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Madrox. School Board. Thinking. Insanity.

Today there was no Danger Shop. ~~ONLY ZUUL~~ Only a bunch of craft supplies and a whole lot of socks.

Yes. Socks.

Additionally there was a small puppet stage in the front of the classroom and a smiling Jamie Madrox.

"Is there anything more noble than the theater?" Jamie asked as the students settled down. "Sure. Feeding the poor. Teaching men to fish. Pro wrestling. But does they truly capture the drama that is the theater? No. It doesn't Today we'll be taking our own approach to theater using my favorite medium... the humble sock puppet."

Jamie gestured to the pile of socks and craft supplies. "Today you'll be creating your own sock puppets and then performing your own short skit. While you all prepare your sock puppets, I shall perform my own show for you to learn from."

And with that being said, Jamie reached into his own pocket and pulled out a sock puppet and put it on his hand.

"Hello, old friend," Jamie said with a smile.

"You're an effing moron," the puppet replied. "Where's the brothel with the pigmentally challenged hookers?"

"I've missed you too," Jamie replied. "Let's get started shall we?"

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Suddenly the Anakin!Puppet pulled out a ~~lightsaber~~ glowstick and cut down all the zombie puppets. His puppet cloak flapped dramtically the entire time.

The Bel puppet snorted. "You call that a massacre?"

"I just saved the school!" the Anakin puppet snarled back. "Like you could do any better?"

"Admit it," Bel growled back. "You find me attractive!"

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Anakin yelled back.

And just then the puppet with the braid and the "I <3 Ender Wiggin" button ran by again screaming. Still being chased by gremlin puppet.

The gremline puppet then bit both the Bel and Anakin puppet before continuing it's chase.

Music swelled and the Bel and Anankin puppet began to look at each other with expressions of love and fulfillment.

And began to sing "Some enchanted evening."

Just then a puppet with nerdy hair and a coffee cup walked in. "What's wrong with Professor Anakin and that other guy?" Dave the puppet asked.

"ZUUL!" Annie puppet replied in her tourette fashion. "Gremlin bite. It's so sad. WHORE!"

"Some enchanted evening..." Bel the puppet crooned, "You may see a strangeeeeeeeer across a crowded room!"

"Are you feeling okay?" Dave the puppet asked Annie as he drank another cup of coffee.

"Tourettes," Annie the puppet replied. "XANADU!"

"Ah!" Dave said and poured himself another cup of coffee.

Just then a sock in blonde hair and wearing leather wandered in and stared at Bel and Anakin.

"They're gremlin bit," Dave the puppet explained.

Cara the puppet turned and glared at Dave because really she hadn't asked what he was thinking.

"I'm just going to drink my coffee," Dave the puppet said quickly and he went back to drinking.

"BAGUETTES!" Annie the shouted in her tourette-y fashion.

"And night after niiiiiiight," the Anakin puppet crooned back to Bel. "As strange as it seeeeeems... the sound of your laughter will sing in my dreeeeeeaaaaaaaams..."

"Is anyone else weirded out by them?" Dave the puppet asked as he finished his tenth cup of coffee on stage.

"Whatever," said a dark haired puppet. "This class sucks."

"Hi Mercy!" Annie the puppet said cheerfully. "CORN DOGS!"

The Cara puppet just grunted in agreement with Mercy.

"Kiss! Kiss!" called out a blonde puppet. "Hello everyone! It's I! Karla! Has anyone seen my beautiful bird-like boyfriend? I feel the need to flirt shamelessly."

And again the Ben Puppet ran across the stage. Still being chased by the gremlin puppet. This time the Gremlin was wearing the "I <3 Ender Wiggin" button.

The Karla puppet rolled her googly eyes. "Oh, Ben. Stop playing and just go make out with Ender."

At which point a bunch of squirrel puppets appeared, waved a bunch of glitter flags which read "ENDER + BEN 4EVER" while chittering squirrely cheers and then quickly disappear again.

"Oh how adorable!" Karla the puppet exclaimed.

"This class still sucks," Mercy the puppet groaned.

Cara the puppet grunted in agreement.

"Something is wrong with this coffee," Dave the puppet complained. "I'm not feeling anything. And this is my 39th cup."

Just then a puppet with dark hair ran by being chased by a puppet with light colored hair wearing a sweater vest.

"BUT I LOVE YOU FOR YOUR MIND!" the sweater vested puppet called out. "COME BACK TO MEEEE!"

"Topher!" Annie the puppet yelled as they ran by. "Stop chasing Tony! UNDERWEAR!"

"Who can explain it? Who can tell you why?" Bel Puppet sang to his loving Anakin Puppet. "Fools give you reasons, wise men never try."

"Seriously. This class sucks," Mercy complained.

And once again Cara grunted in agreement.

"THIS COFFEE IS DECAF!" Dave shouted out in anguish. "Who would do such a cruel and evil deed?!"

A Deadpool puppet then popped up out of nowhere, shouted "CHIMICHANGA" and then disappeared again.

Just then red-haired puppet wearing goggles appeared walking next to a butter cow. "Is Jamie even here?" Claudia the puppet asked. "Dude. This class sucks."

"I've already been saying that!" Mercy protested.

Cara shrugged and grunted in agreement again.

And then there was a puppet with funky hair. "Whatever," grunted the Squall puppet.

"Kiss! Kiss!" Karla called out with a puppet pout. "Where is my Warren? I can't shamelessly flirt with anyone else!"

"Here I am!" called out a puppet with wings. "Now everyone can be impressed with my majestic wingspan."

