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"STEP RIGHT UP FOLKS! DON'T MISS UP ON SHOWING YOUR TOUGHNESS BY WRESTLING WITH A LIVE BEAR! AT ED'S BEAR WRESTLING!" Shouting out in his natural loud voice, Eddy stood behind a stand with the jumbled up name above him and the crayon drawn picture of a snarling brown bear below.
Behind him, Double Dee in a zookeeper's outfit stood beside a pen made out of string, wire, and whatever junk they found to hold it up. Inside the pen; Ed in a custom made bear costume, walked around snarling and growling just like a real bear, with a jar of honey in his arms.
They have set up their scam right across the street from a Food and Fuel. The perfect location; as a Food and Fuel will draw in customers, which in turn will bring in the suckers to them. It's absolutely the greatest scam Eddy has ever came up with. Who in the world would pass up on an opportunity to wrestle a bear? He is definitely going to be rich by the end of the day.
Double Dee on the other hand has his extreme doubts as there is no way anyone is going to fall for this scheme. "Eddy. I'm afraid this is going to be a bust."
"You kidding? This one is foolproof."
"People are clearly going to tell that this is just someone in a bear costume. You can see the buttons for the eyes." He doesn't even need to mention the very visible zipper on the back.
Suddenly catching movement by the corner of his eyes. Double Dee jumped back as Ed pressed himself against the pen wall, slashing his fake paws with all sorts of snarls and growls.
The moment causes Eddy to let out a loud laugh. "That a boy Ed! Let out your inner beast!"
"I am Luco! Snarling bear of the underworld!" Releasing more snarling sounds, he goes back to the middle of the pen, slashing at the air.
"Keep going monobrow! It's sure going to draw in some suckers!"
"Should I even mention that bears can't talk." Double Dee remarked in deadpanned as he got back into his position, a bit away from the pen this time.
From across the street, watching those three stooges from inside his store. Flip can only shake his head in amusement for that young con-artist sure has a lot to learn on the art of swindling.
If he wanted to make a successful fake bear wrestling scam. He shouldn't use his friend, what he needed to do is dress up a large dog as a bear for that's what he did.
But yet those three may make some profit yet; for here comes two of Lincoln's friends now.
This should be some good entertainment.
"Wrestle a bear for only twenty five cents?" Rusty stated in perplex.
"Boy howdy! That sure is a good deal." Liam exclaimed, although the bear looked a bit weird for it had its head inside the honey pot just like Winnie The Pooh.
"That's right folks!" Raising his body above the stand. Eddy made the two step back a bit for he is right near their faces. "With just the affordable price of only a quarter! You can prove your manliness by wrestling against the vicious bear!"
Turning to Rusty, Eddy leaned in more forward with his money jar eagerly held out. "How about you freckles? You look tough."
Perking up from the compliment, Rusty automatically flexed his "muscles" and grinned brightly. "Thanks man. I am quite manly, if I may say so myself."
"So you up for it or what? Can't have you hogging up the line." Eddy can feel the hook in this fish now. He can just smell the sweet, sweet moolah.
"You know what. I am up for it." Reaching into his pocket, Rusty pulls out a couple of quarters and places them into the awaiting jar. Taking the jar back, Eddy presses his face against the glass, snickering in excitement and love for the money.
"Come Liam. I'll show you how to wrestle a bear."
"I'll get the first aid kit ready." This wasn't some good old fashioned pig wrestling, not that Rusty ever tried it. This was something that is going to very well hurt him more than the bear.
Walking up to the awaiting pen, Zookeeper Double Dee hands Rusty a helmet. "Here you go. As a safety precaution, you need to wear this head protection when your facing off against our bear."
"No need man. I got all the protection right here." Flexing his "muscles," Rusty climbs into the pen with the great confidence that he's going to win this wrestling match.
"Oh dear. I do hope that Ed doesn't get too rough with him." His wild imagination can be very troublesome.
"Don't worry, sock wearing zookeeper. I know just how to care for injuries after a animal wrestling match." Liam reassured, which didn't exactly dwell down Double Dee's worries.
"I'm afraid this may require more than a few bandaids."
Approaching Ed with a manly stride, Rusty raised his hands up to his mouth to address him. "Alright bear. Prepare for the full might of the Rustman."
Taking the honey pot off his head with a pop. Ed turns to face the newcomer with raised up arms and let's out a loud snarl that did intimate Rusty for a bit before he put back on his brave face.
"Hit me with your best shot. The Rustman is ready."
Before he could even blink. Ed was on him in a flash, completely engulfing him in a fight cloud with their feet and hands coming out and in. Both wincing from the sidelines; Double Dee and Liam could barely watch as Rusty's painful cries and ouches called out from the cloud.
Finally the fight cloud ended, showing Ed standing victoriously above the beaten Rusty, who groaned in pain from the overall match.
