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A/N: D-Tent members include the following ppl--Zig Zag (Ricky), Magnet (Jose), Squid (Alan), X-Ray (Rex), Armpit (Theodore), Zero (Hector), St. No- No (Nora), Starfish (Kathy), Dude (Elise), Ukulele Peanut (Caroline), Eloisha (Elisha), and Hammer (Casey). And Tess, too, I guess. TEE HEE!! ding dong dang, elisha!

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"OKLAHOMA, O-K-L-A-H-O-M-A!! OKLAHOOOOOOOOOOOOMA! YEOW!!" Tess sang in a loud voice, as she saw the water truck coming.

"Um, are you from Oklahoma, by any chance?" X-Ray asked, giving Tess a hand to help her out of the hole she'd just dug.

"Actually, um, no. I'm from New York."

"New YORK?!" Dude asked incredulously. "Then what the freak are you doing in Texas?!?" (a/n: actually, elise does live in ny but not in this story! bru ha haa!)

"Hey, I love Rodgers and Hammerstein!!" St. No-No declared, just realizing what Tess had been singing. "And so does Bernadette Peters! I like Bye Bye Birdie, too."

"What a coinky-dink!" cried Magnet. "Me too! WHEEEEEEE!!!"

Mr. Sir got out of the truck and began filling everyone's canteens. "Mr. Sir, do you have any sunflower seeds you'd like to give me?" Magnet asked quietly.

"NO!!" Mr. Sir yelled loudly. "I stopped eatin' them stupid things a long time ago! Got back to smokin'. It's healthier, anyway."

"Are you cuh-razy???" Tess asked, jumping to the front of the line. "Smoking ain't good for your health, see? It'll give ya lung cancer and make yer gums ugly and make you smell bad, etc!"

"Yeah!" Zig Zag said. "My grandpa died from second-hand smoke; you could be trying to murder us and we wouldn't even know it!"

"Now hold on, kids," Mr. Sir said, waving his hands to try and make them quiet.

"Mr. Sir, I think you're setting a bad example for us rotten kids," Armpit said. "Shame on you, boy!"

Mr. Sir looked at them, then took his cigarette out of his mouth. Grinning, he threw it behind him and D-Tent cheered. Unfortunately, Mr. Sir had not taken careful aim upon throwing his cigarette and it landed in his car. Also unfortuantely, there had been a gas leak in the car and what followed thereafter was--

KA-BOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!!!! ("Ka-boom?" Dude later asked)

The kids and Mr. Sir were sent flying backwards and they all landed in a gigantic heap (except for Mr. Sir, who landed in Squid's hole).

"Woah, that was sweet!" Squid exclaimed, holding the tooth that had been knocked out of his mouth. "I'm bleedin'!--cool!"

Dude spit some dirt out of her mouth and shook her head. She removed her leg from underneath Armpit, then remarked, "Let's do that AGAIN!!"

"That was just like that scene from Charlie's Angels Full Throttle," commented Ukulele Peanut, shaking a scorpian off of her hand. "Hm. Too bad Drew just missed it."

(Meanwhile, on an airplane with Meryl, Drew sneezed lightly. She excused herself, saying, "Someone must be talking about me.")

"Geez, I TOLD you smoking was bad for you!" Tess reprimanded Mr. Sir. "You almost got us killed back there!"

"This guy can't win," Squid muttered to X-Ray. "Zig says he'll kill us with second hand smoke, and now Tess says he almost blew us up. He's a mass murderer either way."

"True, but they were both right," X-Ray stated.

"I give up with you people!" Mr. Sir huffed. "I'm outta here!" And with that, he headed for what remained of his car. Fuming at the fact that there were only ashes left, he stalked towards the Warden's cabin.

"WELL BOO YOU!!" Tess shouted.

"Oh, that reminds us," said Eloisha taking a pad of paper out of her back pocket. "Us girls devised a quiz for you to take."

"A quiz?"

"Yes, it will help us decide what your nickname is," Eloisha said matter-of-factly. "So, here's your first question: What sound is most commonly associated with a ghost?"

