The students of Miss Rose’s class and invited guests were heading up to the mountains, where the national park was, for the weekend for their projects. Since the authoress took too long to update, here’s a reminder of what the project is about…they were to film their experiences at the park and to camp there, only doing it in order to graduate from high school (and the guests would get extra credit).

Equipment was provided for everyone. However, the school was too lazy to pay for the buses to take them, so they all had to drive themselves there.

“I don’t think I wanted to be on a bus to begin with,” said Pullum. She sat in the front passenger seat of the car with Queen Bee and Kitana in the back while Jade was driving.

“Why is that?” asked a curious Queen Bee.

“Because just on a bus is, like, so gross.”

Kitana slightly rolled her eyes. “They’re not that bad. You just have to hope that no one pukes on you.”

Jade decided to change the subject then. “So, any new updates for the Fashion show.”

Pullum beamed with delight then. “Well, I got some clothes made already for the show. I can’t wait until our models try them on. Speaking of which, who do we have so far again?”

Kitana took out a clipboard and looked over it. “Well, last time I spoke to everyone, they were still interested in doing the show. So far, we have Tessa, Hsien-Ko, Ryu, Rena, and Guy. Eliza is still trying to talk to Ken, but he keeps getting kidnapped by Sheeva, who we plan on inviting as well. That way it’s easier to have Ken around.”

“Well let’s see,” said Queen Bee. “It was Jade who invited Tessa, I invited Hsien-Ko, Chun-Li invited Ryu, and Kitana managed to invite both Rena and Guy. Since we have to invite two people, one of each gender, this means that Jade and I have to invite one more male each, Chun-Li has to invite a female, Kitana’s cleared, and both Eliza and Vega need to invite people.” She then looked at Pullum. “You also still need to invite two people.”

Pullum sighed. “I know, I know. I haven’t been able to get the chance to talk to anyone yet.”

“Damn it!” Jade suddenly cried out. The girls looked around, wondering what happened, until Jade stopped the car. They looked forward and saw a large group of cars that have also stopped.

“Great,” Kitana slightly mumbled. “Traffic jam…”

“We’ve only been on the road for a half hour,” Jade mentioned. “It’s supposed to take us two hours to get to the park. I wonder what’s holding up traffic?”

About 10 miles ahead, a small group of construction workers were all in a circle with orange cones blocking off two of three lanes. In between the workers was a pothole the size of a baseball.

“Gee, how long will it take to fix this?” one guy asked.

The other guy replied, “Twenty hours!”

Back to the car, Jade sighed again. “Hopefully it’s not too long…”

Suddenly, they heard a horn honk next to them. All four girls turned their heads and their eyes were now viewing the bare butt that belonged to Shang Tsung.

“EWWW!” the girls cried out in disgust as they quickly turned away.

In the car Shang Tsung was riding in, the guys consisting of Hsu Hao (sitting in the back with Shang), Baraka (in the front passenger seat), and Shadow Geist (driving) all laughed their butts off as Shang pulled his pants back up and sat back down.

“That was priceless!” cried out Shadow Geist. “If only we had filmed the look on their faces on camera.”

“Way ahead of you, except with a digital camera,” announced Baraka holding up a camera. The little picture windowed displayed the disgusted and horrified looks on Jade, Pullum, Queen Bee, and Kitana.

“Good enough,” Shadow Geist admitted. “So, any pranks thought up yet?”

“Unfortunately no,” replied Shang. “However, I managed to go to a joke shop after school yesterday and got some pretty neat stuff. Perhaps we’ll think of ideas once we sort through them.”

“I have an idea!” cried out Hsu Hao. “How about we do the Tribal dance in our swimsuits!”

Shang stared at him as though he had lobsters coming out of his ears. “You know, if Mavado was here, he’d do this!” After that statement, the ‘sorcerer’ smacked Hsu Hao upside the head.

“OWIE!” Hsu Hao cried out. Then, as he turned his head to look at the car next to him, he suddenly the noticed the Evil Gnome that lived under his bed. The Gnome noticed him as well. The one-foot being showed off his sharp teeth, glared at Hsu Hao, and pointed at him as though he was saying, ‘You’re time will come!’ Then, he sank behind the door and disappeared. Hsu Hao swallowed hard after that…

Riding in T-Hawk’s corvette, Nightwolf looked out to the forest that was ahead of them. “This is going to be a great weekend. We’ll be getting in touch with nature just as our forefathers did.”

“Now they run casinos,” T-Hawk replied. “As much as I like helping out, it’s not for me really. I don’t want to be that stereotypical Native American who owns a casino.”

“Same here,” Nightwolf agreed. “Say, have you applied to any colleges yet?”

