Chapter twenty-six
The phantom visits the pigeon
Chet suddenly had a devilish idea and said, "Hey, Roy, can I go too? It'll give me a chance to visit with Johnny too." And he looked innocently at Roy.
Knowing Chet like he did, Roy figured the Phantom was back.
"What do you have planned, Chet? You know, it wouldn't be very nice to make a fool of Johnny up there. He is nervous enough after all."
"Now, Roy, you know me better than that. Can't a guy just want to see a friend?"
"Well..I don't know, Chet. This is a seminar for paramedics. Would you really be interested?"
"Yeah, but Roy, you said Johnny's presentation was on fire prevention week. Come on, as a fireman I think I will find that to be a very interesting topic.
"Please I promise I will do nothing to Johnny while he is doing his presentation."
"Ok, as long as you promise to be good."
Chet got into the wheelchair and Roy and he went to the auditorium and got there just as Johnny began his speech. Chet, saying to himself, "Yeah, Roy, I won't do anything to him during the presentation. BWAHAHA!"
While John was talking, Chet pretended to go to the bathroom. While in there, he stuffed the faucets with paper so that when Johnny turned it on he'd get a bath. He knew Johnny so well, that he figured he would dash into the bathroom immediately after he was done.
And sure enough, fifteen minutes later he finished and darted right into the latrine.
Chet just sat there, trying to be as cool as a cucumber, while Roy went to chat to some of the paramedics. Chet walked, nonchalantly, over to the bathroom and listened, waiting and trying not to giggle. It felt good to be getting his pigeon again.
Within two minutes, he heard the flush of the toilet and Gage sauntering over to the sink, whistling, as usual, a tuneless tune. He turned on the tap and nothing happened, so he went to the other sink and nothing happened. He turned the tap a little more and SPLAT! The water soaked gauze hit him in the face and the water splashed all over his suit.
Without even thinking, Johnny yelled, "CHET! I'm gonna kill ya!"
Chet couldn't stop laughing; even Roy was laughing looking at his sopping wet partner.
Carla O'Neil came over and said, "Hey Chet, Ming told us you had played a lot of pranks on Gage. He said you called yourself the Phantom and he was your pigeon. That was a good one, buddy." And she laughed, while Johnny just glared at Chet.
"CHET! What the hell are you doing here? How did you get here?'
"Junior, I, um..bought him. He said he wanted to say hi to you."
"Yeah, and I am sure glad you did, Roy. I told you I wouldn't do anything to him while he did his presentation, but you never said anything about after it.
"Just remember, Johnny boy, THE PHANTOM IS BACK!! and he is lurking everywhere, my friend, everywhere."
Johnny continued drying his head and laughed. "Yeah, well, you tell the Phantom for me, that his pigeon is glad to see him back and that he better watch out for the pigeon!" And they all laughed.