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Attack of the Musical!

Raging Koala: Fear me and my musicals! Please review!

“Attention!” Dean said over the PA system. “This is reminder: we're still looking for people to audition for our school musical: Our School Musical.”

“Puh-leez!” Haru said. “Who in their right mind would audition for a school musical?”

“I would!” Ussop said. Haru shook his head. “That wouldn't work. I said in their right mind. You're in your left mind. I mean wrong.”

“I should remind you,” Dean said, “the headmaster's friend, Simon Cowes, will be in the audience. If you do a good job, you could get famous and make many, many hundred-dollar bills.”

Haru's eyes lit up. “I'm going to be in that musical!” “Cool! Haru's insane, like I am!” Ussop said to himself.

Enforcer, Dean, and Monkey were all sitting at a table in front of the stage. “Another musical.” Enforcer said. “Dean, why can't you ever make a play about mimes?”

Three certain students ran on stage. “Ed, Edd, and Eddy?” Enforcer asked. “I forgot you went to this school.”

“How could anyone forget me?” Eddy asked. Enforcer sighed. “Oh, I remember you alright. That little stunt you and Ed pulled last year cost me my hair!”

“Yeah, whatever.” Eddy said. “Ed, play the drums on your gut. Double D, play the peddle-string guitar.” Edd sighed as he pulled out the instrument. “I deplore this instrument.”

Music began playing as Eddy grabbed the microphone. What no one saw him do, however, was turn on a tape player.

Eddy: (Lip-syncing)

Sun's up

I hit the floor

Clothes on

I'm out the door

Is this a clean shirt?

I think it was one

Yesterday

No plans

I'm on the phone

Free day

I've got my game on

Call my boys up

Spend a little time outside today

Never liked

Being in when I gotta be

Never liked

Being told who I gotta see

I make no commitment

So that must extract me

That's all right, see

I'm not coming in anymore

Everything I want in you

Is just outside this door

I'm not coming in anymore

Got to many friends on the outside

Plans on the outside

That don't include you

Spend a lot of time

Trying to convince me

My friends are

Two strikes against me

I swing for the fences

So that must make strike three

That's all right, see

I'm not coming in anymore

Everything I want in you

Is just outside this door

I'm not coming in anymore

Got to many friends on the outside

Plans on the outside

That don't include you

(Not coming in)

(I'm not coming in)

(No more)

“That was pretty good.” Enforcer said. “You have a real future in this business.” “I can be in singer?” Eddy asked. “No. I was talking about the lip-syncing. Next!”

Enforcer ran out of his room screaming. “I can't take it anymore!” Ussop walked out of Enforcer's room. “Was my audition really that bad?”

“I'm tired of everyone trying to get auditions out of me!” Enforcer grabbed Malcolm by the arm. “You're the new guy who's choosing people for the musical!”

Eddy gasped. “Guys! Did you just hear that?” “With Enforcer yelling like that it was hard not to, Eddy.” Double D said. “And your screaming isn't exactly helping me recuperate.”

“Oh!” Ed said. “I wanna yell! I wanna yell!” He inhaled deeply but his yell was interrupted by a familiar whining. “ED!”

Sara marched up to Ed and grabbed him by his neck. “I wanna be in the musical. SO HELP ME PREPARE AN AUDITION! `Kay?”

“Can do, temperamental baby sister who shares the same Mom and Dad!” Ed said. Sarah began dragging him away to prepare an audition.

“Once again, Sara ruins our plans to get rich!” Eddy said. “I'm telling you, she has it in for me.”

“Right.” Double D said. “While you're busy thinking about how much Sara hates you, I suggest we plan another audition. This time we let some one else sing.”

Eddy nodded. “Right. I mean, how good can Sara's audition really be? She has Ed helping her.”

Both of them were laughing until they saw Sara, Ed, and Jimmy run up to Malcolm. Jimmy and Ed pushed him into a chair.

Sara:

Hey, floor-mopper

Here's a showstopper

I've got the stuff that you're looking for!

Listen to me singing

I'm a goddess

(Bow down,

She's a goddess)

I can act

And sing

And still be modest

(Bow down,

She is flawless)

When it comes

To the fine arts,

Mister, I'm the finest

All around the theatre

I'm known as `Your Highness'

I belong

Up on

That TV screen

I'm the Theatre Queen

You have found your super-star

(Theatre Queen)

You didn't have to look too far

(Theatre Queen)

Listen to my perfect voice

(Theatre Queen)

You don't have any other choice

I'm the greatest thing

You've ever seen

I'm the Theatre Queen

“That was amazing!” Double D said. “Sara can sing?” Eddy said in disbelief.

“Very good!” Malcolm said. “I'm giving you the lead role!” He walked out of the room and stared at what he saw.

Rolf, Johnny, and Plank were sitting around a plug-in campfire and wearing their Urban Ranger Uniforms. Rolf was holding a guitar-like instrument. He cleared his throat and started playing.

Rolf:

Let's sit around the campfire

And sing our campfire song

Our C-A-M-P-F-I-R-E S-O-N-G Song

And if you don't think

That Rolf can't sing it faster then you're wrong

But it'll help if

You just sing along

Johnny:

Bum-bum-bum

Rolf:

(Faster, with Johnny trying to keep up)

C-A-M-P-F-I-R-E S-O-N-G Song

And if you don't think

That Rolf can't sing it faster then you're wrong

But it'll help if

You just sing along

C-A-M-P-F-I-R-E S-O-N-G Song

Ranger Johnny!

Johnny:

Song!

C-A-M-P—

Rolf:

Ranger Plank!

Plank:

Rolf:

Good!

It'll help

Johnny:

(Playing drums)

Rolf:

It'll help

If you just sing along!

