A/N: Thanks for the reviews everybody. And thanks for answering my LMAO question, Wolfenheim...and JMS-Hamham and April Chikatow and HamtaroFan05?(sweatdrops) Tee hee! Surprising how many responses you get for one question! Anyways, I hope you all had a great Halloween! And I forgot to mention I have a BIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIG surprise for you all!
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Chapter 11: Reunited At Last!
Both groups quietly entered without a sound. Everyone shook and bounced with utter excitement. Sandy pushed Stan to the center of the room. Pashmina shoved Crystal to the center of the room as well. They were both blindfolded and quiet, not knowing they were practically face-to-face. And that in a matter of seconds, they would open their eyes to find a big surprise!
The lights were off and everyone surrounded the duo. Hamtaro ran to the lights. Boss gave him a countdown with his fingers.
3...2...1...
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"SSSUUUUUUUUUUUUURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRPPPPPPPPPRRRRRRRRRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIISSSSSSSSSSSSEEEEEEEEEE!"
"Surprise! Where?" Stan and Crystal chorused unexpectedly, looking around even though they were blind as bats. Then, they both said, "Who was that that just said the thing I said? See? He(or she)'s doing it again!" at the same time. The Ham-Hams sweatdropped. "What is going on?" Crystal demanded. "Yeah, and where am I?" Stan added. (A/N: They're still blind, you know.)
"I know! You have no idea what's going on too, do you?" Crystal asked. "Tell me about it! I'm standing here not knowing what's going on and not knowing where I am! I have a present from the mail at the clubhouse, ya' know!" Stan whined. "The Ham-Ham clubhouse?" Crystal said. "Uh-huh! And who are you again?" Stan nodded. "I dunno. Who are you?" Crystal wondered.
"TAKE OFF THE STUPID BLINDFOLDS!" the irritated Ham-Hams screamed at them with big anime heads.
"Oh...okay, but I still wanna know who was that--(gasp)! Stan?" Crystal dropped her blindfold. Stan looked up.
"Ohhh mmyyy God!" He gasped out. "C-Cr-ys-s-st-tal? Is that you? I-Is that really...y-yo-o-ou!"
She nodded. Tears were streaming down her face. "Yeah, Stan. It's me! It's really, really me!"
Suddenly, both hamsters screamed at the top of their lungs. Crystal practically jumped into Stan's arms and squeezed his shoulders. Stan did nothing to stop her. Instead, he lifted her up and spun her around. They continued to squeal with utter joy. Crystal started to sob uncontrollably. "It's you, Crystal! It's really you!" Stan kept whispering in her ear.
The Ham-Hams shrieked and applauded. Bijou hugged Hamtaro. Pashmina hugged Penelope. Sandy hugged Maxwell. Oxnard hugged Boss(and got pushed off). Howdy and Dexter hugged..."EWWW!" they groaned when they realized what they were doing and backed off of one another.
Finally, Stan put her down and noticed Crystal was crying. "Crystal?" he asked softly. Crystal sniffled and wiped her eyes. "S-Sorry. It's that I haven't seen you for so long!" she muttered. "Neither have I...wait, how'd you find me? How did you get here? Was it the Ham-Hams?" Stan suddenly had a thousand questions to ask her.
"We didn't find her Stan. She found us." Sandy answered with a smile. "What? She/I did?" Stan and Crystal chorused. (A/N: Stan said "she" and Crystal said "I.") "Yeah! When we met her, she told us a story about a certain little four-year-old boy with tiger stripes who's secretly the twin brother of our friend, Sandy!" Boss smirked.
"What! B-But you said you never knew a guy named Stan!" Crystal exclaimed. "Lied!" Sandy shrugged. "Wait...then that means...but...it...okay, I'm confused!" Crystal rubbed her head. "Me too. What's going on?" Stan asked. Hamtaro chuckled. "Guess it's time to come clean, huh Hams?" he said. Crystal and Stan exchanged glances. What was the Idiot talking about?
"Okay, here's the thing. We were planning a reunion party for you two when Hamtaro told us Stan told him about Crystal and when Crystal told us about Stan." Sandy began. "Zhen, we were planning on keeping you two seperated while we got prepared, but for some reason, you always ended up in zee same place at zee same time, so zhings got complicated...!" Bijou added.
When they were done with everything that had happened, Stan and Crystal were left speechless. "You mean you were behind everything today!" Stan asked. "The membership, the food fight, the roller coaster ride..." Crystal added. "Against our wishes!" Bijou interrupted. "Right." Crystal nodded.
"Sooo, even the date was a lie?" Stan's ears drooped. "Sorry Stan. But I still like you as a friend though!" Pashmina frowned sympathetically. "Let's not forget the lie Bij made up at last second about Pash flirting with Maxy!" Sandy hissed. Bijou shrunk away behind Hamtaro.
