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"OK class, I know this is hard, but I believe in you!
We've been trying all year to solve this problem, but I know you can do it,"
the teacher said to the group of baby Neopets sitting on the carpeted floor
of the Light Faerie Elementary School Kindergarten room. "Now, have courage...
what's two plus three?"
The baby Neopets didn't seem to be taking the
question too well. A baby Acara was scratching his head while a baby Usul looked
like she was going to cry. Suddenly a baby Skeith shot up his hand.
"Yes Bobby?" the kind-looking Ixi teacher asked.
"Um... ith it five?" he asked.
"Good for you Bobby, and you win the Special
Friend of the Month award!" the teacher cheered as she handed the Skeith a piece
of yellow felt cut into a trophy.
GoldenRhino's mind seemed to drift off. The baby
Tonu's mind seemed to drift off. Math class. How boring. What could be worse
than... education? Math wasn't really his cup of tea, especially math
this complicated. Actually GoldenRhino didn't enjoy Neoschool at all. Once he
had achieved his goal to take over Neopia, the Neoschool would be his first
target.
"GoldenRhino! Are you paying attention?" the
teacher snapped.
The Tonu suddenly woke from his daydream. He
made a threatening gesture toward his giggling classmates. "If you weren't already
babies, I'd zap you with my Baby Blaster so quickly you head would spin... oh
yeah, sorry Ms. Malew," he sighed.
"OK class," Ms. Malew continued as she put on
her sickeningly-sweet teacher face, "As I was saying before Mr. Rhino here interrupted
us, today is our field trip to the museum. We will be looking at a dinosaur
exhibit and for a brief time, I'll allow you to explore the museum. Now hurry
up, load the bus, the bus driver is waiting."
GoldenRhino's face lit up. He had been anticipating
this field trip all year. While math, history, English and all the stuff they
taught at Neoschool bored him to the extent he wanted to sleep for years, dinosaurs
were different. The Tonu had been born from an egg hatching in the Tyrannian
Plateau, and he always wanted to learn more about his prehistoric brothers.
He got up and ran to the door but Ms. Malew stopped him.
"Listen runt," she grunted at the Tonu. Suddenly
the kind red Ixi had become a menacing monster. "You are not going to act up
at that museum. You will not, and I repeat not, be pulling any of the 'stuper
villain' business you're always ranting about. I will have my eye on you the
entire time!"
"Ms. Malew, I like dinosaurs. I want to be a
murkyjelloist!" GoldenRhino protested.
"WHAT HAVE I TOLD YOU ABOUT TALKING BACK TO ME?"
she screamed. "LOAD THE BUS, SIT THERE, AND YOU WILL WALK AROUND MINDLESSLY
NOT TOUCHING ANYTHING OR ACTING UP FOR THE WHOLE THREE HOURS! AND THEY ARE MURKYJELLOISTS,
THEY'RE ARCHEOLOGISTS!" the Ixi roared. Suddenly she replaced her kind teacher
face. "Is that OK?"
GoldenRhino glowered and nodded slowly. Ms. Malew
always seemed a little meaner, a little nastier to GoldenRhino than she was
to the other students in the class. Her kind face always seemed to be replaced
by a scowl when she looked at him. But he had pulled the stunts to deserve that
sort of treatment. It looked like this field trip wasn't going to be much fun
after all.
***
The yellow Neoschool bus pulled up to the Neopian Museum of Science. It loomed
over the tiny baby Neopets coming out. The baby Tonu slumped out of the bus
and dragged himself to the entrance. Through the entire trip, Ms. Malew had
been watching him like a Crokabek. He didn't have the chance to throw any paper
airplanes or throw a rock underneath the brake pad.
"OK class, we're here. And I expect everyone
to be on their super best behavior... and that means you," the red Ixi snarled
at GoldenRhino. "Now, we're going to go into the museum and look at dinosaur
bones from millions of years ago! The people who dug these up are called archeologists...
can you say archeologist?" The class erupted in a myriad of mumbles and smeared
words. "Very good! Archeology is very exciting, and anyone who wants to be an
archeologist can if they simply put their minds to it!"
