Author's Note: Yeah, that's right folks… I'm back. Did ya'll miss me? Come on… ya'll know ya'll missed me…

Lenny: Cut the bull and get to the story!

Aqua Aussie: Why? You ain't gettin' no make-out scene.

Lenny:… Never mind. Go ahead and continue your author's note. (Swims away)

Author's Note: Anyhoo… wassup my peoples? I'm back with another chappie! This chappie will be focusing mainly on Angie, Reuben, how Jamel, Andre and Ricky are doing, the shark tale mafia, Ernie and Bernie, Sykes, as well as Oscar. Guess what folks? We'll also get to see Don Feinberg! Yay!
For all my violence and dark parts of the story lovers: Don't worry, even though there's no violence in this chappie, it doesn't mean that there won't be any violence in the next chappie…

And now for my shout-outs!

The Crouching Tiger Shark: That's right, she broke Carlotta's nose. It was either that, or write a scene with the song 'Girl fight', and since I was being lazy… ha, does Carlotta have a fan club now? Yes, Oscar's going to get Lenny for help, and he might get it… but then again, he might not. Yup, Lola was behind the shooting… but there's another surprise behind that… I like surprises… Okay, I won't leave you hangin', here's the update!

Z Star The Hidden Dragon- No worries, that happened to me once. Just when you think it's on your alert list… Glad to know that you like Ronnie. Yes, Oscar's doing the right thing… So... you want Maybe Angie and Reuben will break up in some dramatic break-up scene? I'm thinking differently… Mwahahahahaha….

Insane Pirate Dragon- Oh yeah! Well I smell… (sniff, sniff) Oh, you're right… trouble is off the port bow… Oscar's gonna go to get Lenny to help him... I wonder how that's gonna turn out.

Oh, and Special Thanx to the STFU (not what it sounds like) group for giving me some ideas for this story… and to Lav'O'Dolphin for teaching me how to play poker…

Oh, and look very carefully at some moments in this chappie… some of them will have things that'll turn up later in another chappie…

On wit da story!

Chapter Twenty-One: Kidnaps and Cover-ups

'Aww man… my head…'

Reuben woke up and found himself lying on a red pebbled floor. He saw a stream of bubbles coming from a clear, plastic tube, and even though he knew he was still underwater, he could tell that he was not home.

'Where the heck am I?'

Trying his best not to panic, Reuben looked around the place. He saw red chairs in corners of the room, a desk with what looked like important papers on it, and a bar on the right wall. He immediately knew where he was. Panicking slightly, he dashed forward… and bumped into a glass wall.

"But… if this is Lino's study…" Reuben said, "Then he should have an aquarium with piranhas in it…" He looked around for the aquarium with the flesh-eating fish in it, but found nothing. "Hmm, that's weird. It's usually in the center of the room. If I'm right, it should be in the center in the room, in an aquarium like the one I'm in…" Reuben paused after he heard himself say those words. He turned around slowly, with a scared expression on his face, looked up… and saw a group of piranhas staring at him.

"Ahhh!" Reuben shouted, banging on the glass walls. "Help! Help! They're gonna eat me! Let me out! Let me out! Let… me… OUT!"

"Take it easy, they ain't gonna eat ya." A voice said with a slight chuckle.

Reuben stopped banging on the glass walls after he heard the voice. 'Aww man, I bet its Don Lino himself.' He turned his head slowly to the source of the voice… and found Luca, sitting on a chair, nonchalantly munching on shrimp he pulled from a bowl.

"How do you know?" Reuben said suspiciously. "I bet you're just waiting for them to eat me!"

"Nope, not really." Luca said with his mouth full. "They won't eat ya 'cause da boss told them not to eat ya."

"Yeah right." Reuben said.

Luca shrugged. "Fine. Don't believe me." He picked up a shrimp from the bowl and began talking to it, ignoring its cries for help. "I'm gonna eat ya, oh yes I am. First, I'm gonna chew ya, then, I'm gonna taste ya, and then, I'm gonna swallow ya…"

"Aren't you a little too big to be playing with your food?" Reuben said.

"Aren't you a little too little to be mouthing off?" Luca returned with a glare. Meanwhile, the shrimp wriggled from his grasp and swam out the window. "Aww, see! You made me lose my lunch!"

