Chapter 11: Trip to D.C.
Dedication: Okay, I am dedicating this chapter to first, Mr. Muto and Mr. Johnson. Two very cool teachers who took the senior class, me included, to D.C. to see the inauguration. Some of these events were true, some weren't. I am also dedicating this chapter to all the students that went on the trip.
Authors note: I am so sorry that this was so late. The next and last chapter is coming out very soon. I am gonna try to complete it tonight. No sleep until I finish it. Thanks for waiting guys!
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They are all sitting around in the living room.
Lindsey: We should all do something big before I have to go back.
Athena: You gotta go back? Already?
Lindsey: Already?! I've been here for a long time. I gotta go back to college.
Tanya: Yeah, unlike you guys I have to go back to work.
Mandy: Hey, I think that running from the government and trying to stay alive is a good job. (She said teasingly.)
George: And VERY important. (He said jokingly.)
Jason: Everyone quiet! They are gonna announce the President.
Announcer: And the new President is George W. Bush.
Jason: Yes! Told you so!
Mandy and Athena: That's it!!
Lindsey: What?
Athena: Let's go to D.C. to see the inauguration!
Lindsey: Yeah!
Jason: Hey, that's cool. We did that before.
Mandy: Yeah, back in 12th grade when Mr. Johnson was there. Hey, you don't think that...
Jason: He probably already retired.
Hannibal: Why aren't you saying anything, George?
George: I wasn't in the same High School with them.
Hannibal: Wait, then how did you get into the group?
George: I moved here the summer of 12th grade and meet the others. I wound up going to college with Mandy and then transferred to M.I.T in Boston and wound up going to school with Athena.
Everyone but Mandy and Jason: WHAT!?!?!?!?!?!?
Athena: What?
B.A.: Let me get this straight, you go to M.I.T. to become a nut?
Athena: No, I went to M.I.T to become an Astronomer.
Face: A what?!
Athena: An Astronomer, you know someone who studies the stars and planets.
Face: I know that, but how did you wind up in the hospital?
Athena: Long story, maybe I'll tell you later.
Hannibal: So Ms. Williams...
Athena: That's Dr. Williams. I didn't go to school for eight years to be called Ms.
Hannibal: So, Dr. Williams, what's with this D.C. trip?
Athena: Well, when we were in 12th grade Mr. Johnson took the seniors to D.C. to see the inauguration. We stayed in Pennsylvania and we took the metro train from Maryland to D.C. We spent the whole day there. It was really great.
Mandy: So, you guys wanna go?
Hannibal: That sounds like fun.
Mandy: Oh! We gotta take Nina!!!
Athena: No, remember what happened last time she got lost.
Mandy: Shhhhh!!! Don't say that.
Athena: She's not here.
Mandy: Well, anyways, there are more people going in one group, it won't happen again. (Mandy looks at the guys) You don't mind if she comes do ya?
Everyone shook there head and said 'No'.
Lindsey: Let's plan things out!
They talked for a while and decided to leave March 19th at night and arrive in Maryland in the early morning. Go into D.C. by metro and spend the whole day in D.C. Then they would stop at a hotel and sleep.
Mandy went to Nina's house.
Knock, Knock, Knock.
Nina answers the door: Amanda. Hi!
Mandy: Hey there Nina! I gotta talk to you.
Nina: About what?
Mandy: Well, all of us are going to D.C. to see the inauguration and we were wondering if you'd like to come with us?
Nina: Amanda, do you remember what happened last time?
Mandy: Yeah, but it won't happen again. There will be more people and we will all keep an eye open for you.
Nina: But Amanda...
Mandy: Come on Nina, we really want you to come with us. Please?!
Nina: Oh all right! Fine! When are we going?
Mandy: We are leaving very late Friday night, taking the metro train from Maryland to D.C. and then we'll leave that night. We might stay somewhere we might not.
Nina: How are we going to get there?
Mandy: We got two vans and 11 people so we'll fit.
Nina: Okay. I'll talk to you later then.
Mandy: Bye Nina.
Nina: Bye Amanda.
Late Friday, January 19, night...
Everyone is up and getting ready to go.
Athena: Where's Facey?
Face: Here.
Athena: Not you! The other one.
Face: Well, excuse me *Dr.* Williams.
Lindsey: She's still sleeping.
Athena: Someone's gotta go wake her.
Lindsey: I will. (She ran off.)
Lindsey enters Mandy's room: Mandy, get up. It's time to go.
There is no response from Mandy.
Lindsey: Come on Facey, it's time to go.
Mandy: No, come on I just got to the really good dream.
Lindsey: Ah I see.
(Face enters the room.)
Lindsey: What are you doing here?
Face: You were taking a long time. I thought you might need some help. (Shows her a big cup of water.)
Lindsey: No and put the cup of water down.
