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Hey there everybody! Finally got one of those stories I was gonna work on worked on!
For those of you who don’t know or never read the first two parts of this series they can be found here
Part 1: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/10637355/
Part 2: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/10717701/
Anyway this continues where part 2 left off… WITH THE ACTUAL AUDITIONS FOR THE TEAM STARTING! What freaks, weirdos, and cuties will come in to try and join Pre-K? What impressive moves will they have to show? How will they make an impression? And just how many things will go horribly, horribly wrong!? Read to find out!
Anyway please enjoy, fav & comment, and have a great day ^,^
Cody is owned by
ozzie-boxer
Toni, Rex, & Carrie are owned by
takinoue
Jack is owned by
belker
Noah is owned by
garciaparty
Other characters owned by me
Pokemon not owned by any of us
“………”
“…………..”
“………. Maddie?”
“Yes Jules?”
“How come nobody has come yet?”
“We just have to be patient Jules…”
“Personally I blame Petie.”
“Oh come on Sammi! How the heck is this my fault!?”
“Cause your sitting there and blaming you makes me feel better, next question?”
“Chu….”
The gym was mostly silent as team Pre-K and the assorted well-wishers all sat around waiting for whoever would arrive first for that auditions… and in some case just hoping anybody would show up. It had been about twenty minutes of no shows so far after Maddie had returned with extra props and the runaway Sammi and the air was stiff with both anticipation and boredom. Sammi was drumming her fingers on the table top as she lounged impatiently and Jules was saying back and forth on his feet in nervous anticipation but beyond some fidgeting the rest of Pre-K kept their eyes on the door to see who would arrive.
The door pushed open and a small, adorable figure entered the room. It was a little growlithe boy (little meaning he was a bit smaller then even Jules, which was saying something) with a cute, babyish look not helped by the fact he was wearing a short sleeved primary colored red and green t shirt with a big 1 on the front and a pair of little shorts that were oddly baggy which just accented his slight waddle even more. Every member of Pre-K cast a glance at Petie as the puppy looked around before waving a light greeting to two of the guests who’d come to watch the auditions.
“Hi Toni, hi Carrie. Now then, I’m CoEEP!!”
“Hiiiiiiii Cuuuuuuuddly!!”
The yanma in question had scooped the puppy up and was happily snuggling and cuddling him as his face turned an adorable pink color with blush. “C-Carrie! Don’t call me that!” he whined, struggling in her grasp “A-and put me down! I’m here to audition!!” The yanma spent another moment snuggling and nuzzling him before giggling and gently setting the puppy down on his feet “Okay Cuddly~” she cooed, ignoring the puppy’s whine “And best of luck luck~ I’m rooting for you~” she added in a chirpy, cheering tone making the puppy blush even more before she finally went back to sit with Toni & Rex.
Still blushing and brushing himself off the growlithe walked up to stand in front of the table as he opened his mouth to speak… and Jules promptly interrupted him by giggling and waving “Hi Cody~” making the puppy sigh. Sammi glanced at Jules incredulously “… friend of yours?” she asked, her tone making it obvious she wasn’t impressed. A fact Jules was completely oblivious to as he nodded “Yep! He’s me and Petie’s friend!” he said proudly as Sammi gave a glance to the teddiursa in question, who timidly waved to Cody, before the dratini shook her head “Why am I not surprise…?”
That made Cody shoot her a dirty look as the puppy puffed his chest out and pulled himself up as tall as he could before saying in as serious a tone as possible “My name is Cody Ignatrum and I would like to audition for the open spot on Team Pre-K please.” The overall effect made him look adorably ridiculous but not even Sammi was mean enough to go bursting his bubble on it. Clearing his throat Andrew spoke up “O-okay then Cody… chuuu… could you please show us some of y-your moves then?” he said, motioning to a nearby row of training dummies Maddie had set up “J-just go whenever you’re r-ready.”
Walking over to them Cody seemed to take a big breath to calm himself… before launching a long burst of flames from his mouth in a stream that engulfed the practice dummy and surrounded it in a small cyclone of fire. Hustling a tiny bit on his paws Cody took a running position and then launched himself into the flaming training dummy as hard as he could causing it to wobble back… then buck forward and make Cody yip as he was thrown back.
“Firespin and Take Down.” Maddie said to the three judges, clarifying what moves Cody had used, as she quickly used the fire extinguisher to douse the flames before they tried to spread. Meanwhile Cody sat up, blushing at having been thrown on his butt like that, and looked at the judges “H-how’d I do?” he asked timidly, still trying to regain his composure. Naturally Sammi was the first to speak up “You’re better then you look, not that that’s hard to do” which earned her another glare from Cody and a few others in the room “Though your landing needs work.” She finished before leaning back in her chair, apparently gone back to not caring.
“D-do you know a-any other moves?” Andrew squeaked timidly as Cody nodded, getting to his feet, before spitting a little burst of flame into the air that rained down in tiny, harmless sparkles. “Ember.” Maddie clarified as she put the fire extinguisher back in its place. “… s-shouldn’t you have one more move?” Andrew asked as Cody just blushed and looked away before Petie spoke up “It’s growl, I know I’ve see him practice…” the teddiursa said… leaving out that it was rather embarrassingly adorable sounding. Nodding his pichu leader scribbled that down on the clipboard in front of him, before looking at Cody.
“O-okay… I think that’s enough chuuu, y-you’re free to have some of the refreshments and Maddie w-will get y-your contact info. W-when we d-decide… chuuu… we’ll l-let you know.”
Nodding Cody waddled over to the refreshments table as Maddie went over to him with a clipboard to get his info. Meanwhile Sammi just sighed “Hope the next one isn’t another one of your weirdo friends cuddlebutt.” She said as Petie blushed and whined in embarrassment before protesting “… I thought he was okay…” weakly… which made Sammi shrug “Didn’t say he wasn’t, but the last we need is either of you idiots letting somebody on the team just cause they were your friends.”
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“Hey Andrew.”
“Hello Andrew.”
“H-hi Addy, h-hi Mio.”
“….. um… why is the dratini beating her head against the table?”
“… l-long story.”
“Mind making her stop? She’s scaring Gabriel.”
“Already took both of us to drag his crybaby butt down here, last thing we need is him bolting.”
The pudgy blue haired glasses wearing oshawott and the lanky scraggy with the drooping pants had entered the gym and almost immediately greeted Andrew with a familiar cheerfulness… which had led Sammi to beating her head on the table in frustration as soon as the pichu answered. At least until a small whimper caught the judges attention and Sammi stopped long enough to notice the small, dark, furry shape cowering behind the oshawott. Groaning she rubbed her forehead and mumbled…
“Okay, who are you two, how do you know the squeaker, and who’s the kid cowering in your shadow?”
“Oh, I’m Mio, Mio Mumoto and this is”
“I’m Addy Housutapas and we know Andrew cause we’re in a band together.”
There was a silence as most everyone in the room paused to look at Andrew as the pichu blushed so much it looked like he might start sending out sparks. “Since when have you been in a band!?” Sammi asked in disbelief. “… c-couple months…” Andrew squeaked out as Addy “helpfully” chimed in “We have our first gig at this local club in a week that’s either desperate or open minded enough to let us try.” Which got most of Pre-K looking at Andrew again as he weakly shrugged “I… I k-kinda wasn’t s-sure if you’d care about that…” which just made Sammi groan and shake her head.
“Ugh, whatever! Which of you is auditioning!? … no… wait. Don’t tell me… it’s the cowering, whimpering kid, right?”
This made Mio and Addy fidget a little and look away before finally nodding as the oshawott gently tugged the quivering kid out from behind him. It turned out to be a little (well… relatively, he was still taller than most of Pre-K) zorua kid in a yukata or kimono or whatever it was called with wide, teary, scared puppy dog eyes as he looked at them fearfully. There was silence for a moment as Pre-K just stared back at the zorua… till Andrew spoke up and said “Hi Gabriel.” making the fox wave a timid little paw before Addy lightly elbowed him making him squeak and start stammering.
