It was a warm Spring afternoon in Greendale, and LJ and Zofia were getting ready for...school.

"I still don't see why we gotta go to Endsville Elementary for school, anyway," LJ remarked. "Most of the people there are either jerks, idiots, or somewhere in between."

"I don't understand it much either," Zofia said. "MOTHER?! Why do we have to go to Endsville?!"

"Because you go to school now!" Cherry called back as she made them some homemade lunches.

"That, I can understand, but Endsville?" Lionel asked. "That place is a cesspool of chaos and disaster!"

"It wasn't my idea." Cherry shrugged.

"Whose idea was it then?" Zofia asked.

"Heck if I know." LJ replied.

Cherry soon handed them their lunches with a small smile.

"Oh... Thanks," Zofia smiled. "Your food's the best."

"Definitely!" LJ nodded in agreement. "A ray of hope in a crappy school!"

"What can I say? I'm a big lump of motherly love." Cherry replied.

"And we're okay with that!" LJ and Zofia replied as they hugged their mother and father before heading out the door to meet up with their friends at the bus stop.

Cherry waved them off and soon closed the door as they had to get to school now.

Billy and Mandy looked over in confusion.

"What're you guys doing here?" Mandy asked.

"Waiting for the bus," LJ replied. "For some reason we're apparently attending Endsville Elementary now. That place makes Springfield Elementary look like Princeton University!"

"I thought Princeton was a clown college?" Billy randomly replied.

"This is why you're not allowed to say things, Billy." Mandy replied as she smacked him over the head.

"At least the rest of our group will be with us," LJ remarked. "That makes this a bit more bearable."

"Fair enough," Mandy replied. "Just stay out of my way if you know what's good for you."

"Are you still mad that Mother even scared you from her haunted house at our place last Halloween?" Zofia soon asked the blonde girl.

Mandy's eyes widened before she narrowed them. "That wasn't a fear," she then huffed. "I was just surprised."

LJ smirked. "Whatever ya say." he replied with a shrug.

"Oh, yeah," Zofia whispered to LJ. "She's scared of Mother."

LJ snickered under his breath as Kimberly, Chrissy, Gaz, Dib, Akito, and Estelle arrived.

"I thought you guys were home-schooled?" Zofia said to the Fudo twins.

"Dad said it might be interesting for us to accompany you." Estelle replied.

"Great," LJ replied. "We'll need plenty of allies for where we're headed."

"I'm sure we can handle it," Akito said. "We've been through so much."

"Good luck with that." Nergal Jr. replied as the bus pulled up.

They soon came onto the bus and looked around for places to sit as they made it on board. It seemed to be a bit of chaos on the bus already with students being a bit loud and rowdy, but that was just how kids were sometimes.

"Feels like a prison bus..." LJ commented as the bus drove on.

"I guess we can just try to make the most of it that we can." Zofia said to her brother.

"Good point," Kimberly replied. "Besides...looks like we're here."

They soon came to the school as it looked like it was about to rain.

"Ooh... It's rainy today... That's not so bad." Zofia smirked as she loved rainy days.

"I can take 'em or leave 'em." LJ replied as he took out a few umbrellas from his bag.

The students went inside of their school to get out of the rain and off of the bus. They entered Ms. Butterbean's class and took their seats. There was slight grunting heard. Everyone looked to the door as a school nurse was bringing in a young girl who appeared to be in a full body cast.

"Gosh, that looks painful." Gaz grimaced.

"And that's how I broke every bone in my body over Spring Break!" The girl explained.

LJ and Kimberly winced. Everyone else looked bored of that however.

"That's super, Carol," Ms. Butterbean muttered. "Anyone else wanna thrill us with their vacation exploits?"

"This lady makes Ms. Hoover look like Ms. Frizzle..." LJ remarked.

"Young man, do you have something to say?" Ms. Butterbean asked him.

"No...!" LJ replied with a smirk. "Not that you'd bother listening..."

Ms. Butterbean rolled her eyes.

"I had an awesome Spring Break vacation!" Billy beamed as he came to the front of the classroom. "You see, my best friend is the Grim Reaper, and we do all sorts of cool stuff together!" he then took out a bell to summon the skeleton himself to come meet his class. "Grim? Grim! I needs you!"

A portal opened and Grim stepped out, wearing a towel around his waist and holding a tub of ice cream.

"Consarn it, boy!" Grim snapped. "I told you not to interrupt me during MY time!"

