"5 Mics"

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“5 Mics”

PART I
A gray, rundown, three-story building sat in the midst of other old and dilapidated buildings. The windows in the building had been sealed by bricks and there was only one door that was located in the back. From the outside, one would think that this building was just a condemned warehouse. But, the inside told a totally different story.

Everything on the inside was immaculate. Every wall was mirrored and the furniture was fit for a king. The sleeping/kitchen quarters and garage were located on the bottom floor along with a hidden trap door that went down under the ground into a tunnel. The tunnel lead the way to the next set of buildings for a safe, easy escape just in case something ever went down. On the second floor was a state-of-the-art recording studio that doubled as a secret weapon. Located on the top floor was the recreational area. Security camera monitors were also located in each room. They showed everything that went on outside within a 5-mile radius. And of course, there was a bathroom on every floor.

Our singing crusaders, Dru Hill AKA The 5 Mics were relaxing on the top floor. Nokio and Sisqo were playing a video game while Jazz, Scola, and Woody played pool. Little did they know that they would be called on for one of the most important missions of their lives.

“F*** yeah! I blew yo’ @** up again!”, Nokio shouted as he threw his controller on the floor to hold his arms up in victory.

“Man, my d*** controller ain’t workin’ right!”, Sisqo pouted as he checked it out.

Jazz threw his two cents in and laughed, “Aww, stop cryin’ and take yo’ @** whoopin’ like a man!”

“I don’t remember askin’ yo’ happy @** nuthin’!”, Sisqo replied giving him the finger.

“You betta save that for one uh yo’ tricks!”, Jazz snapped back.

Nokio was lying on the floor by this time, cracking up. “We go through this ev’rytime you play, man. Face it, yo’ controller ain’t broke; you just ain’t s*** at this game!”, he laughed.

Sisqo shouted, “F*** you! I can’t stand playin’ this d*** game wit’chu no way!”

“S***! Will yall stop?! I’m tryna concentrate!”, Scola shouted as he was taking his shot.

“If they did, you know something would be wrong”, Woody replied as he leaned up against the wall awaiting his turn at the pool table.

“Silence! I need for you all to listen, as I have a very important job for you to do!”

The guys stopped what they were doing and looked up to see their mentor, The Legend, appear on the main security monitor. Well, he didn’t really appear. The only thing they ever saw was The Legend’s mouth as he talked.

“Here we go!”, Sisqo mumbled while rolling his eyes.

“W’sup, Legend?”, Jazz asked with a puzzled look on his face.

“It seems that our enemy, D-Pimp, is recruiting a gang of no-talent punks to try to take over the world with their music. All music listeners’ ears are counting on you to take these bustas down! I’m also sending a new recruit that will be a part of your team. She has been well-trained to defend herself as well as you all against any enemies that you will most definitely come across while completing this mission.”

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“She?”, Sisqo asked with a frown, now paying close attention.

“Yeah, she! You got a problem with that?!”, a female voice asked.

The guys looked up and saw a petite version of a Queen Latifah meets Pam Grier type of woman walking into the room. She was dressed in a black leather jacket, a black low-cut blouse, black leather gloves, blue jeans, black platform boots, large gold hoop earrings, and a large updated auburn-colored ‘fro full of small ringlets. On her eyes, she wore a pair of black shades.

“What the fuh…?! How the he!! did you get in here?!”, Nokio shouted as he glared at her. “We don’t need yo’ ‘Set If Off’ @** up in here! Legend what the he!! is goin’ on!?!!!” He whirled back around to look at the security monitor.

“Look here! I’ve been asked to help you out, but if this is the thanks that I get, I’ll take my @** on back home!!!”, she said as she smacked on her gum and snatched her shades off.

“Enough! Both of you!”, The Legend’s voice boomed. “Nokio, she has gone through extensive training in order to work with you all! Once she proved herself worthy to me, she was given the code to get in.”