"And you did it all for us?" Crystal was touched. "Mm-hmm! So, we deserve a little something-something from you guys!" Cappy sighed. "One more zhing!" Bijou perked up.
She went to the hall closet and pulled out two crowns. One was a green crown with yellow and red stripes. The other was made up of little pink and white flowers. "For our childhood friends of zee day!" She placed the flowered one on Crystal and the golden one on Stan.
"This is sooo cool! You Ham-Hams are the best!" Crystal hugged Bijou. "Yeah, you guys rock!" Stan added with a smile. "Well, we came here for a party, so let's get it started!" Sandy squealed. The others cheered. Ten minutes into the party, Oxnard noticed something no one had all day...
"Hey...where's Pepper?" (A/N: SURPRISE! Has anyone noticed I haven't mentioned her since chapter 2? Audience: O.o )
Rrrrrrrrreeeeeeeeeeep!
The music screeched to a halt. "Pepper? Oh yeah, I haven't seen her like, all day!" Crystal piped up. "That's the problem! She was part of this whole thing too! And wasn't she with you guys, Oxy?" Hamtaro asked. "No. W-We thought she went with you guys!" Sandy replied. And as if on queue...
BAM!
"YYYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!"
"WHAT THE HELL!"
Suddenly, an ecstatic Pepper burst into the clubhouse with...with something. "PEPPER! What...in the walnuts...is that!" Pashmina stammered out. "Oh this?" Pepper pointed at the contraption she was on top of. "This is a mechanical bull! I was gone all day picking it out for ya'll! I figured since it don't poison, injure, give third-degree burns to and/or kill anyone, I could bring it over!"
"Well, what on earth does eet do?" Bijou wondered. "Watch! Bijou, do moi a favor and push the green button right there?" Pepper pointed at two buttons (not directly) underneath the bull...thing. One was red. The other green. Bijou pushed the green button. Three seconds later, the bull started to swing round and round and around...then up. Down. Sideways. Up. Down. Up. Down. Tick tock. (A/N: Where'd that come from?)
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! PEPPER, GET OFF!" the Ham-Hams freaked out as they witnessed the bull trying to literally throw Pepper off it's back. "Relaaaaax! Thiiis issss entertaaaiiiiinment doooown in Teeexaaaasssssss!" Pepper called. "Nooow, make iiiitt stoooooop. You hafta pressss the reeeedddd buttooooon!"
"The what?" Hamtaro asked. "The red buuuuuuuuttooon!" Pepper repeated. "Ohhh! The green button?" Hamtaro nodded stupidly. "Nooo! The red button! Press the reeeddd buttttton!" Pepper screamed. "Green pressing!" Hamtaro chirped, as he slammed his fist on the green button. This made the bull go well...faster.
Pepper screeched at the top of her lungs as the bull started to go insane. "I SAAAIIIID RRRREEEEEEDDDDDDDDDDD, YA' FREAKIN' AAAAAAASSSSSSSHOOOOOOOOOOOLLLLEEE!"
"I'm sorry, but I can't hear you!" Hamtaro called. "AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!" Pepper screamed, POed. "Press the button again!" Oxnard called. "No! Turn it off!" Pashmina yelled. "HOW?" Hamtaro threw his arms up in the air. "Umm...isn't there a switch?" Maxwell wondered. "I can't see one!" Hamtaro complained. "Try the plug!" Boss suggested. "What plug!" Hamtaro shot back. "There's no plug?" Panda asked.
"RRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEDDDDDBUUUUTTTTTOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONNN!" Pepper screeched, clinging onto the bull's handle. "U-Uhh...uhhhh...!" Hamtaro looked around, his face expression asking for help. The others were doing the same. All except Crystal and Stan. "Umm...can I get a second hint?" Hamtaro whimpered.
"HONESTLY! ARE YOU ALL THAT DENSE!" Crystal exploded. She ran over and slammed her paw on the red button. It suddenly stopped. Pepper, not paying much attention, was thrown off the bull. She screamed, landing on Boss, Howdy and Dexter. "Pepper! Are you alright?" Bijou asked. "Never...cough...better!" she growled.
"Are you all seriously that stupid?" Crystal asked, paws on her hips. "Yes!" Stan scoffed as an answer. "You should've see them last week. They couldn't tell a movie theater from a opera house!"
After the bull incident, the party returned back to normal. Some hamsters even rode the bull--with Crystal being the off/on button person! Pretty soon, the dancing began. Some people grabbed themselves a partner and got on the dance floor. "Heeeeyyy Crystal! Care to share a dance with a handsome old buddy?" Stan offered his paw and bowed. Crystal giggled. "I would love to!" she cooed, taking his paw.
