The Big Showcase or A Vega's Recognition
Me: What's up ladies and gentleman it's time for the debut of Victorious: A New Beginning!!!
Audience: *cheers and applauds*
Me: Now y'all probably wondering what this story's about, right?
Audience: *chants Yes 3 times repeatedly*
Me: Alright, Alright settle down now, basically the story follows the Victorious storyline, with a few twists. The Main Character, along with the Victorious Crew will have powers, (what kind I'm not really sure), the story will have its share of action, romance, humor, and some references.
Audience: *Cue Loud Cheers*
Me: Then Ladies and Gentlemen I give to You Victorious: A New Beginning!!!
Audience: *As One* Yeah!!!!
Me: Well then, let's get started, but first....
Disclaimer: I don't own Victorious, or anything else I may use during the duration of the story.
Me: Ok, Now Let's Begin
Chapter 1: The Big Showcase (Make It Shine) or A Vega's Recognition
Victoria Vega otherwise known Tori, a pretty well-mannered 16 year old girl, was working on her science project with her classmate from Sherwood High School, Ian. The project in question was smelling and feeling a mold bush (EMoney365: Seriously?). And while they're going over it, they're soon interrupted by another teenage girl, but older she was Katrina Vega aka Trina, Tori's older sister.
"Ahh I'm so upset!" Trina growled. "You won't believe who I got partnered with in the Big Showcase."
"Who?" Tori asked, curious to know who it was that her sister ever so mad.
"Andrew Harris, A 10th grader" she answered.
"What's the Big Showcase?" Ian asked, never heard of said event.
"It's a performance they put on at Hollywood Arts they-
"They invite agents, directors, producers, and other super powerful in show business" Trina said cutting Tori off, earning a glare from the younger Vega; which Trina didn't seem to notice, that or she didn't really care. "And it's extremely important to me which is why I'm upset because the person I have to work with is below my grade level."
"Oh, well that sucks!" Ian said, unsure how to react.
"Yes it does, which is why I'm gonna need you to leave."
"What? But me and Tori have a project to complete."
Ignoring Ian's cries of protest, Trina grabbed Ian's arm and walked him out the door then slammed it behind him in the process.
"Trina!" Tori shouted, couldn't believe what her sister had just done. "We were working on a project."
"So you and what's his name can do your project some other time" Trina said not seeing Tori's dilemma at all.
"My project is due tomorrow." Tori deadpanned
"Will you just forget about your stupid project? Andrew's coming over and you've got to help figure out what we're gonna do in the Big Showcase. I definitely wanna sing a song.
"Why me?" Tori asked.
"You don't expect me to come up with everything myself do you?" Trina asked.
Before Tori could answer, the doorbell rang.
"Ugh, that must him now!" Trina said while walking to the door. She opened the door and there was an African-American with dreadlocks.
At that moment time froze. Tori started to remember to someone similar to him from her childhood. She glanced at picture from the fridge, and saw her younger self and a boy with light-brown skin with tiny dreads, in said picture both of them were throwing up peace signs, with one eye closed with their tongues sticking out.
Tori chuckled at that day, she wished she could see him again, little did she know that she would meet him sooner than later. And time was moving once more.
"Come In!" Trina said, rudely.
"Thanks...I think" The dreadlocked boy said, unsure how to respond to Trina.
"Tori this is Andrew, Andrew that's Tori"
"Andre! My names Andre." The now-identified Andre said.
"Whatever, we've got work to do!"
"Hey!" Tori Waved
"Hey, you go to Hollywood Arts, too?"
"No, I go to Sherwood. I'm not really a performer, just my sister."
"Yup I was born with the talent and the looks." She said, praising herself.
Andre nodded his head then his attention was lead to the Vega sister's piano. "Oh, nice piano!" Andre sat down at the piano and played a few keys, surprisingly he was good, very good. (EMoney365: Ladies and gentleman Ray Charles Reincarnated.)
"Oh my god, Your Fantastic!" Tori said, amazed by his musical talent.
"He's Okay!" Said Trina, clearly she wasn't impressed
Andre gave her an unsatisfied look, then something smelled bad as if it was rotten. He turned to Tori and sniffs her, since the smell seems to be coming from her, Andre wondered what was that awful stench, then he got his answer.
"It's Fish Mold!"
"Gross!" Was all Andre could say at the moment.
Five days later, Tori had been helping Andre & Trina rehearse a song in the Big Showcase, Andre came up with the song Make It Shine and wrote it down for Trina to sing. Tori however felt like the past 5 days have been 5 years of endless torture, having to listen to her sister sing, which was horrible beyond words. But the only good thing that did happened to her was she & Andre became fast friends.
