Two days of working on my little ‘project’ later and it was done. Ready for testing. In the Soul Forge I started to pilot my tiny little device until it had ended up on the ceiling and I smiled at how quiet it was, flying up at the ceiling, was a drone. A drone waiting to deliver a ‘package’. I deftly pressed the big red button on my tiny remote and watched as a tiny opening slid open and watched as the contents of my little device poured out all at once under the area the drone was placed. The contents were actually a special liquid, called concentrated nitric acid.
Just kidding, I wouldn't do that…
The liquid was actually something I had seen a lot about as a prank, hair dye in the shower head. Except without the shower head and in a drone positioned over there head that will release said hair dye. Ok, not the most creative, but if I time it right, I do two things. Though, I hope it does work, there are all kinds of things that could go wrong with this, from the drone not working, to it releasing the dye early. It did ok with my first test though. But I still have a few days to get it work right, so I have the time to be careful.
Onto the testing then!
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A few days later, I walked into the classroom with a grin and my school bag with my binders and something else. My upgraded project. After a bunch of testing, I found that it worked surprisingly well, with only a few small technical issues, so out of boredom, I got an idea. I changed the formula for the dye. Well, technically I just added a bunch of school glue, but same difference.
That change had caused a whole host of problems, either the dye was too thick and wouldn't pour out right, or somehow while flying, the dye/glue got into the motors and broke it in mid air. But I managed to get a working product on the due date. That day was today.
But before I could give out my little payback, there was another project that was due today. The historical presentation. “Are you guys good?” I asked Percy and Grover as they looked over the script I gave them, Grover looked like he was about to puke, while Percy let out a non committal grunt as he looked over the paper. “Look guys… It will be fine, just like we practiced!” I said reassuringly to Grover and Percy. There was no more time to talk however, as the bell rang out and Ms. Rosenhert stood up at that moment and closed the door, signaling class was about to start.
“Ok children, we will be starting with our presentations today… As long as you have all finished.” Ms. Rosenhert told the class with a glare that said quite plainly that if we hadn't finished it, we would be in trouble. I actually saw a few people look really nervous about that… Though four days to write and practise a five minute presentation in grade six was a bit demanding… Especially when this school was supposedly supposed to be for ‘troubled kids’. Now that I think about it… I actually doubt that most of the class did the assignment.
The teacher didn't give me any more time to think about that however as she began to call up groups one by one, with only two of them actually having done the assignment on time. “Nancy, Claire and Helina, come up to present.” Ms. Rosenhert announced after another group sat down after saying they had not finished it.
I smiled to myself and I pulled a small controller and my drone out of my bag and set it on the floor stealthily. Once I had placed down my drone, I looked around to see if anyone had spotted me, only to meet the eyes of Percy, who was looking interestedly at me. “What was-” Percy started to say, but I started to shake my head violently, causing him to stop. I then started up the drone, and it quietly zoomed to the roof, unnoticed by anybody. I couldn't turn away from piloting the drone to see Percy’s reaction, but I could hear a slight gasp coming from him as I started piloting the drone, just over Nancy’s head as she walked up in front of the class with her group.
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“It's 1902, and a young man by the name of Benito Mussolini moves from Italy to Switzerland to avoid military service.” Nancy starts saying, causing me to frown, wait a minute…
Another girl, I think her name was Claire, then started speaking, continuing the presentation, “He gets big into socialism, working for trade unions, writing socialist newspapers, advocating a violent overthrow of European monarchies, the whole shebang.” The girl said, causing me to go stiff. ‘THAT WAS MY COPIED SCRIPT! YOU CAN'T COPY MY COPIED SCRIPT!’ I thought in anger at the girls, then Nancy caught my eye and grinned. Not a nice little grin, but a ‘What are you going to do?’ sort of bragging grin.
In response I smiled back at her, a big shit eating grin and I pressed the big red button. Suddenly, Nancy was doused in a bright pink liquid. The room seemed to freeze and I quickly piloted my little drone away from the target and onto a high shelf to keep it hidden. Almost as soon as I had safely stowed my drone, Nancy screamed. “ARDIKA! WHAT DID YOU DO!?” She yelled out at me, the part of her face that was not pink, turning red with rage. I had to struggle to keep in my laughter at her face, but I had to keep up appearances. “What? How in the world would I do that? I am not some magician!” I exclaimed, trying to reason with the outraged pink haired girl in front of the class.
Nancy didn't take that well. She shouted at me for about a whole minute before storming off. The class was shocked and even the teacher was too stunned to move. “Ardika, come with me.” Ms. Rosenhert said with a coldness in her none that allowed no arguing. I stood up, starting to sweat a little as I followed Ms. Rosenhert outside the classroom.
“I don't know what you did, or how you did it-” Ms. Rosenhert started saying once we were outside the class, but I interrupted her saying “But I didn't do anything! How could I have done anything?” Ms. Rosenhert gave me a look that I am pretty sure translated to ‘I know you did it’ along with apparent lingering confusion as to what had happened. “Detention tomorrow afternoon. Meet me here after school then. Get back in class.” Then before I could argue anymore, she started speed walking, probably to the office to tell someone what happened.
I scoffed at the woman that had turned her back on me “That's the American school system for you… Blaming me for things that I did but they don't know I did…” and I turned around and went back into the classroom.
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Things proceeded like nothing happened, I retrieved my drone silently during a presentation, the group Nancy was in were told that they could present after Nancy was ready then the rest of the class presented like nothing happened. Percy kept looking curiously at me during class, but he had apparently decided to talk about it after class because he stayed silent.
When our turn came, we gave our presentation and handed in the script like the other presenters. It was just plain luck that I had given Nancy the pink hair treatment when I did, otherwise our group would have been called cheaters for copying Nancy’s group, but because we did it first, that probably won't happen. Probably.
Nancy never came back though, which I was really glad of, she was disturbing our learning environment after all. With all her magic hair dye appearing in thin air and the shouting. I barely held in a snicker as I thought of that, but held it I did.
Several minutes later, the bell rang out through the speakers for the second time and we all got up and left the room. As me, Percy and Grover stepped out the door and Percy instantly started talking “How did you do that!? That was insane!” he burst into laughter as he talked, I smiled, a little proud of my revenge and proceeded to fill both Percy and Grover in about what I did.
Grover seemed to be in a state between impressed, shocked and disapproving, but Percy was on the opposite end of that spectrum. “I would hate to get on your bad side…” Grover said, half jokingly. “Ha! That's right! You don't want me to unleash my inner demons on all you puny mortals! Muahahaha!” Was my reply with an evil laugh, which caused all three of us to burst out laughing.