Chapter 3: Dummy Dancing
A/N Here is chapter 3 of Kickin' It with Nikki, and to those of you who are reading my other fan fiction Lab Rats and Andrews it will be awhile until I update that because it's kind of going to be an original episode mixed with the next episode so it's going to take me some time. Oh, and someone wrote a review about how the quality went down in my last chapter and I'm sorry about that my dad was rushing me to get off the computer and I really wanted to update so yeah, I'll try and make this one better and probably longer than the last two chappies.
Jack, Kim, Milton and I stuck our heads out around the corner like they do in spy movies, we watched as the janitor finished and walked off. Seeing the hallways were empty we walked out into the open. Jack, overdramatically, bent down and swiped his hands across the floors "oh yeah, Waxy Wednesday, where a plastic tray meets a freshly-buffed floor, and legends are born"
"Hey guys I got the trays" Eddie called to us as he ran out of the cafeteria.
"Any problems getting by Marge the lunch lady?" Kim asked him
"Nah, she said they don't pay her enough to care" Eddie answered.
"That's Marge" I said with a sigh, and they all nodded in agreement.
"Guys, did I miss anything?" Jerry called to us out of breath as he ran down the stairs.
"Not yet, right on time" I told him as I leaned up against a locker that was to my left.
"Hey, shouldn't you be in detention for putting a tollbooth in the boy's bathroom?" Kim asked him confused.
Jerry smirked proudly "I should be, but when you sit me in the back and leave a window open, I'm what you call a flight risk" Jerry than walked down two or three steps and sat down on the ledge by the lockers I was leaning against.
"Jack, your record is about to be broken, prepare for the new world champion, Milton 'the missile' Krupnick" He told us all proudly as he stripped off his jacket and pulled off his pants, revealing him in a tight, purple, full body suit.
We all blocked our eyes "My eyes Milton!" I shouted at him.
"Dude, eat a sandwich" Jerry commanded him with a look that was mixed between horror and disturbance, on his face.
"Oh, look at this." Truman said in a sarcastic voice as he walked through the double doors that were located on the other side of the stairs. "I've walked into the middle of a loser-palooza"
"What do you want Truman?" Jack asked him in an irritated voice.
"I thought I'd just hang out." Truman shrugged his shoulders like it was nothing.
"Do you have to do it here" Jerry asked him in the same tone Jack used.
"Yeah, I think I'm catching your idiocy" I quipped crossing my arms.
"It's a free hallway Jerry, Nikki" Truman retorted glaring back at Jerry then over to me.
"Truman, if you'll excuse me, I have a date with destiny" Milton informed him as he turned his attention away from Truman.
"Well that will be your first date ever" Truman said before he broke into loud and annoying laughs.
"Ha-ha, very funny" Milton mocked sarcastically "You're about to see my skid marks." We all shot him a 'really' look, he paused for a moment "Okay, I thought that was going to sound different when it came out"
Changing the subject Kim and I ran across the hall and over to the trash can "Okay, guys!" Kim called to them to get their attention.
"This trashcan marks Jack's record of 47 floor tiles" I continued just before Milton came running down the hall shouting. When he reached where Jack was standing he dropped to the floor on top of the tray and zoomed down the hall way past Jacks marked record. When he crashed through the doors by Kim we all ran to his side.
"He just shattered your record" Jerry said to Jack while catching his breath.
"And that paper-Mache solar system outside the science room." Kim continued pointing to what she was talking about.
"That was awesome" I shouted, they gave me a weird look "Or bad, bad it is" I quickly changed what I said before.
"It looks like someone greased his tray" Jack pointed out, choosing to ignore what I said.
"Looks like" Truman called from behind us before laughing again.
"That's it!" I shouted as I started to charge over to him but, then I felt strong arms wrapped around my waist and easily lift me off the ground.
"Easy there, Nikki" Jack said trying to calm me which worked… a little bit.
"Whatever" I muttered bitterly as I broke free from his grasp. I turned to see Milton come in through the double doors limping.
"Looks like Saturn is now lodged in the dark side of the moon" Milton told us before walking off with planets hanging from his neck and Saturn in… well you know.
Back at the dojo we were all practicing routines when Jerry came out with pink hair, eyebrows and even his leg hair was pink. We all broke out in fits of laughter.
"Dude… your hair… I like it" I teased him between laughs.
"Hold on, something's different. Wait, don't tell me" Kim teased him "new bath robe"
"It's my hair. This is what I get for showering." Jerry complained.
"And it's the price to pay so we can all have fresher air when were around you" I smirked at him.
"Rudy, what kind of shampoo are we using?"
Rudy leaned forward and read the label on the bottle "It's the same shampoo we always use."
Jerry wasn't buying it so he ripped off the label to reveal the true label "What? This isn't shampoo. It's pink hair dye" Jerry shouted. What? How did that happen?
