A/N: So, I actually typed a Christmas shopping chapter before I did this one. That means I have to crank out two more chapters before the 19th D:

If I work really hard, maybe I can get it all done.
Karaoke night will be NEXT chapter. This one is filled with a bunch of random crap.

"Good night, everyone!" said 3 cheerfully, skipping around 5, then 8, then 1. "What a lovely night it is!"

4 rolled her eyes. "Fascinating." She glanced around the room and wondered why something felt wrong.

Then it hit her.

"Where's 6?"

The others looked around, then shrugged.

"I haven't seen him since we woke up at 2:00 in the afternoon to play Modern Warfare 2" said 9, scratching his head.

Then our stripey friend ran out of another room. "Guys! Guess what?"

"Oh! Oh! New Zealand exploded!"

"The tax rate on video games has gone up!"

"You're dying of the Swahilian flu!"

"Somebody replied to my rant on YouTube!"

"The public knows who we are!"

"You've become psycho again!"

6 rolled his eyes. "None of the above. I learned how to palm read!"

7 cocked her head. "Off the Internet?"

6 nodded. "Amazing, the stuff you can find on there these days."

3 bounced up and down. "Do me! Do me! Do me!"

She thrust out her hand and waited in excitement.

6 traced her paw with a finger and said, "Good news; sometime in the next 30 seconds, you will get an email saying that you've won five tickets to a Linkin Park concert."

3 ran to her computer. They heard a ding and a loud cheer. "WOOHOO!"

4 said in a monotone, "The part of 3 will now be played by Homer Simpson*."

6 then proceeded to "read" 8's paw. "You will become confused and torn as two of your best friends fight each other to death for world supremacy."

8 looked at his paw with a raised eyebrow. So did everyone else.

6 shrugged. "Maybe palm reading's kind of like computers; it only works for some people."

"Eh."

"Me next!"

9 shoved his paw under 6's nose.

6 "read" his paw. "Apparently, your video game record will be beaten by a 40-year-old virgin who lives in his parent's basement."

9 frowned, and ran to check the records on his computer.

"Aww, %$#!"

7 was next. 6 ran his finger around on her paw, and then his jaw dropped in horror.

"Oh…my…crap."

"Aaah! What? What?" 7 pestered, jumping up and down.

6 scratched his head, and then explained. "According to your paw, you're going to marry * and die."

7 blinked. Then she screamed. "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!

She ran around the room, screaming like one possessed, and ran into a wall. Then she rammed her head into it, again and again, screaming "NO! NO! NO!"

Everyone looked at 6. He bit his lip. "Maybe…maybe I read it wrong. Or maybe it wasn't her right paw, or maybe…" his voice dwindled off.

7 dropped to the floor, unconscious. 4 and 3 dragged her to her bed.

8 scratched his head. "What I'm wondering is how the name got bleeped out."

There was silence for a minute, then 5 looked around. "How come no music's playing?"

3 and 4, who had returned to the room, shrugged in unison. "Maybe our iPods all ran out of charge" said 3. "I'll go check."

She went to fiddle around with the various iHomes.

"So!" 8 stood up from the chair he was sitting in. "What should we do?"

"I dunno 'bout you guys, but I'm feeling like movies" said 9 as he stood up as well. "Where's the popcorn machine?"

"In the storage room."

9 went into one of the other rooms.

The others discussed what they should see.

"I think we should watch Knowing."

"You're seen that at least 15 times, 6! We should watch Star Wars III."

"Like you haven't seen that about 50 times."

"Shut up, both of you, we should see Groundhog Day."

"Yeah, we should."

"Oh come on, all you two watch is romantic comedies. We should see Saw V."

"Ick, how can you like horror movies? We should see I Am Legend."

"Haven't we already seen that?"

"No duh, genius. I think we should watch The Matrix."

Everyone stared at 7.

"What?" she demanded.

"Well, you're awake…" 8 said uneasily. "And you're not running around, screaming your head off, and ramming your head into the wall."

7 rubbed her forehead. "Did I do that? That might explain the slight concussion and the fact that I was shouting when I woke up."

She yawned, then looked around. "Why did I do that, exactly?"

6 twiddled his thumbs and grinned sheepishly. "Well, uh…"

4 slapped her paw against his mouth. "Don't tell her, you'll start it up again."

His eyes met hers and he raised an eyebrow. She rolled her eyes and took her paw away.

6 spat out fur. "Well, I thought it was pretty funny."

4 shoved him and laughed. "Shut up."

3 suddenly fell over. Her sides were heaving with laughter, and wheezing noises came from her open mouth. Tears were streaming from her eyes, and she started rolling over.

Silently, seven dogs questioned her sanity.

When she staggered up, she said in a cheerful tone, "Don't mind me, carry on."

"Anyway, we should see The Matrix."

"No, I want to watch Saw V!"

"Shut up, both of you, we should watch Knowing!"

"No, we should watch Groundhog Day!"

"I agree."

"I don't care, we have to watch Star Wars III!"

"I haven't had a chance to talk yet, you know" said 1 irritably.

