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Salutations readers. This will be part of a continuation from the previous chapter. It won't be as long as the other one. It wraps up the previous chapter and begins to move forward with the next chapter.
Anyways, enjoy!
McGee Gale Hasland - Eric Andre (The Eric Andre Show as Himself/Host/Presenter/Bird Up. Disenchantment as Luci) - OC Character
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Somewhere in the City of Philadelphia
A slender brunette man on a PC, finishes typing an email and decodes a algorithm which manages to send a large widespread of emails across the globe, once he sends it he talks to himself.
"There. Now that email should get their attention. I should check to see how much I have in my account now." Francis says typing his banking details, he presses the enter key and is for a delightful surprise.
"(Gasps) $1-...17... Thousand dollars and two hundred and seventy dollars and ninety five cents! That's way more than I excepted. Haha! Yes! My fortune is slowly coming my way. Maybe I should take this instead of capsizing the entire internet." Francis says to himself.
17 thousand dollars is quite tempting to a young adult. But he shook his head trying to focus on the main goal he wanted to carry out.
"No! Patience Francis. If I hold out until Midnight tonight and turn the internet off, maybe I can swarm over millions of dollars! Then switch it back on afterwards. How hard can it be?... Gee does it really sound creepy when I talk to myself?" Francis says to himself.
Somewhere over the State of Pennsylvania
In a helicopter... Read the captain above.
Kim and Paul were on there way to comfort Francis Lurman and stop his plan on destroying the internet. Even though the threat may be minimal, but they didn't wanna take the risk and see the world without Wi-Fi.
Everyone would lose their minds!
The trip was quiet during it's duration from Colorado, a small greet and not much conversation has been done, between the afro haired pilot and the two teens. Kim decided to start a chat, intrigued to know how Paul got his own ride.
"Sooo.. How did you two meet?" Kim asks.
"McGee and I met back during Thanksgiving." Paul says simply.
There was silence as Kim thought Paul would continue with the story.
"Care to elaborate?" Kim asks.
"He was a back up for the day and he helped us return all the stolen turkeys back to the citizens of Go City, then after the mission he said any favour, I would ask him. Ain't that right McGee?" Paul says.
"It's not really a big deal. I think you're kind chill. Plus when you told me about the internet potentially being destroyed... I can't let that happen. I just found out about-"
"Hey!" Paul says.
"Uber Eats. What? I find out about online food delivery. You think I was going to say what you think I was going to say? Weren't you?" McGee says.
...
"Weren't you?" McGee says again after a long pause.
"Not in front of her." Paul gestures to Kim.
"Plus it's convenient."
"I hope you mean Uber Eats." Kim says.
Few minutes later, McGee landed the helicopter in a field close to Lurman's house in Philadelphia, the teens exit the helicopter.
"Its about a 8 to 10 minute walk north. Good luck with the rest of the way. Holla at me for a ride back home!" McGee shouts out due to the loud propeller of the helicopter
"Thanks McGee! Paul says as both teens exit the aircraft, as soon as the teens got to a safe distance, McGee took off to the skies again.
So the teens start their short journey towards Francis's house.
"He seems nice. So you have ride connections now?" Kim says.
"Only one. But he did this favour for me, without me doing anything for him really."
"Well that's sure nice of him to offer."
'Beep-Beep, De-Deep'
Kim answers her Kimmunicator device expecting to get a call from Ron. "Hey Ron. Is it cool if I call you back after? Paul and I are about to go and confront someone." Kim says over the loudspeaker on her device.
"You guys should really check the caller ID before picking up the call."
Wade's face pops up on Kim's screen.
"Wade!" Both teens say surprised and glad.
"That's me! (Laughs) But seriously. Great news, my systems back and running."
"A tad late." Paul says.
"Better late than never they always say. Now I've got all the details about our friend here, he's real name is-"
"Francis Lurman."
"We know Wade. We found out about him a few hours ago. Thanks to Smarty Mart's employee history." Kim says solely.
"The Smarty Mart employee records. Brilliant! You two are both qualified sleuthers. Anyway, there will be no more setbacks. This crash was a minor setback. My hardware and systems are stronger than ever before and harder to manipulate and hack into."
