Worth to Me More than Five Cents
Part 1
"Mom; Dad!" Timmy called to his parents, going to the front door. Timmy's parents were on the couch, watching TV. "There's a new game at the Dimmsdale Arcade. I'm going to bike to AJ's so he, Chester, and I can go check it out, okay?"
"Is your homework done?" Timmy's dad asked.
"Yeah, I got it done!" Timmy lied.
"Well, as long as it's done."
"Have fun, honey!" Timmy's mom added. Timmy smiled to himself; he couldn't believe he pulled that off. He reached for the doorknob and tried to open it. It didn't budge. He looked at his parents.
"Mom; Dad!" He called to them. "The door's locked!" His parents were so absorbed by the TV program that they didn't listen. "Mom? Dad?" He was about to get their attention, when Wanda, Poof, and Cosmo poofed in, all of them as flowers in pots.
"Not so fast, sport!" Wanda said. "You're not done with your homework!"
"And you didn't even invite us!" Cosmo added.
"Relax guys," Timmy assured them. "I'll do my homework later, and if not, I can just tell Mr. Crocker that 'my dog ate my homework'". Just then, Sparky came in.
"I did what now?" The fairy dog wanted to know. He went by them. "Timmy, you're not taking advantage of me, are you? You know I don't like that."
"You better believe he is!" Wanda told him. She looked at Timmy again. "Timmy, I can't believe you're going to blame this on Sparky. Mr. Crocker won't believe that your dog 'ate your homework,' that's the oldest excuse there is."
"You want me to eat your homework, Timmy?" Sparky asked. He then stated panting excitedly. "I can do that!"
"Oh no you're not!" Wanda said. "Because Timmy is doing his homework."
"Awe, but Wanda!" The boy whined. Wanda eyed him.
"Now, Timmy!"
"GRRRRR!" Poof growled at him.
"Okay; okay!" Timmy said, giving in with his hands up, going towards the stairs. "I'll do it; sheesh!"
"You better Timmy!" Cosmo said. "Because this is your punishment for not inviting us!" He leaned in towards his wife. "Come on babe, let's go to the arcade!" He was about to poof them there with his wand when Wanda stopped him with her leaf.
"Not until Timmy finishes his homework!" Wanda said.
"Awe man!" He put away his wand. "But that could take forever!"
"And…done!" Timmy said when he finished the last of his homework, putting his pencil down. "I'm ready for the arcade!" He looked at his watch and screamed. It was already 7:00!
"What's wrong, Timmy?" Wanda questioned when she, Poof, and Cosmo poofed out of the fishbowl. Cosmo had Phillip in his hand.
"I screamed like that when I saw Phillip was filthy." Cosmo admitted. He lifted the shiny nickel. "So I polished her up and now she's all beautiful again; look at that shine! So Timmy, why are you screaming?"
"I was screaming because it's seven."
"Why? I think seven is considered a lucky number, nothing to be worried about, unless you broke a mirror. Wait, did you break a mirror?"
"No Cosmo! The arcade is only open for another hour!"
"Oh, well, you better hurry up then." Cosmo stated. Timmy nodded.
"I wish that I was at Dimmsdale Arcade!"
"What about Chester and AJ?" Wanda asked.
"AJ just called. He said he and Chester couldn't wait for me, so they already went."
"Boy!" Cosmo said. "I bet that made you jealous! Can Phillip come?" Timmy shrugged.
"Sure; she can come!"
"YAY!"
"Can I come?" Asked a hopeful Sparky.
"Sorry Sparky." Timmy told him. "Dogs aren't allowed at arcades." Sparky
was disappointed at this.
"Awe man, I didn't get to go to the museum to try their bones either! Life can
be so unfair to us dogs sometimes."He perked up as he was about to say something more when Timmy beat him to it.
"That includes fairy dogs." Sparky was disappointed again and left the room.