“Yeah, but we ain’t neva had to use a female before!”, Scola protested.

“That’s because this mission is different. A female is needed in order to distract the enemies.”, she said rolling her eyes at him.

“Well, it still ain’t right!”, Jazz replied.

“I’m sorry that you feel this way, but this is how it will be until the mission is completed. So, I suggest that you all get to know her and get along because you will be working as a team to bring the enemies down! Now, get a good night’s rest because your mission will start tomorrow. Until then…”, The Legend vanished.

“I don’t f****n’ believe this!”, Jazz mumbled shaking his head.

“We gotta pay mo’ attention to these d*** monitors!”, Sisqo threw in.

“So, you got a name?”, Woody asked looking the woman over.

“Yeah, it’s Deja.” When no one else said anything, she broke the silence.

“Oh well…”, she replied shrugging her shoulders. “I guess it’s nice to meet you all. So where do I sleep at? I’m tired.”

“Yo’ @** ain’t sleepin’ nowhere, yet.”, Sisqo said sneaking a quick peek at her “twins”. “You have one mo’ test to complete for us before you can be a part of this team!”

“What the he!! you mean by that? I was told that I completed everything satisfactorily! So you can gon’ with all that!”, she replied, giving him a “don’t mess with me” look.

“That’s how it works ‘round here, boo!”, Jazz spat as he walked over and stood in front of her.

Deja walked past him and the others and sat down on the couch, crossing her arms and legs. “I wonda’ if this is a part of the training that The Legend didn’t tell me about?”, she pondered to herself. After sitting for about 5 minutes with all eyes on her, she gave in.

“Aight, what yall need me to do?”

“This way!”, Nokio said with a frown pointing to the elevator.

“You wanna elaborate on that? ‘Cuz I ain’t movin’ until I know what I gotta do?”, she said still sitting on the couch.

“Look, we ain’t got all night! Now either you gon’ do this or you goin’ back where you came from!!! D***! That’s why we don’t need no female messin’ us up!”

“What did you say?!”, she asked rising up off the couch ready to handle her business if she had to.

“Look, just c’mon!”, Sisqo said getting irritated.

“Man…! Yall just don’t know!”, she said walking with them to the elevator. There was a deadly silence on the way down to the second floor.

“What’s this place?”, she asked as they walked into the studio.

No one said a word until Scola thrusts some headphones at her and said, “Here! Put these on! You gotta show what you got in order to hang with us!”

“Oh sh!t! That ain’t no problem!”, she said as she took off her jacket and gloves and slipped the headphones on.

He rolled his eyes as he walked away from her. “Yeah, whateva!”

“I think you’re cute too, papi!”, she said throwing him a kiss after removing her gum and rolling it up in it’s wrapper.

He slammed the door behind him and went over to the other side of the studio with the guys to see what she had to offer.

“Man, I would love to meet her ‘friends’ that she’s brought along”, Scola whispered to them as he threw a quick glance Deja's way.

“That’s what I’m sayin’!”, Sisqo laughed as he gave him a pound. “The light is hittin’ ‘em juss right!”

Meanwhile, Deja was mentally preparing herself for the test. Suddenly, she heard the instrumental of Sisqo’s “Your Love Is Incredible” playing in the headphones as she stood at the mic.

“This is my song!”, she happily screamed aloud to herself.

“Umm…we’re waiting!”, Woody shouted into the mic looking at her through the other side of the glass.

“Aight, d***!” She closed her eyes as she rolled them at the guys. Rocking from side to side, she went for it while holding onto the headphones with one hand and waving her other hand furiously to the beat:

“Comin’ through is the big-hipped chick/That can take up to a mile uh, ugghhh/And even though I’m more than s***al/Still what I got is edible/So when you go down and t***e the, ugghhh/Take it slow ‘cuz I like it like that/And juss when you think that I want you to stop/I’ma flip the script and get on top…”

The guys decided that they had heard enough. Or maybe they were getting a little hot and bothered by her rap. Nokio started scratching his neck while blushing something awful and Jazz gave Woody a surprised look. Woody took a seat trying not to smile.

