Okay, first, I apologize if 'Oh Rhonda' is not being updated this week! I'm still trying to figure out how I want this next chapter to proceed, plus, my job just started up again, so I'll be a lot busy all week! So, until then, I hope this tides all you Hey Arnold fans over until then!

Anyway, this story is going to be a sort of pilot of sorts for an idea of series I had in mind! And yes, this is sort of based on the Cars spinoff shorts known as 'Mater's Tall Tales', but this is my own spin on the premise... as in, there's more original stories to tell! Anyway, I'll probably make more depending on the feedback of this one, but tell me what you guys think! Anyway, enjoy!

ORANGE RATCHET PRESENTS...

OLGA'S FACT OR FICTION TALES

Episode 1: Lifeguard Duty

Inside the Pataki household, Helga was sighing as she was flipping through her photo album that she had made up using some photos from her past. She stopped as she noted the photos taken from her time during the summer when she went to the beach to visit Arnold. Helga just sighed happily.

"Hi, baby sister! What are you looking at?"

Helga yelped as she looked up to see Olga had went in her room and sat on her bed. Helga yelped as she realized the photo album was on the pages of Arnold and Helga on the beach. She had considered quickly closing it, but Olga already grabbed the photo album and started to look at the pictures. "Uh, nothing! Nothing!"

"Oh, is that the little football headed friend you like so much?" Olga smiled, pointing to the picture.

Helga was furiously blushing, but frowned. "He's not my friend, just an... acquaintance that I like to talk to... sometimes..."

"Were you two at a beach?" Olga looked at the backgrounds.

"Yeah, our parents and I went to a beach during our vacation for a week. What's it to-" Helga suddenly noticed Olga's smiling face as she was sighing happily. "Hey, what's with you?"

"Oh... I was just thinking back to when I was a lifeguard..." Olga sighed.

"Wait, wait, wait!" Helga shook her head as she looked up to Olga. "You were a lifeguard?"

"Of course." Olga smiled as she put the photo album aside. "Have I told you the story?"

"I... don't think you have... in fact, I don't think our parents ever mentioned that." Helga raised an eyebrow, looking at Olga.

"Well, let me tell you the story." Olga said as Helga looked up at Olga. "It all started when I had my first spring break back in my first year in Wellington College..."

FLASHBACK

In the sunny side of England, over at the beaches, Olga and her friends, all in bathing suits, were walking along as Olga was looking around.

"Me and my friends were just hanging around, talking about our future projects we were going to do together when..."

"Help me! Somebody help me!" All four friend looked up to see a man (that looked eerily similar to Monkeyman) trying to get out of the water, but was struggling. "I can't..."

"Oh my gosh! Where's the lifeguard on this beach?" One of Olga's friends, known as Irene, was looking around in panic.

"Someone has to dive in!" Another of Olga's friends, this one named Coral, looked around in a panic.

Olga looked worried, then frowned as she said, "Try finding a lifeguard! I'm jumping in!"

Olga then ran towards the water and jumped in the water as she swam towards the man. She dived in and hugged the man as she swam back over to the surface quickly as the man wasn't breathing.

"Come on, breathe, breathe!" Olga said as she started doing CPR. Once the water started coming out of the man's mouth, the man started to cough as he looked at Olga. "You... you saved my life!"

Olga giggled. "It's okay. It never hurts to help."

It was then Olga became aware of a crowd surrounding her as everyone was applauding her. One of the lifeguards came over as he said, "That was some good saving back there, miss! We need someone like you in the lifeguard business!"

"Really?" Olga said in surprise. "You really think I have good enough material to be a lifeguard?"

The man nodded as she said, "Ma'am, how would you like to be a part-time lifeguard on the beach!"

"Oh, I'd love to, but... I still have school to attend, and..." Olga started before Coral came over.

"Ah, come on, Olga! What's wrong with taking a little side job! Besides, you need it! You're a little overworked at school, anyway!" Coral said.

"Besides, you need a little extra-curricular activity in your life!" Irene said.

"You really think so, girls?" Olga asked.

Irene and Coral nodded. Olga paused, then smiled as she turned to the lifeguard. "What times do I need to come here to work?"

"And so, I started out my days as a life guard on weekends and every Tuesday and Thursday evenings from four to eight, when classes were over... and when my first year went out, I started working working full-time as a life guard!"