Timmy looked at his fairies. "Guys?" With a poof from their wands, the fairies, nickel, and god kid were transported to Dimmsdale Arcade, Cosmo, Wanda posing as human teens and Poof posing as a human toddler. Wanda held his hand.
"Remember Cosmo," Wanda reminded her husband. "Hide Phillip well; don't let her out of your sight. We're at an arcade, so if you drop her accidently, someone might find her and use her in a game. You might never see her again."
"Don't worry Wanda!" Cosmo reassured her. "I will watch her like a hawk, I don't get that saying, but I'll still watch her like one!"
"Okay, if you say so. You have been warned!" Timmy then saw a line to the new Crash Nebula game.
"And there's the reason why we're here." He said, going to the back of the line. "Come on guys!" His disguised fairies followed him.
"I, Timmy Turner, am about to play the coolest game of the year, WHOO-OOF!" He was so excited that he accidently bumped into someone. He picked himself off the ground. "I'm sorry I bumped into yo…" He then gasped as he saw whom he bumped into. It was Remy! Beside him was a kid with a crown, obviously Juandissimo. "Remy Buxaplenty? What are you doing here?"
"Why else would I be here?" Remy said. "So I can play the coolest game of the year, Crash Nebula: When Mutants Attack! I have been playing it 29 times already."
"Uh, I think you can only play it once." Remy smirked, making his eyebrows go up and down.
"Oh, I have my ways!"
"With disguises?"
"No…with money!"
"Oh yeah, bribing, I forgot."
"Bribing makes my world goes round!" Juandissimo then knelt down by Wanda, and grabbed her hand.
"But I don't need to bribe my way into your heart, my lovely Wanda!" He said. He was about to kiss her hand when Cosmo slapped his hand away.
"And you better not; Wanda's love is not for sale!" Timmy crossed his arms.
"Well, as long as I get my turn, that's all I care about." He said.
"Finally!" Timmy said when Remy was done. "The line took forever! I thought I would never get to play!" He was about to go up to the game when an employee stopped him.
"I'm sorry." He told him. "But the game is closed for the day. The arcade is closing soon." Kids behind Timmy and his fairies groaned and left.
"Awe man!" Timmy cursed. "That's not fair; I didn't get to play!"
"Sorry kid." The man said. "I just enforce the rules, I don't make them."
"Awe, that's too bad sport." Wanda said to her godson. "You'll just have to get here earlier tomorrow."
"Yeah." Timmy agreed. "But now Chester and AJ will just go on and on about the game tomorrow."
"You'll just have to tell them that you didn't get to play it. I'm sure they'll understand." Timmy sighed.
"I guess." Then Poof started hopping up and down excitedly. He tugged at his mom's sleeve. Wanda turned to her son.
"What is it, Poof?" She wanted to know.
"Teddy!" Poof said, pointing to multiple colored teddy bears in a crane game.
"You want a teddy bear?" Poof nodded.
"Well, you're going to have to convince Timmy. I don't have money." Poof tugged Timmy's sleeve.
"You don't have to tug at me, Poof." Timmy told him. "I know what you want. You want one of those teddy bears, right?" Poof nodded. "All right." Timmy went to the machine. His fairies followed him.
"So, which one do you want, Poof?" Timmy asked when they were next to the machine. Poof looked in the machine. There were stuffed animals everywhere and teddy bears of all different colors. There was a pink, green, purple and red striped one, a tan one, a chocolate brown one and a panda teddy bear, holding some bamboo in its paws. Poof pointed to the purple striped one.
"Poof!" He said. Timmy looked at where Poof pointed. "You want the purple striped one?" Poof nodded. "Alright." Timmy took out a quarter in his pocket and put it in the '25 cents' slot. The crane started.
"Poof, prepare to get happy when your god brother gets you your teddy bear!"
"Poof, poof!" Poof cheered. The crane went above the bear, lowered…and missed.