“D***, girl!”, Scola mumbled as he looked downward, tugging on his bandana.

“Cut…cut…cut! You in!”, Sisqo laughed into the mic when he stopped the music. He was waving his arms in the air with a humongous grin on his face.

“But I’m not finished!”, Deja replied with disappointment.

“Yes, you are!”, Nokio barked into the mic. “And so am I!”, he thought to himself. With a sly look, he turned back around to look at the guys. He took a deep breath and pretended to wipe sweat from his brow. They all laughed.

“Well, if you say so.”, she said as she pulled the headphones off. “Now, if you all don’t mind…I would like to take a shower and turn in for the night; so where do I sleep?”

“Umm, the sleepin’ quarters for us are downstairs. We only have 5 bedrooms.”, Jazz said pointing to himself and the guys. “Since, Legend, didn’t let us know ahead uh time that we would have company for a while…I guess you’ll have to bunk with one uh us.” A slow grin spread across his face.

“Come again?!”, she asked raising her eyebrows at Jazz.

“S***! That ain’t no problem…I need my rest anyway!”, Scola chuckled giving her a wink. He still had her last test on his mind.

“And so do I, ya nasty buzzard, but it won’t be because of you more than likely just getting yours!!!”

“Aw for cryin’ out loud! You can take my room until we figure something out! I’ll sleep on the couch upstairs!”, Nokio said with frustration, as he stomped over to the elevator.

“Thanks a lot!”, Deja said sarcastically. “But I wouldn’t want to put you through any trouble!”

“No f****n’ trouble at all!”, he replied as they all went down to the bottom floor.

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Nokio grabbed some things that he needed from his room to settle in for the night while Deja was in the shower.

After her shower, Deja was walking down the hall to Nokio’s room, when she ran across Jazz who was on his way to the bathroom.

“D***, it’s about time that you got outta there!”, he exclaimed.

“You know what, f*** you.”, Deja calmly stated as she continued to walk past him. He couldn’t help but notice the fresh scent of cocoa butter that she left behind.

He didn’t respond. Instead he chuckled as he watched her walking away. He thought to himself how her extra pounds seemed to have hit her in all the right places. Her long, blue silk robe that she had on was clinging extra tight to her booty.

Scola was on his way to the kitchen to get him something to drink when he walked over to Jazz and laughed, “Think you can handle that ba-donk-a-donk-donk?”

Jazz joined in with Scola’s laughter, but they didn’t know Deja heard them until she turned back around and started dancing.

“Take my thong off and my tail go ughhh/Cut the lights on so you see what I can do.” Then she followed up with, “That is if either of you COULD handle it! Psshhhhttt!” She waved her hand at them and turned around and started walking again.

“She got too much d*** mouf, but then that’s not a bad thang!”, Jazz whispered before going into the bathroom. Scola took one more look at her before walking into the kitchen.

“It’s all yours!”, Nokio stated as he bowed when Deja reached his room.

“Gee, thanks!” She rolled her eyes at him as she walked inside.

When she closed the door, she thought out loud, “One thing I can say…he’s got class when it comes to this room.” She was admiring the black and red satin sheets on his king-size waterbed that were covered with huge black and red satin pillows. On the shiny, wooden floor lay a black oriental rug with a red dragon in the middle of it. Everything else in the room from the floor lamps to the night table and dresser was black.

Deja turned on his radio as she was going through his CD collection when Koffee Brown’s “Afterparty” came on.

“Oh s***!!!” She was no longer tired. She turned up the volume, ripped off her robe and danced smoothly to the song. She was loudly singing along to the chorus until there was a loud knock at the door.

“Man…hold on!” She threw on her robe before cracking the door open.