"Looks like the bear's the big winner!" Eddy announced as he walked on up to him. "If you want. I can set him up for a rematch?"
"No. I'm good." Rusty groaned as he slowly got back up and swayed a bit from the overall dizziness.
"Then thank you for trying out Ed's Bear Wrestling." The scam worked perfectly, he has his money and more will be on the way, if this good luck keeps up.
Walking slowly past Eddy. Rusty gets out of the pen before then falling right on his face with a groan. "Oh man. That bear's tough."
"You need the first aid?" Liam asked.
"No thanks. I just need to lay on the nice, soft ground." He answered before letting out some more groans.
"Hey. What's going on here?"
Perking up in excitement over some more suckers to do business with. Eddy rushes back to the stand, where he is met with Lincoln and the rest of the gang. "Welcome to Ed's Bear Wrestling! Take on a ferocious bear for the affordable price of only twenty five cents."
"Bear wrestling?" Clyde repeated.
"That's right pal. How about you step on into the ring and show your friends on how tough you are." Once he goes in, the others will follow.
"No thanks." Clyde declined as he definitely didn't want to end up on the ground like poor Rusty over there.
"Besides. Isn't that just a guy in a suit?" Stella pointed out.
"No. It's a genuine bear. Can't you see how real he is?" Eddy quickly defended.
"I can see the zipper." Lincoln blankly stated.
"One of his button eyes is also dangling." Zach added in.
"Those are just added in features." Eddy quickly lied with a bit of sweat coming down his head and a nervous smile across his face.
"Hey Eddy." Pulling off the mask, Ed happily smiled to his friend, who widen his eyes in panic. "You want some honey?"
"Ed! Put that mask back on right now!" He ordered with anger before turning back to the group with a nervous chuckle. "He ate a kid. That's how vicious he is."
Unimpressed, they all looked at him blankly with a mix of hands on their hips and slow blinks. Rusty on the other hand is utterly outraged that he had been scammed into fighting a fake bear. He's so outrage, he went on up to the stand and slammed both of his hands down on it. "You tricked me! I demand a refund!"
"What do you think this is? A bank? No refunds." Eddy's not giving up this money that easily. It's rightfully his.
"Come on man. It's the right thing to do." Clyde insisted.
"Tough toenails! The money's mine!"
"Eddy. It's only fair that you give him a refund." Double Dee interjected before Eddy grabbed his hat and pulled it right down to his feet.
"Stay out of this sockhead!"
"Come on. Just give Rusty back his money." Lincoln remarked for this kid sure was being greedy, he would make a pretty good young Flip.
"Buzz off! Snow Hair!" Sticking out his tongue, Eddy held his money jar against his chest and well away from them.
"Hey! I have you know that around here. I'm the man with the plan."
"That's going to change. For the only man with the plan around here is me." Eddy happily proclaimed with one finger pointing proudly to his chest.
Now this tension was beginning to go into a stalemate between them and Eddy. Lincoln and his friends weren't known for fighting with other kids, the only kids that Lincoln has ever really fought with were when he and his sisters get into a fight cloud. But they needed to get that money back somehow, and if you couldn't do it with your fists. The much better way for him was through a scheme.
A sneaky scheme that he had just came up with. "Hey Clyde."
"Yeah Lincoln?"
"I notice that your glasses are reflecting a bit of the sun."
Realizing on what Lincoln was getting at. Clyde removes his glasses and casts the sun's light directly into Eddy's eyes.
Being suddenly blinded. Eddy let's go of the jar to shield his eyes, allowing Stella to grab it and take out Rusty's money. "Got it!"
"Quick! Let's get out of here!" Zach urgently stated.
Taking off down the street. The gang leaves Eddy in the dust as he shouts after them. "Hey! Give me back my money!"
Not listening to him, they continued running; until they were out of his sight.
Feeling his face turn red, Eddy releases a growl as how do you like that! You give people what they want, and they take away your money at the end. If his brother was here, they wouldn't get away with this.
"Did you guys see that? They took my money!"
Getting his hat right back into place with a bit of a neat adjustment. Double Dee addresses his friend with crossed arms and a serious tone. "They deserved a rightful refund Eddy. You have to admit that Ed was a bit too rough on that young fellow."
"Luco is undefeated!" Ed happily announced with a handful of hunny being taken out of the pot.
"Oh no! I earned that money fair and square! They think that they can just take it!? I don't think so!" He'll show them on what happens, when you mess with this brain power. He'll have his revenge.
"Oh dear. Ed; I'm afraid that Eddy is once again dragging us into another misadventure. I fear we're going to experience the exact kind of failure that fate has always conspired against us." Double Dee can already see them ending up in some kind of nutty predicament.
Having somehow change back into his regular outfit in that short amount of time. Ed silently blinked to Double Dee with regard before smiling brightly. "Was I a good bear Double Dee?"
