Here comes the next episode, "On The Lam"! This was... one of my favorite episodes, I will admit back when I was young. Now, looking back, I still enjoy it in a nostalgic sense. Let's see how I try to do this episode in my style! Anyway, enjoy!

The next day, at school, we were having today's science class outside with Mr. Simmons as we were interested in watching. Phoebe already had her notepad out, taking notes as we all stood back, Mr. Simmons using a rocket launcher.

"Now, the active ingredient is vinegar, when mixed with the others, causes the sum expansion of gas." Mr. Simmons said as he added the last ingredient in the tube and put the rocket in. We just watched in interest as the rocket flew up in the sky.

"That is so cool!" Harold said in amazement.

"Yes, Harold, science is, in fact, very cool." Mr. Simmons gave a smile.

"Hey, can I try the rocket next, can I?" Harold asked.

I just shook my head as I whispered, "Boys... always interested in their rockets..."

"Hmmm..." Phoebe said to herself as she was calculating. "If I can calculate the inertia times the velocity..."

I just shook my head as I whispered, "Nerds... always interested in their mathematics..."

Phoebe looked up at me and frowned a bit... before I gave a smile and patted her on the back. "Just kidding, Pheebs. We all know you love being smart. Don't change who you are."

Phoebe gave a smile as we heard the bell ring.

"Oh darn that bell!" Mr. Simmons frowned. "Class, we'll continue our experiment tomorrow."

We all nodded as most of us, except for Harold, went back towards the inside of the school to get our things.

Phoebe was humming slightly to herself as she was writing down an equation on her notepad as her, Nadine, Lila and I were sitting with each other. Nadine chuckled as she said, "Keep writing that equation, you'll become a true rocket scientist!"

Phoebe looked up as she said, "I'm trying to see if I can get a new equation out of this. Hopefully I can manage to do something with this."

Lila looked out the window as she said, "Hey girls, take a look."

We looked outside to where Lila was pointing at to see Mr. Potts setting up some dynamite. I nodded. "Ah yes, Mr. Potts told us at the boarding house about this. They're blowing up the old police station today."

"Oh right, they moved out everything from the old police station last year." Nadine snapped her fingers.

"Indeed." I said as we kept going. "From the looks of things, it looks like Mr. Potts is ahead of schedule! He thought he'd have it done by tonight, but it looks like..."

"He's going to blow it at five o'clock, there abouts?" Phoebe asked.

"Maybe four-thirty, if he's lucky." I said as I sighed. "Anyway, enough about the outside world... that was a fun dance last night, huh?"

"Yeah... I honestly didn't expect the pool to open up like that." Phoebe smiled.

"I hope Caroline isn't bugging you TOO much." Nadine said in concern. "From the looks of things, she and Curly seemed to be after you."

I paused, thinking of what Marcie said to me. "No, no, everything's all fine..."

"Hey girls, I don't know if this is a good time to bring it up, but..." Lila motioned us to get closer. We did so as Lila said, "Lorenzo and I are planning our own dance at his mansion."

"No way, seriously?" I said in excitement.

Lila nodded. "Lorenzo and his mother are still making the invitations, but I wanted you three to be the first to know about it!"

"This is totally awesome!" Nadine smiled.

"It's not exactly a dance, more of a party. And it's a costume party, you see..." Lila said.

"Ah, a masquerade party!" I snapped my fingers. "I know about those! Yeah, those sound definitely interesting!"

"Sweet!" Lila said. "I hope you can all come..."

"Lila, come on..." Phoebe laughed as she looked up at her notepad. "You know us. We are definitely there."

All four of us laughed as we hugged each other, having a wonderful talk.

Back at the boarding house, I was still in my room, excited for the costume party, but at the same time, I didn't know what to do... I felt a little nervous, actually, like... I've been with Arnold tons of times, but... should I...

Oh, this is hurting my head... darn it, Helga, why do you have to be on my mind all the time...

I paused as I looked at the screwdriver next to the table as I picked it up. I still didn't understand... but now I knew that Marcie gave me this screwdriver for a reason... but for what?

