Puff Bananas
Puff Bananas
Klaus Schilling
Rating
PG-13
Disclaimer
iDon’t Own Victorious or any other of the shows or works of arts used for this story.
Abstract: Genres include
The story occurs in the identified universe of a huge variety of current or past live action shows produced for Nickelodeon channel, including, but not restricted to, Victorious, Zoey 101, The iCarly Show, Drake & Josh, How To Rock, Big Time Rush, Unfabulous, Ned’s Declassified School Survival Guide, True Jackson VP, Supah Ninjas, House Of Anubis, Just Jordan ... and makes heavy use of a variety of members of their casts.
The timeline starts during season one Zoey 101, after the Backpack episode. For Drake & Josh this coincides with the begin of season 3. Unfabulous/ and Ned’s Declassified School Survival Guide are in their early second season. No other show has yet started.
Quinn Pensky’s attempt of cultivating a mix between apples and bananas has been a plain failure, but she does not stop thinking about genetic engineering and crosses chili and bananas instead, resulting in puff bananas.
Thos fruits are both sweet and spicy, but they have got other drawbacks which Quinn can’t control on her own, such as destroying ecological equilibrium of the region.
Pairings include:
Acknowledgements
The story is written for LiveJournal-Community Tamingthemuse, prompt Strange Fruit.
Contents
Chapter 1 Pilot
1.1 Quinn Pensky
The red hot spring sun was burning up the Californian sierra and the coastal hill ranges, as if capable of melting the brains of the students of Pacific Coast Academy, the most illustrous and elitary boarding school of the county of Los Angeles, located down by the dreamy Pepperdyne beach of Malibu.
Many a plant was growing in that warm and fertile region, but most of them had not been there by nature. Migrants from everywhere had brought their seeds and offshoots along and planted into the readied soil.
Pacific Coast Academy was hosting its own botanical garden, well mainteined by the students, teachers, and the staff of the school. There was in particular a club responsible for that, but it was currently a bit poorly organised, letting many plants wither away into oblivion without getting noticed.
The teachers of Pacific Coast Academy - or so the board claimed in its fly papers and on the interweb homepage - were among the most competent and best paid of America, but this was not felt in the department of natural sciences, such as chemistry, biology, and physics, where they were not really able to motivate the kids.
The worst example of such a bad teacher was Bert Beringer 1 who did not even understnad half of the stuff he was trying to teach unto the kids, and he was unable to understand the smarter ones who were really interested in science. He had always wanted to work in a zoological garden instead of being a teacher, but it was easier to find a job as a teacher for biology and physics at Pacific Coast Academy than in that area.
Cynthia Bromwell 2 was more obsessed with the hair of her students than their understanding of science. This was especially the case with the capital shrub of one Chase Bartholomew Matthews, a middle school upperclassman.
Mr. Gangrel 3 was “responsible” for the laboratory classes of elementary and middle school kids, and accidents in his classes were not unusual because he loved neglecting his official duties and pushing the responsibility to selected students who were of course overburdenend.
With teachers like this, it was little wonder that ost students showed no interest in the wonders of science barring a few exceptionally gifted savant geeks who were way out of the league for anyone else, more knowledgeable at the age of ten than their teachers were at the age of forty.
The most eminent example of such a great nerd personalities among the students of Pacific Coast Academy was beyond any doubt one Quinn Pensky, a thirteen years old girl from Seattle that was now in her first year at this school, which also was the first year of coeducation at this formerly all-boys school, which meant also that girls had got an extra hard stance because of the established structures and prejudices.
For example, the captain of the school’s science club, Wayne “Fiew Wire” Gilbert, had excluded her from the club because of his irrational fears of girls in science, although he was of course very well aware of great historical examples such as Marie Curie, one of the eclatant pioneers of modern science, especially the discovery and research of radioactivuty.
This exclusion prevented Quinn Pensky from using te official laboratory rooms of Pacific Coast Academy for her research and her inventions who were known as “quinnventions”, confining her to the walls of her own dormitory room which she did not have to share with other girls, although - or so said the rules - the cells were planned for three students each. But girls were afraid of the nerd princess and avoided her at any cost, even though some of them hypocritically pretended to be her friend, such as Zoey Brooks, Nicole Bristow, and Dana Cruz, the nice or not-so-nice girls next door.
1.2 Banapples
During these weeks, Quinn was working on a revolutionary discovery in the world of botanics and genetic engineering by merging the DNA of two of her favourite fruits, the apple and the banana, into a new fruity species, the banapple. 4 She needed some dangerous and not easily available radioactive substances for that project, videlicet plutonium 5 which she purchased from a certain “Cal”, 6 a student at nearby Californian Institute For Technology who was the closest thing to Quinn’s mentor during most of her life here in California. By means of nuclear radiation, Quinn was finally able to modify the genetic structure of the trees.
