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(A/n- this story is a little out of sequence, but it still works. It takes place during the episode where Merton creates that genius serum because he's upset that he doesn't make it into that elite smart group. Y'know, then TnT drink the serum and become smart, so they end up catching Tommy at the dance. Only in this story they catch Tommy and Cass (also Tommy and Cass are going together, not Tommy and Lori, sorry). And in this story TnT don't become dumb in time to destroy the computer. I'll start right after Lori says "I'm not just going to leave you here"…)

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"I'm not just going to leave you here!" Lori grabbed a hold of the cage bars.

"Just go get Merton." I said, wolfing out.

"But…" She started to protest.

"Please." Pleaded Cass, she also started to turn.

Lori nodded and ran out of the classroom. Only a few seconds after she left the new and improved Tim and Travis walked in.

"We've finally caught you, and an extra one." Said Tim excitedly. Travis held up something that looked like a little duster, he spread some powder around the bars of the cage, and started dusting.

"What're you doing?" Cass eyed the duster nervously.

"We can discover your identities easily with this." Travis looked up. "Very soon we will know the true names of the Pleasantville werewolves."

Cass looked like she wanted to throw up. I grabbed the bars trying to bend them. Immediately I had to pull back, the bars burned into my skin.

"Tsk, tsk." Tim wagged his finger. "Silver."

Just then I noticed Lori in the doorway. She peeked in and saw TnT, and backed away.

'Merton's in trouble' she mouthed quickly and pointed up the hall.

"Oh god." I moaned. "it's that stuff he made."

Meanwhile TnT were busy with the computer.

"They hacked into the school logs." Cass whispered to me. "They're in the fingerprint files. The search is halfway done."

"We need Merton and Lori, we can't do anything from in here." I sighed.

"seventy percent." Cass hissed.

I noticed Lori back in the doorway, Merton was hanging onto her shoulder weakly. She gently put him down on the floor in the hall, then daringly walked in the room.

"Tim, Travis?" she said taking a breath.

They looked up from the screen. "Lori Baxter."

"shouldn't you be at the dance?" she asked lamely.

"The dance?" Travis laughed. "We've just caught the Pleasantville werewolves, and you want us to be at the dance?"

"Ninety." Cass's voice was shaking.

Lori took a look at the computer, and gasped.

"Ninety-nine." Cass closed her eyes. "Well Tommy, it's been real."

"Search complete." Announced the computer.

Tim and Travis eagerly turned from Lori and looked at the two names and pictures on the computer.

"Tommy Dawkins." Tim's eyes went wide.

"Cassandra Black." Travis turned to us.

"I don't suppose there'd be away to convince you that that computer has one hell of a virus." I asked.

"No Tommy, there wouldn't be." Tim savored every word of the sentence. "Anything to add Cassandra?"

Cass shook her head in silence. Lori tried to run up to the bars but Travis blocked her.

"Sorry, little lady but we don't want any other finger prints on the bars but theirs and ours."

"Tommy, Cass I'm sorry." She moaned. "But it was Merton, he fainted and I thought he was dead. It's a side affect of the genius serum, and I actually do think he's dying. He didn't get to finish the antidote gas."

We looked at Merton who seemed to be clinging to life in the hall.

"Lori is there anyway to get us out of here?" Cass cried.

She looked around. "The pulley for the cage is over there." She pointed to the corner of the room. TnT blocked her way.

"You guys cannot possibly be this awful." She glared at them.

"I'm calling the media right now." Was the answer to her question. Tim dialed some number on a cell phone. "Yes, hello. This is Tim Eckert (A/n- I don't know how to spell their last name, and I'm to lazy to go to the down stairs computer to get on the internet and find out right now, seeing as it's about 2:00 in the morning. So just bear with me…please!) we've caught the Pleasantville werewolves… that's right I said wolves, as in two. And we know who they are. Come to the high-school to find out." He hung up the phone smiling. "They're on their way."

Lori shook her head in disbelief. She walked back into the hallway to check on Merton sighing.

"My dad is a camera man with the local news." Cass groaned. "This is not good at all."

"My mom's the head reporter." I said.

"We are so screwed." She put her head in her paws. "Why would TnT do something like this? I mean I knew they were mean, but not this mean."

"Must've been that serum." I said shaking my head.

"He's getting worse." Lori called from the hall. "It's getting harder for him to breath. Tim I need your cell phone."

"I'm sorry…" In a flash Lori was up and had run into the room. she stood next to Tim with her hand balled into a fist.

"He's dying, don't you get that. He's dying. I need to call an ambulance, and I'm going to use your phone." She growled. "If you don't help me, you could be charged with 2nd degree murder. Now give me the damn cell phone."

