Ethel adjusted her camera. For the fifth and final episode, it was time to see the Racers, at a race. She was really excited about this one, and so far things were going great… except that she accidentally tried to follow Speed into the men's locker room. That was pretty embarrassing and caused Trixie to glare at her ever since… but otherwise things were going great.
Speed was in the lead… obviously. He was almost unbeatable, and it was times like this Ethel loved her job. She was slightly startled however, when a face covered her lens, and she stumbled backwards.
"So, I have an idea." The face, which Ethel (after recovering from the shock) recognized as Spritle. "I think I'm too good for this show, and Chim-Chim agrees." The chimp in question let out a noise of agreement. "So, we want our own show."
"Um…"
"It'll be great, we can call it The Adventures of Spritle and Chim-Chim, it'll be a hit I'm sure. I'm way more interesting for television than Speed is. He doesn't even like being on TV. He's jealous of my talent! You saw his reaction to my tap dancing and he worries I'll take the spotlight."
"You want spotlight?"
Spritle shrugged. "It's nice, but really I want candy and to get that, I need money. You get money from being on TV, right? So, what do you say? You could be my cameraman… err… person, and I'll give you twenty percent of twenty percent of the profits."
Ethel was beginning to wonder if Spritle should be allowed to watch anymore old television shows because it was starting to sound like he was ripping off The Dukes of Hazzard's lines. "Spritle, I need to film Speed."
"But everyone films Speed. I'm original!"
Trixie rolled her eyes and let out a sigh, placing a hand on the smaller Racer. "Spritle, we know how much you want to be on television, but if you act more naturally, you'll be filmed more. People want to see our normal lives."
Spritle let out a sigh. "Aw, but I wanted a spinoff."
"Well, if this is successful, maybe you'll get it." Trixie humoured as Pops carefully watched his stopwatch, seemingly unaware of what was happening beside him.
Spritle's eyes lit up. "Hey! Maybe I could! And maybe I could do a Smarties endorsement! And then I'd get free candy!"
"Sure…" Trixie replied, handing over her small amount of chocolate coated peanuts in hopes of distracting the boy. It appeared to do the trick, and soon Spritle and Chim-Chim were in an all out tug of war over who would get them.
"Chim-Chim! You got the gummi bears!" Spritle whined, and Chim-Chim, seemingly agreeing, let go of the bag, sending both it and Spritle flying into Trixie, who created a domino effect down the row of people in the stands. Pops was thrown into Mom and Sparky, and he was thrown into complete strangers who took down the rest of the row.
Spritle winced, recovering the candy and bolting, in hopes of no one realizing what he'd accidentally done. Chim-Chim followed. Ethel barely managed to avoid being run over as the passed and she laughed, turning her camera back to the race. Stu was filming from somewhere else in the stadium, though she wasn't sure where and she needed to make sure she caught the ending in case he couldn't.
Life with the Racers was certainly interesting… she was going to miss this job…
Well, we're almost done, just one more chapter to go...
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