“I-i-i-I’m G-Gabriel S-Shisaito! C-can I… b-b-b… um…” his voice squeaked high and died as he trembled and whimpered, apparently too nervous to continue. Sammi, and Petie surprisingly, looked like they were about to make sarcastic comments on this… but a high pitched yowling scream stopped them short and made most people bolt out of their chairs… and promptly facepalm as they saw the source. Jules was standing there, a big stupid innocent look on his face, and eagerly hugging Gabriel as the little fox looked like he was seconds from a crying fit from the surprise grab.
“He’s cute! Can we keep him?”
“… Jules… one, he’s a student and two Momma said no more pets.”
Petie’s comment made Jules’s smile turn into an adorable pout as he let go of Gabriel… who promptly curled up and turned into a little rock with a fluffy fox tail sticking out the back of it. Jane was the first one to comment on this with “You got a rock…” before Addy just sighed and gave the fox tail a sharp tug making the rock squeak and the Illusion break as the scraggy hauled a whimpering Gabriel back to his feet “Saw that one coming, I’m just here for moral support and free food… you still want to addition Mio?” the dark/fighting asked as he lead the sniffling Zorua to the side lines, Gabriel clinging to him for comfort despite Addy looking idly annoyed by that.
Clearing his throat Mio looked at the judges “Like I said earlier I’m Mio and I already know Andrew, but I’m hoping you’ll look past that to give me a chance to audition despite not exactly fitting the criteria.” He said, as formally as he possibly could, as he gave them a deep bow. “… let me guess… you don’t have any special attacks?” Sammi asked, at this point past annoyed and more bored with the whole comedy bit the trio had been doing. Coughing lightly Mio blushed “Um… well… yes actually.” He admitted “… may I still show my moves for your consideration though?” he asked as Andrew and Petie looked at Sammi, expecting her to try to throw Mio and his friends out.
“… sure, why not… case you missed it we’re kinda desperate here anyway.”
“Thank you.”
As Most of Pre-K just stared in disbelief at Sammi being reasonable for once Mio turned towards the training dummy, lifted the bottom of his hoodie, and pulled out a broad and squat looking shell. Before anyone could ask what he was doing he shifted his posture, pulled his hand back, and the shell started to glow with a blue light that formed into a pendulum shaped blade. Suddenly jumping up Mio hurled the shell forward where it bounced off the ground into the training dummy, tearing a large gash in it, before spiraling back through the air to land safely in Mio’s paws.
Not bothering to wait for anybody to comment Mio dashed forwards and tore three more large gashes in the dummy, each large than the last, with the same energy blade and almost samurai like grace before leaping back and exhaling, letting the energy blade dissolve. There was quiet for a moment followed by several of Pre-K and the onlookers applauding lightly which made Mio blush and try to look as stoic as he could as he put the shell back under his shirt. “That was my style take on Razor Shell and Fury Cutter, I hope they were adequate.” he said humbly, still blushing as he timidly tried to scoot over to where Addy and Gabriel were, apparently rather embarrassed by the attention he’d gotten.
Sammi opened her mouth to comment or maybe ask how the heck he’d done that but whatever she was going to say was lost as the door suddenly flew open with a defining crash as whoever had kicked it loudly proclaimed "Bitches behold, I have arrived!" in a tone that insured everybody in the gym, and likely in that part of the school, could hear it. A female scrafty wearing a black sleeveless shirt, grey jeans, and the cockiest grin Pre-K had ever seen swaggered in like she owned the place. Glancing over at the table and sizing up the judges (she towered over them, which wasn’t hard to do) she smirked and said "No, please, no need to stand up for me, but nice to meet you. I'm Jacqueline Fury, and yes, that's my real name. Make a joke about it and I'll combine your ass with your face." Before noticing something out of the corner of her eye and promptly turning on her heels.
“Hey Addy! Great to see you!” she said, walking over to the rather embarrassed looking scrafty as Gabriel took to hiding behind Mio for safety. “H-hello Jack.” He said nervously, tugging his pants back up a little as Jack gave him a good natured but strong slap on the shoulder and asked “You come here to audition too?” prompting Addy to shake his head “N-no… just here to s-support a friend or two is all.” as the rest of the room struggled to keep up with what had just happened and was happening. Before they could manage though Jacqyeline took another look around the room… and as her eyes locked on Toni her gaze turned unpleasant and ugly.
“Well well… I see one of the mind benders decided to stick their noses in on THIS too… not that you have one.” Jack said, spite & malice positively dripping off her tone as she sauntered over to the little gothita. “W-w-what the heck’s wrong with you!?” Toni sputtered, left aghast at suddenly being verbally assaulted like this as Rex glared at Jack and moved besides Toni protectively. Jack just scoffed at that “Oh like you don’t know, oh right I’m one of the mon you can’t fuck around with in the head… what are you doing here anyway? Looking to try and prove all teams need one of your type on them?” she said, glaring down at the smaller girl as Toni’s cheeks went red and anger as she puffed them and her chest up.
“I’M HERE TO SUPPORT MY FRIENDS YOU STUPID… STUPID…!!!”
Carrie gently tugging Toni back as Rex moved in front of the two, looking a lot like an upset guard dog, was probably the only thing that kept the issue from escalating. Jack blinked in confusion at Toni’s “Reason” before opening her mouth to say something, then glancing at Addy, looking back at Toni, opening her mouth to say something again, and finally snorting in annoyance as she gave Toni one more glare before swaggering back over to the judges table. “… what the fuck what THAT about…?” was all Sammi could say as Petie and Andrew just looked confused and rather nervous by what had just happened. Ignoring this Jack slapped her hands on the table to make sure they all had their attention on her.
“So! What do I need to do to show you what I can do?” she asked, big cocky grin on her face as if enjoying her own joke. “Chuuuuu…” Andrew squeaked timidly, holding his clipboard protectively “M-maybe y-you could s-show us some of moves, p-please? Chuuuuu…” he managed to say, motioning to one of the not destroyed training dummies in the room. “Was hoping you’d ask that Chu.” Jack said, her grin getting even wider as she turned on her heels and looked at the dummies, apparently picking out her victim of choice. In a moment her gaze settled on one and the corners of her grin lifted to give it a slightly malicious look.
She suddenly broke into an all-out charge, sprinting at the dummy of her choice as a blue ball of energy formed in her hands. Transferring the ball of energy to one of her hands and clenching Jack slammed the punch-styled Focus Blast into the dummy sending in flying back off its base, threatening to fall right over. Before it could though Jack appeared on the other side of the falling dummy and crashed her other fist into it with a Feint Attack that sent the bag flying into the air. Not bothering to pause she leapt into the air after it while bringing her hands above her head as dark energy formed between them before slamming them hard into the dummy, using the melee styled Dark Pulse to hurl it to the ground with a crash that echoed through the gym.
Landing on the mostly smashed dummy Jack threw everyone in the room a big, arrogant grin as she soaked in the socked and/or terrified looks on all their faces. Throwing her arms up in an boastful manner she seemed to absolutely bask in their response as she walked back over to the judges table with a slow, confident swagger. “… I should have gotten more training dummies… that or hauled the better ones down…” Maddie mumbled as she looked at the two freshly wrecked dummies, very glad the PCA bought them in extreme bulk “Anyway thank you for the demonstration, just put your contact info here and we’ll contact you when we make a decision.” She said, handing the clipboard to Jack who briskly took it and started to scribble down her info as Maddie motioned over to the refreshments “Feel free to help yourself to the refreshments and stick around to see what other candidates come in if you’d like.”
“Don’t mind if I do~ Guess I’ll wait to hear from the judges panel.” Jack said with an amused chuckled as she glanced at Petie, Andrew, and Sammi (who were still picking their jaws off the table) before swaggering over to were Addy and his friends were… as Gabriel had taken to trying to hide as a rock again.
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Things in the gym seemed to have calmed down a bit, other than Jack making rude gestures at Toni as the gothita puffed her cheeks out and tried to ignore it, since nobody had come in for at least thirty minutes. In fact Sammi and Petie were starting to look downright bored as one rapped their fingers against the table impatiently and the other rested his head on his paws and looked ready to doze off. The door being briskly pushed open roused them from their stupor though as a surprising figure cheerfully trotted into the room.