Indeed, as the ending of spring, and the beginning of summer went on, Olga was starting to become known as the 'Lifeguard' of the beach. Whenever Olga came in the beach, everybody really appreciated her and started talking to her. Olga gave a smile as she was hanging out at the beach hangouts on her breaks, talking with all the people.

"I've talked to a lot of people on that beach, and they really appreciated me... especially ones whose lives I always save..."

Of course, whenever Olga saw someone struggling to swim, she would dive right in and help them out of the water as people were relieved that Olga Pataki was there to help her out.

"To them, I was like, the hero of the beaches... and I thought nothing would ever change... until one day... the storm started to arise..."

Olga was smiling as she was looking at all the people playing in the beaches. "Oh, this is fun seeing all these people having so much fun..."

It was then she noticed rain drops falling on the ground. "Strange..."

Olga looked up to see the weather, now cloudy, was dropping drops of rain pretty hard. Olga frowned. "This is not good."

Olga then pulled out her megaphone. "Attention, the weather has been announced that it's raining, and thus the waves will be too dangerous to play in! Please evacuate the beaches! I repeat, evacuate and get to a safe place away from the water!"

Everyone listened to Olga's advice as they started to pack their things and started running to a nearby safe area, whether it would be their cars to get home or a nearby hotel near the beach. Olga nodded as she was about to climb down the ladder when...

"HELP! HELP!"

Olga turned and gasped as she saw a little kid still in the water, drifting off. A couple was looking horrified as the mother called, "My baby's still in the water! Someone help her!"

Olga looked concerned. She knew everyone had to leave, but that little kid was out there! What was she going to do?

PAUSE FLASHBACK

"Holy cow, Olga! There was a little child out swimming during a storm?" Helga said in shock as Olga gave a smile. "What happened to the kid?"

"What happened to-" Olga started... then laughed. "Oh, silly, don't you remember? You were with me that day!"

Helga's eyes widened. "Wait..."

RESUME FLASHBACK

"...what?" Helga said, looking around in shock as she was somehow in Olga's flashback. Olga quickly turned to Helga as she nodded.

"Come on, baby sister! We have to do this as a team!" Olga said to her.

"What?" Helga said as Olga grabbed her hand and both of them dived down into the water. "But there's a storm out there!"

"And a little child in danger!" Olga said as she and Helga started to swim as best as they could.

"Mommy, daddy!" The child screamed as Helga and Olga came over.

"Honey, it's okay, it's okay! I'm a lifeguard, I'm here to save your life!" Olga said. "Helga, hold her hand tight!"

Helga nodded as she clutched the scared child's hand as Olga took the inner tube. The two then started to swim back with the child in hand as Olga and Helga got the child back out of the water as the couple reunited with the child, the child saying, "Mommy!"

"Oh, baby..." The mother and father said happily.

"Oh, that is so sweet!" Olga smiled as Helga felt herself swept away.

"Uh, Olga, hello? I'm being taken with the current!" Helga called before turning to see a huge tidal wave. Helga's eyes widened as she screamed, the wave coming closer and closer...

END FLASHBACK

Helga stared in shock as Olga looked down in sadness.

"What happened?" Helga asked.

"...you got hit with the wave." Olga said, looking down.

Helga frowned. "Olga, there is no way that happened! First of all, how was I even with you that day! There is no way I got hit with a tidal wave! And how could I have drowned if I'm right here!"

"No, no, I didn't say you drowned. I mean, you got hit with the wave, your head got knocked unconscious, and the next thing you knew, you were in the hospital for two weeks." Olga sighed. "Either way, I decided to stop being a lifeguard for a while... as that job was starting to be too dangerous for my liking... though now thinking about it... I think I want to become a lifeguard again... though not on a beach... maybe a swimming pool... do you think the Hillwood Swimming Pool has openings for lifeguards?"

"Wait a minute! If I was in the hospital, how come-" Helga started, but Olga had already left. Helga frowned as she shook her head. But at the same time, she started to ponder...

Was Olga's story about being a life guard fact... or fiction?

And there's the first chapter to what I hope will be an ongoing series! How'd you like it? Do YOU guys think Olga's story in this episode is true... or not? Let me know in your reviews! Anyway, read, review, criticize and suggest, folks!