Oh, yeah!

(Smashes guitar on ground)

Johnny:

(Smashes drums on Rolf)

“What did you think of Rolf's Campfire Song Song?” Rolf asked as he popped out of the drum Johnny smashed on him. “Please be brutal, He-Who-Mops-Vomit.”

“That was awesome!” Malcolm said. “I aught to give you the lead role! Especially Plank! He was awesome.”

Rolf laughed. “Very good, Urban Rangers! Plank, here is your `Upstaging Rolf in an Audition for a Musical' badge.” Rolf pinned the badge on Plank, who, as usual, said nothing.

Eddy sighed. “Let's face it Double D, we're hopeless. We might as well change our names to Why and Bother.”

“Eddy, they don't stop auditions for another week.” Double D said. “But we do need to find a new singer. Ed's with Sara and Jimmy, there's Rolf and the Urban Rangers, we could ask Kevin, but… he hates us.”

Eddy suddenly had an idea. “The two of us could do it! Everyone else is doing that three thing! We could do that two thing! It'd set us apart from the crowd! Unless Ping and Pong kidnap Malcolm and perform Blues Brothers, but what're the odds of that?”

Ping and Pong suddenly ran into the room with Malcolm tied up. They were dressed as the Blues Brothers. “You just had to say it.” Double D said.

Ping:

Coming to you

On a dusty road

Pong:

Good loving

I got a truckload

Ping:

Sweep high

Don't you fret

Pong:

Cause you ain't seen

Nothing yet

Both:

I'm a soul man

Pong:

Got what I got

The hard way

Make it better

Each and every day

Ping:

Look out

Hold on to something

Don't you worry

Both:

Cause I'm a' coming

I'm a soul man

Ping:

I'll grab a rope

And pull you in

Give you hope

Both:

And be your only boyfriend

Ping:

Yeah

Pong:

Yeah

Ping:

Yeah

Pong:

Yeah

Both:

I'm a soul man

You're a soul man

We're all soul men

Malcolm clapped. “Cool! I'm giving you guys the lead role!” He walked out while singing the song off-key.

“No fair!” Eddy yelled. “That two thing works better for you cause you're twins!”

Ping nodded. “It's true.” “We are indeed twins.” Pong said. They both walked out with smug expressions on their faces.

Eddy looked at Odd, Double D, Naruto, and a new-comer wearing a black open leather jacket, no shirt underneath, black pants, flaming hair, and eight earrings on his right ear.

“Okay, Sock-head, Billboard head, Ninja boy, and… who are you again?” “Raphael Kindling.” The new guy said.

“Whatever. Look, the other guys' auditions went great, but ours'll go even better because of three things. 1) We have a live band. 2) Our band plays the song right here. And 3), they'll be able to hear the actual music instead of listening to a recording.”

“Could you please explain to us how those three reasons are any different from each other?” Double D asked. “No time!” Eddy yelled. “Malcolm'll be here any minute! Wait, I hear footsteps! Ht it!”

Raphael:

Somebody once told me

The world was going to roll me

I wasn't the sharpest tool in the shed

She was looking kind of dumb

With her finger and her thumb

In the shape of an L on her forehead

Well the years start coming

And they don't stop coming

Fed you the rules and I hit the ground running

Didn't make sense not to live for fun

Your head gets smart but your brain gets dumb

So much to do

So much to see

So what's wrong with taking the back seat?

You never know if you don't go

You never shine if you don't glow

Hey now

You're an all star

Get your game on

Get made

Hey now

You're a rock star

Get the show on

Get paid

And all that you leave us is gold

Only shooting stars break the mold

It's a cool place

And it only gets colder

You think it's hot now

Wait till you get older

But the meteor man begged to differ

Judging by the hole in the satellite center

The ice we skate

Is getting pretty thin

The water's getting warm

So you might as well swim

My world's on fire

How `bout yours?

That's the way I like it

And I'll never get bored

Hey now

You're a rock star

Get the show on

Get paid

And all that you leave us is gold

Only shooting stars break the mold

Somebody once asked

“Can you spare some change for gas?

I need to get far away from this place”

I said “Yep

What a concept

I could use a little fuel myself

And we could all use a little change”

Well the years start coming

And they don't stop coming

Fed you the rules and I hit the ground running

Didn't make sense not to live for fun

Your head gets smart but your brain gets dumb

So much to do

So much to see

So what's wrong with taking the back seat?

You never know if you don't go

You never shine if you don't glow

Hey now

You're an all star

Get your game on

Get made

Hey now

You're a rock star

Get the show on

Get paid

And all that you leave us is gold

Only shooting stars break the mold

And that you leave us is gold

Only shooting stars break the mold

Malcolm would have been very impressed, if it was Malcolm whom they had performed for. But instead, it was Enforcer.

“Playing Smash Mouth songs without permission? That's a detention.” He walked away.

“Man!” Eddy said. “Time's up for auditions! We'll never get into this stupid play!”

“Wait.” Double D said. “Does any one even know the story of `Our School Musical'?” Everyone shook their heads. “It's a ballet.”

Eddy's mouth hung open. “You mean we were auditioning for a ballet? Double D, why didn't you stop us?” “I was just going along with it for the sake of the plot.”

The group dispersed leaving only Eddy and Double D. A light bulb suddenly appeared over Eddy's head. “Wait! That means all those guys that auditioned will be in a ballet, and they don't even know it yet! This gives me an idea. We take pictures of everyone, and have them pay us not to put them on the Nexus Wide Web!”

“Now that's the Eddy I remember!” Double D said. “And we can look forward to no more musicals until Raging Koala sees another Broadway classic!” Eddy nodded. “Yeah. He didn't even get all the lyrics right.”

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