by Liz
Fighting fractions by moonlight
Challenging teachers by daylight
Reading Shakespeare at midnight
She is the one named Sailor Pi
She would never forget a math operation
Or the rules of heat condensation
Pi is the symbol for a new generation
She is the one named Sailor Pi
She is the one named Sailor Pi
She is the one
Sailor Pi!
"Now there's something you don't see everyday, eh?" Kenny said after watching Mark's film on the banana. Bizzie grinned.
"But how will we ever rescue them?" she asked, rather stupidly.
"I don't know," he replied, faintly annoyed.
"If only we could teleport too..."
"Hey, what's this?" Kenny picked up what appeared to be a black and white belt.
"Mark's jaunting belt!" she cried, "We can use this to jaunt!"
"But Bizzie, are you sure that just anyone can use one of those things?"
"Of course they can, Kenny, now put it on and go rescue them."
"All right, I'll just- hey wait a second!"
"What?"
"Why do I have to do this?"
"Fine, I'll do it."
"No, I will!" Kenny put the belt around his waist and waited. Birds chirped, the wind blew, and Kenny remained leaning against the tree. "Any time now!" Kenny yelled up into the air.
"Maybe you really do have to have a particular kind of power to use one of those."
"I guess. Any other ideas?"
"If only we were telepathic like Mark, we could contact him and he'd tell us how to get to wherever he is."
"Yeah, but since he doesn't have his belt, he can't jaunt back." Another moment of silence. Suddenly, Kenny had it. "Bizzie, if there's a way to combine the digits of pi into an attack, is there a way to sequence them in a formula for teleportation?"
"That would be so phat if we could." Kenny gasped.
"Bizzie, you've assimilated into the real world!" Bizzie didn't answer. Instead, she unwillingly stared at the banana she was holding and dug her nails into it. Kenny looked to see what Bizzie saw, but all he could see was a plain banana. "Bizzie?" He tapped her on the shoulder, but she remained stationary. "Great," he thought, "Flipped again." Just then, a blue light formed around Bizzie.
"Grab my hand!" she said, rather startling.
"Oh no," Kenny said, "Not until you get a decent pair of scissors and--" With that, Bizzie and the banana were gone. "Okay, fine!" Kenny shouted into the air, "I'll get you a pair of scissors!"
"Bizzie!" Hanni cried. On to Chapter 17
"Hanni! Mark! Arpiana!" Bizzie was overjoyed to see her friends.
"How'd you get here, Bizzie?" Mark asked her.
"I focused on the banana and recited pi backwards in my mind," she replied.
"Wow" exclaimed Arpiana, "My method of travel is much simpler."
"We're so glad you're here," said Hanni, "You still have your attacking powers. You can get us out."
"Yep, I can just-- hey, how'd you know I had powers?"
"Um, Biz, you just transported yourself using pi," said Mark.
"Okay, stand back everyone," Bizzie told them. "Transcendental formula--"
"Not so fast," boomed an unseen voice. Mark screamed when he heard the voice of his former roommate.
"What do you want?" Arpiana asked timidly.
"What rent?" asked Mark, defensively.
"This past year's rent which I let slide."
"Let slide? You said we were golden!"
"Rent, my amigos, is due- or I will have to evict you." By this time, everyone but Mark was extremely confused. Why did they owe Benny the Evil Landlord rent? They wanted to be evicted from the cell! "Ahem, let me make my self clearer," Benny said over the speaker. "You will all be my prisoners until my ex-roommate here pays his rent." Bizzie groaned. "Quiet, carrot top!" yelled Benny. At that moment, Arpiana could have sworn she saw a purple pi sign in each of Bizzie's eyes as she got more and more angry. Mark, used to Benny's cruelness, began to sing.
"How do you document real life when real life's getting more like fiction each day? Headlines, breadlines, blow my mind and now this deadline, eviction or pay..RE-"
"No one calls me carrot top!" Bizzie shouted, pushing Mark out of the way. "Thou wretched boy that did consort me here shall NOT with me hence! Transcendental equation activation!" The bars of the cell fell off as the walls of Benny the Evil Landlord's Evil Cyber Art Studio began to tremble. Quickly, Bizzie and her friends ran out.
"We're not gonna pay!" Mark shouted to the crumbling building once they were all safely outside.
"We're not gonna pay!" Arpiana yelled.
"We're not gonna pay!" called Bizzie and Hanni together.
"Last year's rent!" they sang together, as if on cue. "This year's rent! Next year's rent! Rent, rent rent, rent, rent! We're not gonna pay rent!"
"'Cause everything," Bizzie and Mark sang solefully, "Is rent."
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