Andre was standing outside the Vega house, talking to his grandmother on his cell phone. "Grandma don't worry nothing's gonna happen to you. No grandma there's no way you can drown at my school...you're not gonna fall into a toilet either! Look I'll call you later, bye-bye."
As Andre hung up his phone, Tori came out carrying two glasses of green punch and offers Andre one.
"So is your grandmother going to the Big Showcase?" Tori asked overheard his conversation
"Yeah, it's gonna be the first time she's left the house in 6 years."
"Why?" she asked, wondering, how (let alone why) would she could be cooped up for so long?
"Cause the woman's afraid of everything!" Andre pointed out. "People, umbrellas, rabbis, bikinis, breakfast food."
"So if saw a rabbi in a bikini eating pancakes...." Tori trailed off
"The woman would burst into flames!" Andre finished
Tori laughed a little bit, believing that there's no way that could possibly happen.
"Tori, Andy, come on!" Trina called out, ready to get this show on the road
"Oh well, looks like it's back to rehearsal."
"Looks like...and my name's Andre, Andre!" He shouted.
They walked inside the living room, where Trina waited for them, wearing a blue & white with a tiara, looking like a prom queen. (EMoney365: Come on now Trina, it's a showcase, not a beauty pageant.)
"So, what do you think? It's fabulous, right?" She asked, twirling around.
"Do you really need to wear that just to rehearse?" Tori asked
"Yes Tori, I do. A person needs to feel the part to be the part" Trina said, while tapping her nose.
"I thought we talked about you not tapping my nose anymore."
Trina ignored her cause she's focused more on her performance. "Okay, now that we got all of the comedy stuff down, let's start with my song."
"And by your song, I'm guessing you mean the song I wrote?" Andre asked, as he was sitting in front of the piano.
"No One cares who wrote the song" Trina said, laughing a little bit. "Now GO!"
Andre started playing the piano in a mid-tempo style.
"PLAY SLOWER!" she shouted (EMoney365: Shouted? *scoffs* more like demanded)
Taken back by her outburst, Andre decided to as she says, not wanting to get yelled at again, and plays a slow tune. At that moment, Trina starts singing off-key, way off-key.
You don't have to be afraid
To put your dreams in action
You're never gonna.....
(EMoney365: Ah! For the sake of all that's holy, please make it stop!!!)
Not knowing how much of her sister's singing she can withstand, Tori decided to end this nightmare once and for all.
"Trina...Trina!" Tori shouted, trying to get her sister's attention.
"What?!" Trina Shouted, upset that her sister interrupted her.
"I think Andre's right. You should let him play the song in a faster tempo."
"No!" Trina cried "It has to be a power ballad, so all the important people can hear my range & vocal clarity."
"But Trina, I think maybe you should..." Tori tried to give her sister advice but was cut off.
"No, just...Take it from When I Make It Shine" Trina said to Andre, ignoring Tori's comments
(EMoney365: Oh No, Not that, Anything but that please I beg of you)
As Trina sings When I Make It Shine, she hold it on a high note, which sounded like high-pitched shrieking. Tori & Andre were thinking along the same line: When will she ever stop? Thankfully, she did.
"Well how was that?" (EMoney365: I'd tell you Trina, but there's a list a really, really, long list.)
Andre looked at Tori and asked: Do you have any aspirin?
Lucky for him, she had some and poured him a handful.
"Thanks!"
The day of the Big Showcase had finally arrived, Tori had skipped school to see her older sister's performance along with her parents. The school auditorium was more like a standing room, the last person to show up was Andre's grandmother, who looked paranoid. Tori who was sitting in front of her noticed that she'd arrived and greeted her.
"Hi you're Andre's grandmother, right"
"I don't know you!" she shouted, headed towards the floor.
Tori looked at her and remembered what Andre said about her being scared of everything. But in her and everyone else's point of view thought she's just plain crazy, Tori thought it's best not to bother her and just enjoy the show. The performances on stage were impressive. Tori and her parents were really enjoying the show, as they were watching the events; they heard a strange sound from backstage, like someone's in trouble. (EMoney365: EC3's theme music, sorry couldn't resist. Lol). Tori and her mother looked at each other with concern, a concern that a man pushed down their row.
"Excuse Me, are you Trina's parents?" he asked
"Yes! And you are?" Mr. Vega said.
"I'm Lane, Lane Alexander: the school's guidance counselor, please come with me it's about your daughter." The now-identified Lane said, leading Tori and her parent's backstage.
