Ch. 3: So Busted
Stacey walks past all the creatures, thinking it is just another sci-fi geek club. As she goes to find a spot to sit in, she sees two gargoyles giving a toast, an ogre arm wrestling a Minotaur, and the WereJackals playing pool. Jacko finishes hitting the 8-ball when he sees Stacey walking by.
"Wow! She's pretty," he says to himself.
"O'Connell would definitely fit in here," she snickered.
Meanwhile, Tso Lan, Colleen and Chrissie stopped by at Section 13. They are coming in from the elevator when they overhear Drago and Ice's bragging with Hsi Wu and Cody.
"Man, Dudes," Ice said, "Stacey has gotta be scared to the max by now!"
"I still can't believe she actually went along with that dare," Drago chuckles.
"What dare?" Colleen asks suspiciously.
"Yeah, Boys," Chrissie sided, "What did you put Stacey through?"
The girls leer at the boys making them nervous, especially Hsi Wu, who just fessed up.
"Drago, Ice, Cody got fed with Stacey and called her high maintenance, so they betted that she can't last twenty-four hours in someplace called the Tenderloins!" he said superfast out of fear.
"YOU WHAT!?" Chrissie and Colleen shouted.
"Ice's idea," Drago said as he pointed his finger to him.
"How could you guys do that to her?!" Colleen yelled.
"What's so awful about a place that has steaks?" Tso Lan asks with his brow raised.
"The Tenderloins is no steak restaurant, Tso Lan," Colleen explains, "It's the seediest urban area of San Francisco. A lot of gang activity and crime goes on there, and these three sent her there to make her prove a point."
"Drago, how could you and the boys do such a thing?!" Tso Lan angrily asks.
"She was torturing Maria again!" Ice excused himself.
"That doesn't mean she deserves to be alone in a dangerous part of town!" Colleen lectured, "She is walking out there with a bulls-eye on her back all because you boys think she is too spoiled for the world. We gotta get over there and get her, bet or no bet."
"No way! I prove my sis right, and I'll be rubbing her troll feet."
"If you don't, you mother will be making you extinct."
"Besides, Ice, she is no longer high maintenance because your mom cut her allowance. She has to work for Rose and Sara to earn money."
Ice snickered at hearing this until Chrissie and Colleen gave him dirty looks.
"Let's hurry before something happens to her," Tso Lan said, "Afterwards, I think we should report your actions to your parents."
The boys moan, knowing they will be in big trouble after this is over.