A/N: Thanks go to Lady of the Court of Dreams (Happy Birthday!), MrAppocolypse (thanks for all the reviews!), TheBookFiend, Guest, ISB, and Jasper13.
Task One: In this task, our contestants will be selling muffins in a bakery shop. This is a 'refuse you lose' round, and at the end, they will be asking for a small donation to a charity, made and described by the others. If they can't get a donation, they lose.
"Okay, first of all, tell me this," Frank said, who had been the first to step up, "What kind of a bakery shop sells only muffins?"
"Your kind of bakery shop," Leo said. "Now, Frank, when the customer walks in, no matter what he or she asks, say, 'I need to ask my manager' and walk away to some room before coming back later."
"No one's here yet and it's been ten minutes," Frank said. "Who wants muffins anyway? We should've opened up a cupcake store. Everyone likes those."
Finally, somebody did come in, a middle-aged woman who seemed to have just gotten off her shift.
"Nice day, isn't it?" she asked, trying to be nice.
"I need to check with my manager first," Frank said and disappeared in a room, leaving the woman speechless.
"So, someone asks if it's a nice day and Frank has to ask his manager on what to say in return," Percy said. "Man, that woman must be going crazy."
"Frank, you can come back now," Jason said.
Frank came back.
"Say that your boss said that 'Yes, it is a good day.'" Leo said.
"My boss said that yeah, it's a good day," Frank said.
"Alright…" the lady said, very confused. "Are you new here?"
"Kind of," Frank replied.
"Now say that your boss also told you to say that there is no dog poop in your chocolate muffins," Jason said.
Frank let out a laugh before gaining his composure. "My manager also stressed that I inform you that our chocolate muffins do not have any dog poop in them."
"I… never asked that," the woman said with a weak chuckle.
"Tell her that there were lots of news reports, but they're all false," Percy said.
"Oh nothing, there were lots of reports on the news and all," Frank said. "So we just wanted to assure you."
"Alright…"
"Why is she still here? Why would you stay and try to order food at a restaurant that said that?' Percy asked.
Leo shrugged. "Taco Bell is still around somehow, right?"
"So, do you happen to have any vanilla muffins?" the lady asked.
"Go talk to your manager," Leo said.
"I do not know," Frank said. "Let me just go talk to my manager to ask."
"Wait- are you telling me you don't even know what kind of merchandi-" the woman trailed off as Frank had disappeared.
"Frank is so going to lose this," Leo said. "And it's time he finally loses one!"
"Wait," Frank said in the storeroom where he was hidden. "Are you guys doing this just so that I"ll lose?"
"Yes, Frank, we have made a truce," Jason said.
"With you being our common enemy," Percy said.
"Now get out there and say that you don't have any vanilla muffins," Leo said. "But you do as a matter of fact have periwinkle flavored ones."
"Is… is that an actual flavor?" Jason asked.
"I don't know," Leo said. "Try Googling it."
"Um, my manager said that vanilla is not a flavor that we have," Frank said. "But we do happen to have periwinkle. It's kind of like vanilla though."
"Uh, could I try a sample?"
"Oh no Frank," Percy said. "It's time that you need to go and talk to your manager about that."
"Let me just talk to my manager real quick about that," Frank said and left the woman standing there again.
"Man, that lady must really want a muffin," Leo said. "I mean, if it was me, coming back home after a long, hard shift, and seeing this when I get into a shop. I would've left."
"Now Frank," Percy said. "Act like you can't find your manager and start wandering around the store."
"I can't find my manager anymore," Frank said and began walking behind the counter.
"Shout out his name and start looking in the stupidest of places to find someone," Jason said.
"Phil! Phil! Where are you?" Frank said.
He then opened the fridge and glanced around. And no, it wasn't a large fridge either.
He then checked under a pepper shaker.
He then opened the cash register and flipping through the notes as if he expected the manager to be between them.
He then checked his own pockets. "Phil? You in there?" he asked.
"Now just walk outside the store," Percy said.
"Just wait a minute, I'll be back once I've talked to Phil," Frank said and walked outside the store.
"Now, outside, on the trash can, you can meet your manager! Now take him inside!" Percy said.
Frank found what the others had left for him. "Okay, you guys are terrible…"
He walked into the store holding a teddy bear wearing the same uniform as he was. And yes, it was the same teddy bear that he tried to bury and that was in the Nike cabin. So yeah, the teddy bear is a recurring character now. It's basically the new maid outfit of this show.
"I found my manager," Frank said. "He was just outside."
The woman chuckled with a sense of hilarity.
"I think you can tell from her eyes that she wants to leave," Percy said.
Leo had managed to upgrade the teddy bear with a better sound projector, and now its eyes even turned red while talking.
"Greetings, mortal," came the voice from the teddy bear. "It is I, Phil, the manager of this store."
"Is this kind of like the theme of this store?" the woman asked.
"No!" the bear said. "I am an evil teddy bear. My parents wanted me to join the family business- which was selling newspapers- it's pretty much the only career option where I come from- but I decided to follow my dreams to become a muffin store owner and never looked back. And oh, yeah, this guy sold his soul for me for a nickel, so I own him. What happens to be your query, customer?"
"I… kind of forgot," she replied. "Oh yeah, do you happen to have any periwinkle flavored muffins to sample."
"Indeed we do," Phil said. "Slave, take out the samples right now."
"I want you to say yes and give a 'Hail Hydra' salute," Leo said.