Face: Fine.
Mandy: Take that! (Starts to make some noise.)
Face: Right. Lindsey, what is she doing?
Lindsey: Dreaming about using a flamethrower.
Face: Okay.
Mandy wakes up: Hey guys. What's up?
Lindsey: We're all ready to go. We're just waiting for Nina and you.
Mandy: Oh okay. (She gets out of bed.)
About a half an hour later...
Mandy comes down and someone rings the door.
Mandy answers it: Nina. Hi!
Nina: Hi.
George: Let's get the show on the road.
Hannibal: Okay, B.A.'s and ALL Murdock's and Tanya into one van and then the others into the other van.
B.A.: Hey! Who agreed to that plan?
Hannibal: George and I did.
B.A.: I don't like this idea. I don't want to be stuck in a van with crazy people.
Jason and Tanya: Hey!
B.A.: Almost all crazy people.
Murdock: Come on big buddy. It'll be fun. (The others and he get into the van.)
B.A.: Hannibal, I'm gonna get you for this. (Enters the van.)
Nina: Hey, you know if you want to, I can stay here and one of them can come into this van.
Mandy: Nice try, but not nice enough. B.A. is just that way, now into the van.
Nina: No.
Mandy: I out rank you. Now move it! (Nina got into the van everyone else followed.)
About an hour later Mandy woke up from sleeping. Nina was still sleeping and so was Face.
George: Sleep good?
Mandy: No. Now I have a stiff neck.
George: Complain, complain, complain.
Mandy: Shush. Hey Hannibal, when do I get to use a flamethrower?
Hannibal: When you're much older. You're too young now.
Mandy: Fine.
Meanwhile in the other van...
Athena: Awwww! Look at all the puppies! There's Billy, Billy, Billy, and Billy. (Tanya's new invisible dog.)
Jason rolled his eyes and looked at B.A. B.A. returned the look.
Lindsey: We should sing a song!
All the other Murdock's and Tanya: YES!!
B.A. and Jason: No!!
The others didn't listen to them.
Athena: What should we sing?
Lindsey starts to sing the "Ghostbusters" song: Who ya gonna call? Ghostbusters.
They sing on and on.
Lindsey: All together now. Who ya gonna call?
Murdock, Athena, and Tanya: Ghostbusters!
B.A and Jason: Stop! Stop! Stop! Please stop!
Jason picked up the CB: Hannibal? Hannibal? Come in Hannibal!
Hannibal: Hannibal here, what's up Jason?
Jason: Can you please take at least one of the Murdock's they are driving us crazy!
Hannibal: Sergeant calm down, it's only been a half an hour. They get tired soon and sleep. Don't worry. Signing out.
Jason: No! Wait! (It was too late though.)
B.A.: They aren't gonna calm down any time soon.
Jason: I know.
About two hours later the Murdock's and Tanya fell asleep and the van went quiet.
B.A.: Ah, piece and quiet.
Jason didn't respond he was already sleeping. B.A. just drove on.
At 7:30 in the morning they reached Maryland.
Everyone got out of the vans.
B.A.: Hannibal! Get them away from me before I wind up hurting them. (The Murdock's and Tanya ran to Hannibal and the others for safety.)
Hannibal: All right. All right. What happened?
B.A.: Hannibal, about an hour ago they started to sing.
Hannibal: That's not that bad.
Jason: Yeah, but what's bad is that they started to sing 100 bottles of Root Beer on the wall.
Mandy started to laugh: Oh, that must have been fun.
No one said anything and they went into the metro station.
While riding on the metro train, conversations started to arise.
Mandy: Hey Nina, do you think that Mr. Johnson and Mr. Muto would be there again this year?
Nina: I have no clue, but it would be really nice to see them again.
Athena: Yeah it would be.
Jason: Yeah, they were cool teachers.
Mandy: If it weren't for Mr. Muto, I wouldn't of known how to do the Muto chop and take that girl out.
Face: What girl?
Everyone started to laugh a little.
Mandy: Julie, the cop that brought you the food when you were in jail.
Face: Oh yeah.
Lindsey: I can't wait to get there. I love this place.
Nina: Have you been here before?
Lindsey: Yeah, once before, but it was when I was a little longer. I went on a class trip.
Nina: Oh.
Mandy: Well, here we are. Let's go.
Nina: Now Amanda, don't lose your ticket this time.
Mandy: Shush!
Nina: Well, that was the end of that conversation.
They walked out into the streets and there were so many people.
Mandy: This is just how I remember it.
Tanya: Come on! Let's go look at some art galleries. (She ran off.)
Athena: Wait up Tanya! (She ran after her.)
Nina, Lindsey, and Mandy looked at each other, shrugged, and ran after them.
The others didn't have a choice so they ran after them.
