Well now Sam and Max have to sneak inot a bathhouse in order to steal Slick Jim's step watch to find out where his bootlegging operation is based
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Sam and Max Freelance Police Chapter 7
The Italian Bathhouse
We come to the next day at the Italian Bathhouse that Slick Jim frequents, it is popular with a lot of human and fictions who can afford to come here. We see Sam and Max enter the place disguised as beavers wearing plumber uniforms.
"Okay, guys, remember you're plumbers here to fix a leaky pipe." Gwen told them via a communication piece as she stayed in a secure surveillance van
"Roger that, this thing working?" Max asked tapping his fake beaver nose which was really a hidden camera.
"It's working." Gwen said nodding "I'd say we have about an hour before anyone notices this van is missing, so shake a tail."
"I can't believe we're doing this." Sam said with a sigh as they approach the front desk then asked Max "Please, just don't do your bad New York accent."
"Sam, I hear you but it's an unreasonable ask." Max said and then in a clearly fake new York accent said to the front desk worker Louie "Yo! We're here to clean the pipes, or did you forget about it?"
Louie looks at them shrugs and hits a button to allow them into the rest of the area
Max chuckles and said as they walked "Go Yank! And hot dogs, bagels and pizza!"
The two enter and walk by a pool like area of the bathhouse passing several customers who are relaxing
"Wow, I am honestly amazed that, that worked." Sam said surprised
"Me too!" Max admits to him "That accent actually got me fired from CSI: New York." He then said on the comm "Gwen, we're in."
"Good. Now keep a low profile and go find Slick Jim's locker." Gwen instructs them.
The two make there way through the bathhouse but are soon stopped by Amigard, who was in a towel and holding his axe, who said "Hey, you two!" He then motions to a nearby drinking fountain and asked "This water fountain good?"
"Uh…." Sam and Max both said looking at each other.
"Are the pipes clean to drink from?" Amigard asked to clarify what he is asking about.
"Oh, um…" Max said unsure what to say
"Hey! They're cleaner than Broadway, baby!" Sam said in a fake New York accent "I'm walking here."
"Good. Thank you." Amigard said in response to that he then goes to drink from the fountain while Gwen who saw the whole exchange sighs in relief. However the viking themed Sentai villain looked up after his drink and saw the plumbers gone leaving there bags behind "Hmmm…."
We come to Sam and Max who were moving through the rafters above where all the pipes were some areas were tight squeeze for Sam if she didn't use his toon physics to help him out.
"Nice work." Gwen said on comm "You need to stay up on near those pipes, out of sight."
"Yep! On it." Max said with a nod as they moved
They then look in on an area and see a Matoran giving a massage to a white unicorn with a blue mane and tail, red eyes and a music note cutiemark. She was Vinyl Scratch aka DJ-Pon3
"Oh, yeah! That feels great, dude." Vinyl Scratch said relaxing
"Gross!" Max said mostly due to having to see this.
"Nope, come on." Sam said and they quickly make their way through the walkway
They pass by a sauna where Homer Simpson was in their along with two Jack-O Lantern's from the Persona series
"I get the kids on the weekends, but it's not the same." One Jack-O Lantern said to the other
Sam and Max keep going and pass by a pool filled wit dollars and Mr. Krabs happily swimming in it laughing. They then come to the locker room and spot Slick Jim in a bathrobe opening his locker with Goddard standing guard by him
"Whoa. It's him" Sam said
They watch as Slick Jim takes off his step counter watch and puts it in the locker
"There it is" Max said nodding
All of a sudden, the tip of the fake beaver nose Max is wearing falls off and lands close by Slick Jim. Luckily neither villain noticed. Slick Jim closes and locks his locker and walks away getting the nose stuck in his sandal after stepping on it, the robotic dog following his master.
"Okay, not great." Sam said removing his fake nose as Max removes what was left of his.
They move down to the locker room floor and head to Slick Jim's locker
"Hey, I know you." A female voice said and they look to see Vinyl Scratch from before now wearing stylish sunglasses she had a serious look on her face
"Oh no." Sam said worried
"We're done for." Max said equally worried
"You're the Freelance Police" She said and gets a bit close; she then backs up smiling and said excited "I am such a huge fan of yours!"
"Oh, cool." Sam said sighing in relief. Looks like this unicorn was a fan of theirs but still a bit of a problem
Meanwhile Slick Jim and Goddard keep walking through the bathhouse, the suvallance nose gets unstuck from Jim's sandal leaving it by a hot tub both Boomtower and Amigard were sharing.
After a short silence Boomtower asked chuckling "Don't you just hate awkward silences?"
"Well, to be honest, it wasn't awkward until you said that Boomtower, and now it is, so great job." Amigard said as he picks up the suvallance nose and looks at it.
"I guess that's true." Boomtower said in response
Gwen who sees where the camera is now said in a low voice "Guys, come on!"
Back with Sam and Max, Vinyl got her phone out and got a song titled Saturday Mornings Decimator it began to play a tune that has a DJ beat to it
"You recognize this?" Vinyl asked them both "Yes wait for it?"
Max chuckles "No way, is that a remix of the Saturday Morning Lineup theme? You made this?"
"You are knowing it my rabbit brother!" Vinyl said happy to impress people she was a fan of. "Now can you do a rap on it? Right?"
"Uh oh, I don't know!" Sam said disturbed by that "Give me one second with Max here, pony." He then turns away with Max and said to him "First of, stop encouraging this unicorn."
"Totally." Max said nodding
"Second, we are not rapping" Sam states firmly
"Right." Max said to that
"There is nothing more pathetic than an old cartoon character trying to seem cool again by rapping!" Sam vents out
"Sam, I hear you, but I don't think we have much of a choice!" Max told him
"Oh there is a choice" Sam said nodding "When it comes to rapping, there's always a choice."
