RICK sighed and as he put his bright red vest on. It had the target symbol on the corner and on the back in bold letters it read, "How can I help you?" He hated it. He despised his job so much but working at Target was pretty good for a teenager in still in high school. Karel stood next to him wearing the same uniform. Today Karel would help RICK at his job.

Karel looked the same but deep down, RICK knew that he hated it too. When the entered the double doors of Target Karel asked, "Any guidelines that you want to give me for this assignment?"

RICK scoffed, "Yeah, don't get killed." They separated to go to their different check out lanes as cashiers.

On their break, RICK found Karel starring at the slushy machine, okay, more like, he was all but completely smashing his face against it. RICK at first ignored him and brought out a cup and poured himself a cherry slushy.

Karel looked at the slushy, "What are you doing?"

"Employee discount and I can get addicted to these things in like two seconds flat."

Karel cocked his head, "Fascinating, a mystery… "

RICK looked annoyed, "If you wanted one, you should have just asked. Hold on, I'll get it for you."

RICK handed another cherry slushy to Karel.

"Are you sure you want to give me this?"

RICK said, "If that's your strange psychopathic way of saying thank you, you're welcome, and yes, I'm sure. What's the worse that could happen if I gave you a simple slushy?"

Two and a half seconds later.

RICK was helping an old lady carry her groceries when he heard a loud rolling sound. It kept on sounding closer until…

"Something's coming… SOMETHING BAD!" RICK yelled.

RICK turned his attention to Karel with a horror-struck look on his face as he sat in a shopping cart going at the speeds of what seemed hundreds of miles an hour. Karel screamed like a little girl on steroids. RICK ran out of the way, but noticed that the old lady was still directly in the path of Karel and the super shopping cart.

RICK did a slow-mo "NOOOO!" and jumped right in front of the shopping cart.

The sudden stop of the shopping cart caused Karel to instantly fly out of the cart and land face-first in a pile of stuffed animals. RICK groaned and got up and looked to his own side where cartoon-like dents were where the cart hit him.

RICK walked over and turned Karel over with his foot. "What the hell were you doing?"

Karel laughed a few times and said, "I don't feel well," before running to the bathroom.

Karel waited until there were people in the stalls next to him. He took a two gallon bucket of lemonade and dumped it on the floor. Lemonade spilled everywhere, nearly flooding the room. The other men in the bathroom were too stunned to say anything.

"I had an accident." Karel said to break the silence. Before he could say, 'I spilled lemonade all over the floor' the men were out of the bathroom.

Karel returned and put a wet floor sign on the outside on the men's bathroom. The intercom echoed across target, "Clean up in aisle…err… the men's restroom."

Karel pointed up towards the ceiling. "How dare you! I offer you a plentiful gift and you defy me! Oh, vengeful spirits in my head!" Karel leapt onto one of the checkout signs before screeching. "CAW-CAAAAWWW!"

None of the customers at Target happened to notice Karel's sudden outburst. RICK just stopped what he was doing and stared.

"Uh, sir, you didn't ring up the bananas." said a patient customer.

RICK said with a deep and serious look on his face, "I'm sorry, but I'm choking." and began slamming his head into the cash register.

Karel began sprinting around the Target with a triumphant grin on his face. He noticed the girls' clothes aisle and looked at a swirly pink dress that was just his size. He slipped on a few other accessories from the jewelry department and stood in the toy aisle. He placed a 'Try Me' sign right next to him and waited.

A little girl pulled her mother along and cheered, "Look mommy! I want it! I want it!" she pointed at Karel with an ecstatic look on her face.

The mother smiled, "Alright, but first you always need to make sure this doll still has some juice in it." She looked around Karel for the 'try me' button. When she found none, she just randomly pressed Karel's nose.

Karel giggled exactly like a girl, "Testacles."

The mother looked at Karel with horror. "Oh, my…"

Karel giggled, "I love playing tennis with my friends. But you need tennis balls."

