Randy spun around and started shooing Angela away. "Ew, gross. Get away from me..." he said. Angela smirked and backed away. "So, do we have a deal?" she said putting her hand out. "Because if you don't play I'll still come to Norrisville"

Randy growled and took her hand. "Deal" he said. As Randy shook her hand, he felt as if he was gambling with the devil.

He walked away from Angela, leaving her at her lane, lane 16. "Oh Randy, you could have kept this fate from happening..." Randy walked to his team. "Okay guys!" he said with enthusiasm. "Has any of you ever bowled before?" he asked. Bucky nodded but quickly added "Although I have trouble rolling to balls" he said.

Bucky got up and demonstrated. He picked up the ball (with great effort) and rolled the ball to the pins. The hit pretty close to the middle but didn't have enough force to knock them down. Only 3 pins went down. Randy nodded. His aims okay... he thought. "Bucky, maybe you should go get a lighter ball" Bucky sighed. "It's already the lightest one..." he said.

Behind him Julian stifled a laugh. Randy turned to face the goth boy. "And how do you bowl?" Julian sighed. He walked over to get his ball, it was dark purple and weighed 12 pounds. Julian stepped up to the line and without taking steps, rolled his ball to the pins.

It looked fine and first but then started rolling to the left and hit three on the end. Julian sighed and Randy nodded. "Good" he said. Then he turned towards Heidi. Time to face the music... he thought, cringing.

"So Heidi how do bowl?" Heidi looked up. "Um..." she was still having trouble putting her fingers in the right holes. Randy sighed and demonstrated on his bowling ball, which was a deep shade of red. Heidi smacked her head with her left hand. "Oh yeah, I knew that" she lied.

She then stepped up and got ready. Like she had seen people do on TV, she swung her ball back to took three steps forward. From lane 16 Angela and her team; Theresa, Stevens, and Debby Kang were watching Heidi getting ready to bowl. When she let go of the bowl it flew through the air...

and into the lane next to theirs lane.

Angela laughed at this. Randy winced. Ouch that had to be embarrassing... he thought. While Angela laughed, Heidi's face grew red. She spunaround to face the rich brat. "What is your problem?!" she snapped. Angela stopped laughing and smiled at Heidi. Time to have some fun... she thought looking at the red head.

"It's not me who has the problem honey" she said with a smirk. "It's you who can't hit a pin even if she was two feet away from it..." she finished while turning away. Heidi fumed.

"That's it..." she said pulling up her sleeves as she walked to the devil girl. Randy turned around and saw Heidi walking towards Angela as if she were ready to rip her eyes out, which she was. Randy's eyes widened. "Oh snap!" he said.

He ran over to Heidi before she could punch Angela in the head. "Woah there!" he said jumping in front of Heidi. She scowled. "Mandy move out of my way!" she said getting ready to get around him.

Randy put his arms out to keep her from getting to Angela. "Okay, first thing" he began. "Mandy isn't even a guy's name and second" he said putting his arms down. He raised the tips of his eyebrows in a caring way. "I'd love to see you honkin punch that girl in the face but this isn't your fight" he said. Heidi's face softened and she sighed.

She dropped her hands to her sides and walked back to their lane. "I guess you're right.."

Randy smiled. "Now let's work on your bowling..."he said embarrassed as he looked at Heidi's pink bowling ball still over in lane 14.

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Howard walked around the house looking for batteries as the stupid fire alarm kept beeping every minute. This is wonk! he thought as he looked through drawers looking for batteries. Finally he found some Duracell batteries and made his way upstairs to where the messed up alarm was. When he was at the top of the stairs Howard noticed a problem.

He was too short to get to the fire alarm. Usually when it went off one of his parents was there to put it in. Howard thought about this again. Or Heidi...or Randy... suddenly the truth hit Howard like a sack of bricks.

"DAMMIT I'M SHORT!"

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Viceroy was enjoying his day in the Philippines with his pet blob, Nicolas, when a his cell phone started to buzz. Viceroy looked at his phone and read the inscription that had appeared on the screen. The McFist bowling alley's machinery was glitching. Someone must have spilt a smoothie on it or something... he thought looking at the sun. He looked at the sea and tried remembering what could happen. His face paled. Uh-oh... he realized.

