Disclaimer: We do not own Frodo or Spock, we are only playing with them for a time. They are owned by New Line Cinema and Paramount. We wish we did though. We do own Christina and Katy though, so no stealing us! And we (Katy) own the phrase "God Frickin Damn" so no stealing! We also don't own Nickel World, DDR, or McDonalds...yada yada yada
They Are Not Figments Of Our Imagination, We Swear
Chapter 3
"Nickel World?" Spock asked with a raised eyebrow. Frodo looked up curiously. "Yeah, and what is a nickel?"
Spock glanced at the hobbit and began to spew some information. "It is the old form of currency in the United States, during the 21st century. A nickel is actually worth five cents."
Frodo looked even more confused and Christina just stated. "Shut up smart ass,"
Spock's eyebrow raised more and he stated simply. "Dr. McCoy called me that once...among other things." Katy snickered at this and Christina shrugged her shoulders.
Christina reached for some coins on her dresser and gave one to Frodo. "This is a nickel. We need lots of there for the place that we are going. Now everyone pile in my car."
"Car?" Frodo asked. Christina pointed to her Kia Rio and Frodo felt slightly sick to his stomach at the metal contraption.
Spock glanced at Katy and quietly asked her. "Does she drive like Captain Kirk?" Katy laughed and shook her head.
All four squeezed in the small car with Christina and Katy in the front and Spock and Frodo in the back. When the engine sounded Frodo jumped and he felt even worse, even though Frodo was pretty fascinated with all the electronics in the car. As soon as the car turned on, there was this beautiful melodic orchestra music. Katy rolled her eyes. "Do we HAVE to listen to the Return of the King soundtrack all the time? Let's listen to Clay Aiken instead."
"I happen to love this CD, plus my mom stole my Clay Aiken one, so tough." said Christina. Katy pouted. "What do the rest of you think about this CD? It's music from this story called Lord of the Rings," She said.
"Yeah, and in it Frodo, you are the best character!" Christina said smiling.
"Not!" replied Katy.
Frodo looked shocked. "I'm in a story, this...Lord of the Rings?" he asked.
"How else do you think that we knew all about you guys already? The same thing goes for Spock, he's in a show called Star Trek," said Katy.
"There is now way I play a part in some human show of amusement," Spock said indignantly.
"Well, it's true," said Christina.
For a couple of minutes everyone was quiet. Then Frodo spoke up again. "So once again, what is this Nickel World place?" he asked.
"Follow your nose," said Christina. "We are almost there," she said. Moments later she pulled into a parking space.
The four got out of the car and walked towards the building Nickel World. Inside Christina and Katy paid their $2.50 to get inside the place. Walking through they saw the insides of the arcade. Frodo's eyes bugged out in fascination as he looked at everything. Spock didn't look amused....and he stifled a yawn. The two girls led Frodo and Spock to a coin machine and put in a dollar and the nickels came out.
"Wow...that was so amazing, can I try?" said Frodo totally fascinated. Christina handed Frodo a dollar and he reached up and put the dollar in the machine and then collected the nickels.
"Well, I know my first stop," said Christina, giving Katy a mischievous smile. Katy rolled her eyes in reply as Christina led them all to the very back of the building where there was a game called Dance Dance Revolution Solo. It had a big screen, a few buttons, and a stage that had panels going in all directions.
"This is the best game in the world, DDR," said Christina excitedly as she put in five nickels into the machine. She started it and then she picked the selection of three panels. Then she got on the stage and the song started. "All you have to do is step on the right panel at the same time the arrow on the screen, matches up at the top," Christina said as she began to do the motions.
Christina got off the stage as her turn was up and then faced Spock and Frodo. "Who wants to try next?" she asked.
"I'll go," said Frodo. Frodo got on the stage, and he started to try and step at the right times, Christina was coaching him all the while. He failed the songs twice in a row, before he managed a D on the easiest song there was.
"Good job Frodo, it's Spocky's turn next," said Christina smiling sweetly. She hadn't even asked Katy to do it, because Katy never wanted to play DDR.
"I'm sorry, but I have to decline your offer," Spock replied, not at all looking at ease in the place.
Christina rolled her eyes, and she started another song. Spock had been studying the ceiling, when Christina shoved Spock on the stage. Spock took once glance at the screen and began to dance perfectly.
