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Chapter 4: Revenge Spoiled (Well… Almost Spoiled)

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The Juicenet Cafe hadn't even been open for business an hour when Zane walked in. The only people there were Ash and Lewis.

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"Zane," Lewis called out to him as he started to turn and leave, "We need your help."

"Lewis before you say anything more you should know that I know about the trap, Rikki told me about it; that is why I was out fishing and keeping a lookout.

"If you knew why didn't you warn us?"

"She threatened to tell my dad that we're dating again and I don't care to listen to him about that, especially since he doesn't care for her. He still thinks I'd be wasting my time and future with her, so I he finds out about that I'm gonna get more than an ear full from him."

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"Hey Zane, I wasn't expecting to see you hear?" Rikki's voice caught Zane off guard and startled him.

"What? Am I that scary to see? Or is it one of these freaks I've got tagging along with me?" Rikki motioned towards Emma and Cleo who were right behind her.

"It's you, defiantly you that's scary looking."

"So scary you can't kiss me?"

"Yes actually."

"Oh really? Well then I guess we won't be making out for what… the next month, two? Or maybe three, four, five?"

"Oh c'mon Rikki, I was joking around."

"To bad; you want to be a smart-ass with me you have to pay the price."

Frustrated with Rikki he started pushing Lewis towards the back room, "Lewis can I have a word?"

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"Hey Em, what are you doing here? Your shift isn't till later on this afternoon, this is early even for you." Tina, one of the girls that worked with Emma and Ash at the Juicenet walked in the door for her shift.

"She thinks she's here to work, but what she doesn't know is I have to send her home for not being in uniform." Ash replied trying to be funny.

"What makes you think I would go home?" Emma batted back, "Just because you said so?"

"Well I am your boss; plus you do have school."

"You're only my boss because I'm allowing it; if I wanted I could talk Wilfred into firing you and giving me your job."

"Hey Ash, why do you have a water pistol behind the counter?" Tina asked as she walked around the counter to get started on her work.

Ash made up an excuse but Emma didn't hear it; instead she subtlety nodded her head to Rikki who slipped away from the group and made her way towards the back of the counter.

"It's nothing, just something between Lewis and me."

"So what are you doing here so early?" Ash asked turning his attention to Emma.

Emma, Cleo and Ash began making casual conversation as Rikki slipped behind the counter immediately spotting Ash's squirt gun. She went to pick it up when she noted it was sitting in a pool of water.

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Nice try Ash.

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Rikki made quick work of the water surrounding the gun and proceeded to evaporate the water in the gun itself and was going to let it sit but deep down inside her dark side stirred; Darth Rikki was coming to the surface. She heated the squirt gun almost to the point of melting it. Her work complete she walked back around the counter and grabbed a seat in front of the counter.

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"Hey Ash can I get something to drink?" Rikki asked.

"Sure in a minute."

"No, now. I am a paying customer, and I want service now."

"Ok, fine, what do you want?"

"You have to ask? Don't you know me by now, unless I specifically ask for something else I want a Banana Beat Box."

Ash went behind the counter and started making Rikki's drink.

"Rikki what has gotten into you, we were talking with him; can't you have a little patience."

Rikki got up from her stool and walked over to Emma, "Relax, I'm trying to get under his skin to the point he'll try to shoot me and fall right into my trap."

"What did you do?"
"You'll see just try not to pay attention to him or me; this is a perfect opportunity for him to try and get even, yeah it is only one other person but if I've pushed him enough he'll try and get me wet."

"Rikki all I wanted you to do was steal the gun."

"Oh and don't let me forget to pay you for my juice before your shift, cause I'm gonna make a huge fuss and not pay him for it, you can ring it on your shift later."

"Rikki…" Emma started to protest but was interrupted by Ash.

"Here you go, happy now?"

"No that took way to long, I refuse to pay for this drink, learn to be quicker."

Rikki turned her back to Ash and began sipping on her juice. Emma turned away as well grabbing Cleo and started to head towards the door.

Ash had grown truly and utterly annoyed with Rikki and saw an opportunity.

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Ok Rikki, you want to be like that? Let's see how you like your juice when you have to run and don't get to finish it.

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He went to grab the squirt gun he had left sitting on the counter.

"Ow." He screamed out in pain at the top of his lungs.

Emma turned around to see Ash clasping his hand in pain and realized what Rikki had done. Tina stopped what she was doing and looked at Ash, "What's wrong."