“Hi rival!” the lillipup boy barked in an overly cheerful way to Andrew before happily waving to Maddie. He was Noah Eastman, somebody most of Pre-K recognized since he’d formed a fellow team of short and underevolved mon (though not as short as Pre-K sadly) called Team Playtime and declared his team their rivals. Clad in simple blue jeans and what looked to be a politoad themed t shirt the puppy trotted up to the table as Andrew looked at him in confusion. “Chu? N-Noah? W-what are you d-doing here?” the pichu asked, well aware of the puppy being the leader of an existing team.
Giving a big, innocent smile Noah threw them a thumbs up as he barked out an eager “Good Luck Rivals!” in the best encouraging voice he could manage. There was a moment of silence as Andrew rubbed the back of his head timidly, Sammi raised a non-existent eyebrow at the puppy coming all the way just to say that, and Petie just yawned a little… till in the moment of silence they heard an odd sound. Somebody was whistling “Home on the Range” really quietly. Looking around for a moment everybody seemed to realize if must be somebody coming down the hall as the tune slowly got louder.
Noah meanwhile went popeyed and pale faced at the tune as Maddie gave him a concerned look “Are you okay…” she started but trailed off as Noah bolted for the door, tripping over himself as he dashed to it. Before he could throw it open, it opened inward and nearly bashed him in the nose. Noah managed to backpedal just enough to avoid the door without stopping his dash… and ended up crashing into the sandile girl who’d pushed the door open, planting his face right in her bosom due to their height difference.
“Getting a lil’ frisky dere ain’t ya suga puppy?” the girl said with a light giggle, her voice was deep sounding and dripping with a thick country twang. Noah’s ears and tail drooped as his pupils shrank to pinpricks in what looked to be absolute terror… which was explained as the girl laughed and threw her arms around Noah in a hug tight enough to could HEAR the puppy’s bones cracking under the pressure “Cu’mere ya lil cutie~” the Sandile girl gush as she cuddled Noah and most of the room winced in discomfort at the display or affection… or attempted murder, it was hard to tell which.
Finally the sandile let go of Noah and set him on his feet, as he promptly fell over and whimpered out “Owwwww.....The pain....” in a small groan, as the girl happily strolled into the room somehow oblivious to this. She was also oblivious to most of the people already in the gym trying to give her a wide berth after that display as well as Maddie rushing over to tend to Noah with some Potion. She just strode right up to the judges table and gave them a big smile “Howdy ya’ll~ I’m Beth Traviston an I’d like ta try out for ya lil’ team here!” she cheerfully as all the judges, Sammi included, leaned away from her warily.
After a moment of Andrew just timidly squeaking “Chu.” in response to Beth’s statement Jane stepped forward and took charge in her classical style “Pick one of the dummies over there that isn’t already destroyed and use your moves to wreck it so we can see them.” She said in her normal deadpan while pointing to the dummies with one hand and fishing another candy bar out of her overalls pocket with the other. There was a pause as the two girls looked at each other with their stout frame and the fact they were both wearing overalls, but if Beth noticed their similarities she didn’t comment as she just grinned and cheerfully said “Works fer me!” before heading towards the dummies.
Standing a couple feet away from the dummy Beth bounced lightly on her feet as if limbering up before throwing her arms out as a flurry of sand suddenly whipped around her. With hardly a motion at all Beth transferred the vortex of sand to the base of the dummy trapping what would have been the feet of any actual mobile creature with the sand maelstrom. Pre-K wasn’t’ sure what that move was but Beth’s next move they recognized from their friend Dai as a pair of tall, twin Krokorok guy in identical torn work jeans and simple shirts appeared, both of them made completely out of a shadowy material.
Beat Up and its ability to create shadow clones of people you knew (or in the arena your teammates) was pretty much Dai’s signature move so all of Pre-K recognized Beth’s usage of it as, with just a gesture, she sent both the shadow clone Krokorok’s charging at the trapped dummy, slamming into it with clumsy football tackles that would have knocked it clean over before vanishing like shadow clones do. Meanwhile Beth cracked her knuckles and took what looked like a combat pose as she stood there for a moment… and stood there… and stood there… before turning and looking at the judges.
“Eerr… well shucks… I kinda dun know how ta make Fowl Play work on a trainin dummy.” She said, rubbing the back of head as several people in the room facepalmed at this “An Sand Attack jus dun seem like tha kinda thang ya’ll would wanna see so…” she went on, shrugging a little “Guess that’s all I got.” The sandile finished, giving another cheerful grin as she walked back over to the judges table “Hey… any a ya’ll seen where tha lil’ sugar puppy got off ta?” she asked, suddenly noticing Noah wasn’t around.
“… no actually… now just fill out the contact info here and feel free to help yourself to the refreshments.” Maddie said, handing Beth the clipboard and not mentioning the fact that Noah had ducked under the cloth covered judges table to hide the moment he’d recovered from being crushed. Luckily Beth didn’t seem to notice the tiny, trembling tail sticking out under the cover as she headed over to the food.
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It’d been an hour since the last person wanting to audition, namely Beth who didn’t seem to realize most of the other folks were giving her a wide berth, had come in and Sammi & Petie were right back to being utterly bored. The dratini had her chin resting on the table, eyes set in a half-lidded look of annoyance, as Petie had resorted to play rock, paper, scissors with Jules to pass the time… and was currently on a 23 round losing streak somehow. Even Andrew looked like he was starting to lose focus on the task at hand meaning they might call it a day for the auditions anytime soon…
Just as the door pushed open as another gothita girl stumbled in “O-oh! E-excuse me for intruding… is this the room where the auditions for Team Pre-K are being held?” she stammered, a slightly lost and panicked tone in her voice. She looked similar to Toni, chubby cheeked and very doll like… but while the Toni was a bit like a baby or toddler doll the new girl looked more like one of those more expensive dolls people buy to just put in a case and look at.
Her dark colored hair was long, reaching past her shoulder which wasn’t far to reach admittedly, and immaculately kept in a tidy style. She was wearing a pale blue button up short sleeved shirt, a light grey pleated skirt that reached just past her knees, a matching light grey unbuttoned coat with short puffy sleeves, a pair of white stockings, and matching light blue shoes… combined with the natural bows her species had she looked like a doll dressed up to look like a kindergarten version of a prep-school student. She stood there, apparently not noticing Jack glaring hot burning hatred at her, looking at the judges table hopefully before Petie spoke up.
“Um… yeah, these are the auditions?”
“Oh, good!” she said, letting out an obvious sigh of relieve “You’ll have to pardon me but I haven’t quite gotten down the layout of the school so I have spent the last few hours wandering around lost. I was terribly worried I might be too late to audition.” She said walking briskly over to the table and standing in front of the judges before giving a curtsy “My name is Tabitha Moreau, I hope you won’t mind if I audition for your team.” She said in a tone about 100 times more formal then the situation required as most of the room just stared at her.
“… what century did YOU come from?” Sammi remarked which made Tabitha puff her chubby cheeks up a bit in annoyance but the gothita held her tongue as Andrew spoke up “I-it’s fine chuuu, you c-can audition. Just show u-us w-what moves you c-can do on… um…” he paused as he looked for one of the undamaged dummies, luckily Maddie had moved the ruined one off the side earlier “W-which ever o-of those t-training dummies y-you’d like.” He finally finished as Tabitha seemed to regard the dummies for a moment, though her expression masked whatever emotion she might be feeling, before turning back to Andrew.
“Very well then, that should be no issue. Thank you.”
With that she turned on her heels and walked over to the dummies with a very prim and measured step before pausing a surprisingly far distance away from one of them. Sliding her feet apart to shoulder length for better balance Tabitha brought her hands together in front of her chest and closed her eyes as if praying as a small blue glow surrounded her body. “Calm Mind.” Maddie clarified, recognizing the move from when Kallista performed it.
