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Rosalyn Tourniquet had a headache.

She and her little sister, Toniya, had had a fight that morning before Rosalyn headed to school. And to make things worse, she had no clue what the geometry teacher was talking about.

Not to mention all the noise outside. What the the hell was going on?!

Yawning, she put her head down, giving up all hope of trying to understand the different types of angles. Lost cause.

Then someone shrieked, causing her to abandon all hopes for a nap. At first, Rosalyn thought the ditz had seen a spider or something, until she got a look at what the attacker really was.

A pink flamingo, exactly like the ones on zOMG! And it had buddies; lawn gnomes, air fluff, and kokeshi dolls.

What the hell do I do?! Rosalyn thought as she scrambled for something she could use as a weapon. Everything they're hitting it with won't work!

Then a guy who looked like Vincent Valentine, wearing a black trenchcoat over top a black shirt, trousers, boots, and leather vest, hacking at the lawn ornaments. "Twilight-Crystalblade, right?" He asked.

"How do you know my username?" Rosalyn asked, hitting a gnome with the stapler. Not working.

"I'll get to that at some other time," the man said. "Here, take this," he shoved a box with the G-Corp symbol on it into her hands. "It's got your rings and PDA." And he dissapeared in a shimmer of violet light.

Rosalyn opened the box and took out the PDA and rings. She clipped the PDA to her belt and slipped the rings onto her fingers. The sealed her skin, and her clothes morphed into her Gaia avatar: black shirt and lacy skirt, silver and amathyst belt, snowy white cravat, fishnet stockings, black flats, silver earrings, pearl bracelet, Gothic Butterfly hairpiece, dark elf's scepter, and a little Devil Imp to keep her company.

Looking in the window in the door, she saw that her eyes were blue, had a black mask, and her hair was short and purple with blue ends.

She had spent too much time staring at her new looks. One of the pink flamingos started using her as a punching bag.

"Take that!" She shouted, activating Mantis. The thing was sliced to pieces. For the first time, Rosalyn took a close look at the rings: Mantis, Divinity, Scaredy Cat, Rock Armor, and Hunter's Bow.

Turning back to the Animated, she started going all out. When she was fighting at long range, she used Hunter's Bow. Close-in, Mantis. Using Scaredy Cat, she mangaged to get enough of the things out of the room and out the door she went.

Running into the hallway, she spotted a familiar avatar; after all, she was the only one who looked like a cat in a Star Trek uniform. Sure enough, her PDA told her it was TehSpockinator89. Nolina Muyo.

"Nolie!" Rosalyn shouted, sticking a few arrows into the Kokeshi dolls surrounding the Sophomore.

Nolie ducked, giving the nearest flamingo a sharp kick with her boot. "Thanks for that," she said, kneeling. "I'm loosing energy. Too much fighting at once."

"Any idea where Toria and Kira are?" Rosalyn asked as she helped the other girl up.

Nolie shrugged. "No clue. Not even a blip from my PDA." She said. Right as she was about to continue speaking, there was an angry--and familiar--scream:

"GET THE HELL AWAY FROM ME YOU %@$#ING FUZZBALLS!!!!!!!!"

Rosalyn looked at Nolie. "I think we found Kira." She said as a telltale outburst of gunshots went off. Typical Kira: go for the guns.

The two girls ran off to the source of the gunshots and screaming; the NJROTC room. Or at least right outside of it. Sure enough, there was Kira Daile, pumping the Animated full of as many bullets as she could. And, like everyone else, overexpending energy.

Rosalyn and Nolie threw themselves into the combat, rings at the ready. Rosalyn using Mantis, Nolie with Sunburst.

"Everybody, out of the way!" Kira shouted, activating another ring: Fire rain. On cue, blazing liquid fire rained down on the attacking Animated, destroying them all.

And Kira keeled over.

Rosalyn caught her, Nolie close by. Using Diagnose, Nolie healed most of the damage, and Rosalyn used Divinity to restore her energy. "Lemmy guess--fluff in the NJ room?" She asked.

Kira sat up, rubbing her head. "Yeah. And annoying little Gramsters." She replied grouchily. "Geez...why did this have to happen in the morning?"

"Don't ask me, but I suggest we keep moving," Nolie replied. "If these things are in the real world, like that guy said--"

"Wait," Rosalyn interrupted. "You had some weird guy show up too?"

"Yeah. He looked kinda like Karl Urban..." Nolie said. "Well, except for the fact that he was in a tux instead of a Starfleet uniform. And he was blonde."

"And I had a guy show up who looked like Hyde," Kira added, getting up. "And he gave me a black box."

"With the G-Corp symbol on it?" Rosalyn asked as they went for the nearest set of stairs.

"Yeah," Kira said. Her PDA beeped. Looking at it, she saw that it said "VampireTurk nearby."

"Well, I think we found Toria," Kira said. "Anyone know how to access the map?"

"Already on it," Nolie said, tapping on the device. "Got it!" She showed the other two a map of the school, all three floors.

"Looks like Toria's on the third floor, moving fast." Rosalyn said. "Well, there go our normal lives."

(To Be Continued..............)