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 Posted: Fri Mar 07, 2014 2:42 pm
Atomica, lugging Glen, was the last one to cross the finish line and end the first heat. She plopped Glen down on the ground and listened to the roar of the crowd.
Sure, they were just chanting "YES! YES! YES!" but in her positronic mind, the chants were for her and her alone.
"IIIIIII did it!" She squealed, jumping up and down on her skates.
"No time to celebrate, ghouls. The second heat is up in five minutes. Glen! Manny! Great job, you guys. Marceline, Meme, Atomica, you guys have to start the second heat. Nero, Abbey, Lagoona, you're in the queue if any of them get knocked out of the game. Got it?"
"Will be pleasure to bust some heads." Abbey replied, cracking her knuckles.
Atomica took her place next to Meme and Marceline at the starting mark. She glanced over and scanned the three Smogsnorts students taking their mark. One large, beefy vampire boy. An extraordinarily tall, tough looking vampire ghoul. And a deceptively small vampire boo who was conspicuously missing his front two teeth.
Smogsnort's coach seemed less worried than Atomica's program calculated he should be. What sort of tricks did those vamps have up their sleeves?
"3! 2! 1! GOGOGO!" Clawd called out as the buzzer blared and the SKRM match entered its second heat!
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Posted: Fri Mar 07, 2014 3:31 pm
Meme felt the adrenaline kick in again and time seemed to slow as the buzzer blared and everymonster was dropped into the maze of the second heat.
She kicked off, pumping her legs hard and the team swiftly entered a dark tunnel. For a few seconds it was quiet and the noise of the chanting crowd disappeared, replaced by the ghouls breathing and skating and echoing from the close walls.
"I don't like this.." Marcie, skating a few yards in front of Meme, chimed in as they were yet to come up against any obstacles. No fire to dodge. No arrows to duck from. No pillars to steam to dive around. It was eerie until they quickly came up against the light at the end of the tunnel.
"Oh goth.." Meme yelped nervously as they pressed onwards, the tunnel opening out suddenly to reveal several crumbling stone bridges that stretched over a vast pool of black tinged water to a single exit on the other side of the room. The ghouls skated faster towards the closest bridge and out of an opening to their left sped the Smogsnorts, who appeared unscathed from their tunnel!
The ground began rumbling as the teams skated, loose pieces of stone vibrating against the floor
WHOOSHH
Multiple gigantic green tentacles splashed up from the pool, writhing around in between the bridges and splashing the goop around.
"I hope you're waterproof!" Meme called out to Atomica and they picked a path as far away from the tentacles as they could. One squirming arm touched the side of a bridge andet out an almighty bubbling squeal, flopping down and smashing the path to dust. Meme glanced in between the wriggling tentacles and spotted the Smogsnorts jumping gaps between bridges to avoid getting smashed. Swiftly, she scooped out several loose stones and lobbed them across the room towards the opposing team, making contact on a tentacle with a thwack!
The tentacle reacted violently, thrashing around and knocking the lanky vampire into the air and they landed the foul water with a splash. "Yes!" She fist pumped the air and threw more stones as they jumped a crumbled gap, crossing to the exit. The vampire who looked like a boulder on legs headed in first with a surprising speed, the Monster High ghouls catching up behind. Meme spotted the tiny vampire lagging behind and pondered, something didn't seem right about her..
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Posted: Fri Mar 07, 2014 9:18 pm
"Don't break out the confetti just yet, Meme!" Marceline huffed, trying to keep her breath under control as she skated hard across the Squid Pit. "Somethin' tells me this ain't the worst of it." Having surpassed Vinnie Lovecraft's long lost ancestors, the teams headed into another tunnel. This one, at least, had scant torches lining the walls; just enough light to see the walls and the track. There was no sign of the end of this tunnel, in fact it seemed to go on for miles. Marceline narrowed her eyes, trying to acclimate to the low light... Something seemed off. A tunnel leading to the next obstacle wouldn't reach on this far... unless it was the obstacle.
That's when the track gave a huge groaning lurch, and Marceline felt her feet being pulled up the wall. The floor was turning upside-down! She scrambled to get back onto her skates when suddenly she could feel the floor pulling her in the other direction. She staggered, disoriented, as the floor dragged her back and forth... The other players were nowhere to be seen in the darkness, and Marceline struggled to maintain balance and focus on the track.