"That will certainly be handy. Keep us posted." Kim says.
"You bet."
Kim ends the call.
"Well comms and HQ are back online now. Let's get to Lurman's house." Kim says, both teens quickly locate the street and house. Finally after a few minutes they locate it his house.
"Well this is it. 2754 Tinkle Way... Weird name for a street." Kim says reading the name of the address.
"Is there anything not weird when stumbling upon missions?" Paul states.
"Tons of weirdness." Kim says.
"How about a street named, 'A Dog Will Lick His Butt But Won't Eat A Pickle' Road." Paul says.
"Oh yeah? Any evidence to prove this so called road?" Kim says not entirely believing it.
"Yes, back in Colorado. See." Paul shows a photo on his mobile phone. "Here's another for you. Throwita Way. A garbage facility place located in California." Paul says which amused Kim.
She chuckled at that, "Okay. Now that's very clever. Whoever created that up deserved a raise."
Both teens walk to the front door of the house, hoping this will be a short meeting.
"Hopefully this won't take more than a few minutes of our time Kim." Paul says as he presses the door bell.
'DING DONG'
Kim and Paul wait a few seconds to see a women open up the front door.
"Yes, can I help you two?" The women says.
"Hi, Mrs. Lurman. Is Francis home?" Kim asks.
"Were his friends from Smarty Mart, he said he needed some help with a project." Paul says to sweeten the conversation to ensure they can get in Francis house.
"Why Francis didn't tell me he had friends coming. What are you two still standing outside for? Come in, come in. I should have made more toaster tasties."
"Ah were all good for food Mrs. Lurman." Paul says.
"Little old Francis is down in the basement, he'll be thrilled that his friends have arrived. Can I get you two a drink?"
"No thanks Mrs Lurman." Kim says.
"Well if you need a refreshments, you're more than welcome to come into the kitchen." Mrs Lurman said.
"Thanks." Both teens said.
Both teens open the basement door and turn on the lights. They look down an old set of wooden stairs. They close the door behind them and slowly go down the stairs, once reaching the bottom it was pretty damn quiet...
Too quiet.
They were expecting Francis to be hiding somewhere and jump out and surprise them. Paul looks around at the untidy basement.
Francis sure is a slob. You can see a computer layout and clothes thrown around the basement.
Also the basement had a basic light system where it had on large light bulb in the middle and required to pull the string to switch on and off.
"Geez. You'd think he at least keep the basement clean." Paul says.
All of a sudden the light turns off.
"And help pay his mum's electricity bill" Paul says.
A screen pops up blinding the teens in the darkness.
"MWAHAHA! Finally! Kim Possible found out where I lived. Glad to finally meet you. Not in person, but soon enough it will happen! Oh man this is so cool! I should upload this on Twitch! No! Facebook live."
"Keep it in your pants Francis!" Paul says.
"Argh! You know my real name!"
"Well of course we do. We have your Full name, Address, Social Security Number, Blood Type, Relationship status and the club you play Dudgeons and Dragons at." Paul says.
"Dah! And they said it will be all confidential. Curse you internet! Curse you Mark Zuckerberg! Never mind. Just a minor setback."
"Mind switching the lights back on? I'm already blind as it is with these glasses on."
"Oh sorry about that. I totally understand. I sometimes go blind when I'm on my computer at 3AM in the morning and it's dark." Frugal says yapping along, as the lights turn back on, "Better?"
"Better. Now...Question. Why do you want to destroy the internet? There's so many great things on there. YouTube, Online Shopping, Banking, Pizza Delivery, with GPS tracking! It's amazement what you can do on there." Paul says.
"I hate the amount on trolls on the internet! It's chaotic and toxic. It must be stopped for good. And I have the power to switch it on and off unless my ransoms been paid."
"And justified you justified your actions by punishing every person in the world to pay one dollar?" Kim says.
"Well you know what they say.. Every dollar counts. Good luck finding me, I've got a date with destiny. And the date on these sausages have expired a long time ago." He kisses the can of sausages, "Enjoy the nice surprise as you try and escape. (Evil Laugh) (Coughs Violently).. I swallowed recycled air!" Francis Lurman signs off as the screen turned off.
