"So you all did all of that just to teach Janet a lesson?" Janet's teacher asks grinning with a glint in his eyes.
"The ruse, yes. The trip to space, no." Ms. Frizzle answered with a grin.
"Trips into seemingly impossible places are common and nearly an everyday occurrence with Ms. Frizzle." Dorothy Ann told them matter of factly when she saw all their shocked and disbelieving looks.
"Really? What kind of impossible places?" One of the parents asked worriedly and causing all of Ms. Frizzles class to smirk darkly. Malison's foster father looked at her with a deadly glare, causing the brunette to gulp audibly. The class gave her mental reassurances, that they'll protect her.
"Watch the show and you'll see won't you?" Ralphie asked rhetorically and earning amused looks from his classmates and teacher.
"Despite the rather crude way of putting it Ralphie is correct. I'm sure you'd learn about all of our adventures if we merely watch the show." Ms. Frizzle said patting the top of Ralphies ball capped covered head fondly.
"I'm a growing boy. Being rude, crude, and socially unacceptable is what I'm best at." Ralphie said with a shrug of his shoulders and a grin on his face.
"Unless Ms. Frizzle asks you to behave then you usually settle down instantly." Dorothy added in chirpily as she grinned at Ralphie who pretended to scowl at her.
"Besides. Keesha and Wanda can be just as crude as you sometimes." Arnold chimed in before skillfully ducking the swat at the back of his head from Wanda, but was blind-sided by the smack that Keesha gave him the moment he sat up straight again.
"Keesha! You still need to work on your control! Try to be more careful next time or else someone could get really hurt! It's just good luck that Arnold didn't get hurt badly due to our healing factor." Ms. Frizzle scolded when Arnold was nearly sent careening into a wall on the other side of the auditorium, he would be implanted into the wall right now in fact if Ms. Frizzle hadn't quickly used her telekinesis to stop him in mid-flight.
"Oops. I thought I was holding back more than that. Sorry Arnold." Keesha apologized with a wince as she gave her classmate a worried look.
"It's fine Keesha. Thanks for stopping me from hitting the wall Ms. Frizzle." Arnold said smiling at his classmate reassuringly before smiling up at his teacher thankfully.
"Not a problem Arnold." Ms. Frizzle said patting the top of his head fondly.
'Welcome back to outer space class. The only planetarium open twenty four hours a day, seven days a week.' Ms. Frizzle said allowing the bus to drive itself as she turned to look at her students with a smile on her face.
'And how are all my astronauts doing?' Ms. Frizzle asked while the class floated around happily.
'It's only open twenty four seven if Ms. Frizzle is the one driving.' Wanda said making the class laugh as they floated around in their space-suits.
'We're weightless.' D.A. said as she floated out of her seat, not taking her eyes off of her book.
'We're in trouble.' Arnold groaned playfully as he floated upside down past Janet.
'No Arnold. We're in orbit around the earth.' Janet said unclicking her seat belt while the class looked mildly irritated.
'Can't she tell a joke when she hears one?' Carlos mentally asked Arnold and the rest of the class, causing Arnold to sigh slightly.
'Jokes and Janet do not get along.' Arnold responded sighing slightly. ( "I wonder why" Malison mentally said, causing Miss Frizzle and the others to snicker).
'Hmm. Let's see now.' Ms. Frizzle said pulling a lever and making a small TV come down out of the roof of the bus.
'We're just about…there. Wonderful! Let the tour begin!' Ms. Frizzle said smiling as a small bleeping blue bus on the TV showed their position.
'We're coming up to the sun.' Ms. Frizzle said as the bus drove dangerously close to the sun with the students staring at it out of the windows.
'Look how huge it is!' Carlos said as they drove a little closer to the sun.
'We didn't get to see it last time cause of the accident. It's really big!' Carlos added mentally causing nods of agreement from his friends.
'Class are you all wearing your special, heavy duty Sunblock 8000 sun goggles?' Ms. Frizzle asks wanting to make sure her students eyes were protected from the sun's harmful rays.
'Yes Ms. Frizzle.' They all responded mentally while they looked out a single window each.
'I wonder how many Earths would fit in the sun?' Keesha wondered aloud as she looked out the window with the special goggles Ms. Frizzle had made covering her eyes.
Right now many of the adults and students were gapping rather unattractively; they were shocked that Ms. Frizzles class actually went on field trips to space!
"That is so cool!" One kid shouted, earning nods of agreement from all the others and even a few adults.
"That's Ms. Frizzle!" The red haired teachers class exclaimed in unision, causing their teacher to smile at them all.
'Over a million. Hold on to your goggles. Yee-haw!' Ms. Frizzle said as she drove the bus away from the sun and answered Keeshas question at the same time.
'So class. We've travelled from Earth, around the sun, and now we are on our way to-.' Ms. Frizzle said as the class stood in front of the TV as Ms. Frizzle pointed out the planet they were heading towards, only to be cut off by Janet.
'Mercury the closest planet to the sun. When I tell my class they're going to be so jealous.' Janet said finishing the teachers sentence and earning narrowed eyes from all the students on the bus.
'How rude. Doesn't she know that Ms. Frizzle doesn't like to be interrupted?' D.A. asked narrowing her eyes at Janet while Carlos and Ralphie leaned away from Arnolds cousin slightly.
"We are jealous I can tell you that right now but we didn't believe you when you told us cause you couldn't prove it." A dark haired boy a little ways away from Janet said smirking and causing the young red haired girl to glare at him.
If Ms. Frizzle was irritated by Janets interruption she didn't show it on her face, well except for in her eyes before calming down slightly.
