Project RX
Chapter 10
Everything was all set up for the night, and ready to go. The snacks and drink stands were laid out in the back yard, the games were prepared, and the music was starting to get going. The only problem was it was already past 8:30 and the only people who had even shown up were the DJ Allan Marco, who was currently entertaining himself on the back porch by texting and surfing the internet on his phone in between looking to see if guests started to show up, Eileen, who was currently challenging Muscle Man in one of Mordecai and Rigby's video games, and Margaret who was sitting on a chair across from the couch Muscle Man and Eileen were on, was holding Audrey's dog Miles in her lap. Mordecai kept pacing around the downstairs floor nervously hoping that people would start showing up while High Five Ghost hovered in place near the couch and Thomas kept up his assignment of documenting the party. Rigby had apparently gone upstairs at least 45 minutes ago in order to make himself look as he put it, "ready to party." "Mordecai would you stop worrying so much, I'm sure people will show up eventually," Margaret said. "Yeah, why don't you take your mind off of worrying so much by taking over for Muscle Man. You'll probably do a lot better against me than he has so far," Eileen said jokingly taunting Muscle Man, who was growing frustrated over Eileen kicking his ass in Dig Champs 3. "Hey the only reason I'm not doing good is because I haven't even had a chance to get accustomed to this game yet," Muscle Man said defending himself. "Please this game came out just last year. You had all that time to get used to the feel and customs of this game. Though apparently you wasted it going through the latest menu add-ons at Wing Kingdom," Eileen retorted which got a huge laugh out of everyone downstairs, especially Starla. Muscle Man was not amused by this and just glared at everyone as they continued to crack up and laugh at Eileen's joke. Margaret got up out of her seat and walked over to where Mordecai was standing, still holding Miles in her arms, and walked with him into the room across from the living room. She could tell just by how he was pacing around back and forth and constantly checking out the windows that this was the first party they ever attempted to throw where Pops or Benson were not around to supervise them or try to keep it under control. "Hey don't worry people will show up, I'm sure they're just running fashionably late. I mean hey, can you remember one party or date we went on where either one of us was on time?" Margaret stated trying to get Mordecai to calm down. "Yeah I guess you got a point, I just hope Muscle Man knows what he's doing, and tonight is something of a success," Mordecai said as he walked away from her before walking back. "Well hey, even if no one does show up, you're all the company I'd need for the night. Oh and as a good gesture, I got you a little something for your birthday," Margaret said as she brushed a hand across Mordecai's cheek. "What..eh…hehe, you…you do know my birthday isn't for two more weeks right?" Mordecai asked rather nervously. "Yeah well, I assumed that since you're my best friend and all, I figured it wouldn't hurt to get you a little something in advance," Margaret explained. "Oh well, that does sound rather cool. What did you get me anyway?" Mordecai asked. "You'll see in a little bit. Now come on, let's go back in there and get set to party," Margaret said as she and Mordecai went back to join the others in the living room. At that moment, Rigby came walking down the steps dressed in one of the outfits he bought back when Benson took the cart from him and Mordecai, thus forcing them to ride a pair of lame bikes. Specifically, the outfit he was wearing now consisted of a grey overcoat on top of a polo shirt and a wool driving cap to complement the outfit. "So what do you think?" Rigby asked as he did a little twirl showing off his party clothes. "Ohhh, someone's definitely ready to party tonight," Mordecai said. "Ohh someone's getting lucky tonight," Eileen said as she got off the couch to get a closer look at Rigbys party outfit. Even Margaret tossed him a compliment by saying he'd definitely win a best dressed contest if they were throwing one tonight. The only one who was not impressed, but rather confused at his choice of clothing for the night was Muscle Man. "What the heck are you even wearing dude?" He asked Rigby as he walked over to the couch and sat down. "Hey laugh it Muscle Man, but trust me on this; sometimes it's better to show some class at parties," Rigby said as he sat down and slapped Muscle Man's leg. Everyone started to crack up at Rigby's reaction. "Jeesh dude, where do you even get clothes like that?" Muscle Man asked. "I've had this lying around since I bought it at das coolest," Rigby explained. "Really, how could you even afford to shop there?" Muscle Man asked. "I saved up for a while before I went on a shopping spree," Rigby explained. "Yeah after you had to borrow money from me," Mordecai butted in. "Dude seriously, are you ever going to let this go?" Rigby asked growing annoyed over Mordecai bringing up his lack of paying him back. "I will when you finally pay me back," Mordecai responded. "And I'm telling you, as soon as I…" was all Rigby managed to get out before he was silenced by Muscle Man, who apparently heard the sounds of cars parking and car doors opening and closing.
