I don't have close to enough stories going on at the same time!
Throw Fists, Get Switched
Oldest By Six Years
A Change of Lives
Two Oneshot Collections
Soon an ASOUE story
Now this story too!
And there's another one coming soon! I hope you guys don't have anything against following multiple stories at once. Because if you do, it's your problem. I'ma keep swooshing out new stories before I finish other ones. BUT, that doesn't mean I'm discontinuing those stories. I'm just gonna write six stories at once, with a little schedule.
I've not set it up yet, but I will soon. You will know when I have.
Anyway! Now to this story!
This is an AU story, that was suggested by Ryan Harper. We're gonna go all the way back to the second last episode of the series; Quadspiracy Theory, and we're gonna look at it in a different perspective.
What if Britt really was an evil mastermind?
"Really?"
"For us?"
"Whaaat?"
The quads showed how they were gonna act surprised at the surprise party Britt was throwing. Britt didn't tell them it was a good act; he didn't even look happy. He just looked at them, eyebrows pulled together, and his mouth slightly open.
"Oh," he voiced after a couple of seconds. "I think you've got it wrong."
The three quads exchanged a quick confused look.
"The party isn't for you," Britt continued cheerfully. "It's for Avery."
"Really?" Dawn let her hand fall off her hip.
"For Avery?" Nicky's face dropped.
"Whaaat?" Ricky said behind his gritted teeth.
"Her birthday's coming up," Britt shrugged. "So..."
"But we aren't on the guest list," Dawn reminded him, gesturing to the notebook.
Britt looked awkward for a moment.
"Sorry. If it's any consultation, it was a hard decision," he said, smiling with pinched lips and nodding.
Without any further apology, explanation or anything, he turned around and walked up the stairs, like nothing had even happened. The quads turned to look at each other. Ricky sighed loudly.
"I can't believe he's having a party and not inviting us."
"Well, at least we know he's not an evil mastermind trying to get rid of us," Dawn added as an attempt to lighten the mood at least a little. It didn't work.
Suddenly, Ricky bent over and picked something up from the coffee table. It was a little piece of light green paper from the paper block they had seen Britt carrying a round. Three lines were written on it in a scribbly hand writing.
"This to-do list fell out of Britt's backpack," Ricky clarified. He held the paper up in front of him and his siblings. "Number 1: Get rid of the quads."
They all looked up in horror.
"He is an evil mastermind trying to get rid of us!" Dawn cried out, realizing this horrible fact.
They all looked back down at the piece of paper, and read the following two lines.
"Wait," Ricky blurted after they read it. "Let's not jump to conclusions. 'Get rid of the quads' could mean anything" He tried to convince himself, Nicky and Dawn.
"Number two is 'take over Get Sporty'," Dawn reminded him, not falling for Ricky's attempt one bit.
"And number three is 'celebrate'!" Nicky pointed to the note.
Ricky pinched his lips.
"Yeah, Britt wants us gone."
Nicky looked over at Dawn for a second to see if she had anything to give to the situation. She was just standing there with her hands on her hips, looking around the room trying to make sense out of something.
"What else is on that list?" Nicky asked, turning back to Ricky since Dawn was no help.
"Nothing," Ricky answered. "Why would he write anything after 'celebrate'?"
"Why would an evil mastermind write a list with only three things?" Nicky responded, making a point. "There's gotta be something on the back."
He reached his hand out to grab the paper, but Ricky pulled his hand away.
"There's nothing on the back."
"Is something we could say once we turn it over and look at the back!" Nicky made another attempt to get the note.
"I'm not turning it over!" Ricky said as he pulled it away from Nicky's reach again.
"Can you believe this guy?" Nicky asked.
He proceeded to attack Ricky in an attempt to get the note, which only led to Ricky putting it in the back of his pants. Nicky gave Ricky a dirty look.
"And now we'll never know."
"Who cares!?" Dawn shouted from her position where she had watched the cat fight. "We need to find a way to expose him."
