A/N: So, I was looking at stories on this site, and I found this really AWFUL one called Cryptic Investigation written by Racingwolf. Reading it was just PAINFUL! But it had potential. So, I decided to write my own, BETTER version of that story. Read this and not the original because it sucks!
Cryptic Investigation
The BETTER VERSION
By Rudy Clone
Chapter One – The Art Show
One beautiful day, Rudy and Penny had gone into ChalkZone to study some plants because Penny wanted to. Penny was looking at the plants (as plant-like as they could be being made of chalk) in awe, blabbing about them as she recorded stuff in the book. Rudy's eyes glazed over as he looked at her. He loved it when she talked like that. Suddenly his happy smile vanished as he realized that he still hadn't confessed his love to her! He suddenly became nervous, and couldn't look Penny in the eyes (well, she was busy looking at her book so he wasn't looking her in the eyes in the first place, but you know what I mean). He blushed slightly.
"Hey, guys," Snap muttered impatiently in his arrogant voice, "hurry up! We're supposed to go exploriatin'!"
Rudy's eyes narrowed. Snap was so rude! "Snap!" he scolded, but he didn't bother to tell Snap what displeased him, because Snap was hopeless to reason with.
Penny looked over the top of her book to glare at the blue chalky kid (I would say 'friend' but we all know Penny and Snap are not friends!). "Snap, I think you're a jerk!" she yelled.
"I am not!" Snap yelled in a conceited voice. "And you know what? I think you're crazy!"
And Penny and Snap began to argue. Rudy sighed. They were always at each others' throats. He was sick of having to MONITOR them! They couldn't go five minutes without arguing. He was so tired of it! He wished someone else was there to help him control them! A few minutes later, they seemed ready to declare WAR! Angrily, he silenced them.
"SNAP, STOP CAUSING PROBLEMS!" he yelled.
"What?" said Snap. "She started it!"
"I SAID STOP IT, SNAP!" Rudy yelled. He focused his anger on Snap (because he would never do that to Penny).
Penny sighed and went back to writing in her book. She had no idea how Rudy put up with such an arrogant, annoying sidekick.
"Anyway," Snap continued in that stuck-up way of his (otherwise known as "normal Snap mode"), "we're supposed to be explorin' Chalklantis!"
Rudy sighed. Adventures, spending time with friends…that was ALL Snap cared about. Rudy, however, had more important things on his mind, like trying to figure out how to confess his true love to Penny. How could he possibly think of adventures at a time like this?
"Snap!" Penny muttered as she glared at him. "I have to go on the field trip this weekend! So we can't!"
"What?!" Snap yelled. "GREAT! Thanks for RUINING it for us, Penny!" he yelled in the rudest voice possible.
Rudy was dismayed for other, much more valid reasons. It was a three day weekend, and he'd forgotten that there was a science field trip over the weekend! Penny was going to be gone for three days…three days without her…just seemed unbearable. He had to confess his love before then! But…but…he just couldn't!
"I'm sorry, Rudy," said Penny, ignoring Snap.
"It's…it's okay…" began Rudy, choking back tears. He closed his eyes slightly, wondering how he was going to tell her!
"Rudy?" muttered Snap.
"ARGH! WHAT?" Rudy cried.
"Didn't you want to talk to some professional artist or something?" Snap said haughtily.
"Oh yeah!" said Rudy. But all he could think about was Penny. But wait…he started to get an idea. Maybe he could ask that artist how best to confess his love! If he was a professional, he should know everything!
Excitedly, he got up. Now he had hope of being able to figure out how to tell her! The thought filled him with joy. Earlier, he had thought of asking Snap, but of course Snap couldn't be trusted. If he told anything to Snap, all of ChalkZone would know. Snap's disregard for everyone's feelings utterly sickened him.
Anyway, back to thinking about Penny. "Well," he told the others, "I have to go right now! Before recess is over!" Without waiting for an answer (because he was too nervous to look into Penny's eyes…) he jumped through the portal. It hurt slightly.
He walked outside until he came upon the visiting professional artist's art display. The drawings were so amazing, and he would have been able to enjoy them had he not been thinking so hard about Penny.
As the artist blabbed to some other random students, Rudy was sad because his problem was more important than them. He also noticed Mr. Wilter complaining about the artist drawing cartoons. Then Mr. Wilter turned to him.
"MR. TABOOTIE!" he yelled in his face. "DETENTIIIOOOOOOOOON!" He slammed a piece of paper in Rudy's face.
"Aww…" Rudy sighed, "that's my sixth one this week, and it's only Monday." He cried slightly.
Rudy looked at the sign on the artist's desk. It said 'Bob Newland.' "Wow," thought Rudy, "Bob. What a dumb name!" (I just think the name Bob is dumb because of French Bob who is an IIIIIIDDDDIIIIOOOOOOT.) But that didn't matter right now.
"Hey, Mr. Newland," said Rudy, "can I talk to you?"
"Eh, sure, kid," said Newland in a voice almost as obnoxious as Snap's.
Rudy waited until no one could hear. He lowered his voice. "Well, you see…I have a problem and um…and um…" He felt like crying again. He just couldn't confess it!
But Bob Newland grinned evilly! Almost as if he'd…read his mind. An evil plan began to form in his mind, which was probably normally occupied by breadsticks and French toast (oh, I wonder why!). Bob knew just what to do. He would create an evil plan that would sever Rudy and Penny's love forever…and get rid of them! He laughed slightly. It was so evil.
"Romance is not oriiiiiiiggggiiiiiinnnnnaaaa aaalllll…" Bob said in a pathetic whiny voice (the voice of someone stupid enough to think such a thing!). He then began to prance around bragging about how he was the best, most original person in the world. But Rudy knew he wasn't. He probably wasn't even in LOVE. And how pathetic was that.
"I don't know why I decided to talk to you!" he yelled, and Bob was so offended he cried.
Rudy turned away from him and sadly sat down by the fence.
Rudy felt like crying. How could people be so cruel? It was like dealing with Snap all over again! Now he had no idea how to confess his love!
After a few moments, Rudy heard a car driving up. He found it annoying because he was busy wallowing in his own grief. But it was Terry Bouffant and Vinnie Raton! (Apparently they are IMPORTANT in the story for some reason.) He sighed and went back to school.
They started to follow him. Rudy walked faster! Rudy went back to the room where the portal was. He paused, wondering what he was doing there. His thoughts of Penny had taken up everything else and he'd forgotten why he was even walking. He searched his brain, trying to come up with an answer, but only came up with nonsense about pencils.
Then he remembered something. Penny!
"Penny, come out!" Rudy yelled!
Then Terry Bouffant came into the room and said something to him about 'Chalk World' and blah blah this isn't even important.
"Quiet!" Rudy yelled irritated. After dealing with Snap all day, he could NOT deal with this! "I'm trying to talk to Penny!" He walked into the portal and dragged Penny out of it (it was okay, because Penny didn't mind being dragged). He erased it and looked at Terry Bouffant, Vinnie Raton, and Bob Newland in the room. But they weren't important so he ignored them.
"Rudy," said Penny once they were out in the hallway, "I think they saw the portal."
Rudy eyes glazed over. He loved it when she talked like that.
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Meanwhile, Bob Newland was still thinking about how Rudy and Penny are in love. He would stop at nothing to ruin it. He knew deep down that he was pathetic for not being in love. He was about to do something evil!
A/N: There! That is the first chapter! As you can see, this is SO MUCH better! I'm so excited I get to write RudyxPenny! Hehe!
- Rudy Clone