He wasn't all that far off as the gang walked outside only to see what appeared to be dozens of people, all of whom were carrying soda, snacks, and all sorts of things people traditionally brought to parties on them. Seeing it as it was only appropriate to start now, the park gang, Margaret, Eileen and Starla exited the house and began socializing and Muscle Man signaled Allan who started playing music as guests continued to file in in droves even ten minutes after the first wave of people showed up. "See what did I tell you grandmas," Muscle Man said as he grabbed four soda cans and opened one before passing the rest to Mordecai, Rigby and High Five Ghost. "All Right dude, I was wrong for doubting that people were going to show up," Mordecai said as he opened up his soda can. The four friends toasted and drank from their soda cans before leaving the porch to mingle among the crowd of people who continued to file in, and appeared to be increasing every minute. "Dude, this is a lot more than 100 people," Mordecai said as he and the others observed the crowd that was filing in. "Of course it is, those invites were plus 1," Muscle Man said. "What, what do you mean invites?" Rigby asked. "Oh, uh… nothing," Muscle Man responded rather weakly before he walked away from Mordecai and Rigby. "Dude what was up with that?" Mordecai asked. "Yeah what do you think he meant by invitations?" Rigby asked back. "Eh, I'm sure it's nothing relevant to tonight," Mordecai said as he shrugged off what Muscle Man said. "Yeah I guess so," Rigby agreed. "Now come on, let's go mingle with these here party folk," Mordecai cheered. "AWW YEAHUH!" Rigby said as he and Mordecai walked off the back porch to start mingling with the crowd and party.
Just off in the distance, Mordecai and Rigby spotted a cloud like girl in a pink stripped tank top walking around from the front of the house. Mordecai recognized her as CJ, his one-time friend who she thought was interested him as his girlfriend but he really only thought of as a good friend. "Dude…is…is that CJ?" Mordecai asked Rigby. "Huh? Who are you talking about?" Rigby asked back. "That girl who just walked in here," Mordecai explained to Rigby who was still confused at what Mordecai was talking about. "That girl over there," Mordecai finally stated as he pointed right at CJ who was talking to some people over at the snack table. "Dude you're dating Margaret now, why does it even matter if some girl you used to be friends with shows up to the party anyway?" Rigby asked "Umm, yes it really matters dude. If I'm dating Margaret, I can't be seen talking to girls I used to hang out with," Mordecai explained. "Oh come on dude, she knows as well as you do that there is now not a chance with you. My advice, just calm down and enjoy the party tonight," Rigby said as he walked away from Mordecai. Mordecai knew his friend was right, their friendship did end rather sourly, but after a little while, they both knew there was no chance of possibly hooking up. He then decided to shake it off and just go around and enjoy the party with Margaret and his other friends.
It had only been barely an hour and already the party was in full swing, everyone around the house was enjoying the snacks and drinks that were provided or they brought, the music was blasting and getting everyone up to dance. Meanwhile, Mordecai, Rigby, Muscle Man and High Five Ghost were challenging Margaret, Eileen, Starla and a girl Fives had hooked up with to a game of flip cup in the back yard, and fortunately for the park gang, they easily managed to beat their lady friends at the game. All the while, the size of the party continued to grow with several more people showing up almost every ten or twenty minutes. The party may have gotten off to a slow start, but it definitely was not looking like it had by now. People everywhere were partaking in drinking games, table top games, games of bean bag tosses, with one game being something of a drinking game, and hoping around in the bouncy house Muscle Man bought for the night. They were exchanging conversations, drinks and snacks they either brought with them or that were already available to them, and other favors among the other people who were there. For the most part it appeared as though it was going to be a very successful worry-free night.
