The Two of Clubs

''[Ronnie Anne and Sid are waiting outside the GLART for a train to appear. When it appears, they both get on it. Ronnie Anne gets to a seat first, and Sid follows her.]''

Ronnie Anne: "Oh, Sid, watch out for the--"

Sid: "Gum? Saw it."

''[Sid gives a peace sign then jumps over the gum. She then slips on a banana peel. Ronnie Anne catches her.]''

Ronnie Anne: "Banana. I was gonna say banana."

''[Sid takes the banana peel off of her shoe. She throws it to a man. The man yelps. The girls both sit down.]''

Ronnie Anne: "Hey, today's the day we have to pick an after-school activity. Did you figure out which one you're gonna sign up for?"

Sid: "Not yet. I had a little problem with the booklet." [Takes out what's left of said booklet.] "My mom brought home a baby alligator from the zoo."

Ronnie Anne: "It's okay, I've got mine," [Takes out her, soggy, booklet.] "It only has Lalo's slobber on it." [Wrings it out] "We should totally pick an activity that we can do together, I don't anything cutting down on our hang time."

Sid "Me neither. Do you realize if we don't do something together, we're gonna lose out on two hours of hang time a day?" [Shows a notebook] "That's 10 hours a week and 40 hours a month of not hanging out."

Ronnie Anne: "Well, that isn't going to happen. Let's see; Chess Club, Gardening, Introduction to Model Trains"

Stanley: "Oh, definitely model trains."

Ronnie Anne & Sid: "Huh?"

Stanley: "Hey girls, just overheard your convo, go with trains, they're literally tons of fun. Choo-choo!" [Returns to the controls, making more train noises.] "All aboard!"

Sid: "Thanks Dad, we'll take it into consideration."

Mrs. Kernicky: "What about gymnastics?" [Lowers the newspaper she's reading.] "it's a great activity, and you can do it anywhere." [Grabs the handles above her, and dismounts with numerous backflips into a split; to the family in front of her.] "Ta-da!"

[The girl and mother give her a ten, but the baby gives seven and a half.]

Sid: "Thanks for the suggestion, Mrs. Kernicky." [Whispers to Ronnie Anne] "Is there anybody we don't know on this train?"

Sergio: [Who's sitting right next to them, wearing a hat, and reading a newspaper; squawks.] "Yeah, tell me about it." [Takes a briefcase and flies off, the girls get up.]

Ronnie Anne: "Hmm, Intro to Balloon Animals, Arc Welding," [turns the page] "No way, Lucha Libre? What do you think? Could that be our after school activity?"

Sid: "Yes! I mean, whenever I've watched it with you, it looks pretty cool, let's do it."

Mrs. Kernicky: [Offscreen] "Uh, a little help."

[Slides over to the girls, stuck in her split.]

[Later that day, the girls enter the Lucha Libre Club.]

Ronnie Anne: "This looks awesome!" [Runs to the box of masks, and takes two out.] "Here, let's be green," [Puts her mask on] "that way we can be on the same team."

Sid: [Puts her mask on] "Sweet! Now, what are our character's backstories? Ooh, how about this? Since we're green, we can be radioactive booger-people."

[Ronnie Anne laughs at that.]

Artemis: "You guys wanna wrestle? Me and Becky against you two."

Sid: "Sure, what are the rules?"

[Becky and Artemis laugh, and the girls look at each other.]

Becky: [Puts her mask on; threateningly.] "There are no rules."

''[Becky grabs the girls and flings them into the ring. Ronnie Anne rolls and is fine, but Sid bounces, dazed.]''

Sid: [As their opponents enter the ring.] "So, what's your characters backstory? Are you both Aztec warriors lost in time? Or oranges who escaped from the juice factory?"

Becky: [Intensely] "Less talking! More wrestling!"

Sid: "Okay, ooh, you know what I like?" [Wiggles her thumb] "Thumb wrestling."

[Becky elbow drops Sid, and a fight cloud emerges, it dissipates revealing Becky sitting on a dazed Sid, Ronnie Anne pulls her friend away.]

