In the entrance of the restaurants, Whittany spotted Brittany arriving and saw her stopped, standing side by side with her. "Like, what were you doing?" Whittany asked, looking at her phone.
"Like, duh! What do you think? I was checking on Blythe." She responded as if Whittany was supposed to know.
"Huh?"
"Don't you remember what was the whole point of opening this restaurant?"
Whittany caught the memory and they both turned to each other and said, "To frame Blythe!"
Brittany said "Whittany! Give Blythe the special Biskit Mayo so she can use it. She will be in for, like, a real surprise in the future! Especially her pets…"
Whittany left to get this mayonnaise…
This Biskit mayonnaise was no ordinary mayonnaise. In fact, it was mayonnaise… that has expired 2 months ago! It also happened to be a different name brand, however it was relabeled with the name Biskits sauce, and the expiration date label has been scratched off and has been rewritten to a future date. So evil!
Whittany went to the storage room and took out the Biskits mayonnaise so she can hand it to Blythe.
Brittany reminded Whittany of the plan "We will, like, give this Mayo to her so that she can use it. And when we get complaints by customers who, like, barfed from our mayo. We'll say that the pets spread their germs and infected the customers. Ew. And then the patrol will, like, get rid of the pets and send them to the wild where they belong!"
Although this plan sounds like it's going too far, Whittany understood vaguely as usual, and walked towards the kitchen where the innocent chefs were.
Blythe, Youngmee, and Jasper were rearranging the ingredients and cleaning the silverware. Sue was just playing around with the blender BECAUSE SHE HAD NOTHING ELSE TO DO WITH HER LIFE!
Jasper noticed her being unhelpful, and realized that they weren't cooking yet.
"When Blythe said help," he reminded "This wasn't exactly what I had in mind."
"That's because the customers haven't arrived yet," Sue said as she looked up from the blender "We're just preparing."
"Right. I see YOU'RE also preparing, Sue."
Sue stops the blender with and lets out an awkward laugh, then gets back to reading the instructions with a straight face. Awkward…
Little did they know, Brittany approached outside the door, waiting for the right time.
Ha! Blythe is going to make the customers barf!
She casually opened the door and was seen by Blythe and the others. What does she want this time? Blythe wondered, and caught her eyes on the mayonnaise in Whittany's hand.
"Blythe," Whittany called with her usual Biskit face "We forgot to, like, give you this Mayo. So, like, here."
She held out mayo, waiting for Blythe to take it.
"Oh yeah?"
She took a moment to think about it… Well, if she's giving it to me, then maybe it's good. They don't want to poison the customers.
"Ok then." Blythe answered.
She took it.
Blythe took the mayo off Whittany's hands. Whittany was surprised and couldn't help it, she had to snicker!
"Are you alright?" Blythe asked, she started feeling suspicious.
Whittany was almost caught and tried to act casual with a Biskit face "UH-YAH! I'M, LIKE, GOOD! SEE YA!"
She ran out the kitchen, trying to hold in the evil laughter! She half-closed the door, and peeked through from the outside. Blythe looked with a weird face. But turned and placed it on the counter.
Whittany was relieved like an anxious kid getting an A* in his final math test.
As soon as she finally calmed down, she decided to turn and walk out, leaving Blythe alone. She just had a thought… Did Blythe just fall for that?
Back in the kitchen, as Blythe was focusing on the normal mayo on the counter, she also asked herself… What's her problem?
Outside the kitchen, Whittany was walking back to the entrance where Brittany was. Brittany saw her and stopped using her phone as she turned to Whittany, asking excitedly "Well? Did you, like, give it to her?"
Whittany's was smiling, which gave a good sign. "Totally. I, like, gave it to her." Whittany said, waving her hand downwards once.
"Good" commented Brittany and continued using her phone. She thinks it's all going per plan. And they'd get away with. On the other hand, Whittany just sighed in great relief. At least her job was done!
Meanwhile in the backstage, the pets finished rehearsing and setting up the stage, and then got together in a small circle.
"So, everybody knows what to do?" asked Russell
The pets made positive responses and this was enough to tell that they were pumped up!
"It'll be easy!" predicted Pepper "I bet these FANCY customers don't even know what jokes are!"
"Just try to come up with jokes that won't hurt people emotionally, OK?" Zoe advised with concern.
"What?! Pfft! They can't even understand our language!" Pepper said jokingly. "Don't worry, it's in the bag!"
