Chapter 8: If I were a Richman
(School Airducts)
GIR: (Looking through pile of filth and whinning) Aw, oh, eh, where are the bananas? Where are the bananas?
Pain: (Walks up behind him) There are no bananas you twit.
GIR: There are no Bananas today?
Pain: Yes, we got no Bananas. We got no Bananas today.
GIR: (Whines) Ohhhhhhh.
Pain: Okay, listen this has gotten tiresome. It seems you're so stupid that all forms of technologically enhanced weapons I have in my possession are useless. Therefore I need to change my tactics.
GIR: I have no idea what you say.
Pain: (Sighs) Look, I'm made this lasso out of some rope. (Holds up lasso) I figure if I just throw this thing on you I'll be able to trap you and we can get back to our normal lives. (Throws rope around GIR)
GIR: Yay! It worked!
Pain: I thought I'd be enjoying this, but you see I've come to expect that some random chain of events will cause disaster to befall on me.
GIR: (Appears to hear something) Leprachauns! (Rockets come out of his feet)
Pain: Aw crap. I saw this coming.
(GIR takes off flying down the duct with his rocket shoes towing Pain behind him.)
GIR: WHEEEEEEEE!
Pain: I HATE YOU GODDDDD!
It had been a few days since Gar's victory over Mammoth and his bully friends. Now they considered Gar tougher then them and were at his beck and call. Because he was now friends with them they were now technically friends with the nerds. Of course they still had to pay them to provide protection from any other possible bully threats, but they accepted monopoly paper money because...well they were just that stupid. Another dramatic change was how Roy no longer hung around Mal any more. His plan to destroy Gar had finally opened his eyes to what Mal did to his "Friends" when their usefulness had worn out. Instead Roy started hanging out with Gar and the Nerds more. Finally he was being treated as an equal friend among the group and had now started getting involved in Control Freak's RPG nights. But despite all this success, Gar's friends still had a lot of work to go. As Raven explained a few days after the fight in the sewers had taken place.
"With the Mammoth's bullies no longer prowling the halls we now have a new problem." She pulled down a chart of the school. One section of the school was covered red while the other was covered blue. "Control of the school grounds has now shifted. The places where Mammoth's buds use to hang out have been taken over. The prep kids have basically taken their place on the east side of the school and are starting to get more involved in school activities."
"Meaning?" Gar asked not knowing exactly what she was talking about
Kole filled that question
"They're basically forcing students to pay them money to pass through certain halls." She explained "They don't pay...well...the results aren't pretty."
"When it comes to doing the bullying on regular basis it still just plain old name calling." Raven added "They don't like to get their pretty hands dirty, rather have someone else do the hands on stuff for them. Not that they're push overs, most of them are on the school wrestling team."
"So whose the red coloured dudes?" Gizmo asked
"Dick's gang of leather suited punks." Raven asnwered "They've completed expanded their territory even more so then the Preps. The halls smell like friggin hair gel now, its irratating."
"So what's the plan?" Gar asked
"We need to beat Dick's buddies out of their newfound position of power before they start taking over even more of the school." Raven said "Problem is even with Mammoth's goons listening to us they are no match for Dick's Nightwing gang. Those guys have been on the streets most of their lives, they're stronger then they look. What we need is someone with the resources and muscle to out do them."
"Not the jocks." Seymour said "Victor Stone may not hate us like the rest of them do but he doesn't want to rock the boat."
"In other words he wants to maintain the status quo of the school." Gar explained "Trying to make friends with us is not good for popularity."
"Considering how Mr. Games runs the team I'm not surprised." Raven said "If the coach found out he was friends with weaklings he'd kick him off the team."
"So," Kole said rubbing her chin "we need someone whose tough...but who doesn't hate us completely."
The nerds all started thinking hard, but after awhile of 'hmm'ing and 'ahhh'ing they had no answers. That when Gar said something
"Wait," Gar said looking up at everyone and over to Raven "didn't you say the preps were on the wrestling team?"
"Yes," Raven responded "most of them."
"So what if we found a way to get them to like us." Gar asked "Then we could use their wealth and power to strike at Dick's gang with minimum effort."
"That could work." Kole said "The Preps and Dick's Punk friends hate each other! The preps hate Dick because their from poor backgrounds and Dick hates them because the preps are richer then he is and they represent authority which he hates even more!"