The mother shook her head, "I must've just imagined it." She poked Karel's nose again and waited.

"Pedophilia." said Karel in an incredibly peppy voice.

The mother stared with a horror-stuck look on her face.

"Philadelphia is a great state. It has the best shopping malls!"

The mother blinked, "This is a strange doll. Okay, one more time." The mother poked his nose again but heard no response.

She poked him again.

Karel looked angry and held up a hand, "Hold on lady, I'm still thinking of something to say!"

The mother took her child by the hand and ran off.

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RICK stood at the cash register. Karel yelled suddenly, "This is a hold up!"

RICK turned around to see Karel facing the opposite direction. "Err… Karel, I'm over here."

Karel turned around and faced RICK. RICK could see that black pantyhose were wrapped around his eyes but the rest of his face was still completely visible. Karel held up a banana and pointed it a RICK.

"Put the banana down, Karel."

Karel shrieked, "How do you know my name! How do you see through my incredibly cool disguise! I mean… who is this Karel that you speak of?"

RICK rolled his eyes, "Any idiot or asshole could see through your disguise. Now put down the banana before I have to hurt you."

Karel laughed, "Oh, such brave words! But I can see right through you! You shrivel up in fear of my awesome might!"

RICK scoffed, "I doubt you can see anything through those pantyhose."

Suddenly, Erk dashed out from a corner and tackled Karel to the ground, while smacking him really hard with a plastic salad spork.

RICK was dumbfounded, "I was about to do that… and hey! What are you doing here?"

Erk looked at him like the answer was obvious, "You're the author, dumb ass! You should know!"

RICK looked through all his papers. "You're the idiot! You shouldn't even be in this chapter!"

Erk began to panic, "What the hell! My script says 'Tackle Karel in scene twenty-four'!"

RICK put a hand to his face, "Some one must have given you the wrong script! Just get down, hide!"

"What do we do now?"

"You messed up big time Erk."

"Are they still watching?"

"No, but they're still reading if that's what you mean! We're just going to have to wait until Karel wakes up and try to do the scene over!"

"He's out cold."

"Damn it Erk!"

Erk ran around the cashier desk, completely spazzing out, "They know! They see my weakness! They still reading and they know that I ruined everything! Nooo..."

RICK got up angrily, "Damn! I told you to stay down!"

Erk continued to run around, "The readers will never take me seriously again! Noo—"

BANG!

Erk fell to the ground. RICK blew the top of his pistol and stuck it back in his pocket.

Two hours later the police arrested RICK and Karel for murder.

Erk's dead body had a chalk outline around it and his body was officially called top evidence.

The police officer pushed the handcuffed RICK into the police car parked right in the middle of Target. Karel looked a little sick but serious once again.

The other officer asked before pushing Karel in the car too, "Are you alright? Need something?"

Karel grinned evilly, "Yeah, a slushy."

END OF CHAPTER 4

Erk paced around, looking very much alive. "That was such bull! Like I would mepp, err.. mevv, err… MESS up anything!"

RICK laughed evilly, "Ha ha ha!"

Erk glared, "And I doubt you would kill anyone. Stop hanging around Karel, his 00ber-ebil-ness could rub off on you."

RICK asked, "Do you want me to keep you dead in the story? Or would you like me to just revive you in the next chapter as though it never happened."

Erk scoffed, "Hmmm… I suppose being killed by you is rather embarrassing. But be a little dramatic when you revive me. I want to see tears!"

RICK laughed, "Alright! I got it, perfect! Serra will be crying he poor heart out for her dearest Erky and then you are revived saying how, "Even a pistol couldn't keep me from coming back to you, my love!" And then ya'll kiss as true lovers! I mustn't wait another moment!"

RICK ran out skipping leaving Erk speechless for words, "If you post that… I'LL BEAT YOUR ASS LIKE AN EGG!"