"Darn!" Timmy cursed. The crane went to where it started and stopped.
"Poof, poof!" Poof begged his stepbrother. Timmy looked at him. "Don't worry Poof, you'll get that bear. I'll try again." He took out another quarter and dropped it in the slot. The machine rumbled to life. The crane lowered down to the bear and…missed again! He laughed nervously at Poof again.
"I'll try again. Third times the charm, right?"
Timmy tried ten times until an employee came up to him.
"It's time to go, kid." He told him. "We're closing now."
"Okay." Timmy sighed. He looked at his god-brother. "Sorry Poof. I don't have any more quarters and it's time to go. This machine is stupid anyway. It's built to upset you and take your money." Timmy was about to go when Poof tugged at Timmy's sleeve again. He shook his head.
"Teddy!" He whined. "Teddy!"
"Poof, I'm sorry! But we have to go; there's nothing we can do." Poof tugged on Timmy again, still protesting.
"TEDDY, TEDDY!" Timmy looked around, nervously smiling at all the glaring employees. He looked serious again.
"Poof, we got to go! I'll win you that bear tomorrow!" Poof tugged and tugged, shaking his head.
"TEDDY, TEDDY!"
"Poof, when will you understand? When we got to go, we have to go! You're acting like a little kid."
"Uh, Timmy," Wanda pointed out to her godson. "Poof is disguised as a little kid. He's a toddler."
"Oh yeah." Timmy looked at Poof again tugging at his sleeve, Timmy sighed. He looked at his godparents.
"Can you help me out guys?" His godparents went near the fussy Poof.
"Poof," Wanda told her baby. "Listen to your god brother. We got to go. You can get that bear later, now, quit being fussy!" Wanda pried Poof off of Timmy.
"POOF!" The fairy baby screamed, flailing his arms and legs. Wanda took his rattle before anything bad could happen.
"POOF!" Wanda scolded. "You're acting like a little kid!"
"Uh, Poof is supposed to be a little kid." Cosmo reminded his wife. "He's a toddler, remember?" Wanda ignored her husband.
"Do you want a time-out?" Poof stopped and shook his head.
"Then I suggest you stop right now!" Poof shook his head and started screaming again. He didn't care if he got a time-out. He just wanted that bear! Timmy and his godparents groaned.
"HERE!" An irritated employee shrieked, removing the top of the crane machine and giving the bear to Timmy. "Take it; just take it and all of you get out of here!" Poof stopped screaming and took the bear and hugged it.
"TEDDY!"
"Thank you sir." Wanda thanked the man.
"Yeah, yeah!" He said, putting the top back on. "Just get out of here." He then left. Timmy and his fairies headed for the exit.
"I think I already know the answer," Timmy said, "but couldn't you have just poofed the teddy bear out of there, then we wouldn't of dealt with that nasty mess back there."
"That'd be considered cheating." Wanda informed her godchild. "And you know we can't…"
"Yeah, I know." Timmy responded. "If it's cheating, you can't help."
"That's right, Timmy!" Cosmo put in. "And no one loves a cheater!" He hugged his nickel. "But I love Phillip and I know she loves me back!" Poof flailed his bear around, agreeing. He flailed it so much that the bear's leg flicked Phillip to the ground.
"I wish we were home!" Timmy said and with a poof, they poofed home.
Remy, who saw everything went to the nickel and picked it up. The boy sneered to himself.
"You know what they say Juandissimo." Jaundissimo poofed in. "Finders keepers, losers weepers!"
"Yes," His godfather agreed. "And it belongs to the dopey husband of Wanda's." He then got an idea. "I got an idea Remy! Why don't we keep the nickel and we won't give it back until Wanda agrees she's too good for that awful husband of hers and marries me, then you'll have a godmother as well as a godfather!" Remy looked at the nickel in his hand, evilly.
"If I don't spend it first!" He said. And with that, he and his fairy laughed evilly.