"So we must use our superior diplomatic skills to convince the Preps to join us in our crusade!" Control Freak shouted "Everyone! Macro your Charm spells to position 2!"
The room looked at Control Freak with silence and a combined annoyed look.
"This is not a friggin MMO Game Control Freak!" Raven shouted back
"Besides its gonna take a lot more then Charm spells to get the preps to join us." Kole explained
"You're right," Control Freak said "we'll need to master our Speech Skills as well as our disposition."
"Oh god." Raven said covering her face with her hand.
"Maybe if we find some preps who are NOT as big superficial jerks as the others we can convince them to help us." Gar suggested
"That's a start," Raven admitted "but we'll need all the rich kids to be on our side. Meaning we'll have to find a way gain their respect."
"We could win the lottery." Gar suggested
Raven looked at him coldly
"Anything that doesn't require sheer luck?" Raven asked
"We'll have to talk to the preps themselves if we want to figure that out." Gar said "Know anyone who is willing to talk?"
Raven rubbed her chin some and thought
"I may know one," She finally answered "he's a prep but he's not a total jerkoff. A little bit of an ego, but he's an athlete so that's nothing new."
"Who is he?" Gar asked
"The fastest kid in school," Raven told him "Wally West."
Raven led Gar over to track around the football field where they watched a young boy in a yellow track jersey and red hair run around the track a few times at a tremendous speed.
"His average is 25.37 seconds for a full circle around the track." Raven explained "Every track meet he's been in he's competely decimated the competition. Plus he and his pal Vox are the only two preps we could really trust."
"Vox?" Gar asked confused
"Lead Trumpet player on the school ochestra." Raven elaborated
"Okay, so why can we trust him?" Gar asked
"Because there are only two types of preps in the world," Raven explained "Republicans and Democrats. Republicans are rich snobs who think they're better then everyone else because they're rich and Democrats are rich snobs who think they're better then everyone else because they're progressive forward thinkers."
Gar was beginning to think this was going to quickly devolve into a commentary about class differences...but it was best to just go with the flow.
"Why don't we call him over?" Gar asked Raven, who simply sighed heavily
"Whenever he runs he gets tunnel vision, the only thing he hears is cheers and admiration from his fans in the stands. I could yell at him and ask if he wants a sandwhich and he'd just respond, 'Yes I know I'm the greatest!' As I said before, preps are high on themselves."
"So what?" Gar wondered "We just wait for him to be done?"
Raven nodded
"Shouldn't be long," She assured "he finishes these exercises pretty damn fast."
True to her word, Wally eventually came to a stop in front of them and held his hands above him in victory.
"Nothing like twenty laps around the track to get the blood pumping." He remarked
"You done, cause I'm getting tired of waiting for you." Raven said grabbing the boy's attention
"Relax," Wally said "no one waits for too long when Wally West is concerned. So what brings you here to the track Raven? Aren't you suppose to be hanging out in the library with your nerd friends?"
"Its more entertaining then watching rich kids run around in circles." She shot back
"Ouch, that hurts." Wally said sarcastically "So what do you want?"
Raven stood up from the breachers and pointed over to Gar beside her.
"You remember Garfield Logan right?" She asked
"Oh right!" Wally said "The kid who beat up that moronic Mammoth bully." Wally looked over to Gar and gave him a solemn salute "Good job there kid, schoo isl a lot better without him and his thugs around."
"You know very well that Mammoth's gang of thugs was only a small part of our problems." Raven reminded him "We still have a few loose ends to tie up with the other bullies in the school."
Wally didn't seem to understand
"Oh come on Raven." Wally said "I'm not a bully! You know that. I just like being rich is all."
"We're not after you Wally." Raven told him before Gar interjected
"We need to stop Dick's group of punks before he completely takes over the school and makes life a living hell for the other kids here." Gar explained "But we can't do it without the other preps on our side."
"Well good luck kid." Wally told him "Sure I'd love to help out with this daring crusade and all, but you're asking the wrong guy. I'm not incharge of the Preps at the time. That leading honour goes to Adie Donnigton."
"Who?" Gar said bewildred
"Adie Donnigton," Raven explained "also known as Adonis. Tall kid, rather shirmpy but he makes up for it."
"How?" Gar asked
"He stuffs his shirt with paper towels to make himself look buff." Wally explained "But trust me, he can still throw a mean punch."