Nokio and the guys were standing there.

Sisqo had a small smile on his face. “D***! Can we join the party?”

Ignoring Sisqo’s comment, she asked, “Somethin’ I can do for ya?”

Nokio smirked at her question.

“Well…?!”, Deja asked impatiently.

“Oh yeah, ummm, look…we were juss stoppin’ by to apologize for the way we were actin’ earlier tonight. We juss not used to workin’ with a shawty.”

“Yeah, well, thanks a lot! But no need to apologize, I can handle my own! Besides I know you don’t mean it!” She was about to close the door in their faces, but Nokio blocked it with his foot.

“The f*** you mean we don’t mean it?! If we didn’t, we wouldn’t have bothered to come to ‘MY ROOM’ to do it!”, he shouted pointing to himself.

She couldn’t help from laughing at what he said. “Okay, you’re right and this time, I apologize. I guess you’re juss tryin’ to make the situation comfortable for ev’rybody to deal with. I really appreciate yo’ lettin’ me sleep in yo’ room. I know this is an inconvenience for us all with my bein’ here and ev’rything.”

“Yeah, it really is. But anyway, you have a good night!”, he said with a frown, walking away from the door.

“Thanks! You too sweetie! That goes for the rest of yall too!”

“Yeah, yeah.”, Woody and Jazz mumbled as they were walking away. Scola just sucked his teeth as he walked away with them.

Sisqo stayed behind. With a devilish look in his eye and a lick of his lips, he stepped up closer to Deja and whispered, “Any chance of a good night hug, ma?”

“Well, I dunno. Lemme sleep on it, and I’ll get back to ya!” She closed and locked the door. She began to go through Nokio’s CD collection again and decided to play Mary J’s “Share My World”. After putting her favorite track, “Know You Better”, on repeat she turned the lamps off, climbed under the sheets and quickly fell asleep.
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D-Pimp had a group of no-talent rejects standing before him in a straight line.
There was a group of 4 guys who looked like a broke-@** version of The Boys. They tried to look older than they appeared even though it wasn’t quite working out that way. They called themselves Up2NoGood. Their job would be to have both young and too-old females falling for them and their sound.

Also in the line-up was a group of 4 females who called themselves The Supreme Ones. They looked like a rip-off version of En Vogue. Their job was to not only sing, which they couldn’t, but to also be The 5 Mics weaknesses. What The 5 Mics and Legend didn’t know was that D-Pimp had become clever and added 3 new replacements to their group. His purpose for doing this was to throw his enemies off course.

“Aight, listen up! I’m yo’ new leader and from now on, you’ll do as I say! Starting the day after tomorrow, we’re gonna go on a world tour to take over! We’re gonna take the place of The 5 Mics once and for all!!!”, D-Pimp barked as he paced back and forth in front of them. He stopped in front of the lead singer of The Supreme Ones, Natalie. She was tall and shapely with a terrible, blonde weave. Her weave closely resembled broomstraw. She was also D-Pimp’s on-again, off-again girl. “Now, word is that The 5 Mics have a new member on their team who happens to be female. You have an additional job which will be to take her out if you have to!”

“Oh anything for you, suga!”, she gushed with a large smile.

“Aight! Now, leave! But be back bright and early tomorrow morning at 9 sharp! We have a lot of rehearsing to do before we head out!”

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“Yo, where’s our new partna’?”, Jazz asked as he sat down at the kitchen table with the guys for breakfast.

“I dunno; maybe she decided to leave?”, Woody replied with a chuckle.

“Nah, I think she’s still sleepin’. I’ll go wake her up!”, Scola said with a sneaky grin as he sprinted out the kitchen.

“You think you slick, n****!”, Sisqo laughed.

When Scola reached Nokio’s door, he knocked loudly a few times. When no one answered, he cracked the door open and saw Deja sleeping soundly on her stomach with a pillow over her head. She had forgot to lock the door when she came back from the bathroom earlier that morning. He walked over to a lamp and turned it on.