After a moment of this the glow faded and Tabitha opened her eyes again and suddenly thrust out her hand as a magenta colored Psybeam shot out from it crashing into the bag and sending it wobbling slightly. Not pausing a softball sized ball of dark energy with purple electricity crackling around it appeared in her other hand as she whipped that arm forward, hurling the Shadow Ball at the wobbling dummy as the impact sent it teetering wildly as it rocked on its base. Cupping her hands close together in front of her Tabitha summoned up one more orb of energy, this one a blob of blue, white, and pink, and let it grow to basketball size before hurling the Psyshock at the dummy the explosion finally sending it crashing over to the floor.
Tabitha let out a long, steadying breath before turning around to face the judges and the rest of the people in the gym… and promptly turned back around to hide her blushing cheeks at the polite applause a few of them were giving her for that impressive performance. Save for Jack, who was glaring daggers of hatred at the gothita and grumbling under her breath, and Toni who had watched the impressive display with wide eyes and now had her mouth hanging open a little in awe, which unfortunately combined with her cute, chubby face made her look like one of those baby dolls designed to nurse a bottle or pacifier. Fidgeting on her feet for a few minutes Tabitha finally turned back around, her blush mostly under control, and primly walked back to the judges able to face them before bowing her head and speaking up.
“I hope that was adequate to demonstrate my skills and I thank you again for this chance to aud”
CRASH!!!
The doors to the gym violently flew open as if something large had smashed into them revealing… a magby boy who looked about Andrew or Sammi’s size and was wearing a pair of blue lensed shades and an overdone fur trimmed jacket. The glow around his fists, showing the door slamming had been done with some kind of move, died down as the guy strode right into the room, ignoring the surprised/confused looks he was getting. He walked right up to the front of the judges table and roughly shoved Tabitha, who eeped in surprise and protest, out of the way to glare at the three judges. The shades made it hard to tell where exactly he was looking but it seemed like his eyes wandered over every member of Pre-K before settling back on the three at the table.
“… which of you is the leader of this pack of weaklings?”
His tone was dismissive and insulting and more than anything made you really want to slug his beak in. After a moment of stunned silence though Andrew quietly spoke up “T-that’d be m-me chu…” but he never got to continue to ask who the magby was as the fire type let out a sharp, dismissive chuckle before bluntly saying “Yeah, right, no. Not anymore. Get the fuck out of here fatass. This teams mine now.” That got a reaction as Sammi immediately stood in her chair and glared at the intruder “And who the fuck do you think YOU are asshole!?” she demanded, looking ready to leap over the table and start smacking the punk around.
The magby just laughed at that “Yeah, you got spunk. You can stay.” He said, as if he already owned the team, before pointing at Jane “Same for the fat girl there, she looks tough… but you get the fuck out now” he said pointing back at Andrew before pointing at Petie and Jules “And take the care bear and the queer with you too, you freaks have no place on my team.” Only the sheer shock value of these comments kept Sammi, and probably a few members of the audience, from trying to punch the magby’s bill down his throat right then and there… though one member happened to be close enough she decided to let the punk have a piece of her mind.
“EXCUSE ME! But who do you think you are to just barge in here like that and start making demands!?” Tabitha protested, her voice shrill with indignation though whether it was from being pushed, the way the magby was acting, or both was hard to say. She looked like she was going to continue her attempt to scold him but was promptly silenced by the magby offhandedly slugging her in the face with a Fire Punch with enough force to knock her backwards and flat on her butt. “Shut up, I’m not talking to you losers. Piss off. I’m talking to my new tea” the kid started to say, but was cut off since the act of violently punching out a girl for calling you out on being an asshole seemed to unfreeze the audience.
There was a flurry of motion coupled with a high pitched squeal of surprise… as the magby found himself pinned to the floor by Rex. One of the poochyena’s paws pinning the back of his head and the other pinning his midsection even as the fire type struggled and kicked trying to get back up and having no luck. “Damn it! I wanted to punch the little prick!!” Jack said, the scrafty also having leapt up to smack the magby down only to have Rex outpace her. Rex meanwhile ignored her gripes as he glared down at the pinned magby "Duck say sorry an' go an' Rex no rip duck tail" he threatened, which had the situation not been happening so fast would have gotten some comments from some of the people who’d thought Rex was just a goofy mon…
But the magby didn’t respond with words, instead one of his flailing hands managed to grab ahold of Rex’s shirt and clinch it tight before flaming up in a Fire Punch with the punch. It was a dirty trick, but an effective one as the poochyena’s shirt caught flame making Rex cringe in pain and leap back, rolling to try and put out the fire. This freed the magby who sneered and leapt to his feet “HA! Burn you fucking retard! That’s wha” he didn’t get to continue as there was a slew of hollow coconut sounds, first from Jack’s fist slaming into the magby’s head, and next from the fire type’s head bouncing off the gym floor from the impact. Jack grinned broadly and cracked her knuckles “Damn that felt good.” She said, sounding very satisfied with herself as she looked down at the twitching and dazed punk.
Looking up Jack asked "Mind if I drag this asshole out the door and punt him outta the building? Looks like you're done here anyway." But didn’t wait for any response before continuing "Yeah? Works for me, come on you little fucker..." as she grabbed the magby by his leg and dragged the unconscious fire type across the gym floor and right out the door since nobody moved to stop her. Meanwhile Rex had finished rolling the fire out as Carrie and Toni rushed over to make sure he was okay. Beyond needing a new shirt though he was unharmed which seemed to move the focus of the room back to Pre-K and Tabitha as Maddie helped her sit up, the gothita’s face discolored due to shame and damage.
“I… I’m… o-okay…” she squeaked out, biting her lip and wincing even as Maddie helped her to sit up. “Hold still and close your eyes… this’ll sting a little…” the miltank said as she fished a potion out of her bag and spritzed it on Tabitha’s face making her squeak in pain. The injury seemed to subside thanks to this though there was still some discoloring that looked troublesome “I should have brought some burn heal, we’ll need to get you to a nurse’s station.” Maddie said before looking to Andrew, who seemed to understand what she was implying for him to do. Clearing his throat he tried to get everybody’s attention… but with what’d happened and the general hub-bub that was going on he’d likely have to try and climb up onto the judge’s table to be noticed or heard.
This went on for a moment till Jane took a deep breath, put her fingers to her lips, and let out a loud, sharp whistle which got everybody’s attention. “My brother has something to say.” Was all the munchlax girl said as she pointed to Andrew who was blushing a little “T-thank you… u-um… w-were going to wrap u-up a-auditions for today. T-thank you all f-for coming.” He stuttered nervously, trying to sound authoritative “Chuuuuu… m-me and m-my team are going t-to talk it o-over and come to a d-decision on w-who… chuuu… w-who’ll be the n-new member of the team… t-then we’ll contact you… o-okay?” he added timidly which was followed by a moment of silence before Sammi lightly pushed him out of the way and added her piece.
“It means we’re done for the day, grab whatever food you wanna take with you and get out of here already… unless you wanna help up clean all this mess up!”
There was a sudden shuffling of feet as a few people opted to get out before they got recruited for clean-up duty, though surprisingly most of the people stayed apparently fully intending to help. Gently leading the whimpering Gothita by the hand Maddie turned to Pre-k and said “I’ll be right back to help after I take Tabitha to the nurse’s office.” Before leaving out the door as the clean-up effort reluctantly got started. After a few minutes of it Sammi lifted the tablecloth on the judges table to peek at Noah, who was still hiding under there from Beth.
“… you gonna come out or you gonna stay under there and be a furry footstool?”
“… is Beth still there?”
“Yep.”
“Then no.”
“Too bad.”
“Huh?”
As Noah looked at Sammi in confusion Jane grabbed the other end of the tablecloth and they pulled it right off the table, leaving Noah sitting there with a stunned look on his face. “Dere ya are lil’ puppy!” Beth’s cheerful voice said as Noah looked frozen in horror as he found himself lovingly dragged out from under the table and crushed in a hug. Meanwhile Sammi & Jane finished folding the tablecloth up as the dratini glanced at the puppy getting crushed. “Well, looks like our work here is done.” She said, trying to hide her amusement as Jane just gave her a blank look and unceremoniously burst her bubble.