They went to a few art museums and to a few Smithsonian museums.
Around noon they made it over to the capitol.
Mandy was walking all around.
Jason: What are you doing Mandy?
Mandy: Looking for the place where we stood before.
B.A.: That's impossible.
Athena: I think this was it.
Jason: Actually I think you are right.
Nina looked around and said: Oh my gosh!
Murdock: What's wrong, Nina?
Mandy: Nina, did you find them?
Nina: It looks like them. (She and Mandy were off with Athena and Lindsey right at their heals.)
Mandy: Mr. Johnson? (The man turned around.)
Mr. J: Mandy? Nina? Athena? (He hugged his old students.) What are you doing here?
Mandy: We are here to see the inauguration.
Jason: We remembered how good it was the last time we had to go again.
Mr. J: Jason! (Shaking his hand.) How wonderful to see you again.
Mandy: Mr. Johnson, this is George and Lindsey.
Mr. J: Hi. Mandy, I saw this story in the News Paper that the four of you helped some criminals escape jail. Please tell me that's not true.
Mandy looks to George, who looks at Athena, who looks at Jason, who looks back as Mandy.
Mandy: Yeah, it is.
Athena: You're not going to send us to the police, are you?
Mr. J.: Are you kidding? No. I'd just like to know who these guys are.
George: That we can do.
Hannibal: George? Jason?
Jason: Over here Hannibal!
Mr. J.: Hannibal?
Hannibal and the others come over to them.
Athena: Mr. Johnson, I would like to introduce you to the A-Team.
Face: So, you're Mr. Johnson.
B.A.: These two girls told us all about you.
Mr. J.: So, these are the guys you helped escape?
Mandy: Yeah. I even did a Muto chop on the woman jailer.
Mr. J.: A what?
Mandy: A Muto Chop.
Athena: I don't think he knows what that is. But speaking of Muto is Mr. Muto here?
Mr. J.: Yeah, he's somewhere around here. (He looks around) There he is. He's coming. (Waved his arm in the air)
(Mr. Muto saw them and walked over.)
Mr. M: Jason! Mandy! Nina! Crazy girl! Good to see you all again. Who are the new people?
Mandy: Well, this is my cousin Tanya, our friend Lindsey, George, and...
Athena: The A-Team.
Mr. M: Yeah, I heard what you guys did.
Jason: Disappointed?
Mr. M: (Raising one of his eye brows.) Nah.
Mandy: I gave a girl the Muto chop.
Mr. M: You're not supposed to do that!
Mandy: What, it worked.
The inauguration soon completed and people started to leave.
Mr. J: What are you guys up to now?
George: Don't know, thought maybe we head over to the Holocaust Museum.
Mr. M: We'll join you.
They walked onto Independent Street.
Face: So, where do we go?
Mandy: If my memory serves me right, we head all the way down this street. We will come across the Washington Monument and then right across the street should be the museum.
Mr. J: Well, let's go.
On their walk they passed a lot of Vendors. Soon, Athena got hungry, stopped to get something, and never told the others that she was stopping.
Athena bought some food and then realized that she all alone, very alone.
Athena: Mandy? Murdock? George?! (She headed towards the Museum.)
Meanwhile...
Nina stopped and looked around: Amanda, where's Athena?
Mr. M: Don't tell me that the crazy girl got herself lost.
Mandy: It looks like it.
Jason: Don't worry, she knows where we are going, so she'll just meet us there.
B.A.: You sure she's capable of doing that herself?
George: Of course she is.
B.A.: If you say so. (They continued walking.)
A few minutes later Lindsey saw some really cool souvenirs in a vendor and stopped to look at them, and she too never told anyone that she was stopping.
She bought her souvenirs and noticed that she was lost.
Lindsey: Murdock?! Mandy?! Nina!!? MURDOCK!!?
Athena: What?!
Lindsey jumped: Ah! Murdock, you scared me!
Athena: I noticed.
Lindsey: Good thing that you're here, at least I am no longer lost.
Athena: And neither am I.
Lindsey: Uh-oh!
Athena: What?
Lindsey: If we are no longer lost, then that means that the others are lost.
Athena: Let's go! (They ran off.)
Mr. J turned to make sure they were all together: Hey, where's that new girl? Lyn? Linda?
George: Lindsey?
Mr. j: Yeah, she's not here.
Nina: Uh-oh. Now there are two lost.
Hannibal: It's okay. If Athena is capable of making it to the museum then so is Lindsey. They will be fine.
Face: Are you sure Hannibal?
Hannibal: Sure.
They walked on.
A half an hour later.
Face: Are you sure that we are going the right way? We've been walking this same street for hours.
George: It has not. It's been (looks at his watch) thirty minutes.
Face: I still think we're late.
Mandy: I know were we are going. Just trust me.