"Wade did you get any of that?" Paul said into his airpod. He had Wade on the whole time.
"Got him! Philadelphia store downtown. It's an 8 minute walk!"
Wade managed to track down Frugal Lucre's location.
"Beautiful! Gotta love Wade's quick response time." Paul says to Kim as he gives a thumbs up, praising Wade.
Kim looked more concerned about something else. "He said surprise. What did he mean by that?"
"Beats me." Paul says as a ball starts bouncing. It causes a chain reaction to set off. A set of dominoes falling, knowing another ball into a pipe, starting another chain of dominoes falling.
The teens watch on as it finally ends with box opening up and out comes a dozen small turtles. They were snapping and looked hungry.
'SNAP SNAP SNAP'
"Snapping Turtles?" Kim says
She tries to avoid getting bitten by the turtles. Paul stares unfazed by the small turtles. He looks at them as he kicks away the ones at the front.
"Paul, What are you doing-"
"Hah! Take that turtles!" Paul proceeds to kick the rest as they try and weakly... attack him.
But they didn't even effective him.
Within a matter of seconds all the turtles are on their back shells trying to sit up or tucked away into their shells for hiding.
Paul watches the squander thinking if this was a joke or plain fucking stupid by Francis.
"Uhh, thanks?" Kim says.
"For what? They're just turtles. So much for a small time crim. But PETA is sooo going to screw me one day for this. I reckon I'm on their most wanted list at the moment!" Paul says.
"You weren't worried that they would bite you?"
"Bite me! You're worried about that? You have done much more extreme things then avoid getting your flesh or limbs bitten by turtles. This is a cake walk honestly. He should have sprung for something worse next time." Paul says.
"Right. Sorry, sometimes things go to my head and sometimes I don't know what I'm even thinking at times." Kim says. Come to think of it, she's battled way worse things than turtles before, how come she got worried over little snapping turtles? This Lurman kid was a pretty shitty villain.
"No big remember." Paul copies Kim's famous phrase.
"(Chuckles) Yeah. Maybe next time he should consider using a tiger or a German Shepard."
"In the basement? He would have to get the animal past his mum first." Paul says.
"Speaking of him... To the Smarty Mart!" Kim says.
"To the Sma-"
"GLASS SHATTERS"
Paul pointed to the sky and accidently flicked up a piece of Francis equipment with his hand which broke the basements only light bulb, making Kim and Paul stand in the cold dark basement, not knowing what's in front of them.
"Mart." Paul says realising what he did, he nervously chuckles as Kim rolls her eyes at his action.
After escaping from the narrow basement window to avoid seeing Francis' mother, the teens rushed out of the house towards the Smarty Mart just outside downtown Philadelphia.
It was less than 20 minutes to go until D-day!
As they were running Kim was talking to Paul about what Francis said.
"Frugal said something about a can of expired sausages. Tell me techno man. Is it possible to end the internet from a can of sausages?" Kim asks.
"Unless he plans to stink up the internet.. I say this man will be dead within 24 hours if that were to destroy the internet."
"Is it possible for that to even happen?" Kim replies back.
"History shows no. A Universal Product Code can definitely be altered but it's smart enough to detect an error and not wipe out the entire internet. If a store has this code registered in their system it will pop up. Besides the Internet has no central cord where you can just unplug it. But I wouldn't be surprised based in the last few months." Paul says.
The teens make the final turn as they can see the Smarty Mart light up from the distance in the darkness of night.
"There it is! In all it's glory. Huh. Seems kind of packed out." Paul says.
"Just stick to finding Francis so we can go home and get out of this chaotic mart." Kim says.
They burst through the Smarty Mart where they are quickly greeted by the front door employee.
"Howdy and welcome to Smarty Mart, where smart shopped shop smart! Need-"
"No map! Gotta stop Francis!" Kim says as the teen run past the guy.
"Okay. But there will be a Brainstorm in a few-"
They couldn't hear the rest of what he said as they were far away from him now. Both teens stop to navigate where he could be possibly be.
There was heaps of people rushing around with shopping carts and baskets. Both teens were a bit confused by the traffic of people inside the store almost a midnight on a school night.