"He's a Republican," Raven added "his father owns a huge multi-national stock agency and he's a chauvinist pig. I don't think anyone really likes him, not even the other Rep Preps, but he's the richest kid on campus so they all look up to him."
"He's the reason the preps have started to expand into the school more and take part in more unsavoury activities as well." Wally told them "He's not going to be willing to join up with your cause, it would directly screw with his ambitions."
"But you guys all hate Dick's gang!" Gar said "We hate him too! Isn't that enough?"
"No" Wally put it flatly "Unlike most Reps, he's not willing to risk his neck and hold on the school to try and take down Dick's gang of leather wearing asses head-on. He's hoping to just get enough influence in the school to buy them off or something. He figures they need the money. I think they'd just buy more hair gel and punch him in the face afterwards."
"So what if we got the preps to start listening to you?" Raven asked
"Then I could help." Wally told them "Unfortunately its easier said then done. First you have to get them to take a vote and elect me as the leader instead of him."
"How do I do that?" Gar asked
"The other preps would have to vote whether or not there should be a vote for leader at all." Wally began "Then the two opposing party's, the challenger and the current leader must then intiate a challenge between one another that would take place between their recommended combatants, if the leader's choice wins, then there's no vote at all, if the challenger wins then the vote goes ahead."
Gar stood there with his mouth wide open
"What kind of stupid electoral system is that?" Gar demanded to know
"Hey," Wally said "don't blame me, I didn't make up the rules."
"Who did then?" Gar asked
"Adie." Wally stated flatly
Raven and Gar both slapped their foreheads at the same time.
"Can I talk to you for a sec?" Gar said ushering Raven over to the sidelines. She followed him and listening intently as Gar began whispering to her "Are we really going to trust the overall success of this plan to this stupid rich kid club election?"
"I know it's a retarded system made up by some ass wad preppy chauvinist jackwad," Raven told him "but what choice do we have Gar?"
"But this challenge could be anything!" Gar said "Poker, video games, a trivia quiz, hell they may decide to do a army haze ritual. I've seen the movie Rae, they're not pretty."
"Listen, we'll just go along with all these preppy politics until we get Wally into the position as leader. Then he can clean up the preps themselves and get them to stop bullying kids. After that we can take on Dick's gang. I'm just saying for now, we just go with the flow."
"Fine, but I won't like it." Gar told her
"I didn't say you had to." Raven said
The two turned back to Wally.
"Okay," Gar said "we'll help you get to the leader position. So how do we get them to decide to take a vote."
"What any good impeachment needs my friend," Wally said with a huge smile "A huge political scandal."
Gar and Raven suddenly cheered up
"This probably won't be so bad after all." Gar thought.
Gar was going to go over some possible scenarios in which they could discredit and possibly humilate Adie, or Adonis whatever he wanted to be called. He was hoping that she would have a little information on him when he rehoined her at lunch to discuss it all. But first he had English class. He was hoping that Mr. Mod was not in one of his depressed moods today, he wasn't a bad teacher...it was just he had a hell of a lot of issues. That and something about him made Gar like him...he wasn't sure. When he arrived at the door though he got a surprise as he peered in. Standing in front of Mr. Mod, as the English teacher sat down at his desk and shook nervously, was Mr. Blood. In the math teacher's hands was what looked like a bottle wrapped in a paper bag.
"Sometimes I wonder how you manage it Moddy." Blood wondered
"I told you you I have no idea what you're talking about." Mr. Mod assured
"Don't play dumb with me." Mr. Blood said shoving the bottle in front of Mr. Mod's face. "I know all about your dirty little alcohol problem my firend."
"You can't prove that bottle is mine." Mr. Mod told him
"I found it in your office." Mr. Blood replied
"Kids play pranks!" Mr. Mod said "It could have been planted! Besides its just one single bottle, its not like I have a secret stash of beer all over the school."
"You listen to me Limey Drunkard," Blood said staring Mr. Mod in the face "I don't know how you managed to survive this long in this school, especially since you never have any students. Mock my words, I'll catch you one day and when I do you'll be out of this place so fast you'll be back in London teaching children with crooked smiles before you even know what happened!"
With that Mr. Blood stormed out of the room with a rather steamed look on his face. Gar crept out from behind the door as he passed and entered the class to see a moaning Mr. Mod contemplating his future.