In the beginning, the project had been looking quite promising, as the fruits were looking more mature from day to day with their smell becoming at the same time more fruity. Quinn had to defend the fruits against ravens with a scarecrow in her own likeness firing deadly laser beams, the base of many later inventions by Quinn Pensky. But now it was the moment of the moments: The fruits looked totally mature and smelled better than any hitherto beknownst fruits.
Quinn picked one of them, which basically looked like a banana with the skin colour of a reddish apple, and started peeling it slowly, anticipating the perfect swett taste of the fruit.
But what was that ... a drop of the juice of the fruit fell silently to the ground, causing some hissing sound upon the impact that made Quinn startle. She realised immediately that only a fairly strong acid was able to cause such an exothermal reaction with the minerals contained in the pavement, and that this acid must have been contained in the fruits. This meant that the banapples were by no means edible, but rather dangerous and certainly not a perfect meal between lunch and dinner.
There was no way around making the conclusion that Quinn’s attempt of creating the cross between a banana and an apple had failed miserably and it was impossible to follow the same track. But what would Quinn be up to doing, based on this not so encouraging experience, and what were the reasons for this untimely failure of a big hope? Would Quinn recognise the roots of the mistake and would she be able to pick up the same project again, or maybe it was even better to cross some different fruits? Or was she scared forever from messing with nature by means of genetic manipulations of whatever sort, be it plants, animals, or even humans?
1 Bert Beringer is a cameo in Zoey 101: Paige At PCA. 2 Cynthia Bromwell is a guest character from Zoey 101: Zoey’s Tutor. 3 Gangrel is a cameo in Zoey 101: Bad Girl. 4 Cf. Zoey 101: Backpack! 5 Quinn uses plutonium explicitly in Zoey 101: Disc Golf. 6 Cal is a guest character from The iCarly Show: iGo Nuclear. This document was translated from LATEX by HEVEA.
Klaus Schilling
Rating
PG-13
Disclaimer
iDon’t Own Victorious or any other of the shows or works of arts used for this story.
Abstract: Genres include
- Science Fiction
- Friends
- Family
- Mystery
- Family
- Fluff
- Angst
The story occurs in the identified universe of a huge variety of current or past live action shows produced for Nickelodeon channel, including, but not restricted to, Victorious, Zoey 101, The iCarly Show, Drake & Josh, How To Rock, Big Time Rush, Unfabulous, Ned’s Declassified School Survival Guide, True Jackson VP, Supah Ninjas, House Of Anubis, Just Jordan ... and makes heavy use of a variety of members of their casts.
The timeline starts during season one Zoey 101, after the Backpack episode. For Drake & Josh this coincides with the begin of season 3. Unfabulous/ and Ned’s Declassified School Survival Guide are in their early second season. No other show has yet started.
Quinn Pensky’s attempt of cultivating a mix between apples and bananas has been a plain failure, but she does not stop thinking about genetic engineering and crosses chili and bananas instead, resulting in puff bananas.
Thos fruits are both sweet and spicy, but they have got other drawbacks which Quinn can’t control on her own, such as destroying ecological equilibrium of the region.
Pairings include:
- Quinn Pensky / Eric Blonowitz
- Zoey Brooks / Olivary Biallo (from Zoey 101: School Dance)
- Nicole Bristow / Nicholas Webber (from Zoey 101: School Dance)
- Dana Cruz / Logan Reese
- Chase Bartholomew Matthews / Addie Singer
- Michael Barret / Wendy (from Drake & Josh: Number One Fan)
- Lola Martinez / Drake Parker
- Dustin Brooks / Megan Parker
- Wayne “Fire Wire” Gilbert / Mindy Crenshaw
- Coco Wexler / Walter Nichols
- Carl Rivers / Linda Hayfer
Acknowledgements
The story is written for LiveJournal-Community Tamingthemuse, prompt Strange Fruit.
Contents
Chapter 1 Pilot
1.1 Quinn Pensky
The red hot spring sun was burning up the Californian sierra and the coastal hill ranges, as if capable of melting the brains of the students of Pacific Coast Academy, the most illustrous and elitary boarding school of the county of Los Angeles, located down by the dreamy Pepperdyne beach of Malibu.
Many a plant was growing in that warm and fertile region, but most of them had not been there by nature. Migrants from everywhere had brought their seeds and offshoots along and planted into the readied soil.
Pacific Coast Academy was hosting its own botanical garden, well mainteined by the students, teachers, and the staff of the school. There was in particular a club responsible for that, but it was currently a bit poorly organised, letting many plants wither away into oblivion without getting noticed.
