CHAPTER NINE, spike's got talent

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Sitting beside Bree, was Emilia who flipped through the pages of the yearbook when Chase came running over with a look of disbelief.

"Did you guys see the yearbook? Everybody but me got a 'most likely to...' even Leo!" Chase exclaimed, before Leo grabbed the book off of him. "What? Let me see that?"

"Most likely never to get a 'most likely'." Leo read aloud, making Emilia purse her lips in amusement. "I'm on the board!"

"Well, that proves it. I'm completely invisible to this school." Chase sighed.

"Chase, that's not true. If you were invisible, I couldn't do this." Adam said, punching his shoulder. Leo passed him his yearbook back as Bree got his attention. "Chase, just because you weren't nominated doesn't mean you're invisible." Emilia nodded in agreement. "Bree's right, Chase. The book doesn't define you." She told him.

"Oh, really?" Chase rose a brow at the two girls before continuing, "Yeah? What's this? Chip Davenport. I'm a misnamed question mark!"

The auburn haired girl went to get up with an annoyed expression on her face. "Okay, let me talk to the editor-" She grumbled, when Bree grabbed her arm and pulled her back down, making her sigh. "What? I'm most likely to stand up for someone anyway, so why are you so shocked?"

Bree narrowed her eyes slightly with an amused smile. "Because knowing you, you'll use physical violence." She reminded the banshee, making her hum in response.

"Listen up, snot-buckets?" Principal Perry walked in while announcing. "Don't forget to sign up for the annual Mission Creek High Talent show. Auditions are after school and will be judged by moi. Chance are that if I don't like you, you won't get through, and I don't like any of you, so good luck." She said before going to put the poster up.

Owen stood up from the bench. "Talent shows are wrong!" He declared before walking towards the woman. "There are no winners or losers in creative expression."

Perry scoffed. "Stick a paint brush in it, Emo Sabe!"

She walked back into the hall, leaving Owen to turn to the others. "I refuse to stand by while that woman crushes the artistic souls of our student body. I'm gonna go sketch my feelings!" He stormed away.

"He is so tortured." Bree breathed out, watching him go with a loving smile. "Isn't it great?" She asked the others before walking away, leaving Emilia to follow her. "No, it's not!" She shouted.

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Seeing the butter sculpture that Adam and Owen had made together, made Emilia leave, letting Bree to take revenge and melt the butter sculpture. Remembering about Chase being in the talent show, Emilia went to school to go watch him. She stood in the doorway when Perry announced. "Okay, next up we have the amazing Chase, the only magician whose magic wand is bigger then he is!"

Emilia rose a brow at Chase's entrance, as he came in wearing a top hat and a cape. "Thank you, thank you, ladies and gentlemen! For my first trick, I will move that chair... with my mind!" And of course for dramatic effects, thunder crashed.

Emilia hummed. "Really?"

"And... hmm!" Chase waved his hands forward, only to furrow his brows when the chair stayed still. "Bor-ing! Bring out the girl who looks eerily similar to a giraffe!" Perry called out.

"I don't know what happened!" Chase said, in which Perry told him. "I do, you stink. Get off the stage before you incur the wrath of my rotten tomatoes." The crowd started booing him, making Emilia frown. "No, no, no, no! Please! I can do it!" Chase pointed out. "I really can." He said before letting out a grunt as he attempted to move the chair again, only for nothing to happen.

"This is awful." Perry snickered. Chase stared at the laughing crowd, until his face suddenly twitched into anger. He pulled off his top hat and cape and growled at them.

"Hey!!! You want to see me move that chair with my head?" The familiar voice of Spike came from Chase's mouth, making Emilia panic. The boy on stage lifted up the chair before breaking it with his head.

"Oh, shit." Emilia muttered, scanning the crowd until her eyes narrowed on Leo, knowing he had something to do with this.

The crowd clapped for him, having no idea that it was Chase's alter-personality. Perry and Leo walked on the stage with the former telling the crowd. "Well, there's a fine line between entertaining and disturbing, and... I think we've crossed it. So, let's take a brief intermission."

Everyone started getting out of their seats as Emilia rushed to the stage. "Leo!" Emilia scolded, making him jump, not knowing she was there.

"I didn't-" Leo tried to say but Emilia interrupted him. "You got jealous of him stealing your spotlight in the talent show so you tampered with his bionics." She seethed, making Leo purse his lips. "That's exactly what I did." He sighed.

