Fan Fiction ❯ Chao Music ❯ The Great Gig in the Sky ( Chapter 15 )

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A/N: At last! The final installment of the Pointless Adventures! I am ashamed to say that after this chapter, things will be getting more and more serious. Otherwise, I wouldn't know how to end the fic.

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To ficmaster: I update every Friday, or try to, so please don't say “Update soon”. I can't stand it when people do that. I don't mean to snap at you or anything. Just letting you know. (smiles)

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To Prince Izzy X: Well, you don't have to wait anymore, `cause here it is!

To Amy Rose: I think I'll make Queen Carolyn the airplane instructor, if that's OK. I have a good idea on how to use her!

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Chapter 15: The Great Gig in the Sky: Final Part of the Pointless Adventures!

“This song is really getting on my nerves…” said Raven, hearing the McDonald's theme.

“I know,” said Julia. “They try to make it all rap or something.”

“BAH DAH DAH DAH DAH! I'M LOVIN IT!”

Raven reached for a pillow on the sofa, grabbed it, and threw it at the TV.

“You didn't really have to do that,” said Neil, slouching.

“Yeah,” answered Skippy. “She did.”

The four Chao sat there, literally bored out of their minds. There was absolutely nothing to do. They had gone over all their video games about ten times already, and there was nothing interesting on TV.

“Are you bored with your life?” asked a person on the TV.

“Yes…” answered all four Chao.

“Are you looking for excitement?”

“Yes…”

“Would you give anything to be able to pilot an airplane?”

Raven, Skippy, and Neil's eyes widened. “No…” they answered, not really knowing what to think. Julia, however, seemed to perk up.

“Then call 1-800-770-FREE! That's 1-800-770-FREE! Call now for a FREE brochure!”

“That pun sucked,” said Raven.

“That commercial sucked,” said Skippy. “That didn't spark my interest in flying at all.”

“You'd have to be an idiot if you got called that number,” said Neil, nodding.

Julia, however, was on the phone.

“Hello? Yeah. I wanna free brochure!”

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Julia squealed as she opened her front door. By now, she should have her free brochure in the mail!

Skipping to the mailbox, she opened the latch and… THERE IT WAS! THERE! IN THE BACK! A TINY LITTLE PAMPHLET!

Julia looked right of her mailbox and, sure enough, there was Neil getting his mail at the same time.

“HEY NEIL!” shouted Julia, catching Neil's attention and waving the brochure in the air. “I GOT MY BROCHURE FOR FLYING LESSONS!”

Neil hurried over to his friend, leaving his own mailbox door open for people to come and steal. Fortunately for him, no one did.

“You're still seriously considering flying lessons?” asked Neil.

“Yeah!” Julia opened the pamphlet. “I've always wanted to drive an airplane!

“Pilot,” said Neil, correcting her.

Julia swatted a hand at him. “Small mistake. Means nothing.”

Neil peered over Julia's arm, trying his best to take a glimpse at what was written.

At Queen Carolyn's Flying School, we guarantee that you'll be a pilot in no time! Our courses off unique hands-on experience so that you can be one with the plane and learn at the same time!

Neil looked to the left to see a man piloting an airplane, giving the thumbs-up and grinning cheesily. Neil smirked at the picture, then continued reading.

Signing up is easy! Just come down to Queen Carolyn's Flying School to sign up!

A five week course costs 500 dollars!

“COME ON!” shouted Julia, grabbing Neil's hand. “LET'S GO GET BUS!”

Neil reluctantly followed, knowing that this was going to be something.

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Julia yanked on her friend's hand anxiously. “COME ON, RAVEN! WE WANNA GET GOOD SEATS!”

“I'm only here because Neil ran away, and you needed someone with you,” said Raven, calmly making her way into the small theater. “And besides, we're the only ones here.”

Julia, however, ran ahead and got a seat up front. “Mine!” she shouted. She then looked back at Raven and said, “Sorry. This row's reserved.”

Raven rolled her eyes as she sat down the row nearest her. It wasn't like she was going to be paying attention. She would just sink back in her chain and watch the moving picture.

The lights began to dim and Julia squealed about the fourth time that day. “IT'S STARTING!” she shouted, jumping up and down in her sea. Raven sarcastically clapped her hands.

“Welcome to Queen Carolyn's Flying School!” said an Angel Chaos Chao that appeared on the screen. “I'm Queen Carolyn, or just Carolyn, if you'd like to call me that!”

“HI CAROLYN!” shouted Julia, waving at the screen. Raven blinked.

“Here at my flying school, I'll be teaching you the basics of flying an airplane, such as takeoff and landing.”

“Ooooh…” said Julia, eyes wide with wonder. Raven yawned.

