Okay, I set this up in the last one, but here we go with the meat... 'Big Caesar'! Anyway, enjoy!
Soon, Saturday came as Phoebe and I went on the boat as Phoebe had set a few two-way radios around our boat and nodded as we started to row out. I had already given Sharlene, Nadine and Arnold their two-way radios as we waited for the other boats. Phoebe just rolled her eyes. "Oh sure, I'd LOVE to play Secret Agent while looking for a mythical sea creature with two adult supervisors. This is sure to be safe."
"Oh, calm down, Phoebe." I rolled my eyes as I pushed the button on one two-way radio. "Hey, Olga, hey Sharlene! You on your way?"
"Hi, Rhonda!" Olga's cheery voice said. "Don't worry, we are."
"Great." I said as I switched over to Tucker and Nadine's boat. "Nadine, Tucker, you guys going to be okay with this?"
"As okay as I can be!" Nadine's voice was heard.
"We're ready!" Tucker's confident voice said. "If we can really catch this, this is going straight to the Wittenberg impossibilities."
"Awesome." I said as I switched off the radio. "And if we catch Big Caesar, we will be able to get that prize money in our hands!"
"But if we don't, at least we tried, and I will laugh at your faces." Phoebe said as she was slurping a Diet Yahoo.
"Right." I rolled my eyes as I gave a lovesick smile, turning to Arnold and Gerald. "Hey, buddy, Gerald, you coming along?"
"We'll be right there." Arnold said. "The boats are all rented out, so we had to improvise."
I blinked, wondering what Arnold meant by that... no sooner did I look over did I realize what.
Phoebe couldn't help but chuckle a bit as she saw Arnold and Gerald peddling with a swan boat. Gerald glared at Phoebe as he said, "Oh sure, laugh. It was the only boat we could find!"
"Okay, sorry... you think "Big Caesar" will LOVE swan for dinner?" Phoebe giggled.
"You are one odd girl, Phoebe." Gerald said with a small smile I noticed.
Pretty soon, Tucker and Nadine's boat, along with Olga and Sharlene's boat had arrived as Olga nodded. "Okay, listen up. We're all going to the other side of the bridge, and I know it's foggy, but I'm positive if you all stay close together, we'll be able to be in and out. If we don't find anything in an hour, we'll leave. What do you say?"
Everyone just nodded as I spoke to Olga and Sharlene's two way radio, "Let's do this!"
"Sweetness!" Sharlene smiled as she pulled out her little CD player. "Okay, Olga, let's get rowing... er, cranking in Swan Boat's case!"
Arnold just rolled his eyes as we all started rowing towards the other side of the boat, whilst the contest was still going on, with some contestants still fishing.
Pretty soon, we were all fishing as Phoebe was relaxing, whistling as she was checking her watch. "Well, looks like we've got at least fifty minutes left. Wonder how everyone is doing with their search for the fictional creature."
"Let's see..." I said as I pushed a button. "Olga, Sharlene, how's the search?"
I paused as I waited for a response. I paused. "Olga? Sharlene?"
Still no response. I peeked out from the boat to Olga and Sharlene's boat and... oh brother!
"Show me, how you want it to be!" Olga sang a little as she had headphones jacked into Sharlene's CD player, with Sharlene having a similar set of headphones jacked into the second slot, singing along to some pop song..
"Tell me, baby..." Sharlene sang along as their fishing pole lines were in the water, waiting for a bite.
"Ugh..." I groaned. "People STILL listen to this stupid song? Please, that died after the year 2000!"
"Looks like there are people still into the 90s songs..." Phoebe said as she switched two-way radio stations. "Tucker, Nadine, you guys?"
"Just a second..." Nadine's voice was heard as I saw her boat as one of Nadine's spider leg hair bits had fallen down as Nadine was reaching her hand in the water. "One of my hair clips fell in the water and..." Nadine smiled as she fished her hair clip out of the water. "Got it!"
Nadine muttered as she was trying to lift her spider-leg hair up and was trying to put the clip on. "It's always tough to put this back on!"
"Let me try." Tucker said as he held Nadine's bit of hair up. Nadine smiled as she put the clip on. "There we go."
"Hair is secured!" Nadine gave a thumbs up.
"Great, keep us posted." I said as I switched channels. "Arnold, Gerald, things on your end doing okay?"
"Hang on, I think I got something!" Gerald was heard as I saw him in the swan boat reeling something. "It looks big, it looks big!"
I smiled in excitement as I turned to Phoebe. "Well, what do you say to that?"
"It could just be a small fish. Calm down." Phoebe rolled her eyes.
"Tucker, Nadine, we're rowing over!" I said as we put up our lines.
"Got it!" Nadine said as she was trying to put her hair up.
"Olga, Sharlene, we'r-" I started before I noticed Olga and Sharlene were still singing along to their little tune on their CD player. "...You just keep doing what you're doing!"
With that, Tucker, Nadine, Phoebe and I rowed over towards Arnold, or as close as we could get without ramming the boats as Gerald pulled up a small fish.
"Aw, shame. Too small. You have to throw it back." Phoebe said as Gerald threw the small fish.
"Ha ha." Gerald said as he threw the fish back.
I noticed Arnold starting to look down a little. "Phoebe, maybe you were right. Maybe there is no Big Caesar."
"Aw, come on, Arnold. Don't get your hopes dashed." I started.
"Uh... Rhonda? Arnold?" I heard Phoebe's voice said.
"Yes?" I turned to a shocked Phoebe, who pointed to Arnold's fishing pole. We all snapped to attention as we saw the fishing pole starting to reel in. Arnold and Gerald quickly grabbed the fishing pole as they pulled on it...and then we saw a huge green fish.
