Ain't I Just Despicable?
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Chapter 8: Does This Count as Annoying?
Meanwhile, at Mandark's house, he was posing with the shrink ray, busy stroking his ego as he lauded his triumph over Sheldon.
"Oh, yeah. Pretty impressive, am I right?" Mandark spoke to himself as he practiced with the invention by blasting items in the bathroom until he was stopped by his cell-phone ringing.
"Hello? Oh, I've got the shrink ray." Mandark answered to the person on the other end of the line. "...What, Sheldon? Pfft, don't make me laugh! He's not gonna be going after the moon. Oh, and P.S., by the time I'm through with him, he'll be begging for mercy!" the young scientist and villain proclaimed as his shrink ray fired and shrunk down a nearby toilet. "Ok, bye." After hanging up, he observed his handiwork by fiddling with the shrunken commode. "Look at you, a little tiny toilet, for little tiny..." he jokingly cooed before the porcelain object sprung off its hinges and squirted water right in his face. "Blech! Curse you, tiny toilet!"
As Sheldon and the girls arrived back at the house, Karin quickly came to a realization as she recognized the building from the previous day.
"Wait a second! You're the guy who pretended he was a recorded message!" Karin accused.
"No, that was someone else, I assure you." When the group went inside the house, they were unnaturally silent.
"When we were adopted by a big bald guy, I thought this would be more like Annie." Sally whispered as they saw Sheldon's 'pet', Kyle which growled angrily at the girls, before Sheldon stepped in front of them to protect them.
"Kyle, these aren't treats, they're our guests. Girls, I'd like you to meet Kyle. He's my... uh, dog." The three said nothing until Sweetie Belle went over to pick Kyle up, during which Kyle wriggled away in horror.
"What kind of dog is that?" Karin asked in disbelief. "Also, I have my doubts this place is really safe for kids." As Karin was talking though, Sally curiously poked around and sneaked inside a Iron Maiden trap without Sheldon noticing, until it was too late and it closed.
Although Sheldon was initially shocked, he then remarked under his breath "I suppose the plan will work with two of them." He was broken out of his train of thought when Sally yelled out for him.
"It's dark in here!" Sally called out. Sheldon then quickly opened the lid of the trap and Sally was revealed unharmed, except for a repeatedly pierced and leaking juice box. "You poked a hole in my juice box, sir."
With a disgusted groan, Sheldon took the girls over to the kitchen to lay down some ground rules. Sweetie Belle then took notice of a food bowl labeled for the kids (understandablely, because Sheldon really had no experience in child care) and ate from it.
"If you're going to stay here, there are some rules you must follow. First rule, touch nothing." Sheldon warned.
"What about the floor and the air?" Karin remarked, in a matter-of-fact way.
"Fine. You're allowed to touch those things." Sheldon grunted, irritated with Karin's smart-ass attitude. "Anyhow, the next rule is important: don't bother me while I'm working. This also means no crying, laughing, or burps and annoying sounds."
"Does this count as annoying?" Sweetie Belle asked as she clapped her hooves up to her puffed up cheeks, making a popping sound with her mouth before Sheldon stopped her.
"Immensely. I'll see you in a few hours." Sheldon answered as he left the room to check up more on Haymitch's experiments.
"Dont worry." Sally sighed, trying to be optimistic. "This will be good for us, right? We're going to be happy here."
"Mmhmm," Karin grumbled before turning back towards Sally. "Well, now what?"
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