The Barden Guardians

(22) Payback time

Chloe woke up to the sound of beautiful music. She sat up to see Beca playing a song on her keyboard. Chloe smiled as she watched her girlfriend.

The second Beca finished the song Chloe walked up to her and gave her a kiss on the cheek.

"Morning beautiful. How did you sleep?" Beca asked as Chloe sat on her lap.

"I slept great. I had my beautiful girlfriend next to me the whole time." Chloe smiled. "That song was beautiful by the way. What's it's name? It sounds so familiar."

"Promise not to tell Em?"

"Promise. Why do I have to promise though?" Chloe raised an eyebrow.

"It's from that terrible movie Emily made us watch last week." Beca said a bit embarrassed.

"I knew you were paying attention!" Chloe smirked.

"Just please don't tell Em."

"Okay fine, I won't tell her if you promise to take me to the ice cream shop after school today."

"I think I can do that." Beca smiled before kissing Chloe.

"Beca! Chloe! You two better get ready before we're late for our first day back at school!" Emily yelled from the bottom of the stairs.

The two pulled apart and went to get ready for school. Half an hour later they walked down the stairs towards the kitchen. Stacie and Emily were on the couch eating cereal and watching 'Barney and Friends'.

"Where's my dad?" Beca asked as she started making breakfast for her and Chloe.

"He went to eat breakfast with my mom at their favorite diner. He said he'd rather eat with her other than with four teenage girls. Plus he was the only one in the house without a girlfriend." Emily said not looking away from her show.

After breakfast they all got into Beca's car and she drove them to school. It had been a long time since had been to Barden High. Beca even missed it a little.

When they walked through the doors they saw that everyone was acting like nothing happened, like they didn't just come back from a robot war. The only problem was that everyone kept staring at Beca.

"Why is everyone looking at me like I grew a second head?" Beca asked.

"Because you kinda did. Everyone knows that you hate being touched then you come in here holding hands with Chloe of all people." Emily explained.

"Whatever, some people just gotta mind their own business." Beca said before they went to their separate lockers.

They went to class as soon as the bell rang but they didn't really learn anything. It was just them talking to their teachers about how they were affected by the robots. Some of the students even expressed their hatred towards the Guardians.

After about two classes the principal called for an assembly. She wanted to have a talk with all her students which is why she was surprised when the projector started working on it's own.

It then showed the symbol of the Guardians. Soon everyone's phones started buzzing. The phones also had the symbol of the Guardians.

"What's happening?!" one student yelled.

"The Guardians are doing it again. Turning our technology against us!" a boy yelled making Chloe wanna get up and punch him but Beca held her wrist.

The phones buzzed again before they showed the video of how the Guardians save the town. It showed the mayor saying he was gonna blame them and kill them. It showed the mayor confessing to stealing and in dangering the town and the president for money. It showed him blackmailing his own soldiers. It showed him confessing for all his sins against the Guardians. It showed the papers of his crimes then showed that the money he gave the Guardians went back to the town.

The phones then switched off. Everyone was shocked. After their shock people started complaining about the mayor and how he got elected.

The phones switched on again to show the Guardians all together including Volt.

"I hope you guys now know that we were never the bad guys. We were always on your side." Volt started.

"We never chose these powers and we never chose to be the ones to protect everyone." Silver Storm continued.

"But we do it anyway. After the way we were treated the fist time we became protectors, we didn't want anything to do with saving people." Quake continued.

"But after seeing everyone in pain we realized that saving people is what we were meant to do." Aquarius said.

"We were always meant to have these powers. We were always meant to be the ones who save the day." Tempest said making everyone looked at her with wide eyes.

"And we were always meant to be Guardians, whether you like it or not." Phoenix finished before everyone's phones went back to normal and the projector went back to normal.

The principal gave her speech before letting everyone roam around the school.

Emily was sitting under a tree with Stacie listening to music when Beca and Chloe came up behind them. Beca was obviously annoyed and Chloe was amused.

"Why does everyone in this damn school keep acting like I'm their friend?! Five people hugged me today, five!" Beca yelled before sitting in front of the couple.

"Sorry to break it to you but as long as Chloe is next to you, you're not treating Becs. You're just a big softy." Stacie chuckled.

"No!" Beca whined making the other three girls laugh their heads off.

"I think Em was right when she said you were childish." Chloe smiled before kissing Beca.

"Can you guys stop being gross?" Jesse asked as he sat down with Aubrey and Amy.

"Took the words right out of my mouth." Flo said before sitting down with the rest of their friends.

"So what do we do now?" Aubrey asked.

"Relax. We're teenagers after all. What else can we do?" Beca smiled before the ground started shaking.

"What's going on?!" Jesse yelled.

"The ground at the park is unstable. It's about to cause a huge sinkhole and people are gonna get hurt." Benji explained after looking at his phone.

"And we left our bracelets at your house." Cynthia sighed looking at Benji who smirked.

"Actually, I brought them with me." Benji looked through his backpack and fished out the bracelets.

"You really are a nerd." Beca smiled before wearing her bracelet and running off with her team.