“Just Capcom University and Resort College out of state. Haven’t heard from them yet. How about you?”

“I applied to Midway University and-” before Nightwolf could finish, he suddenly noticed Namco High School’s Julia Chang riding her bike on the shoulder of the road. He had this ‘emotion’ that ran through him, one that he couldn’t describe, but one thing he knew…she was beautiful.

Unfortunately, T-Hawk had the same thoughts as he spotted Julia as well. With that, he loosened his press on the brake and hadn’t noticed the car was moving until the two suddenly jerked forward as they hit the car in front of them.

“You idiot!” the driver in the car cried out shaking his fist out the window.

T-Hawk and Nightwolf looked at the car in horror. “Uh oh,” they both said.

About two cars over, Honda sat in the back eating a burrito. Sitting on either side of him were Yang and Nanase, both who barely had room around them. “Wow, good thing we stopped at Taco Grande before we hit the road, I was hungry!”

You’re always hungry, thought Nanase.

“So,” said Skullomania, who sat in the front passanger seat. “I wonder if I’ll be rescuing anyone this weekend. I really want to fly around.”

Yang sighed. “Skull…remember the time, in the fourth grade, when we were trying to save a kidnapped Scorpion from that old haunted house?”

It took a second for Skullomania to reply, “Yeah?”

“And there, do you remember when you, somehow, managed to get on top of the next house’s roof and cried out, ‘Skullomania to the rescue!’ before jumping off and, instead of flying, you landed head first into the haunted house’s yard?”

Skullomania turned to look at Yang. “Hey! I’m still discovering my true potential!”

Honda licked his fingers before saying, “But didn’t you say it was all within you after all?”

“Yeah, but then I met the students of DC High School and realized, ‘I CAN do it!’”

Nanase sighed. “It’s hopeless.”

Once they noticed that they hit traffic, Ermac’s (driving the car) eyes suddenly bulged out in rage. Skullomania saw the look and remembered why it wasn’t such a good idea to let the extreme bi-polar enigma to drive his car.

“I…hate…TRAFFIC!” Ermac screamed out. He then decided to step on it, turn to the shoulder, and speed past everyone.

“AAHH!” Nanase cried out. “We’re going to die!”

“Slow down Ermac!” cried out Yang.

“NEVER!” Ermac screamed.

“Oooo, I don’t feel so good,” mumbled Honda. However, Skullomania managed to hear that.

“He’s gonna blow!” Skullomania cried out but then he felt the chunks land on him.

“Eh, sorry Skull,” Honda said.

Skullomania sighed. “Great. I smell like eaten burrito…”

In another car, Blanka and Felicia made out in the back seat, much to the dismay to Kobra, who sat next to them. Also with them was Dan in the front passenger seat, and Sheeva, who was driving.

“Stop making out and get a room!” cried Kobra looking at the animal couple.

Blanka growled as Felicia turned around to glare at him. “Then why don’t you go get a girlfriend?” she suggested. Felicia spit her tongue out before she and Blanka continued with their session.

Kobra turned his head to Sheeva then. “I like demi-human girls, wanna date me Sheeva?”

Sheeva giggled. “Sorry Kobra, but I love my big Keeeen!”

“Pooey,” Kobra said.

“I’m lonely!” Dan suddenly cried out.

“But you have friends,” said Sheeva.

“But I want a girlfriend!”

“Having friends and no girlfriend is better than having no one at all,” said Felicia.

“…You’re right! Oyagi!” Dan happily exclaimed. He then put on his headphones and listened to the Street Fighter Alpha 3 soundtrack (mostly his song).

Not too far, Sharon drove her car. With her was her sister Blair, Morrigan, Kira, and the only male Kabal.

Kira looked over at Kabal. “Didn’t get Mavado to come, huh?”

Kabal shrugged. “Said something about a nut doctor. Oh well, at least he’s lucky.”

“Yeah,” the red-haired teen said with a sigh. At least I get to spend the weekend with one of my crushes…

“Oh yeah, cool story,” Morrigan suddenly began. “I went to the mall yesterday because my mother suggested that I got these gorgeous hiking boots for this trip. Well, it so happened that Pullum was there shopping for the same boots. She tried to take me down saying that I shouldn’t copy her when I didn’t even realize anyone else was going to buy them. Well, after our little argument, she tried on the boots and when she walked around to try them out when suddenly, she slipped on an little puddle and skidded a few feet down.”

The girls laughed but Morrigan spoke up with a wide grin. “Wait, it’s get better.”

“Tell me!” cried Sharon.

Morrigan continued. “Well, after she stopped, she ended up knocking someone down…guess who it was?” After a long pause, the green-haired teen proceeded. “Guile, one of the popular jocks of the school.”