He turned to face Spike who was still growling before saying. "Hi. Um, Spike I was wondering if you could chill out and let weak little Chase pop back out before Principal Perry-"

Spike growled in his face. "I don't want to chill out! I want to rip out someone's spine and use it as a pogo stick!" Emilia sighed before Leo went to speak again. "Or... we could picture a nice, tranquil forest filled with leaping gazelles, while you... have a nice cup of soothing tea." He said, grabbing the cup from Mrs Thistle, when Spike grabbed it before biting into it. "Tasty!"

"That's it." Emilia huffed out a breath, moving Leo away from the boy, just as Chase's commando app disengaged. "Guys, what just happened?" Chase asked, in which Emilia looked at Leo with a hum. "Yeah, what happened? Leo."

"I... might have disabled your molecular kinesis, but I only did it because you cheated first, so there, we're even. More tea?" Leo nervously stammered.

Chase pushed the cup away from him. "Leo, you made me nervous and triggered my commando app. You turned me into Spike!"

"Yeah, well, now you're back to good ol' nerdy Chase. So let this be a lesson: no one steals from the magic man." Leo said before walking away.

"Great. He's back again." Emilia huffed, watching as Chase's lips tugged up into a growl. "What'd you say to me, fruit fly?!" Spike growled, stepping towards Leo, as Emilia watched from the side.

"Hey... look, everybody. Spike's back." Leo uttered out, with a nervous expression. Emilia sighed, strutting towards them before grabbing the hem of Chase's shirt and pulled him away from Leo. "Fly away, little birdie." She said, before Spike ran away. She looked back at Leo before saying. "Come on, 'Fruit Fly'." She turned around before running after Spike with Leo following.

Emilia stopped in her tracks seeing Leo pressing on the device, making her widen her eyes as Spike just threw someone in a garbage can. "Leo! Stop! You're only making him more angry by doing that!" Emilia warned him.

"Oh." The boy let out in response. Emilia nodded before mocking. "Yeah, Oh." She turned to see Spike ripping apart the water station before what looked like he was trying to eat the water. "Save a cup, save the planet!" Leo exclaimed, trying to excuse his behaviour just as him and Emilia flinched at the water splurting onto them. Spike ran away again, leaving Emilia to huff before her and Leo followed after him.

Emilia ran in with panting breaths, arriving back in the school hallway, when she spotted Spike pressing part of the basketball hoop that he ripped apart against two students. "That's what I call a slam punk!" Leo ran in afterwards, holding a hand out as he said. "Nice Spike. Good Spike. Sit! Spike, sit!"

Emilia huffed at the boy. "He's not a freaking dog!" She exclaimed, before looking back at Spike who roared. She turned to Bree and Adam with a chuckle as Leo asked. "Oh, hey. Did we mention Spike's back?" Emilia and Leo ran after him, just as Perry walked in.

Spike came running back into the hallway with a growl. Emilia panted, noticing Spike's attention was on the popcorn sculpture. "Oh no, you don't!" She yelled, before running to jump on Spike's back, being pulled along with him as he charged towards the sculpture and destroyed it, with Emilia falling down with him as Spike began eating the popcorn.

"How dare you destroy the Mona Lisa that was my popcorn bust?!" Perry clenched her fists. The auburn haired girl spat out a popcorn that fell in her mouth. "I'm fine, by the way." She grumbled to everyone before Adam helped her up.

Spike approached the woman, spitting the twizzler out his mouth. "What are you gonna do about it, shoulder pads?" He challenged, making everyone 'ooh'.

"Easy, butch. Your mouth is writing a check that you can't cash." Perry scowled.

"Oh, yeah? Well, Santa called- he wants to know if you'll be making toys this year!" Spike growled, in which Perry replied back in baby talk. "Why bother making a dolly when I have my own right here?"

"Ooh! That's a funny joke. Where'd you get it from, your cat's litter box?" Spike wondered, in which Perry exclaimed. "Ohh-ho-ho. Nobody talks about my cats! You're going down! Back when I was in the Tijuana ladies wrestling league, they called me La Rosa Bonita! And watch out, because I have... thorns!" She bent down to pull the wrestling mask on her face before standing back up straight.

"All right, kitty cat! Ready to tango?" Spike asked, in which Perry declared. "Must protect my... students! Prepare to be subdued!" The two started fighting each other as Adam, Bree and Emilia munched on the popcorn.

After a lot of flipping, and chucking each other around, Perry stood on top of the bench, just as Chase's commando app disengaged, making him gasp seeing Perry jump off the bench before tackling him to the ground.

"La Rosa Bonita!" Perry called out, just as Emilia grabbed her arms to pull her back. "Alright, that's enough!" She scolded.

"Why am I being smothered by a female Mexican wrestler in a pantsuit?!" Chase questioned, as Emilia pulled Perry away. Leo kneeled down to him before saying. "I'll fill ya in later."

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