Face: Trust you? Trust you!? The next thing you know we'll be lost.
Mr. M walked up behind Face and whacked him in the back of the head: Hey girlie, just give the little boy a chance. (Mandy smiles.)
Face stopped walking and rubbed his head: He's making fun of me too.
Nina walked over to him: He does that to everyone.
Face: Oh. (Nina walked on. Face just stood there rubbing his head. Nina walked back, grabbed him, and pulled him along.)
Another half an hour later they reached the Washington Monument.
Mandy: See, right there, (pointing to a building.) that's the museum.
Mr. J: Nice job. (Before they walked on they heard someone calling after them.)
Voices: Faceys!! Murdock!!!
They turned around and there were Athena and Lindsey running up to them.
Mr. J: Hey hey! You made it.
Lindsey: Sure.
Hannibal: Let's go!
They made their way to the museum.
Mr. Johnson: Where to now?
Mandy: Memory time!
Athena: Yea!! Memories!!!!!
Everyone else: What?!
Athena: Just follow us.
They walked towards the Lincoln Memorial.
Face: Oh now I remember.
Murdock: This is where we first met.
Athena: Well, not here, but near here.
After a little while they reached the area where they first met. Athena was telling Mr. Muto and Mr. Johnson their story.
Athena: See Mandy was over here, come here Facey. (Mandy stood in her place) And I was over here playing with my slinky.
Mr. Muto and Mr. Johnson listened to Athena's story.
Athena: And sitting right there were these two bad guys in black suits, black glasses, and talking behind newspapers.
Mr. Johnson: Talk about suspicious.
Mandy: Tell me about it!
Athena: Anyways, so this old guy (Face gives her a look.) comes up to us and gives Mandy the secret code. It was so cool.
Mandy: Tell me about it! I felt like I was in an episode of "Scarecrow and Mrs. King."
Hannibal: Hey, I remember that show. That was a good show.
Face: Especially that Vette.
Mandy: Tell me about it!
Everyone started talking about "Scarecrow and Mrs. King", but Athena.
Athena: GUYS!!!
Hannibal: Sorry kid. Go on.
Athena: So, this other guy comes along and we start talking, but not too long later the two bad guys came over and tried to kidnap us.
Mandy: But we gave up a good fight!
Athena: So that is how we met.
Mr. Muto: Cool.
From there they went to the Vietnam Wall and a few other museums.
Before they knew it, it was time to go.
They walked back to the Metro Station with Mr. Muto and Mr. Johnson.
While waiting for the train to come along Nina remembers something...
Nina: Hey, guys remember the last time we were here how like ten kids went on the wrong metro train and got totally lost.
Mandy: Oh my gosh! That's right!
Nina: I think that's a lot worse then what I did.
Everyone else agreed.
Athena: And Dana was on that train.
Nina: That's right and you challenged her to a dual with those rolled up posters everyone had.
Athena: That's right I did. I can remember it now.
*FLASHBACK*
Many years earlier, no George, just Athena, Mandy, Nina, and Jason...
Athena: Dana you geek! How did you get lost?!
Dana: It wasn't just me. It was everyone else too.
Athena grabbed two rolled up posters from two other students. She throws one to Dana: I challenge you to a dual!
Dana caught it. They started to play sword fighting.
Jason: Should we do something?
Mandy: Yeah, watch.
Very soon Dana apparently lost.
Athena: Ah! (She charged after her. Dana ran!)
Athena started to chase Dana all around the metro station.
A little while later...
Mr. Johnson: Girls, girls. Come on. It's time to go.
Athena: Oh all right.
*BACK TO PRESENT*
Athena: That was awesome.
Nina: It sure was.
Mr. Muto: Well, here's our train. Let's go.
They all entered the metro train.
After a little while some disco music came on.
Lindsey: THE DISCO!!! Come on everyone! Let's do the disco! (She stood up and started doing the disco. Athena joined.)
Mandy and Murdock soon joined and even Nina joined in.
Athena: Come on Facey!
Face: No, it's okay.
Lindsey: Come on!
Face: No.
Mandy: I dare ya!
Face: Fine. (He got up and started to dance the disco too.)
Very soon the metro train came to a stop everyone grabbed onto a bar. All except Face, that is. He fell to the floor. Everyone started to laugh.
Face: Haha! Yeah, that was so hilarious.
Mandy: It was.
Mr. Johnson soon stopped: Sorry, but that was funny.
They got off the metro and went their separate ways.
Mandy, Athena, Nina, and Jason said goodbye to Mr. Muto and Mr. Johnson and entered the vans.
Mandy: That was so much fun.
Nina: Yeah, it was.
Mandy: See aren't you happy that you went?
Nina: Yeah, I am. I really am. Thank you.
Mandy: No problem.
TO BE CONTINUED.