"Enough goofing around! We gotta get my money back!" Eddy ordered.
"And pray tell. Do you have a plan for this Eddy?" Double Dee rhetorically asked.
"No! But I'll come up with one! As unlike snow hair! I'm the true man with the plan." Eddy laughed.
"And don't he forget it!" Ed added.
Abandoning the scam for this a much more greater importance. The Eds head off in the hopes on cutting off Lincoln and his friends, if they do. Eddy will have to think up of a new scam on the spot just to get his money back.
As for the scam itself. Flip wasted no time on coming over to collect both the stand and the pen for he might be using this stuff sometime in the future. Maybe he can get a mechanical bull to encourage new customers to come on down to the Food and Fuel.
But if he has one thing that he would like to say to those boys. It's that they have a lot to learn about before they can become as successful as him.
"Aw man! I can't believe that I got tricked like that." Wincing in pain from the fight, Rusty found it very hard to ignore that he was completely showed up by some random kid, who seems to be freakishly strong, due to how much he owned him in that fixed match.
"At least you got your money back." Clyde kindly pointed out, so not all was lost.
"Thank Lincoln for that trick with Clyde's glasses. That kid definitely had the sun in his eyes." Zach laughed.
"Sure was a loud fellow though. I taken he can be louder than the chicken coop." Liam stated.
"Something tells me that we have another Flip around here." Stella couldn't believe it, if she didn't see it herself. This was just absolutely perfect; as one con-artist in town was already hard enough. Sure there was Scoots to consider, but she has mostly retired from swindling, or more accurately; doesn't feel like it, unless she was in the mood.
"This still stinks. Not only did I get my butt completely handed to me. My whole body hurts." Cracking his back, Rusty winces as that did not feel good.
"Maybe a trip to Gus's will make you feel better." Lincoln happily suggested for if there is one way to make a guy happy. It's a room full of games and a large pizza to feast on.
Thinking it over, Rusty could use a good pizza to dwell down his aching body. "Yeah. That can work."
"Well then, what are we waiting for?" Rushing ahead. The group of friends hurried on their way towards Gus's Games and Grub. When they arrived, they found four other kids there, looking up at the sign with one tall one with blue hair, looking most confused.
"Rolf doesn't understand this tomfoolery. Why are all these boys and girls flocking around those doohickeys like it's the annual beauty pageant?" Being from the old country, Rolf has never seen such a thing.
"It's an arcade dude." Nazz gently answered.
"Aw choice! I always wanted to play one of those racing games." Being from Peach Creek, Kevin never really gotten the chance to go to an arcade. It completely sucks; as he always wanted to play either one of those shooters or as he had said earlier; the racing games.
"Plank wonders; if they have whack-a-mole?" Johnny pondered.
"Uh. Is that guy talking to a piece of wood?" Zach whispered as they all slowly head for the door.
"And I thought that Luan was a bit too talkative to her puppet." Of course for Luan, she was talking to a puppet, unlike this kid talking to the wooden plank with the drawn up eyes and mouth. But who was Lincoln to judge.
Grabbing ahold of the door, Lincoln is about to head on in, when he is suddenly pushed aside by Chandler. "Out of the way Lincoln Lame! Important customer coming through."
"Ha! Good one!" Kevin called out. He should use that when he's dealing with those dorks later.
"Thanks man." It's about time someone agrees on his favorite nickname for this loser. This kid totally gets it.
"Rolf is confused on why this boy has hair, who's as white as Victor's fur." Rolf had never seen such a hair color on a kid. The respected color is usually reserved for the wise elders.
"It's because he's nothing more than an old man." Chandler answered with a nasty smirk directly aimed at Lincoln, who can only glare back at him in annoyance.
"Plank wonders; if we should give him a walker?" Johnny asked before going into a fit of laughter with Kevin, Rolf, and Chandler. The only one not laughing was Nazz; as she can see on how annoyed the poor boy was getting. It was time to shut this down.
"Lay off guys."
"What? It's just simple fun." Chandler defended himself. Why was she getting so worked up?
"It's not fun. Your just being immature jerks. I mean; where do you get off on treating him like this!" She demanded for this was totally uncool.
Being a bit taken back for being suddenly called out like that; as no one has ever stood up to him before when he was teasing Lincoln Lame. He doesn't like it in the slightest; as it wasn't such a big deal, she was just overreacting and a great buzz kill. So with a rude huff, he goes into the building. "Whatever."
Shortly after he left, Kevin right along with Johnny and Rolf could sense the annoyed ire around Nazz. It was in their best interests to head inside themselves or else they'll get a good scolding from her. Leaving her and Lincoln's group to themselves, Nazz takes a deep breath to calm herself down for a positive emotion is in order for this group of dudes.
"Sorry about that. My friends can be just a bit immature."