Confusion was getting the better of her, and for a moment she was certain she'd fall into a pit and be out of the heat! Then her eyes zeroed in on the torches from the walls... one torch every ten yards or so, with a matching torch on the opposite wall. The paired torches spun like spokes on a wheel, each pair alternating direction. She processed the pattern in her head and understood what was happening: the tunnel was segmented, and each segment was spinning in alternate rotations!
Time for some fancy skate-work! Marceline thought to herself, hoping her other teammates figured it out as well. Scrambling to the next segment, she angled her skates against the turning wall and pushed forward, switching the angle at each new segment. What was in her mind a zig-zag pattern brought her down a perfectly straight path through the tunnel. Later segments had the walls broken down as pitfalls, and Marceline skated up the wall of a "safe" segment to surpass the pitfall safely. For a sport that was all about speed, this obstacle seemed incredibly tedious to her! But once she set down a pattern, Marceline overcame the tunnel in one piece, and just behind her teammates!
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Posted: Fri Mar 07, 2014 9:44 pm
"Whaaaat is this?!" Atomica whined as her interior gyroscopes started grinding to help her keep her balance on the constantly shifting floor. The constant course corrections were greatly slowing down her processing power.
"Pssst. Wanna see something cool?" Suddenly, next to Atomica was the short vamp from Smogsnorts, the one who was missing his front teeth.
"NO. I AM BUSY." Atomica hissed at him, her hip joints groaning. She had fallen to the back of the Monster High pack, but at least she was ahead of the great big Smogsnorter. Suddenly, the gap-toothed vamp vanished...and was replaced by a gap-toothed bat.
"Heeheeheeheeheehee!" The bat cackled as he flapped his wings and flew effortlessly through the shifting cooridor. Atomica's eyes sparked, she was so livid.
"That's CHEATING! You're CHEATING, you lousy CHEATER!" Atomica shouted after him as he fluttered. And to make things worse, it was too dark for the cameras to pick him up! Atomica growled...He was going to ruin her chance at victory! She'd be blamed for the loss! And Coach Clawd would never let her skate again...
NO. Atomica balled up her fists.
"NO! I am Atomica Servo, and I am on the Monster High B-Squad! THE B STANDS FOR BEST! I AM THE VERY BEST IN THE WORLD!" Atomica transferred all of her auxiliary power to her legs, pushing past the unsteady floor. She zoomed forward in a burst of speed, lunging down and leaping across the gaps that now appeared. She was going to catch that lousy, no-good cheating Smogsnorter!
The gap-toothed bat, still snickering confidently, turned and looked backwards to see an incredibly angry automaton gaining speed on him fast.
"Whuh oh!" He squeaked, and started flapping his wings frantically, trying to pour on the speed.
"OH NO YOU DON'T!" Atomica cried out as the bat-boy started flapping across the largest of the chasms. Atomica crouched down low, sent a silent prayer to the silicon gods and hoped that her diagnostic 12 days ago was good enough as she sent all power to her legs and LEAPED across the chasm, tackling the bat in mid-air and taking him down to the ground on the other side.
"Leggo! Leggo of me!" The bat squeaked as Atomica held onto him by the wings and thrust him over her head.
"I WILL NOT LET GO! It CLEARLY states in the rulebook on page 32, paragraph two, subsection G, that mid-match transformation to fly past obstacles is ILLEGAL! And if I'm not allowed to use my Atomic Death Ray at full power on the course, I will be DEFRAGGED if I'm going to let some vampire flap his way to victory!" Atomica decelerated as she gave her little speech...and slowly came to the realization that she was sliding across the finish line. Holding the Smogsnorts student. Facing everyone in the crowd.
For the briefest of seconds, her positronic brain was unable to process exactly what had happened.
Then, the crowd exploded.
"You did it, Atomica! We won!" Clawd shouted as Meme and Marceline took the smarter route of going AROUND the giant chasm and made it to the finish line ahead of the last remaining Smogsnorts member.
"We won?! I WON??? I WON!!!" Atomica threw her arms up in surprise and spiked the bat-boy, who bounced with a groan. "I did it! I mean...WE DID IT!"
