Erk snuck right next to the cast room door. He moved the small mouth piece on the microphone headset that RICK had given him and said,

"This is Serra-destroyer, I'm in position. Over."

Another voice crackled on, it was Raven's, "This is Brother Red. Me too. Over."

Erk turned around. Raven was right behind him. Erk glared, "You're supposed to be in the other hallway!"

Raven glared back, "We're handcuffed remember!"

Erk said, "Ohhh… right."

Suddenly RICK's voice came on the line, "What the fuck is going on? Oh, and this is Da Pimpin' Awesome Tactician. Over."

Erk yelled into the mouthpiece, "SOMEBODY's plans happen to exclude the fact that me and Raven are handcuffed!"

RICK paused and answered, "Oh, well whoops. I'll send Sun Brotha from Anoda Mother, err… I mean Cormag on to it right away. And KEEP YOUR VOICE DOWN! Uhh… Over."

Erk spat, "Fine! …Over." He sighed.

This was Not how the plan was supposed to work. Erk was to play a recording of Nino's voice and lead Jaffar out into Raven's hallway where a net would pull him up causing him to miss the next round. Erk just hoped that it wouldn't screw up.

Cormag's voice suddenly came on, "This is Sun Brotha from Anoda Mother. I'm ready. Over."

RICK's voice was back, "Okay, you heard the man. Start the call and release the bait, but make sure you're a safe distance away from 'im. Over."

Erk shuffled in his pack and pulled out a small wire line. After many tugs you could see it was attached to a Nino plushie. He also pulled out a small tape player. The walked backwards 20 steps like in the plan and threw the Nino doll right in front of Jaffar's door.

Erk whispered to Raven, "Play the recording at the highest volume so he can hear it."

Raven nodded, "I know." He played the tape.

There was a sudden pause and then about anyone in a fifty mile radius could hear, "MOOOO!"

Raven yelled into the microphone, "What was that about!"

RICK chuckled uneasily, "Uh, wrong tape. Come back and we'll redo the---"

Jaffar stuck his head out of the door. Erk shushed RICK.

Jaffar had a hopeful look in his eyes, "Mom?" he called out.

Raven's eyes couldn't get any bigger, "No. way. Jaffar's parents were cows? T-this is amazing!"

Erk shushed him. "Quick." He whispered, "Pull it!"

Jaffar picked up the Nino plush and said, "I can add this to my-" he looked around, "Collection!"

The doll flew out of his hands and was moving down the hallway. Jaffar raced after it.

Erk heard the footsteps behind him, "Yess! He took the bait!"

Raven smacked him, "Just keep running! And hope he dosen't catc—"

Raven suddenly fell backwards, pulling Erk down too. Raven pushed Erk off of him and tried pulling the string. No good, the bait had been found.

Erk listened as hard as he could and heard, "Huh? A string?" Followed by more footsteps coming closer.

Raven with a horror-struck face on said, "Oh, Smoof."

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Hector and Ross walked out of the exit on the Texas Giant. "That was sooo good! Let's go again!" Ross cheered.

Hector was about to agree when Eliwood and Garcia showed up.

"Why did that take so long!" Eliwood exclaimed.

Hector tried to put on a serious face, "Uhhh… It's pretty suspicious. We're going to have to go again."

Ross nodded uncontrollably.

Garcia said, "Well if it's that bad should we come?"

Hector shook his head, "In case you haven't noticed both of yall aren't even promoted.

I'm sorry but I can only rescue one person at a time." And with that they were off.

Garcia took a look at Eliwood, "You know, he's right. What are you like, on level one?"

Eliwood clenched his fists, "Shuttap, you're on level four."

AROUND TWENTY MINUTES LATER

Eliwood looked up and around at the sky, trying to waste time. His eyes stopped on a muscular man and a boy sitting in the seat of the cart on the top of the Giant's first hill.

He rubbed his eyes. They were sitting in the front seats with their arms waving madly.

He asked himself, "That couldn't be them, could it? Nah."

Eliwood waited until the cart came closer, at the end of the ride. He could just about see them but that wasn't what gave them away. Just then the boy said to the other guy,

"That was so fun! Huh, HECTOR?"

Eliwood nearly ripped out his eyes.

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Erk was pacing back and forth babbling, "What do we do? What do we do?"

RICK came on the line, "This is a code RED! Code RED! Just like we planned, pull out the Nino costume!"

Erk shuffled into his bag again and pulled it out. He handed it to Raven who instantly refused it.

Raven said, "You're the smallest!"

Erk protested, "But it's code RED! You're brother Red."

RICK again, "Just put on the costume Erk. We can't afford to abort this mission. I repeat, we can't afford to abort this mission!"

Erk sighed, "I heard you the first time. Okay fine, but tell anyone and I'll Kill YOU!"

Raven ran off to hid as Erk quickly changed into the costume. He put the green wig on with delicacy, just as Jaffar came into view.

Jaffar cocked his head, "Nino?"

Erk folded his arms, "You know it! I mean, the one and only… uhh…"

Jaffar looked puzzled, "Are you feeling okay?"

Erk nodded, "Yea…"

Cormag came on the line suddenly, "Hurry up and lead him to me!"

Jaffar looked around, "What was that!"

Erk pulled out a random thing from the Nino Cloak. His eyes laid on a spellboook. Actually a fake one, it was unopenable and solid plastic.

"This!" He said in his best Nino voice, "Sometimes… The like,

They like talk to me…" He tried to sound like a dazed little girl.

Jaffar totally bought it, he lifted up his swords, "Yes. My weapons do too, but I thought I was just crazy!"

Erk started twitching. Finally Erk met Cormag's glance and Erk slowly walked over the net on the floor. Erk thought with Jaffar's reputation he would have noticed the obvious trap from a mile away, but he was too busy looking right at Erk. It was creepy.

Suddenly the net flew up, taking Jaffar with it.

Erk laughed and ripped off the Nino costume in one pull, cartoon style. Under that was a Knoll costume. Erk looked at his sleeves and hair in a near mirror and said, "Huh… Weird coincidences. Oh, well, this works out nicely."

He ran off laughing as he gave Cormag a high five. Erk called out to Jaffar, "See you at the next round, oops, I mean… I'll see you after the next round sucka!"

Jaffar struggled in the net and yelled, "I'LL KILL YOU KNOLL I SWEAR IT!"

END OF CHAPTER 15

Erk laughed, "Jaffar can seem like a pretty normal guy when it comes to girls. As in, he's as clueless as me!" He paused, "Okay, that didn't come out as planned…"

RICK threw the tape player into his 'Oh, so mysterious trunk', "What was up with his reaction to my cow recording?"

Erk said joking, "He must be like, part cow!" Then seriously, "So that's why he has such great assassin skills! He's only half human!"

RICK, not knowing if Erk was serious or not said, "Yeah! He should be like the Angel of Dairy Products or somethan!"

Erk said seriously, "I wonder if he has like an udder or something…"

RICK, looked disgusted, "Eww… Let's just go with the fact that Jaffar should be Milk Man or Oh, yee Spotted one. Or maybe—"

Erk pointed behind RICK, "B-Behind you!"

RICK showed him 'the hand', "Wait, I'm not finished. " he was laughing, "How about, Cowzie Wowzie, the superhero! Or—"

Jaffar cut in, "You're on my list, RICK."

RICK said, "Meep." Then was silent for a while.

Jaffar continued, "Anyway, Next time many questioned will be answered. Will I get kicked out of American Idol for absence? Will I ever escape? Why does RICK have a recording of cows? Why did I have a weird reaction to it? And who the crap will win Amreican Idol, if not me?"