Project RX
Chapter 9
Thomas managed to sneak around to the front of the house while carrying the camera and the two lawn flamingos Muscle Man gave to him. Unfortunately he hit a bit of a snag when he came across the houses gates. Since they were apparently locked in two different areas, he had to leave the camera and the lawn flamingos behind the fence and take them over one item at a time. Fortunately he managed to get the items through the opening and get the lawn flamingos into the truck just as the rest of the gang came out carrying the equipment they came to purchase. Thomas managed to get back to the truck and lay the lawn flamingos down on the floor where he was certain they would be safe. He then switched his attention back onto his main assignment, continue to record and document the events leading up to and at the party. He diverted the camera to the rear window of the truck and focused on Mordecai, Rigby, Muscle Man and High Five Ghost; all of whom had to either put their product through the gap first then crawl through or leave the product behind and drag it through after they went through.
"See guys what did I tell you? Like they said, quality and cheap," Muscle Man said as they slowly walked the house length walk to the truck. "Yeah I guess you got a good point, but I'm still not too sure that buying products like these off the street is the best method of providing entertainment for the guests tonight?" Mordecai asked as he loaded the speakers he was carrying on to the truck. "I don't know what you're complaining about dude, thanks to this deal, we now have a more advanced video game system for tonight," Rigby said as he proudly showed it off to Mordecai. "Yeah, and once again, I had to help you pay for it," Mordecai complained. "And I told you I'll pay you back once I get the chance," Rigby argued at his friend. "Oh really just like you promised me you'd pay me back for the three meatball subs we had last month?" Mordecai asked Rigby as he took the turntables from Muscle Man and loaded them onto the truck. "Ohh well," Ribgy began before Mordecai cut him off. "And just like you promised you'd pay me back for your half of the last three Strong Johns games." "Well that I can actually explain," Rigby said trying to go on the defensive before Mordecai brought up another point. "And like you promised me you'd "reimburse me" for those movie tickets," Mordecai stated. By this point Rigby was starting to get irritated over how many expenditures Mordecai was bringing up that he was in debt to. "ALL RIGHT ALL RIGHT! Look I know I haven't paid you back on a lot of things, but I swear once I get the chance I will definitely reimburse you on the game system," Rigby reassured his friend. "Whatever man, just hand it up here," Mordecai said as he ushered his friend to hand it up to him. "What no way man. A fine video game system like this needs to be handled with care. This is riding in the car with us," Rigby said as he started to cradle it. "What, we barely have any room in the cabin," Mordecai said. "I'll hold it with me the whole ride back," Rigby argued. "Fine, whatever makes you happy," Mordecai said as he hopped down from the bed of the truck and pulled out the keys to the truck.
Unfortunately at that moment, Miguel and Mike had realized that their lawn flamingos were missing, and came to the conclusion that Mordecai, Rigby, Muscle Man and High Five Ghost took them. They immediately stormed out of the house and jumped over the fence demanding them back. "MITCH, YOU LITTLE CHEATING PRICK! GIVE BACK OUR LAWN FLAMINGOS!" Miguel hollered out to the gang as they immediately rushed into the truck and Mordecai tried as quickly as possible to start it up and get right out of the neighborhood they were in. Unfortunately just as he placed the keys in the ignition, Miguel and Mike jumped onto either side of the truck and started pounding on the windshield and even managing to crack it just by using their fists. "DUDE LET'S JUST GIVE THEM BACK TO HIM AND GET OUT OF HERE!" Mordecai yelled at Muscle Man. "DON'T WORRY ABOUT IT JUST DRIVE!" Muscle Man hollered from the back seat as Mordecai managed to start the truck and speed away in reverse. Even though Miguel and Mike managed to hold on for a while, Mordecai successfully managed to shake them off as he did a sharp reverse turn into a driveway on their left hand side. He then put the truck into drive and sped away as fast as possible before he came across a stop sign. "DUDE WHY ARE YOU STOPING!?" Rigby hollered. "STOP SIGN