“Go help put up the chairs.”
“Dammit all…”
To Be Continued…
For those of you who don’t know or never read the first two parts of this series they can be found here
Part 1: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/10637355/
Part 2: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/10717701/
Anyway this continues where part 2 left off… WITH THE ACTUAL AUDITIONS FOR THE TEAM STARTING! What freaks, weirdos, and cuties will come in to try and join Pre-K? What impressive moves will they have to show? How will they make an impression? And just how many things will go horribly, horribly wrong!? Read to find out!
Anyway please enjoy, fav & comment, and have a great day ^,^
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PCA – Team Pre-K:
Replacement Playmate Part 3 “………”
“…………..”
“………. Maddie?”
“Yes Jules?”
“How come nobody has come yet?”
“We just have to be patient Jules…”
“Personally I blame Petie.”
“Oh come on Sammi! How the heck is this my fault!?”
“Cause your sitting there and blaming you makes me feel better, next question?”
“Chu….”
The gym was mostly silent as team Pre-K and the assorted well-wishers all sat around waiting for whoever would arrive first for that auditions… and in some case just hoping anybody would show up. It had been about twenty minutes of no shows so far after Maddie had returned with extra props and the runaway Sammi and the air was stiff with both anticipation and boredom. Sammi was drumming her fingers on the table top as she lounged impatiently and Jules was saying back and forth on his feet in nervous anticipation but beyond some fidgeting the rest of Pre-K kept their eyes on the door to see who would arrive.
The door pushed open and a small, adorable figure entered the room. It was a little growlithe boy (little meaning he was a bit smaller then even Jules, which was saying something) with a cute, babyish look not helped by the fact he was wearing a short sleeved primary colored red and green t shirt with a big 1 on the front and a pair of little shorts that were oddly baggy which just accented his slight waddle even more. Every member of Pre-K cast a glance at Petie as the puppy looked around before waving a light greeting to two of the guests who’d come to watch the auditions.
“Hi Toni, hi Carrie. Now then, I’m CoEEP!!”
“Hiiiiiiii Cuuuuuuuddly!!”
The yanma in question had scooped the puppy up and was happily snuggling and cuddling him as his face turned an adorable pink color with blush. “C-Carrie! Don’t call me that!” he whined, struggling in her grasp “A-and put me down! I’m here to audition!!” The yanma spent another moment snuggling and nuzzling him before giggling and gently setting the puppy down on his feet “Okay Cuddly~” she cooed, ignoring the puppy’s whine “And best of luck luck~ I’m rooting for you~” she added in a chirpy, cheering tone making the puppy blush even more before she finally went back to sit with Toni & Rex.
Still blushing and brushing himself off the growlithe walked up to stand in front of the table as he opened his mouth to speak… and Jules promptly interrupted him by giggling and waving “Hi Cody~” making the puppy sigh. Sammi glanced at Jules incredulously “… friend of yours?” she asked, her tone making it obvious she wasn’t impressed. A fact Jules was completely oblivious to as he nodded “Yep! He’s me and Petie’s friend!” he said proudly as Sammi gave a glance to the teddiursa in question, who timidly waved to Cody, before the dratini shook her head “Why am I not surprise…?”
That made Cody shoot her a dirty look as the puppy puffed his chest out and pulled himself up as tall as he could before saying in as serious a tone as possible “My name is Cody Ignatrum and I would like to audition for the open spot on Team Pre-K please.” The overall effect made him look adorably ridiculous but not even Sammi was mean enough to go bursting his bubble on it. Clearing his throat Andrew spoke up “O-okay then Cody… chuuu… could you please show us some of y-your moves then?” he said, motioning to a nearby row of training dummies Maddie had set up “J-just go whenever you’re r-ready.”
Walking over to them Cody seemed to take a big breath to calm himself… before launching a long burst of flames from his mouth in a stream that engulfed the practice dummy and surrounded it in a small cyclone of fire. Hustling a tiny bit on his paws Cody took a running position and then launched himself into the flaming training dummy as hard as he could causing it to wobble back… then buck forward and make Cody yip as he was thrown back.
“Firespin and Take Down.” Maddie said to the three judges, clarifying what moves Cody had used, as she quickly used the fire extinguisher to douse the flames before they tried to spread. Meanwhile Cody sat up, blushing at having been thrown on his butt like that, and looked at the judges “H-how’d I do?” he asked timidly, still trying to regain his composure. Naturally Sammi was the first to speak up “You’re better then you look, not that that’s hard to do” which earned her another glare from Cody and a few others in the room “Though your landing needs work.” She finished before leaning back in her chair, apparently gone back to not caring.
“D-do you know a-any other moves?” Andrew squeaked timidly as Cody nodded, getting to his feet, before spitting a little burst of flame into the air that rained down in tiny, harmless sparkles. “Ember.” Maddie clarified as she put the fire extinguisher back in its place. “… s-shouldn’t you have one more move?” Andrew asked as Cody just blushed and looked away before Petie spoke up “It’s growl, I know I’ve see him practice…” the teddiursa said… leaving out that it was rather embarrassingly adorable sounding. Nodding his pichu leader scribbled that down on the clipboard in front of him, before looking at Cody.
“O-okay… I think that’s enough chuuu, y-you’re free to have some of the refreshments and Maddie w-will get y-your contact info. W-when we d-decide… chuuu… we’ll l-let you know.”
Nodding Cody waddled over to the refreshments table as Maddie went over to him with a clipboard to get his info. Meanwhile Sammi just sighed “Hope the next one isn’t another one of your weirdo friends cuddlebutt.” She said as Petie blushed and whined in embarrassment before protesting “… I thought he was okay…” weakly… which made Sammi shrug “Didn’t say he wasn’t, but the last we need is either of you idiots letting somebody on the team just cause they were your friends.”
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“Hey Andrew.”
“Hello Andrew.”
“H-hi Addy, h-hi Mio.”
“….. um… why is the dratini beating her head against the table?”
“… l-long story.”
“Mind making her stop? She’s scaring Gabriel.”
“Already took both of us to drag his crybaby butt down here, last thing we need is him bolting.”
The pudgy blue haired glasses wearing oshawott and the lanky scraggy with the drooping pants had entered the gym and almost immediately greeted Andrew with a familiar cheerfulness… which had led Sammi to beating her head on the table in frustration as soon as the pichu answered. At least until a small whimper caught the judges attention and Sammi stopped long enough to notice the small, dark, furry shape cowering behind the oshawott. Groaning she rubbed her forehead and mumbled…
“Okay, who are you two, how do you know the squeaker, and who’s the kid cowering in your shadow?”
“Oh, I’m Mio, Mio Mumoto and this is”
“I’m Addy Housutapas and we know Andrew cause we’re in a band together.”
There was a silence as most everyone in the room paused to look at Andrew as the pichu blushed so much it looked like he might start sending out sparks. “Since when have you been in a band!?” Sammi asked in disbelief. “… c-couple months…” Andrew squeaked out as Addy “helpfully” chimed in “We have our first gig at this local club in a week that’s either desperate or open minded enough to let us try.” Which got most of Pre-K looking at Andrew again as he weakly shrugged “I… I k-kinda wasn’t s-sure if you’d care about that…” which just made Sammi groan and shake her head.
“Ugh, whatever! Which of you is auditioning!? … no… wait. Don’t tell me… it’s the cowering, whimpering kid, right?”
This made Mio and Addy fidget a little and look away before finally nodding as the oshawott gently tugged the quivering kid out from behind him. It turned out to be a little (well… relatively, he was still taller than most of Pre-K) zorua kid in a yukata or kimono or whatever it was called with wide, teary, scared puppy dog eyes as he looked at them fearfully. There was silence for a moment as Pre-K just stared back at the zorua… till Andrew spoke up and said “Hi Gabriel.” making the fox wave a timid little paw before Addy lightly elbowed him making him squeak and start stammering.