Had they been taking Frugal Lucre warning seriously?
"What's with everybody?" Kim questions the amount of people inside the Smarty Mart.
"I guess they want to prepare for the rapture." Paul says commenting on the passing shopping carts around him.
"He must be somewhere in here. Do you see him?" Kim says.
"All I see is discounts as far as I can see." Paul states.
"Don't be distracted by them. All we have to do is- (Gasps) No! Way!" Kim says.
"What? You spotted him?" Paul says facing Kim's direction.
"Even better... They sell... Cuddle Buddies here! Why didn't I notice this back in Middleton?" Kim says amazed as she looks at the shelve full of Cuddle Buddy plush toys. Her favourite childhood toy.
"Uhh Kim. You said not to get distracted." Paul says. Kim realised what she was doing and snapped out of it.
"Right. Sorry. It's just these are insanely low prices. Do you know how much my mum paid for my Panadroo?"
"I don't know. Maybe around-"
"(Gasps) They sell Chanel lipsticks! You're kidding me! Do you know how hard these are to get from the local mall?"
"Kim! You told me to not get distracted, while you are the one being distracted!" Paul says.
"But Paul! Lipstick." Kim says begging to go shopping. All the times she disliked this store and all of a sudden, they start selling top tier brands!
"Kim, I promise you we can shop as much as we want after we stop Francis Lurman. Deal?"
"Deal... God I can't believe I just realised the stuff they sell in here. It's a wonderland." Kim says.
"Maybe we were in the wrong aisles back in Middleton." Paul says.
The two teens start looking around the rows for Francis Lurman. But the more they move around, the more Kim freaks out.
"Woah!" Kim shouts, as she scared the other teen.
"What? What!?"
"Marshmallows inside the hotdogs buns! Where have these been hiding in my life?" Kim says hugging the packet of marshmallow filled buns.
"Kim. What did I just say?" Paul says warning Kim about getting distracted.
"(Gasps) OMG! Is that what I think it is!" Kim races to one of the nearby aisles.
"BTS albums!" Kim squeals as she holds out the CD.
"Yeah I don't blame you or other the girls." Paul says.
"Oh I take every word back about this place. Can you believe I said this place was for low lives." Kim says to Paul rather closely.
"KIM!" Paul grabs Kim's shoulders, then her face. "Focus! Do you see me lauding over these $499 dollar iPhones? Control yourself!" He realised what he was doing and immediately let go of her soft skinned face, before dusting his hands off.
"Sorry about that." Paul says feeling uneasy after touching Kim's face.
Kim's face turned red. "D-don't be! I was... Losing control a-and we are on a mission of course." Kim says.
"Right..." Paul says as there was silence between them.
"Why are your hands so warm?" Kim blurted out.
"I.. Stuck them in my pockets for a bit before."
"..Are they always like that?" Kim asks. She mentally face palmed herself for asking such a stupid question in her mind.
"Most of the time... Yeah." Paul admits.
Kim's hands most of the time were cold, even though she wears gloves during her missions. She was more flustered by Paul's touch. Secretly she kinda liked it.
...
"(Clears throat) I think we should ask someone that works here to figure out where Francis is or which section he works in." Paul suggests.
"Right. Someone knows where he works." Kim says, trying to move quickly as possible from what Paul did a few seconds ago, even though what she said really didn't make much sense.
Paul spots an employee restocking shelves. "Let's ask him."
Paul walks up to the employee. "Excuse me sir, does a chap by the name of Francis Lurman work here?"
"Work here? (Scoffs) That loser practically lives here. He's down by the Electronics section. Aisle... Can't remember which one."
"Why do you have to make fun of him?" Paul says.
"What's your problem dude? He's nothing to you."
Paul grabs the jerk employee by the collar.
"Maybe I don't know him, but you shouldn't call him a loser."
"Y-yes sir."
"Sir? I'm younger than you." Paul let's go of the guy's shirt. "Just please. Tell me where Francis Lurman is!" Paul says.
"Did someone call my name?"
The man in question was Francis Lurman himself, upon seeing who called his name, he saw Kim Possible and his eyes lit up.