DUDE," Mordecai responded. "DUDE JUST STEP ON IT, THEY'RE CATCHING UP!" High Five Ghost hollered as he pointed to Miguel and Mike who despite stumbling a bit still managed to get up and start chasing down the park truck. Fortunately for the gang, Mordecai found a break in traffic and successfully managed to quickly turn right and accelerate away from them before they caught up with them. Just to be safe he sped down at least four or five blocks before slowing down. "(PHhhheeww) I think we lost them," Mordecai said as he breathed a sigh of relief before he looked up at the windshield and noticed the two cracks that Miguel and Mike had left there. "AWW Dude look at this, Bensons's totally gonna suspect something when he notices this," Mordecai complained. "Dude don't worry about it, I got a cousin who knows a guy who owns a body shop. He can fix it in no time," Muscle Man reassured Mordecai who started to drive a lot more calmly feeling they had outrun Miguel and Mike now. "Dude what was their deal anyway?" Rigby asked. "I wonder if those flamingos have something inside of them. Something that might be considered illegal," Mordecai pondered. "What no way bros." Muscle Man said going on the defense. "What, how do you know that?" Mordecai asked. "Trust me, I've been going to these guys for years now. The only thing they specializing in is selling cheap and quality electronic," Muscle Man said in a reassuring tone. "Look, we lost them, let's just stop for some ice, and get back to the park and set for tonighthhhhtht!" Muscle Man said as he screamed the last part of his sentence since apparently Miguel and Mike had caught up to them and ran right up to the truck and started knocking on the rear cabin windows rather violently. "DUDE STEP ON IT!" Rigby hollered as Mordecai immediately floored the gas pedal flinging Miguel and Mike off the truck and leaving them standing in the middle of the road. "HOLY CRAP! THOSE GUYS ARE FREAKING OBSESSED!" Mordecai screamed as he sped down the road before sharply turning right leading them back to the part of town they were familiar with.
Mordecai pulled the truck into a mini mart/gas station so he could refuel the truck while the rest of the gang stocked up on ice for tonight. Mordecai shut the truck off and put the gas pump into the trucks tank and started to put gas in before Rigby came up to him. "Dude can I hold onto the keys for you?" Rigby asked. "Why?" Mordecai asked in a puzzled tone. "Ehh…no reason," Rigby responded. "Then NO!" Mordecai retorted. "What, aw come on, Muscle Man and Fives said they need an extra hand with the ice," Rigby said back. "Why, Thomas is already helping them with it," His friend retorted, as he pointed to Thomas who was carrying a bag of ice in one hand while continuing to film with the camera in the other. "Actually we need an extra set of hands," High Five Ghost said. "Fine, I'll be right over," Mordecai said as Rigby pestered him again about letting him hold the truck keys. "Dude for the last time, you're not holding the keys," Mordecai fired back. "Come on, just let me hold them for five minutes," Rigby pleaded. "NO" Mordecai stated. The two eventually started roughing each other up and beating the crap out of each other before Muscle Man broke up the fight. "DUDES DUDES! There will be plenty of time to fight later tonight. Mordecai, just give Rigby the keys and help us with the ice," Muscle Man said. "Ugh Fine, if it'll stop him from pestering me about them, then I'm all for it," Mordecai said as he tossed Rigby the truck keys before joining Muscle Man, High Five Ghost and Thomas over at the ice storages outside the gas stations mini mart and grabbed two bags of ice and joined up with the other guys who left the first eight bags on the counter before going back outside to get another eight bags. "Dude are we really going to need this much ice for tonight?" Mordecai asked. "I mean people are going to be bringing stuff." "Dude trust me, as the hosts of this epic house party, it is important for us to provide enough supplies to be gracious to our guests for tonight," Muscle Man said in a reassuring tone. "You sure, because this better not all go to waste by the end," Mordecai stated. "Dude, trust me, if anything is left over from tonight, we'll save it in the freezer below the house for later on," Muscle Man said. "Fine just as long as we cover it up so Benson doesn't suspect that there was a party," Mordecai stated. "Will do," Muscle Man responded as everyone grabbed the ice bags and headed outside.
