Hello all! No matter what, I can't stay away from writing. I really hope that I'm improving. Even slowly but surely is good. I use the dub names. Pretend they're in Japan though.

I wanted to put the author's note at the end of the chapter, but some thing's up with the program. Part of this is based off a true story. Anyway, I hope this chapter has at least a few funny moments in it. Also, three OCs appear this chapter. Beware the Hand from Another Dimension!

So, here's the next chapter! Thanks to all that reviewed! Constructive criticism is encouraged! I own nothing!

Ch.4: Supermarket Bros.

" Eh, eh, why do you always come shopping with us, Jay?" Syrus peered over the side of his booster seat to look at his friend.

Jaden waved his Gameboy around in the air. " Yes! My Magikarp, Sartorius, leveled up!"

Syrus sweat-dropped. " He's not even listening…"

Jaden turned off his game and put it in his pocket.

" Hhhey, Zane. Are we there yet?"

Zane, who had been wordlessly driving, mumbled a curt "No." before becoming silent again.

" Now?" Jaden asked.

" No."

" Now?" He pressed again.

" Do you want me to drop you off downtown?" Zane growled.

o.o! " You mean the place with the really scary people? Nahhh…Hey, what kind of car do you have here?" Jaden hastily queried to change the subject before it entered the DANGER zone.

Zane was quiet for a moment. "…A Celica."

" Cool," said the brunet.

" No it's not!" Syrus suddenly screamed. " Cars from America are CURSED! Eh, eh, eh!"

" What about that Mr.T guy?"

" I said cars, Jay! Mr.T isn't a car!"

Jaden crossed his arms and smirked.

" Okay, he's a wussy actor."

Horrified, Syrus shouted," Nuh-uh! He's a hero!"

" No he's not, he's a an actor."

" WRRRROOONG, turkey!" Syrus exclaimed in a poor imitation of his American idol. (No pun intended.)

" Man, Zane, why didn't you get 'im Superman comics? I'd rather see him prancin' around with his undies outside his pants!"

" SQUEAL-HUMMM!" Syrus squealed.

" Okie-dokie."

" Aaaarghh! A pirate doesn't say "Okie-dokie". A pirate says " Ba-a-a-a-a-a-a-a!"

Jaden raised a brow. " Yeah…Hey, Sy. Wanna play a game?"

Syrus immediately calmed down and brightened up.

" Uh-huh, uh-huh! What're we playing?"

" You'll see. Turn around."

" Now what?"

Jaden leaned over and covered Syrus's eyes with his hands. " Guess who?"

Syrus started hyperventilating.

" Eh, eh, eh, is this a pop quiz! Uhhhhhhh…JADEN!"

Jaden pulled his hands back.

" Yup."

" SQUEAL-HUMM!"

Jaden laughed. " Haha! This is fun!"

" Uhhhh, Jay, what're you doing?" Syrus said nervously as Jaden unbuckled himself and crept up behind Zane's seat.

" Ssshhh," Jaden shushed in a hushed voice, finger to his lips. Zane was too focused on his driving to notice anything.

" Guess who?" Jaden cried happily, covering Zane's eyes.

Zane let out a small cry of surprise.

Syrus looked like he was about to have a heart attack. " Jay, let him see! Give him some air, man! He's DRIVING for Pete's sake!"

Jaden stuck out his lower lip in indignation.

" But I'm playing."

Zane, meanwhile, was trying to pull Jaden's hands from his eyes with one hand while attempting to steer with the other.

" Jaden, I can't see!"

" Guess who?" Jaden persisted.

" Jaden!"

" Hey, you're right," he said, uncovering the older boy's eyes and sitting back down. " Man you guy's are good."

It took a few moments too long for Zane's eyes to readjust to the light.

" Aahh!" He slammed on the brakes, but it was too late. The speeding car began skidding to halt…

SCRRREEEECH- CRASH!

The Celica collided into the back of an ebony limousine, shattering the lights and smashing the metal, greatly destroying the back. Same for the Celica's front.

" Is everyone alright?" Zane asked worriedly while pushing the airbag away from him.

