"Hello class," he says in a deep, gravelly voice that sounds like he rules hell... which from his appearance seems very believable. "I am Mr. Unleashed, the new math teacher."
"What happened to the other one?" asks Masta rudely.
"He had to *cough* leave and I stepped in to take his place," Mr. Unleashed says in a matter-of-fact tone.
"First of all, let me state a rule of mine that one of you have already seem to have broken," he says as he approaches the desk of R2. "And that rule is, 'No cellphones allowed.'"
R2 is still playing Candy Crush. "Hold on, I still have 15 moves left..."
He trails off as Unleashed brings down a clenched fist ontop of Manly's phone.
"Yeah... well, joke's on you. That wasn't even my phone." R2 glares at Unleashed.
"Anyways, let's get started with roll call," continues Unleashed, unphased. "09."
"Here."
"Manly."
"Here."
"Masta."
"Here."
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"R2."
"Here."
"Aggs..." No reply. "Not here... ok then... Pick... Not here either? Ok."
Once he's finally done with roll call, he holds a bunch of papers. Omegap instantly cries from the sight of them. Somewhere, Storm suddenly scowled.
"Don't worry, it's not homework," says Unleashed. "It's just the syllabus and rules." He passes them all and returns to the front of the class. "Are there any questions you'd like to ask?"
Masta raises his hand. "How did you get a tan so dark?"
"Well when you spend your life in hell, you get dark burns from the intense flames," he says matter-of-factly. The class went silent. No more questions? Right, then. Now let me tell you all about myself. I grew up in Hell, Germany. I moved to America to get a better job opportunity."
"So you're an illegal immigrant?" asks 09, smiling at his smart-aleck comment.
Unleashed glares and then smiles, "I also have a collection of heads on pikes."
R2 laughs. "You're joking right?"
"See for yourself." Unleashed must have pressed a button, because the chalkboard slides away and reveals a hidden compartment full of heads on pikes. This causes Manly to throw up and Omegap to wail.
"Aw c'mon!" Unleashed exclaims. "R2, take Manly to Nurse Strop, then get MrDayCee to come in to clean this junk off the floor."
R2 grabs a trash can and leads Manly outside to the hall.
"Anyways, let's get started. I want all of you to get into small groups and get to know each other, speak to each other," Unleash says as the chalkboard closes automatically.
09, Omegap, and Masta all partner together. Masta looks at Manly's puke on the ground.
"Duuude, that looks sick!" Masta instantly takes out his cellphone and takes a selfie with the pile of puke behind him.
"If he catches you with that he's going to smash it," warns 09.
Omegap cries softly. "He scares me."
"He scares all of us," says 09. "Does the school even know about his heads on pikes collection?"
Masta shrugs. "Maybe they're only quasi-real."
"Maybe," says 09. "But that's really freaky either way."
"Freaky!" sobs Omegap a bit too loudly. It pulled Unleash's attention away from his computer screen.
"What are you boys talking about?" asks Unleash icily.
"We're uhh... Just talking about that new Hunger Games movie coming out," says Masta. "Man, Jennifer Lawrence sure signed up for a freaky role."
At the mention of Jennifer Lawrence, a grey dinosaur presses his face on the door window, then he leaves as he notices nothing happening that interests him.
Unleashed seems to believe the excuse and goes back to work. Masta punches Omegap lightly on the shoulder. Next time don't scream so loudly."
09 strokes an imaginary beard with his small fingers. "I wonder who this guy really is."
"I'm sorry!" sobs Omegap, who wasn't paying attention to 09.
09 speaks up. "Can I get both of your guys' numbers? At some point this year I'd like to make a plan to figure out this Unleash character."
Out in the hallway, Manly and R2 are walking towards Nurse Strop's office. R2 still has the trash can in hand.
"Gawd, what's wrong with him!" exclaims R2 as he throws the trash can on the ground for the tenth time.
"What kind of sicko has a collection of heads on pikes?"
"No wonder math is so confusing," jokes Manly.
R2 doesn't laugh. "Manly, I think we need to teach Unleash a lesson," he says while passing a crying Clancy. The pitiful Canadian was pounding on a wall. "At lunch today, when we're with everyone, we're going to come up with a plan to give Unleash the ultimate prank."
"Is that a good idea?" asks Manly.
"Of course it is!" says R2. "Have I ever proved you wrong before?"
Before Manly can respond with a strident YES, they reach the school nurse's office and R2 pushes Manly in..
"Ah, Manly! You're just in time for my knife-throwing practice," says Strop cheerfully.
Manly screams in surprise every time a knife goes near him, and R2 skips away.
R2 reaches MrDayCee's janitor office and knocks on the door.
"Come in!"
R2 goes in and see MrDayCee changing a hanging light bulb.
"R2!" exclaims DayCee. "What a pleasant surprise! Whaddya need?"
"Hey DayCee! Uh, Manly threw up in Unleash's class and it smells. He was wondering if you could clean it up."
"Ah, so Manly has lost his breakfast. Hope he feels better." DayCee washes his hands in a sink in the small office. That's when R2 notices the X-TREME SUPER STRENGTH MONKEY GLUY and the old cans of cleaning wax.
"Hey, uh... DayCee... do you need those for something?" R2 points at the cans and glue.
DayCee thinks. "Not really. You need them?"
"Yeah. Is it possible I can borrow them at lunchtime?"
"I don't see why not," says DayCee has he grabs a cart with a mop and other cleaning objects. "Pardon me R2. I need to go clean some Poptarts off of Unleash's carpet floor."
DayCee leaves, and while he's gone, R2 goes over to the glue and cans of wax, making diabolical robot noises. "I'll be back for you."
Before R2 leaves, the ceiling turns into a big sticky goo monster that opens its mouth and yodels "If the AG people are reading this sentence, then it means that R2 doesn't read Storm's edits!"
But R2 ignored the sticky goo monster and went on his way.
Editor: @StormWalker