(One more chapter guys!)
Dedication: Okay, I am dedicating this chapter to first, Mr. Muto and Mr. Johnson. Two very cool teachers who took the senior class, me included, to D.C. to see the inauguration. Some of these events were true, some weren't. I am also dedicating this chapter to all the students that went on the trip.
Authors note: I am so sorry that this was so late. The next and last chapter is coming out very soon. I am gonna try to complete it tonight. No sleep until I finish it. Thanks for waiting guys!
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They are all sitting around in the living room.
Lindsey: We should all do something big before I have to go back.
Athena: You gotta go back? Already?
Lindsey: Already?! I've been here for a long time. I gotta go back to college.
Tanya: Yeah, unlike you guys I have to go back to work.
Mandy: Hey, I think that running from the government and trying to stay alive is a good job. (She said teasingly.)
George: And VERY important. (He said jokingly.)
Jason: Everyone quiet! They are gonna announce the President.
Announcer: And the new President is George W. Bush.
Jason: Yes! Told you so!
Mandy and Athena: That's it!!
Lindsey: What?
Athena: Let's go to D.C. to see the inauguration!
Lindsey: Yeah!
Jason: Hey, that's cool. We did that before.
Mandy: Yeah, back in 12th grade when Mr. Johnson was there. Hey, you don't think that...
Jason: He probably already retired.
Hannibal: Why aren't you saying anything, George?
George: I wasn't in the same High School with them.
Hannibal: Wait, then how did you get into the group?
George: I moved here the summer of 12th grade and meet the others. I wound up going to college with Mandy and then transferred to M.I.T in Boston and wound up going to school with Athena.
Everyone but Mandy and Jason: WHAT!?!?!?!?!?!?
Athena: What?
B.A.: Let me get this straight, you go to M.I.T. to become a nut?
Athena: No, I went to M.I.T to become an Astronomer.
Face: A what?!
Athena: An Astronomer, you know someone who studies the stars and planets.
Face: I know that, but how did you wind up in the hospital?
Athena: Long story, maybe I'll tell you later.
Hannibal: So Ms. Williams...
Athena: That's Dr. Williams. I didn't go to school for eight years to be called Ms.
Hannibal: So, Dr. Williams, what's with this D.C. trip?
Athena: Well, when we were in 12th grade Mr. Johnson took the seniors to D.C. to see the inauguration. We stayed in Pennsylvania and we took the metro train from Maryland to D.C. We spent the whole day there. It was really great.
Mandy: So, you guys wanna go?
Hannibal: That sounds like fun.
Mandy: Oh! We gotta take Nina!!!
Athena: No, remember what happened last time she got lost.
Mandy: Shhhhh!!! Don't say that.
Athena: She's not here.
Mandy: Well, anyways, there are more people going in one group, it won't happen again. (Mandy looks at the guys) You don't mind if she comes do ya?
Everyone shook there head and said 'No'.
Lindsey: Let's plan things out!
They talked for a while and decided to leave March 19th at night and arrive in Maryland in the early morning. Go into D.C. by metro and spend the whole day in D.C. Then they would stop at a hotel and sleep.
Mandy went to Nina's house.
Knock, Knock, Knock.
Nina answers the door: Amanda. Hi!
Mandy: Hey there Nina! I gotta talk to you.
Nina: About what?
Mandy: Well, all of us are going to D.C. to see the inauguration and we were wondering if you'd like to come with us?
Nina: Amanda, do you remember what happened last time?
Mandy: Yeah, but it won't happen again. There will be more people and we will all keep an eye open for you.
Nina: But Amanda...
Mandy: Come on Nina, we really want you to come with us. Please?!
Nina: Oh all right! Fine! When are we going?
Mandy: We are leaving very late Friday night, taking the metro train from Maryland to D.C. and then we'll leave that night. We might stay somewhere we might not.
Nina: How are we going to get there?
Mandy: We got two vans and 11 people so we'll fit.
Nina: Okay. I'll talk to you later then.
Mandy: Bye Nina.
Nina: Bye Amanda.
Late Friday, January 19, night...
Everyone is up and getting ready to go.
Athena: Where's Facey?
Face: Here.
Athena: Not you! The other one.
Face: Well, excuse me *Dr.* Williams.
Lindsey: She's still sleeping.
Athena: Someone's gotta go wake her.
Lindsey: I will. (She ran off.)
Lindsey enters Mandy's room: Mandy, get up. It's time to go.
There is no response from Mandy.
Lindsey: Come on Facey, it's time to go.
Mandy: No, come on I just got to the really good dream.
Lindsey: Ah I see.
(Face enters the room.)
Lindsey: What are you doing here?
Face: You were taking a long time. I thought you might need some help. (Shows her a big cup of water.)
Lindsey: No and put the cup of water down.
