Summer of Chaos
A PEANUTS: The Next Chapter Special
CHAPTER 1: HIDING OUT
Tarantula and her friend, Gertie, the daughter of the owner of Sam's Auto Salvage Yard where the Lizards had the confrontation with the Serpent Sisters and Spiders over two years earlier, escape through the sewers. Gertie had studied the maps of the sewer lines and where they led to. Neither girl liked being down there, but if they were going to elude the authorities, that was the route they had to travel.
After a while, the two of them climbed out of one of the openings. They found themselves in a beat up part of town. Trash was everywhere and was dimly lit. Gertie brought Tarantula to an abandoned house that no one would look in. It was boarded up, yet for some reason still supplied electric to it.
"Well, heh we are, chief!" said Gertie in her New York-style accent. "It may not be the Waldorf-Astoria, but it will hafta do for now. I'll get the goils to hook up heh in a few days afta the heat has died down a bit."
"You did good, Gertie," said Tarantula. "Any word on when our secret weapon is getting out?"
"Any day now, chief," Gertie replied. "Stayed on her best behavior. She a cinch to get out of tha clink!"
"Hopefully she's still willing to do some mayhem with us," Tarantula observed. "How have the girls been doing since I've been gone?"
"Oh, they are woiking haad to get back on top. It ain't been easy, though. Afta what happened at my pop's place that night with that goil Python getting bumped off, the heat's been through tha roof! So we had ta do it secret-like, ya know?"
"I get it, kid!"
"Anyhoo, the goils been doin' some trainin' in Monte Woods at night afta everyone went night-night. We go deep into tha woods to train and even use pellet guns instead o' actual ammo so to not give away our location."
"Good…"
"And we alsa been loinin' hand ta hand combat in case we hafta do that! The goils has alsa been takin' up some martial arts, that karate, Mr. Miyagi-type stuff."
"I like where this is goin', so far!"
"And we have scouts lookin' at tha gang scene. Besides your old gang, tha Spidahs, not much has been goin' on with tha gang activity."
"Black Widow is still around, eh?"
"Yep. But no Soipent Sistahs, chief. I think they is done with the gang life. Even their old headquartahs has been taken ovah by a business now. Maybe we drove dem outta the lifestyle."
"Maybe, but let's keep vigilant. Because I may want to finish the job with them. We'll wait on going after the Spiders, for now, but I want to pick up where we left off on the Serpents. With them out of the picture as far as gangs go could work in our favor. Get some of the girls to look for the remaining three, Cobra, Rattler, and especially Mamba. I'll save her for our secret weapon, once she's out and we find out if she's still with us or not. After we deal with the Serpents, THEN we will target the Spiders. And after that the Lizards take over. I tell ya, Gertie, Sparkyville is going to be painted red!"
"You got it, boss! You bettah lay low for a bit for tha heat ta blow off."
"Good idea, Gert." And Gertie fled into the night back to her place. Tarantula got ready to sleep for a while. The next day, they would start to put their plan into action. All of Sparkyville, and Lucy and the Serpents and the Spiders in particular, would be feeling the heat soon.
NEXT CHAPTER: VACATION AT THE RICH'S PLACE