" Eh…eh…eh."

" Yah-ah. We are A-okay back here." Jaden responded.

Zane got out of the car to inspect the damage. He heard an enraged yell erupt from inside the limo.

" Who the HELL was STUPID enough to crash into MY limo?" A certain black-haired boy roared as he exited his car.

Chazz whipped around wildly until he spotted Zane and face-faulted.

" YOU?" Chazz shouted in wonderment.

"…"

The young Princeton suddenly burst out laughing.

" This is too rich! ' Perfect' boy messed up big time!"

Zane sighed. "It wasn't my fault."

" Oh really. Then who caused the FRICKIN' crash?"

Just then, Jaden hopped out of the Celica and bounded over to the two.

" Hey, Chhhazz! Third time I've seen you this summer!"

Silently, Chazz looked to Jaden, then Zane, then back to Jaden again.

"…Oh. Well, you still have to pay for the FRICKIN' damage."

Jaden frowned at Chazz.

" But you're rich."

" Yam, yam, yam!"

" I'll pay for it later," assured Zane, who grabbed Jaden by his shirt collar and dragged him back into the Celica. They left before Chazz even had a chance to object.

"…Yeah, you better run! You'll pay for this! I'll make sure of it! I'll feed you to SHARKS with FRICKIN' LASER BEAMS ATTACHED TO THEIR FRICKIN' HEA-"

" Sir," interrupted the limo's chauffeur.

" WHAT?"

" I'd recommend ending your rant now. You're receiving odd looks."

"…I hate you."

Inside the market, the trio was preparing to shop. Zane picked up Syrus and put him in the basket's seat for small children.

" I want a lollipop!" Syrus screamed like an immature child, which is very disturbing and strangely funny if you think about it. Zane gave him one of those giant, spiral-like lollipops. Jaden, who had been watching, was now convinced that Syrus really was the baby of the family.

Jaden then busied himself by observing the store.

" Hey, Zzzane."

" What is it?"

" What's the plan?"

Zane thought quietly for a moment. " I'll take Syrus and get what we need."

" And I-"

" Stay out of trouble. Find me when you're done browsing," said Zane.

" Alright!"

With that, they separated and ventured into the abyss known as…NEENER-NEE! The MARKET!

Jaden wandered off to the Magazine section, to look at video game cheats and the latest info on dueling. Once he was done, he got up to leave, when, oddly, the newspaper caught his eye.

"Huh?"

He sat down again to read it. That's when two people -obviously siblings- turned the corner. The shorter of the two, a female, looked very perturbed at the other person, a boy.

" The car was TOWED! How?"

" Whoa! Calm down, sis. I can get it back," said the boy with a reassuring smile.

" That's great, but you didn't answer my question! What did you do!"

" Well, I sorta, y'know, parked in the middle of the road-"

" You WHAT?" She shouted at the top of her lungs. The boy winced and covered his ears.

" I-"

" I know! Gah, I should never have let you look for a parking space on your own!"

The boy looked around quickly, desperate for something to distract his angry sister and saw-

" Jaden, my man! What's shakin'?"

Alexis followed her brother's gaze.

" Don't change the sub-Oh, hi, Jaden."

" Mm," was Jaden's reply. He was too absorbed in the paper to pay attention.

" Oh, wow! I never noticed THAT before!"

Atticus, still waiting for his sister to forget her rage, knelt down beside Jaden and asked," What?"

Jaden pointed at the Obituaries.

" Everybody dies in alphabetical order!"

"…"

" Hey, weren't you guys fighting about something?"

Atticus paled. " Uhhhh…"

Alexis put on a frighteningly sweet smile. " Oh, Atty…"

Atticus cringed. She only acted like that when she was MAD. " Whoa! I am out of here! Later!" Atticus yelled before he turned and fled his sister's wrath.

Jaden's next stop was the hallowed place that had…PUDDING.

" I'm so pretty. Oh, so pretty and…"

He hummed the rest of the song while hunting for some pudding. Chazz, too, was searching around the pudding when he bumped into Jaden.