Reuben smirked mischievously. He was going to have fun with Luca.

Scene Change

"Ronnie… Ronnie!"

Ricky was swimming around, looking for his sister. He hadn't seen her swimming around the place to see the city at night; which was weird, because she loved the city lights. He hadn't seen her near her house, which was weird, because she loved that place of hers. But weirdest of all, he hadn't seen her in the hospital; she was supposed to stay in there for another few days.

Turning the corner to where Shelly worked, Ricky cautiously swam inside. He had learned to look around before swimming inside after bumping into a thug that played pool there. Of course, the thug thought Ricky bumped into him on purpose and a fight broke out. Luckily, Shelly was able to help Ricky out, but not before he gained a black eye that was still visible today.

Ricky swam towards the bar, where Shelly had her back turned and was cleaning out a beer glass.

"I'd like a whiskey please." Ricky said.

Shelly jumped slightly and turned around. "Aww, Ricky, don't do that! You startled me…" She picked up the glass she had dropped when she was startled, and began cleaning it again. "So, do you really want a whiskey?"

"Not really. I'm not thirsty… and even if I was, I wouldn't go for whiskey. Maybe tequila or some of that strawberry flavored stuff, but not whiskey." Ricky said.

"Oh, well then what brings you here then?" Shelly asked.

"I was wondering if you saw Ronnie around anywhere." Ricky said. "I haven't seen her at the hospital."

"Did you try looking at her house?"" Shelly asked.

Ricky nodded his head.

"Did you try looking at Lenny's house?" Shelly asked.

"Lenny swam away from here after he killed Markie." Ricky said.

"Lenny killed Markie?" Shelly nearly shouted. "Should've seen that coming."

"Yeah, and Lenny swam away because he thought he would get in trouble." Ricky shook his head. "We have no idea where he is now."

"He's probably in Weed city." Shelly said. "We all know that he'd never go back to Reef City."

"Weed city!" Ricky shouted, causing all of the thugs to stare at him.

"Hey, kid! You made me miss my shot!" A pool player called from the pool table.

"Sorry." Ricky said, embarrassed. He then added in a not-as-loud voice, "Weed city? But that's where all the psychos and killers are!"

"Hey, I could be wrong." Shelly said.

"Okay, sure," Ricky said, "But that still doesn't explain where Ronnie is."

Shelly thought for a moment before saying, "Did you try Andre's house?"

"Andre's house?" Ricky questioned.

Shelly shrugged. "He's got a nice house."

"And you would know because…?" Ricky said with a smirk.

"…I saw his house before…" Shelly said slowly.

"Oh, okay." Ricky said. "Well, I guess I'll be going now. I've gotta go see if Jamel and Andre know where she is…"

"Wait! Are you sure you don't want a drink first?" Shelly said before he left.

"Well… why not? I'm thirst now anyways." Ricky said. "One of those watermelon things please."

Shelly immediately mixed a drink and gave it to Ricky, who drained it in one gulp.

"That was good." Ricky said, satisfied.

"Oh, really? I've never gotten a compliment before." Shelly said. "That'll be one seventy-five."

"You're joking, right?" Ricky said.

Shelly just held out her hand expectedly. "Well? Cough it up!"

"Aww c'mon, Shelly." Ricky whined. "You wouldn't make one of your friends pay, would you?"

"I sure would." Shelly said. "So, will you be paying in cash or cash?"

Ricky sighed and dug into his wallet. "You… are one evil person." He said as he handed her the money.

"Mwahaha." Shelly said.

Scene Change

Ricky swam up to Andre's door, and knocked on it. Out of all the places to find Jamel and Andre, Andre's place was the number one spot. His kitchen was always filled with treats, and hey, he had cool video games! Waiting a few moments, Ricky knocked on the door again. While waiting for the door to open, he looked around the place. He had never noticed that the hallways always seemed to glow, and had never seen that supply closet with the full supply of paint in them.

'I wonder why they put that there.' Ricky thought. 'Maybe they're painting somebody's house.'

He was so caught up in the closet he failed to notice that Andre had answered the door.

"Hello… Ricky…" Andre said quietly. Ricky was still staring at the hallways, so he said in a louder tone, "Ricky!"

Ricky jumped slightly and yelled. When he realized that it was just Andre, he said, "Andre? What're you doing here?"

