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(A/n- this story is a
little out of sequence, but it still works. It takes place during the episode
where Merton creates that genius serum because he's upset that he doesn't make
it into that elite smart group. Y'know, then TnT drink the serum and become
smart, so they end up catching Tommy at the dance. Only in this story they
catch Tommy and Cass (also Tommy and Cass are going together, not Tommy and
Lori, sorry). And in this story TnT don't become dumb in time to destroy the
computer. I'll start right after Lori says "I'm not just going to leave you
here"…)
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"I'm not just going to
leave you here!" Lori grabbed a hold of the cage bars.
"Just go get Merton." I
said, wolfing out.
"But…" She started to
protest.
"Please." Pleaded Cass, she
also started to turn.
Lori nodded and ran out of
the classroom. Only a few seconds after she left the new and improved Tim and
Travis walked in.
"We've finally caught you,
and an extra one." Said Tim excitedly. Travis held up something that looked
like a little duster, he spread some powder around the bars of the cage, and
started dusting.
"What're you doing?" Cass
eyed the duster nervously.
"We can discover your
identities easily with this." Travis looked up. "Very soon we will know the
true names of the Pleasantville werewolves."
Cass looked like she wanted
to throw up. I grabbed the bars trying to bend them. Immediately I had to pull
back, the bars burned into my skin.
"Tsk, tsk." Tim wagged his
finger. "Silver."
Just then I noticed Lori in
the doorway. She peeked in and saw TnT, and backed away.
'Merton's in trouble' she
mouthed quickly and pointed up the hall.
"Oh god." I moaned. "it's
that stuff he made."
Meanwhile TnT were busy
with the computer.
"They hacked into the
school logs." Cass whispered to me. "They're in the fingerprint files. The
search is halfway done."
"We need Merton and Lori,
we can't do anything from in here." I sighed.
"seventy percent." Cass
hissed.
I noticed Lori back in the
doorway, Merton was hanging onto her shoulder weakly. She gently put him down
on the floor in the hall, then daringly walked in the room.
"Tim, Travis?" she said
taking a breath.
They looked up from the
screen. "Lori Baxter."
"shouldn't you be at the
dance?" she asked lamely.
"The dance?" Travis
laughed. "We've just caught the Pleasantville werewolves, and you want us to be
at the dance?"
"Ninety." Cass's voice was
shaking.
Lori took a look at the
computer, and gasped.
"Ninety-nine." Cass closed
her eyes. "Well Tommy, it's been real."
"Search complete."
Announced the computer.
Tim and Travis eagerly
turned from Lori and looked at the two names and pictures on the computer.
"Tommy Dawkins." Tim's eyes
went wide.
"Cassandra Black." Travis
turned to us.
"I don't suppose there'd be
away to convince you that that computer has one hell of a virus." I asked.
"No Tommy, there wouldn't
be." Tim savored every word of the sentence. "Anything to add Cassandra?"
Cass shook her head in
silence. Lori tried to run up to the bars but Travis blocked her.
"Sorry, little lady but we
don't want any other finger prints on the bars but theirs and ours."
"Tommy, Cass I'm sorry."
She moaned. "But it was Merton, he fainted and I thought he was dead. It's a
side affect of the genius serum, and I actually do think he's dying. He didn't
get to finish the antidote gas."
We looked at Merton who
seemed to be clinging to life in the hall.
"Lori is there anyway to
get us out of here?" Cass cried.
She looked around. "The
pulley for the cage is over there." She pointed to the corner of the room. TnT
blocked her way.
"You guys cannot possibly
be this awful." She glared at them.
"I'm calling the media
right now." Was the answer to her question. Tim dialed some number on a cell
phone. "Yes, hello. This is Tim Eckert (A/n- I don't know how to spell their last name, and
I'm to lazy to go to the down stairs computer to get on the internet and find
out right now, seeing as it's about 2:00 in the morning. So just bear with
me…please!) we've caught the
Pleasantville werewolves… that's right I said wolves, as in two. And we know
who they are. Come to the high-school to find out." He hung up the phone
smiling. "They're on their way."
Lori shook her head in
disbelief. She walked back into the hallway to check on Merton sighing.
"My dad is a camera man
with the local news." Cass groaned. "This is not good at all."
"My mom's the head
reporter." I said.
"We are so screwed." She
put her head in her paws. "Why would TnT do something like this? I mean I knew
they were mean, but not this mean."
"Must've been that serum."
I said shaking my head.
"He's getting worse." Lori
called from the hall. "It's getting harder for him to breath. Tim I need your
cell phone."
"I'm sorry…" In a flash
Lori was up and had run into the room. she stood next to Tim with her hand
balled into a fist.
"He's dying, don't you get
that. He's dying. I need to call an ambulance, and I'm going to use your
phone." She growled. "If you don't help me, you could be charged with 2nd
degree murder. Now give me the damn cell phone."
