Better Together Chapter 3: "Maybe You're Not So Bad After All!"
Louie watched as June sat down on the couch, watching TV. He narrowed his eyes, "Okay, Louie's log; 2:45 pm, suspect seems to be resting."
He watched as she got up on her feet and he paused the recording. The girl triplets had spent nearly the entire day at McDuck manor, and Louie really wasn't having it. May, Dewey, and Webby had destroyed at least a good chunk of the mansion (There goes the future inheritance!) and Huey and April had been getting on his nerves by reciting every rule in the Junior Woodchuck guidebook.
I need to calm my nerves.
He got up from behind his hiding spot, leaving the room, "Hey, Uncle Scrooge?"
"Yes lad?" Scrooge was in the hallway.
"I was wondering, could you drive me to the Money Bin?"
"Aren't ya going tah play with the lasses? The yellow one, what was it, June, looks pretty lonely."
Louie scowled, "We have our differences." He brightened, "Say, how do you get back at Glomgold most of the time?"
Scrooge curled his beak, "Why are you asking this?"
Louie looked over his shoulder and chuckled, "Oh, no reason."
Scrooge put his hands on his hips, "Don't even think about it, Louie. You'll never hear the end of it if something happens to her and Donald gets upset."
Louie groaned, "She's just SO annoying!"
Scrooge scoffed, "What the blazes-! We're not barbarians. If I tried to get back at every little thing that annoyed me, I would have wasted half of my life."
Louie asked him, "Hey, can you give me my dart gun?" He pointed at a table next to Scrooge with a dart gun on it.
Scrooge cocked his head, "Uhhhhhh, okay…?"
Louie chuckled and cocked the gun, "Just in case"
Scrooge shook his head disapprovingly.
Louie put his hands in his pocket, "Fine. Can I just PLEASE go to the Money Bin? I want a break from Ms. Birdbrain over here." He pointed his thumb behind him to the living room.
Scrooge rolled his eyes, "Alright lad, I'll take you."
Louie brightened almost instantly.
Just a calm, nice day at the Money Bin. No evil robots this time.
What could go wrong?
- At The Money Bin-
Launchpad crashed into a lamppost, "Crashed it!" He announced.
"Oi!" Scrooge hissed, rubbing his head.
"Uncle Scrooge, does Launchpad even have a driver's license?"
"Yup!" Launchpad told him proudly, "Now all I need to get is a pilot's license…" He stroked his chin thoughtfully.
"YOU DON'T HAVE A PILOT'S LICENSE?!" Louie gawked.
"Eh, come on lad." Scrooge pushed Louie inside the Money Bin office, "Have fun! And don't steal anything! And don't touch any cursed artifacts! And-"
"Yes, yes, I get it Uncle Scrooge, byeeeeeeeee!" He slammed the door in his face. Just as Louie was about to jump into the money, he heard a loud "CLANK!"
"What was that?" Louie ran down the stairs and peeked behind the door leading to the Money Bin that said, "Authorized Personnel Only."
"What is she doing here?!" Louie questioned under his breath.
June was crouched over the lock in front of the door, working the lock with a lock pick. She turned the lock pick, steadily gripping it in her hands and moving it swiftly. Louie would have admired her skills and handiwork if she wasn't breaking into the Money Bin and he didn't hate her guts.
But he did.
He jumped on top of her, laughing maniacally, "Hahahahahaha! I got you! WHO'S THE EVIL TRIPLET NOW?!"
June let out a small yelp in surprise, "Ah!"
"'Ah' indeed! Now, tell me, what were you doing here with a lock pick?!"
June pushed Louie off of her and dusted herself, "What does it look like I was doing?"
Louie arched an eyebrow.
"Breaking in! Duhhhhh!"
Louie fumed, "You can't break in, Uncle Scrooge will think it was me!"
"And that's part of the amusement." June snickered.
Louie crossed his arms, "How is that amusing!"
June giggled, "It just is." She eyed him, "hey, you know you could help me."
"No way. Glomgold broke in here and Scrooge went nuts. I'm not going through that again."
June rolled her eyes, "I'm smarter than that. I brought counterfeit money."
"Scrooge knows the money in there like the feathers in his tail. There is no way he will fall for that." Louie sniffed.
"Yes, for individual coins in the bin. But what about the bags of money in there? You know, the satchels of money he just has laying around. He never opens those, or rarely does, so he can't possibly remember every coin in there. If we replace the money inside for counterfeit money of the same weight, we could get away with it!"
"I'm not joining you in becoming a criminal." Louie hissed.
"Oh, put think of all the gold sitting in the bin…unloved…so sad…"June pretended to faint.
Louie bit his beak, "Ack! Okay, I'll help, but I get a share too."
"We'll split it 90/10"
"No."
"75/25"
"NO."
"Ughhhhhh okay, we'll split it 50/50." June groaned.
Louie smirked, "I'm in."
June opened the lock, "Yes!" Her excitement died down when she noticed that there was another locked door behind the one that just opened, "Seriously?!"
"Yeah, Uncle Scrooge upped the security here after the Glomgold incident."
"The what?"
"Crazed billionaire whom I totally scammed and stole nearly all of his money from."
June raised her eyebrows, "Hmmmm, maybe you're not as pathetic you look."
Louie deadpanned in response.
June grabbed her lock pick from the floor again.
"Wait, can I try?"
June eyed him with a disgusted expression, "Do you have cooties?"
"What do you think?!"
"Yes….?"
Louie grabbed the lock pick, "Gimme that. He knelt down and examined the lock: a faded bronze color with a hole meant for a key to go through. He shoved the lock pick inside the whole, twisting it. The lock didn't budge. Louie tried again, but it wouldn't open.
"Why won't it open?!"
June snorted, "Of course it won't open, 'cause you're doing it the wrong way!"
"Oh."
"Here, let me help." She knelt down beside him and held his hand steady.
"It's not working!" Louie complained.
"Wait!" June snapped. The lock fell onto the floor, "See?"
Louie blinked.
Wow, she is SO cool!
June grinned, pushing open the door to reveal the Money Bin. She grabbed Louie's hand and he turned pink.
"Um, are you blushing?"
Louie's eyes widened and he let go of her hand, "No!"
"Are you sure?"
"No! I mean yes!" Louie's cheeks turned an even darker, glowing pink.
"You are strange…" June watched as he pulled his hood over his face. "Don't mind me."
June looked at him skeptically, but she got distracted by the gold, "Yay! Pure GOLD!"
Louie pulled his hood off, "Oooooooooo! This is gonna be epic!"
June took a bag of counterfeit money out of her pocket and a scale. She placed a bag of real gold coins on the scale, "Okay." She opened her bag of fake coins and removed one, "Now they're the same weight."
June took out another bag and emptied half of the bag of real gold coins in it, "There's your share." She placed the fake bag where the real bag of gold had been. She put a hand on her hip, "Ya know, we can hang out more often if you want. Unless you still hate me."
Louie blushed like crazy again, "Hehehehe no."
June walked ahead of him and Louie touched his cheeks, feeling that they were burning.
WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME?!
Smiling sheepishly, Louie followed her, hoping June hadn't seen that.
- At McDuck Manor-
Louie was sitting in his room counting the coins in his satchel. Just then, a small note flew out from inside it, and Louie realized that June must have left it before she went back to Daisy's.
See you next time! ^w^
-June (Who else would I be?)
Louie smiled and put the letter back in his pocket, "Maybe she's not so bad after all…"
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