Ghoulia pointed at the Smogsnorts coach and groaned a a warning about being disqualified from the rest of the season if they pulled a stunt like that again. The coach hung his head and fumed as the Monster High team all vacated the bench and celebrated around the three ghouls.
"I knew it! I knew the B stood for BEST!" Atomica beamed as she, Marceline and Meme were raised up onto the shoulders of their teammates.
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Posted: Fri Mar 07, 2014 10:30 pm
"We won! We won!!" Marceline laughed as Heath Burns hoisted her atop his shoulder, and the whole school cheered along with them. Being on the B-Team, this was the first time she ever got to really play, and they WON! Meme had pulled from her waist-bag, somehow, a sizeable confetti cannon, and with a wicked giggle she fired it over the team's head. As colorful paper rained down on them and the crowd went wild, Marceline's eyes panned over the screechers, landing finally on Rory. She grinned, waving at him, her eyes sparkling with an expression of "This is the greatest moment of my unlife!"... and it was like they were the only two monsters in the catacombs.
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Posted: Fri Mar 07, 2014 10:36 pm
"That's her! That's my spookybee!" Rory bragged to...well, anyone that would listen (which was nobody. Nobody was listening to him because the cheers for the Monster High win were nearly deafening). Rory leaned over the railing as far as he dared (meaning...about an inch), and waved to Marceline as she was hoisted up on Heath's shoulders.
Rory's watch beeped. Unbelievably, this very moment...as their eyes met across the crowded SKRM track...this moment was their six-day-a-versary of the moment they had kissed. It was too, too perfect.
Really super too-perfect. Rory realized that he was leaning much MUCH further than he'd anticipated (in some sort of subconscious desire to float over towards his spookybee, no doubt), and now that the railing was missing a chunk, it was much less stable, and he was slipping...
"Oh nonononono-"
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Posted: Fri Mar 07, 2014 10:46 pm
Dashner wasn't paying attention at first, until he heard Rorrim's voice sounding troubled. As far as he knew, it was probably nothing. But when he looked over, his eyes widened. His best friend was slipping. And if he were to fall and shatter, it would be his fault. All his fault...
"Rory! No!" Dashner hopped up, jumped off his seat and he was airborne. He rushed to the underneath of the platform, catching Rorrim as he fell. His breath was heavy.
"You're okay, bro."
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Posted: Fri Mar 07, 2014 10:51 pm
"Wh-whew....thanks!" Rory took a few gulps of air as the two of them landed on the ground. Rory made a mental note - despite his unwavering love for his spookybee Marceline, he had to be more aware of potentially shattering stitchuations! He wouldn't be a very good boofriend to Marceline if he was in a million pieces.
Suddenly, Rory came to the realization that he and Dashner weren't in the stands anymore. They were on the track itself. And with their leap down, the floodgates were opened - students everywhere were jumping down onto the track and running over to the team to congratulate the B-squadders on their victory! The mass of unhumanity grew as the bleachers emptied out onto the track.
"Marceline! I-woah-" Rory was swept aside by Cy Clops running over to Robecca Steam. "Marceline!"
Rory called, swinging his arms. It was to no avail...the sea of monsters was too thick and he couldn't even see her anymore.
"Darn..." Rory scuffed a shoe against the ground. "Well..at least she's getting the admiration she deserves."
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Posted: Fri Mar 07, 2014 10:52 pm
Time was already sort of standing still, but it began moving even slower when Marceline began to see Rory lose his balance. The fall wouldn't be much, maybe four feet at the most, but she knew to him it would be horrifying! She hopped off Heath's shoulder, landing hard enough on her skates to make her wince in pain, and skated at full-speed to her sweetheart. But alas! It was too late! Rory had begun to fall! Oh, the inhumanity! She was certain he wouldn't shatter into a thousand pieces from that height but he believed he would!!! Even worse, if he did crack even the slightest, his MOTHER would never let him out of the Mirrorverse again!
"Rory!!!" Marceline shrieked, still too far away to save him... just as Dashner swooped in and caught the mirror witch. She gasped, then heaved a sigh of relief, as she pressed through the thick crowd and skated to her boo-friend and beastie. "You--you're okay, aren't you? No cracks, or anything?"
She didn't even wait for him to respond before she threw her arms around him. "That was SO intense! I can't believe we won!! This calls for milkshakes at the Die-ner! Shall we?"