While Stan was twirling Crystal on the dance floor. Crystal slipped on the sqeaky-clean floor. "WHOA!" she squealed as she fell backwards. "Crystal!" Stan cried as he reached over to catch her. He did, but they ended up in a rather uncomfortable position.
Crystal was leaning back, and Stan looked as if he was dipping her. Their noses were about six millimeters apart and their eyes were so wide, they were almost perfect spheres. But the worst part was, it was the end of the song and everyone was staring at them.
"Umm...Stan? Could you please lift me up? Everyone's staring at us!" Crystal muttered, her face scarlet. "What? O-Oh! Right!" Stan blushed furiously as he lifted Crystal back on her feet.
"Sorry 'bout that!" Stan rubbed his neck, avoiding eye contact. "No, it's okay. Thanks for catching me." Crystal's skin tingled. "Right. No problem." Stan smiled sheepishly. How embarassing! he thought. Crystal, on the other hand, was smiling.
What's this new tingly feeling I'm all of a sudden getting..? she asked herself.(A/N: Oops. Should I have mentioned the SLIGHT SC fluff? PLEASE DON'T BE ANGRY! AND DON'T TAKE IT OUT ON MY STORY! OR ME! TAKE IT OUT ON...ON...DORA! DORA THE EXPLORER! I HATE HER GUTS!(to rotten, past-tortured Dora doll)BI-OTCH! LOOK WHAT YOU DID TO THEM! YOU MADE 'EM MAD! HOW THEY'RE GONNA HATE ME AND IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT! WAAAAAAAAHHHH!)
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"That was the best party ever in my short hamster life!" Stan sighed. "Umm, it waaas your party!" Sandy scoffed. "Ahem! Your party or our party, Stan-ley?" Crystal demanded in a calm, but threatening tone. "U-Uhh...our party, Crystal!" Stan sweatdropped as he saw the danger in Crystal's aqua-green eyes. It was almost four o clock, the end of the long, hard, fun, hard, dirty, hard, slimy--did I mention hard?--day.
"Guess it's time to leave, huh?" Hamtaro asked. "Hold it! No one's going anywhere!" Boss declared. "Uhh, why? Our owners'll be home in fifteen minutes!" Crystal said. "Because.." Stan held out her paw.(A/N: There is NO fluff there! I assure you!)"..they're a liiitle something-something we forgot to give you!" he told her. "I have one more present?" Crystal asked. "Teeechnically!" Pashmina shrugged as everyone gathered around Crystal, smiling.
"Here you go!" Boss held out a hot pink cellphone to Crystal. "A cellphone?" Crystal took it and examined it. "Girl, it's not just any cell phone!" Sandy chirped. "It's your official Ham-Ham cellphone! Every Ham-Ham Gang member has one. Maxwell came up with the idea." Boss explained. "Just fixed it up for you this morning!" Panda smiled.
"A-Ar...Are you serious! You w-want..m-m-me...to be a..a Ham-Ham?" Crystal was left breathless. "You are not going to be a Ham-Ham! You are a Ham-Ham!" Bijou exclaimed. "Really? You gotta be kidding me. I-I couldn't--" Crystal began, but Stan shushed her. "Crystal, if you don't think you got what it takes, then look at Hamtaro! Besides, you've totally got It!" Stan assured. "Yeah...heeeey!" Hamtaro suddenly whined. "What's wrong with me?"
"Our point is, are you in...or out?" Pashmina asked. Crystal was silent. She suddenly hugged Stan. "You betcha!" she squealed. Everyone cheered and applauded. "A-Ack...Crys...Get...off..!" Stan choked out. "Oops!" Crystal said stupidly and let go.
"Whew! What a day!" Bijou sighed. "But you gotta admit, it was awesome!" Howdy added. "Yea!Like the food fight! Remember when Hamtaro was going crazy with the mustard, Boss hit him with BBQ sauce, Pashmina got hit with a hot fudge sundae after Crystal thought she hit her with a cream pie when it was actually Stan and--"
"WHAT!" Crystal stopped Cappy. She turned to Stan "That was you? You hit me with the cream pie? THAT TOOK HALF AN HOUR TO GET OFF!"(A/N: You can just imagine the music screeching to a stop and Crystal getting all POed!)
"Whoops..!" Stan went pale. He ran out of the clubhouse. "COME BACK HERE, YOU SON OF A--OOOOOOH, I'M GONNA GET YOU NOW...!" Crystal tore off after him, screaming and cursing.
Everyone started to laugh.
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A/N: YAAAAAAAAY! I'm finished. BTW, I know the ending to "She's Not My Girlfriend" sucked, so sorry! And I know you wanted Sparkle to die, but I'm just too nice for that! Anywho about THIS story...ohhh, I'm gonna miss workin' on this fic. I NEED A MOMENT!(goes to a corner to cry)I WANNA A HUG! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!
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