"I live here."

"Oh, that's right." Ricky said embarrassedly.

"So, what brings you here…" Andre began, but stopped when he and Ricky heard a loud crash from inside his apartment. Rolling his eyes, Andre shouted, "Jamel!"

Ricky heard Jamel's voice coming from inside the room. "Sorry! I didn't know that the dishes could break!"

"They can't." Andre said. "Not unless you throw them against the wall."

"Heh, well… it's a funny story…"

Andre sighed and shook his head before turning his attention back to Ricky. "So, what brings you here?"

"I was wondering if you or Jamel knew where Ronnie was." Ricky said. "I haven't seen her anywhere."

Andre's eyes widened. He remembered that he wasn't supposed to tell Ricky where she was. "Uhh… Ronnie?"

"Yes." Ricky said.

"You mean… your sister Ronnie?"

"Yes."

"The Ronnie with the little necklace thingy?"

"Yes." Ricky sighed.

"Haven't seen her." Andre lied.

"Oh." Ricky said. "Well, do you know if Jamel's seen her?"

"Uhh… I don't know." Andre said. "Lemme go check." Andre swam into his apartment and saw Jamel sitting at a pull-out table, eating chips. "Hey! You ate all the chips!"

"Sorry man," Jamel said with a mouthful of chips, "But they were just too good. I was hungry. And you were taking too long." Noticing the look on his friend's face, Jamel added, "You've got more chips in the pantry."

"Well, yeah, but those were my favorite kind…" Andre began, but his expression changed when he thought about what Jamel said. "Hey… how'd you know that I had more chips in the pantry? You didn't even know I had a pantry!"

Jamel grinned sheepishly. "Well… I did say I was hungry…"

Andre sighed. "Anyway, we've got a problem."

"Did we run out of chips?" Jamel asked.

"No." Andre said.

"Then I don't see a problem." Jamel said.

"Ricky wants to know where Ronnie is." Andre said.

"Not my problem." Jamel said casually as he gulped down some soda.

"He wants to know if you know where she is, so he's waiting outside."

"Just became my problem." Jamel said. "So where's Ricky?"

"Outside the door." Andre said.

"Well let's go outside the door!" Jamel said.

Jamel and Andre swam outside where they saw Ricky looking at the clock. "Oh," he said, looking at the two, "You guys are back."

"Yeah." Jamel said. "Sorry dude, but I don't know where Ronnie is either."

"Oh." Ricky said. What was he supposed to do now?

"Hey…" Andre said, "You wanna play some poker?"

Ricky stared at him.

"It's Texas Hold 'Em." Jamel said in a song-song voice.

"Okay." Ricky said.

So, the three friends played Texas Hold 'Em.

Scene Change

"I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves, gets on everybody's nerves, gets on everybody's nerves, I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves, and this is how it goes…"

"Will you shut up!"

Reuben held back his laughter as he looked at the annoyed expression on the octopus's face. He had been singing that song ever since Luca lost his lunch, and was successful in going through thirty verses (Not including the chorus line) before Luca had blown up.

"Why? Don't you like my singing?" Reuben asked innocently.

"No. It's horrible." Luca said.

"Oh yeah? Well I don't like it when you play the piano, so there!" Reuben said in a childish tone.

"I've never played the piano while you were here." Luca pointed out.

"Oh yeah… well… uhh… your playing still sucks." Reuben said.

"Like you can play any better." Luca retorted. "I bet you can't play anything at all."

"Yes I can!" Reuben said. "I can play the keyboard." He added proudly.

"Really?" Luca said in disbelief. "Prove it."

Reuben had an idea to get himself out the aquarium. "I can't, my keyboard isn't with me." He said. "If you could let me out of here, I could go to my house and get it…"

"Yeah right." Luca scoffed. "If I let you outta there, you'd swim away."

"No I won't." Reuben said. "I promise."

"Pinky promise?" Luca asked.

"I don't have a pinky." Reuben said.

"Well do you sincerely promise?" Luca asked, still unsure.

"Yep!" Reuben said with his fins crossed. "Promise!"

"Well, since you promised… I guess its okay to let you go." Luca said as he took Reuben out of the aquarium.