Deja was having a sexy dream about Method Man when she felt a hard hit on the side of her thigh. At first, she thought it was a part of the dream. She didn’t budge. Instead, she giggled and mumbled something that Scola couldn’t understand. She felt another hit in the same spot.

“Yo’ wake up! We’re havin’ breakfast and we need to wait for our instructions from Legend!”

She turned over and saw Scola standing over her. He had a small grin on his face trying to hold in his laughter. She admitted to herself that he was too d*** fine like her other roommates, but that didn’t stop her from despising them.

“N****, what the he!! is yo’ problem?! Don’t be doin’ no s*** like that!”. she yelled rubbing her stinging thigh as she sat up in the bed. “What time is it?!”

“It’s 8:15 so rise and shine, De’!” This time he snatched the sheets off of her.

“Do you f****n’ mind?!”, she shrieked trying to pull the sheets back up. But it was too late. Her t-shirt was up around her waist and Scola got a glimpse of her healthy thigh that had turned bright red from where he had hit her. He also noticed a tattoo of two large evil eyes with the statement, “Watch It!” underneath them right above the bright red area.

“Naw, I don’t mind!”, he replied with a grin. “Now c’mon and get up!”

“Get the f*** out!” She threw a pillow at him that barely missed the back of his head as he ran out the room.

“I don’t know if this is gonna work out! I’d rather go stay with the L.A. cast of ‘The Real World’”, she mumbled to herself as she stepped into the shower.

“Hey yall, let’s give it up for Kelis!”, Sisqo shouted as he stood up to applause. Deja was walking over to the kitchen table to sit across from him after grabbing something to eat from the stove. Her hair was going all over the place and she was dressed in a pair of old baggy jeans, an oversized red and white striped t-shirt, and green and black polka-dotted toesocks.

The rest of the guys stood up and started applauding while laughing.

“Well then you won’t mind my sayin’ that ‘I hate you so much right now!’” She flopped down in a chair next to Woody after throwing a piece of toast at Sisqo.

“Why so hostile? Today is a new day!”, Woody said putting his arm around her shoulder when he sat back down.

“Besides, you know you want me!”, Sisqo said winking at her.

“Whateva!”, she said as she shook Woody’s arm from around her shoulder, while taking a bite of her waffle. When she took a sip of coffee she had to struggle to swallow it. “What the he!! is this s***?!”

“What’s wrong with it?!”, Jazz asked defensively.

“Just what I said… s***!!!” She ran to the sink to pour it out.

“Look, nobody asked you to drink it in the first place! You got two hands, so fix yo’ own d*** coffee or whatever else is in here!”, Jazz huffed.

“Umm, Jazz…have you ever noticed that nobody really drinks yo’ coffee, though?”, Woody laughed.

“Does it look like I care?”, Jazz asked back, as he took a swig of his special brew.

“Awww, nobody likes Jazz’s coffee.”, Sisqo teased.

Deja was laughing by the time she sat back down at the table.

After breakfast, they all gathered in the recreational room to wait on Legend.

Nokio decided to challenge Deja to the video game that he always beat Sisqo at. The others watched them play. They had been playing for about 10 minutes when she blew Nokio up.

“You got anything else? This game is too easy!”, she replied lying back on the sofa propping her feet up on the coffee table. She picked up a magazine and started flipping through it.

Nokio was speechless as he read her score on the screen before checking his controller out.

Sisqo was sitting on the floor laughing his @** off. “N****, don’t even try to think it was your controller. You let a female beat you!!!” The others agreed with laughter.

This time it was Nokio’s turn to say “f*** you”.

“Good morning! I have the instructions that you will need to take D-Pimp and his crew out!”, The Legend stated as he appeared on the main security screen.