The girls howled with laughter then. Blair managed to regain herself. “So, did she like, turn red and run away?”

“Not only that…she almost looked like she was going to cry. I mean, come on, don’t try to embarrass yourself even more like looking like an idiot running off.”

“I don’t get what guys see in girls,” said Sharon. She then looked through her back mirror to see Kabal. “Why is that, Kabal?”

Kabal looked up through his mask, not very comfortable with the question. After all, he was the only male in the car. “Beats me.”

“Oh come on!” cried Kira. “We have to know!”

Kabal sighed to himself. This was indeed going to be a long trip, especially now with the traffic they were stuck in.

Next to them, it so happened that Guile was riding in the front passenger seat. With him was the driver Demitri, and sitting in the back were Charlie, Sonya, and Kairi.

“This is still not fair,” said Charlie while eating a nacho. “I called gunshot for the front.”

“Charlie,” replied Demitri. “Remember the last time you sat in the front? When I suddenly stopped the car, you, not wearing your seatbelt to begin with, flew right out the windshield and through town. You landed through a pile of cactus, knives, sharp wood, burning gasoline, torture items, lit dynamites, which all exploded, and hot tar. You miraculously lived through that until you got ran over by a herd of cows.”

“Well, look on the bright side,” Charlie said. “I made it out in twenty pieces.”

“Barely,” mentioned Kairi. “And who dies by being ran over by a herd of cows anyways?”

“I’m sure it’s happened,” said Sonya. “We just don’t know about it.”

Demitri decided to change the subject, having just ate a moment ago. “So, who’s prepared for the end of the semester’s finals?”

Kairi growled upon hearing that. “Do we have to talk about finals? They’re not for another month.”

“Well, it’s better than talking about Charlie being killed so many times,” Demitri replied. “I just ate a taco damn it!”

“Since when do vampires eat regular food?” asked a curious Charlie. “I thought you all drink blood.”

“Stereotypical vampires for you,” Demitri answered. “Same with why I can stand under the sun for hours…”

As the group continued to talk, Kairi looked downward to his left and noticed Sonya’s thong poking out above her black jeans. Kairi had urges to pull on it, but then remembered what happened to V. Rosso last year on a dare…

“Hey!” cried out Rolento to V. Rosso. “I dare you to snap Sonya’s thong.”

“No problem,” V. Rosso replied. He smoothly walked over to Sonya. “Hey, baba, how ya doin’?”

Sonya looked up and smiled. “Hey Rosso, long time no see.” Then, one of her books fell out of her arms. “Damn…” Sonya then went to go pick up the book.

‘Hee hee,’ V. Rosso thought as he snapped her thong. Sonya then looked up at him with a deathly glare…

With that, a loud scream was heard for hours around the school…

Kairi shook the horrifying thought out of his head. ‘Maybe one day when I can actually get away with it,’ he thought.

In a hot pink-colored car, Area (who was driving), Makoto, Lilith, Cammy, and Li Mei were listening and singing along to a random pop song by, more than likely, an annoying singer.

“I LOOOOVE THIS SONG!” Li Mei cried out.

“What’s that noise playing?” Cammy asked looking around in confusion.

“Good thing I brought my portable CD player so we can listen to music throughout the trip,” said Lilith.

“Great!” exclaimed Area.

“HOT GUY ALERT!” Makoto cried out pointing to her right. All the girls, even Cammy, looked to their right and noticed Kilik from Namco High School practicing Katas about a two-minute walk from them.

“AAAHH!” the girls cried out before bursting out of the car. They actually got there in two seconds. Sadly for poor Kilik, he didn’t notice them coming until it was too late when he found himself knocked down and given many kisses.

“HELP!” Kilik cried out in agony. “Get off me!”

Li Mei suddenly lifted her morning star up. “Don’t tell us to get off you, pervert!”

BOINK!

You know the rest…

The girls continued to smooch a now-unconscious Kilik.

Meanwhile, Sub-Zero, always known as the speedy driver, was getting frustrated with traffic. However, the others didn’t seem bothered by it. Frost listened to her I-Pod, Scorpion looked through a porn magazine, Sektor fidgeted with a lighter, and BB Hood hummed a random song that made her seem like she was from a fairy tail.

“Damn traffic!” Sub-Zero cried out suddenly. “What’s with the hold up! They must be trying to fix a pothole that’s a size of a baseball!”

Frost heard him through her headphones and took one off of her ear. “Calm down, Subbie. For all we know, there might’ve been an accident.”

“Why do people drive like idiots these days anways?”

Sektor nearly snorted. “Speak for yourself, Speedy Gonzalez.”

“SHUT UP!” Sub-Zero cried out, the tone of his voice indeed shutting Sektor up. “Why can’t they just make things a little easier on any of us drivers?”