'Wow, this guy isn't as smart as I thought he was.' Reuben looked left, looked right… and began to swim faster than he had ever swum before.

"Hey!" Luca shouted after Reuben.

"Sucker!" Reuben shouted as he swam for the door. He was about to make a clean getaway when…

'Oh… my… God…'

There, floating right in front of Reuben, were four big sharks. The four were all glaring at him, and one of them glared at Luca.

"Aww, jeez Luca! You let 'im out!" Giuseppe said in an annoyed tone. "Can't you baby-sit somebody without losing them?"

"Hadn't it been for us, the guy would've swam out already!" Michael added.

"It's not my fault!" Luca complained. "He tricked me!"

"Oh really?" Jimmy asked in an unbelieving tone. "What'd he do?"

"He promised me that he wouldn't swim away." Luca answered.

Everybody stared at him.

"What are ya, stupid?" Cody said. "You know he would've still swam away! Pscht, you believed him because he promised you. That was stupid."

"I know." Reuben laughed. "The guy believed me! I had my fins crossed behind my back! Even if I didn't cross my fins, I still would've swam away. He's so gullible!" Reuben continued to laugh until he noticed four death glares focusing their attention on him. He chuckled nervously. "Heh, I'll just go back to the aquarium now." He slowly inched his way to the aquarium. Luca picked up the top as Reuben swam in, and then made sure that Reuben couldn't get out.

"Ha! You won't get out this time." Luca said. He smiled and brushed off his tentacles, but stopped when he noticed that now, the four death glares were focused on him. "What?" He asked.

Cody sighed. "Never mind. Let's just play some poker."

Luca pulled out a portable table and unfolded it. The five sat around the table and had cards handed out to them.

"Okay, so the game is Texas Hold 'Em." Luca said.

"Texas Hold 'Em?" Jimmy said. "Why Texas Hold 'Em? I don't wanna play that!"

"Would you rather play go fish?" Luca asked.

"Well… no…"

"Okay then! We're playing Texas Hold 'Em." Luca said.

Jimmy sighed and stared at his cards. "Hey! I've got three kings!"

This let out frustrated groans from the players.

"Jimmy! You aren't supposed to tell us that!" Cody said in an annoyed tone.

"Oh, sorry." Jimmy said. "Can we start all over?"

Luca sighed. "Fine. But this time, no telling anybody your cards! The whole object of the game is to keep people guessing… and to steal their money." Luca took up everybody's cards and began to shuffle them again. Meanwhile, Reuben watched.

'So… they get really mad when people tell their cards…' A plan began to form in Reuben's head. Good thing he was right behind where Luca was sitting, otherwise, his plan wouldn't have worked.

"Hey everybody!" Reuben shouted. "Luca has a flush!" (Is that a good thing?)

The four sharks all looked at each other before chorusing, "Fold!"

"What'd you do that for?" Luca said to Reuben. "I could've won the round!"

"Oh well." Reuben said with a shrug. "Hey, can I play?"

"No." Luca said bitterly.

"Why not?" Reuben asked innocently.

"Because I said so." Luca replied.

"You aren't my momma." Reuben said.

There was no reply. Reuben frowned as the five began to play again. Less than a moment later, if you were outside the door, you would've heard:

"Luca's got a good hand again!"

"Fold!"

"Dang it!"

Scene Change

Don Lino stared out the window in the lounge. This was what he would usually do when he needed to think, and trust me; he had a lot to think about. He had just lost his son (if you want to call it losing) and he needed an heir to take on the don ship. If he didn't have one, people would fight over who gets to be the next don, and, putting it lightly, all hell would break loose. Just as soon as he was beginning to feel calm, he heard a gravelly voice.

"So… come out here to think, huh?"

Lino turned around to find out that Don Feinberg was in the room.

"Don Feinberg… I didn't hear you come in." Lino said.

"Please, call me Ira." Don Feinberg said. "No need for formalities here. Save that for banquets."

"All right." Lino said with a small smile. A few seconds later, he was staring out the window.

"You do know that you can't see the city out that window, right?" Don Feinberg said in an effort to start a conversation.

Lino just grunted slightly and continued to stare out the window.

"There are only the wastelands to see. Nothing fun happens there." Don Feinberg, trying to get some words out of the guy.

He only got the same reaction.

