Mortal Kombat High School

Smoke's Mistake

It was around a week before Halloween, and Smoke was trying to get his own home-made costume to not look like he was dressing up as a trash can. It was supposed to look like a cool, dark blue robot suit, but at the minute it looked like a dishwasher.

He had spent hours on it already, and it just refused to look any good. The temptation of just going and buying one from a store had crept into his mind a few times, but he was deciding against it for now since he wanted to impress everyone at the party. Surely that would make him popular, and allow him to have more fun at school.

The thought of being popular kept him working on the costume, but it still seemed like he might not get it to look right. He was thinking of sending pictures of it to the groupchat, to get some feedback, but decided he wanted it to be a surprise. That, and he didn't want to hear whatever Mileena would have to say about it, which would almost definetly be something negative.

He had been working on the costume for about 2 hours straight now, or so he thought, and felt he was deserving of a break. He left the garage, where he was working on the costume, and walked back inside the house. Whilst staring outside at the beautiful blue sky and drinking a cup of coffee, he finally pulled out his phone only to be met with the time. 5:30 am. He hadn't been working on the costume for 2 hours, he had been working on it for 8 hours.

Smoke instantly went into a panic. HE HAD SPENT 8 WHOLE HOURS ON THAT COSTUME AND IT STILL LOOKED LIKE SCRAP METAL?!?! AND ON TOP OF THAT, HE HAD SCHOOL IN LESS THAN 2 HOURS AND HAD NO SLEEP!! He took deep breaths and came to terms with his situation and decided that...
He was fucked.
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At the bus stop, Smoke met up with Rain, who looked like he had slept a healthy amount last night. Smoke on the other hand looked like a zombie. The tiredness finally started to get to him right as he was about to leave the house, and it seemed like he would be in this state for the whole school day. Joy.

Rain: "Smoke? You, uh, don't look too great. Did you get your recommended 8 hours of sleep last night."

Smoke stared Rain down in a way that pretty much conveyed all he wanted to say. Rain instantly got the memo, but Smoke proceeded to speak anyway.

Smoke: "Instead of spending 8 hours sleeping, I spent 8 hours working on some stupid ass costume. I haven't slept a fucking wink."

Rain felt sympathetic for Smoke, but also didn't at the same time, since it was pretty much his own fault for not keeping an eye on the time. As Smoke stood there, waiting for the bus to arrive, Rain knew that Smoke would be in for a world of pain when they met up with Mileena.
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During lesson time, Smoke not only didn't have the energy to focus on what he was being taught, he didn't even have the energy to keep his head up or, most surprisingly, didn't have the energy to focus on the girl in red. Maybe this whole "not sleeping one bit" thing had it's benefits.

After the lesson was over Smoke met up with Rain and Mileena and, just like Rain predicted, Smoke was not having a good time whatsoever. Mileena could tell Smoke was tired as hell, and planned to use that to her advantage.

Mileena: "heyyyy smoke, how ya doin???"

She seemed to be acting extra annoying and energetic today, if that was even possible. Anyone could see that, anyone but Smoke. He was trying his hardest to be nice, bless him, but he just wasn't in the right state of mind to be talking to Mileena.

Smoke: "I'm... fine... Thank you for... asking. I'm just a little... tired... that's all..."

Mileena: "you're tired? wow! i never coulda guessed! it's not as if it's painfully obvious or anything, given that you look like a sack of shit."

Smoke: "Right... I get it... Just... shut up for a minute..."

Mileena: "me? shut up? are you out of your mind or something?"

Smoke: "I... I said shut up... Please..."

Rain: "Mileena you should probably-"

Mileena: "when have i ever shut up before? in, like, the month we've known each other i thought you'd have figured that out by now."

Her tone shifted to something more sarcastic and she faked a sigh, grinning underneath her pink mask as she spoke.

Mileena: "i guess you just don't value our friendship. i guess i'll just tell johnny to not let you come to the halloween party, i could probably persuade him somehow..."

With that, Smoke blew a fuse.

Smoke: "I SAID SHUT UP!!! AND DON'T YOU FUCKING DARE!!!"

When Rain saw that Smoke was about to explode and shout at Mileena, he tried to stop him. Especially because someone was standing right behind him...

Mileena however was grinning from ear to ear, as she had got her desired result.

???: "What do you think you're doing shouting at my daughter?"

Smoke froze up for a second, his anger instantly evaporating the moment he realised who was speaking to him. He didn't even turned around before Mileena began to speak, sounding like a child who was snitching on one of their siblings.

Mileena: "daaaaadd! smoke was being mean to me!!!"

Principal Shao Kahn: "Well then. Allow me to punish him. Smoke. My office. Now."

Rain wanted to tell Principal Shao Kahn that Mileena had provoked him into shouting at her, but Principal Shao Kahn would obviously believe his own daughter over some random student at his school, so he just watched as Smoke was dragged to Principal Shao Kahn's office without saying a word. It seemed like Smoke's luck was not infact turning around.