Tim handed it over to her slowly, and Lori made the phone call. The ambulance said they'd be there within five minutes. Lori looked into the hall to check on Merton.

"Cass, Tommy. They're here. Almost the entire news crew." She moved to drag Merton's body out of the way. "And Tommy your mom's leading the procession."

"Wonderful." Cass said sarcastically. "Could our lives be any worse?"

"They're here." Reported Lori. She came into the room and stood unmoving, by the cage.

I took a deep breath as cameras, microphones, people, and my mom crowded into the room.    

 "I'm here at Pleasantville high where Tim and Travis Eckert claim to have once more caught the Pleasantville werewolf." My mom started reporting.

"We have caught them." Said Travis. "Look." All of the cameras swung towards us.

"And we have the identities." Tim showed them the computer.

 The cameras swung towards the computer to show the whole town who the werewolves were. Cassandra heaved a sigh, and buried her head in my shoulder. I looked at the alarmed look on my moms face as she saw the computer.

"Tommy." She seemed to shake all over. "You boys have to be kidding."

"Cassandra." One of the camera men almost dropped a camera in alarm.

"It's no joke." Said Cass weakly.

"Mom, they're telling the truth." I said quietly.

TnT grinned while my mom fainted.

"Why aren't their heads doing double whammies on them?" Lori asked us softly while people crowded around my mom.

"The chemicals, they had to sit before you could digest them." Cassandra said.

"How do you know that?"

"I stay awake in science." She raised her eyebrows. See Cass wasn't content to only have looks, and skills, she had to have brains too.

"I hear sirens." She continued. "the ambulance you called for Merton must be coming."

"God, I hope he's still ok." Lori bit her lip.

"Hey kid." A person who'd accompanied the new team yelled at Lori. "Get away from that cage. Those things could be dangerous."

Ok, I personally think the word 'thing' was a little harsh. Obviously Lori did to, because when she backed away from the cage she practically had smoke poring out of her ears.

"Thing?" Cass growled. "I'll show him thing." She tried to rattle the bars, but had to pull back.

"We need Merton." I said. "We need that antidote."

"I could finish it, but I need to get out of here." Said Cass through gritted teeth.

"How do you know all this about chemistry?" asked Lori. "You had biology."

"Well for the antidote you'd just need to put in the substances that counteract the stuff that you put in the first time. If I had Merton's recipe I could give you the ingredients." She explained.

"I'll see if I can coax it out of him." Lori turned and squeezed through the crowd.

TnT were now being interviewed about how they'd caught us.

"And how'd you come up with this plan?" asked my mom, who'd still only mildly recovered.

"We're super geniuses. Nothing is to hard for us." Answered Travis pompously.

My mom nodded giving them weird looks.

"Listen, I'm wolfing-down." Cassandra muttered. "Who knows it might help."

She took a few breaths to calm down, and managed to turn back to human. I did the same,

"Oh my god, Tommy it really is you!" My mom screamed.

"Cassandra what happened?" asked her father.

"We might be able to explain better if you let us out." I suggested.

"Let them out." instructed some one.

Tim went over to the rope and pulled on it. The cage slowly lifted back up into the air. Cass and I walked out earning different looks from everyone.  By now most of the people from the dance had streamed into the classroom and in the hall.

"Trust us, we're not gonna hurt anyone." Cass held her hands up in peace. "Put the guns down."

I'd heard the guns being loaded too. Sometimes having super hearing isn't so bad.

"I got the stuff." Lori ran into the room breathless. When she saw us standing outside of the cage her smile got even wider. "And Merton's at the hospital. They said he'll be fine." She paused. "Do they know?" she indicated to all the people standing around. We nodded.

"Well now that we have the Pleasantville werewolves what're we gonna do with them?" asked a student.

"I say we have a hunting season." Said Tim rubbing his hands together.

"Hey," Cass's dad turned on him. "These happen to be our kids. Hunting season? You've gotta be kidding." 

"Listen," called Lori. "they're not bad people, and they're not evil werewolves. Really they're just regular kids. Tommy was bitten at the beginning of his senior year and Cass was bitten by-" she stopped looking at Cass shaking her head. "Never mind. The point is that they're really good people and you really don't want to do anything to hurt them."

"Who was Cass bitten by?" asked a curious student. "Are there more werewolves in this town?"

This started an uprising of more noise. "tell us." Was chanted over and over.

"Just tell them." I told Lori.

"But then they'll-" she grimaced. "Fine you want to know." she yelled again. "She was bitten by Tommy, but…"

"Well then that proves it." Said a person. "They're evil, lets get rid of them."

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(A/n- ack! I feel so bad about doing that to Tommy and Cass, but it's fun to write. Next part'll be up soon.)

           -Loonybin