"Big Caesar..." Arnold, Gerald, Nadine, Tucker and I said.
"Guys... that is not Big Caesar, that is a giant shark! We should freaking row away!" Phoebe said in concern. "Olga, Sharlene, help!"
No answer from Olga and Sharlene as they were still listening to the CD Player.
"Oh baby, baby!" Olga and Sharlene smiled as they bobbed their heads.
Phoebe groaned.
"Come on, we got to catch Big Caesar right now!" I said. "We're going to get that prize money for sure!"
"We should be more concerned about rowing away from the giant shark!" Phoebe said.
"All right, let's get the net ready!" Tucker said. "Arnold, Gerald, try to hang on!"
"What do you think we've been doing!" Gerald yelled as Arnold was grunting.
"Tucker, Nadine, hold the net until it comes our way, Phoebe, get the camera!" I said.
"I would, but I didn't bring it!" Phoebe said. "I did bring a phone, though, and this is to call the police! There is a shark in this lake!"
"Great, use it to go to your MySpace account!" I said, not paying attention.
"One, who uses MySpace? Two, phones don't have Internet capabilities! Three, am I the only sensible one in the group that should be rowing away from this freaking shark!" Phoebe glared.
"Olga, Sharlene..." I turned to their boat as they were still listening to their tune. "Keep doing what you're doing!"
"Tell me baby... 'cause I need to know now..." Olga and Sharlene smiled and sang along to their tune.
I turned back to the others as we saw Arnold and Gerald improvising an idea with the beheaded swan boat (must have been taken off while Big Caesar was dragging them around) as they seemed to be using a rope and the pedals on the swan boat to reel Big Caesar in and as soon as Big Caesar came near...
"Now!" Tucker said as he and Nadine dropped the net and tightened it up as they tied it around their boat.
"There we go!" Nadine said.
"We did it!" Arnold and Gerald danced around.
I smiled to Phoebe. "Now, what do you say to that, Phoebe?"
"Fine. You caught the giant shark. Now let's bring it to the officials and they can do the right thing... kill it!" Phoebe said.
"Thanks for the... well, thanks anyway, you guys, you were a big help." I said sarcastically to Olga and Sharlene, who were still listening to their tune. They had no idea what had just occurred.
"How was I supposed to know..." Olga and Sharlene hummed.
"Aw, Phoebe... we can't kill Big Caesar..." Nadine said.
"You can't... the officials freaking can!" Phoebe said.
I noticed Arnold looking down at Big Caesar as he looked bad. "But is it the right thing to do... just turn one of our biggest legends to the officials, take it away?"
"Aw come on, Arnold, we could be rich!" Gerald said.
"Or national heroes!" Phoebe said.
I paused. "Nah, Arnold's right. Big Caesar hasn't been seen or found in a lot millenniums. What's a few millenniums more?"
Phoebe groaned. "You're really going to do this?"
I smiled. "Idea. Who wants to release Big Caesar, forget about the fishing contest, go to Slausen's, have a milkshake and call it a day!"
"I'm in!" Nadine smiled.
"Sure!" Tucker said.
"Fine..." Gerald said. "But do it before I change my mind."
"Just let me do this..." Arnold said as he pulled out a small hook from Big Caesar's gill. "There we go."
"Shouldn't we at least call the officials about the giant shark?" Phoebe said.
"Great!" I said. "Okay, release!"
"All right!" Nadine smiled as she and Tucker untied the ropes as Big Caesar was released.
"Well, the swan boat's out of commission..." Gerald said as Big Caesar started to swim away.
"Now what?" Arnold said.
"Hey, you can always get in our boat." I smiled as I moved the fishing gear out of the way and patted a seat next to me.
"All right." Arnold smiled as he carefully stepped out from the swan boat into Phoebe's and my boat. Gerald then did the same thing as he sat next to Phoebe.
"We should be concerned about this." Phoebe said as she started to row back, Tucker and Nadine following behind.
"Well, don't worry about it. As long as it stays on the foggy side, we're safe." Gerald said as he put her close.
Phoebe was about to say something, but she realized she was in Gerald's arms, and smiled a bit as she relaxed. "Well, all right... I'll let it go..."
"Terrific." I said as I saw Olga and Sharlene taking off the headphones. "Okay, we didn't find anything, and we're a little bored."
"I was thinking you might say that." Olga said. "Shall we head back?"
"Yeah." I nodded. "We're going to be going to Slausen's. Want to come?"
"No thanks, Rhonda. I'm still part of the fishing contest. I want to at least catch a fish before we leave." Olga said.
"All right." I nodded. "Well, thanks for everything."
"No problem." Olga smiled as she was still bobbing her head to the tune and humming it. "Hit me baby, one more time!"
A little later, at Slausen's, my friends and I were hanging out as we were drinking some milkshakes as I said to Phoebe, "So, what have we learned?"
"That Olga and Sharlene should pay more attention to us since they were supposed to be our supervisors?" Phoebe glared.
"Not really..." I said.
"That we should run from danger when there's a shark in the lake?" Phoebe said.
"Close..." I sighed.
"Phoebe, you're supposed to say, 'Some legends can be real, even if they don't make sense'." Arnold said.
"I want to say it, but how can I say that when..." Phoebe groaned. "Fine. I learned that lesson too."
"Great." I smiled. "This is a pretty good strawberry milkshake."
And so, we relaxed a bit for the rest of the day...
That's the fifty-eighth episode! How do you like it? Anyway, read, review, criticize and suggest, folks!