There were a group of students, and a nurse standing in a circle, Tori and her parents approached the circle and saw Trina in distress, because her tongue was swollen it look like she could cough on it.
"Trina!" Mrs. Vega cried.
"What happened?" Mr. Vega asked, concerned for his daughter.
"There's something wrong with my tongue!" she mumbled.
"Oh my god, it's huge!" Tori said, staring at her sister's oversized tongue.
Trina tried to say something, but her tongue was so big it was impossible to know what she's saying.
"Are you the school nurse?" Mrs. Vega asked.
"Yes, I am! Does anyone know this may've happened to her?" The nurse asked.
"The Chinese herb gargle!"
Trina signaled with a charades gesture "right on the nose", implying that she guessed correctly.
"Wait, what are you talking about, sweetie?" Mrs. Vega asked.
"She found some website that shows you this special Chinese herbs, that's supposed to help you sing better." Tori told her father.
"Well, she must've had an allergic reaction to it"
"Oh, my god my tongue feels huge!" Trina wailed.
"Will she be okay?"
"Well her tongue's obviously engorged and it...oh my god it's throbbing erratically" the nurse said, feeling Trina's tongue.
"Throbbing erratically?" Trina repeated
"It's throbbing erratically" Trina said, feeling it pulsating.
"Is there anyway she'll be able to perform today? Lane asked the nurse.
"No, of course not!"
"Yes, I can!" Trina muttered, determined to do her performance no matter what. (EMoney365: She's determined I'll give her that, but there's a fine line between being determined & being stupid.)
"Stop talking your tongue could burst!"
That was enough for Trina to whimper in despair, but what she's really upset about was the fact that she couldn't perform. All that time she'd spent on rehearsing for big performance, only for it to be ruined.
"I'm sorry sweetheart!" sad Mrs. Vega, knowing how much this performance meant to her daughter.
"Maybe, next year!" said Mr. Vega
"I'm gonna take her to my office and massage her tongue."
"Massage my tongue?" Trina Repeated.
As the nurse took Trina away, Mr. & Mrs. Vega followed behind to support them. The one of the technical directors, a really odd looking kid named Sinjin Van Cleef approached Lane.
"What now? Trina was our last act for tonight, and now she can't perform."
"Oh well, looks like my grandma came here for nothing!" said Andre
"Wait isn't there anyone else here that knows Trina's part?" Lane asked the students.
"Her sister does!" shouted Andre.
"Me sister?" Tori pointed at herself. "No, no, no, no, all I did was help rehearsed, I don't even go to school here!"
Andre grabbed Tori's arm and takes her to the side. "Tori listen, you know this whole thing inside and out, the song, the choreography, you can do this!
"No!" Tori said, while shaking her head.
"She said she'll do it!" Andre lied.
The students & Lane cheered for Tori, ecstatic that she was taking part in their school event, much to Tori's disapproval.
"No, I didn't say that!"
Lane looked at Tori's outfit and said "Hold on, she can't go on stage dressed like that!"
"Excuse Me?!" Tori said, sounding offended.
"Go get her something to wear." He said to one of the female students.
"What? No, I'm not going out there!
"Bring her!"
Andre dragged Tori off despite her fighting and protests as he got her behind a stage wall, she managed to escape and started to run back out. Andre ran after her and grabbed her again; dragging her despite the fact that she was holding on to a chair where a drummer was practicing, Andre picked her up and carried her to the backstage area."
"This is kidnapping, let go." Tori demanded.
"Set her down!" Lane said.
"Alright!"
Just as Andre puts her down, she tried to run away again; but the student's prevented her from going anywhere, they had her surrounded, while others held her back.
"Let me go, my dad's a cop" Tori warned them, and surely enough they'd backed off.
"It's almost time for the next act, take her behind the screen and get her dressed, hurry." said a female student.
The girls dragged Tori behind a screen with three boys, including Andre, followed behind."
"Just the girls!" Lane said, stopping the guys from seeing Tori undress.. (EMoney365: Better luck next time fellas.)
The wardrobe mistress runs in with a silver sequined mini-skirt & pink-trimmed sneakers.
"I've got the clothes, where is she?"
"Back there put it on her."
Sinjin runs in holding a wireless microphone, and gives it to Lane. "Here, here's her headset"
Lane takes it and holds it over the screen, asking one of the girls to put it on her. Soon after Tori's dressed, everyone gets into their positions for the final act, Tori's mom and dad asked Sinjin if they could watch from backstage, and he agreed. Lane was forced to get Tori onstage, as he pushed her, she ran off. Lane catches her and this time: He pushed her with enough force that Tori was now in clear view of the audience.