Tim handed it over to her
slowly, and Lori made the phone call. The ambulance said they'd be there within
five minutes. Lori looked into the hall to check on Merton.
"Cass, Tommy. They're here.
Almost the entire news crew." She moved to drag Merton's body out of the way.
"And Tommy your mom's leading the procession."
"Wonderful." Cass said
sarcastically. "Could our lives be any worse?"
"They're here." Reported
Lori. She came into the room and stood unmoving, by the cage.
I took a deep breath as
cameras, microphones, people, and my mom crowded into the room.
"I'm here at Pleasantville high where Tim and Travis Eckert claim
to have once more caught the Pleasantville werewolf." My mom started reporting.
"We have caught them." Said
Travis. "Look." All of the cameras swung towards us.
"And we have the
identities." Tim showed them the computer.
The cameras swung towards the computer to show the whole town who
the werewolves were. Cassandra heaved a sigh, and buried her head in my
shoulder. I looked at the alarmed look on my moms face as she saw the computer.
"Tommy." She seemed to
shake all over. "You boys have to be kidding."
"Cassandra." One of the
camera men almost dropped a camera in alarm.
"It's no joke." Said Cass
weakly.
"Mom, they're telling the
truth." I said quietly.
TnT grinned while my mom
fainted.
"Why aren't their heads
doing double whammies on them?" Lori asked us softly while people crowded
around my mom.
"The chemicals, they had to
sit before you could digest them." Cassandra said.
"How do you know that?"
"I stay awake in science."
She raised her eyebrows. See Cass wasn't content to only have looks, and
skills, she had to have brains too.
"I hear sirens." She
continued. "the ambulance you called for Merton must be coming."
"God, I hope he's still
ok." Lori bit her lip.
"Hey kid." A person who'd
accompanied the new team yelled at Lori. "Get away from that cage. Those things
could be dangerous."
Ok, I personally think the
word 'thing' was a little harsh. Obviously Lori did to, because when she backed
away from the cage she practically had smoke poring out of her ears.
"Thing?" Cass growled.
"I'll show him thing." She tried to rattle the bars, but had to pull back.
"We need Merton." I said.
"We need that antidote."
"I could finish it, but I
need to get out of here." Said Cass through gritted teeth.
"How do you know all this
about chemistry?" asked Lori. "You had biology."
"Well for the antidote
you'd just need to put in the substances that counteract the stuff that you put
in the first time. If I had Merton's recipe I could give you the ingredients."
She explained.
"I'll see if I can coax it
out of him." Lori turned and squeezed through the crowd.
TnT were now being
interviewed about how they'd caught us.
"And how'd you come up with
this plan?" asked my mom, who'd still only mildly recovered.
"We're super geniuses.
Nothing is to hard for us." Answered Travis pompously.
My mom nodded giving them
weird looks.
"Listen, I'm wolfing-down."
Cassandra muttered. "Who knows it might help."
She took a few breaths to
calm down, and managed to turn back to human. I did the same,
"Oh my god, Tommy it really
is you!" My mom screamed.
"Cassandra what happened?"
asked her father.
"We might be able to
explain better if you let us out." I suggested.
"Let them out." instructed
some one.
Tim went over to the rope
and pulled on it. The cage slowly lifted back up into the air. Cass and I
walked out earning different looks from everyone. By now most of the people from the dance had streamed into the
classroom and in the hall.
"Trust us, we're not gonna
hurt anyone." Cass held her hands up in peace. "Put the guns down."
I'd heard the guns being
loaded too. Sometimes having super hearing isn't so bad.
"I got the stuff." Lori ran
into the room breathless. When she saw us standing outside of the cage her
smile got even wider. "And Merton's at the hospital. They said he'll be fine."
She paused. "Do they know?" she indicated to all the people standing around. We
nodded.
"Well now that we have the
Pleasantville werewolves what're we gonna do with them?" asked a student.
"I say we have a hunting
season." Said Tim rubbing his hands together.
"Hey," Cass's dad turned on
him. "These happen to be our kids. Hunting season? You've gotta be
kidding."
"Listen," called Lori.
"they're not bad people, and they're not evil werewolves. Really they're just
regular kids. Tommy was bitten at the beginning of his senior year and Cass was
bitten by-" she stopped looking at Cass shaking her head. "Never mind. The
point is that they're really good people and you really don't want to do anything
to hurt them."
"Who was Cass bitten by?"
asked a curious student. "Are there more werewolves in this town?"
This started an uprising of
more noise. "tell us." Was chanted over and over.
"Just tell them." I told
Lori.
"But then they'll-" she
grimaced. "Fine you want to know." she yelled again. "She was bitten by Tommy,
but…"
"Well then that proves it."
Said a person. "They're evil, lets get rid of them."
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(A/n- ack! I feel so bad
about doing that to Tommy and Cass, but it's fun to write. Next part'll be up
soon.)
-Loonybin