Copyright Notice: Jax is my creation. Anyone wanting to use her in their fanfic stories must e-mail me first about it. Jax is copyright 1998-1999.
Reader's Note: Jax is Vinnie's fraternal twin sister, in case anyone reading this is confused.
Once all of the mice were assembled in the living
room, Charley asked them, "Do any of you know what day it is?"
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"Hey, let's turn on some music." Jax suggested, as
she took a sponge to one of the living room walls.
"G'mornin." Jas greeted, as she walked into the kitchen.
Throttle was reading the paper, Vinnie was eating breakfast which consisted
of leftover hotdogs, and Modo wasn't up yet. Nobody answered Jax, so she
yelled, "GOOD MORNING!" so loud that Modo stumbled out of his room, asking
who had made all that noise.
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"Why oh why? I loathe doing spring cleaning." Jax
grumbled to herself. This was the last job the mice had to do, and it had
been left to her. It was now the evening. Jax wanted to race her brother.
She would do anything to get out of the Garage. She glanced around her
room. Throttle was off doing something in the kitchen and Vinnie, well,
Jax didn't know where he was. Modo was polishing his bike for about the
millionth time in the Garage.
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"Huh? What?" Jax said, as she bolted up from her
bed. "Charley? Why did you wake me up so early?" she asked.
"I'll tell you later. But for now, help me wake
up the guys." Charley told Jax.
"Is this a trick question?" Modo asked, an 'I'm
confused' look on his face.
"No. It's Spring Cleaning Day!" Charley told them,
with a smug smile.
"Aw, this day's gonna suck." Vinnie whined.
"C'mon. You guys can start with the living room
walls." Charley said in her commander voice.
All four mice slowly stood up and went to get the
cleaning supplies.
"Sure." her bros replied in unison.
As soon as the music started, so did the water fight.
"Why are we doing this anyway? Isn't this
supposed to be a woman's job?" Vinnie complained over Aerosmith.
Vinnie immediately regretted saying that because
Jax walked up behind him and dumped her pail of water on his head. Vinnie
was completely soaked.
"Hey! Get back here!" he yelled at Jax. He scooped
up his pail of water and ran after her.
"Hey Throttle!" Modo yelled to his bro, grabbing
his pail of water.
"Wha--" :SPLASH: Throttle was soaked too. "Why you!"
he said and threw his pail of water at Modo. Modo ran. But he was a second
too slow and he was soaked as well.
All this while, Vinnie was still chasing after Jax.
"You're never gonna get me, Vince!" Jax yelled back
to Vinnie but suddenly felt something wet hit her back.
"Ha ha ha ha!!!" Vinnie laughed, sounding like a
drowned maniac.
Charley walked in. She looked from Jax to Vinnie
and back again.
"What happened here?" she demanded. She didn't look
to impressed. In fact, she looked down right mad.
"Um, we got wet. We were..." Jax took a second to
think, "We got hot, so we hosed ourselves down." she explained weakly.
"Uh huh. Why are your pails in your hands then?"
Charley asked, crossing her arms.
This time it was Vinnie's turn to answer. "Well,
sweety, we needed to refil our pails." he tried to pass off as an explanation.
"Back to work." was all Charley told them, and watched
as they walked out of the room.
Vinnie and Jax walked back to the living room dejectedly.
As they entered, they saw that Modo and Throttle had had a water fight
of their own.
"You too?" Charley questioned the mice. Throttle
and Modo didn't answer, but just looked at their feet.
"All right. You guys can take a break." Charley
told them.
A chorus of cheers went up.
Modo, Vinnie and Throttle ran for the kitchen and
Jax ran for the t.v. Jax jumped onto the couch and grabbed the remote comtrol.
She channel surfed for a while. Finally, she found a show that was interesting.
Vinnie walked in, with a plate of hotdogs balancing on one hand, and a
rootbeer in the other. He sat down beside Jax and grabbed the remote control.
"Football! All right!!" Vinnie exclaimed, setting
down the hotdogs and opening the root beer.
Jax tore the remote control from Vinnie's hand.
She switched it back to what she had been watching, which was MTV.
"Gimme the remote." Vinnie demanded, trying to grab
it.
"No.": Jax replied and stuck her tongue out at him.
"I don't wanna hafta fight you for it." Vinnie told
her with a sly grin on his face.
"Bring it on." Jax taunted him, a smile playing
onher lips.
Vinnie lunged for her and tried to grab the remote
but Jax held it out of his reach. Vinnie grabbed Jax's arms and held them
behind her back. He grabbed the remote and ran for it. Jax scrambled for
him and jumped on his back, making both of them fall straight for the floor.
They landed on the floor with a resounding :THUD: and the remote was on
the floor. They wrestled for the remote and soon Jax had it in her hand.
She stood up, grinning, as she looked down at Vinnie lying on the floor,
a defeated look on his face.
"Truce?" she asked simply, as she put out her hand
to help him up.
"Okay sis." Vinnie said, as he began to get up.
"My show was just about over anyway. Here, you can
watxh your football." Jax tossed Vinnie the remote.
"Yes!!" she heard him yell as she went to get a
snack.
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"I did. None of you were paying attention to me."
Jax pouted. "We have more spring cleaning to do today. Charley gave me
this list of jobs to do." Jax held out the list as if it were a piece of
garbage.
"Well, I guess we better get started." Throttle
suggested to them.
They stood up one at a time and went to get ready
for the day.
Jax's room was a mess and she knew it. Things were
scattered all over the floor. Her bed wasn't made. Everything has to
be clean, Charley had ordered them.
Jax was filing papers that she had in her room when
she cut herself. She looked for a band-aid. When she finally realized that
there were none, she went back to filing her papers.
This is gonna take all night.
"Yeah, and I didn't have to lift a finger to do
it." Charley smiled to herself and went to her room to get dressed for
the day.
Jax took a sip of her coffee and waited for her
bros to wake up. After all that Spring Cleaning, she finally got to have
a break.