No Smart Kids Allowed

Chapter 26: Heathens

Teachers begin pouring inside now, stopping when they see Rachel holding a gun. The teachers then look over at us, wondering what is going on. Possibly wondering why their leader is in an electric chair and why is Mr. Slovak next to me and why Gemma is next to us.

Mrs. Riker slowly begins walking towards Rachel who is holding the gun. With the gun in her hand, Rachel realizes she is out of bullets and no longer has anything to protect her. She now faces us. "If you guys were telling the truth, please save us now," she says then runs behind Scott.

If  I could speak properly, I would tell her that it was her fault and that she had ruined our whole entire plan. Now all of us stand there looking at angry teachers, wondering what to do.

"They're imposters," Mrs. Riker says. "Just look at their fingernails!"

Scott immediately faces Gemma. "Does anyone know Gasoline by Halsey?"

"No," Rachel responds.

"What about carousel by Melanie Martinez?" Gemma ask.

"We all have to know it!" Scott says. "I don't!"

"Who Let the Dogs Out by  Baha Men?" Gemma says. "Everyone knows that!"

I'm about to say you all need to hurry up because the teachers are angry and they're walking towards us now. Scott pushes my chair back and we walk away from them still thinking about the song we should sing.

"Welcome to the Black Parade?" Gemma says.

"I don't know that!" Scott yells out.

"PICK SOMETHING!" Gemma pulls out her needles and hands one to Rachel and me.

"Guys!" Rachel says. "I don't know why we are yelling out song titles, but what about Heathens by Twenty One Pilots. It's viral and I'm sure everyone here knows it."

"I know it," says Scott.

"I know it too," says Gemma.

Even though I won't be able to sing much, I do know the song. 

Suddenly and to my huge surprise, Aaliyah and Felix burst through the door and begin stabbing the teachers with needles. The teachers begin to swing their fist at Aaliyah and Felix, but they're too fast. 

"Catch these needles!" Felix yells out.

The needles are getting stuck into them one by one and each time one goes into their body they practically limp to the ground. Some of them try to fight it, but it's no use. I smile when I see that they've gotten almost every single teacher except Mrs. Riker.

Mrs. Riker is running around trying to avoid them. It looks like a game of tag, though she isn't fast. Felix is able to catch her and stab her with a needle. As he stabs her multiple times around her body, her face completely falls off onto the floor.

Her face is but a black blob with two dark mushy looking eyes with no pupils and a small hole of a dark mouth with no lips. "You want to escape but you all will die here just like us. No matter what you do to us. You can't kill us. We'll come back stronger and we'll-" her words stop coming out. That was it for her for a while as the needles paralyze her.

"Where's Mulan?" Scott asks Felix as he runs toward us.

"She went to go get Gerard and Frank. They're going to help us out here." Felix replies. 

"I thought they couldn't leave the room," Scoot says.

"Turns out, they never really tried walking past the door. Idiots." Felix replies.

As soon as he said that Frank and Gerard runs into the gym. Frank has his guitar and Gerard has a strap over his neck. Hanging from it is a hand drum.

"So, guys what are we going to sing?" Frank asks. He looks at all the kids on the bleachers while holding his guitar in the air. "Are you kids ready to rock!" He shouts.

"Hey! What is he doing?" A girl from the bleachers asks.

"Yeah. Everybody knows music isn't allowed in school!" Some guy calls out.

"Well, the rules changed, sir." Frank answers with a smirk on his face.

"We're going to sing heathens by Twenty One Pilots,"  Rachel tells Frank. "But what does singing have to do with this again?"

Gerard looks at the kids on the bleachers. "Geez, I know they aren't teenagers, but they still scare the living shit out of me." He faces Rachel. "It's going to wake them up. Next time a person tells you music doesn't save lives, tell them your story, kid." He winks at her, then faces the kids once more.

Scott nods his head. "Okay, we should do it now before anything else happens. I'm sure these aren't the only teacher that are in the school." 

Scott's right. I'm pretty sure these aren't the only teachers either. Frank stands near me and nudges me on my shoulder. "Let's do this," he says, then faces Gerard. "Get ready,  Uncle Jiggy."

Gerard points one of his drumsticks at Frank. "No nicknames!"

Frank starts playing the tune for heathens and he also sings along as he plays. "All my friends are heathens, take it slow. Wait for them to ask you who you know. Please don't make any sudden moves. You don't know the half of the abuse."

The students look bored. There is no sudden movements or anything happening. "All t-t-tt-together," I say.

Soon enough, Scott, Rachel, Gerard, Felix, Aaliyah, and Mulan joins in. Aaliyah doesn't know the song very well, so she sort of just mumbles out the words. "All my friends are heathens, take it slow. Wait for them to ask you who you know. Please don't make any sudden moves. You don't know the half of the abuse."

Soon enough, one kid who had his face rested on his hand now looks up at us. His eyes widen and he begins to look around like he doesn't know where he is. I see a few other students do the same.

I'm thinking all is going well when I hear a loud inhuman groan echo from behind the gym door. Frank stops playing for a second and all of us watch the door as the deep groaning noise gets closer and closer and closer. 

Frank ignores the sounds and continues singing. The others join him, nervously staring at the gym door as they sing. "Welcome to the room of people who have rooms of people that they loved one day. Docked away. Just because we check -."

I'm staring at the door as they sing when, all of sudden, four other teachers look inside from behind the window. They don't have faces, but they're wearing clothes like us. Why their faces aren't done is beyond me, but I continue to watch in horror as all of them place their black globby hands on the door. Afterward, their fingers start to connect together like putty over putty.

When their hands join together everything else follows. Their elbows, neck, and face become one big mess of black mushy stuff. All four of them are now turning into one big black glob monster. 

Frank, Mulan, and Gemma continue singing. "You'll never know the psychopath sitting next to you. You'll never know the murderer sitting next to you." 

Scott goes silent when he sees the door being pushed down and the creature rolling inside. Everyone except Frank stops singing.

"You'll think, how'd I get here, sitting next to you? But after all I've said, please..." Frank stops singing when he sees the glob now turning into a tall 15-foot monster standing over us. Two huge balls of eyes form on its face. 

"Oh my God!" A student screams. "What is that thing?" 

A few students stand up, staring in horror at the creature. There's a series of loud gasp and kids asking what was that and what is going on. A girl grabs her friend and the two of them run down the stairs of the bleachers. "Run!" She screams.

Students now scatter off of the bleachers and towards us yelling for help. In a way, this is what we wanted, but how do we talk to them? They're screaming as we try to explain why we're handing them needles. It's too loud to explain and the glob monster is inching towards us each second...