"I swear, we must be the cutest couple ever," Karla Puppet exclaimed.

"I agree!" Warren the puppet... agreed.

However some disagreed as a bunch of a bunch of squirrel puppets appeared, waved a bunch of glitter flags which read "ENDER + BEN 4EVER" while chittering squirrely cheers and then quickly disappeared. Again.

"Fucking squirrels," Karla growled.

And once again the Ben Puppet ran across the stage with the gremlin puppet in chase. This time the gremlin was wearing a wig with a braid.

"THAT'S IT!" Dave the puppet exclaimed. "I can't take this anymore!"

The Dave puppet grabbed the ~~lightsaber~~ glowstick from Ben and attempted to kill the gremlin puppet. Unfortunately the gremlin ran by and Dave!Puppet cut off Warren's wings instead.

"My majestic wingspan!" Warren gasped.

"Oh no!" Karla cried out. "Kiss! Kiss!"

"Oh no!" Annie cried out. "BOOGERS!"

"I'm bored," Cara declared.

"This class still sucks," Mercy added.

"I'm so sorry!" Dave moaned.

"I've got to get one of those glowsticks," Claudia the puppet said in awe.

"I can't go on this way," Warren the puppet said dramatically. "I must go on a journey and find myself."

"I'll miss you my love," Karla whimpered. "Kiss. Kiss."

And then the wingless Warren dropped out of sight to be replaced by a Warren that was blue and had metal wings. "I'm back!"

"That was quick," Karla the puppet noted. "Kiss! Kiss!"

"Some enchanted eveninnnnnnng. When you find your true love!" Anakin the puppet sang adoringly to his Bel puppet.

"Sorry my love," Warren the puppet declared. "I was waylaid by an evil mutant and transformed but I'm blue and better now. However I still have angst about what I've become."

"Dude. Just sing about it," Claudia the puppet advised. "Then I won't have to hear those two sing showtunes any more."

And so the lighting changed, with Warren in the spotlight. The music changed and all the puppets lined up behind Warren in a choir style fashion.

I can’t stand to fly
I’m not that naive
I’m just out to find
The better part of me

As Warren the puppet sang all the puppets began to sway and sing the musical tones of the song. Much like that music show on NBC hosted by Nick Lachey. Or maybe like Glee but with less instruments.

I’m more than a bird...i’m more than a plane
More than some pretty face beside a train
It’s not easy to be me

Wish that I could cry
Fall upon my knees
Find a way to lie
About a home I’ll never see

The chorus was slightly disrupted when the Ben puppet ran by again this time completely naked. However he was just being chased by an Ender puppet so it's all okay.

It may sound absurd...but don’t be naive
Even heroes have the right to bleed
I may be disturbed...but won’t you concede
Even heroes have the right to dream
It’s not easy to be meeeeeeee

Just then another puppet wearing a scarf over his face popped up. "Not easy being you? Bloke! Try being me! I have no effing face! see?"

And then the Jono pulled down his scarf causing a large fireball to erupt from the puppet obscuring the stage. When the smoke cleared there was a pile of burnt puppets hanging over the stage with only the leather clad puppet known as Cara and of course Jono.

"Oops," Jono said and quickly exited stage right.

"That was kind of cool," Cara noted before falling over on top of the pile of sock puppets.

"And thus ends our tale," Jamie said stepping forward and taking a bow.

Whether there was applause or not.

...well then. Ben would just be going home to live under his bed FOR THE REST OF HIS LIFE, THANK YOU.

"Kill me," he whimpered.

"I'll kill you if you kill me," Warren volunteered. Helpfully.

The googly eye that he'd dropped earlier was now a permanent fixture on his pant leg. He'd worry about that at some point when he wasn't completely mortified.

"Deal," Ben said immediately. "And I'm never going to be able to look Granddad in the eyes again."

"I might have nightmares of every song ever performed during that show," Warren agreed, attempting to hide behind his ~~majestic~~ wingspan. "And socks. Mostly socks."

Well since it was ~~so majestic~~ right there, Ben was going to try to hide behind it too.

"I've never been so grateful that Ender is a weirdo who doesn't wear socks in my life," he declared fervently.

Hey, anyone who wanted to hide behind his ~~majestic, majestic~~ wingspan was perfectly welcome to, just so long as they weren't going to laugh or something while they were in there.

"I'm pretty sure that after this, I've got a fair case for turning Karla off of them, too."

"Bet it'll be at least a week before she says 'kiss, kiss' again," Ben said with a shudder.

"Either that, or Professor Madrox is going to have to start watching his back for using her catchphrase that way," Warren agreed, shaking his head. Slowly. sadly. "I guess we'll see if he makes it through the day."

"If anyone taped it and shows it to Granddad there might be a few more Professor Madroxes wandering around with black eyes tomorrow," Ben guessed.

"... Oh, man. Why didn't I think to tape it?"

Hindsight, damn it. Hindsight.

Not that Warren was feeling horribly vindictive or anything. Honest.

"Because you were too busy looking for a hole to hide in?"

That might have just been Ben, though.

"I need a pretty big hole," Warren sulked. "Unless someone hacks my wings off with glowsticks - what the hell - and then turns me blue and gives me robot wings how would that even work!?"

... It was probably for the best if nobody ever took Warren to the side and explained that one to him.

"No idea," Ben admitted, "but at least your puppet had clothes on the entire time?"

"Yeah, I guess there's that. My bare sock body wasn't exposed for the entire world to see," Warren sighed, shaking his head a bit. "My socky dignity survived that blow."

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