"I'm buggered." He muttered to himself "So buggered, so very very buggered."
"Uh...Sir?" Gar piped up to get the Brit's attention
Mr. Mod suddenly shot up and looked at his student
"Oh," He said "Garfield. Didn't see you there. Is it class time already?"
"Ah yeah it is sir." Gar answered before chyanging the subject "Uh, what was all that about with Mr. Blood?"
Mr. Mod let out a sigh.
"Mr. Blood just really hates me Gar," He explained "ever since I showed up. He's been trying to get rid of me ever since. Thinking I'm somehow holding him back from being able to teach my course instead."
"Why?" Gar asked "No one takes the course."
"Blood blames me for that," Mod replied "he thinks he do a much better job then anyone else in the school. I'm hanging by a thread as it is since no one wants to take my class, coupled with the fact that Blood's trying to prove I'm an alcoholic and..."
"Well are you?" Gar questioned
Mr. Mod sat silent for a second and looked at the ground. He played with hsi thumbs for a second before breathing in and sighing once more.
"Yes," He admited "I have a drinking problem. I've admited it before, but you need to understand. I drink because I'm depressed and my career is a failure and drinking just makes me more depressed!"
Gar shook his head
"Sir," He said "if Mr. Blood finds you out you'll lose your job for sure! And then he'll take your place for good! I don't want that evil homework monster as my teacher for two classes."
"Wow this is making me even more depressed," Mr. Mod said "time for another Beer!"
"No!" Gar said putting his foot down "No beer!"
"But its so frothy and self-empowering." Mod whinned
"No beer!" Gar told him "You have to quit this habit before you completely wrecks your life."
"What are you?" Mod asked him "A Public Service announcement?"
Gar just sighed deeply. His teacher was a drunkard and was preyed upon by an evil kid hating monster. Mr. Blood's classes were beyond cruel in math, with all sorts of numbers and symbols he didn't understand. He never allowed questions and he always expected you to be right about everything. Imagine what he could to Gar in English class! He needed to fix this problem and fast. Realizing that Mr. Mod's drinking was caused by his depression he thought up an idea.
"Listen if I find a way to get more people to take your class will stop drinking?" Gar asked
Mr. Mod thought about it a bit
"Well...maybe...not as much." He said "As long as Mr. Blood stayed off my back for awhile."
"Okay done." Gar said "Now is there anything else I should know about your drinking problems?"
"No I don't think so-" Mr. Mod stopped suddenly "Uh oh...I kinda sorta stashed a few bottles around the school."
"You what?" Gar said in astonishment
"Well I figured I could use the extra boost when kids threw spit balls at me in the halls." Mr. Mod explained
"Okay," Gar said "sir I admire you for successfully actually hiding illegal contraband in the school, but I'm gonna need to smash those bottles before Mr. Blood finds them and gets you fired for sure."
"Why you?" Mod asked
"If he sees you getting the bottles you'll be busted even quicker." Gar explained "Where can I find them?"
"Alright then," Mr. Mod reached into his desk and handed him a map of the school "They're at the circled locations."
"Alright on it!" Gar said grabbing the map and running out the door
"Oh and Gar!" Mr. Mod said "About the other students?"
"I'll get them don't worry!" Gar said speeding around the corner
Mr. Mod watched his only pupil dissapear around the corner and he resituated himself in his chair, he heard a distant clanging sound in the rafters above him
"Hm, this old school has so many bloody rats its getting on my nerves." He thought "They should really fumagate."
(In the vents)
(GIR and Pain zip through the airducts)
GIR: Monkey Man!
Pain: Stop! For the love of all that's holy stop!
GIR: I LIKE TACOOOOOOS!
Pain: Shut up! Shut up! Shut up!
(They suddenly launch up and start heading towards the roof)
Pain: Ah crap this won't end well
(GIR bursts right through on of the roof top vent ducts and zooms right over the school and into the town off campus)
GIR: All the little peoples look like tiny little dots. Hey look a squirrel!
Pain: That does it!
(Pain inches up the rope andgrabs GIR's leg)
Pain: Surrender you peice of scrap metal before I-
(GIR runs out of fuel)
GIR: We fall now
Pain: (Sarcastic) Oh joy.
(Both begin falling)
Pain: AHHHHHHHH!
GIR: WHEEEEEEEE!
