Convergence on Lawndale - Part 12

 

“Stacy?” the Doctor asked.

 

“Yes,” Quinn answered. “She reacted to the flicker in an unusual way.”

 

“What way?” the Doctor asked.

 

“Like she had felt something,” Quinn responded.

 

“I see,” Kaelyn said.

 

“She said that it wasn’t an ordinary flicker.”

 

“That could mean anything,” Kim said.

 

“True, but I can tell that she did pick something up,” Quinn said. “I probably woudn’t have noticed it if I hadn’t been travelling with the Doctor.”

 

“Did something happen?” Daria asked.

 

“Yes, but I’ll tell you later,” Quinn responded.

 

“Of course,” Daria said.

 

“So, we need to find Stacy,” Kim said. “So, where could she be?”

 

“She’s either in one of the bathrooms, or hiding somewhere in a courtyard,” Quinn answered.

 

“Either way, it would take a while to find her,” Daria said.

 

“We need to split up,” the Doctor said. “I’ll search the courtyards with Ron and Rufus, and everyone else can check the bathrooms.”

 

“Ron and I work best together,” Kim said. “But I agree, this time.”

 

“I would be best if there was a girl looking in the courtyards too,” Quinn said.

 

“Good point,” the Doctor said. “You can come with then.”

 

“Great!” Quinn said.

 

 

Thus Kim, Daria and Kaelyn went to search the bathrooms. “With our luck, It would probably be the last one,” Daria said.

 

“Probably,” Kim said. “But we have to be thorough.”

 

“Sarcastic, are you?” Kaelyn asked.

 

Daria nodded as they passed a classroom.

 

“The principal probably knows we’re sneaking about,” Kaelyn said.

 

“I notice the cameras. There are more than there are at Middleton,” Kim said.

 

“That was something I noticed when I started here,” Daria said. “The Principal seems intent on running the school with an iron fist.”

 

“I have heard something about it,” Kaelyn said. “But aren’t most principals like that?”

 

“More so than the principal at my last school,” Daria answered. “And he had more of a reason.”

 

“Where was this?” Kim asked.

 

“A dying town in Texas,” Daria responded. “I don’t want to say more.”

 

“No problem. I have been to many dying towns, tracking down villains who think they can hide there amongst the decay,” Kim said as they came up to one of the bathrooms.

 

 

They searched that particular bathroom, but Stacy wasn’t there. “How many bathrooms in this school?” Kim asked.

 

“About half a dozen,” Daria answered.

 

 

The Doctor, Quinn and Ron emerged into one of the courtyards. “Is she likely to be here?” the Doctor asked.

 

“Yes,” Quinn answered. “There’s no one place in the school that she likes to hang out in.”

 

“So, she could be anywhere?” Ron asked.

 

“Yes,” Quinn answered. “But we’ll find her if the others don’t.”

 

The Doctor waved the sonic screwdriver. “There are few people here.”

 

 

Quinn walked through the courtyard, then called Stacy’s name, but there wasn’t an answer. “There are few more courtyards.”

 

“Of course,” Ron said.

 

 

Daria, Kim and Kaelyn checked another two bathrooms. They met Brittany Taylor as she came out of the third one.

 

“I haven’t seen Stacy,” Brittany said as she twirled one of her pigtails.

 

“Then we’ll keep looking,” Kim said.

 

“Can I join you?” Brittany asked.

 

“Um, sure,” Daria said. “That’s Kim, and that’s Kaelyn.”

 

“Does it have something to do with that brownout earlier?” Brittany asked.

 

“Yes,” Kaelyn answered.

 

 

Quinn, the Doctor and Ron entered a third courtyard.

 

“There’s someone here,” the Doctor said as he examined the sonic’s output.

 

“I’ll approach them,” Quinn said. She went over and saw that it was Stacy, hiding beneath a tree.

 

“Quinn?” Stacy asked, with some trembling in her voice.

 

“Stacy, I know that something happened during that power flicker.”

 

“Yes, but it’s hard to explain!”

 

“You can take your time,” Quinn said.

 

“We don’t have all that much time,” the Doctor said.

 

“Who’s that?” Stacy asked.

 

“I told you about the Doctor before,” Quinn answered.

 

“That’s him?” Stacy asked. “But who’s that boy? Does he also travel with him?”

 

“I’m Ron. No I don’t travel with him. I help save the world with my friend, Kim Possible. You haven’t heard of her yet.”

 

“They come to Lawndale to investigate what’s going on,” the Doctor said.

 

“OK,” Stacy said. “It was the flicker, but I felt something strange too,” she began.