" Hey, Chazz! We meet again! Mwahaha!"

Chazz frowned.

" Yeah, unfortunately! What are YOU doing here, Stupid?"

" To get some pudding. Why are YOU here, Chazzaroo?"

" Don't call me that," mumbled Chazz." They have my favorite pudding here. That's why."

" But your rich. You could get really FANCY pudding."

" That stuff tastes like FRICKIN' cat food. Besides," Chazz pointed at the pudding shelf," this crap is better and cheaper."

" How do you know what cat food tastes like?"

" Never mind," muttered Chazz.

" Pudding is made of crap? No wonder you're so full of it!"

" UUUUUUUUURAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!"

Jaden ignored Chazz's ROAR OF FURY.

" Hey, Chazz, can you stop being angry for a moment and get that pudding for me?"

Chazz glared at the brunet.

" It's RIGHT there. Get it yourself."

Jaden pouted.

" I can't."

Chazz scoffed in disbelief.

" Oh, really. Why not?"

Jaden grinned widely.

" ' Cause I'm Danish, and bread doesn't have fingers."

Silence.

" Your STUPID! Ribbit! Chazz shouted, then hopped off and ran back a minute later. Jaden was gone when he returned.

Jaden ventured into the Pasta part of a section. He saw Bastion near the end of the aisle and skipped over to him.

" Hey Bas-TONIAN!"

Bastion grumbled in annoyance.

" It's BASTION. Anyways, it's strange meeting you here."

" I know! We are scientists!"

Bastion arched a brow.

" Well, it's nice seeing you again. I'm going over there." Bastion walked to the middle of the aisle.

" Guess I better go find Zane n-"

" Hey. Hey, you! With the brown hair!" Came a voice from an unknown location.

" Huh?" Jaden looked around. " Who's there? Where are you?"

" Next ta ya, Sugah," said the voice again. " Ya see an out-o-place box near ya?"

" Yeah, that rice box. It's not macaroni."

" 'Course it ain't! It's already rice."

" Why do you want to talk to me?" Jaden was very disturbed by this mysterious visitor.

" Hold on, Dog. BLING, BLING!" The voice cried. Jaden jumped back in surprise as the rice box, and all the ones behind it, fell off the shelf.

" Can ya see meh now, Sugah?"

Jaden looked into the supposed-to-be-empty space on the shelf, and saw a black woman's face in the boxes' place. She wore sunglasses; the area around her seemed to glow, probably because she was wearing a lot of "bling", and, when Jaden looked closely, he could see the top of her Afro poking over the shelf. The smell of her perfume hung heavily in the air and stung Jaden's nostrils and eyes.

" Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, just who are you?"

The very strange woman smiled deviously.

" Mah name is Luscious Jackson, Honeybuns."

Jaden's eyes widened.

" Wow, Mom was right! You can meet all kinds of weirdoes in weird places!"

" Ah, don't be that way, hon," said Luscious, seductively," 'Sides, I got somethin' ya'll can play with."

" Uh, why would you want to give me anything? I don't even know you. And I'm not supposed to talk to you. You're a stranger."

She chuckled. " It ain't nuttin' bad. Here."

She stretched her arm, revealing she wore nothing but leather, out and handed the disturbed boy a long, wet noodle.

" When ya use the noodle, you gotta shout 'Whippacracka!'. Okay?"

"Uhhh…" Jaden scrutinized the noodle with a look of confusion. " Why'd you give me a noodle?"

He looked up when there was no response from her.

" Hey-"

But she had vanished. Jaden could swear that he heard leather squeaking a little distance away, but ignored it.

" That…was WEIRD."

Shrugging, he glanced at the noodle in his hand, then, subconsciously, at Bastion.

"Hmmmm…"

Out of the blue, a huge grin appeared on his face.

" Oh, Bas-TONIAN!" Jaden said in a singsong voice.

" Yes, Jaden? Um, what are you doing with that noo-"

" WHIPPACRACKA!"

Chazz wandered into the Bread section. It was practically empty, save a lone man that, oddly enough, looked somewhat similar to a…sandwich.