(Both land in garbage. GIR jumps out and opens his head. Pulling out his dog costume and putting it on)
GIR: I gonna get me some bananas! (Runs off)
(Pain climbs out of garbage)
Pain: Ah god freaking damnit! (Gets out walkie talkie) Uh...dad we have a problem.
Gar had been looking all over the school for the bottles, the one of the closest ones was in the Cafeteria apparently stored behind a soda machine. The next was in a nearby boy's washroom, of course it wasn't at all pleasant removing the bottle from the back of the toilet.
"How can he drink it after it been in this water?" Gar thought
The last was slightly harder, it was stored in one of ducts leading to the vents. Problem was those were sealed shut. Not having many good ideas on how to solve these kinda problem Gar did what anyone would do. He grabbed a nearby garbage can and slammed it against the grate over and over again. The grate suddenly plopped off and Gar reached inside to find the last bottle.
"Now I just need to get these outside and destroy them." He thought
Suddenly Gar heard somebody yelling at him
"Vandalism is not permitted on school grounds!" It shouted
One of the many school prefect of course running at him from across the hall.
"Nothing is ever easy!" Gar said turning to run "Even trying to destroy evidence for the school drunk!"
Gar ran as fast as he could to escape the prefect. Bolting down the hall and into the main lobby, trying to hold on to the bottle he was carrying. If he was caught with it, he would be dead for sure. He burst out the front door and into the main courtyard running for his very life. The prefect close behind.
"Come back here!" The prefect shouted
Gar managed to run all the way back to boy's dorm. There he threw the bottles' over the fence of the school around back and quickly checked to see if the prefect had stopped chasing him. To be sure he double backed around the otherside of the boy's dorm and headed to the library, hoping he'd lose him inside. From there he could eventually head back to Mr. Mod's class and give him the news that the job was done. When Gar arrived however he found some unexpected visitors to the library, well not really unexpected its just Gar thought the nerds would all be in class. Besides he didn't count on Raven being with them either. They were all just sitting in the middle table reading books. Well Control Freak was reading a D&D strategy guide, but it still counted as a book...sorta. Raven was the first to look up and notice Gar.
"Gar?" She said surprised "What are you doing here?"
"I could ask you guys the same question." He responded "How come you're all not in class?"
"We have no class at this time." Gizmo informed "Its our free period."
"And since the rest of the school is hostile to us we all hang out in here and read books." Seymour added "Nobody besides us and the other nerds on campus come here so this way we avoid the horrible ridicule and scorn we get everywhere else."
"So you guys have no classes at all at this time?" Gar questioned
He got a collective nod from everyone in the circle. Knowing this information Gar couldn't help but smile.
"So all you do here is read books all day in here?" Gar asked
"Pretty much," Raven said "its a lot more healthy then sitting in a dark room playing RPG's all day."
Control Freak seemed to take offence to this as he snorted under his breath. Raven just shook her head.
"Raven was really the one who started it actually." Kole explained "She said that since we hang out here so much we might as well read the books here. Not many goiod ones due to budget cuts but the majority are readable."
"In any case" Raven continued "why does it matter?"
"Cause," Gar explained "I know a class at this time where all you do is read...and you get grades for it."
The word grades was like the sounding of a bell for the nerds, they suddenly perked up and ran right over to Gar surrounding him and asking Gar frantically what this class was. By the time he calmed them down and told them that it was english with Mr. Mod they seemed slightly skeptical. From what they heard he was just a really super depressed English teacher, Gar told them that he was actually really nice...even though he was depressed. Gar told them that Mr. Mod only ever asked them to do one thing and that was read an assigned book and answer a few questions about on a sheet of paper before next class. Nothing too hard for the nerds and since they loved knowledge, books went hand and hand with them. Still the mentioning of the word grades sealed the deal for them instantly, so they didn't need much convincing. Raven in the meantime just sighed at the proposition, she decided to give in because at least she may end up reading some good literature and discuss it in class without having to deal with Control Freak's RPG lingo all the time in the library. So Gar soon returned to the class with the nerds and Raven in toe, it didn't take long for them to get a transfer to the class. Apparently it was another rule of Rageworth, if a class had less then 2 students it was open for anyone with free time. Lucky for Mr. Mod, Gar was the only one from the start. Needless to say Mr. Mod was incredibly surprised to see five new faces in his class. His depression left him at this moment, of course it would return when a football came flying through the window a few seconds later. By then everyone decided the move their seats away from the windows.