"Yes, but jokes aren't always verbal, you know?"
Pepper started to take it seriously. "They won't be offensive. Ok?!"
"Well knowing you, you might "involuntarily" overdo it."
There goes Zoe with her smart vocabulary again, thought Pepper with a growl.
Vinnie just couldn't help but jump in the conversation and asked "What does involunt… invol… inv… invo… What does that word mean?"
Zoe was glad to explain "Well, darling, it means when you unintentionally do something."
"Uh-huh… I still don't get it."
"Well… it means… when you didn't mean to do it?"
"…Uh-uh… Wait, what didn't I mean to do?"
"It means when you do something and you don't mean to do it, ok?!" She yells and points to Pepper as Zoe continues "Unfortunately it's hard for SOMEBODY to easily avoid that."
Pepper objected with a squinty face "Hey! I can very well avoid that!"
"Ok, ok! That's enough!" Russell commanded "Save the talking for AFTER the performance."
"But, there wouldn't be any point to argue after the play!" Pointed out Vinnie. For once, he had a good point.
"Well, that's a good thing!" Russell said with a smile. "So, who else is ready for the performance?"
Penny Ling was eager to do the play "Ooh! I just can't wait to show my latest dance."
"Don't forget me!" Vinnie reminded with his cool guy tone.
Already, he starts to demonstrate and dances in front of the pets, who were quite impressed. But whatever happens to Vinnie always goes bad. ALWAYS.
As part of the routine, his left foot slides to the left, but instead, he slips on a mop and he goes zooming through the room along with the mop and crashed into the wall!
He lay for a few seconds, then lifts the mop that was on his head "I'm… Ok…"
It's so easy for Vinnie to get hurt somehow. Pepper decided to approach Vinnie and help him out.
"I just hope Blythe is doing ok." Russell hoped.
"Indeed," Sunil agreed in his doctor outfit "I do feel bad for leaving Blythe in despair for the sake of entertaining the audiences."
"Yeah, but," Russell said, as if he's going to start another speech again "Don't think of it that way."
"Oh boy…" complained Vinnie, "here we go again with this motivation stuff."
Pepper on the other hand, slapped Vinnie with her rubber chicken again. "That's not helping." She said. He deserved that.
"But I've heard this porcupine talk for hundreds of years!"
Another smack on the face with the rubber chicken, coming right up! He did deserve that again!
"I'm a hedgehog!" pointed out Russell frustratingly. Why does everybody confuse me for a Porcupine?! Especially a close friend like Vinnie?! But Russell realized who he was talking about here. Oh yeah… he's Vinnie…
Afterwards, he starts straight away with his motivation stuff. So predictable.
"Look, Sunil's right. But even though we left Blythe for the sake of entertaining the audience, that's what she wants us to do. If the customers don't like the food enough, then our play is sure to help her!"
The pets thought of it how Russell did, and started making sounds that sounded like approval to him.
"I see what you mean and I do appreciate your confidence, darling," Zoe said "but, are you sure this play is going to work? Fancy people are known to be "tough" audiences."
"They may be tough, but don't worry about that! This play is old-fashioned, just like this restaurant. If the fancy customers like the fancy restaurant, then they'll like this fancy play. The talent show that happens first will be considered a bonus warm up."
"Right. This might work!"
Russell handed out his small paw, waiting for the pets to place their paws on his.
"Do this for Blythe?" he asked.
All the pets glanced at one another with a confident smile and then they placed their small paws on Russell's paw. He begins to countdown.
"3… 2… 1…"
"FOR BLYTHE!" yelled the pets in hyper enthusiasm and with the most confidence they've had all week!
Penny Ling was quite confident, but realized that they weren't fully ready and asked with worry "What should we do about the set up?"
"Don't worry about that," Russell comforted "Me, you and Minka will handle that. With my smart calculation of the cardboard designs, Minka's artistic skills with painting the cardboard, and your surprising strength used to move around the cardboard, then it's all under control. Our settings will be the art gallery, the hospital, and the ball."
Russell, Minka and Penny Ling went off to make the cardboard stands, while the pets continued rehearsing for the main play.
Meanwhile, Blythe, Sue, Jasper and Youngmee have finally finished preparing.
"Thanks, guys!" Blythe thanked and let out a great, big sigh. "I couldn't have gone through the beginning of this without you."