Don Feinberg sighed and rubbed his head. This was not going to be easy. "What's wrong?" He said, trying to get to the point.

"What?" Lino said in a confused tone.

"I said 'What's wrong'?" Don Feinberg said.

"There's nothing wrong." Lino said. "I just… needed to think."

"Nothing wrong? Lino, we've all seen the way you've moped around, especially me. So there's no way you can look me in the eye and tell me that there's nothing wrong." Don Feinberg said sternly.

Lino didn't reply. He only stared out the window.

Don Feinberg sighed. "So, if there's nothing wrong… what's on your mind?" Expecting to hear a long silence, he was surprised to hear an answer.

"Nothing. Just some… stuff." Lino said.

"Oh, stuff." Don Feinberg said, nodding his head. "It wouldn't happen to be stuff about Lenny, would it?"

Lino sighed. "Do you think… I was wrong… you know… to say that he couldn't come back?"

'So I was right. He is sad over Lenny.' "That's for you to decide, not me." Don Feinberg said.

Lino sighed. "I guess so. But still, I can't believe I sent him away. I didn't mean to say he couldn't come back… I was just so angry."

"Choices made in the heat of anger only come back to haunt you." Don Feinberg said.

"Normally I wouldn't admit things like this…" Lino said, "But you're right. I should've cooled down first."

"At least you're admitted it." Don Feinberg said. "But you know what? I think that you're glad that Lenny's gone."

"What?" Lino said.

"I mean, after all, he was the next Il capo di tutti i Capi." Don Feinberg said. (Boss of all bosses)

"Well, yeah, but not everybody's opposed to it." Lino said.

"They used to be." Don Feinberg said. "Remember when it was said that you were the next big boss? It took everything you had to make them not like you… but they finally liked you when you saved Giuseppe's sister…" He began to smirk.

"Oh no, please don't bring that up." Lino said.

Don Feinberg smiled. "Let's go get some lunch. They've got orange marmalade covered shrimp and a secret sauce."

"Uh… not just yet. I've got something important to do first." Lino said. "I've gotta make a phone call."

"All right. I'll be in the dining room." Don Feinberg said.

As Don Feinberg swam out the door, Lino swam to the phone to call a fish we know all too well…

Scene Change

Everything was quiet at the Whale Wash. There were no sounds of dancing, joking, or music, except for the music coming from Head Phone Guy's headphones. The only sounds you could hear was the sound of whales getting washed and the occasional cough coming from one of the bungee crabs. Even the phones didn't seem to ring as much as it did when Reuben and Angie were there.

Reuben and Angie were the reasons why everything was so quiet. Out of all the people who worked there, Angie and Reuben were the most optimistic. Reuben would always joke around and Angie would always show up to work with a smile on her face. The employees there were shocked when they didn't show up to work a day ago; if they ever missed work, they would always call. The first day they were gone, they didn't pay much attention to it; but today, everything was quiet. They all had a feeling that something bad had happened; they just didn't know what.

Since Reuben was gone, another fish had to pick the stuff off that dangly thingy in the back of the whales' throats. (You know… that little dangly thingy in your throat? What's that called?) He wasn't very good at the job, but he did it nonetheless. Since Angie was gone, Ernie and Bernie had to take over her job again. They were doing a much better job than they usually did, but they still got the opening line wrong. The long silence that dragged on for what seemed like an eternity was about to be broken.

"OH MY GOD!"

Sykes' voice rang throughout the Whale Wash. His office door burst open as he dashed out. As soon as he was in the center of the Whale Wash, he shouted,

"Reuben and Angie have been kidnapped!"

The long silence ended right there. Murmuring voices throughout the Wash, and even the whales seemed to tense up. Finally, one voice rose up amongst the panicked fish voices.

"Who kidnapped them?"

The noise died down. Everyone stared at the fish who shouted that, who shrunk back. Sykes sadly answered,

"The same guys who kidnapped Angie last time." Sykes said. "And I have to show up too."

Scene Change

"Let's try this again…"

Luca was dealing out a new combination of cards. Reuben kept telling everybody his cards, and it was really starting to tick Luca off.

"Hey! I didn't get enough cards!" Jimmy complained.

Luca found that he had one extra card. "Here." He said, holding out his third arm.

"Hey, Luca? How come you never use that arm?" Cody asked, pointing to the eight one.

