Chapter 21 It just happened

"Ergol's more stupid than I thought." Toby bit into his chocolate bar.

Chris looks at him, "What makes you say that?"

Alyss replies, "He's right. Didn't Ergol just say 'he declares war on this school while holding everyone of this school hostage'?"

Toby puts a finger up, "Specifically, he said 'I declare war on this school also hol-'"

Shayna cuts him off, "POINT is. What does he even plan to do. I mean he's already given credit for himself that he is the perpetrator for this...and injuring his dad."

Will shook his head disgustedly, "Harming his own father is just terrible. I didn't even hear a sense of regret or pain in his voice while apologizing."

They could hear the cool breeze of the fans turned on to max. Since the air conditioning was turned off, all they had to cool the room was some fans. Even that wasn't enough to chill. One of the guys spoke, "Is he trying to cook us alive?"

Another, "Did you hear him? He sounded pissed than usual."

"Probably he hurt his dad."

There was a snort, "Didn't sound like he cared much of that."

Toby looked at his phone, "Yeah this is going to end really soon. Authorities are going in to where he is currently at..."

Chris looked at him with some surprise, "How do you know that?"

He laughs, "That idiot used WiFi to remotely control everything...unprotected."

A girl coughed, "He DID fail the Tech class..." Everyone turned to her who was coughing from the dust.

"Where on earth did you jump from!? And what's this WiFi animal?" Will exclaims.

Toby pushed his glasses up slightly and puts a hand on his shoulder, "In time my friend, I will show you the wonders of this world! WiFi! The essential element that helps us communicates to people across the globe!"

Will points at the square rectangle, "Isn't that this phone is for?"

"- Also known as INTERNET! It sends and lets people know what is happening around the world! New president, politics, scientific breakthroughs...etc" Toby continues with his explanation.

Will pulls out a roll of paper, "That's what the newspaper is for right? Or why else would they need this anymore?"

Toby stared at him and the paper. Slowly taking it and pulled out a razor blade he used to cut some supply boxes earlier. "There!" he declares, "The newspaper is no more!"

Will looks at him, "Do you control the paper production or something? I mean, it comes on Wednesday's and Friday evenings. Sometimes on Saturday mornings because of unforeseen accidents. Never from forgetfulness."

Chris raises his hand, "Doesn't seem shady to you?"

Toby sighs loudly, "I DON'T CARE!"

Will reaches into his backpack, "I got another one, since for some reason there's always two in the week."

Everyone stared at his logic.

Lilly forced her cough, "Isn't anyone wondering how I got to this room?"

They all turned to her and then exploded in confusion.

Someone shouted, "ALIEN!"

"IT'S A GHOST!"

A gamer who was playing jumps up, "A ghost!? WHERE's the Feds?!"

His friend who had her headphone on takes it off, "Chill out Logan, you're being too loud. I can hear you through my headphones. Please, it's already at max."

"You sure about that Alex? I wasn't shouting." He shouts.

She pulls the earphones out of his ears, "Hello? I bet you aliens can hear you from Pluto already!"

"Oh." He looked embarrassed.

Toby corrects her, "Do you mean Pluto as in the Disney dog?"

She rolls her eyes at him, "Yes of course I am talkin- hell no. I mean the PLANET Pluto!"

Toby grins, "Technically. Recent studies infer that there is a planet on the edge of our galaxy that is yet to be seen."

Logan looks at him, "No one needs to know that."

Toby looked hurt and mutters, "Well...it's TRUE." Picking up a semi-shredded paper that dated January 15th. "See! 'Two planets may be hiding beyond Plu-"

"Just....cut it out." as he puts his earphones back on.

Alyss places a hand on her face, "My, my, this reminds me of a heated debate in the hall with the nobles."

Will spoke from the corner of his mouth, "Yeah. At least there was a king to keep order. Right now I don't see a king...nor do I have the two newspaper anymore" He looked sadly.

Toby walked up to him and bows to Will. "You are a worthy opponent, I will show you the glory of the INTERNET!"

"Uh...sure."

Lilly whistles, "ANYWAYS. Seems like this section of the school is still under construction...so it was only covered by a thin one layered of dry wall."

Chris mutters loudly, "SO that's why there was a yellowed section around the schools...you might want to clear that dust off of you. Bad to breathe that stuff in."

Shayna puts a hand up, "Wait. Lilly? Did you just smash through the wall?"

"Uh...yeah...I mean, I'm sorry! I didn't mean to! I just heard you guys and I found that the wall was..." Lilly stutters unable to find an excuse. "It just...happened."

"IS your hands okay?" Shayna asks.

"Um. Yeah thanks." Smiling awkwardly, "It wasn't that hard. I actually kicked."

There was a silence then followed up by the rumbling of the shutters on the doors opening up.

Toby nudged his glasses, "See? Told you?" As they heard the various sirens outside. Everyone crowded at the window, seeing a glimpse of a man on the stretcher rushed towards the nearest ambulance and several armored vehicles had arrived on the school ground.

A woman's voice appeared at the door, "Oh gosh, we're going to have to get the lawn fixed...again..."

"Principal Terrance!" Chris said, "Why are you covered in blood?" The student president looked slightly disturbed.

"Trying to stop bleeding from that idiot of a guy." She points outside.

Will saw a woman in a suit looking right into the classroom of where they were at and gave a thumbs up before vanishing from the onrushing rescue crowd.

"This is definitely going into the yearbook." A girl said as she snapped some pictures. The principal puts a hand on her shoulders and begins pulling her away, "NO. GRAPHIC. PICTURES!"

"Hey! Ow! Alright! You're getting blood on me!"

All eyes at looked at the disappearance and then resumed their attention outside.

Ooo

"So the old country that existed hundreds of years ago, Skandia defended against these horse riders with merely axemen and magic. Alright class, please get into groups and make a 4500 word essay with a project of your choice to go with it. Minimum of 3 people, quickly people, I have to write your names down." The teacher instructed

Will mutters, "Magic? What on earth is he talking about!?"

Alyss soothes, "Calm down. Rangers were always known for their 'dark-magic'"

"Indeed Miss. Mainwaring. Now if you please, can you decide on your choice to which group you're going to join?" the teacher spoke with an obvious annoyed tone.

She looked around where boys and girls alike were staring at her to will her to go to their groups. She was stunning and smart. No one would turn her down to join them.

She sits down next to Will, Toby and Shayna. Toby sighs, "Two days right after the first day and we get a project already. Come on, this sucks..."

Will murmurs, "What's terrible is I have to work on something that is fraudulent and duplicitous."

Shayna stares at him, "Somebody has been hitting the dictionaries."

The young ranger looked at her, "Why would I hit a book?"

"Maybe you're fake." A person walked passed him as the figure walked out the room.

"Who was that?" Will stared out the door.

Toby scratched his head, "No idea, must've been someone from another class. I mean, there are a lot of well-known people here but I don't know EVERY ONE of them."

Alyss looked quite disturbed as well.

Shayna pulls a binder out, "Let's start on the project."

"Let's"

Ooo

Stephen Landcaster is in the hospital with intensive care, lost lots of blood and in a critical but steady condition.