"Oooooh! Gilda! Do it!" Annie chided one day as she, Gilda, and Francine walked through the park, "I dare you!"

"I double dare you!" Francine giggled, "I double dare you to kiss Marty Farms!"

"No!" Gilda cried, "I don't like Marcus Barnes!"

"Duh, who would?" Annie said, still laughing, "It's not about liking him! It's about kissing him!"

"But then he would think I harbor devoted affections towards him! I don't want that!" Gilda squeaked.

"Oh, whatever!" Francine said, steering her towards the Electric Diner, "maybe he'll go easier on us if he thinks you like like him!"

"B-but, what if he likes me? What will I do then?"

"Oh, just DO IT, Gilda!" Annie cried, "I TRIPLE dare you!"

Francine gasped. So did Gilda.

"I suppose… if I must…"

"You must!" Francine grinned and gave her another shove in the direction of the diner.

"H-hi… you… guys?" Gilda stuttered as she approached Hector, Jessica, Keith, and Marcus who were sitting outside the diner.

"Hi Gilda," Jessica said looking at her strangely.

"Marcus?" Gilda said smiling a little, "could I please talk to you? Please?"

"okay Gilda," Marcus said getting up and walking over to her, "what's up?"

Then Gilda leaned over and kissed him, and a blue flash formed between their lips.

"EEEEWWW! YUCK! WHY'D YOU DO THAT? THAT'S DISGUSTING! YOU WEIRDO, GILDA FLIP!" Marcus sputtered pulling away.

Gilda ran off, around the corner where Francine and Annie were waiting.

"That was awesome!" Annie snickered.

"Whoa!" Gilda cried as they ran away.

"WHOA!" she came to a halt.

"What? What is it?" Francine snapped.

"Look. At. This!" Gilda flipped her wrist and produced a wordball.

"A WORDBALL!" Francine and Annie cried simultaneously.

"Oh. My. Goodness!" Gilda exclaimed as she threw numbers into the air, "I have his special skill!"

"Whoa," Francine looked at Annie, "She can steal skills when she kisses them? That's epic!"

"I wonder if she steals them or just, like, duplicates them," Annie questioned aloud.

"Well, there is one way to find out," Francine said, "I'll go back and check on the Electric Company, you two go get the other Pranksters!"

"Or I could just do this-" Annie leaned over and kissed Gilda on the lips and a blue flash emerged.

"WHOA!" Gilda cried pulling away.

"I did not see that coming," Francine remarked calmly.

"I can still use my powers," Annie said experimentally scrambling a nearby billboard, then exclaimed, "Ooooh, awesome!"

Annie Scrambler threw a wordball onto the sidewalk.

"I HAVE MARCUS'S POWERS TOO!" she cheered.

"I can scramble!" Gilda cried, scuffing her foot on the ground as if she were tap dancing, "So cool!"

"Okay Gilda, you can kiss me now," Francine said impudently.

Annie and Gilda looked at her like she was crazy.

"Awkward!" Annie announced, giggling.

"Oh yeah!" Gilda agreed.

"Well, then go kiss the rest of the Electric Company!"

"But, Francine, what if- while taking their powers- I give them ours too?" Gilda said.

"Yeah," Annie agreed, "I don't want the Electric Company to have my special skill!"

"Well can you just take it?" Francine snapped.

"I don't know! I would need to test it," said Gilda.

"Well then get testing, girl! Kiss someone else!" Annie retorted.

Francine giggled, "You can test it on Danny!"

"No! Not Danny!" Annie exclaimed, "uh, I mean, you don't want to kiss Danny do you, Gilda?"

"No… not particularly…" the girl said.

"Manny?" Francine tried.

"NO! EW! GROSS, FRANCINE!" Gilda shrieked.

"Then who?" Annie demanded.

"I'll kiss… Hector next!" Gilda announced.

"Try not to give him my power when you do," Annie said firmly, "in fact, I'll come with you to make sure. Francine, you go get the rest of the Prankster."