Gar's real break came soon after, only running around the entire school didn't seem to him like an actual class period to him, but he's take what he could get. He eventually met with Raven and Kole at the desired meeting table in the cafeteria so they could disscuss Adie's downfall as head Prep.
"So what do you have on Adie?" Gar asked as he sat down
"Besides what every other girl in the school already knows?" Raven responded
"The guy is so high and mighty on himself that he thinks everyone is inferior to him." Kole added "Especially when it comes to women. He pinches butts, says perverted things to girls in the hallway, makes sexist jokes and has several girlfriends all of whom dumped him after one date when the got to know him."
"Geez, how is this kid not expelled?" Gar asked
"His flippin' rich Gar," Raven reminded him "he has enough resources to make sure nobody can kick him out."
"So we got anyway to screw with his popularity?" Gar asked
"I figure there has to be someway we can convince the other preps that the course Adie's taking them will only lead to ruin." Raven explained "Taking into account recent events in the Middle East I figure if get the preps to see that the nerds and other normal kids won't tolerate their preseance in the school halls."
"Sounds good to me." Gar said confidently "So which preps have the most fragile family jewels?"
"Kicking them in the groin won't work, it would only serve to piss them off." Raven told him "Instead we need to show them that their actions have consequences."
"Being kicked in the groin isn't a consequence?" Gar said surprised
Raven shook her head, he obviously didn't get the point
"I mean," She explained "that they need to see that their plan of hallway domination is going to back fire on them."
Gar's brain started to work at what she was saying, it was difficult to get going, but he finally got it when that little gear moved a smidge.
"You mean get everyone get mad at them and get them stuck in a quagmire!" Gar announced
Raven nodded
"Then again you could always just humiliate them horribly." She added
"How do you humilate a prep?" Gar asked
"How else?" Raven answered "Powerful men like Adie, or Adonis as he likes to be called, think they're untouchable. All you have to do is get to them."
Gar had finished his little meeting with Raven, now he just needed to find a way to get to Adie and his preppy buddies. How could he do that? He could dance naked in front of them wearing a Nixon mask, thats how those loser hippies did it. However the opportunity would eventually present itself, for as Gar was walking down the hall to his chemistry class a large group of guys in blue sweater vest jumped in front of him. Gar was now boxed in by blue sweater vests, then Gar realised what was going on. Since these fellas weren't wearing jackets they must of been preps. Then again they were wearing sweater vests, so really it wasn't so hard to see. Gar's brain was just slow at times. Then from out of the mass of rich kids came a smiling slightly taller then him prep. The way the other preps got behind him when he was a few meters in front of Gar could only mean one thing...this was Adie, aka Adonis.
"Where you going little man?" Adie asked Cracking his knuckles
Gar Struggled to say something and fast before this guy and his buddies pounded him into submission
"Uh," He stutterred "just Chemistry class...is there a problem?"
"Yeah," Adie replied "your going through prep territory."
"I am?" Gar said trying to sound like he didn't know, maybe then they'd let him offf the hook, no such luck.
"Yeah you are," Adie replied "and simply because your not rich enough or snobby enough you have to pay the toll or suffer the consequences."
Gar wanted to avoid this conflict as much as he could. He didn't care how fragile their balls were, he'd never be able to fight them all. Unfortunately for him he spent all the money he had on him. Only one way to escape now...weasal out of it
"I just bought a muffin at the cafeteria I got nothing left." He said trying to be as innocent as possible
"Then its consequences." Adie said seeming to be completely unphased by this
Gar back a little away as Adie advanced on him menacingly. Gar knew he needed to get out of there and fast.
"Hey come on guys." Trying to weasel himself out of this once more "I didn't even know this was your hall!
But Adie was still unphased by his pleads
"Don't play innocent with us!" At this phrase Adonis seemed to chuckle somewhat before turning to his friends "Heh, heh, I tried that one when father caught me with Nanny. Thought he could just sneak into my room by 'accident' huh? Thats how I twisted everything so I could blackmail him for his perverted ways. Then he bought me that convertible, he is so easy."
One of his friends now tapped Adie on the shoulder
"Uh dude.
"The prep pointed to a fleeing Gar running as fast he could away from the cocky rich kid
"Oh damnit!" Adie exclaimed "After him!"