Tori stood there frozen in fear and embarrassment as a crowd of people were staring at her. She thought about running offstage, but it wouldn't do any good, since Lane and the others had blocked her off. She then sees Andre, who's sitting on his keyboard. He mouths to her "you can do this."
Not having a choice in the matter, she takes a deep breath; and begins to sing:
Here I am, once again
Feeling lost but now and then
I breathe it in to let it go
And you don't know
Where you are now
Or what it would come to
If only somebody could hear
When you figure out how
You're lost in the moment
You disappear
You don't have to be afraid to put your dream in action
You're never gonna fade you'll be the main attraction
Not a fantasy
Just remember me
When it turns out right
'Cause you know that if you live in your imagination
Tomorrow you'll be everybody's fascination
In my victory
Just remember me
When I make it shine!
Reaching high
Feeling low
I'm holding on but letting go
I like to shine
I'll shine for you
And it's time to show the world how
It's a little bit closer
As long as I'm ready to go
All we have is right now
As long as you feel it inside you know...
You don't have to be afraid to put your dream in action
You're never gonna fade you'll be the main attraction
Not a fantasy
Just remember me
When it turns out right
'Cause you know that if you live in your imagination
Tomorrow you'll be everybody's fascination
In my victory
Just remember me
When I make it shine!
Everyone can tell you how it's all been said and done
That harder times will change your mind and make you wanna run
But you want it
And you need it
Like you need to breathe the air
If they doubt you
Just believe it
That's enough to get you there
You don't have to be afraid to put your dream in action
You're never gonna fade you'll be the main attraction
Not a fantasy
Just remember me
When it turns out right
'Cause you know that if you live in your imagination
Tomorrow you'll be everybody's fascination
In my victory
Just remember me
When I make it SHINE!
After Tori finished singing, everyone stood out their seats as they cheered & clapped at her performance. The curtains closed as her sister & her parents hugged & congratulated her.
"You were wonderful, sweetie!" said Mrs. Vega.
"Tori, that's was fantastic" said Mr. Vega.
"I was great, wasn't I?" said Tori, proud of her performance.
"It was okay, I guess." Trina muttered, her tongue was still swollen.
"I told you, you could do it, girl" Andre said, while hugging Tori.
"Are you really Trina's sister? Lane asked, finding it hard to believe that Tori's talented and Trina wasn't.
"What?" Trina said, as she took offence to that.
Just then, a man approached Tori.
"Excuse Me, who are you?" The man asked.
"I'm Tori, Tori Vega!" she said, introducing herself.
"That's Mr. Eikner, the school principal" Lane said.
"Do you go to school here?" the principal asked.
"No but my sister does." Tori said, pointing to Trina.
"Well then Tori, how would you like to attend Hollywood Arts?"
"She loved to!" Andre said, not even giving Tori a chance to respond.
"Andre!" Tori exclaimed.
"Tori listen, your singing was awesome & and your definitely qualified enough to go to school here." Andre explained, hoping Tori would see his point of view.
"I don't know, everyone here's crazy talented; what if I'm not good enough?"
Everyone started giving their own personal opinions, while Tori continues to doubt herself. Andre quietly sneaks out of the group, and turns the switch that opens the curtains. Everyone stops talking as the audience was staring at them, Andre steps out in plain view of the audience."
"Hey!" He shouted, having the audience's attention
"Hey Andre!" his grandma shouted, before ducking back under the floor.
Andre grabbed Tori's arm and gently dragged her beside him for the audience to see her.
"This girl doesn't think she's good enough to be here, what do you people think?" Andre asked the audience.
Everyone cheered and applauded, believing she's got what it's to attend school here. Tori looked at everyone, and she couldn't help but smile at how everybody thinks she should go for it.
"Well?" Andre asked, waiting for Tori's decision.
"Okay, I accept!" Tori said.
Everyone cheered for her again, but even louder this time, Then Tori hugged Andre while everyone's still cheering
"Do you really think I'm good enough?" Tori asked.
"Yean, I do!" Andre replied.
Unbeknownst to Tori, is that she won't be the only newbie in Hollywood Arts.
End Chapter.
Well that took a while, a long while; originally I've planned for my OC to be introduced in this chapter, but I couldn't figure out how. If you guys have any ideas on how should he be introduced, please let me know.
Next time the OC will be introduced, I planned on giving him a grand entrance, if you guys have ideas for some, I'm open to suggestions.
Until next time...you know what to do.
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