Face: Fine.
Mandy: Take that! (Starts to make some noise.)
Face: Right. Lindsey, what is she doing?
Lindsey: Dreaming about using a flamethrower.
Face: Okay.
Mandy wakes up: Hey guys. What's up?
Lindsey: We're all ready to go. We're just waiting for Nina and you.
Mandy: Oh okay. (She gets out of bed.)
About a half an hour later...
Mandy comes down and someone rings the door.
Mandy answers it: Nina. Hi!
Nina: Hi.
George: Let's get the show on the road.
Hannibal: Okay, B.A.'s and ALL Murdock's and Tanya into one van and then the others into the other van.
B.A.: Hey! Who agreed to that plan?
Hannibal: George and I did.
B.A.: I don't like this idea. I don't want to be stuck in a van with crazy people.
Jason and Tanya: Hey!
B.A.: Almost all crazy people.
Murdock: Come on big buddy. It'll be fun. (The others and he get into the van.)
B.A.: Hannibal, I'm gonna get you for this. (Enters the van.)
Nina: Hey, you know if you want to, I can stay here and one of them can come into this van.
Mandy: Nice try, but not nice enough. B.A. is just that way, now into the van.
Nina: No.
Mandy: I out rank you. Now move it! (Nina got into the van everyone else followed.)
About an hour later Mandy woke up from sleeping. Nina was still sleeping and so was Face.
George: Sleep good?
Mandy: No. Now I have a stiff neck.
George: Complain, complain, complain.
Mandy: Shush. Hey Hannibal, when do I get to use a flamethrower?
Hannibal: When you're much older. You're too young now.
Mandy: Fine.
Meanwhile in the other van...
Athena: Awwww! Look at all the puppies! There's Billy, Billy, Billy, and Billy. (Tanya's new invisible dog.)
Jason rolled his eyes and looked at B.A. B.A. returned the look.
Lindsey: We should sing a song!
All the other Murdock's and Tanya: YES!!
B.A. and Jason: No!!
The others didn't listen to them.
Athena: What should we sing?
Lindsey starts to sing the "Ghostbusters" song: Who ya gonna call? Ghostbusters.
They sing on and on.
Lindsey: All together now. Who ya gonna call?
Murdock, Athena, and Tanya: Ghostbusters!
B.A and Jason: Stop! Stop! Stop! Please stop!
Jason picked up the CB: Hannibal? Hannibal? Come in Hannibal!
Hannibal: Hannibal here, what's up Jason?
Jason: Can you please take at least one of the Murdock's they are driving us crazy!
Hannibal: Sergeant calm down, it's only been a half an hour. They get tired soon and sleep. Don't worry. Signing out.
Jason: No! Wait! (It was too late though.)
B.A.: They aren't gonna calm down any time soon.
Jason: I know.
About two hours later the Murdock's and Tanya fell asleep and the van went quiet.
B.A.: Ah, piece and quiet.
Jason didn't respond he was already sleeping. B.A. just drove on.
At 7:30 in the morning they reached Maryland.
Everyone got out of the vans.
B.A.: Hannibal! Get them away from me before I wind up hurting them. (The Murdock's and Tanya ran to Hannibal and the others for safety.)
Hannibal: All right. All right. What happened?
B.A.: Hannibal, about an hour ago they started to sing.
Hannibal: That's not that bad.
Jason: Yeah, but what's bad is that they started to sing 100 bottles of Root Beer on the wall.
Mandy started to laugh: Oh, that must have been fun.
No one said anything and they went into the metro station.
While riding on the metro train, conversations started to arise.
Mandy: Hey Nina, do you think that Mr. Johnson and Mr. Muto would be there again this year?
Nina: I have no clue, but it would be really nice to see them again.
Athena: Yeah it would be.
Jason: Yeah, they were cool teachers.
Mandy: If it weren't for Mr. Muto, I wouldn't of known how to do the Muto chop and take that girl out.
Face: What girl?
Everyone started to laugh a little.
Mandy: Julie, the cop that brought you the food when you were in jail.
Face: Oh yeah.
Lindsey: I can't wait to get there. I love this place.
Nina: Have you been here before?
Lindsey: Yeah, once before, but it was when I was a little longer. I went on a class trip.
Nina: Oh.
Mandy: Well, here we are. Let's go.
Nina: Now Amanda, don't lose your ticket this time.
Mandy: Shush!
Nina: Well, that was the end of that conversation.
They walked out into the streets and there were so many people.
Mandy: This is just how I remember it.
Tanya: Come on! Let's go look at some art galleries. (She ran off.)
Athena: Wait up Tanya! (She ran after her.)
Nina, Lindsey, and Mandy looked at each other, shrugged, and ran after them.
The others didn't have a choice so they ran after them.
They went to a few art museums and to a few Smithsonian museums.