" Yyyam! Yyam! Yam!"

" YAMS GO GOOD WITH SANDWICHES!"

" Uwaahh! Haaahh? Are you talking to me?" Chazz asked the man.

" YES."

" Oookay then. So, uh, who the HECK are you?"

The man smiled.

" OH, JUST SOME GUY. HAHA!"

" Why're you here?"

" I LOVE SANDWICHES OF ALL KINDS. THEY'RE FANTASTICAL!"

Chazz turned and began sauntering off.

" …Whatever. I'm o-"

" NO! WAIT! I MUST GIVE YOU SOMETHING." The man said as he grabbed Chazz's arm, spun him around, stuffed a sandwich in the boy's mouth, and slapped a magazine in his face. There was a rapid succession of footsteps, meaning the stranger had run away.

" Stumfed mofthfer-"

Chazz cursed in a muffled voice. He ripped the magazine from his face, examined the cover…and spit out the remnants of the sandwich, a blush quickly appearing on his face.

It was a…Playboy. Alexis was on the cover. How and why, Chazz did not know (sort of). He just knew it wasn't right, but…he stuffed it into his coat anyway.

" Whoa1 That's not supposed to be released yet!" Atticus, who'd crept up behind the younger boy, exclaimed.

" Uwahh! Uh, w-w-what're you talking about?" Chazz stammered.

" That magazine you just put in your coat."

Chazz scowled. " Fine. You got me. Now, EXPLAIN how Alexis is in this. Some guy gave this to me, just so you know."

" Someguy? I know him! He's a friend of mine who's friends with the guy that made Playboy!" Atticus said excitedly.

" Well, I can guess how, now. That's all fine and dandy, but who's this guy?"

" Someguy."

" I know it's some guy! Now tell me his name, Stupid!"

" No, dude, his name is Someguy Fingersandwiches," explained the blond.

"Oh…so, your sister doesn't know about this, right?"

" Yyyyeah."

" Good. Let's keep it that way," said Chazz, dragging Atticus along with him to who knows where.

Jaden meandered into the section of fruits and vegetables. Sure enough, some one he knew was there.

Crowler happened to be holding to melons to his chest when Jaden spotted him.

" Hey, Crowler!"

" Hhhhhhhmmmmmmmm?"

" Nice melons ya got there," Jaden complimented.

It was DOOMED to happen. Crowler took Jaden's words the wrong way.

"Whhat?"

" Can I touch them? They look so smooth, firm, and round…"

" Mama mia!"

" I want to squeeze the juices out of them…"

" Ooooowah-ah!" Crowler screamed in horror, dropping the melons, which exploded when they hit the floor, and dashing away.

Jaden scratched his head in confusion, shrugged, and then heaved a humongous watermelon out of the box before walking off.

Jaden scoured the store for the Truesdale brothers, and finally found them waiting at a long line at one of the registers.

" Hey, Zane! Hey, Sy!"

Syrus waved at Jaden, but was too busy licking his lollipop to say anything.

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"Lollipop, lollipop, la, la, la, la, lollipop, lollipop-Bwop, ca-click-Bobombombom…"A brown haired girl in a black trench coat sang as she watched the trio.

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Since the waiting in line part has nothing happening, I'm going to skip it. Anyways, Zane needed to use the restroom, so he asked Jaden to start putting their stuff on the belt. When, he was gone Syrus noticed Jaden was putting extra items on the belt that Zane never got, including the melon. He didn't say anything, though, because he was too busy licking his lollipop.

When they were done, Zane came back, but he wasn't happy when he saw the receipt. Jaden had done it again. Getting things he wanted and expensive things at that. Zane made the brunet put everything back, except the melon, which Jaden begged to keep. Zane didn't bring enough money to pay for everything, though.

" Don't worry, Lazzo! I know what to do! Hold on!"

Out in the parking lot, Jaden searched for someone who would lend him money. He saw Chazz, Alexis, and Atticus lounging around a telephone booth.

" Hey, guys! Whatcha doin'?"

