Those Darn Bankers!
Written by JaJaLoo
Plot: After getting denied a loan from the bank, Nicholas and his friends decide to get even by robbing it.
Lately, 2004 Wentz Avenue has been low on funds.
Mainly because Patrick has been buying local hockey tickets.
He always drags one of the guys to a Milwaukee High School game.
And once, he was kicked out of the arena.
But this isn't a story about Patrick's love for hockey, it's about the aftermath of the ticket buying.
This is that story.
Patrick and Jackson had come home from a hockey game one night.
And Patrick was not happy.
"Wow. We lost AGAIN! Why does our team suck?" he asked.
"Maybe because they're distracted by your yelling." Jackson groaned.
They walked into the kitchen and saw Nicholas at the table, filling out loads of bills.
"What's all this?" Patrick asked.
"It's our bills. I can't pay them." Nicholas said.
"Well, that sucks." Jackson said, pulling a Pepsi from the fridge.
He drank it, and spit it out.
"Great. This is the generic brand from Whole Foods! How many times do I have to tell James not to shop at that store?"
Nicholas looked at him, then turned to Patrick.
"I know this is your handiwork, Patrick. These hockey games are making us go bankrupt."
"OK, but what are you getting at?"
"No more hockey games until we get enough money."
Patrick was crushed.
"What? But hockey is my life!" he shouted.
Jackson walked over holding a carton of orange juice.
"I'm afraid Nick's right. These hockey games are becoming the death of you." he said, taking a swig from the carton.
Patrick slumped on the couch.
Nicholas and Jackson looked at each other.
"Tomorrow, I'm gonna get a loan from the bank." Nicholas said.
Sure thing, the next morning, Nicholas took off for the bank.
Inside the bank, he made a coffee, and joined the line.
Unfortunately, the line was about fifty people long.
And the teller, well, he wasn't in a mood to deal with annoying customers.
"OK, looks like I'll be here a while." Nicholas said, pulling out his phone.
About two hours later, Nicholas was finally at the front of the line.
"Next." the teller grumbled.
Nicholas nervously walked up to the front.
"Hi, um, could I get a loan?" he asked.
"What for?" the teller asked.
"Well, my house needs more supplies, and my friend likes wasting our money on hockey games."
"How much do you want?"
"Well, about five thousand would be nice..."
The teller fell out of his chair.
"WHAT? Five thousand dollars, don't you have a job?"
"Technically, yes." Nicholas said.
"Well, then, ask for a raise! Get out of here!"
Nicholas was having none of it.
He leaped on the teller, and started fighting him.
Five minutes later, Nicholas was thrown out of the bank.
"AND STAY OUT!" the teller yelled.
Nicholas stormed back to Nemo's truck, and sped off.
He returned to the house minutes later, and walked in to see the guys eating dinner.
"Hey, Nicholas." Patrick said. "We have one extra steak, if you want one."
Nicholas said nothing, and dragged Patrick away from the table.
"Hey, what? Where are we going?"
The others noticed this.
"Jeez, what happened to him?" James asked.
"I don't know, but I think it has something to do with the hockey." Jackson said.
Patrick was thrown in the block room.
"WHAT WAS THAT FOR?" he yelled.
"You're getting blocked for a day by making us go bankrupt."
"ARE YOU KIDDING ME?"
Nicholas ignored him, and locked the door.
Soon, he met up with the guys in the living room.
"OK, so Patrick hit the block room for making us go bankrupt." Nicholas said.
"We are not bankrupt." Will said.
"Did the bank deny you of something?" James asked.
"They denied a loan." Nicholas said.
The users all looked at him.
"Well, why don't we just take odd jobs?" Berry asked.
Nicholas seemed to ponder this.
"No. Those darn bankers denied me the loan. We are going to rob it. Where's Nemo?"
Suddenly, Nemo crashed through the garage door.
Smoke blasted through the door.
"Wow. Never trying that experiment again." he said, staggering to the guys.
"Nemo?" Nicholas asked.
"Yeah?"
"We need your help, gadget wise."
Nemo's face brightened.
"I'm in. What do you need?"
Nicholas stared down all the gadgets Nemo had.
"Wow. This is a lot of stuff."
"Well, no duh. There is a reason I spend a lot of time down here." Nemo said. "Anyway, what do you need? Laser pointer that shoots actual lasers, hacking magnet..."
Nemo was pretty good at taking household objects and making them into cool things.
"I'll take it all." Nicholas said. "We need everything."
"Wait, why?" Nemo asked.
Suddenly, Jackson walked into the room.