"That's okay. I'm used to remarks from Chandler." They may get under his skin at times, especially when he pops out from nowhere and be a complete jerk, but Lincoln knew that ignoring his taunts was the best way on dealing with it, even if it gets a bit too much.
"He's a real jerk, isn't he?" Nazz asked.
"You bet he is." Zach confirmed. "It's very hard to believe that he was once the most popular kid back in elementary school."
"That's mostly because he invited people to the sewage plant for his birthday parties." Rusty added, it was most unfair on how he was never invited to any of those parties. Doesn't Chandler know that he has sweet dance moves.
"That's gross." Who on earth would want to have a party in a sewage plant? Nazz could vomit by just picturing both the smell and sewage water.
"Yeah. I never really understood that." Stella agreed. She swears that she had been the only one in the entire school, who didn't find a party being held in a place where sewer water goes to, being the best place to throw one.
The only reason why that they stopped being held there was simply because of the health inspector issuing it as a major safety hazard for any non-employee.
Now without having a cool place to hold his birthday parties at. Chandler had lost his reputation of being the coolest kid in the school. Leaving him as the jerk, Stella and the others know and tolerate that tries to regain his once cool kid status with the use of teasing and practical jokes.
Unfortunately most of these pranks fall under Lincoln's expense, and although as mentioned before, he aims to ignore them. There are sometimes where he deeply considered on having Luan help him set up a prank to get back at him, or have Chandler come and visit the house on April Fools day, although that may be a bit too cruel, even for Chandler.
"Anyway. My name's Nazz, and the others are Kevin, Rolf, Johnny and Plank."
"I'm Stella and these are my friends: Rusty, Zach, Liam, Lincoln, and Clyde."
"Please to meet you. If you're looking for someone to hang around with and show you the ropes around town. The Rustman's got your back." Posing himself in a cool pose, Rusty cocks his eyebrows up in hopes of her accepting his invitation.
His hopes are sadly shot down, when she laughs at him in amusement. "I think I'm good, dude."
Laughing some more, Nazz heads on inside, leaving Rusty down in the dumps. "This just isn't my day."
"Don't worry. That pizza will for sure cheer you up." Liam said as they all entered Gus's.
Walking over to their usual booth, they catch sight of Nazz cheering for Kevin as he played a racing game, while Rolf wondered on how to play a virtual reality game, and Johnny was cheering for Plank on Dance, Dance Revolution. "That's right Plank! Boogie down!"
This received several stares from people, who couldn't understand on why this kid was cheering for a hunk of wood.
"Boy. They're sure a lively bunch aren't they." Zach exclaimed.
"I don't know about that kid with the hunk of wood. He seems a bit shifty."
"Come on Rusty. He may seem a bit odd, but he looks to be a nice enough guy." Clyde remarked.
"I don't know. Anyone who talks to a piece of wood has to be hiding something." Narrowing his eyes in suspicion, he bets that kid would have a secret lair somewhere.
"Um Rusty. My sister talks to a piece of wood." Lincoln reminded with deadpanned eyes.
"I mean; anyone treating it as if it was alive would be hiding something." Rusty quickly retorted.
"Nice save." Liam commented.
It wasn't for Lincoln though as Luan also treats Mr. Coconuts as if he was alive, which given some circumstances, he; as well as the rest of his family, fully believed that he was fully alive. Before he can say that fact to Rusty, Gus approached them with his usual greeting smile.
"Hey guys. I see that we have some new faces around here today."
"Yeah. I think they're from that new Cul-de-sac in the park." Stella remarked.
"Really?" Rubbing his chin in regard, Gus has to admit that he has never had anyone from unexplained origins in his business before. From what he can tell; they weren't any different from any other kid that comes here. Although the kid in the sandals, talking to a piece of wood is a bit weird.
Regardless; all that matters is that they were having fun and that he should really be attending to his regular customers. "So; I taken you guys want your usual."
"Sure do Gus." Lincoln happily replied.
"Coming right up." Heading for the kitchen to begin their pizza. Lincoln and the group were going to be sitting here and talk a bit as they wait, then after they eat. They'll go play some games and get some neat prizes.
Having built a pretty neat sandcastle with decorative rocks on the top. Sarah and Jimmy giggled with each other as they carefully patted down the newest tower of their castle.
Jimmy had to admit that by playing in the sandbox with Sarah, it did take his mind off their strange predicament; as all he can think of now is creating the most prettiest sand castle that this park has ever seen, and with the help of this pretty blue rock he had found, it'll make it even more prettier.
"Alright Jimmy. The tower's strong enough to put your rock on it." Sarah couldn't wait to see the end result of their build. Neither can Jimmy; as he clapped his hands together.
"Oh goodie Sarah." Picking up the rock. Jimmy goes to carefully place it down, when pile of mud suddenly hits him in the back of the head. Pushing him right into their castle, ruining all of their hard work in a nanosecond. "Whoa is me." He groaned.