“First off, I'd like to explain how an airplane works.”

“OK!”

Raven rolled her eyes.

“As the plane gathers speed, the wind on the top of the wing moves slower than that on the bottom of the wing. Because the wind is slower, the pressure of the wing is less. Since the pressure on the bottom of the wing is greater, it creates a force called lift, which pushes the plain up into the air.”

“Ooo..”

“Before you take your first step inside a cockpit, let me tell you that the excitement may cause you to have a heart attack. We would like to remind you that Queen Carolyn's Flying School is not responsible for death or injury.”

Raven's eyes went wide with feat at that statement.

“And please remember to HAVE FUN!”

“I WILL! I WILL!” Julia started jumping in her seat once again.

The lights came back on. Julia stood up and ran over to Raven, grabbed her hand, and dragged her to the exit.

“We get to meet Miss Carolyn now!” shouted Julia, not seeming to notice that Raven was being bumped, bruised, and burned on the floor.

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Julia shielded her eyes as she scanned the large grass runway. “Where could she be?” she asked, scanning the horizon.

“No idea…” said Raven, not really caring to help Julia look. “She probably went to the John or something.”

“No… Something's wrong.”

Raven shrugged and sat down on the grass, then laid back. “Whatever.”

Julia heard something from up above, looked up, and saw a small red airplane approaching the runway. “THERE!” she shouted, pointing up. Raven slowly looked up, her white eyes not absorbing the sun's glare.

The plane circled around and lowered itself towards the ground. Now that it was closer, Raven could tell it was a basic racing plane… Was Julia going to learn how to race planes?

Disturbing images filled her head…

The plane made contact with the grass, causing the plane to slow down. Eventually the plane came to a complete stop, and Julia spastically started to run over to the plane, waving her arms in the air.

An Angel Chaos Chao, apparently Queen Carolyn, stepped out of the plane and saw Julia's spastic waving. Carolyn smiled and waved.

“HI!” shouted Julia, stopping in front of Carolyn and waving. “I'M JULIA!”

“I know!” said Carolyn, cheerfully. “You gave me some information about yourself through the mail, remember?”

“Oh…” Julia looked around, as if browsing the files in her brain to remember.

“Anyway, we might as well get started. You're not going to learn anything if we stay on the ground.”

“Righto!”

Julia watched Carolyn climb into the airplane, looking back and waving for Julia to follow. Julia squealed as she climbed into the cockpit.

“OK,” said Carolyn, sitting down in the pilot seat. “Since you're new, I'm just going to show you the controls while I fly, OK?”

Julia took the passenger seat and smiled. “OK!”

(A/N: OK, I have no idea how to fly a plane, so just bear with me!)

Carolyn looked at the floor as she put her foot on the gas pedal and pressed it to the floor. The plane started to gain speed, causing Julia to squeal with delight.

Julia pressed her face to the window as she watched everything go by faster and faster.

“Now, were you paying attention to the video?” asked Carolyn. “About lift?”

“Yeah,” said Julia, looking back to Carolyn.

“Well, we're about to go fast enough to get the plane off the ground. Look outside.”

Julia watched as the ground seemed to get smaller and smaller every second. THEY WERE FLYING!

“Now look here.” Julia looked over as Carolyn pointed to a meter on the dashboard (?). “That's an altimeter. It tells us our altitude, and for this plane, we don't want to go over 10,000 feet.”

Julia nodded as she saw the altimeter get higher and higher, now reaching 7000 feet.

“If you want to go down, you grab this thing and pull down.” Carolyn grabbed a wheel-looking thing and pulled down. Sure enough, Julia noticed that altimeter's number decreasing.

“If you want to go up, you push up. If you want to go left of right, you move the wheel to the left or right.”

Carolyn did so.

“Is this all there is to flying?” asked Julia.

“Nope. You still have to land.”

Carolyn pulled down on the wheel, causing the plane to go down. “Notice how if I put the wheel in it's normal position, the plane flattens out. We have to try to get it to land as flat as possible while still decreasing elevation.”

Carolyn let the plane fly forward a little ways and then turned it around to where it was facing the runway. Julia could see Raven, still sitting on the grass.

“Watch how I just gently pull.”

Julia looked back over to the wheel and saw that Carolyn was indeed pulling down very slowly. The plane decreased elevation, the plane still seeming parallel to the ground.

“We're about to land. Look out the window. It's a lot more exciting when you see the ground from this point-of-view.”

Julia looked back out the window and saw Raven's black figure get closure. She could now tell that Raven was looking up at the plane, her monotone look still the same.

Julia felt the plane hit the ground and looked back out the front window.

“From here on out you slowly press the brakes, like you would when you drive a car.”