The preps chased after Gar in a huge swarm. Gar was lucky to find that, among other things, Adie was a cocky little asshole. He could use that to his advantage, but at the moment he just wanted to get out of there. He looked back and saw the oncoming preps catching up to him.
"I just wanted to get to class on time!" He thought "What's wrong with that?"
Gar spun around a corner and jumped in the nearest locker he could find. He watched as blurs of blue ran past the locker as fast as the eye could see. Gar was safe
"Thank god, lost them." Gar said to himself. Of course he soon realised when he put his hand to the back of the locker it was as roomy as he had thought. There was something squishy there. One that made a sound.
"Hey dude." It said
"Gah!" Gar turned his head in an instant and saw a rather squished in Control Freak behind him. Say what you will about Rageworth, its locker's were really roomy.
"What are you doing in here?" Gar asked the squished up nerd
"What does it look like?" Control Freak responded "The same thing as you. Hiding!
Gar was somewhat annoyed that he had to share his hiding spot with one of chubbiest kids in school. Not that he hated Control Freak, he was just really uncomfortable in this locker with him, for then one reason
"Why does it smell?" Gar asked trying to pinch his nose
"Uh," Control Freak muttered "remember the part about the weak bladder...yeah."
Gar's eye's widened considerably at this
"GROSS!" He shouted backing up against the locker dooor as best he could before it suddenly swung open. Gar landed on his face and looked up to find Raven standing there. She had apparently heard them inside and opened the locker to set them free. Or to stop them from arguing.
"What the hell are you two doing?" She asked
"Its nothing gay if that what your thinking." Control Freak immediately defended himself
"Shut up!" Gar told the nerd
Raven however knew what was up
"Let me guess," She said "you went through prep territory?"
"Yes." The two boys responded at the same time
"Figures," Raven said with a hint of annoyance "those rich snobs think they own that hall. Something needs to be done about that."
Gar suddenly had an idea
"Hm...maybe we can cook something up." He suggested "But I need to get to Chemistry class before I can do anything."
"I know a shortcut from here," Raven said "no need to worry about those snobs either they don't go down that hall..," Raven got Gar to his feet and Control Freak pried himself out of the locker. Raven suddenly smelt something not to different from what Gar smelt. "What smells?"She asked
"Uh yeah, you see..." Control Freak started, but Gar cut him off
"You don't want to know." He told Raven.
The Group arrvied at Gar's chemistry class, Mr. Plasmas was going into his usual spazz out routine about the vapours that clogged his mind. Sometimes Gar wondered who was weirder, Mr. Plamas or Mr. Wilson. Anyway it didn't matter Gar was too busy making the rewuired ingredients for his plan to humilate the preps and possibly keep them out of the halls for a few weeks.
"A stink bomb?" Raven said surprised
"Yeah," Gar explained "I figure what can humilate the preps more then having their halls sabotaged by a stink bomb! They'll be caught right in the middle of it! They'll smell for weeks!"
"Excellent strategy Sir Gar." Control Freak exclaimed
"I must admit its a good idea," Raven added "when you use your head Gar you come up with good ideas. Nice to see you learning."
"Just because I'm little doesn't mean I pick things up fast Rae." Gar told her
At that moment, Mr. Wilson came barging in through the door.
"Where that little snob Adie!" He shouted
"Ah!" Shouted Mr. Plasmas "Don't shout! To much pressure!"
"Shut up you gas addled freak," Wilson yelled "where is Adie Donnigton?"
"He didn't come into class today sir!" Mr. Plasmas said quickly "Please don't rip out my eyeballs! Please!"
"Oh shut up!" Mr. Wilson shouted again "I'm gonna find that little bastard if its the last thing I do!"
With that Mr. Wilson stormed out of the class. While Mr. Plasmas held his head in pain and shouted "The vapours have got to me again!"
Gar and his companions were shocked at the events
"What the hell just happened?" Gar asked
"It doesn't matter," Raven told him "if he's pissed off at Adie then we can exploit it. Find Mr. Wilson and ask why he's so pissed at him."
Gar found Mr. Wilson at his desk in the biology classroom hanging his head in anger.
"Uh sir, is there something wrong?" Gar asked
"Nothing." He responded "Just that these bastard rich kids stole a specimen of mine."
"What specimen?" Gar asked
"A rare venus fly trap, one that Adie has claimed as his own project." Mr. Wilson explained "The little bastard is stealing all the credit, and I was the one who did all the hard work! But I can't say anything because he's so godamn rich!"