Ronnie Anne: "Alright, here's the plan, you lure them oner here, and I'll jump off the ropes and pin 'em."

Sid: "But, won't that make them mad?"

Ronnie Anne: "Don't worry about it we can take 'em. Just channel your aggression." [Sid tries to rile herself up.] "Come on you can do it. What makes you angry?" [Shakes her] "Tap into your tough side."

[Sid tries to do that, when suddenly she sees something that she likes.]

Sid: "Ooh, a butterfly." [A butterfly flutters past and Sid starts chasing it, giggling.]

Ronnie Anne: "Sid wait." [Just then, Artemis and Becky attack Ronnie Anne, another fight cloud emerges, Sid runs past, still chasing the butterfly, and the cloud ceases; Ronnie Anne has Artemis pinned, and Becky, who's eating Ronnie Anne's jacket, goes after Sid.] "Sid! Look out!"

[Sid has the butterfly on her finger, and doesn't see Becky behind her, she turns around when she hears Becky yell, and yells in fear, Becky body slams Sid, and Sid goes flying, screaming right out of the ring, and eventually lands.]

Ronnie Anne gasps and goes after Sid, while Artemis is now dazed and falls over.]

Ronnie Anne: "Sid! Where are you?!" [She finds Sid cowering under the caller's table.] "You're not having fun are you?"

Sid: "No, no, this is what radioactive booger-people do, they hide."

[Goes under the table, but Ronnie Anne lifts the cloth.]

Ronnie Anne: "It's okay Sid, maybe Lucha isn't your thing."

Sid: "Sorry, I know how much you like it."

Ronnie Anne: "Don't worry, we'll find another club we can do together, one that we both love."

Sid: "Thanks buddy."

[They walk out, arms around each other, Artemis and Becky wave goodbye.]

Becky: "See you guys in algebra!"

[Ronnie Anne takes the booklet out of her locker.]

Ronnie Anne: "Let's see, Drama, Jewellery, Robotics, Wood Shop..."

Sid: "Woah, wait, robotics? We have to," [seriously] "I'm not taking no for an answer." [Looks at Ronnie Anne, and starts begging.] "Can we Ronnie Anne? Can we please?"

Ronnie Anne: "Sounds like fun, let's check it out."

Laird: [Comes up to them, covered in arrows.] "Hey Ronnie Anne, can I borrow your book if you're done? Archery club was definitely not for me."

Ronnie Anne: [Gives it to him] "Sure Laird."

Sid: "If you're thinking of trying lucha libre, watch out for Becky."

[In Robotics Club, everyone is building and coding.]

Sid: "This breakfast bot is gonna cook everything; eggs, bacon, toast, pancakes. How's your robot coming?"

Ronnie Anne: [Who's standing next to a pile of parts and holding a spring and a bolt.] "Good, I've finally figured out that this piece, attaches to this piece." [Puts the spring over the bolt thread, and the spring hits her in the face.] "Ouch."

Sid: "I have a great idea, why don't you help me with my breakfast bot?"

Ronnie Anne: "Yeah, let's do that, I'm starving anyway."

Sid: "I'm almost done, can you connect the eye sensor to the servo motor?"

Ronnie Anne: "You know it." [Works on the hardware and closes the panel.] "Okay, all set."

Sid: [Finishes wiring the remote, and gives it to Ronnie Anne.] "Alright! Who's ready for breakfast?"

[Ronnie Anne turns the bot on.]

Breakfast Bot: "Breakfast is the most important meal of the day."

Ronnie Anne: "How 'bout we start with some hash browns?"

[The bot's lights go off, it then opens it's compartment, where a raw egg falls out and breaks on the desk.]

Sid: "Are you sure you connected that right?"

Ronnie Anne: "I'm like eighty percent sure, or maybe sixty." [Awkwardly laughs]

Sid: "Hmm, maybe you better turn it off so I can check it out."

[Ronnie Anne presses a button on the remote, and Breakfast Bot goes crazy.]