Julia noticed the plane was loosing momentum, and soon enough the entire aircraft came to a complete stop.

Carolyn looked at Julia and smiled. “And that's 101!”

Julia smiled and giggled. “I WANNA TRY!”

“So soon? Normally my students have to give it a rest of a while since they're so nervous.”

Julia swatted Carolyn away. “I'm not nervous! Now sit in the passenger seat!”

Carolyn shrugged and sat where Julia had once sat, silently muttering a prayer for survival. Julia bounced up and down in the seat, excited that she was finally getting to fly a plane.

“Now press on the gas pedal.”

Julia looked down at the floor to see two panels: one labeled “GO” and one labeled “STOP”. Noticing the obvious hint, Julia placed her foot on the “STOP” pedal and pressed down.

Julia, noticing that something was wrong, lifted her foot up and pressed it back down. Noticing that something was wrong, she continued to stomp on the pedal continuously. Finally, she looked over to Carolyn. “It won't work,” she said.

Carolyn pointed to the floorboard and smiled. “You're pressing the wrong one.”

Julia looked down, noticing that the pedal that said “GO” must've been the pedal that made the plane go. It wasn't a trick after all.

Julia pressed her foot on the pedal and noticed that the plane had started to move. She smiled widely and looked out of the windshield, seeing everything ahead suddenly coming at her faster.

“We're about to take off!” said Carolyn, now enjoying a view from the passenger window.

Julia felt the plane lift itself off the ground and shoot up into the sky. It was such a nice feeling… She felt like a huge weight was being lifted off of her.

“Um…” said Carolyn. “Don't know how to really tell you this, but our tail just fell off.”

That would explain the weight…

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Raven's small smile turned into a frown when she saw the tail of the plane fall off and hit the ground with a bang. She looked back up to the plane, which was now falling to the ground.

“Hey Rae,” said Neil, walking up. “Is Julia in the air yet?”

“Yeah…. She's in the air, but she's heading towards the ground again.”

Neil nodded. “She didn't like it.”

“No. She's about to hit the ground.”

Neil looked up at the plane and saw that, indeed, the plane was heading towards the ground.

“Well… That's not… good…”

“Nope.”

“Should we go help them?”

“Yeah.”

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“WOOHOOHOO!” shouted Julia as she managed to get the door open. “THAT WAS SO COOL! DID YOU NOTICE HOW THE PLANE FLIPPED WHEN IT HIT THE GROUND?”

Carolyn made her way out of the plane, undamaged. “Yeah… It was… awesome.”

Carolyn dusted herself and looked at the plane. “I just want to let you know that you had nothing to do with that. I've been using this plane for years, and it's probably finally worn out.”

“Don't worry!” said Julia. “I wasn't going to take the plane, anyway!”

Carolyn nodded her head slowly as she saw two running Chao approaching.

“Are you guys OK?” asked Neil, who ran up to Julia. “We saw you guys coming down pretty quickly.”

“And we noticed that the tail hit the ground… so that kind of got our attention,” said Raven, without much concern in her voice.

“Yeah! It was awesome!” said Julia.

“Very…” said Carolyn. This had been the first time that someone had crashed a plane with her… She didn't know if she should feel proud or not.

“Carolyn showed me all the basics,” said Julia.

Carolyn nodded. “She looked like she had a pretty good grasp with it. If the tail hadn't fallen off, then she probably would've done a wonderful job.

“But…” began Neil. “If Julia's already learned the basics and you feel confident about it, why is she going to take so many more weeks of training?”

“To train for the race!” said Carolyn, now smiling.

The three other Chao looked at her, somewhat confused.

“What do you mean?” asked Raven.

“I guess I should've put it in the brochure or something, but there's a race between Queen Carolyn's Flying School and a rival school, along with several other schools.”

“What's the rival school?” asked Neil.

“It's called Devos's School of Masterful Flying, and it's run by the most competitive Chao I've ever meant.”

“Is his name Devos?” asked Julia, hoping that made her sound smart. Raven and Neil, however, looked at her with half-open eyes.

“Yeah. It is. Every year Devos's chosen student wins first, and my student's always win second…” Carolyn then pointed to a nearby aluminum storage building. “I have a case full of silver trophies.”

“Pity,” said Raven, not really caring.

“I know, and I'm never really that serious about the race… BUT I WANT TO WIN!”

The sudden outburst nearly blew the three Chao away.

“I want to enter Julia as my student, because my other student's just…well, suck. But if she's going to enter, she's going to need several weeks of training. I hope that's alright, Julia.”

Julia smirked. “Let's do it!”

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Several weeks later, the day of the competition arrived. Hundreds of Chao had appeared to view the race from below, which seven racing airplanes were positioned at the starting line.