I exchanged a confused glance with Jack before my eyes drifted down to his legs "Um, Jer?"
"Dude, do you shampoo your leg hair" Eddie asked also noticing Jerry's pink leg hair.
Jerry placed his leg up on the bench in front of him "Bro, when I shampoo, I'm all in"
"Jer, there are just some things you shouldn't tell people, this being one of them" I told him with a look of disgust on my face which represented how I felt on the inside too.
"Love your new look!" Truman shouted to Jerry as he walked in a little too happy about the situation. I should've known this was him it had Truman written all over it. "Awesome. Just awesome"
"I know you did this Truman" Jack confronted him as he stood up off the bench. "Somehow you snuck in here and switched out that shampoo for pink hair dye."
"What?" Truman placed a hand over his chest in mockingly.
"No, it wasn't Truman, I've been here all day and I never once saw him ooze his way in here" Rudy informed us. Okay, so he had a pretty tight alibi but I still think it was him, but how? And that is exactly what I plan on finding out.
Truman shook his head with a sigh in satisfaction "Looks like I got an airtight alibi. See you around pinky" Truman called to Jerry as he left the dojo laughing at us, mocking us.
"I truly despise that little boy" I muttered bitterly at his retreating form.
"Pinky?" Jerry asked us confused "why would anyone call me 'pinky'?" Jack then proceeded to rip out a piece of his hair and show it to him "Oh, I get it"
I patted his shoulder "You truly are something Jerry"
I was in the hallway with half of the school "Come on, people! Let's make some noise!" One of the teachers called to the gathering crowd "As the captain of our pep squad, Kim Crawford, leads out our championship girl's basketball team, the Seaford Lady Whales!"
Kim said something to the basketball team but I couldn't hear it because of all the cheers "Pep, pep, pep, pep!" Kim chanted as the rest of the pep squad came out holding a banner that said 'Lady whales'. Kim motioned to the team before running through the sign. But instead of breaking it she got stuck and fell to he floor all tangled up in the sign. We as in Jack, Milton, Eddie and I came over to try and break her free. Then none other Truman came down the stair laughing.
"Looks like you got yourself into a sticky situation"
"Hah, very clever Tru-tru" I mocked sending him a smirk as he got all mad at my nickname for him.
I was walking around the mall trying to think of how Truman could have set up all those pranks and no one noticing him. Like how did he get the pink hair dye into the dojo when no one saw him? Or how he waxed the trays when Eddie was the one to get them? Oh, my god it all made sense, Eddie, but why I knew Eddie all towel to know he wasn't doing this for kicks there had to be a reason. I ran to the dojo and through the door when all of the sudden thick wet liquid poured all over me. I wiped my face and looked down at my hands to see mud covering them. Truman! Or Eddie! Or Both! This is so frustrating.
"Nikki, are you okay?" Jack asked me as he ran over to me with the rest of the gang.
"Yeah I'm fine, I guess this makes me victim number four, huh?" I asked no one in particular while glaring at Eddie.
"Actually that makes you victim number five" Milton corrected me.
"What?" I asked confused. Okay what did I miss?
"Truman put bleu cheese in my cologne" Jack told me with a distasteful look.
"Ooh?" I winced remembering the last time Jack smelled bleu cheese.
"Yeah, I believe his words were 'it's a category 5 hurl-icane'" Jack said mocking Truman's tone before he turned to the rest "Truman's picking us off one-by-one. He's got us all except…" Jack trailed off looking at Eddie who looked very guilty "Eddie"
"What are you guys saying?" Eddie asked turning away from all of us. And just when I thought he was going to get caught it went the complete opposite direction.
"Where saying your next" Milton told him as he got up and walked over and sat next to him "If I were you, I'd wrap myself up in bubble wrap and sit in the basement. I did that when my father showed me my own birth video, Do you guys have any idea where we come from?"
"My mother told me it was a pumpkin patch" Eddie told Milton. How did we get so off topic?
"I wish" Milton said with a look of horror in his eyes.
"Actually, Eddie…" I started to tell them but Jack cut me off.
"I think what Eddie needs to hear is that we're going to be there for him" Jack said to Eddie as he joined Milton by his side.
"Guys, guys, I can take care of myself" Eddie tried to assure us as he walked over to the other side of the room.
"No, no, no, no, don't worry Eddie. We'll protect you." Jack told him as we all walked over to where he moved.
"Guys" I tried again
"We'll walk you to school in the morning" Jack continued to ignore me.
"And after school we'll walk you back home" Kim continued.
"Seriously guys…" I tried once more
"We'll be the last thing you see at night and the first thing you see in the morning" Milton told him as he sat down next to Eddie "How do you like your eggs"
"Guys!" I shouted which got all of them to look at me.