"(Gasps)" He runs away.
"God damn it!" Paul says.
"I got him." Kim says as she chases after him.
"Wait for me." Paul says from behind trying to catch up.
Kim lost Francis and was occupied by the beauty products on the shelves.
"Woah. Foundation remover! My mum and I could totally use this... No! Gotta stay focused." Kim says to herself.
Back to the other teen he was trying to find Francis, when he was about to enter the next aisle and man jumps in front of him.
"Freeze! Don't come any closer. This thing's loaded with beef bouillon. Located in Aisle 4." Francis says.
"...So? You think some soup stock is going to stop me?" Paul says not concerned.
"What? (Stammers) This is the part where you're suppose to let me run away. Besides. Have you ever tried to get the smell and stains off? You can't. Trust me"
"News Flash Francis Jobs, ever heard of dry cleaning? Washing machines? Tide Pods?" Paul says.
"Ahh! The cringe! People swallowed those as a challenge!" Francis says holding his head in pain due to the cringe.
Paul begins to step forward.
"Don't move!" Francis regains his himself.
He takes another step forward.
"Don't take another step!"
Yet again, Paul takes another step forward.
"(Cocks Nerf Gun) I'm warning you!"
Paul stands still and slides to the right.
"Now slide to the left." Francis says.
Paul obeys.
"Now slide to the right." Francis says.
He does so.
"Everybody clap your hands!" Paul says back to Lurman.
Francis begins to clap in a rheumatic motion but in doing so he drops the nerf gun filled with the beef boullion and stares down realising what happen.
"Uh oh."
"Hands on your knees!" Paul says as, Francis runs away from him.
"Where you going? I just wanna talk." Paul says chasing him down.
Francis quickly scrambles into another aisle as the teen makes chase.
Eventually when he turns in Lurman hits him over the head with a big inflatable hammer toy. He repeatedly does it, clearly not heavy or deadly enough to hurt the teen.
"Really." Paul says as he grabs the toy pops it.
"Hey that cost, $1 dollar and 20 cents. After tax." Francis points out.
Paul whacks Francis over the head with his fist.
Francis was shocked at this as he touched the spot he got hit.
"BEWARE! I know Karatae! Smarty Mart has it's own 21 step Karatae program. Which can now be purchased in Aisle 42. WAHHH!" He begins to do some fake karate moves and noises before Paul starts beating him up. Francis ends up falling back onto a pile of various sports balls. He seemed pretty injured after that, but before he could have a chance to get up, Paul checks over him and grabs him by the collar.
"Had enough Lurman?"
"Ahahahahahahaha!"
Francis laughs like a maniac, he starts pointing at the teen.
Paul was staring at him thinking why he was laughing like that.
"You're too late! She's got the expired can! Say goodbye to your precious 5G!" Lurman directs his attention to the self checkout counter, as he continued to laugh.
A women was scanning her products as she held up the exact same can of Vienna Sausages Francis had when he video called Team Possible
Paul gasps and Kim gasps as they both realising it was too late now.
Their internet was about to be wiped out for good. RIP TikTok. RIP YouTube. RIP the rest of the internet shit.
The women scans the item of the barcode scanner.
'Excepted item in bagging area. Remove this item before continuing.'
"Huh?" Francis mutters.
The women tries again.
'Excepted item in bagging area.'
"What?"
The women tries again with a grumpy look on her face.
'Excepte-Excepte-Excepted item in bagging area.'
"WHAT!?" Francis says angrily.
"Excuse me sir, it appears this can of Vienna sausages isn't registering on your system."
"Let me have a look ma'am." The employee says having a test for himself.
'Excepted item in bagging area. Remove this item before continuing.'
"Huh. Ain't this a pickle nickel..." The man inspects the can and notices the issue. "Well there's your problem. This can expired 3 years ago."
"3 Years ago!"
"Yep. Our systems just got upgraded, if any products is expired, it's retired."
"But didn't you guys used to sell expired products?"
"Oh that was years ago. Smarty Mart actually got a class action lawsuit for brainstorming expired products, so we just throw them out once they reach the 'Use Before Date'." The employee explains.