Christina's eyes bugged out as he finished. "No way!" she said as he was done. "Ok, I'm picking your songs from now on," she said as she scrolled down to the harder songs. She picked one called Hysteria, which she had always passed, but never did perfect on.
Spock looked like a robot, the way he was moving his legs. Everyone watched in shocked as he did it perfectly, a triple A. Then he did several other very hard ones, before his turn was up and he got off the stage.
"I found that quite a boring game actually," said Spock yawning, hardly looking like he broke a sweat.
"Boring! It's great, but how on earth did you get a perfect score on a level seven? I can't even do that on a level five!" Christina exclaimed with her arms crossed.
"Vulcans are very computer oriented," said Spock shrugging his shoulders.
"I'll say," replied Katy.
The four of them wandered around Nickel World for awhile, playing various games. Christina continued to be pissed at Spock's excelling in all the games, and winning a ton of tickets. Frodo was having a ball, playing all the games, he especially loved skee ball, and the children's version since the other was too tall for him.
Then Katy walked over to her favorite game, the crane game. She tried it twice in a row and failed to win it. She grumbled loudly and Spock walked over to her. "Having problems Miss. Lemle?" Spock asked.
Katy nodded and Spock approached the machine and put some nickels in. Spock did the controls and aimed for a stuffed rabbit, he grabbed it, but as it approached the bin it fell. Spock tried three more times and failed miserably everytime.
"This game is illogical. There is no possible way to win it," he said.
"Not," said another voice and Christina walked up. "Watch the crane game pro," she said and put some nickels in the machine. She quickly moved the buttons and within a couple of seconds, the stuffed rabbit fell into the bin. "Nothing to it," Christina said sweetly.
Frodo started to snicker, and Christina gave him her rabbit saying "I have plenty at home." Spock's human side wanted to strangle Christina, but his Vulcan side won and he made no reply. Instead he gave her a look of disgust.
"Well, I think we should go cash in our tickets, and then maybe go to lunch. How does that sound" Christina asked.
"Lunch sounds good," said Frodo. "I'm starved,"
"How can you be famished, you consumed a great deal this morning," observed Spock.
"Spocky, you obviously don't know much about hobbits. They eat six meals a day!" exclaimed Christina as they approached the prize counter.
Spock was going to retort, but quieted as a Nickel World employee walked up and began to count up their tickets. Spock gave all of his to Katy, and she got a huge stuffed teddy bear. Christina and Frodo got some little tricks and games.
Afterwards they all piled back into Christina's car. Frodo seemed a lot happier about the car now, having gotten over his fear of it. One thing could be said about Frodo, and about hobbits in general, they were very adaptable. Christina knew that if it was her, she would have passed out and started crying by now.
Christina drove to the nearest McDonalds and got out. "Alright, so what does everyone want?" she said.
"Um...what is a burger?" asked Frodo looking curiously at the menu.
"I'll get you a big mac and then you can try it, I think you will like it," said Christina.
"I would like a salad please," said Spock looking disgusted, as soon as he caught a whiff of the smell of burgers cooking.
Christina ordered a big mac for Frodo, a salad for Spock, a double cheeseburger for Katy, and a crispy chicken deluxe for herself. Then as the food came they all went to sit down at a table. When they went to fill their drinks, they all got coke. Spock and Frodo took cautious sips of it, before they began to drink it heartily.
"Do you think it is really a good idea to give these guys pop?" whispered Christina to Katy.
"Probably not," Katy replied.
Christina nodded and they began to dig into their meals. Frodo found that he quite enjoyed the cheeseburger, and politely asked for another one when he was finished. As Spock started to munch on his salad, he could see Frodo out of the corner of his eye eating his burger. This caused the Vulcan to turn a deep shade of green, disgusting meat!
Soon they were finished eating. "Well, time to go," said Christina, and the four got into Christina's car for another trip.
AN: Well, we finally forced ourselves to finish this next chapter. We want to thank our awesome reviewers for their kind words on this random, crazy story. Next chapter, Spock and Frodo go to high school...so stay tuned! :-)
Katy: That was fun!
Christina: So?
Katy: We need to do the next one soon!
Christina: So?
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Christina: So?
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Christina: So?
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Christina: So namärie!