Chapter 4
Otis and Olympia popped out of the tubes right in front of the Shmumbercade.
"Oona did a really good job on these suits for such a short time!" Olympia said with a smile. "She even remembered I like more room in the shoulders." She said as she rolled her shoulders.
"But she couldn't remember that I was gone for 5 years?" Otis complained under his breath.
As they approached the entrance of the arcade, they saw a bit of commotion going on inside. "I hope Mr. Lightning hasn't caused too much trouble." Olympia said as she walked up to the door.
There stood Karla, with a K. "Odd Squad! Thank goodness you're here!"
"Where's Mr. Lightning right now, mam?" Olympia asked.
"Well, he's-" Karla stopped. "Wait. Why are you guys so tall? You look like teenagers. I thought Odd Squad was only run by kids."
Otis rolled his eyes as Olympia explained, "Well, I am a kid, mam. It's kinda a long story that we really don't have time for. Can you just show us where Mr. Lightning is?"
Karla smiled. "Sure." She then stuck her hand out. "That will be one dollar."
Otis and Olympia just stood there a second in confusion. "You want us to pay you a dollar to come in and fix an odd problem?" Otis asked.
Karla smiled. "That's right! I even have to pay when I enter." She said as she pulled out a dollar and put it in her pocket.
Olympia sighed and pulled out her own dollar and gave it to Karla.
Otis, on the other hand, only had change. "Why is it when I need a dollar, I only have change?"
"You know, you can use change to make a dollar." Karla said with a smile.
"Really?" Otis asked, sarcasm all over his face.
"Yes!" Karla said. "It's actually very easy."
"I'm sixteen." Otis told her. "I know how to make a dollar with change."
Karla just smiled, and held out her hand.
Otis sighed and took four quarters. He gave them to Karla and she moved from the door. "Enjoy the arcade!"
Otis walked past Karla as Olympia waved bye to her.
When they entered, they had to duck as a rogue pterodactyl flew overhead. As they looked around the arcade, they saw multiple game characters walking around, causing chaos.
"How did Mr. Lightning do this?" Olympia asked.
"I have no idea." Otis said. "But, I think the more important question at the moment is how do we stop it?"
"How do you put video game characters back in their game?" Olympia asked.
"That is an excellent question, Odd Squad!"
Olympia and Otis turned around to find Mr. Lightning standing there.
"Mr. Lightning." Otis said.
"Why did you do this?" Olympia asked.
"Why not?" Mr. Lightning asked.
Olympia wasn't sure how to answer that.
"Because it's causing chaos." Otis said.
Olympia smiled. "Yeah, that's it."
Mr. Lightning laughed. "Good luck stopping it, Odd Squad." And with that, he disappeared into the confusion.
"Great! We lost him!" Olympia complained.
"It's all right. We need to focus on the problem now." Otis told her. He ran over to the arcade game he knew usually had the pterodactyl and checked the screen. No pterodactyl. "He must have used his power of electricity to transfer the characters from the games and into the real world."
"But how do we put them back?" Olympia asked, now by Otis's side.
Otis pulled his charge out and grabbed ten dimes. "Get me a token." He told her as he gave her the change. Olympia quickly did as she was told and returned with a token. Otis then pushed it into the machine and then hit the start button.
As soon as he did, the pterodactyl vanished from the arcade and reappeared in the game.
"That's it, Olympia!" Otis said. "We just need to start each game and the characters will go back to their games!"
After rushing around the arcade, shoving tokens into each of machines, Otis and Olympia managed to get all the characters back to their games.
Olympia smiled. "You're really smart, Otis. You could really help us if you rejoined Odd Squad."
"Too bad they don't want people like me." Otis said.
Olympia's smile disappeared. "Otis, I-"
"Let's just head back to headquarters." Otis said, cutting her off.
Olympia sighed. "Ok."