Julia and Carolyn stood next to their pink plane, occasionally glaring daggers at a black racing plane next to them. Devos, an evil looking Devil Chaos Chao, was standing next to his student, who was an equally evil Dark Chao. The two would occasionally look over at the staring competition.

“Carolyn,” said Devos, smirking.

“Devos…” said Carolyn, glaring.

“RACERS, PLEASE PREPARE TO ENTER YOUR PLANES!” said the announcer, ringing a bell.

“That's the five-minute bell!” said Carolyn, giving Julia a pat on the back. “You've got five minutes before the race starts.”

Julia smiled. “I know.”

Carolyn made her way over to the rest of the watchers, along with Devos. The Dark Chao and Julia glared daggers at they began to get into their airplanes. Finally, the Dark Chao spoke.

“Loser says `what?'.”

“What?” asked Julia, not able to understand what he said.

Julia shrugged it off and closed the plane's door, putting her hands on the wheel.

“RACERS, TURN YOUR PLANES ON!”

Julia made sure that her plane was on and looked back out the window.

“THREE, TWO, ONE, GO!”

Julia slammed her foot on the gas pedal and began to make her way across the runway. She looked over to her left and saw the black plane neck-and-neck with her.

“This is it…” she said as she felt the plane lift off the ground.

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“There they go.”

Neil looked into his binoculars to see Julia looking quite determined.

“And look at that…” said Skippy, pointing to the starting line.

Apparently, all the other racer's tails had fallen off.

“For shame,” said Raven, remembering the event with Julia.

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Julia noticed that she was 6500 feet in the air. Shrugging, she decided that that level of altitude would be perfectly fine.

Julia brought the plane up higher to see if she could get a view of the competing Dark Chao. No where in site, he was probably either above her or behind her.

She then noticed that the black plane had lowered itself in front of her… He had managed to get in front of her!

Gnarling her teeth and growling, she pressed on the gas pedal, slowly reaching 8000 feet. She tried to look out her windows to see any sign of black… but there wasn't any.

Until the plane pulled out in front of her once again.

“DAMMIT!” she shouted, not really meaning to swear. How could he keep getting ahead of her like that?

Trying to think of something else to do, she remembered what had happened in a TV show. Maybe she could bring the plane down somehow?

She smiled at the thought. YES! THERE HAD TO BE SOME! BOMBS! MISSILES! TURRETS!

Julia laughed a maniacal laugh as she wondered which button would release the bombs. Noticing a red button that said “BOOM” on it, she figured that that released an explosion of some sort. Pressing the button, she heard something being released from below.

She then noticed that her wheels had fallen off.

She knew it… The plane company was trying to trick her in some clever way.

Realizing that she was going to have to land with no wheels, she brought the plane up another 500 feet. She noticed the beginning of the finish runway approaching, and immediately she began to steer the plane down.

The altitude decreased bit by bit and the green grass approached closer and closer.

Then, she finally hit it. Due to the fact that there were no wheels on the plane, it skidded across the short grass, vibrating uncontrollably. Had Julia not had her seatbelt on, she would've hit the roof.

The plane skidded to a stop, and Julia realized in terror… SHE HADN'T COMPLETELY CROSSED THE FINISH LINE!!!

Julia panicked and began to hurriedly take off her seatbelt. After struggling, she managed to get it off and climbed out the airplane. She then began to haul her little Chao ass across the rest of the runway, the finish line only twenty yards ahead of her.

She heard the sound of an approaching plane and looked up in shock… THE BLACK PLANE WAS GETTING NEAR THE FINISH LINE!

Julia squinted as she increased her speed, knowing that she was going to have to dig it if she was going to cross the finish line in time.

She then heard the plane hit the ground, and she was suddenly swept off her feet. Opening her eyes, she noticed that somehow she was stuck to the nose of the plane! She was riding over to the finish line!

Thankful that the propellers were on the wings instead of on the nose, she smiled smugly as she crossed the finish line.

The Dark Chao stopped the plane, hopped out, and did a victory dance.

“I WON! I WON! I WON!” he shouted, doing a crazy dance.

However, he didn't notice that Julia was being carried off by a crowd, first place trophy in hand.

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Carolyn smiled smugly as she walked up to an enraged Devos, pissed off that the Hero Chao had managed to pull off that trick.

Carolyn stopped, looked at Devos, and said, rapidly, “Loser says `what'?”

“What?” asked Devos.

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That was a retarded chapter!

OK guys, from now on, things are going to get more and more serious. I'm going to have to add Drama into the subcategory, because it's going to be needed. Otherwise, I don't know how I would end the fic.

I hope you all enjoyed the Pointless Adventures, and I hope to see you in the last three chapters!