"I got the bank robbing playlist you wanted." he said.
Nemo looked at Nicholas.
"We're robbing a bank?" he asked.
Nicholas looked at him, uneasy.
"Well, yes. They denied me a loan, so we're all gonna get them back. We need these inventions to break in."
Nemo hesitated, then spoke.
"Take anything you need." he said.
Soon enough, all the inventions disappeared from the wall.
That night, after Will drew up some blueprints, they were ready.
But Nicholas had something to do.
He walked to the block room and unlocked it.
"Hey, Patrick. Wanna rob a bank?" He asked.
Patrick got up and looked at him.
"You mean it?" he asked.
Nicholas nodded.
Patrick got a devilish grin on his face.
"Count me in." he said.
Nemo's truck arrived at the bank a few minutes later.
It was closed, but that didn't stop the users.
Nicholas, Jackson, Patrick, and James hopped out, wearing all black.
Jackson pulled a Nerf gun out, and fired at the security cameras.
When he did that, the bullet stuck to the camera, transferring the footage to Berry at home.
"Alright, we're good." he said, through a headset.
"Copy." Nicholas said.
He pulled out another Nerf gun, and a rope shot out of it, grasping onto the roof.
All four began to climb up.
Once on the roof, Nicholas took out the laser pointer.
He aimed, and made a circle in the roof.
"You know, we could have just gone down the chimney." Jackson said.
"Too risky." Nicholas said, climbing into the bank.
Jackson shrugged, and followed the three into the hole.
Once they dropped inside, they realized they were in the manager's office.
"Wow. We're inside the manager's office!" Patrick exclaimed.
"We need to find the codes for the safe. Hacking magnet." Nicholas said.
James handed him the kitchen magnet, and Nicholas stuck it onto the computer.
Soon enough, all the passwords were shown.
And so was the safe's.
"Great. The code's 4562." Nicholas said. "Let's roll."
They cleaned up the office, fixed the ceiling, and left.
Once they reached the lobby, they ran to the safe.
Nicholas typed in the code, and the safe opened.
Once inside, they marveled at the sights.
"Hallelujah." Jackson said.
"I can get season tickets!" Patrick shouted, diving headfirst into the money.
"Alright, enough fooling around. Money in the bag." Nicholas said.
"Wait!" James shouted. "We might need this."
And he pulled out an unsharpened pencil.
"The Mini Duplicator. Good call." Jackson said.
For every stack of money, they duplicated it and placed it back where they found it.
Soon enough, they were able to fill four whole duffel bags.
Wildcat was reading a newspaper back in Nemo's truck.
He saw a security guard walking up the street towards the bank.
Wildcat panicked, fumbled with his headset, and phoned Nicholas.
"Nicholas! Guys! There's a guard coming your way, get out of there!"
The guys had finished duplicating all the money they had, and then Nicholas' heard Wildcat's transmission.
"Oh, balls. We have to go." he said.
Jackson closed the safe.
However, that was when the guard entered the building.
"What the...who's there?" he shouted.
Inside the safe, the guys were panicking.
"Where do we go from here? Turn all the lights down now." Jackson said.
"No time for music references, Jackson!" Patrick shouted. "Look!"
Soon, the safe was opened.
The guard ran in to see no one there.
"Huh." he said. "Looks like my imagination's been acting up again."
Inside a laundromat, the guys climbed out of a dryer.
"OW!" James shouted. "Your butt's in my face!"
"Sorry." Patrick said.
"Careful..." Nicholas said, before he tumbled out of the dryer.
They all landed on the tile floor.
They saw an older woman, doing her laundry.
She looked at them.
"Well, look at these adorable costumes!" she said.
The guys looked at each other.
The woman sighed.
"Happy Halloween." she said.
The guys left the laundromat in confusion, to see a whole bunch of kids romping in costumes.
"Huh. It's Halloween, I forgot." Jackson said.
Wildcat drove around the corner.
"Is everything alright? Were you caught?"
The guys looked at each other and laughed.
Patrick took his share of the money to go to as many of the hockey games as he wanted, and Nicholas was finally able to repay the bills.
And all was well with the wiki again.
CAST
NMMacc18 - Nicholas
JaJaLoo - Jackson
NLG343 - Nemo
ElectricSupernova - Will
Pjdem06 - Patrick
Jamz64 - James
StrayberryFilling - Berry
NotWildcat - Wildcat
Next episode: Sick Day - Noticing how lazy Will is, Nicholas tells a story about a disease caught by not working. It sends Wildcat into overdrive.