"What Nikki?" Jerry asked sounding a little irritated.
I looked at Eddie "Are you going to tell them or should I"
Eddie sighed in defeat "It wasn't Truman you pulled those pranks on you"
"Well, who was it?" Jack asked looking from me to Eddie.
"It was me" Eddie said looking guiltily at the ground.
"What?" all four of them gasped obviously not seeing this coming.
"Eddie why would you prank us like that?" Jack asked as they all rushed over and ambushed him.
"Do you know what you did to me? That paper was so sticky I lost four freckles and half an eyebrow" Kim told him irritated
"And a clown keeps following me around asking where I got my hair done" Jerry exclaimed.
"And you knew about this and didn't tell us?" Jack turned to me looking hurt.
"I was coming to tell you but, someone set up a mud bucket for me." I turned the attention backed to Eddie who I was still very mad at.
"I didn't want to do it. Truman's blackmailing me" I knew there had to be a reason, Eddie wouldn't do something like this.
"How is he blackmailing you" Milton asked Eddie who had slumped down on one of the benches.
"Truman's father owns the security company that watches the mall" Eddie explained. So?
"So?" Jerry said voicing my thought. Okay I know I should be used to it by now but, it's still freaky.
"One night Rudy let me stay late in the dojo to work on some moves. The thing is I wasn't working on karate moves" Eddie then went on telling us about how he was practicing dancing with one of our practice dummies and ended up making out with it "Truman saw everything from his father's office, he put it on a flash drive and unless I do whatever he says, he's going to put it on the internet. I'm sorry, guys."
""It's okay Eddie, he's not going to get away with it" Jack said crossing his arms with a mischievous smile on his face.
We all nodded in agreement "Truman's going to be sorry he messed with us. When you poke a bear do you know what happens?" Milton asked Eddie as he sat down next to him. "Seriously, does anybody know?"
"I really thought you were going somewhere with that Milton" I shook my head in mock disappointment. "As for you" I turned to Eddie and smeared some mud on his face "That for the mud bucket, even if it wasn't your idea, can't let you get away with it that easily" I teased him.
At night we all gathered into the dojo dressed in full black karate uniforms. Jack spread out a map across the mats and explained the plan.
"Okjay, our mission is to get into the security office and grab the flash drive out of the safe. Let's go over the plan one more time."
"I'll get Truman out of the office by taking him to the park and letting him shoot paintballs at me" Eddie explained his part first.
"You think he'll go for it" Kim asked skeptical
"I'm pretty sure." He said sarcastically as he showed us his under shirt that was covered in colorful paint splatters.
"Oh yeah, he'll go for it" I said confidently.
"Once we're inside, I'll disarm the security system." Jack continued
"I'll help, Jack" I told them smiling
"I'll crack the safe" Milton added.
"Out in the courtyard, I'll distract the security guard" Kim said confidently
"And I'll distract the guard dog" Jerry told us.
"How are you going to distract the dog?" Jack asked him confused, majorly.
"See, I don't know if you know this about me, but uh, I was partially raised by wolves." Jerry said proud of the fact, which is false as far as I know. Well, there was that one time he was missing for a few days; I wonder if that's where he was.
"That actually explains a lot" Kim said with a hand on her hip.
"Check it" Jerry then howling that was very similar to a wolf's, we all looked at him for a second then wolves howled in response. I guess he really was. How did I not know that? "Those are my peeps"
Jack, Milton, Jerry, and I all snuck over and watched as Kim distracted her with this ridiculous idea but, by the looks of it, it was actually working. As soon as Kim gave the signal Jerry made his way over to the guard dog and worked his magic on him or her, I don't know. Then Jack, Milton, and I snuck passed all of them and into the building. Milton and I dramatically did a ninja roll across the hall as Jack just walked over.
"Really?" He crossed his arms and eyed us weird.
"Go big or go home, Jack. Go big or…" I trailed off when I saw the hallway of lasers.
"Wow, Military-grade security lasers." Milton said obviously as impressed as I was or maybe he was surprised, either way this was awesome it was just like a spy movie.
"Okay, now that I did not expect" Jack admitted gesturing to the lasers.
"Kill switch is on the other side. How do we get past this?" Milton asked Jack more than me.
"Watch and learn boys" I smirked at them before walking up to the lasers. It's time for all those dance lessons I took as a little girl to pay off. I gracefully, not so gracefully, made my way across the hall dodging lasers. When I reached the end I looked back at Jack who seemed frozen in his spot. "Well, are you coming" I crossed my arms and watched as he made his way across, which looked way cooler than when I did it. When he got over to me he smirked at me as he pressed the kill switch.
He turned to Milton "Let's go" he motioned to Milton and me as we walked into the security office.
Right away Milton spotted the safe "There it is."