Breakfast Bot: "Time or breakfast." [Takes off] "Time for breakfast." [Flips another robot with it's spatula hand, and pats it down like a pancake.] "Time for breakfast. Time for breakfast." [Mixes another robot wit it's whisk hand.] "Time for breakfast. Time for breakfast. Time for breakfast. Time for breakfast." [Swaps it's kitchen tool hands for pancakes and syrup and starts flinging breakfast all over the room.] "Time for breakfast. Time for breakfast. Time for breakfast. Time for breakfast. Time for breakfast. Time for breakfast."

''[Sid hits the emergency shut off, and the robot powers down. Sid ends up with an egg and bacon and pancake smiley face, which falls off, revealing her despondent face. Ronnie Anne in hiding behind their work station.]''

Ronnie Anne: "Psst, is everyone mad at be."

Sid: [Sees everyone surrounding them, angry, and hides with Ronnie Anne.] "No, but, robotics might not be your thing."

Ronnie Anne: "No, I can make this work, how 'about I just watch from under here and never touch any of the robots?"

Sid: "Or we could just find another club."

Ronnie Anne: "But you love robotics."

Sid: "Yeah, but I'd rather find another activity than lose ten hours a week of quality hang time."

Ronnie Anne: "Oh, definitely, we can not lose hang time."

Sid: "Okay there's lots of other clubs we can try, the most important thing right now is, that we leave immediately."

[The girls run out and the other club members throw tools and machine parts at them, and one throws their bot on the ground.]

[Later, the girls are in Pottery Club.]

Ronnie Anne: "Pottery is kinda awesome, I'm going to make a new dog dish for Lalo."

Sid: [Unsure what to do.] "Hmm, I think I'm gonna love it too, if I could just find the on button for this thing."

Ronnie Anne: "You have to step on the foot pedal."

[Sid does so, but too hard, and the table spins too fast, the girls, seeing where this is going, duck in cover, and Sid's clay splatters all over Laird.]

Sid: "Sorry Laird."

Laird: "It's okay." [Falls over]

Ronnie Anne: "Maybe this club isn't for us."

[Next, they try Knitting Club.]

Sid: "This is so much better than pottery." [Shows the Yoon Kwan sweater she's making.]

Ronnie Anne: [Who tied herself up in yarn.] "Yeah, so much better." [She tries to get the yarn off, and accidentally flings her needles into Laird's hair, Laird passes out.] "Let's try another club." [Next they try Cooking Club.] "Today's recipe is preparing calamari, step one, pick out your squid."

Sid: [Picks up a large squid] "Here's a whopper."

[Suddenly the squid squirts Sid in the face with ink.]

Ronnie Anne: "Woah!" [Grabs the squid]

Sid: "Ah! Squid ink. Blech"

''[The squid clings to her face, and she screams. Ronnie Anne pulls it off, they fiddle around trying to catch it, and eventually do.]''

Ronnie Anne & Sid: "I got him."

[The squid inks again, covering Laird.]

Laird: [Wipes the ink off his face.] "I miss being homeschooled."

[On the subway home, Ronnie Anne crosses the last club off the list.]

Ronnie Anne: "Well, we tried every club the school has to offer."

Stanley: "Even Model Train Club?"

Sid: "It was cancelled due to lack of interest Dad."

Stanley: [Aghast] "What!" [Goes into the cab, abruptly stops the train, and makes an announcement on the intercom.] "Attention everyone, this train is out of service, your conductor, needs to walk this off, chugga-chugga choo choo."

[Everyone groans at this.]

Ronnie Anne: "Can he do that?"

Sid: "Oh yeah, it's not the first time."

[Eventually, the girls make it back to the building, still sad.]

Ronnie Anne: "Listen Sid, I know we really wanted to do our after school activity together, but we're out of time, we have to pick by tomorrow."

Sid: "I know, I don't wanna say it but maybe you should go back to where you were happy; the Lucha Libre Club."

Ronnie Anne: [Stops] "You mean without you?"

Sid: "What other choice do we have?"

Ronnie Anne: "Yeah, maybe you're right, and maybe you should just do the thing that made you happy; Robotics Club." [Black fluids start pouring from Sid's eyes.] "Awe, buddy, are you crying?"