"Ugh, where the H is Rigby?" Mordecai asked as he and High Five Ghost threw the ice bags up to Muscle Man who loaded them onto the truck before covering them with a spare tarp that was lying in the bed. In between tossing ice bags up to Muscle Man, Mordecai kept looking around for Rigby, who a few minutes later came causally walking back. "Dude where the heck did you even go?" Mordecai asked. "Umm…just across the street," Rigby said. "Why?" Mordecai asked. "No real reason," Rigby said looking rather sheepish as he darted his eyes from side to side. "Why did you go across the street, dude?" Mordecai asked again. Rigby started to get nervous. He knew he'd be unable to keep the real reason why from Mordecai for very long, and that Mordecai could see right through him when he was lying. Very quickly he thought up the first thing that came into his mind and blurted it out. "ALL RIGHT ALL RIGHT! I went across to get…uh…to get…" Rigby started before he struggled to make up the next part of his lie. "To get what?" Mordecai asked. He was starting to grow impatient over Rigby's stalling, and Rigby trying to get out of this situation as quickly as possible. "Uhh…I went across the street…to get a sandwich…but I ate it along the way back," Rigby stated as he quickly tried to get into the truck before Mordecai stopped him when he said, "Dude there are no sandwich shops across the street." He then pointed across the street to emphasize his point even further, and to his word there was a laundromat, a dry cleaners, and even a mini mart right across the street, but no sandwich shop. "Ohh, uhh…uhh…well you see…" Rigby startled before he and Mordecai were interrupted by Muscle Man who was honking repeatedly. "COME ON GRANDMAS! WE STILL HAVE TO SET UP FOR TONIGHT!" He hollered out to Mordecai and Rigby who decided to put their argument aside and get back to the park as quickly as possible so they could get to setting up for the party tonight.
Mordecai pulled the truck up to the house and joined Rigby, Muscle Man and High Five Ghost in unloading the truck, while Thomas stuck to his assignment and kept videotaping them. Shortly, they were joined by Muscle Man's girlfriend, Starla. "Hey Mitch," Starla said as she and Muscle Man embraced and kissed each other deeply, which only grossed out everyone watching at that moment. "Dude this is even more sickening than the last time they were kissing this long," Rigby said trying to avoid looking at the two kissing as long as he could. This went on for at least 5 minutes before they finished. "So babe, did you get everything else for tonight?" Muscle Man asked. "Def., the guy I ordered it from said your brother will deliver them here within the hour," Starla stated. "What are you guys talking about?" Mordecai asked as he started taking out grocery bags from the truck. "You'll see when Muscle Bro gets here," Muscle Man stated. "Hey boss, we're hear and ready to go," A voice came from the porch of the house. "What the heck," Rigby stated as he and the others walked up to see there were two much younger looking green skinned dwarfs, dressed in black shirts and pants. Both were carrying portable cameras, batons, and walkie talkies around their belts. The only difference between the two was the kid on the left had much longer and darker looking hair, while the other kid had a buzzcut. "Oh good I'm glad you guys are here. Everyone, this is Starla's brother Max, and his friend Danny. These guys and Muscle Bro are gonna be in charge of security tonight" Muscle Man explained. "What are you serious?" Mordecai asked in a tone of disbelief. "Dude trust me, these two may be young, but they're freaking tough enough to handle something like this," Muscle Man said. "Isn't that right bros?" he asked them in an encouraging tone. "You freaking know it," the green skinned kid with the buzz cut said as he gave Muscle Man a fist bump. "Eh, I don't know Muscle Man. You sure it wouldn't be better if we just locked the house and every other area you specified off to the crowd when they showed up?" Mordecai asked. "Dudes, just trust me. These two are tougher than any lock we'd use on the house. Care to show them Max?" Muscle Man said motioning to the long haired kid who immediately whipped out a pair of Nun-chuks, to the shock of everyone but Muscle Man, Starla and the kids friend who was standing right next to him. He twirled them around his head, around him, and practically in every direction for at least three minutes, all the while not hitting any one near him. "Uhhh, ok, I…suppose we'll just…eh…take your word for it then," Rigby said in a rather worried tone.
"YO! What's up Muscle Man, Mordecai, Rigby?" A strange voice hollered out. The gang turned to see two people, one a moose whose hair practically covered his antlers and the other a rather nerdy looking high schooler student, both of whom were on bikes. "Who are you guys?" Mordecai asked. "We overheard you guys planning a party tonight back at the coffee shop. We want in for it," The moose stated. "What are you guys still in High School?" Rigby asked. "Yeah so what?" The nerdy looking guy stated. "Then you're not allowed to come," Muscle man responded. "What come on man, please?" The moose asked practically one step short of pleading. "NO FREAKING WAY! There's no way high schoolers, especially ones like you, are going to be invited to this party tonight. NOW GET OUT OF HERE!" Muscle Man hollered to the two who pedaled off. Mordecai, Rigby, Muscle Man and High Five Ghost went back to unloading the truck and moving everything inside the house. It took them at least 30 minutes to do so, but they managed to move everything into the living room before Muscle Man informed them of the next task they had to take care of for tonight. He asked Rigby to come along with him and High Five Ghost, who were going to go door to door of anyone living near the park and inform them about the party tonight in advance, while Mordecai was in charge of putting up flyers Muscle Man had printed up in advanced.