"Even I can be a murkyjelloist?" GoldenRhino
asked.
"No Mr. Rhino, not you," she replied in a grunt.
"And they're archeologists!"
They entered the museum and gasped. Giant bones
of prehistoric Grarrls and Chombies could be seen throughout the lobby. The
bones... the tools... the models... the popcorn.
"Popcorn, get your popcorn here!" a passing Scorchio
proclaimed as he tried to sell the popcorn.
"That moronic Scorchio is really good at wrecking
this museum's aura," Ms. Malew growled. "That stupid son of a-- OK kiddies,
let's go exploring!"
In a queue they traveled. It was amazing. GoldenRhino
could see skeletons of Baragsauri millions of years old, and yet so well-preserved.
A chill went through him as he saw a skeleton of a fellow Tonu. But the most
amazing sight had to be the giant Chomby skeleton. The roof had to be raised
in the room the skeleton was in just to stop the skull from touching the sealing.
He just stood there, staring at it.
"Mr. Rhino, I told you not to touch it!" Ms.
Malew shrieked.
"But I'm not, I'm looking--"
"If you touch it again I'm going to--"
"But I didn't touch the skele--"
"I won't ask you again--"
"I'M STANDING ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE FREAKING
ROOM, HOW IN DUNG'S NAME COULD I TOUCH THAT SKELETON YOU OLD HAG!" the Tonu
roared.
Ms. Malew turned red, even for a red Ixi. "I
did not teach you to act like that!" she hissed. She grabbed him by the hand
and dragged him out of the room.
The next room contained a mass number of different
dinosaur models. Ackosaurus models, Ransaurus models, Phtlydon models and even
a Sporkle model here and there. GoldenRhino could've spent days in this room,
looking at all the different models.
"OK class, moving on. We don't want Mr. Rhino
here touching anything," Ms. Malew said as she shot GoldenRhino a venomous side-glance.
The baby Tonu felt he was going to explode. All
I do is act good for once because I really want to be a murkyjelloist! That's
it, if it's trouble Ms. Malew wants, it's trouble she's going to get.
GoldenRhino stormed off into the bathroom. He
reached into his bushy mane (which, I might add, is great for keep hold of things!)
and pulled out a bag filled with all of his stuper villain stuff. He pulled
out his maroon towel and tied it around his neck as a cape. He grabbed the navy
blue handkerchief with holes cut in it and tied it around his face. He had his
mask. Then he grabbed out his prized weapon: the Baby Blaster. It could make
a Neopet into a baby in the blink of an eye. GoldenRhino wished he could've
brought his Petpet along, if only he didn't have a problem with the whole suffocation
thing inside a plastic bag.
The masked Tonu stormed out of the museum. He
ran around like crazy kicking things and zapping pets. He knocked over all the
ceramic models and watched them shatter into pieces. He tore apart the pictures
of dinosaurs and flushed the bones of skeletons down the toilet (which to his
satisfaction over flowed).
Finally he came to the giant Chomby skeleton.
GoldenRhino yelled like a banshee and kicking the leg. It didn't work. He zapped
the skeleton, hit the skeleton and bit the skeleton. Nothing worked. Finally
he saw a support cable holding the head of the Chomby upright. GoldenRhino pulled
out his Tonu Golden Blade and tossed it up into the support cable. He watched
with glee as it snapped and down the skeleton came, shattering into millions
of pieces.
Ms. Malew entered the room, her face white with
shock. GoldenRhino stormed up to her. "I'm going to do something I should've
done a long time ago," he growled. He pointed the Baby Blaster at her and pulled
the trigger.
***
The bus bumped along the way back home. Someone had given Ms. Malew a red paint
brush and returned her to her normal non-baby state. She had found a way to
keep GoldenRhino good the bus ride home. She tied him up with duct tape and
gagged him.
The Tonu had in his paw a bill for 6.7 million
Neopoints. That wouldn't be easy to explain to his owner. But something good
did come from the museum escapade. GoldenRhino learned that no matter how much
he loved dinosaurs and wanted to be a murkyjelloist, he realized that no matter
what, he was evil. For he was GoldenRhino the stuper villain.
The End | 