"Nothing, I'm fine." He replied staring down Rikki shooting her daggers.

"I'll see you in a couple of hours." Emma said laughing as she left the cafe followed by Cleo and Rikki.

Lewis and Zane had come out of the back room when they heard Ash scream and walked over to him as they watched the girls walking out.

"What happened?" Lewis whispered.

"Darth Rikki made an appearance."

"Oh, well maybe this will ease the pain a bit; Zane has decided to help us out. Meet me at my house when you get off work and I'll fill you in on everything."

"Don't bother, I don't know how but there on to us; Tina saw the squirt gun sitting on the counter and asked me about it, they heard that and must have known what I had in mind. I can't be sure when but at some point Rikki must have slipped back here and heated the gun. Then she provoked me into trying to get her wet and when I tried grabbed the gun I burnt my hand."

Lewis didn't take Ash's advice ad decided to pay Cleo a visit. She had work that day also. Since Ash had been alerted to their knowledge of the plan to get revenge they figured he wasn't going to try anything with Emma, so Rikki followed Cleo to work just in case Lewis was gonna try anything, a choice she was regretting.

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"I can't believe you are actually doing your homework."

"Yeah well I kinda need to start doing some of it or I'm gonna fail, plus what else am I gonna do, I'm sitting here bored out of my mind. How do you stand this job? All you do is stand there and serve ice cream to a few people here and there. Most of the time you are doing nothing."

Cleo didn't respond. She was looking at something off in the distance.

"Cleo? What's wrong with you? You're acting like you're moonstruck. I know you're not; the full moon was last week, plus it's like one in the afternoon."

"Lewis."

"What?"

"I can't be sure but I think I see him sneaking threw the bushes off in the distance."

"I can't take much more of these books so I'll go check it out."

"No if it is him I'll be able to tell soon enough. There's a stretch of path just ahead of him that makes for a nice wind tunnel; and it just so happens that the wind likes to blow pretty strong right through there; enough to literally blow somebody off their feet and into the dolphin tank. And it's close enough for me to see people's faces. If it is Lewis I get the feeling there will be one of those gusts of wind."

"How do you know he's not just coming by to visit you? Not that I care."

"He'd be on the main path and not trying to sneak around."

Cleo and Rikki kept an eye on the figure in the distance as it moved slowly towards them.

Finally Rikki became annoyed with waiting, "I'll be back, I need to take a bathroom break."

Rikki got up and walked off to the bathroom and on her return trip she made sure to glance over and see if the figure they had been watching was Lewis.

"It's him." She said upon her return.

"What?"

"I checked on my way back and it's defiantly Lewis and he has a water pistol."

Cleo took out her cell phone and began typing a text message.

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Lewis' phone beeped alerting him that he had just received a text message. He looked at the sender; Cleo. The message read: "U no u r in a wind tunnel". Lewis looked up to see Cleo and Rikki waving at him. Puzzled at what was going on, he hesitantly waved back.

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Why is Cleo waving with her left hand? She's right handed.

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I got my answer quickly when I saw her raise her right hand and felt a huge strong gust of wind blow me back right into the dolphin tank.

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Ash was right, they know we're about our plan, we're gonna have to come up with something else.

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Lewis climbed out of the water and walked down the path to Cleo and Rikki who were laughing.

"Lewis, don't even think about getting Cleo wet."

"I don't intend to." Lewis took a quick look around, "You're the one getting wet."

Lewis waved his hands at Rikki shaking the water off of them sprinkling her in the process, "Nobody is around the dolphin tank is straight ahead, have fun."

Rikki took off running and dived into the dolphin tank quickly and swam off to find a private place to get out and dry off.

"You realize she's gonna get you for that?"

"The way I see it she and I are even, but what I want to know is why you felt the need to blow me into the tank."

"Just trying to make my point clear that you and Ash are not going to do anything to try and get even, and if you so you will pay the price."

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A/N (part 2): I realize I'm taking a bit of time to get down to the main plot of the story (the challenge) but I would like to assure you that it is coming. This chapter is the last of the set-up for it; the next chapter will be when they create the challenge.

Next, just in case you can't see how Lewis could fall into the dolphin tank. If you watch the scenes where Cleo is at work you will notice that the edge of the tank is level with the ground.

Lastly the Darth Rikki thing is a name I have for her whenever she is up to no good and using her powers to create trouble or mischief (such as evaporating pool water). It is essentially Rikki's dark side coming out.