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Posted: Sat Mar 08, 2014 4:50 am
"Rorrim!"
Ronan wasn't quite quick enough to grab Rory as he fell, breathing a sigh of relief as Dashner caught him.
With everyone flooding onto the track, he stood and moved with the current, waving to Meme who was still waving her confetti cannon around.
"Congratulations." He looked around at the rest of the celebrating team and adding.
"Everyone."
but he turned his attention back to Meme.
"Are you alright?"
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Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2014 9:06 am
Boxes, boxes, everywhere! And not a place to sit ... or stand .. or think.
Okay, so maybe we're exaggerating slightly (and maybe we're not!), but that's about the best way to describe the Trouble Tribe's super duper secret Lair way down in the deepest reaches of the Catacombs!
In the main tunnel, all along the walls, stacked high as the eye could see, were craes and boxes of every shape and size! Everything from can openers to popscorn poppers and multiple coffincino makers to ecto-plasma big scream TVs to everything in between! The end all result of Lin and Atomica's chopping spree at Beast Buy.
Word was that the store had to close temporarily until it could replenish its stock over the freakend and perhaps a tad beyond!
Very few things were opened as of yet. Oh how Lin wanted to tear into everything he could get his tiny claws into, but Atomica had to drag him away for lunch ... and dinner... and now they were due at the Q family farm for a little job at the Backyard Monster Wrestling show.
Pity Gryff had been dragged away from the maul action before he saw the end result of his gremlin and automaton cleaning the place out! Gryff would hav to watch where he stepped because there were four charred husks of what used to be four of the ten iBlarghs that Lin and Atomica walked away with. The other six were stashed away fr later experimentation!
They even managed to get that special pink and black vinyl grimited edition 'gag gift' that Gryff wanted for Byff. It held a special place of honor right beside... well did you know Beast Buy even sold those fancy score boards for football games?
Ho else would you hexplain one such fancy device hung over the entrance to the Lair, greeting Gryff with a scrolling message from right to left...
"Hi Gryff! Surprise! Nice haul, huh? Atomica and I are at the Q farm, helping set up the ring for the BMW show! Meet us there?"
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Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2014 4:50 pm
The new falling snow from the sky astounded Sally still. Since the forest she came from was essentially its own world, she never really saw snow. And even if it did fall, it never reached the ground where she could see. So, she spent Sunday finding new clothes to combat the cold.
Monday, as she was heading out the door, she got the call from Tori. She tilted her head. She wanted to meet in the catacombs?
"I'll be right there." she agreed as she quickly made her way there. She couldn't imagine what it was she wanted, but, curious all the same, she waited for her as she reached the catacombs and walked inside.
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Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2014 5:50 pm
"Sally, I'm glad you came!" Tori hugged her friend. She was a huger, it was what she did. Also so huged her because she felt her feelings may have been hurt before.
"Lets walk." She started, making her way to the school's Catacombs entrance. They two would hear Opperetta practicing her music down here. It was creepy cool and help the mood.
"Well My source is not accurate. I like to n** rumor in the bud, before they grow wildly out of control. I heard Dashner snubbed you at the Coffin Bean for a new ghoul? He can be a little moody... not groovy."
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Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2014 6:05 pm
Sally hugged Tori back, tilting her head as she walked beside her. The music floating up from deep in the catacombs was soothing, it just made Sally smile to herself. She looked at Tori as she listened to her.
If she could have blinked, she would have, "Snubbed?..." she tilted her head, then remembered what had happened, "Oh! Not you too." she let out a sigh, "Dashner and I are just friends. I may not fully understand the whole 'relationship' thing, but I know we are friends." she shrugged.
She shook her head. This was definitely one of those out of hand rumors. Dashner wasn't interested in her, that much was clear to her. Seemed like the gossip of the school really could get out of hand at times.
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Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2014 6:36 pm
"Oh thank roses!" Tori sighed with relief, visibly happy with the new information.
"Oh was just worry that--" She stopped herself. "Oh you're right. These rumors are so scary outrageous. I do't know why I got so creeped out really. It's most likely because it involved you."
Tori shrugged her shoulders.
"I didn't want you getting hurt..." She mumbles, glanced at Sally, then turns away, as she opened a large door.
"Well here we are! Monster High. Ready for some freaky fun?"
[[>> over to School Grounds.]]
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