"Are you alright Jimmy?" Sarah worriedly asked as she helped her friend back up.
"Our castle is destroyed Sarah." Jimmy sadly replied.
The combination of both the destroyed castle and her sadden friend is all what Sarah needed to look back with a fierce glare. Whoever had done this to Jimmy? Is going to be taught a very painful lesson. She just dodges an incoming mud splatter, when her fiery eyes fully locked onto Lana happily swimming around in a mud puddle.
Growling; Sarah stomped her way on over to the young tomboy, stopping right at the edge of the mud puddle just as Lana came out of the mud. "Hey!"
Looking over in surprise, Lana is quick to happily greet the new kid with a wave of her muddy hand. "Hi there. You wanna join me in a refreshing mud swim?"
"No stupid! You just destroyed mine and Jimmy's sand castle!" Pointing back over to the destroyed castle with Jimmy sadly looking at it, Sarah saw the perplexed look on her face.
"Sorry about that. I get a bit carried away when it comes to my weekly mud swims. I can help fix it, if you want?" It's very lucky for them that she's a great sandcastle builder.
"No way! You'll just mess it up further idiot! Get out of here and let us enjoy our time in the sandbox!" Sarah ordered.
"No way! Who made you queen of the playground?" Lana Loud will not fallow that order, especially when someone just rudely insulted her like that.
Not used to having anyone defy her. Sarah's temper grew more hotter as her fists shook in rage, ready to beat up this dirty girl. "Get out! Now!"
Receiving a pile of mud striking her in the face as a response. Sarah slowly removes it from her eyes and let out hot steam from her ears; as the tomboy snickered at her.
That was it. Breaking her boiling point. She rushed on into the mud with a red hot face, grabbed the surprise tomboy by the collar and prepared to punch her teeth out. All Lana can do is shut her eyes in anticipation for the incoming pain, when her savior's voice cut through the air.
"Hey! Frog lips!"
Turning around with a feline growl emitting out. Sarah locked eyes with an equal angry Lola, who had heard the commotion from her tea party at the nearby hill, right along with the six sense that her twin was in trouble. Came down quickly to her sister's immediate aid; as she stood near the edge of the mud puddle with hands on her hips, with a hard glare that absolutely dared Sarah to do something to her twin sister.
"Let go of my twin!"
"Buzz off gap teeth!" Sarah retorted.
"Oh! You did not just insult me! You complete philistine!"
Letting go of Lana, Sarah fully turns to face her with even more anger. "What you say?!"
"Not surprised that you can't hear me! Those ugly earrings are a complete eyesore!" They were just so tacky.
That was it. No one gets smart with her and gets away with it. Releasing a loud shout! Sarah rushed in and pushed Lola with full force, knocking her down a couple feet away from her.
Momentarily dazed from the unexpected hard shove. Lola recovers and took a glance down with a horrified gasp as her dress was not only stained with mud, but a little rip is on the bottom. "My dress!"
Releasing her own roar of rage. Lola is quick to get back up and rush in on Sarah, delivering a series of punches, before outright kicking her into the middle of the mud puddle.
Having been momentarily stunned by the fact that Lola had actually fought back enough to send her flying. Sarah's anger retook itself; as she got back up with fire basically burning through her hair.
It's the same for Lola; although instead, there seemed to be a wall of fire behind her.
Releasing their own individual battle cries. The girls rushed in on each other, engaging themselves in a massive fight cloud, while on the sidelines, their sister or friend cheered them on.
"Kick her right in the shins Sarah." Punching his hands in the air, Jimmy hoped that Sarah is going to give her the good old; one, two.
"Watch for that big mouth sis! I think she's a biter!" Lana called out. Now in her opinion; her twin has this in the bag as not only does Lola have experience with fighting against her or one of their other siblings. She also recently participated in the karate pageant, which guarantees a straight win against that fiery tempered girl.
A sudden crunch is then heard from within the cloud, fallowed by a loud yelp as Lola bit down on Sarah's hand. Grabbing her hair in retaliation, Sarah forces her to let go and slams her to the ground, only to then get grabbed by the shirt and got pulled down with her.
What happened next was them rolling around on the ground as they both try to pin one another.
"Man. That pizza always gets me stuffed." Patting his belly, Rusty let's out a satisfied sigh for Gus just always knows on how to make a good pizza. Something which the others can full hardly agree on, and now that they were finally done with their pizza. They can have some fun on the games.
"So, who's up for Dance, Dance Revolution?" Zach asked.
"I'm afraid it's already taken Zach." Stella pointed out as currently on it, Rolf was doing a dance from the old country.
"Rolf was born to be wild."
"Go Rolf! Go!" Kevin egged on from the sidelines.