“I-i-i-I’m G-Gabriel S-Shisaito! C-can I… b-b-b… um…” his voice squeaked high and died as he trembled and whimpered, apparently too nervous to continue. Sammi, and Petie surprisingly, looked like they were about to make sarcastic comments on this… but a high pitched yowling scream stopped them short and made most people bolt out of their chairs… and promptly facepalm as they saw the source. Jules was standing there, a big stupid innocent look on his face, and eagerly hugging Gabriel as the little fox looked like he was seconds from a crying fit from the surprise grab.
“He’s cute! Can we keep him?”
“… Jules… one, he’s a student and two Momma said no more pets.”
Petie’s comment made Jules’s smile turn into an adorable pout as he let go of Gabriel… who promptly curled up and turned into a little rock with a fluffy fox tail sticking out the back of it. Jane was the first one to comment on this with “You got a rock…” before Addy just sighed and gave the fox tail a sharp tug making the rock squeak and the Illusion break as the scraggy hauled a whimpering Gabriel back to his feet “Saw that one coming, I’m just here for moral support and free food… you still want to addition Mio?” the dark/fighting asked as he lead the sniffling Zorua to the side lines, Gabriel clinging to him for comfort despite Addy looking idly annoyed by that.
Clearing his throat Mio looked at the judges “Like I said earlier I’m Mio and I already know Andrew, but I’m hoping you’ll look past that to give me a chance to audition despite not exactly fitting the criteria.” He said, as formally as he possibly could, as he gave them a deep bow. “… let me guess… you don’t have any special attacks?” Sammi asked, at this point past annoyed and more bored with the whole comedy bit the trio had been doing. Coughing lightly Mio blushed “Um… well… yes actually.” He admitted “… may I still show my moves for your consideration though?” he asked as Andrew and Petie looked at Sammi, expecting her to try to throw Mio and his friends out.
“… sure, why not… case you missed it we’re kinda desperate here anyway.”
“Thank you.”
As Most of Pre-K just stared in disbelief at Sammi being reasonable for once Mio turned towards the training dummy, lifted the bottom of his hoodie, and pulled out a broad and squat looking shell. Before anyone could ask what he was doing he shifted his posture, pulled his hand back, and the shell started to glow with a blue light that formed into a pendulum shaped blade. Suddenly jumping up Mio hurled the shell forward where it bounced off the ground into the training dummy, tearing a large gash in it, before spiraling back through the air to land safely in Mio’s paws.
Not bothering to wait for anybody to comment Mio dashed forwards and tore three more large gashes in the dummy, each large than the last, with the same energy blade and almost samurai like grace before leaping back and exhaling, letting the energy blade dissolve. There was quiet for a moment followed by several of Pre-K and the onlookers applauding lightly which made Mio blush and try to look as stoic as he could as he put the shell back under his shirt. “That was my style take on Razor Shell and Fury Cutter, I hope they were adequate.” he said humbly, still blushing as he timidly tried to scoot over to where Addy and Gabriel were, apparently rather embarrassed by the attention he’d gotten.
Sammi opened her mouth to comment or maybe ask how the heck he’d done that but whatever she was going to say was lost as the door suddenly flew open with a defining crash as whoever had kicked it loudly proclaimed "Bitches behold, I have arrived!" in a tone that insured everybody in the gym, and likely in that part of the school, could hear it. A female scrafty wearing a black sleeveless shirt, grey jeans, and the cockiest grin Pre-K had ever seen swaggered in like she owned the place. Glancing over at the table and sizing up the judges (she towered over them, which wasn’t hard to do) she smirked and said "No, please, no need to stand up for me, but nice to meet you. I'm Jacqueline Fury, and yes, that's my real name. Make a joke about it and I'll combine your ass with your face." Before noticing something out of the corner of her eye and promptly turning on her heels.
“Hey Addy! Great to see you!” she said, walking over to the rather embarrassed looking scrafty as Gabriel took to hiding behind Mio for safety. “H-hello Jack.” He said nervously, tugging his pants back up a little as Jack gave him a good natured but strong slap on the shoulder and asked “You come here to audition too?” prompting Addy to shake his head “N-no… just here to s-support a friend or two is all.” as the rest of the room struggled to keep up with what had just happened and was happening. Before they could manage though Jacqyeline took another look around the room… and as her eyes locked on Toni her gaze turned unpleasant and ugly.
“Well well… I see one of the mind benders decided to stick their noses in on THIS too… not that you have one.” Jack said, spite & malice positively dripping off her tone as she sauntered over to the little gothita. “W-w-what the heck’s wrong with you!?” Toni sputtered, left aghast at suddenly being verbally assaulted like this as Rex glared at Jack and moved besides Toni protectively. Jack just scoffed at that “Oh like you don’t know, oh right I’m one of the mon you can’t fuck around with in the head… what are you doing here anyway? Looking to try and prove all teams need one of your type on them?” she said, glaring down at the smaller girl as Toni’s cheeks went red and anger as she puffed them and her chest up.
“I’M HERE TO SUPPORT MY FRIENDS YOU STUPID… STUPID…!!!”
Carrie gently tugging Toni back as Rex moved in front of the two, looking a lot like an upset guard dog, was probably the only thing that kept the issue from escalating. Jack blinked in confusion at Toni’s “Reason” before opening her mouth to say something, then glancing at Addy, looking back at Toni, opening her mouth to say something again, and finally snorting in annoyance as she gave Toni one more glare before swaggering back over to the judges table. “… what the fuck what THAT about…?” was all Sammi could say as Petie and Andrew just looked confused and rather nervous by what had just happened. Ignoring this Jack slapped her hands on the table to make sure they all had their attention on her.
“So! What do I need to do to show you what I can do?” she asked, big cocky grin on her face as if enjoying her own joke. “Chuuuuu…” Andrew squeaked timidly, holding his clipboard protectively “M-maybe y-you could s-show us some of moves, p-please? Chuuuuu…” he managed to say, motioning to one of the not destroyed training dummies in the room. “Was hoping you’d ask that Chu.” Jack said, her grin getting even wider as she turned on her heels and looked at the dummies, apparently picking out her victim of choice. In a moment her gaze settled on one and the corners of her grin lifted to give it a slightly malicious look.
She suddenly broke into an all-out charge, sprinting at the dummy of her choice as a blue ball of energy formed in her hands. Transferring the ball of energy to one of her hands and clenching Jack slammed the punch-styled Focus Blast into the dummy sending in flying back off its base, threatening to fall right over. Before it could though Jack appeared on the other side of the falling dummy and crashed her other fist into it with a Feint Attack that sent the bag flying into the air. Not bothering to pause she leapt into the air after it while bringing her hands above her head as dark energy formed between them before slamming them hard into the dummy, using the melee styled Dark Pulse to hurl it to the ground with a crash that echoed through the gym.
Landing on the mostly smashed dummy Jack threw everyone in the room a big, arrogant grin as she soaked in the socked and/or terrified looks on all their faces. Throwing her arms up in an boastful manner she seemed to absolutely bask in their response as she walked back over to the judges table with a slow, confident swagger. “… I should have gotten more training dummies… that or hauled the better ones down…” Maddie mumbled as she looked at the two freshly wrecked dummies, very glad the PCA bought them in extreme bulk “Anyway thank you for the demonstration, just put your contact info here and we’ll contact you when we make a decision.” She said, handing the clipboard to Jack who briskly took it and started to scribble down her info as Maddie motioned over to the refreshments “Feel free to help yourself to the refreshments and stick around to see what other candidates come in if you’d like.”
“Don’t mind if I do~ Guess I’ll wait to hear from the judges panel.” Jack said with an amused chuckled as she glanced at Petie, Andrew, and Sammi (who were still picking their jaws off the table) before swaggering over to were Addy and his friends were… as Gabriel had taken to trying to hide as a rock again.
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Things in the gym seemed to have calmed down a bit, other than Jack making rude gestures at Toni as the gothita puffed her cheeks out and tried to ignore it, since nobody had come in for at least thirty minutes. In fact Sammi and Petie were starting to look downright bored as one rapped their fingers against the table impatiently and the other rested his head on his paws and looked ready to doze off. The door being briskly pushed open roused them from their stupor though as a surprising figure cheerfully trotted into the room.