Milton went to go walk in but I pushed him backwards "Stop!"
Jack looked down at the carpet and noticed the weight sensors too "There are weight sensors in the carpet. We can't walk on the floor"
"Well what do we do?" Milton asked looking defeated once again. This is totally awesome, I feel like a spy, ooh or a ninja, wow I watch way to much TV. Jack sighed as he looked around before he jumped up on the doorframe and pulled himself up on a nearby desk. Which I quickly copied and stood next to him on the desk and watched a Milton attempted to do the same thing.
"Come on!" Jack shouted to him as he held out his hand which Milton took and let Jack and I pull him up onto the desk.
"How do we get across the office?" Milton asked.
"Haven't you learned anything, Jack always has a plan" I asked rhetorically with my hands on my hips.
"That I do" Jack smirked as he flung his belt around a pipe that was above our heads "I'll carry Milton across" he turned to me "You stay right here and keep a look out, okay?" I nodded. "You open that safe and get the flash drive."
"Okay, let's go" Milton nodded as he clung to Jack; I stepped back and silently laughed as Jack swung down with Milton between his legs. With each swing Milton typed a different. "Truman has four brothers…" They swung back towards me than to the safe again, "he's claimed to have kissed seven girls…" They repeated the process "and he has three nipples" and with that the safe door flew open. Three nipples, really? We all shouted happy as they swung towards the safe one more time and Milton grabbed the flash drive.
"Now how do we get down?" Milton's just full of questions isn't he?
I walked to the edge of the desk "Ninja Nikki to the rescue" as they swung back to me I grabbed Jacks sides and pulled them both back onto the desk.
As soon as they were back on the desk Jack turned to me "Ninja Nikki?"
"Let me bask in my TV moment, Jack" I told Jack crossing my arms. He just held his hands up in surrender and laughed.
Once we got out of the building we went to Jerry first "We've got the flash drive. Let's go" Jack whispered to him. Then we went to Kim who was looking at the security guard in horror.
We were back in the dojo standing around Eddie watching Truman's tantrum on Eddie's computer when he stormed in. "Breaking into my father's office?! You guys are in so much trouble!"
"You're looking a little red there Tru-Tru" I smirked devishly at him which he returned with a glare.
"We'll take whatever comes, but we had to help a friend out." Jack explained calmly to Truman.
"I want that flash drive and I want it now" Truman demanded holding his hand out.
"All right, all right, we'll give it back. But first we got another video we'd like you to see" Jack patted his back.
"What are you talking about?" Truman asked as he came over to the computer. He bent down and watched the video we took of Truman's Tantrum when he realized that we broke into the office and stole his dad's flash drive. I laughed as he screamed and kicked everything over and tugged at his hair.
"Yup, I got the whole crybaby freak-out" Eddie told Truman who looked surprised and embarrassed at the same time as he straightened up.
"Doesn't feel so good when it's you, does it Truman?" Jack asked with his arms crossed.
"I know I say this all time but, Karmas a bitch" I exclaimed the last part laughing at Truman's face.
"If that gets out, my life will be over!" Truman shouted to everyone but, was looking at Eddie. "I'll be known as Tantrum boy" He said with a look of horror as if it was already happening. "please ell me you won't post that video"
"Are you begging Tru-Tru, that doesn't suit you" I said as I gasped mockingly.
"We're not going to post it" Kim told him, well way to ruin the illusion "We're not like you Truman"
"Hey, how about a deal? We destroy both videos and you never mess with us again, Deal?" Jack offered his hand to shake
Truman took it right away "Deal. Just delete it, please. Please." E directed the last part to Eddie. He quickly deleted the video of Truman and turned the computer to show him. "You know I only—I only melted down like that because I knew the camera was there. " He chuckled as he tried to deny the fact that he was a big crybaby "I was just putting on a show"
"Well, shows over . When you mess with one of us, you mess with all of us . Bye, Truman" Eddie waved to him.
"Okay" Truman looked upset but quickly changed it to a smile "Hey maybe next week we can go paintball" Truman started to suggest but Eddie cut him off.
"Get out" Truman's smile faded as he turned and left the dojo.
Once he was gone Jack turned back to Eddie "Eddie, remember what you told Truman, if you're in trouble we'll always be there for you."
"Got it" Eddie smiled as he fist bumped Jack "Thanks guys"
I looked around "we're short a member"
Jack looked around too "Has anyone seen Jerry?"
"Last I saw him, he was out in the courtyard" Kim told us
I face palmed "Jerry!"
A/N So there was chapter three hoped you guys like that one. And if I get two reviews, just two, I'll throw in a jealous Jack in the next chapter. Okay, I'll probably put a jealous Jack in anyways but still please review, favorite, follower, whatever suits you. And I except the criticism with open arms.