"What? I give the orders here Annie!" Francine bellowed, "Gilda, go kiss Hector. Annie go with her to make sure and for back up. I'll go get Manny and Danny."

"Got it," Annie and Gilda said then headed back towards the diner.

"Okay, so," Annie began a few minutes later as they stood behind a tree, across the street from the diner, "We go over there and pretend that I am making you apologize for kissing Marcus, then you fake like you can't breathe and fall on the ground. Hector knows CPR, so of course, He'll rush to give you mouth-to-mouth. Then you kiss him! Easy!"

"Yes! I think this will work!" Gilda giggled.

Then crossed the street, Annie grabbed Gilda's wrist and pretended to drag her.

"Gilda! I can't believe you did that! Apologize this instant for kissing Marty Farms!" Annie said loudly as the reached the front of the diner.

"Annie! I don't WANNA apologize!" Gilda fake-whined.

"Apologize to Marty this minute!"

"Actually, It's Marcus-"

"Shut up Romeo!" Annie snapped, glaring at Marcus.

"But, Annie-" Gilda stopped mid-sentence and started coughing and sputtering. Annie dropped her wrist.

"GILDA!" she screamed, "OHMIGOSH! SHE'S CHOKING! GILDA!"

Gilda collapsed on the ground, and lay perfectly still.

"OHMIGOSH!" Annie knelt by her side, "GILDA! GILDA! SAY SOMETHING! SHE'S NOT BREATHING! DOES ANY ONE KNOW CPR?"

"Move aside!" Hector cried, shoving Annie away, "I know CPR!"

He set his head ageist her chest for a moment, listening to her heart, then he tilted his her head back and pressed his mouth ageist Gilda's, breathing for her. Gilda kissed him. A flash of deep, dull blue filled the ever-closing space between their lips. Hector pulled back.

"ACK!" He shrieked, somewhat girlishly, "You kissed me!"

Annie jumped on him.

"DO YOU HAVE MY POWER NOW?" She yelled in his face.

"NO! WHAT THE HECK? GET OFF ME, SCRAMBLER!"

"Just try it! Try scrambling!"

"No!"

"DO IT!"

"What's wrong with Annie Scrambler?" Jessica whispered to Keith.

"Okay!" Hector pushed Annie off, onto the ground. Then he stomped his foot, but nothing happened.

"Happy now?" He growled.

Annie and Gilda looked at each other then took off running as fast as they could.

"Oh. My. Gosh!" Annie panted as they ducked behind the playground, "That was fun! Do you have his power?"

Gilda pulled her hands apart revealing a picture of Hector's shocked face.

"Oh yeah," she gloated.

"Awesome. Come here," Annie grinned, grabbed Gilda by the color, and planted a kiss on her mouth.

"Would you stop doing that unannounced?" the little girl demanded when they had parted, "I'm not a- a- a-!"

"A hussy?"

"To put it nicely! You can't just kiss me whenever you feel like it!"

Unknown to the Pranksterettes, Marcus Barnes- wanting to know what the heck was going on- had followed them with Jessica and was now standing on the other side of the playground equipment listening. Marcus looked at Jessica. Jessica made a disgusted face.

"They're making out?" She whispered to him. Marcus made a face.

"Oh, I got a text from Francine," Gilda said, "She wants us to meet the other Pranksters at the library."

"We're gonna go make out in the library?" Annie mused.

"Me, not you, I'm making out in the library. Ew, do you think I'll have to kiss Manny?"

"That's nasty."

"Exceedingly."

"I get to kiss Danny before you do. Is that clear? I kiss Danny first."

"OOOH! DO you likey like him?"

"If you tell anyone I'm murdering you, Gilda Flip."

"Understood."

By this time, they were out of earshot of Marcus and Jessica.

"That was so weird," Marcus commented.

"Yeah, there's something weird going on with the Pranksters," She replied.

"You think? We just heard Annie kiss Gilda!" Marcus looked disgusted, "Ewww, that's so wrong."

"I know, right? That little kid's on a kissing rampage."

"Maybe we should tell Hector," Marcus suggested.

"Yeah," Jessica agreed.