"Yes, sir," Frank said. "And Hail Hydra!"
Frank produced the muffins.
"These are actually pretty good," she said. "Okay, can I have a dozen?"
"Certainly," Phil said. "You can pay in cash or credit. Or even…. your eternal soul. But not coin though. We don't accept coins."
"Yeah, I think I'll go with credit," the lady said.
"Before you complete your order though," Frank said, "I would like to tell you about our charity that we've set up. Yeah, if you could spare some change for the charity we're supporting that is-"
"To make old people less annoying," Leo said.
"-to make old people less annoying," Frank said.
"What?"
"Go on Frank, explain it to her," Percy said.
"Uh, you know, old people… need to be uh, less annoying and stuff," Frank muttered.
"You know what, I'll give you a penny if I can just leave," the woman said.
"I don't believe it," Jason said.
"How did he not lose?" Percy asked.
Leo just stared at the screen, speechless, when he suddenly screamed, "D'Arvit!"
Result: Frank passed.
Percy was whistling to himself when a kid who looked about sixteen walked in.
"Hey? So, do you uh, do birthday cakes?" he asked.
"Say yes," Leo said.
"Yes," Percy said.
"So what flavors do you have?" he asked.
"Well, Percy, you do chocolate, dark forest, vanilla, strawberry, butterscotch, and pineapple," Frank said.
"We have chocolate, dark forest, vanilla, strawberry, butterscotch, and pineapple," Percy said.
"Um, yeah, chocolate would be good," the guy said. "Also, what kinds of muffins do you have?"
"The flavors are right there, Percy," Leo said.
"A lot of flavors, they're all listed right here," Percy said.
"Tell him that you get six muffins free if you buy six of them," Frank said.
"We even have a special offer today," Percy said. "Six muffins free if you take six."
"On all of them?"
"Yes," Percy said, now seriously wondering where all of this was headed. This was all so… normal. Why hadn't anything stupid or crazy happened yet? And come to think of it, why hadn't Jason said anything.
"Okay, Percy," Leo said. "Something crazy's going to happen, but no matter what happens, do not react at all, and do not look back. Just keep looking forwards."
Suddenly, the guy froze as if he had seen a ghost or something very strange behind Percy.
"Percy, don't do anything," Leo said.
Percy though had begun twitching and it was taking a lot of his self-control from not looking backwards.
"Well, we don't want you to look backwards, but I think it would be fair to tell you what's happening," Frank said. "Jason, who is currently dressed up as Jason from the Friday the Thirteenth series, is currently trying to pry open a window. As you can imagine, you customer is really freaked out."
"So, Jason is dressed up as Jason?" Leo asked rhetorically. "It's Jasonception!"
"By the way, Leo," Frank said, "if we don't want Percy to look backwards, why did we just tell him something that will mean that he'll pretty much find it impossible to try and not look back?"
"Because it's fun messing with Percy!" Leo said and the two high-fived.
Percy could actually hear the sounds know, of the window being forced open. Jason, behind him, decided to drop his chainsaw in first before lunging himself in.
"Percy, think up of an explanation for those sounds," Leo said.
"Oh gee," Percy said. "There have been weird noises coming from the vents ever since that new electrician fixed the lighting."
"Percy… how do lights have anything with making noise from the vents?" Frank asked.
Jason, meanwhile, had gone and snuck into a room.
"Ask the customer what's wrong," Leo said.
"What's wrong?" Percy asked.
"Uh… behind you…" the guy managed to get out.
"Now turn around," Frank said.
Percy turned around. "There's nothing here."
"Percy, why'd you forget to close the window?" Leo asked.
"Oh, I must have forgotten to close the window," Percy said and promptly shut said window.
"But… but…" the guy trailed off.
"Wow, he's really scared," Frank said.
"Not to mention you can tell that he knows what he saw was real, but also that he's afraid to tell anyone about it," Leo said.
"Now, it's time that you tell the guy a story," Frank said. "Tell him that there used to be a boy named Joe who used to work at the muffin shop."
"You know, all of this reminds me of a story somehow," Percy said. "A boy named Joe used to work at this very muffin shop."
"He used to like dressing up as Jason from his favorite movie franchise, but then one day he died when a vending machine fell on him," Leo said.
"He used to be such a card, he liked dressing up as Jason from the Friday the Thirteenth series, but then was tragically crushed under a vending machine," Percy said.
"Fun fact: eight people die every year from being crushed by vending machines," Frank said. "Out of them, six are insurance appraisers who shake the machines to check if they're unstable enough to kill someone."
"And here's a fun fact for you," Percy said as Jason came out of the room and began breakdancing behind him, "eight people are killed by vending machines every year. Out of them, six victims are insurance appraisers whose jobs include shaking the machines to check if they're unstable enough to kill someone."
"But back about Joe, it sometimes feels as if he's still around somewhere in this very shop," Leo said.
"But I can sometimes feel as if he's still around somewhere in this very shop," Percy said as Jason opened the window and left.
"Now talk to him about the charity," Leo said.
"Oh yeah, before I complete your order, we're taking extra for a charity," Percy said.
"What is it?" the guy asked in a tiny voice.
"We want to raise money in order to send Michael Bay to a good film school," Leo said. "We think he needs it. And the Transformers need it even more than him."
"We want to raise money in order to send Michael Bay to a good film school," Percy said. "We think he needs it, and more importantly, the Trasformers need it."
"Nah man, thanks, I've had enough crazy for one day," the guy said.
Result: Percy failed.
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