Chapter Nine
The girls were there in minutes. They looked their brothers over angrily.
"I can't believe you got yourselves arrested!" shouted Karen without looking at them. "Mom and Dad are gonna kill me." Outside the cell, Lisa paced back and forth in anguish, and Karen was concluding her rant. Inside the boys were looking at them sheepishly. "Do you know what you just did?!"
"Uh, knocked over a bunch of shelves at the Kwiki Mart?" asked Brock quietly. Karen glared at him.
"We used our own money to bail you out. Now we don't have any supplies for the protest! We don't even have enough money to rent a bike to get there."
"Well, why don't ya just walk there?" he retorted, eyes narrowed.
"Are you kidding me, Brock? The Ogdenville slaughter house is ten miles away! Even if it was possible for us to walk that far, we'd get there way past midnight! Besides, Mr. and Mrs. Simpson are scheduled to be back at ten."
"Actually, Homer usually makes a stop at the hospital after Lard Barn, so I think you're safe," added Bart, growing bored with the whole brother-sister debacle. A deep, loud beeping sounded, and the cell door slid to the side.
Once they were all outside, Brock proposed a solution to the girls' problem. "Here's the deal. We'll give you a ride to your precious slaughterhouse, but you can't say a word the whole ride there, or you get out. Deal?"
"Oh, no! There is no way I am getting on that thing you call a motorcycle, or letting Lisa," Karen returned determinately.
"Well, that's fine and all, but then you'll have to walk," countered Brock smugly. Karen hesitated.
"Fine," she muttered under her breath and climbed on behind Brock while Lisa climbed in the sidecar along with Bart and they were off. The whole time, per their agreement, Karen kept her mouth shut and refrained from screaming, even when her brother had been doing 70 in a 50mph zone. When they finally arrived, Karen shakily stepped of the bike and onto the safe, unmoving soil in front of the slaughterhouse. As Bart and Brock were leaving, she realized something.
"What the - - what about our supplies!" she shouted after them.
"Sorry, can't hear ya!" he called back as they disappeared down the road.
"Brock!"
So, I finally got around to doing this chapter! A few quick notes: During chapter 6, there is a mention of the 'Triple Bypass Combo Meal,' which belongs to Mad Magazine, respectively. Also, did any of you catch the reference from Karen and Brock's last name? If you did, hooray! If not, I'll directly answer my own question in a future chapter.