Disastrous things could happen if the machinery's glitch makes it malfunction too much! Thought Viceroy taking a deep breath. He shook his head. From here he wouldn't be able to stop it, and the people who worked there definitely wouldn't know how to stop then Viceroy had a sigh of relief.

It will only happen if someone gets close to or higher than 200 he remembered. And mostly highschool students are playing there he reassured himself. They won't get that many points...right?

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McFist was doing his best not to kill himself. For and hour he was doing "family bonding" with Bash. He was on the verge of ripping off his mustache and strangling himself with it. Principal Slimovitz walked up to the McFist, Marci, and Bash. He cleared his throat.

"This next activity is a trust fall" he said. Oh no... thought McFist. Slimovitz went on "One of you will go onto the table and will fall. Then you will have to trust the rest of your family to catch you!" he said. When he said this Bash spoke up.

"I don't need either of you to catch me!" he then ran over and jumped onto the table. "I'll catch myself!" Bash then raised his arms and fell off of the table. He hit the ground with a loud 'thud'. Marci put her hands to her mouth. "Jeepers creepers! Are you okay my little Bashford!?" she asked. Bash lay on the ground, face up and his arms pointed out so his body made a 'T' position.

"Hey! I didn't catch myself!" he yelled. McFist face palmed. No shit Sherlock... he thought as Marci and Slimovitz checked up on the fallen Bash.

()()()

The tournament between team Grace and team Cunningham was going to start in 30 minutes. And Heidi was only improving by a little.

Heidi tossed the ball and this time it actually made it into the correct lane. It then swerved to the left and landed in the gutter. "I think the ball's jinxed" she said. When the ball returned Julian stepped over and inspected it.

"Nope. No jinxes on this ball..." he said taking a look at it. Heidi elbowed him in the gut. As Heidi stepped up to the lane, ball in hand, Randy jumped up and stopped her. "Woah, woah, hold on!" he said waving his arms.

Heidi looked over her shoulder. Randy walked over and stepped behind her, sort of hugging her. He held the back of Heidi's hand and guided it in the direction she was supposed to swing it back, oblivious to the fact that what he was doing was a sort of romantic gesture. "You want to swing it straight behind you so that it won't go too much to the left.." he moved her hand in front of her and to the left. "or too much to the right" he did the same on her right side.

Angela was watching this with a sour face. Randy then moved his arm back with Heidi's and guided her arm towards the lane. She let go of the ball and it slowly rolled down the lane. Randy stayed there until the ball hit the pins in the middle, knocking 7 down. He then moved away a faced Heidi. He smiled with his eyes closed.

"Just bowl like and you'll do just fine!" he said. Heidi blushed but didn't smile. Does he realize what he just did? she thought. Which actually, he didn't. Heidi then realized she had butterflies in her stomach. When he had been helping her, Heidi had felt a sense of warmth and had goosebumps. She looked up at the screen which displayed her current score. She smiled. Progress...

From lane 16 Angela was glaring daggers at Heidi. Randy had just wrapped his arms around her and helped her bowl. Angela growled. She looked over at her team. Theresa was bowling okay, but she kept having her ball hitting about 3 pins on the very end. Debby was having trouble holding her ball due to her being brains over brawns. And it wasn't helping that Stevens was playing his trombone whenever Debby or Theresa messed up.

Theresa ran crying into the bathroom the next time Stevens gave her 'the sad trombone' when her ball rolled into the gutter. Angela slapped Stevens. "What is wrong with you?!" she cried. Stevens rubbed his face and turned back to the southern girl. He merely shrugged.

Angela sighed at the boys lack of words and emotions. "So how can you bowl?" she asked. To answer her question, Stevens picked up a ball and set his trombone down on a chair. Angela watched as her rolled the ball down the lane, hitting 4 down with pins on the end still up. Angela shook her head. Good... she thought. Just then her watch began to beep. She looked down at it and smiled.