Around noon they made it over to the capitol.
Mandy was walking all around.
Jason: What are you doing Mandy?
Mandy: Looking for the place where we stood before.
B.A.: That's impossible.
Athena: I think this was it.
Jason: Actually I think you are right.
Nina looked around and said: Oh my gosh!
Murdock: What's wrong, Nina?
Mandy: Nina, did you find them?
Nina: It looks like them. (She and Mandy were off with Athena and Lindsey right at their heals.)
Mandy: Mr. Johnson? (The man turned around.)
Mr. J: Mandy? Nina? Athena? (He hugged his old students.) What are you doing here?
Mandy: We are here to see the inauguration.
Jason: We remembered how good it was the last time we had to go again.
Mr. J: Jason! (Shaking his hand.) How wonderful to see you again.
Mandy: Mr. Johnson, this is George and Lindsey.
Mr. J: Hi. Mandy, I saw this story in the News Paper that the four of you helped some criminals escape jail. Please tell me that's not true.
Mandy looks to George, who looks at Athena, who looks at Jason, who looks back as Mandy.
Mandy: Yeah, it is.
Athena: You're not going to send us to the police, are you?
Mr. J.: Are you kidding? No. I'd just like to know who these guys are.
George: That we can do.
Hannibal: George? Jason?
Jason: Over here Hannibal!
Mr. J.: Hannibal?
Hannibal and the others come over to them.
Athena: Mr. Johnson, I would like to introduce you to the A-Team.
Face: So, you're Mr. Johnson.
B.A.: These two girls told us all about you.
Mr. J.: So, these are the guys you helped escape?
Mandy: Yeah. I even did a Muto chop on the woman jailer.
Mr. J.: A what?
Mandy: A Muto Chop.
Athena: I don't think he knows what that is. But speaking of Muto is Mr. Muto here?
Mr. J.: Yeah, he's somewhere around here. (He looks around) There he is. He's coming. (Waved his arm in the air)
(Mr. Muto saw them and walked over.)
Mr. M: Jason! Mandy! Nina! Crazy girl! Good to see you all again. Who are the new people?
Mandy: Well, this is my cousin Tanya, our friend Lindsey, George, and...
Athena: The A-Team.
Mr. M: Yeah, I heard what you guys did.
Jason: Disappointed?
Mr. M: (Raising one of his eye brows.) Nah.
Mandy: I gave a girl the Muto chop.
Mr. M: You're not supposed to do that!
Mandy: What, it worked.
The inauguration soon completed and people started to leave.
Mr. J: What are you guys up to now?
George: Don't know, thought maybe we head over to the Holocaust Museum.
Mr. M: We'll join you.
They walked onto Independent Street.
Face: So, where do we go?
Mandy: If my memory serves me right, we head all the way down this street. We will come across the Washington Monument and then right across the street should be the museum.
Mr. J: Well, let's go.
On their walk they passed a lot of Vendors. Soon, Athena got hungry, stopped to get something, and never told the others that she was stopping.
Athena bought some food and then realized that she all alone, very alone.
Athena: Mandy? Murdock? George?! (She headed towards the Museum.)
Meanwhile...
Nina stopped and looked around: Amanda, where's Athena?
Mr. M: Don't tell me that the crazy girl got herself lost.
Mandy: It looks like it.
Jason: Don't worry, she knows where we are going, so she'll just meet us there.
B.A.: You sure she's capable of doing that herself?
George: Of course she is.
B.A.: If you say so. (They continued walking.)
A few minutes later Lindsey saw some really cool souvenirs in a vendor and stopped to look at them, and she too never told anyone that she was stopping.
She bought her souvenirs and noticed that she was lost.
Lindsey: Murdock?! Mandy?! Nina!!? MURDOCK!!?
Athena: What?!
Lindsey jumped: Ah! Murdock, you scared me!
Athena: I noticed.
Lindsey: Good thing that you're here, at least I am no longer lost.
Athena: And neither am I.
Lindsey: Uh-oh!
Athena: What?
Lindsey: If we are no longer lost, then that means that the others are lost.
Athena: Let's go! (They ran off.)
Mr. J turned to make sure they were all together: Hey, where's that new girl? Lyn? Linda?
George: Lindsey?
Mr. j: Yeah, she's not here.
Nina: Uh-oh. Now there are two lost.
Hannibal: It's okay. If Athena is capable of making it to the museum then so is Lindsey. They will be fine.
Face: Are you sure Hannibal?
Hannibal: Sure.
They walked on.
A half an hour later.
Face: Are you sure that we are going the right way? We've been walking this same street for hours.
George: It has not. It's been (looks at his watch) thirty minutes.
Face: I still think we're late.
Mandy: I know were we are going. Just trust me.
