A/N: Hamha! This is crystalgurl101 again! And here's chapter 4!
WARNING: There's gonna be some slight romance between Hamtaro and Bijou, so yeah, there's a little romance in this story!
Chapter 4: The Ride Of Your Life!
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"Eep! Sandy look!" Bijou whispered, tugging at Sandy's arm and pointing frantically.
"Like what is it, Bijou?" Sandy asked.
"Look over zhere! We have company!" Bijou hissed fearfully. Sandy followed the french girl's gaze. Her green eyes widened in horror. "Oh like, hell no!" she whimpered. The girls were at the Fun Park. But on the other side of the park...was the boys!
"This is bad! This is bad, this is bad, this is bad bad bad!" Sandy started to panic. "Do not panic, Sandy!" Bijou placed her paw on her shoulder. "Too late! I'm getting all fidgety!" Sandy replied.
"What's going on?" Pashmina asked. "That!" Bijou and Sandy pointed at the group of Ham-Ham boys. Pashmina let out nothing but a squeak. "This is bad! This is bad! This is bad! This is badbadbadbadba--"
"Okay Pashy! We get it! It's bad!" Sandy interrupted her. "Where's Crystal?" Bijou looked around. "Riding the Merry Go Round with Penelope." Pashmina told them.
"Not anymore!" Crystal piped up. She walked up from behind the three girls, holding Penelope's paw.
"Crystal! Hi! How'd it go?" Sandy asked. The three girls whirled around, trying their best to block out the boys with their bodies. Before Crystal could even reply, Pashmina had grabbed her other paw.
"C'mon, Crystal! Let's go try out some other rides!" Pashmina tried to drag her away. "Bij, I'll stay here with Pashy. You go warn Hamtaro and the others--"
"Hamtaro?"
Sandy and Bijou turned around. Crystal had picked up Hamtaro's name.
"W-W-Who?" Bijou tried to lie.
"Hamtaro, silly! You and the Ham-Hams were talking about a 'Hamtaro' dude yesterday. You know, I never did meet him! Is he here? Can you introduce me to this Hamtaro guy? Pleeeaaasssee?" Crystal begged.
Bijou looked at Sandy. Sandy looked at Bijou. "U-Umm...well...errr..." they muttered.
"Are you keeping something from me?" Crystal was getting real suspicious.
"Noooo! No!" Sandy and Bijou shook their heads quickly. "Okay then. I'll find him myself then!" Crystal smirked and skipped along.
"NOOOO!" the three girls screamed.
Crystal jumped again and froze. "What? I was joking!" Crystal started to laugh.
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Guys! Did you hear that?" Hamtaro turned around. "Oh, I heard loud and clear." Dexter nodded. The boys had heard three Ham-Ham girls scream out, "NOOOO!"
"What if those pretty ladies are in trouble?" Stan asked. "Trust me, if you go there, there will be trouble!" Boss taunted. Stan shot him a glare.
"I'll go check!" Hamtaro sighed. He scampered over to where the voices came from. Sure enough, he saw Bijou, Sandy, Pashmina and Penelope with an unfamiliar girl with brown and white fur and a ponytail.
"WHAT? WHERE'S THE RABIES-INFECTED WEASEL?" he shouted frantically. The girls looked at him.
"I take it this is Hamtaro?" the girl raised an eyebrow. "Oooh! You're that girl that my tiger-striped friend, S--" Before Hamtaro could even say Stan's name, Sandy had stomped down hard on the poor golden hamster's foot.
"EEP!" he squeaked, pain surging through his foot. "W-What he meant was, he's heard of you before from--" But Crystal interrupted Bijou.
"I know what he was gonna say." she sighed. "You do?" Pashmina asked. "Well, of course I do! He was gonna say "I've heard of you from my tiger-striped friend Sandy and the girls!' It's so obvious that Sandy is the only one here with tiger stipes!" Crystal giggled.
"Oh trust me, there's more than one." Hamtaro muttered. "Huuush!" Bijou hissed.
"Come again?" Crystal cocked her head.
"Well...I, uhh...I was going to say that when Sandy here stepped on my foot!" Hamtaro lied. "Sorry! It was an accident!" Sandy shrugged. It sure didn't feel like an accident! Hamtaro thought.