"We need to figure out a way to get Britt to admit his diabolical plans in front of everyone," Ricky continued Dawn's speech, not wanting to get attacked by Nicky again, all for a stupid note.
"We could do it at Avery's party!" Dawn suggested.
And that's exactly what they did...
In just a minute, they came up with their plan. Nicky found one of Dicky's dirty socks to make Britt pass out (Ricky was the test subject), and Dawn found some leftover creamy peanut butter that Nicky left on the counter after baking. When Ricky woke up, they found Squishy a shark suit (for very important, and legitimate reasons).
The next day, the plan was put into action.
The three quads quietly sneaked into Get Sporty through the back door. No one noticed them, since they were all working on setting up Avery's surprise party. The back door led into the kitchen, in which, conveniently enough, Britt was in, decorating the window into the café.
"Okay," Dawn mouthed to her brothers as they pressed themselves against the wall around a corner. "I'll get this to Britt, and when he's out, we carry him to the storage room."
Her whispering was so close to inaudible, that for every word she said, she had to gesture it as well.
"Got it?" she mouthed.
"Got it," Nicky and Ricky mouthed back.
Dawn moved away from the wall, and as quietly as possible, she approached their subject. He didn't even notice her while he put up some red garlands.
"Psst! Britt," Dawn hissed.
He turned around, and a smile immediately appeared on his face.
"Hey Dawn," he happily greeted her.
'So incredibly fake' was the thought running through Dawn's mind before she held up the white and orange stinky sock. Just by a small whiff of it, Britt fell to the ground.
"Action!" Dawn hissed to her brothers, who a second later came around the corner.
The three of them ducked down under the kitchen window, and picked up Britt by his ankles and wrists. While they discreetly carried him out of the kitchen, the boys quaked and Dawn rolled her eyes at them over and over because of their weakness. This way, they carried him past the partied up café, in behind the staircase, and into the storage room.
The very second Dawn kicked the door shut behind them, the boys let go and started shaking the pain off their arms.
"Seriously?" Dawn crossed her arms, and gave her brothers a disappointed look.
"He's heavy, okay?" Nicky made an excuse for them.
Dawn's simple response for that was to pick up the still asleep Britt on her own, without any problem. Without a word from the boys, she walked over and put Britt down on the chair they prepared.
"Tape," she demanded.
Nicky handed her a tiny roll of duct tape. Dawn let out a loud pronounced sigh, making sure the boys knew her frustration.
"Any more duct tape?" she suggested, making a little "gimme"-gesture with her hand.
"We don't have any more" Ricky said firmly.
"You said we had a roll!"
"That is a roll!"
Dawn sighed again, even more enunciated this time. She threw a glance around the room, and spotted a bag of white fabric ribbons in the corner.
"Get me that," she ordered, and Ricky sprinted over and grabbed them.
In a few minutes, Britt was tied to the chair. Nicky carefully applied the peanut butter to his feet, while Dawn dressed Squishy in the shark costume, calling him "Sharky", and Ricky kept the lookout position.
"All done!" Nicky announced after spreading the last spread on Britt's right foot.
They didn't need any communication to know what was next. So all three quads ran out of the storage room, past the staircase and into the café.
"Everyone! Stop what you're doing!" Dawn shouted as they entered the café.
All of the eyes in the little area were turned towards the quads.
"Britt isn't who he says he is!" Nicky started explaining, while Dawn confidently nodded. "He's actually an evil mastermind who came here to take over our lives!"
"Your lives?" Miles asked, and everyone in the café broke out into laughter.
"We knew you wouldn't believe us," Ricky stated. "So maybe you'll believe Britt himself."
He walked up to the laptop on one of the party tables, and quickly got himself into the camera system. The next second, the filming of Britt appeared on the screen behind him.
Everyone in the room immediately gasped at the sight of Britt all tied up in a chair.
"Britt!" Dawn shouted, and clapped her hands.