"Because I don't want to, that's why." Luca said quickly.

"He's lying." Reuben said in an annoying sing-song voice. "There's a reason."

"Shut up you!" Luca said angrily.

"You guys wanna know the reason?" Reuben asked

"Yeah." Cody said.

"You sure?" Reuben said.

"Yeah." Giuseppe said.

"You really sure?" Reuben said.

"Out with it all ready!" Michael shouted.

"He uses it to…!"

Before Reuben could say anything, someone swam in the door. It… was Don Lino. Reuben was too scared to notice it, but if Lino hadn't swam in that room, Luca probably would've killed him.

"What the… what did I tell you guys about using my office to play poker?" Lino said.

"Um… you told us not to use it." Cody said.

"Okay then." Lino said, crossing his fins.

A few moments passed before Cody got what Lino was trying to say.

"Oh! You want us to leave!" Cody said.

"Yeah." Lino said.

"Oh well… we'll go now." Cody said. Everybody swam out the room.

"So… you're probably wondering why you're here." Lino said.

"Naw, not really." Reuben said. "I all ready know why I'm here. I really want to know where Angie is though."

"Didn't you notice?" Lino asked. "She's sleeping in that little cave over there."

Reuben turned around and saw Angie, sound asleep in a cave that had piranhas floating around it. A worried look crossed his face.

"Don't worry; they won't eat her." Lino said. "I'm not that cold."

Reuben looked at Lino. "How long do we have to be in here?" He asked.

"It's not that long." Lino said. "It's only for a twelve days."

"Twelve days!" Reuben shouted. "That's a long time!"

"You'll live." Lino said. "Besides, it's not like we're gonna mistreat ya."

"You guys kidnapped me." Reuben said.

"Hey, we may be kidnappers, but we're kidnappers with class." Lino said. "Besides, how can it be called 'kidnapping' if you aren't a kid?"

"I don't know." Reuben said. "But still… that's a long time." He glanced at Angie for a moment. "Ya'll didn't hurt her, did you?"

"What did I just say?" Lino said. "We may be kidnappers, but we're kidnappers with class."

"… Is that a yes or a no?" Reuben questioned.

Lino sighed. "It's a 'no.'"

"Good." Reuben said. "If it was a 'yes', I'd have to bust out my kung-fu."

Lino rolled his eyes and swam out the door.

Scene Change

Oscar wrote down the information he need on a sheet of paper. He had finally found the right address, even though he was sure he should've found it two days ago.

"Yeah! I've got the info!" Oscar shouted. "Now all I have to do is get Lenny!"

"Too bad you won't live long enough to do that."

Oscar turned around and saw a fish in a black mask floating in his penthouse.

"Who're you?" Oscar demanded, his grip tightening on the paper.

"Never mind who I am." The fish said. "I'm just here to make sure you don't find your friend." He pulled a gun from behind his back.

Oscar's eyes opened in realization. "Lola sent you. You're the gun fish."

"That's right." The gun fish said. "And I never miss a shot." As soon as he said 'shot', he pulled the trigger. Luckily, Oscar noticed where his fin was, and was able to swim out his penthouse.

The gun fish chased after him. He lost Oscar for a second, but found him when he saw a flash of green, yellow and blue disappear into an alley.

"Come on." The gun fish said, slowly swimming in the alley. "Don't make this harder than it is." He looked behind some trash cans. "Ah, so we're playing hide and seek, are we?" He added in a taunting voice. "Oh Oscar… come out, come out, wherever you are… oof!"

Oscar had hit the gun fish in the head with a heavy piece of trash he had found in the dumpster. The gun fish collapsed to the ground. He would be knocked out long enough for Oscar to get to the city. Looking back at the gun fish, Oscar headed for Coral city.

Scene Change

'It's so dark…'

Angie opened her eyes and found herself in a small cave. "Where am I?" She said as she rubbed the sleep from her eyes. She swam out the mouth of the cave only to find herself face to face with a piranha.

"Ahhh!" She shouted.

"They won't eat you ya know."

Angie turned around and saw the last fish she ever expected to see. It was Reuben!

"Reuben! You're alive!" Angie said joyfully as she swam over and gave him a hug.

"I sure am." Reuben said with a laugh. "Happy to see me?"