Unfortunately, the trouble apparently seemed to start a few minutes later when a group of unicorns, who Mordecai and Rigby have had rather bad history with, showed up at the party and came across Audrey's dog Miles, who was let out of the house by the park gang went out when the party started, while they were smoking pixie dust wrapped in cigarette paper, only to pick him up and take turns blowing their puffs right into the dogs face and passing him around while doing so. Mordecai and Rigby happened to come across the group of unicorns doing this. "HEY! What the H do you think you're doing with that dog?" Mordecai asked. "WHHHOOA! No need to get all riled up broski! We were just getting acquainted with our newest bro here," One unicorn who was sporting a blue and green stripped Mohawk and heavily tattooed arms explained as he blew another puff of smoke into the dogs face before passing the joint to a unicorn with long brown hair who was sporting a sleeveless t-shirt and was a little less inked than he was. He took a deep inhale of the joint and blew his puff of smoke into Miles' face while coughing lightly. "OK you've had him enough for the night," Mordecai said as he grabbed Miles and started to walk away with him. "Hey come on bro, stop trying to butt in on bonding with our new bro and just mellow out," one unicorn who was wearing a torn fist pump t-shirt and a fedora said. "Yeah, well how about you guys all butt out of this party and go home," Rigby retorted. "Oh I think we won't be," a unicorn wearing a do-rag told Rigby. "WHAT!?" Rigby responded. "Yeah, we've been meaning to pay you back for eliminating our fellow brotherhood chapter," another unicorn stated. "Wait, there are chapters of you guys throughout the state?" Mordecai asked. "Not just the state, throughout the country, and possibly the world," one unicorn who was sporting a skull cap and a nose ring said. "Yeah, well I don't care how many chapters of you frat boy unicorns there are on this planet. Leave now and we won't have any trouble," Mordecai said as he started to grow irritated by their behavior. "Whoa whoa, take it easy bro, we'll leave just as soon as this party ends," the nose ringed unicorn said. "You'll leave when we tell you to," Mordecai fired back. "Hey calm down bro, just try to relax and enjoy this party while it lasts," the unicorn wearing a fedora said as he took a deep drag of pixie dust and blew a puff right into Mordecais face. "All right that's it. If you guys aren't gone by the time I get back out here, we're gonna have serious trouble," Mordecai said as he took Miles and walked away with him while Rigby followed, trying to avoid confrontation with another group of unicorns again. They both decided it would be better to keep Miles in the house for the rest of the party, and went to take care of this problem.
During the walk back to the house, Mordecai and Rigby were stopped by Muscle Man who was carrying a rather decked out and expensive looking drinking cup. "Bros where are your drinks?" Their green-skinned friend asked. "We're between beverages," Mordecai responded. "Dude come on, that's no excuse at an event like this, Rigbaby, get yourselves a couple of drinks now," Muscle Man stated. "We will in a minute, we just need to put Miles back in the house," Mordecai stated. "Whatever, Rigby just get some drinks and get an extra for this guy when he gets back," Muscle Man said. "Yeah whatever man," Rigby said as he walked over to a keg of soda that someone brought to the party, and poured a drink for himself and Mordecai.
Shortly after Mordecai placed Miles back in the house, he spotted a guy who looked vaguely European man with a mustache and clear shades who was wearing a white suit on top of a purple collared shirt with sequins on it. Naturally Mordecai instantly recognized him as Party Pete, the guy they hired one time he and Rigby attempted to throw a party which turned out to be a bomb until he showed up and basically almost destroyed the house. He was currently dancing between two women who just showed up at the party. "Dude, is…is that Party Pete?" Mordecai asked as he pointed to Party Pete. "Huh, oh yeah," Muscle Man said. "Wait, did you pay him to show up here tonight?" Mordecai asked again. "What no way bro, he apparently learned about the party tonight and offered to show up free of charge," Muscle Man explained. "What, how did he find out about the party?" Mordecai asked. "Oh…uh, he ran into me when I was doing some shopping early this morning, and I told him about it and he agreed to come for free," Muscle Man explained rather weakly," Muscle Man said. "Really?" Mordecai asked. "Oh yeah, he even brought that ice sculpture of himself for free man," Muscle Man said as he pointed to the large block of ice that was next to the pool. "Dude did he have to place it there, it seems kind of odd being right next to the pool," Mordecai stated. "Dude will you just try to relax and have a good time? Everyone else here is," Muscle Man stated as he left Mordecai standing at the snack table. He thought about what Muscle Man said and eventually decided that he was right. He was getting rattled over a few problems that could be easily fixed the next day. He took Muscle Man's advice to heart and decided to continue on with partying.