"Um....boo?" Tess asked.

"Correct! Ding ding ding!!" Dude said. "Okay, second question: What is the first name of the Radly dude in To Kill A Mockingbird that refuses to come out of his own house?"

"Boo, right?" Tess asked, trying to remember.

"Ya got it," Starfish said, as Eloisha checked something off on the paper. "Now, Question three: What is the name of the little girl from Monster's Inc?"

"Boo," Tess answered, beginning to see where this was going.

"That's right again," Ukulele Peanut said. "And now, a fill-in-the- blank question: Peek-a-___, I see you!!"

"Boo," Tess responded after a short pause.

"A-HA!! YOU THOUGHT IT WAS BOO, DIDN'T YA?!" Dude yelled. "WELL, SORRY, MISSY, BUT YOU'RE WRONG!! THE ANSWER IS--"

"Boo," Eloisha said slowly, staring at Dude with confusion.

".....what?!" Dude asked, grabbing the paper from Eloisha and looking at the paper. "What happened to the trick question we put in there? I thought that the answer was nickel!"

"Peek-a-nickel?" Zig Zag asked. "Um, I don't think so."

"Okay, one more question," said Hammer. "What does B-O-O spell?"

"Boo," Tess said in a bored, Daria-like voice.

"Hey, you got a hundred percent!!" St. No-No said. "Congrats!"

"Hmmm, it appears that you like the word 'boo,' Starfish said, going over the paper.

"Yes, Tessy boos a lot," Magnet commented.

"Tessy? Since when is she called Tessy?" Irene asked.

"Irene?! Who's Irene?" asked Squid.

Irene looked around. "Whoops! Wrong story! Sorry!" She disappeared.

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"Hey, that's a great idea!" Eloisha said, as she and everyone else decided to ignore what had just happened completely. "Tessyboos!"

"Yes, we've clarified that already," Ukulele Peanut said slowly.

"No, no, I mean that should be her nickname!"

"Hmmmmmmmmmmm, okay," Tess (or "Tessyboos") agreed. "I'm cool wid dat."

"That's grand!" X-Ray said. "But I guess we should all get back to diggin' our holes now, eh?"

"Mm-hm," Dude said dully. "Geez, I sure wish there was some way to pass the time."

"Why did the gum cross the road?" Ukulele Peanut asked them excitedly.

"Because it was stuck to the chicken's foot," everyone answered dully.

"Noooo, BECAUSE IT WAS MUTATED GUM AND IT HAD LEGS!!!!!!!!!!! GUMBY!!! HA HA HAAAAAAAAA! GET IT?! GET IT?! A HA HA HA HAHAA!!!"

"Uh-oh," Hammer said. "She's had too much sugar again."

"Too much sugar'll make you fat," Tessyboos warned them, punching Armpit's stomach for a visual. "Like him. See, he didn't even feel it."

"Feel what?" Armpit asked.

"Exactly."

"Are you calling Peanut fat?" Starfish asked. "You poophead!"

"No!" Tessyboos answered. "I was just stating a fact, stupid!"

Starfish gasped softly. "Are you calling me fat?"

"Wha--how'd you get the idea that I was calling you fat?!"

"You called me stupid, and stupid people are ugly, and ugly people are fat," Starfish answered immediately.

Tessyboos stared at her. "............I don't get your logic."

"That's okay; no one does," Zig Zag whispered to her.

"HEY, I HEARD THAT!!" Starfish sobbed.

"You meanie!" Dude said to Zig Zag. "Now you've gone and hurt her feelings! Poor Starfish....it's okay, we understand everything you say."

Starfish sobbed uncomprehensibly into her arm.

"What did she just say?" St. No-No asked prior to recieving a slap in the forehead from Eloisha. "WHAT WAS THAT FOR, FOUR EYES?!"

"Hey, you can't call me four eyes!" Eloisha barked. "You've got glasses too!"

And then a heated fight started between Eloisha and St. No-No as they argued over whose glasses were cooler. Everyone decided to ignore them as they had Irene and continued to dig their holes.

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