"I didn't need to see that." Chrissy put her head in her hands, feeling awkward around Grim's appearance.

"We swim together, and we lurk in graveyards together, and sometimes, we hold hands to enjoy the peace and quiet of a summer day." Billy smiled.

"Billy, I am not a toy!" Grim glared at him. "You can't just summon me for no reason!"

"He's right," Ms. Butterbean replied. "The Grim Reaper was kinda cool the first five or six times, but now the magic's sorta worn off."

"Yeah, Billy, you almost bring me to school with you every day, and I know more about the Metric System than you do!" Grim told the boy.

"Oh, yeah?" Billy smirked. "Then what's the capital of the Metric System, hmm?"

"Moron..." Chrissy muttered.

"Billy, please sit down!" Ms. Butterbean told the boy. "We don't care about the Grim Reaper, the same way we don't care about Pud'n's uncle being an astronaut!"

"Toldja, kid." A man said, sitting next to the boy.

Pud'n pouted to the man.

"I still want my two bucks." The man then told him.

"I'm starting to wish I spent more of my vacation luring bees into your house." Mandy told Billy.

LJ rolled his eyes. Lightning flashed outside and a bunch of spiders seemed to crawl out onto Billy's desk which terrified him since he was afraid of spiders, and he jumped against Irwin.

"I hate spiders, that's why I carry this," Sperg said as he carried a hand vacuum and sucked up the spiders. "And I'm gonna get a bigger one to suck up wussies!" he then reversed the vacuum to release the spiders into Billy's mouth.

"Real mature, Sperg." Chrissy rolled her eyes.

Some of the other students laughed, but not Mandy being one of them, even if she enjoyed Billy's misery at times despite being good friends with him... At least that was how Billy described it.

"Ms. Butterbean, I think my bladder's gonna explode!" Pud'n cried out from his desk.

"Please go use the restroom this time, Pud'n." Ms. Butterbean told him.

"This is unbearable." LJ groused.

"Maybe you should go then," Sperg smirked. "I don't want any more weenies in this school!" he then came up to Chrissy, putting his arm around her.

"Get your hands off of me!" Chrissy glared, spraying her hairspray into his eyes like pepper spray.

LJ cackled at that. Throughout the school day, there seemed to be spiders everywhere, even well into lunch time.

It seemed very dark in the school with barely any lighting.

"This spider thing is getting out of hand," Mandy said. "Where are all these things coming from?"

Grim just shrugged to that as he was drinking his juice box.

"It's like an omen, yo," Irwin spoke up. "Arbitrager doom! It's like something's calling out to the spiders, yo! Telling them that this is their time, that the age of man is over, and it all starts with the age of the spiders!"

Mandy then flung mashed potatoes in his face which made Grim chuckle.

"Whatever." LJ shrugged as he began eating his lunch.

Billy soon smacked his lips. "All this talk of omens is making me thirsty; I think we better split up. I need to get me a second milk."

"Billy, aren't you afraid of spiders?" Estelle commented.

"Ah, that was just a phase." Billy replied casually.

The others looked to each other in doubt as Billy soon went to get himself some milk.

"Hmm... There must be a way to get rid of these spiders." Akito said, taking out his spell book from his backpack in case of emergency.

"Let's hope you can succeed," Chrissy replied nervously. "These things are getting on my nerves!"

"Chrissy, are you afraid of spiders too?" Estelle asked.

"Uh, no, I just want them to go away..." Chrissy crossed her arms.

"Same here!" Kimberly nodded.

Akito held out his right hand and soon summoned a bright blue light from the palm of his hand, making a giant fly swatter like The Green Lantern's powers and squashed some spiders.

"A fly swatter?" Chrissy deadpanned.

"I just wanted to test to see if the spell worked so I wanted to go with something simple first." Akito defended.

"Fair enough." LJ replied as he finished his lunch.

Estelle soon tried to do the same as her brother and a bright pink light came out as she brought out a giant butterfly net with the magical energy blast and then smirked as she chased some spiders, catching them with it. "This'll be easier than rounding up loose Twittermites with Aunt Fluttershy!"

"I guess..." Zofia shrugged.

Billy soon got some chocolate milk before seeing a web sling and held onto it before it whisked him up out of the cafeteria.

"Billy's gone!" Zofia called out before slanting her eyes. "Meh."

"Ah, well," LJ shrugged. "No big loss."