8 waved his hand like he was swatting away a fly. "That's because no one cares what you think."

"Hmmph. I want to see Doubt."

"But nobody's head gets blown off and nobody gets stabbed! How can you find that interesting?"

"It has a very intriguing storyline and interesting situations."

"Yeah, whatever."

"Hey, I've got a solution!"

Everyone looked at 5. "How about we just watch all of them?"

The others nodded. "That's good." "Yeah." "Cool."

5 clapped his hands…er, paws. "So, what should we watch first?"

That was a mistake.

"Let's watch Knowing first!"

"No, I want to see Groundhog Day first!"

"…"

3 looked at 4. "Don't you?"

4 glanced at 6. "Um, sure."

A little light went off in 3's brain. Something had come to the surface. Something that she would think gleefully about from now on. Something that she wouldn't tell 4, and something that 4 would never tell her.

Then she had a typical impulse reaction.

"HAW!! HAW! HAW! HAW! HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA…."

Her laughter faded into silence.

5 broke in. "Okay, let's just watch The Matrix first."

"WOOHOO!!" 7 cheered.

They were putting in the movie when they heard a loud noise.

POW!!

POP POP POP POP POP POP POP POP POP POP POP POP POP POP--

"*&%$!"

Then 9 came running out of the back room, clutching his head, which was now on fire, and then the popcorn spilled out of the back room.

9 looked over his shoulder for a split second and crashed into 7.

They rolled over and slammed into the twins, which in turn wiped out 5, 1, 6, and 8. All eight of them rammed into the stage as the popcorn surged toward them.

The eight dogs stared at the oncoming wall of popcorn for a split second.

Then they all screamed, "AAAAAAAAAAAAAHH!!!"

And they all dove for cover as the popcorn reared up like a tidal wave and crashed over them. The force blew them across the stage.

About 10 seconds later, 3 was the first to emerge. Her head broke the surface of popcorn and she gasped. "Finally! Air that is not tainted by fake butter and salt!"

She looked around. No one else had come out of the sea of popcorn yet, but she saw two unmoving shapes at the edge of the stage, by a curtain.

Her eyes shot open. One of them had a hood and gray fur.

"4!"

3 ran over to her sister, shoving away the unconscious body of the other dog, and shook 4. "Wake up! Wake up! Good god, you're okay, aren't you?!"

4 blinked. 3 sighed in relief. "Man, I was worried." 4 staggered to her feet. "Uggh, what happened?"

"Well, 9 was making popcorn, and the popcorn became evil and swarmed us and--"

4 rolled her eyes. "Hardy har har. I mean, what happened once it swamped us? You saved me, didn't you?"

3 cocked her head. "What? I was over there" she pointed at the other edge of the stage.

4 looked thoughtful. "Then who did? I mean, we were all blown apart. One of us must have had to run all the way from--"

There was a groaning noise. "Oog…uh?"

The sisters looked over at 4's rescuer.

He pulled himself up. "Wow, that was a doozy, wasn't it? Hah! At least we've got enough popcorn to last us for a while."

He looked around. "Yow. Where's everyone else?"

3 shrugged. "I dunno, they're probably all stuck under the popcorn still."

Then 8's head popped up. He was wearing a snorkel.

He glanced around and his eyes brightened when he saw 3, 4, and 6.

"Good, you guys are okay! Seen 7, 9, or 5 anywhere?"

4 shook her head slowly. "No…and where'd you find the snorkel?"

8 considered this. "You know…I'm not sure."

Then he dove back under the popcorn.

1 was the next to surface. He spit out popcorn and said irritably, "God, you'd think by age 17 9 would successfully know how to use a popcorn machine."

3, 4, 6, 8, and 1 began to scoop up the popcorn and put it in large bags. In about 30 minutes, they had 15 bags full of the stuff from the main room.

On the floor, 7, 9, and 5 were still unconscious. And in a pile.

5 woke first. "Whoa! That was wild. Hey, where'd all the popcorn go?"

8 jabbed a finger at the bags. "In there."

7 was next to stir. "What the--oof, 9's heavy." With the help of 3, she shoved him off and she got to her feet, brushing herself off.

9 banged his head against the stage and awoke. "Ow! Geez…that hurts…"

Everyone was glaring at him.

He raised his hands and demanded, "What?"

3 rolled her eyes. "Care to explain how we practically drowned in popcorn?"

9 thought for a moment. "Well, it started when I decided I wanted the salt to be mixed with the fake butter, instead of having to put it on separately. But as I was mixing the fake butter and the salt, I realized I had left the lid off the popcorn, and I went to put the lid on but I slipped on something and I pressed a button that started the popcorn. I tried to put the lid on, but there was too much popcorn coming out, and my elbow hit the button that poured the fake butter/salt combination on it, and then something happened that caused the buttons to explode and the popcorn kind of filled up the room, and the rest you know."

There was silence for a minute.

Then 4 did a facepalm and said in an exasperated voice, "There are so many things wrong with what you just said…"

"Well, we've got the popcorn, we've got soda, let's watch some movies" said 8, and everyone piled on the couches and the floor.