"Actually, can you just hold that thought for one second?" Max asked him and then said excited "Here I go!"
"Oh geez!" Sam said realizing what was going to happen
Max then moves out pulls out a spanner from his belt and begins to rap or try to
Max: My name is Max….Uh…
I'm about to kick it
"Oh no…" Max said struggling to think of rhymes for the rap
"And I'm in hell…and not the one usually depicted in Saturday cartoons" Sam groans facepalming
"Oh, wow, so cool. Hold on, I need to film this!" Vinyl said excited as she works to get her phone to go to camera to record it
"I'll distract her. You get the step tracker." Max whispered to Sam
"It won't work. It's too risky." Sam whispered to him
"Well, the biggest risk is not taking any risk at all. Uh!" Max said and goes back down to continue his rap singing
My name is Max; I don't eat yaks
Why would you say, I eat yaks
I don't eat yaks
Max chuckles and said "Once you rhyme Max with yaks, you can't think of anything else"
"Just unicorn magic blast him! Make it stop!" Sam complained as he moves to Slick Jim's locker
Not me, no, I would just eat the beef
"Hmmm…" Sam said looking at the code lock
We come back to Amigard who, upon finding the fake nose seemed to get an odd feeling and was searching the area for anything suspicious especially with the odd looking beaver plumbers
He looks into the massage room but only sees the Matoran from earlier tidying up. Amigard seeing nothing unusual continues searching.
Back in the locker room, Max keeps on doing his best at rapping
Max: I would never in a million years
Eat yaks
First of all they're hairy
Sam meanwhile looking at the locker code and sniffs it, it smealed familiar
So, you gotta take care of the yaks
Don't want PETA on your tail
"Chocoballs. And where there's chocolate, there's chocolate stains" Sam said and pulls out a match and lights it.
But it I don't eat yaks
It won't get the axe
He was able to see the code buttons clearer from the dark and sees for coated in chocolate stains
"Aha!" Sam said and began to input the code with the numbers
"Oh man, I'm killing this!" Max laughed having fun
"And what are you doing?" Vinyl asked Sam suddenly behind him
"Oh, I was just, uh…" Sam said surprised and worried
"Hey-ho Sam! Take the mic!" Max called out and threw Sam the spanner and Sam catches it
"Uh…" Sam said conflicted and then whispered to himself "For Garfield." He then begins to rap
Sam: Well, my name is Sam, I'm not a yak
"And now I'm doing it great" Sam said hating himself for this as he moves away from the locker to distract Vinyal as Max goes to get the step tracker
A zubi-zong, zubi, zubi, zubi, dong, dong
Max opens Slick Jim's locker and grabs the step tracker "Yoink" He said
Zubi, dong, dong, dong
Max then came and joined in with Sam
Max: Cause he's Sam
Sam: He's Max
Max: And we'll never fail!
Both: Cause neither of us
Will ever eat yaks
Max: No, never
Sam: Ever
Max: Never
Sam: Ever
Both: Eat yaks
With that the song ends
"Okay, what?" Sam said surprised and amazed "How did you know what I was going to say?"
"How did you know what I was going to say?" Max asked equally surprised "It was like…"
"Professional" They both said at the same time and both gasped "Same time!" They gasped again "Jinx! You owe me a non-brand specific latte! What? That was crazy!"
They both gasp again and said at the same time "Somebody all Guinness book! This is…"
"…incredible!" Sam said
"…blowing my mind!" Max said and Sam groans as he added "We lost it."
"Boom, boom, It's DJ-Pon3 with the Saturday Morning remix!" Vinyl said happily to her phone recording
"Hey, this was really fun, but we actually got to get going!" Sam said to the unicorn as they move to leave
Once gone Vinyl sighs and said "Ooh, they were very bad at rapping." She then sees Amigard walking in and said "Oh, hey Amigard! You are never going to believe who I just met."
Amigard looks at the unicorn curious
We come to Sam and Max who make it back to the van Gwen was in and Gwen drives them from the bathhouse
"Oh, man Gwen, you should have seen us!" Max said happily "That was incredible!"
"Right?" Sam said happily as well
"We were just like real detectives!" Max said to Gwen and then to Sam "and that match trick you did to see the chocolate stains? Genius!"
"Yeah, but your bad rapping was the perfect distraction little buddy" Sam said nodding "So good!"
"Thanks, I totally thought we were busted." Max admits and added "But then you just fully went for it!"
"And then I rapped. What a rush!" Sam said smiling but embarrassed
Max laughs "You were crazy!"
"Okay, we are all set here." Gwen said finishing setting something up as she drove and hands a usb cable "Just plug that step tracker into the computer."
"On it!" Max said nodding and does so
Once plugged in the computer syncs up Slick Jim's tracking data and moves them to where the location was
"Oh, San Pedro's docks! Yes, we got him!" Max said excited
"I can't believe it" Sam said in amazement "We might actually get Garfield back."
"We're gonna be heroes" Max said
"I got to thank you for making me do this." Sam admits to Max "I mean, this feels…I feel…good."
"Me too!" Max said in agreement "We were always better together"
Suddenly Gwen's police radio becomes active, and a male voice said "Location confirmed. We're sending SWAT now by chopper. Meet us there"
The group all smile, and Gwen gets on the radio and said "Yes, sir."
The case may finally be over, all the group has to do now is hope to find everything on the missing fictions and info on all of Slick Jim's operation.
Seems like this case is nearing it's wrap up, but is it truly or will it be too late.
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