"Well. They say you learn something everyday." The women says.
"We sure do. Don't worry ma'am I'll dispose of this can immediately and get you a fresh one." The employee throws out the can in the bin, which has an opening in the floor and it has a moving conveyer belt of expired products on it. The belt was moving in one direction leading towards the outside back of the Smarty Mart and falls into an awaiting truck with a massive bin attached to it.
Once every last piece falls into the truck a guy signals to the driver "Good to go!" A guy says banging on the side of the truck two times.
The truck drives off carrying all the expired products from the Smarty Mart store. Frugal's can is long gone.
After that whole elaborated throwing rubbish process we go back to Paul and Francis, the teen was still holding onto Francis. The brown haired villain was angry after his evil plot failed.
"No! NOO! It didn't work!" Francis shouts in defeat.
"Well, it appears that you didn't decode the barco- Hey!" Paul suddenly gets dragged off Francis Lurman as two security guards grab a hold of the teen. "Let go of me!"
"I called security on this guy for harassing our employee. Have you no respect?"
"You called him out for being a loser 2 minutes ago! And are you guys dumb or stupid? It's Frugal Lucre!" Paul says gesturing towards the now standing Francis Lurman.
"..."
He looked to be completely innocent, like he was going to get off scoot free.
"The guy trying to destroy the internet!" Paul says.
"Him? This guy wouldn't even hurt a fly."
A fly lands on Francis arm, as he hits the fly with his other hand, but he fails to kill the fly as it flies away.
"See? Harmless."
Paul visibly angry at this had to think of something fast. He was about to get escorted out of Smarty Mart and everyone would believe Francis isn't Frugal Lucre. The teen reacts quickly as he frees himself from the donut eating security guards and grabs a black marker and runs towards Francis face.
"Hey, what are you- (Mumbles Unintelligible Words)" Paul had drawn a fake moustache on his face. "UH! That's permanent marker! That's 1/10th of a cent of black ink there!" Francis says as he had a similar moustache from his transmission.
"See now?" Paul says trying to sway the crowd that he was the guy.
"... Nope don't see it." Someone says.
"Oh for the love of god!" Kim says angrily as she approaches the scene, going past the crowd, grabbing the marker off Paul's hand and draws the missing goatee on Francis' face with the black marker.
"Does this ring a bell now?" Kim says hoping the crowd of people get a light bulb from their small minded heads.
The crowd gasps. They must have been really stupid!
"It's him! The guy that wants to destroy the internet!"
"Get him!"
"Uh oh!" Francis says as he runs away, as the angry mobs chases him down, just like Paul predicted.. Except the internet is totally fine.
"I swear, some people are so oblivious." Kim says watching Francis get away from the mob.
"I hope they are pumping enough oxygen into this building." Paul says to Kim.
As Francis runs away from the mob, he starts to get tired. Just before he took a ass whooping from Paul and run away from them to avoid getting caught. This would be Deja Vu for Francis. The clock was running out for him.
Getting a lucky break, Lurman ducks inside a closet to escape the crowd as they run pass the room completely missing him. He had quickly removed the black marker marking on his face inside the room with his salavia to avoid anyone recognising. He pokes his head out to check to see if the coast is clear and tries to make his escape.
Thinking he's in the clear for the third time, but he is confronted by the two teens.
"Gotta say Francis. You gave us quiet the scare for the past 72 hours. But you're plan failed. Quite miserably actually." Kim says.
"It was a minor miscalculation! One in a trillion! I could alter a thousand more barcodes!" Francis declares.
"I don't think you'll be doing a thousand more anything! Except counting the number of days you'll be in prison. I hope you know your roman numerals."
"Oh I'm quite good actually. This year is MMXXII."
"Oh wow! You're good. They'll like you very much in jail." Paul says.
"I'll get off with a fine at worse. But you're gonna have to get me first. Hahaha. You will see me next time- OOF! Ow!" Francis got tackled by Kim Possible who wasn't in the mood for games. She really wanted to do some shopping at Smarty Mart.
"Usually villains don't reveal their plans. Especially when they try and escape from us." Kim says.
