Today, the co-ed softball team from a high school called Pickles was going on a field trip to a school Yuwen describes as 'a brainiac school.' The team members are: Laurie, Rochelle Rodriguez, Taylor "Tay-Tay," Kai, Tom, and Yuwen, then there's Coach Dan, Laurie's father. Yes, and the chaperones are Professor Frank "Blue" Brown, and the trio "The Bleacher Creatures," who are: Chicken-Kev, Rinna, and Brian Dyson, who went because it gave them extra points in their classes, and little Ira, Taylor's younger brother, who came to be with his older sister.