As The Matrix started, 7 was shaking and rocking back and forth on the floor. "Excited?" asked 3, rolling her eyes. "How many times have you seen this, again?"

7 thought for a moment, then pulled out a calculator and pressed in some buttons, muttering to herself under her breath. "Move over the 5, double the 4, add the 13, multiplied by 47, divide by 25, subtract the divisor…hmm hmm…divide by the cosine of 50 degrees…add 10, and…"

She looked at 3. "According to my calculations, 34,769 times."

At 3's disbelieving stare, she shrugged and said, "But I may be off, you know."

One scene moved to another. "You know, there are a lot of Alice in Wonderland references in this" 8 commented.

9 looked at him and raised an eyebrow. "And you would know this because…?"

8 said nothing.

Then the action scenes started. "Whoa!" "Cool!" "Awesome!"

And then…

"EEWWW!" "Yuck!" "Gross."

And…

"Wot?" "Huh?" "Weird…"

And…

"Dude…" "Wow." "Crazy."

And…

"Hee hee." "Heh heh snort." "Mmph!"

At that certain part, 3 cast a sly glance at her sister. Her sister was looking her direction. Their gaze met, and 4's narrowed eyes said one thing: **^$ off.

That 3 could understand. She went back to watching the TV screen.

"Holy--look at all those guns!" "Dude dude dude look at that! That's pure awesomeness!" "Ha ha! Look at that guy! He's all, 'Whut?'"

And at the climax…

"That is such a cool line. Of course, nowadays it's been overworked to the title of 'cliché'." "Yeah. Wait--OH COME ON! That guy gets hit by the subway and he doesn't die?!" "He dies later." "Yah, I know, but still."

And at the very end…

"That is so wicked awesome." "What happens next?" "You haven't seen the sequels?" "No." "Eh. They're not as good anyway."

The movie ended. 3 jumped up. "Okay, can we watch Groundhog Day now?"

8 rolled his eyes. "Fine, but we're watching Saw next."

"Agreed."

If you really, really, desperately wanted a blow-by-blow description of these guys' thoughts on the next few movies, I'm sorry to let you down.

So I'm skipping a few hours later. It is now 5:00 in the morning.

"Well, that was a good movie" said 9 with a yawn, stretching. They had just finished watching Star Wars III, and everyone was pretty much ready to go to bed.

"Time to finish level 10" said 6, getting to his feet. "You with me, 9? 8?"

8 got up as well. "Count me in!"

9 observed 6 with a mock stern look. "Now, 6, what have I told you about playing Modern Warfare 2 without me? Of course I'm playing."

…maybe not everyone.

The three teenage boys went into the bedroom. 1 got up from the couch. "Well, I won't have a chance of sleep with them and their stuff blaring past 10:00" he grunted. "Might as well hang out on the computer."

1 went into the computer room.

7 said cheerfully, "Well, I'm going to go rot my brains playing video games."

She headed for the bedroom as well, yelling "6, you better not have my controller again!"

Then it was just the twins.

A smirk spread across 3's face as she turned to face her sister. "Speaking of 6…" she began.

4 held up her hands. "I'm not going there, 3. Yes, I kind of like him. Maybe he kind of likes me. So?"

3 folded her arms. "So it means I have another target pairing, other than 9 and 7!" she said with a smug look.

4 looked at her incredulously. "Since when have you--"

"OKAY, let's not go there" said 3 loudly. "Anyway, I just want to say that whatever you want, I support you 100%."

4 smiled gratefully. "Thanks, sis."

3 leaned back and sighed contentedly. "Of course, you'll have to put up with a considerable amount of poking and prodding into your private affairs, teasing both of you, and trying to get you to say things."

4 groaned and 3 waggled her finger. "Hey, I'm your sister. 50% supportive, 50% annoying, 100% 3."

4 rolled her eyes. "I'd say more like 99.9% annoying, .1% supportive."

"Hey, now."

They dozed off on the couch and a chair as yells were heard from the other room.

"AUGH!! You just shot my head off! I'm gonna kill you, 8!"

"Uh oh, moody female alert…"

"…"

"Wrong thing to say, man."

"7, would you mind taking that fork out of my ear?"

A/N: XD

Well, that was fun.

* in the palmreading--Censored because 7 told me to. XD

*--I got this from my friend EerieQuiet's MSTing of City Slickers (my C&H fic). You like it, tell them. They made it up.

In other words, have I mentioned that I am a major supporter of 4x6 and 9x7? HUGE supporter. Hence the slight drama.

I love writing for 3. She's just this sly, clever, tricky, traitorous, funny, annoying, gossip-spreading kid in this and I love it. Her sister's a bit different, as you can see.

Oh, and I have never played Modern Warfare 2, Dragon Age Origins, Grand Theft Auto IV, or any other games mentioned in here. Mainly because I have a Wii, not an Xbox.

So who's seen the Matrix? If you haven't, you must. It is one of the best movies I've ever seen, especially for the limited effects they had when it was made. I might even write for it one of these days...

Until next time (Wednesday, hopefully), reviews are lovee,

Skye/Mija/10

NARGLES!!