“Hi rival!” the lillipup boy barked in an overly cheerful way to Andrew before happily waving to Maddie. He was Noah Eastman, somebody most of Pre-K recognized since he’d formed a fellow team of short and underevolved mon (though not as short as Pre-K sadly) called Team Playtime and declared his team their rivals. Clad in simple blue jeans and what looked to be a politoad themed t shirt the puppy trotted up to the table as Andrew looked at him in confusion. “Chu? N-Noah? W-what are you d-doing here?” the pichu asked, well aware of the puppy being the leader of an existing team.
Giving a big, innocent smile Noah threw them a thumbs up as he barked out an eager “Good Luck Rivals!” in the best encouraging voice he could manage. There was a moment of silence as Andrew rubbed the back of his head timidly, Sammi raised a non-existent eyebrow at the puppy coming all the way just to say that, and Petie just yawned a little… till in the moment of silence they heard an odd sound. Somebody was whistling “Home on the Range” really quietly. Looking around for a moment everybody seemed to realize if must be somebody coming down the hall as the tune slowly got louder.
Noah meanwhile went popeyed and pale faced at the tune as Maddie gave him a concerned look “Are you okay…” she started but trailed off as Noah bolted for the door, tripping over himself as he dashed to it. Before he could throw it open, it opened inward and nearly bashed him in the nose. Noah managed to backpedal just enough to avoid the door without stopping his dash… and ended up crashing into the sandile girl who’d pushed the door open, planting his face right in her bosom due to their height difference.
“Getting a lil’ frisky dere ain’t ya suga puppy?” the girl said with a light giggle, her voice was deep sounding and dripping with a thick country twang. Noah’s ears and tail drooped as his pupils shrank to pinpricks in what looked to be absolute terror… which was explained as the girl laughed and threw her arms around Noah in a hug tight enough to could HEAR the puppy’s bones cracking under the pressure “Cu’mere ya lil cutie~” the Sandile girl gush as she cuddled Noah and most of the room winced in discomfort at the display or affection… or attempted murder, it was hard to tell which.
Finally the sandile let go of Noah and set him on his feet, as he promptly fell over and whimpered out “Owwwww.....The pain....” in a small groan, as the girl happily strolled into the room somehow oblivious to this. She was also oblivious to most of the people already in the gym trying to give her a wide berth after that display as well as Maddie rushing over to tend to Noah with some Potion. She just strode right up to the judges table and gave them a big smile “Howdy ya’ll~ I’m Beth Traviston an I’d like ta try out for ya lil’ team here!” she cheerfully as all the judges, Sammi included, leaned away from her warily.
After a moment of Andrew just timidly squeaking “Chu.” in response to Beth’s statement Jane stepped forward and took charge in her classical style “Pick one of the dummies over there that isn’t already destroyed and use your moves to wreck it so we can see them.” She said in her normal deadpan while pointing to the dummies with one hand and fishing another candy bar out of her overalls pocket with the other. There was a pause as the two girls looked at each other with their stout frame and the fact they were both wearing overalls, but if Beth noticed their similarities she didn’t comment as she just grinned and cheerfully said “Works fer me!” before heading towards the dummies.
Standing a couple feet away from the dummy Beth bounced lightly on her feet as if limbering up before throwing her arms out as a flurry of sand suddenly whipped around her. With hardly a motion at all Beth transferred the vortex of sand to the base of the dummy trapping what would have been the feet of any actual mobile creature with the sand maelstrom. Pre-K wasn’t’ sure what that move was but Beth’s next move they recognized from their friend Dai as a pair of tall, twin Krokorok guy in identical torn work jeans and simple shirts appeared, both of them made completely out of a shadowy material.
Beat Up and its ability to create shadow clones of people you knew (or in the arena your teammates) was pretty much Dai’s signature move so all of Pre-K recognized Beth’s usage of it as, with just a gesture, she sent both the shadow clone Krokorok’s charging at the trapped dummy, slamming into it with clumsy football tackles that would have knocked it clean over before vanishing like shadow clones do. Meanwhile Beth cracked her knuckles and took what looked like a combat pose as she stood there for a moment… and stood there… and stood there… before turning and looking at the judges.
“Eerr… well shucks… I kinda dun know how ta make Fowl Play work on a trainin dummy.” She said, rubbing the back of head as several people in the room facepalmed at this “An Sand Attack jus dun seem like tha kinda thang ya’ll would wanna see so…” she went on, shrugging a little “Guess that’s all I got.” The sandile finished, giving another cheerful grin as she walked back over to the judges table “Hey… any a ya’ll seen where tha lil’ sugar puppy got off ta?” she asked, suddenly noticing Noah wasn’t around.
“… no actually… now just fill out the contact info here and feel free to help yourself to the refreshments.” Maddie said, handing Beth the clipboard and not mentioning the fact that Noah had ducked under the cloth covered judges table to hide the moment he’d recovered from being crushed. Luckily Beth didn’t seem to notice the tiny, trembling tail sticking out under the cover as she headed over to the food.
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It’d been an hour since the last person wanting to audition, namely Beth who didn’t seem to realize most of the other folks were giving her a wide berth, had come in and Sammi & Petie were right back to being utterly bored. The dratini had her chin resting on the table, eyes set in a half-lidded look of annoyance, as Petie had resorted to play rock, paper, scissors with Jules to pass the time… and was currently on a 23 round losing streak somehow. Even Andrew looked like he was starting to lose focus on the task at hand meaning they might call it a day for the auditions anytime soon…
Just as the door pushed open as another gothita girl stumbled in “O-oh! E-excuse me for intruding… is this the room where the auditions for Team Pre-K are being held?” she stammered, a slightly lost and panicked tone in her voice. She looked similar to Toni, chubby cheeked and very doll like… but while the Toni was a bit like a baby or toddler doll the new girl looked more like one of those more expensive dolls people buy to just put in a case and look at.
Her dark colored hair was long, reaching past her shoulder which wasn’t far to reach admittedly, and immaculately kept in a tidy style. She was wearing a pale blue button up short sleeved shirt, a light grey pleated skirt that reached just past her knees, a matching light grey unbuttoned coat with short puffy sleeves, a pair of white stockings, and matching light blue shoes… combined with the natural bows her species had she looked like a doll dressed up to look like a kindergarten version of a prep-school student. She stood there, apparently not noticing Jack glaring hot burning hatred at her, looking at the judges table hopefully before Petie spoke up.
“Um… yeah, these are the auditions?”
“Oh, good!” she said, letting out an obvious sigh of relieve “You’ll have to pardon me but I haven’t quite gotten down the layout of the school so I have spent the last few hours wandering around lost. I was terribly worried I might be too late to audition.” She said walking briskly over to the table and standing in front of the judges before giving a curtsy “My name is Tabitha Moreau, I hope you won’t mind if I audition for your team.” She said in a tone about 100 times more formal then the situation required as most of the room just stared at her.
“… what century did YOU come from?” Sammi remarked which made Tabitha puff her chubby cheeks up a bit in annoyance but the gothita held her tongue as Andrew spoke up “I-it’s fine chuuu, you c-can audition. Just show u-us w-what moves you c-can do on… um…” he paused as he looked for one of the undamaged dummies, luckily Maddie had moved the ruined one off the side earlier “W-which ever o-of those t-training dummies y-you’d like.” He finally finished as Tabitha seemed to regard the dummies for a moment, though her expression masked whatever emotion she might be feeling, before turning back to Andrew.
“Very well then, that should be no issue. Thank you.”
With that she turned on her heels and walked over to the dummies with a very prim and measured step before pausing a surprisingly far distance away from one of them. Sliding her feet apart to shoulder length for better balance Tabitha brought her hands together in front of her chest and closed her eyes as if praying as a small blue glow surrounded her body. “Calm Mind.” Maddie clarified, recognizing the move from when Kallista performed it.