A few minutes later though, Rigby went back into the house to get some more snacks and drinks that were being kept inside the house, and apparently left the house door open and forgot to lock the screen door on his way out, thus letting Miles out of the house. The unicorns came across him as he was snacking on chips that happened to be lying on the ground and picked him up only instead of blowing pixie dust smoke into his face, they instead decided to go to the next level this time. As such, they inflated a bunch of balloons and tied them a harness they put the dog in and suspended him into the air as they tied the string that was connected to the harness to the door knob leading into the snack bar. Instantly everyone at the party looked up and saw Audrey's dog being suspended in the air, and muttered and cheered over a "flying dog." Some even began recording this on their phones. Mordecai and Rigby, who were still in the back yard of the house, noticed this almost immediately. "WHHHAA! DUDE THAT IS NOT COOL!" Mordecai yelled as he immediately ran down to the snack bar to get the dog back on the ground while Rigby followed behind him. They had to fight their way through a large and growing crowd, but managed to reach the door of the snack bar where Miles was being tied to. The two began pulling on the balloon line to try and get the dog down. "Oh I've gotta record this," said Margaret, who was standing with the crowd while Mordecai and Rigby tried to get Miles down, as she took out her cell phone and started recording the incident. "ARE YOU SERIOUS RIGHT NOW!?" Mordecai asked as he and Rigby managed to get the dog down and out of the balloons that the unicorns had strapped onto him. Mordecai decided to take Miles back into the house, and this time put him in Benson's office to avoid this happening again. "Rigby, give me the office keys," Mordecai said as they got back to the house. "Oh, uh I don't have them on me," Rigby stated. "What, and where are they?" Mordecai asked. "They're in the house," Rigby responded. "And where are your keys to the house?" His friend asked again. "In the house," Rigby responded. "What, ugggh….What the H DUDE!?" Mordecai said as he put Miles down to take his house keys out and get inside and lock the house back up before the crowd could move into the house.
He fortunately managed to find the keys Rigby made lying on the trampoline in his room and opened Benson's office and put Miles inside and told him that he'd be a lot safer in there for the night. Before Mordecai could lock the office and get back to the party, he was stopped by Margaret who had been let into the house. "Oh hey Margaret. What are you doing in here?" He asked her. "I just wanted to know why you were freaking out over Miles being suspended into the air like that," She explained before she decided to show him the video she had recorded of the incident. "OK, come on you gotta admit that this is kind of funny," Margaret said. Mordecai had started to calm down from having to pull Miles down from the air and getting him out of the way of the unicorns or other party guests who would have tried to do harm to the dog, and managed to appreciate the video she recorded. "Ok, it does look kind of funny," He agreed with Margaret. "Maybe I'll post it on the internet," She said before Mordecai disagreed with her. "NO NO! Please don't, if Benson sees this he's gonna fire me the second he finishes it," He informed her. "Haha, ok ok, I'm not that harsh," She said. "What, come on, you fooled me into wearing that diaper that time the guys placed a bet on us," He responded. "Oh come on, it was that one time, and hey look where it got us to afterwards," She fired back at him. "Ok, hey what do you say we get back out there and join the party," Mordecai said as he placed Miles on the ground. "Ok, but are you sure it's a good idea to leave him locked in here?" Margaret asked. "Oh yeah, he's got his water, toys and I thought ahead about what would happen should he need to go," Mordecai informed her as he pointed to everything he had laid out in the room. "All right, now let's get back out there," She said as she walked out and Mordecai closed and locked the door into Benson's office.