"Anyways, we were preparing for my Official Ham-Ham Gang Membership test." Crystal explained.
"Your whosawhata?" Hamtaro gaped.
"My membership test? You know, where you have to get a laminated membership card to be in the Ham-Ham Gang." Crystal answered as if it was an obviousquestion.
"Laminated?" Hamtaro cocked his head.
"Laminated!" Crystal repeated for him.
Behind Crystal, Hamtaro saw the girls giving him bizarre signs. "Just go with it!" Sandy mouthed. He was of course, oblivious. Then he saw Bijou mouthing out, "We made it up!" Then he got it.
"Ohhh right! I remember the membership!" he lied. He was a good liar...for an idiot.
"I remember that! Boss made it up!" Hamtaro laughed nervously. "You're acting kinda funny! Are you okay?" Crystal asked. "Of course! Never better! It's just I uhh...I gotta Go-P!" Hamtaro said, rushing off. (A/N: In case you don't what that means, it means he has to go...you know, "go"...bad:Some people still look confused:You know...:sighs rather loudly: It means he has to pee, damnit! Do ya'PLAY the Hamtaro video games?)
"Uhhh..." Crystal cocked an eyebrow. "He's wierd like that!" Sandy quickly said.
"Wanna go to the snack shop?" Pashmina asked.
Suddenly, something caught Crystal's eye. "Not yet, I don't!" she exclaimed.
"Heke?" the girls turned around and gasped at what Crystal was staring at. It was the new roller coaster Panda had just built, "The Destructo Coaster!"
"EEEEP! THE DESTRUCTO COASTER!" Bijou, Pashmina, Sandy and Penelope hugged each other. "Okyoo?" Penelope added. "Sweet! It even has a cool name!" Crystal squealed.
"Ohhh no, Crystal! Nononono! That roller coaster is murder! The only ones daring--and stupid--enough to go on that monster are the boys!" Pashmina warned.
"Not even I will ride eet!" Bijou shivered.
"Me and Pepper were dared to ride it a week and a half ago. I like, still have nightmares and Pepper totally won't climb trees!" Sandy said. "That thing is my worst nightmare!" she added, staring at the intense ride.
"I think you guys are overreacting! Roller coasters don't kill people...most of the time.." Crystal mumbled.
"WHAT?" Pashmina and Bijou screeched.
"Kidding! Can't ya'll take a joke?" Crystal giggled. My! They're sure acting a bit uptight!
"C'mon girls! Live a little!" Crystal coaxed, slightly shaking her hips.
"I'd rather live alot--andlive long enoughfor my wedding!" Pashmina snipped. "Moi too!" Bijou nodded quickly. "Okyoo!" Penelope backed away slowly.
"Whatever! Me and Stan were four and we weren't afraid of no roller coaster! At least..I wasn't afraid! He practically started to sweat when he neared up towards the ride." Crystal scoffed. There I go again with Stan! Sheesh! What's wrong with me?Crystal mentally kicked herself.
"What are you talking about?" Sandy asked. "Remember when I told you about me and Stan's last full day together? Well, we kinda sneaked into a roller coaster like this one...okay not exactly like this one. But it did have one flip and plenty of hills! It was awesome!" Crystal smiled.
Sandy gaped. So Stan wasn't kidding when he said he went on his first roller coaster at age four! she thought to herself.
"I'm going!" Crystal declared.
"Heke? But w-we don't want to lose you!" Pashmina complained. "You are too young to be in a coma!" Bijou whined. Crystal rolled her eyes. "Guys, I can handle it!" she told them confidentaly. She turned to Sandy.
"Sandy, if this thing scares you, then face it! Stan once told me that if you don't face your fears, they'll follow you for the rest of your life...or was that Mom?" Crystal thoight for a while.She shook it away.
"The point is they'll just poke into your life every once in a while. Poke poke poke poke...poke!" Crystal said, poking Sandy with each "poke".
"Okay, that's just getting annoying!" Sandy said. "Exactly!" Crystal nodded. "Well...I don't know. Maybe another day." Sandy lied, smiling oh-so-innocently.
"Whatever Sandy. It's up to you...but I'm getting on!" Crystal giggled and bounded off.
"She's a goner." Sandy sighed. "Sandy!" Pashmina scolded. "What?" she shrugged.