"Of course I'm happy to see you!" Angie said. "Who gave you the donation?"

Reuben shook his head. "I don't know."

"But I do."

Angie and Reuben turned to see Lola floating outside the aquarium.

"Lola." Reuben said angrily.

"Glad to see you still remember me." Lola said with a smile.

"What're you doing here?" Angie demanded.

"Well, you wanted to know who gave Reuben his blood." Lola replied. "I'm just here to tell you."

"Yeah right." Reuben said. "You don't know anything."

"Oscar gave you the blood." Lola said.

Angie and Reuben stared at Lola with surprised looks on their faces.

"He did?" Reuben asked.

"Hey, I don't know anything, remember?" Lola said with a smirk.

"Shut up and just tell us about Oscar." Angie said impatiently.

"How can I tell you about Oscar if you told me to shut up?" Lola questioned innocently.

"You know what I mean." Angie said, rolling her eyes.

"Well, Oscar felt bad, and decided to donate blood to Reuben." Lola said. "He wanted to remain anonymous because for some reason, he thought you guys didn't like him."

'That's why he wanted to stay unknown. He thought I didn't like him.' Reuben thought. 'When I get out of this, I'm gonna tell him thanks.'

Lola read Reuben's thoughts off his face. "Too bad you won't get to thank him; I have someone making sure of that."

"What do you mean?" Reuben asked.

"I hired a gun fish to kill him." Lola said. "He's the same gun fish that shot you."

Reuben's eyes widened in anger. He swam towards Lola, only remembering that a wall of glass separated them when he bumped into it. "You were the one behind that? I could've died!" He shouted angrily.

"Yeah, I know." Lola said. "It's not like I care."

"All of this because you were dumped." Angie said angrily. "You are one jealous bitch."

Lola's eyes narrowed in anger. "I guess I'm not wanted here."

"It took you that long to notice that?" Angie said. "Now go away. And I swear, if I ever see you again, it'll take more than make-up and surgery to make your face look pretty again."

Lola's angry face turned into fury as she swam out the door.

"Whoa." Reuben said. "I know to never get you mad."

Scene Change

"Dang… you've won again."

Jamel and Andre watched as Ricky took more of the chips on the table.

"Don't worry guys… maybe you'll win next time." Ricky said with a smirk.

"Dang man," Jamel said, "Now I see why Ronnie went to Weed City to find Lenny; you win too many times at this game."

"Ronnie's in Weed City?" Ricky shouted.

Andre glared at Jamel. "Oops." Jamel said shamefacedly.

"Jeez Jamel!" Andre said. "You weren't supposed to tell!"

"Tell? Tell what?" Ricky crossed his fins. "Is there something you two wanna tell me?"

"Busted." Jamel mumbled.

"Well, you see…" Andre said, "Ronnie didn't want us to tell you this, but… she went to Weed City to find Lenny."

"Weed City?" Ricky said. "That's where all the killers are! The freaks really do come out at night over there!"

"Yup, she's in Weed City, with all the freaks and psychos and killers…" Jamel began. When he noticed the death glare on Andre's face and the horrified expression on Ricky's face, he quickly added, "But hey, she's a big girl! She can take care of herself. In fact, I bet she already found Lenny and is on her way home right now."

"You just said that because Andre's giving you one of the best death glares I've ever seen." Ricky said.

Jamel turned to Andre, who tried to look as innocent as possible. "Why'd you have to make it so obvious?" Jamel whispered.

Andre rolled his eyes. "Look, I know you're worried, but would it make you feel better if I said that Ronnie was a tough girl. She's way more than capable of taking care of herself. Trust me, I know. She punched me in the fin once, and that hurt."

Ricky sighed. "I guess you're right." He said as he swam out the door. "Bye guys."

So, Ricky swam to his hotel, unaware of the crazy things that were about to happen…

TBC…

Oooh, Angie swore! The gun fish is after Oscar. Sykes has to appear at the sit down again, and Reuben and Angie are kidnapped… will Lino still feel guilty? Will Angie really kick Lola's butt? Will Oscar ever get Lenny's help? There's only one way to find out, and that's to stick around for the next chappie!

Well, that was the chappie. I hope you enjoyed the small moments of humor, because you won't be getting any in the next chappie…

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