"It's cool," Jasper said, "I was bored anyway."
Sue was also happy to help "No need to thank us."
"No problem!" Youngmee said "But how did you get pulled into this?"
Blythe's eyes opened widely, she didn't want to embarrass herself in front of her friends. But knowing Youngmee, she would get the secret out to her in a flash!
"Well?" asked Youngmee, already interrogating her like she's in a police station.
Blythe sighed. Well, there was no way to hide it anyway. She fiddles with her fingers, and faces her friends, but her eyes are looking away and admits with an awkward smile.
"I… may have… fell for their puppy eyes…"
Sue face palmed almost instantly. "Are you serious?!"
Blythe chuckled embarrassingly, then Jasper just had the urge to just comment "Not cool, I can't believe you put us in this mess-"
Sue elbowed Jasper in the hip, "Argh! I probably deserved that." he struggled to say in a high-pitched voice.
Youngmee looked serious a while ago, but just laughed as if she knew it. "That's typical of you Blythe, I even knew you were going to say that!"
Blythe could disbelieve that statement all she wants, but in the end, she did believe Youngmee. Youngmee's predictions are so accurate that she even predicted Blythe's reactions when she thought her dad had a date (which wasn't the case anyway), and it is kind of creepy.
"Well at least that's out of my system! But did any of you suspect Whittany and that weird Mayo she gave to me?"
"Oh yeah," Sue answered, "Why did she give to you at a time like that? It didn't look like she forgot to put it in the kitchen in the first place anyway."
Youngmee thought about that too "Yeah, shouldn't it have been in the fridge?"
Sue decided to look in the fridge. "What do you know? It's in the fridge too!"
"What the huh?"
There was another mayonnaise in the fridge! But it looked normal, and it had a familiar brand name. Sue took this mayonnaise and placed the normal mayo on the counter, next to the Biskit sauce. Sue, Blythe, Youngmee and Jasper were comparing it. Blythe was just confused and wondered what they were dealing with here.
"I don't get it." Blythe said doubtfully, scratching her head.
"Don't you get it?" Youngmee asked and grabbed Blythe by the shoulders, shaking her like mad! "I think they are setting us up!"
"Setting us up?" repeated Jasper. "But I'm not even sure what they are doing!"
Sue said what she believed "I think they're making us use their sauce instead of the normal one, which seems to be in the fridge. I have a bad feeling about this."
Blythe thought about it and somehow, it still didn't make sense. But she thought about it. They can't poison their customers! Why would they want to do that?! I guess this sauce is good then.
"It can't be. I'll have to trust them."
"But why?!" asked Youngmee furiously, shaking her again by the shoulders. Blythe resisted and pushed her away. "Think about it!" she demanded with a concerned look. "It's their business, if there are any complaints from customers, then it's the Biskits' fault!"
But Blythe also had second thoughts. What if they really are framing me? If they get complaints, then they could just say I poisoned them, right?
Youngmee suggested "I don't know, Blythe. I'd just use the normal mayo, since we are familiar with the brand. Can't go wrong with that! We have never even used a Biskits sauce before, so who knows what'll happen?"
Blythe couldn't argue with that. So, she gave in with a calm smile "Yeah. I guess you're right. Thanks."
"No problem!" Youngmee said and hugged Blythe "The Biskits can never fool us!"
"Yeah!" Jasper agreed. Sue was nodding.
Youngmee wanted to know what Blythe would do now. "So… what will you do with the mayonnaise?"
"I guess I'll just chuck the Biskit mayonnaise in the bin and use the normal one. Like you said, nothing goes wrong with a familiar brand!"
Youngmee gladly agreed, and allowed Blythe to pick up the Biskit mayo and chucked it into the trash bin beside the door. She returned and thought about what the pets were up to this time. The pets!
Blythe almost forgot to tell her friends about the pets "Oh, and I almost forgot! The pets at Littlest Pet Shop are also performing an act here to entertain the audience."
Jasper was excited and gasped "Really?!" He realized he was in front of his friends, and quickly brushed off his shoulder and crossed his arms and looked away, trying to look like a cool dude "W-well, it's not like I'm interested or anything."
He looked so transparent and that's what made him… well… Jasper!
"I like circuses!" shared Sue.
"This isn't a circus," corrected Blythe and chuckled "It's an act, probably some sort of play."
