-1CHAPTER THREE: "FORGET THE DANG MANUAL!"
After much persuasion, Clam finally calmed down about tagging along with Raj and his quest to "expose Lazlo." The two Jellies have finally reached Clam's log car. After walking straight up the side of it, somehow defying Newton's Laws of Physics, Raj climbed into the passenger seat while Clam took the wheel of his ride.
As Raj strapped his helmet on and secured Dave's camera, he told Clam, who was also strapping himself in place, "Alright Clam, we need to get to Prickly Pines before Lazlo and Patsy so we can follow them from there. Do you think you can do that in the knick of time?" Raj then expected an answer, but surprisingly enough, he got none. Clam for one reason or another just continued to stare off in the distance in the direction of the town.
"Hello?" Raj asked, trying to get his attention. Suddenly Clam slowly turned his head around, with a stern but serious look on his face, pulled out a pair of sunglasses, slipped them on and said, "…Just watch me." And with that, he pedaled with all of his might into the woods.
Their log car was now clearly going the speed of a race car. While Clam was having the time of his life driving like a maniac, Raj meanwhile was holding on for his dear life. He felt the strap on the camera come loose, leading him to hold onto it like how a mother would with her baby. He knew that if something happened to that camera, Dave would practically make Raj's life full of pain and horror, by posting a humiliating article in his and Ping Pong's newspaper about Raj's two belly buttons. He knew that Samson the guinea pig already gave that away, but the loons would make it a lot worse.
Raj was screaming -no- begging at Clam to slow down. "CLAM SLOW DOWN! WATCH OUT FOR THAT- AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!"
After a good two minutes of reckless driving, Clam finally stopped just outside of Prickly Pines. Clam turned to see Raj, pulled the sunglasses off of his face, immediately putting his happy face back on and said, "We're here!" Raj couldn't care less wherever they were, he was just happy to be alive…
Meanwhile…
The pair of children consisting of a Brazilian spider monkey Bean Scout and the mongoose Squirrel Scout were about ten minutes away from Prickly Pines. Patsy felt it was wise to at least have a conversation with Lazlo to keep their minds from going insane from boredom. "Say Lazlo, I heard that you and the Beans accidentally got our scouting manual several weeks ago."
This certainly got the monkey's attention. "Oh, um… yeah we did. I really prefer not to talk about what happened with us and that book." Lazlo said, remembering the grand mistakes he and his fellow Beans made while operating under the rule of the once believed "New Edition Bean Scout Manual." Then Lazlo remembered something, "Wait, did you read that rule about the Squirrels having to avoid the Beans yet?" Patsy's face changed from curious to a bit of annoyance." Ugh, yes, and I absolutely hate that rule! In fact, I hate the rules and guidelines in that manual all together! Well… maybe except for that part with the underwater hair makeover."
Lazlo was now sparked with intense curiosity. "Really, why do you hate it all together?" "Ooh, just the parts about us having to do all of that girly stuff just makes my skin boil!" Patsy replied, "But the rule that I hate the most is the one where we have to avoid you and the other Bean Scouts because "they're icky!" I mean, we hang with you guys practically on a weekly basis, and nothing overly terrible has happened to us." Patsy was getting her point well across to her target audience. "I know that the Beans and Squirrels of Leaky Lake have their differences and that we don't exactly see eye-to-eye all the time, but that does not remove the right to see each other if we want to!"
Lazlo couldn't believe what she was saying, yet he couldn't agree more. "You know what Patsy, you're absolutely right!" Patsy didn't expect this as a response. "I am?" She quickly cleared her throat, "I mean… yes exactly!" Patsy lowered her tone a bit, "And… that's also kind of the reason I asked you if we can do something together tonight Lazlo: to show to everyone that a Bean and a Squirrel doing something isn't harmful at all."
Lazlo and Patsy then each took a deep sigh, and decided to just keep going to Prickly Pines together. After about another minute of walking, Lazlo then asked, "So uh… we're going to the movie theater first right?" Patsy looked back at him and said, "Oh right, yeah we are. And I think I've found a good movie too. It's called The Everything You Could Ever Want in a Movie: The Movie."
Well, that's it for this chapter ladies and gents. What'll be in store for the next chapter? Another alien invasion? Raining doughnuts? The wrath of educational television? All of these… are probably not gonna happen, but stay tuned anyway!