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"What?" the boys gasped.
"It's true! The girls are here with Crystal!" Hamtaro told them. "Oh hell no!" Boss sighed.
The boys were gathered around, surprised that the girls were here.
"Who's here?" Stan asked. He walked up from behind them, a roasted almond in his paw.
"Stan! Oh God, don't scare us like that!" Dexter gasped.
"Oops. My bad. Anyways, did I just hear the girls are here?" Stan said eagerly. "Don't even think about it, Casanova!" Boss, Howdy and Dexter growled. Stan sweatdropped.
"Guys! Calm down, will ya? We've got bigger problems right now!" Hamtaro whispered out the last part.
"Hey, guys. Check it out! The Destucto Coaster!" Stan smiled as he pointed up at the roller coaster up ahead. The boys smirked at each other.
They knew one thing was for sure: girls would never be caught dead near that ride! Not in a million years!
"I'm gonna get on that ride today." Stan told them. Ever since that time he and Crystal had sneaked on that roller coaster years ago, he was known for being a roller coaster daredevil! "Who's coming?"
"Umm...you go ahead. We'll catch up!" Hamtaro waved him off. "Riiight.." Stan smirked and left.
"Perfect! The girls would never get near the Destructo Coaster! ever since a week and a half ago when we dared Sandy and Pepper to go on that ride." Boss smiled. "Yeah! No girl would be daring enough to get on that thing. We should give Panda his props!" Howdy agreed.
Just then, Hamtaro let out a squeak.
"Heke? Hamtaro, what's wrong with you?" Dexter asked him. "Guys, please tell me that there's another girl with brown and white fur, a ponytail, a pink hairclip and whose name is not Crystal!" he whimpered.
The boys turned around--and let out squeaks of their own. Crystal was heading straight towards the Destructo Coaster! with a big smirk on her face!
"Oh no. Oh nonononono! We gotta stop her!" Boss took off towards her. The other three boys followed him.
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"SANDY! We've got to stop her!" Bijou screamed. "Um, why? She's already heading towards the line." Sandy questioned.
"Oui...BUT WITH YOUR BROTHER!" Bijou cried.
"WHAT?" Sandy and Pashmina cried out, whirling around.
Sure enough, Crystal was heading towards the line--with Stan walking towards the same direction!
"Oh for God's sake, when will they stop running into each other?" Sandy cried out, exasperated. "Let's go get her out of there!" Pashmina gasped.
The four Ham-Ham girls raced towards the ride.
"You know, I have never been zhis close to to zhis ride!" Bijou pointed out. "Yeah, me neither!" Pashmina agreed in a happy sweet voice. "Okwee, okwee!" Penelope smiled.
"Guys! This is serious!" Sandy scolded. "Oops. Sorry Sandy!" Bijou and Pashmina apologized.
By the time, they had reached the entrance, the boys had caught up to it as well.
"Guys, Crystal's like going in there with Stan!" Sandy gasped. "Gee, ya' think?" Howdy scoffed. Sandy glowered.
"Now eez not zee time for zhat!" Bijou yelled.
"Hey guys!" Oxnard just then came out of nowhere. "Maxwell send me out here cause he needs Dexter." he explained.
"Good! I'm outta here!" Dexter smirked and ran to the clubhouse.
"So, what's up?" Oxnard at the others.
"That!" everyone pointed at Crystal and Stan entering the ride from two different entrances. Oxnard's mouth hit the floor.
"You idiots! Crystal and Stan are almost together! That wasn't part of the plan!" he nagged.
"We know!" the seven hamsters growled in unison. Oxnard sweatdropped.
"So, what's the plan?" Pashmina asked.
"Follow them in." Boss sighed.
"AAAAAHHHHHH! NOT THAT!" Sandy, Pashmina and Bijou hugged each other. "Pleez, anyzhing but zhat!" Bijou squealed. "Please, Boss! There must be like, some other way!" Sandy begged. "And what about Penelope? Think of the children!" Pashmina asked, pointing at Penelope.
"They're right, you know." Hamtaro told Boss.
"Yeah, they are...Penelope stays. You three go!" Boss declared.
"WHAT?" the three unlucky girls shouted.