"Damn it! I almos- OWWWW! Mouse traps! Aisle 47! Curses! Why do I repeat the names of items from which Aisle they originate from!" Lugar said as his fist gets caught in the mouse trap. He winces in clear pain
"Which Aisle is the band aids?" Paul says out loud, hoping he can get some assistance.
After what happened at Smarty Mart in Philadelphia. Francis Lurman was arrested as he vowed revenge on Kim Possible and her partner Paul. He embarrassing added at the end, that if his mother bails him out of jail.
So finally., Team Possible can rest easy again knowing the internet is safe and sound... For now.
It was lunch time at the cafeteria.
Kim was holding a catalogue of Smarty Mart, she was looking through it's outrageous discounts, very interested in some of the products.
"What you got there Kim?" Paul says knowing what she had in her hands.
"Nothing!" Kim says hiding the catalogue under the table.
"Kim... I know that's a Smarty Mart catalogue. I know you like some of the things that they stock." Paul says.
"(Sighs) Fine. Yes Paul. I admit that Smarty Mart is fantastic. I shouldn't have judged it so early. It's stores have really convenient discounts and products that I like. Plus the store manager gave us both $100 dollar gift cards. That was so great of him. I can at least use it to get groceries for home. I mean, hey. It's 100 dollars."
"So free stuff."
"And I've learnt something. It really is silly to pay designer label prices for the same stuff. Unless you're paying for a really really super cool pair of boots like these!" Kim shows Paul a pair of black heeled boots.
"You mean these boots right here?"
Come on Paul, they aren't exactly the same. Look! Smarty Mart boots come in black. Club Banana's are onyx."
"What? Onyx and Black are like the same colour!" Paul says.
"No there not! They are Onyx and Black!" Kim argues back.
"Don't get sucked in my their antics! Josh, help us settle this once and for all. Is Black and Onyx the same colour." Paul asks him as he approaches the table as Monique was a few meters behind
"In the colour scheme? No. They're both completely different."
"See." Kim says to Paul.
"But black is black." Paul points.
"Damn straight boy." Monique says taking a seat.
"Not what I meant." Paul says.
"So what are you are disagreeing about now?" Monique sats
"That Onyx and Black are the same colour." Paul says.
"Is Kim talking about the new Onyx boots at Club Banana?"
"...Yes."
"Good. I finally bought a pair and kept a pair for Kim to try on after the registers went back up.
"Thanks Mon. You're the best." Kim says.
"NP Kim. Can you believe Club Banana's systems were down for 3 whole days?"
"3 days of no sales affects the business. I'm surprised Smarty Mart kept on going." Paul says.
"Probably a billion dollar industry would lose 100 millions of dollars if that ever happened." Josh points out.
"You'd really think that a can of Vienna sausages would spark a whole virus across the world?" Paul says.
"I wasn't worried. Plus plunging into the dark ages wouldn't be so bad. I mean people would just rebuild everything they previously had. I reckon the internet, electricity and power would be back on within a few hours, maximum 2 days." Josh states.
"Society would be like the Walking Dead." Paul says.
"Survival of the fittest." Kim says.
"Hey guys." A voice can be heard. It was a quiet and normal tone.
All the teens heard the voice of Bonnie, they tried to eat their lunches and ignore her, hoping she would go away.
"Bonnie." Monique says coldly, she couldn't help herself.
Paul and Kim didn't want to acknowledge Bonnie's presence. Kim was more worried that Paul was going to tell Bonnie to take a hike rudely like he normal does.
Kim wanted him to take control of his anger. It had gotten out of hand at times in the past few months.
"Look Paul. Kim. I'm wanna say... I wanna say. I'm sorry for what I said in the gym last week. What I said about Kim's injury was out of line. I-I didn't mean for it to go that far." Bonnie says sound honestly genuine about her apology.
Both teens continue to ignore her, but she wouldn't be going away anytime soon.
"Guys... Guys just please listen to me. I'm sorry. I wish I could take back what I said! Just please. Talk to me or acknowledge what I'm saying. Please guys. I need to know if you two are okay? Kim-" Bonnie pleads looking for... an actual honest forgiveness. A side not many see in Bonnie, but before she can continue her apology, she was interrupted.