"Oh! That's great!" Youngmee commented "I just happened to bring along Sugar Sprinkles and Buttercream along! I'll get them out of the sweet truck outside so they can join and watch the other pets do the act!"
"Great!" Blythe agreed cheerfully.
Youngmee left to bring her pets.
She arrived a minute later with a pet box, and placed it on the ground. Opening the box, Buttercream Sundae and Sugar Sprinkles got out and was surprised about where they were.
Woah. 2 pets in 1 pet box? That's the littlest pets to you!
"Blythe!" yelled Buttercream as she jumped into Blythe's arms. She held Buttercream with her palm.
"How are you?!" asked Blythe, without considering her other friends with her. They must look surprised!
"I am feeling good! I've never been to a fancy restaurant before!" squeaked Sugar Sprinkles excitedly while stretching her legs and looked up to a Blythe. She was happy that they were here, and looked at Buttercream and asked the same question.
Buttercream said in a heartbeat "How am I? I'm feeling as tactically fantastic as a squeaky weaky mouse who found a pile of tasty pasty cheeses cheese cheese!"
"What?" Asked Blythe with her unsurprising confusion.
"What?" Repeated Buttercream. Suddenly her pupils turned tiny, and her bunny ears started wrapping around each other as she was rapidly stomping with her left foot, and then deeply sighs as her ears unwrap and her stomping slows down until it comes to a stop.
"Anyhoo…" She says, rolling her eyes and then looked at Blythe. It's her normal routine.
"I didn't know your friends know that you can talk to pets!"
Blythe realized that Jasper and Sue were looking with a typical "Blythe-are-you-talking-to-pets?" face.
She quickly panicked and said in a rush "Who's a little kitty? Yes, you are! Yes, you are? Coot by coo!"
She was playing with Buttercream's cheeks while saying that.
Jasper and Sue just shrugged, but Buttercream looked concerned about Blythe and her awareness.
"Don't mean to spoil your grass or anything, but I'm a bunny!"
Blythe quickly turned and whisper to Buttercream and Sugar Sprinkles "I know. Guys, we'll talk later, ok? Now go to the backstage where your friends are. I heard they are performing an act for the customer. Maybe you can enjoy it too."
"An act? Awesome!" said Sugar Sprinkles.
Sugar Sprinkles ALWAYS likes to be optimistic in any situation. ALWAYS.
"Ok, let's go!" Said Buttercream as she hopped off Blythe's hands. Buttercream and Sugar sprinkles left the kitchen happily and went to the backstage.
They met Russell and the other pets. They all looked back in joyful surprise. "Buttercream! Sugar Sprinkles!" Russell cried "I didn't know you were coming!"
"Yeah," said Sugar Sprinkles "I wanted to check out the place. So fancy, isn't it?"
"Magnificently!" Zoe yipped!
Russell asked "I know, right? In fact, we were preparing for a play! You can watch it if you want."
Sugar Sprinkles has never been so excited "I wouldn't miss it for the world!"
Buttercream went ahead and said her own thing "Yeah, it would be exciting, just like that time when the Sweet truck got driven away and we were in danger danger and then Blythe saved our life before we went crash into a building building!"
"What?" asked Russell with expected confusion.
"What?" repeated Buttercream. Suddenly her pupils turned tiny, and her bunny ears started wrapping around each other as she was rapidly stomping with her left foot, and then deeply sighs as her ears unwrap and her stomping slows down until it comes to a stop.
"Anyhoo…" She says, rolling her eyes and then looked at the pets. It's her normal routine.
"I wanna watch it!"
"O-ok… we'll start when the customers come."
Say no more…
The bell of the door was heard in the distance. It was the customer this time! Blythe looked at her friends with confidence written all over their face.
"Guys," Blythe announced as she held the Mayo that was taken out from the fridge "Let's give the customers what they want!"
"Right!"
"Guys?"
"Yes?"
Putting her hands behind her head to show awkwardness, Blythe slowly asked, followed by a small chuckle "I sort of made the Biskits angry… And they're gonna make me work overtime. Care to join?"
…
"WHAT?!"
Meanwhile in the backstage, Russell and the other pets heard the bell of the first customer; he then held out his paw again, and the other pets gladly placed their paws on top. "One more time. 3… 2… 1…"
"FOR BLYTHE!"
"For Blythe?" Sugar Sprinkles repeated and wondered "Did I miss anything before I got here?"