I paused as I looked at my diary. Was it... was it for the diary?

I picked up the diary as I opened it, the staples clearly visible on the three pages near the beginning. I slid the screwdriver under one of the staples and... I heard a snapping sound.

I couldn't believe it! It actually worked! I couldn't wait to...

BANG! THUD!

"LET ME- MMPH!"

What was that? It sounded like... Arnold! I closed the diary and put that and the screwdriver back in my backpack. I'll have to wait on the mystery of the diary another day! Something was wrong. Immediately, I ran out of my room and tried to locate the sound... which sounded like it came from the basement.

I opened the door and saw Arnold downstairs, tied up and gagged to a chair and I saw the window closing as... was that one of Sid's shoes running off?

I had to run downstairs immediately as I went to Arnold and ungagged him as Arnold spat out a sock that was stuffed in his mouth.

"What happened, charming? Who did this to you?" I asked.

"Harold, Stinky and Sid." Arnold said. "I caught them in the basement of the boarding house as I was trying to switch laundry."

"And why were they in the basement?" I asked as I tried to figure out how to untie Arnold from his chair.

"They thought they blew up the police station downtown because of a rocket experiment." Arnold said. "I caught them trying to hide out, and I tried to give them some advice, but..."

"Let me guess, they had ideas of their own, and tied you up." I sighed.

"Yeah..." Arnold said.

"Rocket experiment... now that you mention it, I didn't see the three boys get in the bus..." I paused.

"Yeah... they took a few of the rockets from the science closet at the school and thought to do their own experiment..." Arnold explained. "And they saw the rocket landing near the police station when they launched it, and assumed they blew it up."

"...I'm going to guess that's the old police station Mr. Potts was going... er, he BLEW up?" I said.

"I assume that's the case." Arnold said.

"It's never a normal day for you, is it?" I sighed.

Arnold shook his head.

Eventually, I got Arnold untied as he got up. "Well... we better call their parents and tell them what happened... and tell Mr. Potts everything too so we can get this misunderstanding cleared up."

"Agreed!" I said as I tried to follow Arnold... but I yelped as I realized I tied my hands to the chair.

"Hang on a second..." I said as I tried to untie the knot... but only ended up tying up my foot to the chair. Then I tried untying THAT, and only got my leg tied up to the chair. It took me a few minutes, but I got out of the chair just fine.

As soon as I got back upstairs, Arnold was already talking with the others as Olga sighed. "I just can't believe they would steal school property. I mean, sheesh!"

"And why would they think they would blow up the police station, I did that!" Mr. Potts frowned.

"They don't know that, though... and right now, they're dressed as hobos, running to the train station, thinking they committed a crime they never committed." Arnold said. "Except for maybe stealing school property."

Olga sighed as she said, "I'll call Mr. Simmons and explain to him that his rockets were stolen from the science closet. Trust me, we'll find a punishment for the boys."

"Meanwhile, I'm going to give Harold's parents a call." Arnold said. "Thanks for getting me out of there when you did, Rhonda."

"No trouble, buddy." I said. "I mean, if I came down, I still would have untied you. I mean, who would go down and find you tied, thinking you tied up yourself and was playing, I don't know, 'spy' or something?"

"Hmmm... that wouldn't be logical, would it?" Mr. Potts said.

I just shook my head. "No it wouldn't."

Well, everything was pretty much cleared up with Harold, Stinky and Sid as we all eventually did catch up with them and properly gave them a little consoling that they didn't do anything wrong, lashing for the fact that they did steal school property, and punishment for doing said crime. Well, the adults did. I just laid back and watched as I just shook my head.

Someday, I'll never know how Harold, Stinky and Sid's minds work... but I guess that's just one of the great mysteries of life...

And there we go with episode one hundred and forty-six! How was it? I wish I could have done more, but there's only a limit on what I can do, and besides, this episode was mainly focused on Harold, Stinky and Sid... so I had to work with what I had. Well, anyway, read, review, criticize and suggest, folks!