"Bonnie if you have any respect for yourself right now or at all. I recommend leaving us alone and going back to your own table." Paul says with a normal tone.
"But Paul-"
"Now. Please. I'm asking nicely." Paul says calmly.
Bonnie was hesitant to leave, but she eventually did feeling like she failed herself.
Paul lets out a sigh of relief and continues to eat his food, Kim was impressed he held back. For him, it was pretty hard not to give Bonnie another telling off.
"That was very brave Paul. You didn't get angry at her."
"It was hard not to. Her voice sounding like a preppy school girl and all. I listen to you Kim, but she's really starting to really be a pain. What she said about you being injured on the mission was low. You risked yourself to stop Drakken and she had the audacity to say, 'Be careful next time.'"
"And you saved me. Which I'm internally grateful for." Kim says warmly as the two teens had a moment to share.
Both of the other teens watch in delight, not trying to ruin the moment.
Paul was officially done with Bonnie.
Her erratic behaviour, her attitude, putting down majority of people who can't defend for themselves in both physically and trash talking. Her failed attempts to seduce Paul into liking her to make Kim jealous.
All failed. And he was finally finished with Bonnie. He wanted to avoid her at all costs.
The less he sees her, the better.
But going to the same school doesn't help his case on bit at all.
Philadlpehia County Jail
"So anyway, long story short I managed to alter a UPC to create a worldwide virus, but long story short it didn't end up working as I planned it, but hey, I managed to bag a few extra hundred bucks into my pocket." Francis explains.
"Can you please not talk... For 5 Fucking Minutes!" One of the other guys in the cell yells, clearly annoyed by Francis.
With nothing else to do, Francis decides to do the most annoying thing that man, ogre and donkey have heard before.
'POP'
Due to Francis boredom, he begins to making a popping sound with him mouth.
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'POP'
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'POP'
"MMRRR! Another 5 minutes with this guy and I might actually kill him!" The annoyed man whispers to another fellow cellmate.
A prison guards opens the cell.
"Okay Lurman your bail has been posted." The guard says.
"Finally." Francis gets up and leaves the jail, everyone else celebrates him leaving.
He walks out to the front office to see his mother, Mrs Lurman.
"Hey Ma, thanks for bailing me out."
"Don't 'Hey Ma' me mister, I heard all about what you did. Making threats to the good people of the world!" Mrs Lurman says quite angrily at her son.
"I had to do what I had to do. OW! What's with all this pain tonight?" His mum grabs him by the ear.
"First thing tomorrow morning you're going to find a job, but firstly, you're going to return all the money you stole from those nice people."
"But Ma! AHHH!" She pulled on Francis ear.
"No buts mister. Come on!" Mrs Lurman drags her son by the ear.
"Can I have my ear back?" Francis begs in pain.
"You can have it back once we get home. Wait until dad hears about this." Mrs Lurman says.
It's only the start of Francis Lurman's punishment.
Author Notes:
Well that Y2K 2.0 Event has officially ended. Lurman won't be bothering Team Possible again very soon or working at Smarty Mart either. Maybe he should try getting a job at Wal-Mart and destroy the internet using an expired Twinkie instead... Oh wait they aren't discontinued anymore.
- I had a different approach to introducing Francis, but it was too late. I wanted the teens to find him the hard way, more like a anonymous transmission, keep him incognito to make it difficult for the teens to figure out who he is similar to what you see in the Watch Dogs video game series or the First Season of Detentionaire. Oh well... Plenty of ideas to come ahead.
- Another lame escape with another villain. I'm trying my best! Despite not get any complaints about it. Hehe.
- Even though Frugal Lucre (Francis Lurman) is a small time villain I will feature him a bit more down the track. Next time he shows up, he'll be another threat.
- If it wasn't obvious enough, that popping sound in the last paragraph is from Shrek 2.
McGee Gale Hasland - Eric Andre (The Eric Andre Show as Himself/Host/Presenter/Bird Up. Disenchantment as Luci) - OC Character
Well see you guys next time. Apologies for the last posting. I wanna thank everyone for being patient about the late posting of the chapters.
Until then.. Take Care!