On a bright morning weekend in CHS, the Rainbooms and the Rock N’ Beats were chatting in the cafeteria and Lancer was walking towards the two groups while carrying something light and wide, covered in a picnic sheet.
“Hey, you ready to rock... for our earth science presentation?” Lancer asked Half Note as he set the school project down on the table.
Half Note answered with excitement, “Yeah, but why did you bring it all the way here?”
“Because I want to show it you all with my friends since you’ve been doing the paperwork while I’ve been doing the construction work.” Lancer answered.
Half Note replied, “Fair enough.”
“You’ve worked on it all night? Darling, you must’ve been tired from working on your project.” Rarity said.
“I know, but it definitely paid off.” Lancer told Rarity.
Rainbow asked him, “So what’s under that sheet?”
“I’m glad you asked,” Lancer took off the sheet and unveiled the school project to his friends. It was a diorama of dinosaurs built with LEGO blocks. “Behold! What scientists believed to be Canterlot City when dinosaurs roamed the Earth,” Lancer looked at Half Note and said, “Go ahead, press the hadrosaur egg.”
Without hesitation, Half Note clicked one of the little dinosaur eggs and background sounds was played. Dinosaurs were screeching, and a volcano roaring as a little bit of smoke started to whiff in the air from the volcano. Lancer’s friends were astounded by his creation, but mostly Twilight.
“Wow! Not bad, Lancer. Not bad at all.” Twilight said as she adjusted her glasses.
“We’re going to ace this project.” Half Note told Lancer.
Lancer nodded and smiled, “Oh, you bet Half Note.”
Aside from them, there was a teen with orange hair who was walking up to a kid with the green mohawk with a scar between his lip and his nose to record him practicing hitting the ball with his knees.
“Ha, 22 in a row. New record.” The kid said with confidence.
After practicing his little soccer kicks, the mohawk kid glanced at Lancer, feeling jealous as Lancer continued mingling with his friends.
Lancer continued, “...whatsoever. This thing is a masterpiece. I mean, everything’s to scale. And at 8,251 individual pieces, this meticulously assembled model represents the exact moment when the asteroid hit-”
Without full warning, Lancer’s school project was destroyed by an incoming soccer ball and they all gasped. The students stopped and looked at what’s going on while the kid with the mohawk and his friends laughed and celebrated.
Lancer was shocked and turned his head slowly to see his old friend. Well... used to be his old friend a long time ago.
“Oh, pfft. I’m sorry, man. Looks like my ball just got away from me.” The punk kid apologized with a smile on his face, making it look like he accidentally kicked it.
“That took me three weeks to build, Shark.” Lancer replied while feeling frustrated.
“Eh, took my ball three seconds to destroy.” Shark replied and walked away to join his friends, Rumble, Heath Burns, Thunderbass, Napalm, and Valhallen to celebrate.
After the students seen enough and resumed mingling except the Rainbooms and the Rock N’ Beats, Lancer felt angry and confronted his old bud, “So this is what you have become, huh? A jerk? I thought you were my friend. I shouldn’t be surprised that this was your doing, Jerkface.”
Shark’s friends glared at Lancer and Shark said, “Don’t push your luck, Lancer. Or you won’t be so lucky.”
Then, Sunset stood up and confronted Shark’s gang while her friends looked on.
“Hey! Back off or you and your friends won’t be so lucky either.” Sunset said.
Shark scoffed until he saw Ms. Cheerilee entering the cafeteria and monitoring the students.
“Like you’ll start anything, princess. Actually, why don’t you go sleep with someone new and break his heart?” Shark replied.
Sunset didn’t like what the punk said to her and shoved him, but Heath and Valhallen saved him from falling.
Ms. Cheerliee saw Sunset shoved Shark and rushed over to the confrontation and questioned Sunset, “What’s going on here, Sunset? You know we don’t allow fighting in this school,” Ms. Cheerilee looked at Shark and asked him, “Did she enter your personal bubble without verbal consent?”
Shark answered, “She definitely triggered me in my safe space.”
Lancer figured he was lying and replied, “What? He started it by destroying my science project.”
Cheerilee looked at Shark and he answered honestly, “That was an accident,” He looked at Lancer and said, “You probably shouldn’t bring toys to school, anyway.”
“I don’t want any excuses. I just want you all to respect each other.” Cheerilee suggested.
Shark pretended to be his old, goody two-shoes guy and said, “She’s right. We should stop the aggression. Micro and macro.”
“Oh, give me a break.” Sunset replied and didn’t buy anything what Shark said.
Cheerilee didn’t like what she’s hearing and informed Sunset, “Hey. Consider this a warning, Miss Susnet. And, pick up these blocks, someone could get hurt.”
After Cheerilee walked away, Shark informed Sunset and Lancer, “For you pansies, no space is safe.”
Shark and his friends walked away and laughed while Sunset and her friends were unsatisfied and didn’t like what he had to say as they looked on.
After school, Shark and his friends along with Lightning Dust, Rolling Thunder, and Short Fuse were in a dojo, located right next to the mall. Their dojo was called Viper Kai. They wore their karate gi and stood up straight on the sides of the mat as their sensei was walking around the mat, giving them a lesson. Their sensei was buff, black hair, tattoos on his arms, wore black karate gi, and he’s almost up to his 60’s.
The Viper Kai sensei told them, “Never underestimate your enemy. Even if you think they’re weaker than you, you have to stay one step ahead of them. That’s the only way to guarantee a victory. Is that understood?”
“Yes, sensei.” His students answered in unison.
“Good. Now let’s see if you truly understand the lesson,” He approached towards a tree log with a bonsai on a pot on top, “I want you to kick this tree off the top. Heath, you start.”
Heath nodded and move forward got into his fighting stance. After that, he tried to kick the tree, but he fell down and the fabric from the back of his pants tore off. The students felt nervous after witnessing that failed attempt.
Their sensei crossed his arms, feeling disappointed and said, “Pathetic. Thunderbass, show him.”
After Heath went back to his spot, Thunderbass got into a fighting stance and performed a spinning front kick, but missed the opportunity to knock down the bonsai and fell. He groaned and whimpered as he went back to his spot.
“Stop your sniveling.” The sensei told Thunderbass.
“I can do it, sensei.” Shark said.
His sensei questioned his student, “Well, what are you waiting for?”
Shark walked forward towards the log and observed it, thinking and figuring out how to knock the bonsai off. The sensei was curious about Shark and asked him, “Don’t you want a running start?”
“Don’t need one.” Shark answered as he knocked the log off and the bonsai fell off of the log onto the mat.
Their sensei chuckled and told him, “Not bad. Not bad at all.”
Shark smiled and got back into his spot as Thunderbass felt doubt and told his sensei, “But he cheated.”
The Viper Kai sensei looked at him and said, “No, he didn’t. Unlike you, he did exactly what I asked him to do,” He looked at the rest of his students and told him, “If your mind is agile, so are you. That’s the best way to beat your enemy. Not just with brute strength. But you have to fight smart. Do that, and you’ll always come out on top.”