Nearby; Nazz played some wack a mole, while Johnny had somehow gotten his head stuck in the slot where prizes would come out of the claw machine.
"I told you that this would happen mister. You just had to try and cheat." He scolded Plank, who's inside the claw machine, leaning back against a couple of stuffed animals.
"How on Earth did he get that wood in there?" Clyde pondered as he didn't think that guy could even throw it in there.
"Beats me. But come on; let's go play some games." Walking past Johnny, Lincoln settles with the airplane racing game with Clyde as his opponent.
Taking Lincoln's lead. The rest of the group got onto the other games from Rusty and Zach settling themselves on a fighting game, Liam trying his luck on a ring tossing game, and Stella deciding to try out that new dinosaur escape game.
Having a fun blast. Everyone in the building: laughed, cheered, or celebrated themselves whenever they won a game or reached a brand new high score. Everything was simply the way it always been; that was until the door got slammed open and the Kanker sisters stepped in, bringing in a cold breeze by their mere presence.
While most didn't notice, due to their occupations with the games. Those closest to the door certainly felt that cold breeze as they turned to regard the newcomers, who were inspecting the place.
"Well look at this girls. This looks like a perfect spot to have fun in. Don't you agree?" Lee stated with a devious smile.
"Sure does Lee. Just look at all these what's their faces with their money all ready to be hand out to us." Marie agreed.
"Oh look pizza!" Walking up to the closest booth, May takes no heed to the group of boys as she took ahold of their pizza and ate it all up. Releasing a loud burp in their faces, the boys almost fainted from the smell of her bad breath.
"Hey. Check this out girls." Heading over to a shooter game, Lee shoves two kids out of the way as she took control of the gun and blasted an approaching alien. "Heh. He's deader than a doorknob."
Shooting more of the invaders. Her two sisters went ahead and hijacked some games as well. Completely ignoring the complaining kids that they had pushed out of the way, the two have their fun on the games that they didn't need to spend any tokens on.
Watching them with uneasiness. Kevin, Nazz, and Rolf all knew that it was time for them to get out of here for Kankers mean trouble, mainly in the painful category. "Aw man. This bites."
"Rolf knows your annoyance Kevin. Rolf was; what you say, being very funky."
"Come on. Let's get Johnny before they notice us." Nazz urged.
"Right. Rolf will retrieve Johnny the wood boy." Going on up to Johnny, Rolf effortlessly pulls him out of the slot. "Come. We must flee before the witches of badness befall us."
"Not without Plank." Clinging himself to the claw machine, if there was one guarantee, it's that Johnny wouldn't leave his good buddy behind.
Sighing to himself; Rolf shakes the machine until Plank came on out and into the safety of Johnny's awaiting arms. "You okay buddy?"
"Enough chat. Let's move already." Kevin ordered with a slight push to get Johnny moving.
Taking a steady approach, they sneak around their line of sight and managed to get safely out of Gus's.
It was for the best. As the Kankers made darn sure to have their fun by either shoving or pushing anyone out of the way to play the games, which unfortunately included Lincoln and Clyde, who both suddenly found themselves in the ice tray, after Lee picked them up and casually tossed them away.
Shivering from the cold feeling of ice through the rears of their pants. The two jump out of the tray and shook themselves in a series of bounces to ease up on the cold. But while that was happening, the forming group of kids are all complaining about their games being hijacked, which gains enough attention for Gus to come out and see on what the problem was.
"Hey. What's going on here?"
"Those girls have been kicking us off of the games we've been playing." Girl Jordan answered.
"And one of them ate our pizza." One of the boys from the booth added in.
Gus certainly couldn't have this level of misbehavior in his place. Marching on up to the three girls, who were currently trash talking each other on the airplane racing game. He releases a cough to gain their full attention.
Turning to him with annoyed looks. Gus makes sure to present himself with authority before sternly speaking with them. "Excuse me girls. I've been hearing some complaints about you stealing a pizza and hijacking arcade games from other children."
"Yeah. What of it?" Marie replied with sass.
"I can't have you doing that here. So I'm afraid that I gotta ask you all to leave." Pointing to the door, he expected them to fallow his command with a bit of an attitude, but to his shock and utterl surprise. They instead laughed at him; complete with the girl having her hair covering up her eyes, pointing at him as if he was nothing more than a joke.
"You hear that girls? He demands us to leave."
"Oh! I'm so scared!" May mocked.
"Eek!" Faking being scared, Marie goes back into a fit of laughter, which really didn't make Gus happy at all.
"Now cut that out. I really do mean it girls. Please get out of my arcade."
"No. How about you get out of our arcade." Lee retorted before snapping her fingers.
"Wait, what?" Before Gus knew it. He was grabbed by the shirt, picked up over their heads, and thrown out the door.