Face: Trust you? Trust you!? The next thing you know we'll be lost.
Mr. M walked up behind Face and whacked him in the back of the head: Hey girlie, just give the little boy a chance. (Mandy smiles.)
Face stopped walking and rubbed his head: He's making fun of me too.
Nina walked over to him: He does that to everyone.
Face: Oh. (Nina walked on. Face just stood there rubbing his head. Nina walked back, grabbed him, and pulled him along.)
Another half an hour later they reached the Washington Monument.
Mandy: See, right there, (pointing to a building.) that's the museum.
Mr. J: Nice job. (Before they walked on they heard someone calling after them.)
Voices: Faceys!! Murdock!!!
They turned around and there were Athena and Lindsey running up to them.
Mr. J: Hey hey! You made it.
Lindsey: Sure.
Hannibal: Let's go!
They made their way to the museum.
Mr. Johnson: Where to now?
Mandy: Memory time!
Athena: Yea!! Memories!!!!!
Everyone else: What?!
Athena: Just follow us.
They walked towards the Lincoln Memorial.
Face: Oh now I remember.
Murdock: This is where we first met.
Athena: Well, not here, but near here.
After a little while they reached the area where they first met. Athena was telling Mr. Muto and Mr. Johnson their story.
Athena: See Mandy was over here, come here Facey. (Mandy stood in her place) And I was over here playing with my slinky.
Mr. Muto and Mr. Johnson listened to Athena's story.
Athena: And sitting right there were these two bad guys in black suits, black glasses, and talking behind newspapers.
Mr. Johnson: Talk about suspicious.
Mandy: Tell me about it!
Athena: Anyways, so this old guy (Face gives her a look.) comes up to us and gives Mandy the secret code. It was so cool.
Mandy: Tell me about it! I felt like I was in an episode of "Scarecrow and Mrs. King."
Hannibal: Hey, I remember that show. That was a good show.
Face: Especially that Vette.
Mandy: Tell me about it!
Everyone started talking about "Scarecrow and Mrs. King", but Athena.
Athena: GUYS!!!
Hannibal: Sorry kid. Go on.
Athena: So, this other guy comes along and we start talking, but not too long later the two bad guys came over and tried to kidnap us.
Mandy: But we gave up a good fight!
Athena: So that is how we met.
Mr. Muto: Cool.
From there they went to the Vietnam Wall and a few other museums.
Before they knew it, it was time to go.
They walked back to the Metro Station with Mr. Muto and Mr. Johnson.
While waiting for the train to come along Nina remembers something...
Nina: Hey, guys remember the last time we were here how like ten kids went on the wrong metro train and got totally lost.
Mandy: Oh my gosh! That's right!
Nina: I think that's a lot worse then what I did.
Everyone else agreed.
Athena: And Dana was on that train.
Nina: That's right and you challenged her to a dual with those rolled up posters everyone had.
Athena: That's right I did. I can remember it now.
*FLASHBACK*
Many years earlier, no George, just Athena, Mandy, Nina, and Jason...
Athena: Dana you geek! How did you get lost?!
Dana: It wasn't just me. It was everyone else too.
Athena grabbed two rolled up posters from two other students. She throws one to Dana: I challenge you to a dual!
Dana caught it. They started to play sword fighting.
Jason: Should we do something?
Mandy: Yeah, watch.
Very soon Dana apparently lost.
Athena: Ah! (She charged after her. Dana ran!)
Athena started to chase Dana all around the metro station.
A little while later...
Mr. Johnson: Girls, girls. Come on. It's time to go.
Athena: Oh all right.
*BACK TO PRESENT*
Athena: That was awesome.
Nina: It sure was.
Mr. Muto: Well, here's our train. Let's go.
They all entered the metro train.
After a little while some disco music came on.
Lindsey: THE DISCO!!! Come on everyone! Let's do the disco! (She stood up and started doing the disco. Athena joined.)
Mandy and Murdock soon joined and even Nina joined in.
Athena: Come on Facey!
Face: No, it's okay.
Lindsey: Come on!
Face: No.
Mandy: I dare ya!
Face: Fine. (He got up and started to dance the disco too.)
Very soon the metro train came to a stop everyone grabbed onto a bar. All except Face, that is. He fell to the floor. Everyone started to laugh.
Face: Haha! Yeah, that was so hilarious.
Mandy: It was.
Mr. Johnson soon stopped: Sorry, but that was funny.
They got off the metro and went their separate ways.
Mandy, Athena, Nina, and Jason said goodbye to Mr. Muto and Mr. Johnson and entered the vans.
Mandy: That was so much fun.
Nina: Yeah, it was.
Mandy: See aren't you happy that you went?
Nina: Yeah, I am. I really am. Thank you.
Mandy: No problem.
TO BE CONTINUED.
(One more chapter guys!)