While Mordecai took Audrey's dog Miles for his daily walk and pasted the flyers on such places as telephone and lamp polls, bulletin boards, bus stop stations, basically anything that he could place the flyers on and people would notice them on; Rigby, Muscle Man and High Five Ghost made their rounds and began informing the neighbors of the party set to take place that night. Muscle Man knocked on the door of their first stop, only for a man and woman, both of whom appeared to be mid to late 40's, to answer. "Good afternoon Mr. and Mrs... uh…" he paused as he overlooked the list in his hand before continuing…"Beller. My name is Mitch, or Muscle Man, and this is Rigby and High Five Ghost." "Umm…ok hi," Mrs. Beller said in a rather confused sound. "We're going door to door to let you know that we're throwing a little party tonight, and that there may or may not be some party related noise. We're just letting you know about this ahead of time, and that we will do our best to keep the noise down to a minimum. Also if you have any concerns, here's my number you can call me any time you want," Muscle Man explained as he gave the couple a piece of paper with his phone number on it. "Ok, well thanks for the heads up, and have fun tonight," Mr. Beller explained as he closed the door on them. Their next stop was the rival park, East Great Pines, which was just down the road from the park. They arrived to inform their park manager Gene, who was a green vending machine, about the party, only for him to go immediately on the defense. He still remembered the prank wars between the two sides. "You've got some nerve stepping on our territory unarmed," Gene said as he readied a tomato in a sling shot. "Whoa WHOA WHOA! Easy Gene. We come on peaceful terms," Muscle Man explained. "You've got 30 seconds to explain what they are," Gene said, preparing to launch the tomato. "We're just here to let you know that we're throwing a party tonight, and we wanted to give you the opportunity of letting you know that just in case there's any party related noise, there's no need to worry or panic. Also if you have any concerns about tonight, here's my number you can call me here," Muscle Man explained as he handed Gene his phone number. Gene looked over the number, then back at Muscle Man, Rigby and High Five Ghost before turning to other members of East Great Pines and discussing the situation in private before turning back to them. "Ok, seems fair. Thanks for the heads up, oh and do you think we could swing by if we're not doing anything tonight?" Gene asked. "Yeah sure you guys can swing by. It's the least we can do after you helped us out last Christmas," Rigby stated. "All right, well thanks again, and hope you have fun tonight," Gene said as Muscle Man, Rigby and Fives left. The last stop they had to make was at an apartment complex right across the street from the park. It took them at least 30 minutes to inform everyone who lived there, especially since there were at least 40 to 50 people living there, but they managed to inform them all about the party before they went back to the park to begin setting up and laying out the stations for the guests that night.
A few hours later, Mordecai and Rigby were walking through the house discussing the layout of the party. "Ok, so I guess the DJ's table could go right here," Mordecai said pointing to a certain area on the back porch. "Yeah, and the snack and drink tables could go here and there," Rigby said pointing to the area near the bottom of the porch steps. "Yeah, and I think we should set up the ping pong table and other party games inside and around the garage area," Mordecai informed Rigby. "Why?" Rigby asked. "So we can hide them in the garage just in case," Mordecai explained. "So wouldn't it just be easier for us to set them up in the back yard, it'd save us the hassle of having to move everything?" Rigby asked. "Come on dude, we're gonna have to put them away when the party's over." Mordecai stated. "What, come on, Benson's not gonna be back until Monday," Rigby said. "NO DUDE! We have to clean up once the party's done tonight. "Ugh, fine. Can we at least have one or two games set up out here?" Rigby asked. "Yeah just as long as they get put away," Mordecai bargained. "Alright fine," Rigby agreed sounding rather annoyed at having to compromise yet again.