After a moment of this the glow faded and Tabitha opened her eyes again and suddenly thrust out her hand as a magenta colored Psybeam shot out from it crashing into the bag and sending it wobbling slightly. Not pausing a softball sized ball of dark energy with purple electricity crackling around it appeared in her other hand as she whipped that arm forward, hurling the Shadow Ball at the wobbling dummy as the impact sent it teetering wildly as it rocked on its base. Cupping her hands close together in front of her Tabitha summoned up one more orb of energy, this one a blob of blue, white, and pink, and let it grow to basketball size before hurling the Psyshock at the dummy the explosion finally sending it crashing over to the floor.
Tabitha let out a long, steadying breath before turning around to face the judges and the rest of the people in the gym… and promptly turned back around to hide her blushing cheeks at the polite applause a few of them were giving her for that impressive performance. Save for Jack, who was glaring daggers of hatred at the gothita and grumbling under her breath, and Toni who had watched the impressive display with wide eyes and now had her mouth hanging open a little in awe, which unfortunately combined with her cute, chubby face made her look like one of those baby dolls designed to nurse a bottle or pacifier. Fidgeting on her feet for a few minutes Tabitha finally turned back around, her blush mostly under control, and primly walked back to the judges able to face them before bowing her head and speaking up.
“I hope that was adequate to demonstrate my skills and I thank you again for this chance to aud”
CRASH!!!
The doors to the gym violently flew open as if something large had smashed into them revealing… a magby boy who looked about Andrew or Sammi’s size and was wearing a pair of blue lensed shades and an overdone fur trimmed jacket. The glow around his fists, showing the door slamming had been done with some kind of move, died down as the guy strode right into the room, ignoring the surprised/confused looks he was getting. He walked right up to the front of the judges table and roughly shoved Tabitha, who eeped in surprise and protest, out of the way to glare at the three judges. The shades made it hard to tell where exactly he was looking but it seemed like his eyes wandered over every member of Pre-K before settling back on the three at the table.
“… which of you is the leader of this pack of weaklings?”
His tone was dismissive and insulting and more than anything made you really want to slug his beak in. After a moment of stunned silence though Andrew quietly spoke up “T-that’d be m-me chu…” but he never got to continue to ask who the magby was as the fire type let out a sharp, dismissive chuckle before bluntly saying “Yeah, right, no. Not anymore. Get the fuck out of here fatass. This teams mine now.” That got a reaction as Sammi immediately stood in her chair and glared at the intruder “And who the fuck do you think YOU are asshole!?” she demanded, looking ready to leap over the table and start smacking the punk around.
The magby just laughed at that “Yeah, you got spunk. You can stay.” He said, as if he already owned the team, before pointing at Jane “Same for the fat girl there, she looks tough… but you get the fuck out now” he said pointing back at Andrew before pointing at Petie and Jules “And take the care bear and the queer with you too, you freaks have no place on my team.” Only the sheer shock value of these comments kept Sammi, and probably a few members of the audience, from trying to punch the magby’s bill down his throat right then and there… though one member happened to be close enough she decided to let the punk have a piece of her mind.
“EXCUSE ME! But who do you think you are to just barge in here like that and start making demands!?” Tabitha protested, her voice shrill with indignation though whether it was from being pushed, the way the magby was acting, or both was hard to say. She looked like she was going to continue her attempt to scold him but was promptly silenced by the magby offhandedly slugging her in the face with a Fire Punch with enough force to knock her backwards and flat on her butt. “Shut up, I’m not talking to you losers. Piss off. I’m talking to my new tea” the kid started to say, but was cut off since the act of violently punching out a girl for calling you out on being an asshole seemed to unfreeze the audience.
There was a flurry of motion coupled with a high pitched squeal of surprise… as the magby found himself pinned to the floor by Rex. One of the poochyena’s paws pinning the back of his head and the other pinning his midsection even as the fire type struggled and kicked trying to get back up and having no luck. “Damn it! I wanted to punch the little prick!!” Jack said, the scrafty also having leapt up to smack the magby down only to have Rex outpace her. Rex meanwhile ignored her gripes as he glared down at the pinned magby "Duck say sorry an' go an' Rex no rip duck tail" he threatened, which had the situation not been happening so fast would have gotten some comments from some of the people who’d thought Rex was just a goofy mon…
But the magby didn’t respond with words, instead one of his flailing hands managed to grab ahold of Rex’s shirt and clinch it tight before flaming up in a Fire Punch with the punch. It was a dirty trick, but an effective one as the poochyena’s shirt caught flame making Rex cringe in pain and leap back, rolling to try and put out the fire. This freed the magby who sneered and leapt to his feet “HA! Burn you fucking retard! That’s wha” he didn’t get to continue as there was a slew of hollow coconut sounds, first from Jack’s fist slaming into the magby’s head, and next from the fire type’s head bouncing off the gym floor from the impact. Jack grinned broadly and cracked her knuckles “Damn that felt good.” She said, sounding very satisfied with herself as she looked down at the twitching and dazed punk.
Looking up Jack asked "Mind if I drag this asshole out the door and punt him outta the building? Looks like you're done here anyway." But didn’t wait for any response before continuing "Yeah? Works for me, come on you little fucker..." as she grabbed the magby by his leg and dragged the unconscious fire type across the gym floor and right out the door since nobody moved to stop her. Meanwhile Rex had finished rolling the fire out as Carrie and Toni rushed over to make sure he was okay. Beyond needing a new shirt though he was unharmed which seemed to move the focus of the room back to Pre-K and Tabitha as Maddie helped her sit up, the gothita’s face discolored due to shame and damage.
“I… I’m… o-okay…” she squeaked out, biting her lip and wincing even as Maddie helped her to sit up. “Hold still and close your eyes… this’ll sting a little…” the miltank said as she fished a potion out of her bag and spritzed it on Tabitha’s face making her squeak in pain. The injury seemed to subside thanks to this though there was still some discoloring that looked troublesome “I should have brought some burn heal, we’ll need to get you to a nurse’s station.” Maddie said before looking to Andrew, who seemed to understand what she was implying for him to do. Clearing his throat he tried to get everybody’s attention… but with what’d happened and the general hub-bub that was going on he’d likely have to try and climb up onto the judge’s table to be noticed or heard.
This went on for a moment till Jane took a deep breath, put her fingers to her lips, and let out a loud, sharp whistle which got everybody’s attention. “My brother has something to say.” Was all the munchlax girl said as she pointed to Andrew who was blushing a little “T-thank you… u-um… w-were going to wrap u-up a-auditions for today. T-thank you all f-for coming.” He stuttered nervously, trying to sound authoritative “Chuuuuu… m-me and m-my team are going t-to talk it o-over and come to a d-decision on w-who… chuuu… w-who’ll be the n-new member of the team… t-then we’ll contact you… o-okay?” he added timidly which was followed by a moment of silence before Sammi lightly pushed him out of the way and added her piece.
“It means we’re done for the day, grab whatever food you wanna take with you and get out of here already… unless you wanna help up clean all this mess up!”
There was a sudden shuffling of feet as a few people opted to get out before they got recruited for clean-up duty, though surprisingly most of the people stayed apparently fully intending to help. Gently leading the whimpering Gothita by the hand Maddie turned to Pre-k and said “I’ll be right back to help after I take Tabitha to the nurse’s office.” Before leaving out the door as the clean-up effort reluctantly got started. After a few minutes of it Sammi lifted the tablecloth on the judges table to peek at Noah, who was still hiding under there from Beth.
“… you gonna come out or you gonna stay under there and be a furry footstool?”
“… is Beth still there?”
“Yep.”
“Then no.”
“Too bad.”
“Huh?”
As Noah looked at Sammi in confusion Jane grabbed the other end of the tablecloth and they pulled it right off the table, leaving Noah sitting there with a stunned look on his face. “Dere ya are lil’ puppy!” Beth’s cheerful voice said as Noah looked frozen in horror as he found himself lovingly dragged out from under the table and crushed in a hug. Meanwhile Sammi & Jane finished folding the tablecloth up as the dratini glanced at the puppy getting crushed. “Well, looks like our work here is done.” She said, trying to hide her amusement as Jane just gave her a blank look and unceremoniously burst her bubble.
“Go help put up the chairs.”
“Dammit all…”
To Be Continued…
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