"All right everyone! On the bus you go!" Xisumavoid shouted, making sure he was heard over the conversations throughout the hermits. They did as they were told, entirely aware they had behaved badly at X's house. If only that awareness could last forever.

"Okay, everyone please stay seated and quiet while I do roll call."

Surprisingly, no one made it too difficult to get that done. Xisuma would call out a name and that person would simply respond in some sort of way, which didn't really matter as long as they were present.

The bus driver, TFC, went over the rules when everyone was seated. "Okay, the rules are no getting up from your seat, no screaming, no arguing, and no dying. Got it?"

Everyone agreed even if they were a bit confused on the last rule, but didn't question it.

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As the bus started moving, Doc thought if his and Bdubs' argument was really necessary. Yeah, I should probably apologize. He thought to himself, wondering what he should say.

The creeper hybrid briefly glanced over at Bdubs who was sitting with Keralis across from him. "Hey, Bdubs?"

"What," The shorter one responded with annoyance in his voice, his head facing the opposite direction to avoid eye contact.

Doc searched for the right words to use. "I.. I'm sorry for getting mad at you. I guess I was just overreacting because of-"

This made Ren perk up his ears just a little and turn his head from his phone, but Bdubs interrupted him before he could finish his sentence. "I guess it's fine, I could've brought the others outside to do- that, but why did you get mad and not any of the others anyways?"

"You were the loudest."

"I was not-"

"You started it."

"But I didn't, Tango did!"

"Did someone say my name?" Tango shouted, turning his head.

"No one said your name," Impulse said.

"Did too-"

"Did not."

"DID TOO!"

Impulse just rolled his eyes and gave up, knowing that would go on for the rest of the bus ride if they didn't stop now.

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As conversations bounced back and forth, Scar kept unzipping his backpack to check on Jellie.

"Dude, you're gonna get caught if X turns his head over here!" Cub whispered, jerking his head at Xisuma who was talking with Joe.

"Trust me, it's fine-" Scar started, before he heard a meow and froze, looking at the class president just across from him and Cub. Thankfully he didn't seem to notice, but they would have to be careful or else this could go terribly wrong.

"Wait, I have an idea," He whispered, turning his head to Scar but keeping his eyes on Xisuma. "What if we played music on the speakers! That way no one will be able to hear Jellie if she makes any noise, and- we're only like 10 minutes into the drive and people are already getting antsy." He finished, motioning to everyone else on the bus.

"That's a great idea- hey, X!" The brunette shouted to the class president sitting in the row adjacent to him.

Xisuma paused his conversation with Joe. "Yeah?"

"Can we play music on the speakers? We're bored."

"Sure, just gotta check with TFC first." He got up from his seat and walked to the very front of the bus. "Can we play music on the speakers? People are already getting bored."

"Yeah, sure! I think it should automatically let you connect to the speakers. Just use your phone, pull up the song, then go to airplay and connect it there. That make sense?" The bus driver responded, keeping his eyes on the road.

"Yeah, thanks!" Xisuma said, walking back to seat. "Okay everyone! To cure your boredom, we're gonna play requested music on the speakers. Who wants to choose a song first?"

Cleo yelled out a song. "Do 'I Want it that Way' by Backstreet Boys!"

"Okay," Slight hesitation could be heard in Xisuma's voice; thinking about where this could go.

Herself, Keralis, and a few others sang along with some of the lyrics.

"YOU ARE MY FIRE~ THE ONE DESIRE!~" The picker of the song started.

"Believe when I say, I want it that way~!" Keralis continued.

The song played through and people's annoyed moods were starting to lighten up. The next song was Let It Go, chosen by Stress. Tango, Herself, Etho, Iskall, and Zedaph sang along to that one.

"The snow glows white on the mountain tonight, not a footprint~ to be seen, a kingdom of isolation~ and it looks like, I'm the queen!" Zed started the singalong dramatically.

"The wind is howling like this swirling storm inside~ Couldn't keep it in, heaven knows I've tried. Don't let them in, don't let them see! Be the good girl you always have to be, conceal, don't feel, don't let them know~ Well, now they know~!" Stressmonster sang beautifully, surprising some people.

"Let it go! Let it go! Can't hold it back anymore! Let it go, let it gOOOooO! Turn away and slam the door~!" Tango and Iskall sang in and out of synchronization, looking at Etho to continue the song.

"I don't care! what they're going to say! Let the storm rage on~~!! The cold never bothered me anyway!!" He sang, the verse 'The cold never bothered me anyway' fitting him perfectly.

Letting the others take over, Tango had to compliment Etho who also stopped singing. "Wow, Etho! You never told me you had an amazing voice,"

Etho blushed from embarrassment. "Haha, thanks I guess-" He responded shyly, not really sure how to react to the compliment.

The following songs to play were Feel it Still for Hypno, Beef, and xB, I just Can't Wait to be King for Scar, Cleo's second request which was My World is Burning Around me (By F you Grian [She got a punch in the arm for that one]), What is Love for Keralis, Wonder Wall for Mumbo, Chicken Dance for Grian, the extended version of the Perry the Platypus theme song for Tango, Touch Tone Telephone for Joe, Running With the Wolves for Pearl, We're not Gonna take it Anymore for Impulse, Grian's second request which was Cabinet Man (Which made some people concerned for his sanity), and the last song request was the My Little Pony theme song chosen as a joke for Etho.

Etho decided he would let everyone else sing it and he would just listen.

Tango and GeminiTay started the song. "Myyyy little ponnnyyyyyyy!! I USED TO WONDER WHAT FRIENDSHIP COULD BE!!"

"Myyy little ponyyy!"

"UNTIL YOU ALL SHARED IT'S MAGIC WITH ME!~" Grian continued the next line of the song, throwing his arms in the air.

"Big adventure!" False sang confidently.

"Tons of fun!" A few people sing-shouted.

"A beautiful heart-!" Stressmonster said tunefully, matching Rarity's voice almost perfectly.

"Faithful and strong!~" Many voices could be heard for that line.

Xisuma and Joe pitched in next. "Sharing kindness,"

"It's an easy feat~! And magic makes it all complete!!!" Gem and Tango sang again.

"And magic makes it all complete!"

"DID YOU KNOW YOU'RE ALL MY VERY BEST FRIENNNNDS~!!" The whole class yelled, very out of harmony.

The class laughed and cheered when the song finished. TFC, being reminded from the song Etho chose, decided to play his Equestria Girls playlist he knew they would all love.

And they did! For the first few songs, some people continued to sing; but about 10 minutes later their voices became tired so they stopped and just listened to the upbeat and happy music.

The rest of the bus ride from there on went pretty smoothly. Some kids had to be reminded to stay seated (*Cough* Zedaph and Tango *cough cough*), but other than that, things went just fine. People talked about what would happen when they arrived at the camp, favorite animals, others debated on whether school was good or not, and so on.

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Second chapter yay! By the way, I'm pretty WaterCat and I are doing most if not all bus songs the same, so yeah. We came up with all of the songs for that scene on a car ride the day I came up with this story idea. And yes, MLP Equestria girls songs are the best. Anyways, thanks for reading, bye bye!

(Word count: 1404)

- StarFox