Mordecai separated from Margaret a few minutes ago, but promised he'd meet up with her later on, so she could give him his early birthday surprise. He walked around checking out the party scene, occasionally high fiving or fist bumping party guests who held their arms out to do so, and occasionally had to shoe people off of the park's trucks, just so he would avoid getting hollered at by Benson when he came home. He then met up with Rigby, Muscle Man, High Five Ghost and Thomas in the front of the house. "Well, we did it," Muscle Man said as he held up a cup before emptying it in one gulp. "Yeah we did," Mordecai cheered. "Dude I think this crowd is getting larger by the minute," Rigby said as he noticed the crowd seemed to be getting larger, and more people continued to show up by the minute. Mordecai than noticed a female lion decked in a white tank top, black mini-skirt and flat sandals walking up to the house with three other people accompanying her. "WHOA RIGBY! CHECK IT OUT!" He told his best friend who instantly saw the girls walking up. "DUDE! Is that the head cheerleader from High School?" He asked him. "I think it is dude," His best friend responded. "I call first dibs on her," Rigby stated. "What? I thought you wanted to hook up with Eileen tonight?" Mordecai asked. "Well yeah, but I just wanna keep my options open," Rigby responded. "Yeah right, like you'd have any chance of hooking up with someone like her," Muscle Man retorted. Not long after that, a Dixie horn honk sounded and a long black party bus pulled up to the front of the house. "Whoa! Dude how many people found out about this party?" Rigby asked seemingly shocked that their party had guests arriving in true style. Unfortunately, their joy was cut short when Max came down from the porch. "Guys we got a problem here," He informed them. "Why what's going on?" Mordecai asked. "There's people in the house," he informed them. "WHAT! BUT HOW!?" Mordecai exclaimed. "I don't know, they just somehow managed to get inside," he responded. Mordecai immediately ran up the porch steps. "Muscle Man I need you freaking help here," Mordecai said as he ran inside with Muscle Man following him in hot pursuit.
Meanwhile, Rigby, High Five Ghost, and Thomas walked up to the bus which opened up its doors to reveal a bunch of college students, carrying snacks, soda, and other drinks for the night. Shortly afterwards, they were joined by Austin Becks, who was carrying grocery backs of drinks. "Hey Austin glad you made it," Rigby said as he and High Five Ghost escorted the guests off the bus before greeting Austin. "Yeah, what's up man," Austin said as he gave Rigby a hand clasp/bro hug before slapping Five's hand that sat atop his head. "I can't believe you actually made it here," High Five Ghost said. "Yeah I know. Oh guys this is Ashley, Sara, Christina, Lynn," Austin said as he went around introducing them to the girls who showed up with him. "Dude, I can't believe you brought others with you," High Five Ghost said. "Yeah, oh that's my bro Mike, his girlfriend Melissa, Paul, Lola…Look at all these people I brought to your party," Austin said before he turned to Thomas and noticed he was still recording with the camera Muscle Man gave him earlier in the day. "So he's still recording huh?" Austin asked. "Yeah, don't worry about him though," Rigby reassured him as Austin, and everyone else headed inside the house.
Back inside the house, Mordecai was stopped by Muscle Man before he could reach the kitchen. "Dude what's your beef?" Muscle Man asked. "Muscle Man, we gotta get everyone out of here now," Mordecai stated. "WHAT!? COME ON BRO! YOU CAN'T STOP THIS PARTY NOW!" Muscle Man complained. "I'm talking about the people in the house man. If anything gets destroyed, Benson's gonna fire us," Mordecai fired back. "WHAT! Come on man, nothing like that is gonna happen," Muscle Man fired back. "Yeah well I'm not taking that chance," Mordecai retorted. "Come on bro, you can't seriously expect to piss off everyone here," Muscle Man said. "Look, I don't care if I piss everyone off, we're getting these people out of the house now," Mordecai said as he walked off into the kitchen and climbed up onto a chair while Muscle Man tried to reason with him. "HEY LISTEN UP EVERYONE!" Mordecai started before he was cut off by the party guests who started to cheer for him, thus losing their attention for what he was about to tell them. It didn't help that a few seconds later, Austin and everyone he brought with him walked into the kitchen joining in everyone's cheers, and Austin High Fived Mordecai who climbed down off the chair. "Yeah that's what I like to see, yo, you guys having a good time?" Austin asked Mordecai. "Uh, yeah we're having fun," Mordecai responded. "Yeah Yeah that's what I like to hear. Hey guys let's quit stalling here, lets' start making some drinks y'all," Austin cheered as everyone continued to party and partake in making their own drinks. Mordecai just shrugged off his thoughts of what could go wrong and decided that maybe Muscle Man was right, and that there was nothing much to worry about. The party hadn't gotten so out of control yet, and if it did, they still had security on their side, it was rather young security but still he wasn't going to let this keep him down for long, as he joined up with the park gang, who had joined Austin and everyone else in making drinks and trying them out.