"The Destructo Coaster! is now ready for new riders. Step up if you dare!" a voice on the loudspeaker boomed. The boys looked at the girls. "You can't make us go in there!" Sandy crossed her arms stubbornly. Bijou and Pashmina did the same. The boys simply looked at each other.
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"AAAAHHHHH! LET ME GOOOO!" Sandy screamed.
"HAMTAAAAROOOO! PUT MOI DOWN!" Bijou screeched.
"I CAN'T BELIEVE THEY'RE MAKING US GO IN!" Pashmina whined.
The boys were carrying the girls over their shoulders right into the ride entrance!
"This is for your own good, girls!" Hamtaro called sympatheticaly. "Speak for yourself, Red!" Sandy snapped. She was being carried by Boss and Oxnard, Pashmina by Howdy and Bijou by Hamtaro. Penelope was walking by Boss' side.
Meanwhile, Crystal was getting on the front seat of the roller coaster and Stan was sliding into the last car.
"They're getting in!" Hamtaro cried out. Stan was looking down, adjusting his seatbelt and so was Crystal. They didn't seem to see each other.
Just then, Stan sighed and looked up.
Before he could see who was in front of him, two hamsters literally jumped right into the car in front of him. They were Oxnard and Howdy!
"Oxy? Howdy? What are you doing here?" Stan asked.
"Same as you!" Oxnard replied. "To have the time of our lives--again!" Howdy added.
In front of them was Boss. In front of him, Hamtaro and Bijou had jumped into the seats. And in front of them, Pashmina had squeezed in next to Crystal.
"Hi!" she squeaked out. "Pashmina?" Crystal was shocked her pink-loving friend was here in the Destructo Coaster! with her. "Hey Crystal!" Hamtaro tapped her shoulder and waved.
"Hamtaro? Bijou? I thought you said you were too terrified to get on the roller coaster." Crystal pointed out.
"I am..." Bijou muttered between clenched teeth and a forced smile. "Huuush!" Hamtaro nudged her. Bijou simply pouted. If I die, zhis will be all his fault! she thought.
"Hey bro!"
"Sandy?" Stan looked to the right as Sandy slid onto the seat next to him. "Sis, what are you doing here?"
"Commiting suicide." Sandy muttered bitterly as she stared up at the roller coaster.
"Aww, c'mon Sandy. It's not that bad!" Stan laughed. "Mm-hmm!" Sandy nodded, not believing him. "Suuure! That's what the last guy said before he was like, put in a coma!"
"Umm...Crystal?"
"Yes, Pashmina?"
"Where's the roller coaster tracks?" Sure enough, the tracks that guided the coaster were nowhere in sight.
"Oh, that's cause they're up there!" Hamtaro answered.
"Huh?" Pashmina squeaked. "What are you talking about Hamtaro?" Bijou practically hissed. "Yeah, keep talking!" Unlike the other girls, Crystal seemed interested.
"Well, this roller coaster is different from other coasters. Ya' see that mist above your heads?" Hamtaro pointed at the sky. "Yeah?" Crystal nodded. "Well, all the spirals, flips, hills and stunts are up there, so it's like a roller coaster ride in the sky.." Hamtaro said in a dark, scared voice. "..Isn't that cool?" he added in an excited voice.
"Hell yeah! This is gonna be the bomb!" Crystal squealed, high-fiving Hamtaro. "What do you think, girls?" Crystal turned to a pale Pashmina and Bijou.
"O-Oh yes! E-E-Eet eez v-very cool! Eh-heh heh heh...GET ME OUT OF HERE!" Bijou screamed at the top of her lungs. She struggled to leap over her partner and run to the exit. But Hamtaro and Boss behind pinned her to her chair.
"C'mon Bijou! Suck it up!" Hamtaro told her firmly. "Yeah, it's not that scary! Trust us--well, mostly me!" Boos added. "Easy for you to say!" Bijou snapped.
CLANK! CLANK!
The seatbelts suddenly began to automatically strap over every hamster's body.(A/N: The type you see in a wild roller coaster ride. With the pads over your shoulders and holds your body in the seat. THEY ROCK! Sorry...) They held back everybody's bodies.
Pashmina began to whimper. Bijou started to pray. Crystal smiled. A boy-ham next to Boss cheered.