"So you want it back?" Gar asked
"No," Mr. Wilson explained "He'd just steal it again. I need to make sure it never happens again."
"What do you mean?" Gar asked
"Remember boy, there are two sides to biology." Mr. Wilson said holding up two fingers "Life! and death."
"So you want me to kill Adie?" Gar asked
"Nah," Mr. Wilson said "never be able to cover up the evidence. Just kill the plant. It should be in his room at the little spoiled brat's private clubhouse his father paid to be built here."
"Okay I'll do it, but I want an A for this." Gar told him
"Just kill the damn plant!" Wilson shouted
Gar took off with a flash.
Later he met up with Raven and Control Freak and told them about the situation.
"So you need to sneak into the Prep's private clubhouse on campus and kill a plant that he stole from the teacher." Raven said trying to piece altogether.
"You said I needed to touch the powerful people." Gar said "Infiltrate their little hideout and they'll be completely screwed!"
"Sounds good." Raven complimented, but Control Freak had a question.
"What about the stink bomb?" He asked
"I have an idea," Gar said "You guys use the stink bomb as a distraction and I'll sneak into the clubhouse and kill the plant."
"Okay," Raven said accepting the stink bomb from Gar "We'll set it off in five minutes in the center of prep territory. That should send all the preps in the halls into a panic. You head into the clubhouse and destroy the fly trap."
"Good luck Sir Garfield" Control Freak saluted
"Relax," Gar said confidently "how hard can this be?"
Gar haf reached the towering two story mini-mansion that was the prep residence. All he need to do was sneak someway and find Adie's room. He hid behind some bushes out front as he saw adie head out the door of the building and towards the school. This meant his room was empty except for the plant. He snuck queitly up to the building and around back where he found an open window into the mansion. Now he just needed to wait.
Raven and Control Freak has made it to the center of Prep Territory. Planting the stink bomb behind a water fountain they quickly set the nifty digital watch for two minutes giving them enough time to escape from the preps and the stink. Raven clicked the button and her and Control Freak ran for it. Well as fast as Control Freak could waddle run it seemed.
"Need to lay off the late night MST3K marathons." He panted "It completely wearing me out with all the junk food."
Raven grabbed him by the hand and forced him to keep moving. They reached the end of the prep territory and just when they did the stink bomb went off. It was a panic and a hectic rush of maddness as all the preps in the halls gasped for air running around like mad. They had no idea what was going on and were too busy running to the nearest exit to worry about it. Adie had a different problem, you see he didn't want to abandon the halls so he tried to force his fellow rich men to stay. Didn't work, they tackled him the ground and high-tailed it out the door. Stepping on him whilst they escaped.
The sound of the alarm outside was Gar's cue to head further into the building. He shimmed and crouched around the halls as preps from inside the building rushed out to se what was happening. Gar made his way by every door, checking in all the rooms for the fly trap. He soon found Adie's room and the fly trap sitting on the window sill. Gar did what Mr. Wilson told him to do and threw the plant and its flower pot out the window. It smashed ont the ground outside and Gar rushed to get to the back of the building to finish the job. He decided if he was going to get out he needed another distraction to cause just enough chaos to leave without the preps knowing he was there. He pulled a nearby fire alarm and listened to the sound verberate off the walls and water start pouring down from the ceilling. He got down to the window he snuck in and lept out. Finding the plant nearby he proceeded to smash it into the ground to make sure it was dead. With his job done, Gar hightailed it off the property and back the school building. He soon found Raven and a mess of students all gathered around the school trying to figure out what happened.
"Did you get it?" Raven asked
"Yep." Gar replied "A little moist but I'll be okay. How'd the stink bomb work out?"
"Like a charm." Raven said "Everyone was in a huge panic and had no idea what happened. The preps are completely olivious as to how we got pass them and they're pretty scared that this is only the beginning."
Just then Gar noticed Adie running back to the mansion. Once he was inside, his smile widdened.
"Wait a few seconds Rae." Gar told her
"Why?" She asked
"You'll see," Gar said as he began to count down "Three, two, one."
A high pitched scream came from the mimi-mansion of the preps followed by a loud "My Plant!"
"The sweet sound of success." Gar said
"Indeed," Raven replied "you were right Gar. This is fun."