"Oh Rrrrandy!" she said. Over at lane 15 Randy shuddered. Angela's looks gained the attention of all the boys yet the only one she paid attention to couldn't stand her. He turned around slowly. "What?" he asked. Angela smiled. "Time to begin the game..."

()()()

Howard was balancing on a huge stack of death as he tried replacing the fire alarm's batteries. He was standing on standing on top of an old chair, that was on a pile of books, which was on pots and pans from the kitchen, which was on top of a swivel chair. Even as Howard was standing on his tip toes, it still wasn't enough. Finally he was able to reach the alarm and took the cover off so he could replace the batteries.

Howard opened it and his face fell. "CRAP!" the batteries he was holding were to small. Just then the stack of random house junk below him started to wobble. Hoh, boy... he thought. The pile of junk below him then tumbled to the ground, with him at the top. "aaaAAA!" he yelled. Howard and his tower hit the ground with a loud crash.

Howard looked up at the fire alarm while rubbing his head. The alarm beeped and Howard narrowed his eyes. It's on... he thought.

()()()

McFist and Marci had rushed Bash to the hospital when Marci claimed he was saying dumb and stupid things. No honey. he's just like that... he thought as they drove Bash to the hospital. "Oh my little Bashford must have a concussion! He's talking nonsense, look!" she said. In the back of the car Bash was pointing at a dog. "Hey look! That pig's on a leash!" he said, while pointing.

McFist began grinding his teeth. Once he's 18 he's out of the house! he thought, thinking about the party he would throw once Bash was an adult. He looked in the rearview mirror and saw Bash blowing bubbles out of his mouth.

"Hey look! My mouth's a bubble bath!" 18 years old physically, not mentally... he added.

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Viceroy was sitting in a chair on one of the many beaches in Boracay with Nicolas by his side, when his cellphone began to buzz again. Now what... he thought as he pulled it out. The mad scientist's eyes widened when he looked at it. Oh no...

Right now a kid was getting close to the amount of points needed in order to send the bowling alley's glitch off the edge and having it cause mass destruction to the building and most likely its inhabitants. Viceroy took a closer look. Seems as if the points are coming from... he scrolled down his smartphone. Lane 15...

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Randy and Angela's teams had been bowling for hours now, playing until the Norrisville High school students would have to go home. The teams were tied, but due to Randy's epic bowling skills they were pulling ahead. Heidi, Julian, and Bucky were also improving. Heidi seemed to be the most. What Randy had done really seemed to help.

Randy stepped up to the line. He took four steps then rolled the ball down the lane. It spun and hit the main pin, a strike. Randy pumped a fist in the air. "Yes!" he said. Just then the lights in the building flickered. They started going on and off and then remained on. Randy raised an eyebrow. Okay... he said. Suddenly the ball return started spitting out balls.

They went flying through the air, destroying walls and other things in the building. Kids screamed as the bowling balls flew, almost hitting them. Randy bent over as one almost hit him in the face. It brushed his hair as it soared by.

Sweet cheese that was close! Randy thought as he looked back to where the bowling ball had landed, stuck in the wall. Randy turned to see kids running and screaming as the dodged the bowling balls. "Get to the exits!" he yelled. The kids ran out of the bowling alley, sadly lane 15, and 16 were in the middle of the bowling alley, and the farthest away from any exit.

As more bowling balls flew through the air he saw one flying towards Angela. "Angie move!" he yelled, calling her by the name he had used for her back in kindergarten. She didn't. As the ball made its way towards Angela, Randy took action and tackled her. The ball missed her head by inches and smashed into the wall behind her.

They hit the floor with a 'thud' and Randy grabbed her by the arm. "This way!" he said. They crawled over to the counter where they rented the shoes. When they got there they found the rest of their friends hiding. Randy smiled. "Hey! You guys made it!" Bucky spoke. "Yeah! We also made it TO THE ONLY SAFE PLACE IN THE STUPID BUILDING!" he said freaking out.

Angela looked nervously at Randy. "Thanks for saving me back there..." Randy didn't look at her when he responded for her was scoping the area by looking around a corner. "No problem..." he said. How do I stop this? he asked himself. Suddenly Randy's gaze shifted to the sledgehammer on the other side of the room. His face lit up. Maybe this could work...