The teachers of Pacific Coast Academy - or so the board claimed in its fly papers and on the interweb homepage - were among the most competent and best paid of America, but this was not felt in the department of natural sciences, such as chemistry, biology, and physics, where they were not really able to motivate the kids.
The worst example of such a bad teacher was Bert Beringer 1 who did not even understnad half of the stuff he was trying to teach unto the kids, and he was unable to understand the smarter ones who were really interested in science. He had always wanted to work in a zoological garden instead of being a teacher, but it was easier to find a job as a teacher for biology and physics at Pacific Coast Academy than in that area.
Cynthia Bromwell 2 was more obsessed with the hair of her students than their understanding of science. This was especially the case with the capital shrub of one Chase Bartholomew Matthews, a middle school upperclassman.
Mr. Gangrel 3 was “responsible” for the laboratory classes of elementary and middle school kids, and accidents in his classes were not unusual because he loved neglecting his official duties and pushing the responsibility to selected students who were of course overburdenend.
With teachers like this, it was little wonder that ost students showed no interest in the wonders of science barring a few exceptionally gifted savant geeks who were way out of the league for anyone else, more knowledgeable at the age of ten than their teachers were at the age of forty.
The most eminent example of such a great nerd personalities among the students of Pacific Coast Academy was beyond any doubt one Quinn Pensky, a thirteen years old girl from Seattle that was now in her first year at this school, which also was the first year of coeducation at this formerly all-boys school, which meant also that girls had got an extra hard stance because of the established structures and prejudices.
For example, the captain of the school’s science club, Wayne “Fiew Wire” Gilbert, had excluded her from the club because of his irrational fears of girls in science, although he was of course very well aware of great historical examples such as Marie Curie, one of the eclatant pioneers of modern science, especially the discovery and research of radioactivuty.
This exclusion prevented Quinn Pensky from using te official laboratory rooms of Pacific Coast Academy for her research and her inventions who were known as “quinnventions”, confining her to the walls of her own dormitory room which she did not have to share with other girls, although - or so said the rules - the cells were planned for three students each. But girls were afraid of the nerd princess and avoided her at any cost, even though some of them hypocritically pretended to be her friend, such as Zoey Brooks, Nicole Bristow, and Dana Cruz, the nice or not-so-nice girls next door.
1.2 Banapples
During these weeks, Quinn was working on a revolutionary discovery in the world of botanics and genetic engineering by merging the DNA of two of her favourite fruits, the apple and the banana, into a new fruity species, the banapple. 4 She needed some dangerous and not easily available radioactive substances for that project, videlicet plutonium 5 which she purchased from a certain “Cal”, 6 a student at nearby Californian Institute For Technology who was the closest thing to Quinn’s mentor during most of her life here in California. By means of nuclear radiation, Quinn was finally able to modify the genetic structure of the trees.
In the beginning, the project had been looking quite promising, as the fruits were looking more mature from day to day with their smell becoming at the same time more fruity. Quinn had to defend the fruits against ravens with a scarecrow in her own likeness firing deadly laser beams, the base of many later inventions by Quinn Pensky. But now it was the moment of the moments: The fruits looked totally mature and smelled better than any hitherto beknownst fruits.
Quinn picked one of them, which basically looked like a banana with the skin colour of a reddish apple, and started peeling it slowly, anticipating the perfect swett taste of the fruit.
But what was that ... a drop of the juice of the fruit fell silently to the ground, causing some hissing sound upon the impact that made Quinn startle. She realised immediately that only a fairly strong acid was able to cause such an exothermal reaction with the minerals contained in the pavement, and that this acid must have been contained in the fruits. This meant that the banapples were by no means edible, but rather dangerous and certainly not a perfect meal between lunch and dinner.
There was no way around making the conclusion that Quinn’s attempt of creating the cross between a banana and an apple had failed miserably and it was impossible to follow the same track. But what would Quinn be up to doing, based on this not so encouraging experience, and what were the reasons for this untimely failure of a big hope? Would Quinn recognise the roots of the mistake and would she be able to pick up the same project again, or maybe it was even better to cross some different fruits? Or was she scared forever from messing with nature by means of genetic manipulations of whatever sort, be it plants, animals, or even humans?
1 Bert Beringer is a cameo in Zoey 101: Paige At PCA. 2 Cynthia Bromwell is a guest character from Zoey 101: Zoey’s Tutor. 3 Gangrel is a cameo in Zoey 101: Bad Girl. 4 Cf. Zoey 101: Backpack! 5 Quinn uses plutonium explicitly in Zoey 101: Disc Golf. 6 Cal is a guest character from The iCarly Show: iGo Nuclear. This document was translated from LATEX by HEVEA.