Clasping their hands together in satisfaction. The Kankers then turn their attention to the large group of stunned kids, who couldn't believe that they have just done that. "Alright! Listen up runts! If you don't wanna be thrown out here like that guy! Get out of here and never come back!" Lee barked.
"What?!" Stepping on up to them in outrage, Chandler has no intentions on leaving, especially when being ordered by these three punks. "You can't just kick us out! Who do you think you are?"
"Looks like we have a loud mouth here girls." Lee replied with a smirk.
Getting grabbed by the shirt. Chandler suddenly found himself being brutality pummeled by both Marie and May before getting kicked out by a foot to the booty.
"Anyone else has something to say?" Lee rhetorically asked the other children, which is efficiently a silent no. "Good. Now get lost!"
Doing on what she said, everyone leaves without any hesitation; including Lincoln and his friends, who all run past them and stopped at the end of the parking lot. Looking back; they couldn't believe that they have just been kicked out by those nasty girls, who were all going back to play on the games.
"Did that just happen?" Zach spoke up in disbelief.
"Unfortunately it did." Clyde has the cold, wet stains to prove it. Right along with Lincoln.
"Those girls have some nerve! I mean; they just can't take over Gus's!" Stella remarked in outrage.
"Don't worry kids. They won't." Recovered from his hard crash against the asphalt, Gus marches right back into his arcade, hoping to get those hooligans out.
After a short scuffle, the door bursts open as Gus is once again thrown out with his pants somehow wedgied all the way up to his chin. Watching him crash to the ground, bouncing up and down in his struggle to get his pants back down, Lincoln and the rest let out a nervous gulp for if Gus couldn't get those girls out, then that means they have just lost their favorite spot to hangout at.
"Great. Where are we supposed to go now?" Rusty complained as that was their spot, the only place where they can play games and hang around. It especially stinks that this happened for he was getting rather close on getting enough tickets to get that police siren.
"I could come up with a plan to get them out." They just couldn't just loose Gus's, especially to those three girls.
"That's not such a good idea Lincoln." Liam remarked. "Those three are more dangerous than a pack of coyotes." After all; they can toss out a full grown man as if he was nothing but a barrel of butter.
"Liam does have a point. Surely we can find somewhere else to hang around at. There's the arcade in the mall or the one in town. There's also the Burpin Burger or the Food and Fuel." Stella suggested, though that last was a bit of a stretch.
"I think Flip would just charge us for standing there." Zach pointed out.
"I can totally see that." Rusty agreed.
"But we can't just abandon Gus's. The other arcades are nice and all, but they just don't compare to the homely feel; we have here. Besides; they always seem to be crowded whenever we show up." Lincoln proclaimed.
"We could at least give it a try Lincoln." Clyde said as he didn't want to end up like poor Gus. His pants firmly belongs on his waist.
Lincoln wanted to protest further, but his friends all made their choice out of fear. Releasing a sigh of defeat, he nods to them. "Alright. Let's try the arcade at the mall.
"Hopefully it's not too crowded." Stella muttered as she and the others left Gus's parking lot, while Lincoln took a sad look back at the building, where the outlines of the Kankers can be seen laughing as they toss fries around.
If there is a way to get them out and have Gus to retake the building. Lincoln will come up with a big operation to do it, without ending up like poor Gus over there. Trying in vain to get himself free from his wedgie prison.
But what would he do? Honestly he doesn't have a clue, but he'll come up with a plan or his name isn't Lincoln Loud.
"You sure that this is a good idea?"
"Yeah, I don't mean to be so negative, but have you seen who's roaming around in this park?"
Standing all together with their skateboards in their hands. Ronnie Anne and the gang looked uneasily at the park in front of them, where so much space for skating is presented to them like the holy grail. It was just right there with no cars or people in the way, unlike in the streets or sidewalk, where they just had about enough of these constant interruptions.
It's just the inhabitants of the park that are holding them back. It's especially clear for Laird; as he is very nervous on meeting a human sized blue jay. It's just not right.
"Well; the bird and raccoon did come over to the Bodega earlier today to buy some chips and soda. They seem like cool guys, though they totally left Bobby speechless." Ronnie Anne remarked.
"It sure was a surreal experience." Sid added.
"I still don't know about this." Laird stated.
"It'll probably be fine." Casey proclaimed. "What can those guys even do to us anyway?"
"And we're going to be on our skateboards. If we do run into any trouble from the new guys, we can easily make a quick escape." Sameer added.
Taken on that point, it's enough for Ronnie Anne to bravely step forward. "In that case. Let's do some skateboarding, shall we." Getting on her board, she rolls into the park, getting past the first bench, when her friends got on their own boards and joined her.
Together; they roll down the path in a single line formation, right towards an upcoming fountain. Jumping; they shred on the outer rim, reaching to the far turn before jumping off. Except for Laird, who uses the safer approach on riding next to the fountain instead.
