Lori looked down at her piece of bark with a check list written on it.
Vines…check.
Berry bush…check.
Spare leafs…check.
Baby trees…check.
"I feel like Brian." She said laughing. It had been three weeks since Louis had been beat up and she and Brain had come up with a fool proof plan to make sure that Louis' brothers couldn't escape while they were talking to them.
Everyone was busy setting up the trap. Manny pulled down one of two small trees that were parallel to each other and had a berry bush in the middle. Peaches tied a vine to the tree. The vine was tied to a steak that made the vine go across the area between the two trees and was tied to another steak that was tied to the top of the other tree, making both the trees bend towards each other. Then there were two more vines. One was tied to the top of one of the trees and hung down somewhat loosely and had been tied on a loop at the end that was sitting on the ground. The other vine was tied in the same way to the other small tree.
Lori turned around when she heard footsteps and a dragging sound.
"Oh, hey Louis I- GAH!" She jumped when she saw that Louis was dragging a gigantic knife.
"Uh, what is that for?" Lori asked walking over to inspect the bone knife.
"I thought maybe we could use it for something." Louis said.
"Um, ok, since we can't lift it, I'll go get my knife for you, me, Crash, and Eddie and those guys can use it." Lori said gesturing to Peaches, Sid, Diego and Shira, Manny, and Ellie.
"You have a knife?" Louis asked in surprise.
"Wouldn't you be more surprised if I didn't have one?" Lori retorted.
Louis nodded and Lori handed him her piece of bark and twig she was using to write with. She tunneled away in the direction of her burrow, disappearing quickly.
"So how is this supposed to work?" Louis asked Peaches.
"Well, when you brothers come over to pick some berries, the vines are placed so when the trip on the vine it will snap and pick them up by their ankles and they'll just hang there. Then we will be able to interrogate them all we please," Peaches said. "And scare them a little." She added in smiling.
"Ok, that'll work. But um, they won't get hurt right?" Louis asked.
"Oh no, of course not." Peaches said and Louis let out a sigh of relief.
Lori returned with a little carved wooden knife with a hole at the bottom for her thumb.
"Hey that's cool, It's like the perfect sized." Louis said Looking at the knife.
"I know! And check this out." She said pointing to her name that was carved into the side.
"That's pretty cool." Peaches said inspecting the little weapon.
"So your brothers are ungrounded today right?"Lori asked Louis.
"Yes, and in fact," Louis said looking up at the sun. "They should be getting here any second now. So if you guys are done setting up we should probably hide."
"Alright then, let's hide."Lori said. "Everybody hide! They're going to be here soon!"
This chapter is insanely short but it had to be done! /)^3^(\