"Have you like, been here before dude?" the boy-ham asked Boss. He had an australian accent. (A/N: I think Australian accented people are cool!) "You bet!" Boss smirked. "Awesome!" the dude nodded.
"Let's do this!" Howdy shouted. He and the other boys whooped with joy.
Sandy took deep breaths. "You can do this, Sands. You can do this!" she whispered. "Sandy, are you...sweating?" Stan asked his twin sister.
"What? This seat is just kinda stuffy!" Sandy lied. Stan shrugged it off. Little sisters... he thought.
"Welcome to the Destructo Coaster! roller coaster." a perky girl's voice in the loudspeaker announced. "Please keep your arms, paws, legs, tails and feet inside the ride at all times. And remember--the barf bags are right in the bag in front of you, so if you or your partner are ready to blow chunks of their breakfast on the floor, please be a kind soul and hand it over to him/her." the voice added heartfully.
"I already feel sick!" Bijou scoffed rather loudly.
Hamtaro looked over next to him. He stared at Bijou's scared face. She looked so small and helpless. "Bijou...I know you're scared." Hamtaro spoke softly. "You think?" Bijou glared. But her expression softened as she looked into Hamtaro's eyes.(A/N: Here comes the HB fluffiness! Oh boy, brace yourselves!)
Hamtaro wrapped his paw around Bijou's.
"But you're not alone. You have Crystal and Boss and Howdy and Pashmina and Sandy and Oxnard...and me. If you're really getting scared, then I'll be here. Don't worry, I'm there for you." Hamtaro reassured the shivering purebred.
Bijou blushed and smiled weakly. (A/N: Ahhhh! Choking fluffiness!...Can't...breathe!)
She tightened her grip around Hamtaro's paw. "Merci, Hamtaro." she whispered.
"Don't sweat it Bij! After all, we're friends!" Hamtaro smiled childishly, letting go of Bijou's paw.
"Oui!" Bijou nodded.Just friends...she thought sadly. (A/N: Aww:( Just friends. Waaahhh!) But she simply smiled, even though inside, she felt like crying.
"Awwww!" Crystal and Pashmina cooed softly from up front.
Hamtaro cocked his head in confusion. An embarrassed Bijou went redder than before. Boss also went red, but with jealousy from behind. Even though the other boys didn't hear Hamtaro whispering from all the cheering and chatting, he had heard every word.
CH! CH! CH! CH!
The train started to slowly pull away from safety.
Sandy, Pashmina and Bijou squealed. Crystal laughed. "WOO-HOOOOO!" the boys cheered and applauded.
"This is fun for the boys, isn't it?" Pashmina growled to Crystal. Crystal giggled. "Yeah." she smiled.
The coaster suddenly jolted to a fast pace. Everyone screamed. Then as it approached a rather very high hill, it slowed down to 5 mph. It climbed the hill for a long time.
"I can't breathe!" Sandy shouted."
Stan laughed. "Relax, sis! You've been here before!" he chuckled.
"No really, I can't breathe! We're going too high! No more, you stupid hill! No more!" Sandy wailed. Stan simply laughed again.
Sure enough, after the ride went past the mist, they saw the hills, spirals, flips and tunnels waiting for them.
"Hey girls, look!" Howdy taunted, pointing at the stunts they'd go through.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!" the girls screeched.
"IT LIVES!" Sandy cried. "We're going on those things?" Pashmina went pale again. "HAMTAROOOOO!" Bijou begged, gripping onto Hamtaro's paw as if she was going through labor.
"ACK! Bijou...too...hard...!" Hamtaro struggled to free his paw from Bijou's deadly grip. But Bijou was stubborn as an ox.
Finally, the hamsters stopped looking at the sky as the coaster went straight. Next thing they saw was a steep hill.
"Ohhhh myyyyy..." Pashmina started, but it was too late.
The roller coaster had begun to speed up and plunge towards the earth below...
To be con't...
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A/N: Sorry it took so long, but there's another chapter. Next time's gonna be my FAVORITE part of the Ham-Hams' plan! Somebody has to..(a truck passes by, drowning out crystalgurl's sentence) HEY! Well, hopefully you heard me, right? GOOD! Stay tuned for the next chapter, "Bijou Or Pashmina?"
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Later!
XOXO,
crystalgurl101