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Return of the Magic School Bus by RogueDragon Act 3: Save the Day Chapter Ten: ApocalypticConclusion The work-study program was ideally intended to be jobs with a lot of down time so students could earn money, do school work, and learn responsibility or some other nonsense like that. As handy as computers are for research and school work, they should have realized that having a computer at a dorm receptionist desk would mean that, over-the-top security filter or not, Lowtown University was pretty much paying Scott Moxley to goof off. Traffic in and out of the building was pretty constant and unremarkable for a Friday night. Scott was so foc

Return of the Magic School Bus by RogueDragon Act 3: Save the Day Chapter Nine: Marge95531 It was a simple enough idea, really: access a database that could track down the people they needed to find.  It might not have been his idea to begin with, but Ralph Tenelli was the person bursting with ideas on how to make it happen.  So at some point, he apparently took the wheel on the endeavor. Mr. Shu and Mr. Ruhle didn't feel terribly comfortable with the law-breaking implications of the plan, so they opted to sit this one out.  Principal Ruhle went home, it had been a long day for him, and Mr. Shu, his bus, and his ferret went

Act 3: Save the Day Chapter Eight: Things Get Complicated Janet took Miss Frizzle to Walkerville Elementary where Principal Gordon Ruhle had not yet left for the evening. He saved almost all of his principal duties for after school, making his first priority the class that witnessed the kidnapping of their teacher. He was so relieved to see the frizzy red hair, even if it was on the head of a multi-colored mostly-magenta parrot (he still wasn't used to actually seeing the magic stuff first hand). She was sure to express her utmost gratitude to her boss and friend. He truly went above and beyond the duties of a substitute. The kids had even

Act 2: The Magic School Bus Gets Rescued Chapter Seven: Spy Bug The last few hours had been rather tense waiting. They'd had to formulate a plan, arrange a couple of meetings, and had to get Tim down to Walkerville with Shu's bus. Now they were hitch-hiking in the car of the enemies; there wasn't more to discuss but to wait and see. The ladybug bus only had three rows of seats on each side. It was more than necessary, but it probably sensed that some of its occupants weren't feeling cozy with each other. All conversation within was hushed, although it was doubtful how much noise people half a millimeter tall could make that regular-sized hu

Act 2: The Magic School Bus Gets Rescued Chapter Six: Meet The Henchmen Janet Perlstein's parents trusted her to be responsible. She was almost obsessive about serving her community and trying to gain a favorable standing with them. They weren't sure whether to be proud or nervous about her natural affinity for politics, but they were supportive nonetheless. They assumed the reason why she was endorsing her cousin for next year's student-body president, instead of herself, was so she could still have time for her community activities. That's why they let her borrow the car all of the time. They may be more hesitant if they knew that she wa

Act 2: The Magic School Bus Gets Rescued Chapter Five:  A Place to Start Carlos had blatantly sat down next to D.A. during history class. The last few years he hadn't avoided sitting next to any of his old friends, but hadn't gone out of his way to either. On the outside, Carlos Ramon was a social butterfly. The charismatic, charmingly, and oft times completely wacko Latino seemed to be friends with the entire school, but if you were asked to name a specific individual as a friend, you might not be able to pin-point anyone in particular. After establishing their project partnership yesterday, Carlos had intended to be more chummy with D.A.

Act 1: The Other School Bus Chapter Four:  A Gaggle of Goslings "What is wrong with everyone?" Tim grumble as he and the seagull Carlos flew high and fast toward the far end of the wildlife preserve. "So much for that cohesive unit Miss Frizzle believed us to be!" "Eh, we all got our issues I guess," Carlos responded, nonchalantly. "Seriously?" Tim guffawed, "somehow I thought a group of kids who survived crazy adventures as third and fourth graders wouldn't let something as petty as teenage angst hold them back." "Crap happens, man" Carlos responded evenly. "Yeah, but I had always wondered what it would have been like to have you guys a

Act 1: The Other School Bus Chapter Three:  A Field Trip of Their Own Tim had contemplated for the entire drive from Standerton to Walkerville how he was going to start this conversation. Even now he had no idea where to begin. "Miss Frizzle is friends with one of the history teachers at my school," Tim gestured to Keesha and Arnold to come closer so everyone could hear him without having to speak too loudly. "He found me and told me she needed help. He got a signal on a frequency only the two of them use. He says that after some S-O-S it simply said 'bus and I captured; find my class." "What about her class?" Dorothy Ann sounded uncharacte

Act 1: The Other School Bus Chapter Two:  Too late to Stay Home At first, Arnold thought it was only his imagination that he heard his name over the announcement system. "Hey, Arnold, didn't they just call your name to go out front?" Arnold's girlfriend Tiffany nudged him with her elbow. "Did they?" Arnold asked nervously glancing at his cousin who was busy with the student government meeting. His boredom and growling stomach signifying a missed lunch made him a little too anxious to flee the room. Tiffany giggled softly, "don't worry, she can't make you stay." "Doesn't mean she won’t try," he responded with a grateful smile, getti