After the fountain. They jump over several benches and trash cans, until the path lead them right to a food and rest area. Honing in, they dodge the incoming tables and chairs from the beginning and to the other side of the area.
Going down this path, Ronnie Anne saw a man in a fancy outfit and lollipop-like head, standing on the side as he deeply admired a butterfly. Racing past the man, he looked to them in amazement before happily clapping his hands. "Good show! Jolly good show!" He called out to them with a joyful laugh.
"Those were some rather old clothes." Ronnie Anne didn't even know that those types of fancy clothes were even still around.
"Man! You guys saw the size of his head?!" Nikki exclaimed. She wondered on how he can fit through a doorway?
"He sure did have a neat top hat." Laird would just love to have a top hat as nice as that guy's.
"Hey Ronnie Anne. We're coming on a fork up ahead." Sid warned for this fork had some tall bushes that obstructed their total view of anyone coming in from the other side.
Taking the warning seriously as the last thing they need was a crash. Ronnie Anne and the others slowed themselves down into a complete stop, and it's good that they did; for no sooner that they all stopped. A golf cart being driven by a gumball machine drove past.
"Good call Sid." Ronnie Anne complemented.
"Thanks. Boy, I wonder how a gumball machine can drive?" You don't normally see a gumball machine drive a vehicle.
"That's your big question? I'm stuck wondering if those gumballs in his head are his brain." Casey remarked.
"I don't wanna know." Thinking of those gumballs as an exposed brain made Laird a bit queasy, and he definitely didn't want to think of gumballs that way.
Checking down both sides of the path in the meantime. Ronnie Anne doesn't see anyone else approaching in a golf cart, allowing them to move on. "Come on. The path is clear."
Turning down the path the gumball machine had came down from. Their thrill level just went higher for right ahead is an awesome steep hill. Hunching down with narrowed eyes as her ponytail whipped back like a flag, Ronnie Anne could feel the wind blow past her with the great amount of speed, she's going in. As Sid would probably say, it made her feel like a cheetah running across the African savannah.
But as the group of friends rode down the hill. Skips briefly glances up from his job of planting a new tree down, silently watching them ride pass before getting right back to work.
After the hill. The group continued to ride around in the park, doing the occasional tricks and jumps to whatever they came across, while also passing right by the green guy, who was busy on mowing the lawn and the ghost removing dry gum from the playground.
It had passed two hours by the time they got back to where they first started at. Laughing to themselves with a bit of sweat coming down their faces, they hopped off their boards and leaned back against the left pillar of the entrance.
"Oh man! That felt good!" Sameer stated.
Ronnie Anne can happily agree with that. After skating on the sidewalk or street for awhile, it sure felt good to be skating in such an open space. "See guys. I told you that there wouldn't be a problem."
"I still don't know about those guys. I mean they have a ghost working there for pete sake!" Laird exclaimed with his body shaking in fear.
"I don't know. That ghost looked pretty chill." Nikki is sure that a ghost who scrapes off gum. Isn't exactly the type to scare you or come out of the TV.
"We should definitely skate here more often. I bet there is a lot more to explore." The call of adventure is calling to Casey. He would like to see more of this park, like that house in the middle of it, that they didn't have a chance to get a closer look at.
"I agree. Besides; I feel like we're judging these guys a bit too unfairly. They could actually be pretty chill guys." Sid can recall that old saying, never judge a book by its cover. Take that guy with the big head for instance, he seems to be a very nice fellow.
"Then it's settled. We're officially making this park as are new skating spot." Ronnie Anne declared, although she knows that she has to be a bit careful with the family. They don't fully understand the mysterious park or the inhabitants roaming inside it. She would hate to get caught up in a lecture on staying out of this place or have abuela storming in here to get her out.
"Let's meet up first thing tomorrow morning and skate to that food area. I saw some doughnuts in the display case." Sameer just loves doughnuts.
"Wait. Don't we have school tomorrow?" Laird pointed out.
"We'll do it after school then." Sid corrected in joy before sharing a group high five in total agreement.
They then all separate. All saying their goodbyes as they either head for home or towards their parent's food truck. Heading towards their apartment, Ronnie Anne and Sid decided to hang out in Ronnie Anne's room for a bit before Sid has to head home.
"Aw man! That hill part sure was a blast! I could feel the wind blow through my hair." It was just so thrilling.
"The hill was nice and all, but the way we grinded on that fountain was just awesome."
"Yeah. I do agree that was cool Ronnie Anne, but what about those jumps we all managed pull off?"
"That to. I even see that Laird is starting to at least jump over a small bench."
"Boy. I just can't wait for tomorrow. I hope we discover something cool, when we explore further into the park."
"I'm sure we will Sid." Opening the door. Ronnie Anne let's Sid to head on in first, while she fondly looked back over to the park. "I'm sure we will."