They walked down the steps to the back yard only to find there was a bouncy house and a rather big inflatable pool being set up. Muscle Man, was sitting near the bouncy house and blowing up a bunch of inflatable pool toys. "Dude, where did you get these things?" Mordecai asked seeming rather surprised over what Muscle Man obtained for the night. "Easy bro. I contacted this guy I know who specializes in party entertainment, and he gave me both of these for only 100 bucks. And with the purchase of the porta-john over there…" Muscle Man said as he pointed to an outhouse that was located right across from the house. "He agreed to throw in these," Muscle Man said showing off the inflatables, "and this fake fence that's lying over there," as he pointed to a rolled up pile of wood connected with wire, lying next to a tree. "What are you going to need a fake fence for anyway?" Mordecai asked. "Who knows? But if we do end up needing to use it, it'll be right there on standby," Muscle Man said as he gathered some of the flotation devices lying down and throwing them into the pool. "You ladies gonna help me or just stand there and watch?" Muscle Man said as Mordecai and Rigby helped him prepare the pool by throwing the floaties in, setting up a diving board and slide that it came with, and putting together the make shift deck while High Five Ghost started stringing lights along the deck railings and trees and bushes throughout the back yard. Dudes, check out what else I got for the pool," Muscle Man said holding up signs that said, "Bikini'd babes only." "Dude are those really necessary?" Mordecai asked as he and Rigby made another trip carrying pool floaties over. "Dude's trust me, with these things, this pool will be overflowing with gorgeous babes within an hour," Muscle Man said as he taped the signs onto a section of the make shift pool deck. "Or everyone will see that and leave immediately," Mordecai muttered. "WHAT BRO!?" Muscle Man asked. "Nothing," Mordecai responded. "DO YOU SERIOUSLY DOUBT THIS WILL WORK!?" Muscle Man hollered. "What…no no it's not that, I was just thinking it might work, but it also might not," Mordecai said trying to avoid either getting punched or lectured by their green skinned co-worker. "Just trust me this plan is foolproof. You just have to have some faith in your plan," Muscle Man stated. "Hey save some of those devices for the lake," He told Rigby. "Why? Do you really think people are going to want to swim in the lake tonight?" Rigby asked. "Just trust me bro, the whole idea behind that is to give our guests options for tonight?" Muscle Man stated. "Why do we need options for our party tonight?" Mordecai asked. "So that people have more options to entertain themselves tonight," Muscle Man responded. "All Right fine," Mordecai responded as he and Rigby picked up some other inflatables and carried them over to the parks lake.
After that, the gang set about to getting the games they would need for the night. They set up tables near the garage and in back for flip cup and soda pong, set up a bean bag toss game, and even brought out the old stick hockey table that had been lying in the back of the garage for some time. Afterwards, they moved on to getting all the snacks and drinks arranged for the guests when they showed up. In order to keep the variety of all they had available, they placed some of the drinks on the tables and the rest were placed in the refrigerator and cabinets to be preserved for later on in the night.
By 7:00 everything was all set up and ready to go, the pool was set and ready, Allan Marco, the DJ Muscle Man hired, was all set up and waiting for guests to arrive so he could start the music, the snack and drink stations were all set up, and all the games were set up and raring to go. All that was left to do was make a celebratory toast before the party. Muscle Man had set up five cups and opened a special bottle of soda that Mordecai and Rigby had been saving for a special occasion. Although tonight they could make an exception to that since they were throwing an epic house party. "Dudes, in one hour, this place is officially a freaking mad house," Muscle Man said as he poured five drinks for everyone in the kitchen. "Dude will you please…it's not gonna be a mad house, it's just a fun decent sized get together," Mordecai stated. "Relax all right," Muscle Man stated as he handed out a drink to Mordecai, then Rigby, then High Five Ghost, before taking one for himself and offering one to Thomas. "Thank you, but I'm not thirsty at this moment," Thomas stated. "Fine, your loss bro," Muscle Man stated. He put the cup for Thomas and down and raised his up as Mordecai, Rigby and High Five Ghost did the same. "Bros, to one freaking epic party, and a night that we shall remember forever," Muscle Man said as everyone plinked their plastic cups and drank the soda. Now all that was left to do was wait another hour, and then get set for the most epic night they'd ever remember. That is until it escalated into something they almost never would have imagined.