" We're waiting for our parents to pick us up, since SOMEONE lost our other car," said Alexis, in a loud, angry tone as she shot a glare at Atticus, who smile and waved sheepishly.

" Why're you here, Chhazzzz?"

" I'm going with them to help them get their FRICKIN' car back."

" Wow, that's really nice of you, Chazz!"

" Yam, yam, yam!"

Jaden, remembering his quest, asked," Hey, do you guys have any money on ya?"

Alexis shook her head, Chazz did nothing, and Atticus dug through his pockets.

" What about you, Chazz? You're rich! You gotta have some money."

" Well, why do you need money anyway!" Chazz snapped.

" I owe Zane."

" Oh, yeah, that's a perfectly good reason for me to NOT help you."

Jaden looked pleadingly at the Rhodes siblings for help.

" Uh, I got two cents that I'll pay ya with. Now will you help the dude?" Atticus offered.

" I don't care about your two cents!" Chazz barked.

" You don't care what I think?"

"…"

Alexis sighed.

" I'm sure it's not that much, Chazz."

With Alexis's encouragement Chazz, grudgingly, gave Jaden the money he needed.

Once everything was packed and ready to go, the group buckled up. The melon, because of its size, didn't fit in the back, so it was placed in the front with Zane, earning a few laughs from Jaden and Syrus.

Zane stuck the key into the ignition and turned it.

Nothing happened.

He tried once more.

Again, nothing.

Syrus began hyperventilating, Jaden turned on his Gameboy, while Zane groaned in annoyance and rested his head on the steering wheel.

This just wasn't there day.

" Hey, Zane, if you're getting ruffled, start saying ' Serenity now'. That used to help me."

Zane said nothing about Jaden's comment. He went to find help after checking the gas, leaving the two boys alone.

" Jay, do you think there's something wrong with the car? Eh, eh, eh!"

" Nahhhhh. Hey, I just figured out something!"

" What? Eh!"

" Wimp means something!"

" Oh, I know that already. I should know, since I am one…Wait! Uheheheheheh! I dissed myself!"

Haha! That's not what I'm talking about, though." Jaden laughed. " It stands for We Impersonate Manly People."

Syrus smiled. " It does! And I do that, too, with my Mr. T impressions.

" Uhhhh, Sy, you just dissed yourself again."

" SQUEAL-HUUMMM!"

Zane came back every couple of minutes with a different man to examine the car. However, the men could find nothing wrong with the car.

After awhile, Zane came back, got in the car, and just sat there, unmoving.

No one said anything for minutes.

" Um, what are you doing?" Alexis queried.

Her sudden appearance startled Zane and Syrus, but Jaden was too busy with his game to notice anything.

" Alexis? Why are you here?" Zane said.

" Seeing what you were up to. Seems like you have a problem."

" We do," muttered Zane, irritable from stress," the car won't start."

"Hhhmm…"

Alexis 's eyes roamed the inside of the car until her eyes landed on the melon. Then, out of the blue, she started laughing so hard that tears streamed down her cheeks. Zane was staring at her incredulously.

She wiped a tear from her eye. " Heh, is this a Celica?"

" Yes."

" I knew it! Unlock the passenger's door."

Zane didn't question her, but simply unlocked the door. She walked to the other side and pulled open the door.

Zane, Syrus, and now Jaden, watched with bewilderment as Alexis buckled up the melon.

" Now try."

Zane turned the key.

The purr of the engine sounded. It had worked.

" How did-"

" My aunt used to have one and the same thing happened to her. Oh, my parents are here! I'll see you later!" She trotted away, leaving them utterly astounded.

Silence.

Syrus squealed, bleated, then began barking at the melon after a few moments.

" Rrrrruuff! Rruf! Ruf!" He barked like a little dog, which was more cute than threatening.

Jaden went back to playing his game.

Zane, however, did something so rare and unexpected it was scary.

He laughed.

Syrus frightened out of his wits, shrieked," He's LAUGHING! He's not supposed to be laughing! It's the end of the world! Don't go on the highway! There might be a fifty-foot archangel with a FLAMING SWORD OF DOOM blocking the way! Nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnooooooooooooooooooo!