Hard-Working Bad Guys

When the Bad Guys headed back to their hideout, the car was driving smoothly and calmly when they reached the river aqueduct, and into the tunnel.

But, inside their hideout, when the lift made a "ding", the doors opened, and Snake and Shark still held the irritating Wolf as they dragged Wolf into their lair to keep him chill. Piranha, Tarantula, and Hornet were unpacking the stuff they bought, and put the bags aside to deal with them later.

"Calm down, Wolf!" Shark said.

"Dude, keep it together," Tarantula added.

Wolf growled while trying to hold his frustration, "I can't! We finally have our freedom, but it feels like we're in jail again! I mean, why do the cops get that? We never ask for anything between in-prison and out of prison. For a year, we've been doing good. They saw us. Cleaning bathrooms, breaking rocks..."

"Community service," Snake continued.

"Cooking," Piranha added.

"Quilt making," Shark mentioned.

"Yeah! We've been so good. If they don't trust us anyway, then what's the point?!" Wolf complained.

"Wow! Who are you? I love it!" Snake grinned.

"Fight the power!" Hornet cheered loudly.

"Yeah... yeah!" Wolf nodded as he gathered his friends in a circle, and all of them held hands together, "This isn't just our new life of freedom, and this isn't our second chance. This is our chance and our first step to write our own story. And we have to do it together. We don't need anyone's opinion. We'll just have to follow our dreams and do what we want. We'll make our own decisions for our lives... together."

Snake smiled, nodding in agreement, "I'm in, Wolf. You're right. We'll just do what makes us happy, even if they are either good or bad or both. This is our lives, and it's our choice to make."

"Yeah! I don't care what people say about us anymore. We'll just do what we do best!" Tarantula added proudly.

"And if doing it with you guys together, I'm in... since I can't do anything without you. I always depend on you," Hornet admitted.

"We'll say this is our new business to take care of," Piranha said.

"The perfect crime!" Shark exclaimed.

"Yes! But we need to make this wisely, and everyone will never know but us. Now we just have to think about what we should do with our lives as the new us," Wolf sighed, and told his pals, "Come on, guys, think!"

The Bad Guys grunted while thinking over their heads. They thought real hard... They had the whole world in their hands, and could do anything they wanted, in some standards.

Shark then got an idea, saying, "I know! Since we're great at disguising ourselves, we can become actors and actresses. We could go on Broadway, be in movies, TV, and who knows? We could even win an Emmy!"

Snake stuck his tongue out and gagged a bit, "I'd rather choke on a dozen guinea pigs than be caught dancing and prancing around on a stage."

Tarantula commented, "Plus, you're the one who can act a lot better than we can."

Shark put that into thought, "Oh yeah, that is true."

Piranha then jumped up, "I got an idea! Remember when we were performing at the gala?"

Hornet groaned, "Please do not bring that night up; I don't like remembering it."

Tarantula began to question him, "Speaking of that, you said you were drunk that night, what exactly happened to you?"

"I don't wanna talk about it," Hornet stuck a hand out to Tarantula, forcing her to not question him about the gala.

Wolf then commented, "Yeah, we remember that night, Piranha. What idea do you have in mind in relation to it"?

Piranha then answered, "Well, why don't we form a band? We could be called: The Anim-All-Stars! We could go on a world tour and play for people all over the world!"

Tarantula seemed to like the idea, "That would be kind of fun."

Hornet then said, "But I don't know if we could handle performing in front of a crowd all the time."

Shark then added, "Though it would be a blast to play some instruments again."

Wolf then commented, "Plus, so far, you two have been naming ideas based on what you like. While that's good and all, we need to think of what we could do together as a team."

Hornet commented while hovering, "Wolf is right, you guys. Oooh, what about we'll become pilots or ride on hang-gliders? I mean, a lot of people have jobs when they just fly."

Shark then said, "I like your idea, Hornet, except we don't fly, and we don't have flying experience."

"Not even I can fly a plane with my hacking skills," Tarantula admitted while holding her laptop.

"Yeah, I don't want to take another flight school since... Last year," Snake remembered how he was kicked off the helicopter by Marmalade, and he didn't want to go higher because of the experience.

Tarantula was looking through career job ideas on her laptop, "Well, if I teach you guys how to use a computer, maybe we could be accountants."

Hearing that idea, all of the boys started to break into laughter. Piranha and Snake were rolling on the floor while clutching their stomachs, Shark was holding his left side while he laughed, and Hornet and Wolf were trying to cover their mouths while they were laughing.

Tarantula raised an eyebrow in confusion, "What's so funny"?

Snake then blurted out, "Us? Being accountants? We are much better at spending money than saving it. We'd probably get fired on the first day for spending any money we immediately start saving as an accountant. Plus, being former criminals, I don't think we could get over tempting to steal money again overnight."

Webs frowned and crossed her arms, giving a mini glare to Snake, "Well, if you got a better idea Mr. Grumpypants, why don't you suggest something?"

Snake got up and answered back, "Simple. You know what I think we should do? Nothing. Just stay here and chill. We don't have to do anything, except get up to get food, but other than that, we can just relax the rest of our lives away."

With the exception of Wolf, everyone else groaned in response to Snake's idea,

"Can you actually put some thought into this and pick a more useful idea?" Piranha commented

Snake frowned, "What's wrong with relaxing?

Shark answered, "Nothing, but, we can't just do, well....'nothing' with our lives."

Hornet then mentioned, "This is gonna be harder than I thought."

Wolf reassured the team, saying, "Hey, chin up, guys; I'm sure we can think of something. Even if it's not right away, I'm sure that we'll find something soon that we can do with our lives. In the meantime, what do ya say that while we keep thinking, we should start talking about our plans in making our bedrooms," he pulled out a rolled-up blueprint paper from his back pocket.

"Oh yes, please! Totally," commented Tarantula, who was exhausted from thinking.

"Yeah, I want my sacred space," added Hornet.

Wolf grinned, "Alright, let's go over the plans again," he laid out the blueprints on a nearby table so the whole team could see the plans. "Okay. First off, we need to know exactly where in our hideout we each want our own rooms. If you find an area that picks your interest, let me know, and we'll draw an 'X' to mark it," stated Wolf while pointing to the blueprint layout of the hideout.

Snake picked up a red pen and said, "Well, I already am claiming where our safe vault is as my room," he eagerly drew an X on the blueprint around the area where the drawing of their vault was.

Hornet picked up the red pen and said, "Ooh, this spot here by the wall near the right window is where I want my room to be! As the team's eye in the sky, having easy access to a nearby window can help me be able to stay on the lookout for anything that happens outside," he then drew a red X on the corresponding area in the blueprints.

Tarantula then picked up the pen from Hornet, and said, "I'll take the vacant wall next to where Hornet marked his room, on the wall on the other side of the metal border that separates them. Us little buddies gotta stick together," She drew a red X for where she wanted her room, and fist-bumped with Hornet, who reciprocated.

Piranha was bummed out and stomped his foot in jealousy as he thought he wanted his room to be next to Hornet, but it was already taken by his crush's ex-girlfriend.

Shark then picked up the pen, and said, "And I want my room to be right here," he pointed to the area of the blueprint where there was a vacant wall, right next to the white door, and drew an X on it, "Oh yeah, baby!"

Wolf then picked up the pen, and smiled at Shark and Tarantula, "Looks like you two and I are gonna be neighbors, Shark, Webs, since I am planning my room to be right here," he drew an x with the pen on the area between Shark and Tarantula's marks before pointing the two white doors behind him. That is where his room will be. Those doors were locked for a while, and no one attempted to open it, so Wolf will get that chance.

It was Piranha's turn as he eagerly picked up the pen, and announced, "Since Webs took my spot where my room was supposed to be..." He glared at a confused Tarantula before going back to the plan, "And I'm claiming this for my room," He marked an x on the blueprint area near the vacant wall by the kitchen, "I want to be close to the kitchen."

Snake chuckled, and asked "Why? So you can easily mooch off on midnight snacks"?

Piranha groaned as he explained, "No. Thanks to my experience in cooking back in prison, and the team's new chef, I can easily just walk out of my bedroom and enter the kitchen to get started on cooking."

Wolf then picked up a red pen from Piranha, and declared, "So, according to the blueprints, we have to knock down these walls here, here, here, here, here, and here for us to be able to have the vacant spaces and/or expand our rooms if needed to, so we can easily build our bedrooms from it.

Tarantula rubbed her hands together excitedly, "Oh yeah, baby,"

Shark added, "Things are gonna get messy."

Hornet then said, "So, shall we get started"?

Piranha immediately ran off and came back, carrying the team's safety goggles and handed them out, with each team member placing them on.

Wolf adjusted his before telling Tarantula, "Webs, hit it"!

Tarantula pulled out her MP3 player and pressed play, with the song "Bad Reputation" by Joan Jett starting to play in the background.

https://youtu.be/JaoMgaBafFg

Snake opened two cans of red and blue paint as each of his friends carried two paint brushes, one for the red and one for the blue. The 5 of them used measuring tapes to measure their doors on the walls. When they marked the exact measurement, they drew rectangles on the walls they marked on the blueprint as the shape of their doors, and then drew X's inside of every rectangle to point out where they could start smashing. Snake didn't need the red and blue paint since the vault already had a door, but the space inside was too round for Snake, so he just needed to make more spaces for his new room.

The Bad Guys then went to their designated spots, where they smashed down the walls for their assigned rooms. Wolf was inside the small room of white doors, putting a rock in front of each door to keep them from closing, Snake was inside the vault, set to expand his new bedroom, and the other team members were standing by the walls, in accordance to where they wanted their new bedrooms, ready to smash them.

While Wolf, Hornet, Tarantula, and Snake had sledgehammers at the ready, Shark was turning on his jackhammer, while Piranha was aiming his wrecking ball at the wall he wanted to knock down.

In the area where the white doors were, Wolf swung his sledgehammer back, "And now, to hit this," he slammed it forward, knocking it into the wall, adding additional small space for the room and destroying the bricks that occupied the room

On cue, Hornet, and Tarantula also began to smash their walls with their sledgehammers, making pieces of wall come falling down like rain. Snake smashed the walls around the vault, destroying its steel, and revealing more of the brick walls behind it.

The little cat noticed a ball of rubble on the floor as it pounced on it, and played with the rubble. It was enjoying himself playing with the rubble, until another rubble fell on top of his head, and it scared the cat. It meowed loudly as it scurried under the table for protection.

Shark turned on the jackhammer, which bounced around before using his strength to pull it up and aim it at his wall, drilling through it as it began to break the wall down.

Meanwhile, Piranha swung his wrecking ball to give it a lot of leverage before throwing it forward while holding onto the chain, making it crash right through the wall as he shouted, "Ay ay ay ay ay ay ay!"

Snake was happily swinging his tail around, using the sledgehammer he held to tear down the wall inside of the vault to make a lot more room for his bedroom.

Tarantula was strategically throwing her sledgehammer at the wall, making a bunch of holes each time to tear it down piece by piece.

Wolf was casually lining up the sledgehammer, like a gold club, and shouted, "Fore!" He swung it at the wall, knocking down a huge chunk of it.

Hornet was using a unique strategy: spinning his sledgehammer around and ramming it into the wall, like a goat charging at an enemy. Each time he did that, a piece of the wall he was knocking down would fall and litter the floor.

Meanwhile, Shark was laughing crazily, "Eat metal blade, wall," he was using his jackhammer to easily power through the wall he was knocking down for his room, making pieces get sent flying far behind him.

The cat was still hiding under the table, shaking in fear, and trying to avoid getting hit by rubble. To its surprise, a small rubble just hit its behind, causing him to yowl, and ran from under the table, scampering all over the room.

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About an hour later, almost half of the hideout base was littered with broken wall parts, and the Bad Guys themselves were covered in dust and littered soot from the smashing of their walls. There were 4 big holes in certain sections of the walls on the outside. The room with white doors was half-occupied, thanks to Wolf's work, and Snake was barely finished, but there are more tight walls to break.

Wolf came out from behind the white doors, and said while brushing off the dust from his clothing, and looked around, "Nice work, you guys. We may not be done yet, but we did good for the past hour."

Piranha was smiling excitedly from getting to use the wrecking ball, "Chico, it was so much fun! I haven't had this much fun causing destruction since back when we were still criminals!" He then walked towards the kitchen space.

Tarantula crawled out of the area where she knocked down her wall, "He's not wrong, it was pretty cool getting to act all crazy-like when we were tearing down the walls."

Hornet then commented, "And now, we all will soon have our own spaces."

Snake slithered out of the vault, adding, "I can finally nap in peace without any noises bugging me."

Shark added as he came out of the hole where he knocked down his wall, "And I'll have enough room for my disguises!"

"Well guys, why don't we take a 30-minute break before we can keep smashing some walls?" Wolf asked smilingly as the everyone else cheered in agreement.

"Way ahead of you, Wolf," Piranha surprised his friends by lifting a tray of 6 glasses of cold lemonade, "I figured we do need a break, so I made some lemonade."

The 5 other Bad Guys took a glass happily.

Shark chuckled, "Thanks, little buddy!"

"I am thirsty," Tarantula added.

After all of his friends got their glass, Piranha got what was left on the tray, and put the tray down on the counter.

Hornet then put his drink down, and flew to the cabinet to take out some chips, "And some snacks too," he gave each bag to his friends. Each bag has a different flavor: Salt and Vinegar for Wolf, Barbeque for Snake, Cheese for Shark, Spicy for Piranha, Lime for Tarantula, and Sour cream and onions for Hornet himself. After washing their hands, they were free to eat some snacks.

"Glad we had time to buy some chips. I like chips," Shark threw a ship in the air, and caught it with his mouth.

"Yep," Snake agreed as his friends turned to him to see a guinea pig cage right next to him with just one guinea pig left, and the other one was nowhere to be seen, "They are soooo good!"

The rest of the gang realized Snake ate one of the guinea pigs he bought, "SNAKE!"

"I knew you would buy those guinea pigs as your food," Wolf said.

"Couldn't help myself, alright? Try and sue me again!" Snake chuckled teasingly.

Wolf rolled his eyes, and smirked at his friend. He may be a rule breaker and guinea pig eater, but he still loved him, "At least you paid... and you're saving one."

"For tomorrow," Snake patted the guinea pig cage with his tail.

After 30 minutes of eating snacks and talking stuff to each other, Wolf looked at his watch as he got up, and declared, "Alright, guys," he grabbed a sledgehammer, and rested its head in his other paw, "Let's get back to work."

The rest of the guys got their sledge hammers ready as Webs played the same song again with her MP3 player, and continued to smash more walls for their room

"Yaaahhh!" They screamed as they ran to their respective soon-to-be rooms.

The cat, who was sleeping for the whole 40 minutes, suddenly woke up after hearing another crash in the room, and jumped in the air, yowling.

Just then, the elevator door opened as Diane came in to see what was going

"Hey guys, I just wanted to check on you to see how things are going..." She greeted, but was surprised that the cat jumped into her arms.

Diane looked ahead to see the mess and destruction the Bad Guys made in their hideout. They all stopped when they heard Diane's voice as they came out from their future bedroom, and starred in frozen at Diane. Wolf slowly came out from his "room", and saw Diane's horrid face while holding the cat.

"It's not what it looks like," Wolf tried to explain

But Diane already surveyed the area with her own eyes as she put the cat down, "I'm... just gonna go now, go home and rest from work, and let you keep doing what you are doing, so..." she walked in backwards into the elevator, and rapidly pushed the down button with her finger while grinning sheepishly at the Bad Guys until the elevator door closed.

When Diane was gone, the Bad Guys just glanced at each other as they felt awkward for having Diane seeing them causing destruction in their own hideout. But they shrugged, and continued their work as the cat screamed and scampered all over the room. This is gonna be a long day to make a room.

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The beginning scene of chapter 4 was referenced from Turning Red.

Special Thanks to MasterClass60 for helping me make an intense smashing chapter!

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