Sid: "Nope, that's just from the squid ink, but I am sad."

Ronnie Anne: "I know, me too."

''[That night, Ronnie Anne is in her bed, looking through the pictures in her phone, one of her and Sid in Cooking Club, then Knitting Club, she laughs at it, and then Robotics Club, she smiles. Right upstairs, Sid is doing the same thing, looking at the pictures of her and Ronnie Anne in Cooking Club, Pottery Club, which she too laughs at, and finally Lucha Libre Club, Sid also smiles.]''

[The next day, Sid returns to Lucha Libre Club, with her radioactive booger-person mask.]

Sid: "All right, you goons! It's time for a rematch."

[Charges at Artemis.]

Artemis: "Oh hey, I thought you guys quit."

Sid: "Well, you thought wrong my orange friend." [Raises her mask, and realizes something.] "Wait, where's Ronnie Anne?"

Artemis: "She's not here, but, let me go get Becky."

[Becky, meanwhile, has a purple girl in a headlock.]

Student: "Ah! Help me!"

[Becky pulls her away.]

Sid: [Nervously laughs] "That's okay, I have to go." [Puts her mask back on] "Tell Becky I said hi."

''[Sid leaves. Meanwhile at Robotics Club.]''

Ronnie Anne: [Nervous] "Hey guys, heh heh, look who's back."

[Everyone grabs their robots in fear.]

Breakfast Bot: [Remembers it's creator.] "Mother, you came back."

[Offers Ronnie Anne a heart shaped pancake, but gets yanked away.]

Robotics Kid: "What do you want?"

Ronnie Anne: "Just looking for Sid."

Robotics Kid: "She's not here. Remember? You guys quit."

Ronnie Anne: "Ah, sorry, I thought Sid would be here, thanks."

[Ronnie Anne runs out.]

Breakfast Bot: [Comes to the door.] "Wait! You haven't had breakfast."

''[Shoots Ronnie Anne a bagel, she pops it in her mouth and continues running through the halls, she looks around. Meanwhile Sid is doing the same thing. There's a split screen of them looking for each other, until they run right into each other.]''

Ronnie Anne:: "Sid?"

Sid: [Takes off the mask.] "Yes?"

Ronnie Anne and Sid: I wanna join your club!

[They are shocked after they said that.]

Ronnie Anne: "I really don't care what we do, as long we do it together."

Sid: "Me too."

[They hug each other.]

Ronnie Anne: "So let's go to Robotics Club, I'm totally gonna try harder."

Sid: [Shakes her head] "Nope, I've already got the mask, let's go back to Lucha Libre."

Ronnie Anne: [Throws the mask away.] "No way, we're doing robotics."

Breakfast Bot: [Comes up to it's creators.] "Toast is ready."

[The bot, who's wearing the radioactive booger-person mask, pops buttered toast into the floor, the girls laugh.]

Laird: [Amazed by the bot] "Oh, wow, are you guys starting some sort, of Lucha Libre Robotics Club?"

Ronnie Anne: [In unison] "What?"

Sid: [In unison] "No."

[Suddenly they get an idea.]

Ronnie Anne: "I mean, yes, yes, we are starting a Lucha Libre Robotics Club."

Sid: "And We're totally gonna do it together."

[Later, Sid powers up her robot, and looks at Ronnie Anne.]

Ronnie Anne: "Okay Laird! You can start the match!"

Laird: [Gives thumbs up] "Alright bots! I want a good clean battle, no hitting below the fan belt."

[Breakfast Bot is ready, and so is Ronnie Anne's new bot.]

Ronnie Anne: "Woohoo! Let's do this! I'm gonna take you down Sid."

Sid: "Come at me bro."

[The robots battle, when suddenly Becky appears.]

Becky: "Hey! Can I join this club?"

Ronnie Anne: "Yeah."

Sid: "Of course."

[Becky enters the ring and puts her mask on, does a battle cry, and charges into the fight, a few punching sounds and machine parts are flying everywhere, Laird gets thrown next to where Ronnie Anne and Sid are.]

Laird: [Dazed] "My money's on Becky."

[The girls laugh.]