When they were given their instructions, they all went to their rooms to pack up their things to head out by that evening. They wanted to destroy their enemy as soon as possible.
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D-Pimp was sitting in his dance studio alongside Natalie. She was massaging his hands while he was checking out Up2NoGood’s dance steps.

“Nah, nah, nah!!!!”, D-Pimp shouted as he stood up. Yall gotta put mo’ pelvic thrusts as well as shakin’ into yo’ dance steps!” He demonstrated to them what he wanted.

“Man, you want us to look like we havin’ a fit or sumthin’!”, the lead singer, Booger-P whined breathlessly. He was given the name by D-Pimp because his voice sounded extremely nasal every time he sang.

“Ya d*** right I do, son! That’s what’s gonna help us take ova’ the world! Now take it from the top and I’d betta see mo’ of what I asked for!”

“Ooooh, you so smart, D!!!”, Natalie giggled as she began to massage his toes when he sat back down.

“You betta believe it!”, he replied throwing a few grapes into his mouth.

After he was pleased with the dance steps through a few more of Up2NoGood’s rehearsal, everyone packed their things to head out on tour. Their first stop would be Japan.
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“So, does it look like this mission will take long?”, Deja asked sprucing up her ‘fro in front of Nokio’s dresser mirror. She decided to make some small cornrows in the front that ended in a mass of kinky curls.

“It depends.”, Nokio emptily replied while getting some of his things together.

“Oh…I see.”, Deja said dryly.

A few minutes went by without either one saying another word. However, that didn’t stop Deja from checking him out in the mirror when he wasn’t looking. She kept glancing at his tattooed arms and neck. There was something about a man with tattoos that turned her on.

“She thinks I don’t see her checkin’ me out!”, he laughed to himself. That’s when he decided to take his wife-beater off to change into another shirt when he walked over to his open closet that was beside her.

“Oh negro, please!”, she thought to herself when she saw what he was doing.

“All done!” She had just finished making her last cornrow. “Well, I’m goin’ to change and put on my face, ‘scuse me!”

She was walking past Nokio when he grabbed her by the arm. Before she could break away, he pulled her close and kissed her. She didn’t even resist; instead, she started kissing him back as she reached up and wrapped her arms around his neck.

“D***, he's a great kisser!”, she thought to herself as she experienced his full, soft lips. Not to mention his hands that were lightly caressing the small of her back.

“D***!”, he laughed before letting her go.

“D*** is right!” She bumped into the doorframe before making it out of his room. Sisqo was walking past the door as she was coming out.

“W’sup!”, she laughed nervously as she went into the bathroom to change.

“Whew, some of my tension has eased up!”, Nokio joked fanning himself before getting back to gathering the things that he would need.

He didn’t know that Sisqo had stepped into his room.

“What’cha up to?!”, Sisqo laughed.

“S***, n****! I done told you ‘bout walkin’ up on me like that!”, Nokio laughed as he looked up from what he was doing.

“Yo, look! I just bumped into Deja on her way outta here and she was lookin’ mighty pleased!, Sisqo said rubbing his hands together, as he looked back out the door.

“Yeah, well, all we did was kiss. I got it outta my system, so now I won’t have to do it no mo’! But don’t breathe a word of this to any of the fellas!”, Nokio warned. “We have too much ridin’ on us right now to bring this into the situation.”

“Whateva you say, man!” With that Sisqo went back to his room to finish getting ready.

PART II WILL BE POSTED AT THE END OF THIS WEEK

[Chris]

That is very good! I read the first two parts... I'm going to read the rest tonight

[CarolinaCutie]

Thankx!

I'll try harder to work on the swearing though (one of my many bad habits) ;D

[Chris]

It's alright... just for future reference

[aDRUfan4LiFe]

Hey! I am luvin' the story! Definitely because it involves everybody! ;D

[CarolinaCutie]

Thankx adrufan.

[Jewlnmbr1]

Now I am REALLY liking this story! You got some talent ma. Keep it comin!