"Coming from a large family, I'm used to being interrupted when talking but that doesn't mean that I like being interrupted." Ms. Frizzle said causing the other teachers to nod slightly in understanding, they didn't like it when a student interrupted them when they were talking either.
'Wow we're landing.' Most of the class said sounding slightly relieved at this as the bus gently landed on Mercury.
'Last time we were landing in space was after the accident and we had crash landed on Venus. I like this landing much better.' Wanda said mentally, causing her classmates and teacher to nod slightly in agreement. ("Yeah, that was flat out terrifying" Malison replied, mentally).
'Of course.' Ms. Frizzle said smiling slightly sadly at how relieved her students sounded.
'Told you Janet.' Arnold could be heard saying, causing his classmates and teacher to smirk or snicker slightly.
'We hardly weigh anything compared to my old planet, Earth.' Phoebe said as she, Ralphie, and D.A. jumped off the bus in high leaps and bounds.
'Not like you all weigh much of anything on Earth either. I can pick all eight of you up easily and at the same time even without my super strength!' Ms. Frizzle mentally told her students who all nodded mentally at this, that was true at least. Ms. Frizzle had to pick them up and carry them away from an angry seal before and she hadn't even broken a sweat with all eight of them in her arms and that had been before the accident!
"Super Strength?" One of Janets other classmates asked curiously while an older student looked curious about something else.
"An angry seal?" He asked at the same time, causing Ralphie to blush slightly and scratch the back of his neck sheepishly.
"The angry seal was kinda my fault. We were sliding on some ice in Antarctica and I accidently bumped into its baby." Ralphie explained causing his classmates to giggle at his misfortune while Ms. Frizzle giggled as well. "You were the one who was idiotic enough, to not listen to me" said Malison, smiling at the rare memory. She didn't even see the deadly look exchange her foster parents were having, but Miss Frizzle hadn't.
"And yes, super strength. When we were in the accident I took the most damage while trying to protect the kids. As a result I have the same powers they do, and a few more of my own, although I can give them some of my powers if I want too." Ms. Frizzle said stopping her giggles so as to explain about her super strength to the others.
"So one of the children has super strength as well?" Dr. Tennelli asked looking between Ms. Frizzle and her students curiously.
"Hehe. That would be me, and Malison!" Keesha said grinning widely while her grandmother looked like she just had a brain wave.
"I knew I wasn't dreaming when I saw you lift up the couch in our living room with one hand!" Keeshas grandmother exclaimed causing Keesha to blush slightly while her classmates looked at her curiously.
"I was looking for something and thought she was still asleep." Keesha explained to her classmates with a small embarrassed blush on her cheeks.
'I wonder if that means there's less gravity pulling on us here.' Keesha said as she got into a ballerina like stance.
'Yeah cause this is just like when we were practicing in the woods and Ms. Frizzle made the guy with the weapon fly into a tree headfirst with his gun flying into the sky.' Phoebe mentally exclaimed causing her classmates to nod mentally.
'Don't remind me of him unless you want my temper to flare again.' Ms. Frizzle mentally said, snarling at the memory of the man that dared to threaten her precious students. ("It's okay Miss Frizzle, you protected us from him. That's good enough" Malison mentally said, sending mental comforts to Miss Frizzle, causing the frizzle haired teacher to calm down. She smiled at the brunette).
"Ms. Frizzle had a nasty temper whenever someone threatened us before the accident, I think that guy who pulled a knife on her and threatened us is still in the Intensive Care Unit. After the accident? You don't want to know. Also Malison's the only one who can calm her down. so you better not hurt her" Keesha said calmly and eyeing her teacher warily, looking for any signs of the teachers infamous temper rearing its head.
"What can I say? I hate it when someone threatens children." Ms. Frizzle said patting Keesha's head reassuringly, then looked at Malison's foster parents, and causing the other adults to nod as well, they hated anyone threatening children.
'Exactly Keesha. Good thinking' Ms. Frizzle said bounding over and patting the top of Keeshas helmet lightly before laughing when Liz bounced by on his tail.
'Come along class. Follow the bouncing lizard. This way please.' Ms. Frizzle said bouncing after Liz with her students laughing right behind her.
'Bet I can jump higher than you and Malison, Dorothy Ann!' Carlos challenged the blond girl causing her to grin.
'You're on!' D.A. said as the three jumped into the air as hard as they could.
'I won first place in my classes jumping contest.' Janet said jumping up to be level with the three of them and causing them to shoot her irritated looks.
"That's because she was the only one that bothered entering the contest." Janets teacher said snorting and causing Janet to flush angrily again.
'Here's my blue ribbon to prove it.' Janet said as they jumped again in order to get a clear winner, as she pulled a blue ribbon out of seemingly nowhere.
'Can't she go five minutes without trying to outdo someone?' D.A. mentally asked Arnold who shook his head slightly while Carlos grinned.
'I've got a bit of an idea.' Carlos said as they all landed and Janet was looking at them smugly.
'Wait until I tell my class I won the jumping contest on Mercury too!' Janet said smugly and not aware of the smirks on Carlos and D.A.s faces.
'You know what they're gonna say?' Carlos asked grinning at the arrogant red haired girl.
'What?' Janet asked honestly confused about it.
'Prove it!' D.A., Malison and Carlos exclaimed in unision as they bounced away while Janet crossed her arms over her chest and looked shocked.
"We did." The majority of Janets class said in unision causing Janet to glare at all of them while Ms. Frizzles class grinned and exchanged high fives.