“Shut up before I make out with your Mom in this magazine!” Scorpion exclaimed.

Sub-Zero quickly took the magazine, froze it, then threw it out the window. The magazine shattered into pieces leaving Scorpion in dismay. “MY PORN!”

“THIS IS RIDICULOUS!” Sub-Zero continued as he stared at traffic.

Suddenly, BB Hood brought a rifle to the ice teen’s head. It was really a water gun, but the gun itself was so real that it actually made Sub-Zero shut up (and was also in fear of BB Hood‘s insanity).

“Talk again icicle boy and I’ll pop you one,” BB Hood said.

Sub-Zero nodded. He froze his lips shut and stayed silent for the rest of the car ride.

About two lanes over, Bishamon (who was driving) along with Kenshi, Hokuto, Ibuki, and Dairou, talked about the movie, ‘House of Flying Daggers.’

“It’s a really great movie,” said Hokuto. “Such a beautiful and tragic story.”

“It’s got a 7.6 rating right now on IMDB dot com,” mentioned Bishamon.

“I love the part when-” Ibuki began to say.

“Don’t spoil it!” cried Dairou. “Even the authoress of this fic hasn’t seen the movie yet!”

“Oops,” Ibuki muttered covering her mouth.

“So anywho,” said Bishamon. “My old man is almost read to open up the new sushi restaurant, sometime after Christmas when the Holiday shopping dies down. It’s going to be called Sushi Kyuuden.”

“Nice, looking forward to it,” replied Hokuto.

Bishamon then looked over at Kenshi. “Kenshi, you are more silent than the actual silence.”

“Eh, sorry, car rides make me sleepy.” Kenshi answered adjusting his blindfold.

As they continued to talk, Ibuki began admiring Dairou once again, a small smirk upon her face. Normally, when she admired him, he would never look back at her and always got away with it.

However, this time, Dairou happened to turn his head and noticed Ibuki looking at him. Immediately, the two turned away from each other. Ibuki looked around until she faced Kenshi. By the smirk on his face, she knew that he sensed what just happened. Ibuki nudged him as though she was saying, ‘Shut up!’ and Kenshi himself tried to withhold his rare chuckle.

As the other ten cars had different riding experiences, Ken, Ryu, Chun-Li, and Eliza weren’t having such luck. It so happened that Ken’s radio and CD player and AC system AND the electric windows of his car broke leaving them sweltering in the heat. However, their fifth passenger, Havik, was obviously not bothered by it. And he was also the only one not bored out of his mind like the other four.

“Whee,” he said as he continuously rotated his head around and around. The rotation made his neck crack whenever he completed the spin.

“Stop doing that!” Eliza cried out in disgust.

“Sorry,” Havik replied.

For another minute, there was complete silence. That was until Havik said, “That was a good one!”

Ken looked over at Havik. “What was a good one?” Suddenly, a horrible stench hit everyone’s noses. “OHHHH!”

“ACK, WE’RE GOING TO DIE!” Chun-Li cried as she tried to get the window open. Both Ryu and Eliza hacked and coughed like no tomorrow.

Havik let out a manical laugh. “Behold, the gaseous stench of Havik’s breakfast burrito! Feel the wrath!”

“Damn it Havik!” Ryu cried out holding his nose while still coughing.

“I told you we shouldn’t have stopped at Taco Grande!” yelled Eliza.

“Well, it’s too late now, isn’t it?” Chun-Li said covering her mouth and nose.

After dealing with the grueling traffic and the last part of the drive, all the campers finally made it to camping ground that they were provided with. However, they were still stuck with setting everything up. Mass confusion came and everyone argued. At one point, Hsu Hao somehow got himself tangled into the tent and it took 8 people to get him out. By the time everything was set up, the sun had just set.

“Well, we missed the daytime part of the trip,” called out Demitri after getting everyone’s attention. “However, after doing a count, all 50 of us are here in one piece, including Charlie. Now, I know we should try to vote for who should be our ‘leader’ during this trip, but I have to suggest that job to T-Hawk…one, because he’s connected to nature.”

“So is Nightwolf!” called out Area.

“I know that,” Demitri answered. “But the main reason is because he’s the biggest out of all of us and is more intimidating to anyone who comes by.”

“Who’s going to find us all the way out here?” asked Sharon folding her arms.

“Bears, wolves, criminals, you name it,” replied Nightwolf. “They’re everywhere.”

“All we have to do now is set our equipment and get going,” suggested Guile.

And so, all 50 campers got everything set up and began their projects. Little did anyone realize was that they were going to have a very long night ahead of them…

How will everyone survive the trip? And what kind of chaos will ensue? Find out in the next chapter when you read Part Two of the camping trip!