With a flinch Britt woke up, and blabbered some weird Australian phrase.
"Okay Britt! Reveal your evil plan," Nicky demanded.
"What's going on?" Britt looked around him at the ribbons tying him to the chair, and the camera and loudspeaker in front of him. He settled his eyes on the camera, as he figured that's where the quads saw him from. "I don't have an evil plan!"
"I knew you wouldn't admit it!" Dawn snapped at him. "Now things are about to get ugly," she crossed her arms.
"What's that on his feet?" Mae pointed to Britt's feet, which obviously looked a bit weird.
"Peanut butter," Ricky ingeniously answered, trembling his fingers together like he had an evil plan.
"How did he step in peanut butter?" Natlee asked.
"Peanut butter stepped on him!" Nicky stated, even though it made no sense whatsoever.
After a short peanut butter conversation, Dawn called out Sharky. Squishy stepped into the video tape, dressed in the shark costume. He started licking Britt's feet, causing an inordinate amount of tickling, which in line, caused a lot of reflex laughter on Britt's part.
"Anything to tell us now, mate?" Nicky asked, mocking the Australian word for buddy.
"Fine! I admit it!" Britt laughed. "The truth is, the party isn't for Avery! It's for you!"
The quads' faces dropped. Britt continued on with a sweet little talk, which none of the quads believed.
"He's trying to trick you!" Nicky yelled.
"Well, Britt. If you really wanted to thank us for being part of this family, then what about your list!?" Ricky pulled the piece of paper out of his pocket.
Ricky questioned Britt on every point, and of course he had a good reason for all of them. In the next ten seconds, while the quads had a quick whisper-argument-conversation, Britt managed to slip out, and join the party.
"Surprise!" he shouted when he walked into the room, and after a quick explanation to how he got out, everything seemed great.
The quads were happy Britt wasn't an evil mastermind, and Britt was happy he was finally not seen as 'suspicious'. The thing was... that the quads didn't know the reason he was happy they didn't see him as suspicious.
About an hour and a half passed of the party. It truly was the best surprise party ever.
Nicky, Ricky and Dawn chilled on bar stools in the café, each of them holding a smoothie. Nicky and Dawn had their casual strawberry smoothies, and Ricky had one of his green tea with kale and an extra brain boost smoothies. They had just finished a facetime call with Dicky, who was currently in Australia, and were now just talking cheerfully. While they were happily sipping and talking, Britt came up behind them.
"Guys," he interrupted their conversation.
Each of the three quads turned on their chairs, and smiled happily at their housemate.
"Hey!" Dawn said, a smile crossing her face at once.
"There's one last surprise I've got in store for you in this store," Britt revealed.
The quads shared a quick look of excitement and anticipation, before jumping off their stools. Britt gestured for them to follow him, and they willingly did. He led them out of the café, past the staircase, and in behind it.
"I'm surprised you guys didn't notice it when you tied me in here," he said, scoffing in relief. "Surprised and relieved of course."
His hand landed on the doorknob to the storage room, and he opened it. With another gesture with his arms, he told the quads to go in. They did, and Britt leaned back against the doorway.
"What's in here?" Nicky excitedly asked.
"Look around a little," Britt instructed, and the quads did as he told.
They could spot nothing out of the ordinary though. Boxes, broken mannequins, dirt...
"Hey, do you still have that note?" Britt asked after a while.
"Your list?" Ricky turned his head to Britt, who nodded.
Ricky proceeded to pull it out from his back pocket.
"Turn it over," Britt continued.
"Why?" Ricky asked, still not wanting to, for unknown reasons.
"Just do it."
Ricky turned the note over, and was greeted by three words.
Kidnap the quads.
Neither him, Dawn or Nicky got any time to even react before Britt turned the lights off, and slammed the door leaving them in darkness. A click sound a second later revealed he locked the door.
They had fallen for his plan...
Yay for a reader-suggested story! I actually love this concept, and I hope all you readers are too!