My Life As A Teenage Robot Porn Story: Some Like It Bot – Chapter 5

Some Like It Bot

A My Life as a
Teenage Robot Fanfic

Chapter Five The
Best Laid Plans

Drew knew about as much on the proper disarming of missile
warheads as the average high school student did; in other words, virtually
nothing.P Sheldon might be able to do
it, but his eyes were spinning around in his head right now.P Vladimir might be able to do it, but Drew
wouldnt have trusted the little vermin to disarm one of his own weapons.P The red light on the missiles nose started
to blink faster.P Thats probably bad,
thought Drew.P In the movies,
blinking fast means its about to blow up.P
A steady red light means its about to blow up really soon.

The missiles nose blinked faster and faster, then shone
with a steady red light.P Oh,
mega-crap.

The shoppers in the clothing store were still a little
stunned, and were just standing around gawking at the two robots and one geek
who had just dove into the store.P
Drew realized that he had to worry about innocent bystanders first.P There was no place to throw Vladimirs
miserable little bomb, and nothing to use as a shield.P Well, except for one thing himself.

Everybody get down! yelled Jenny.

Drew clutched onto the mini-missile sitting on his belly
it was only the size of a soda bottle and rolled over, covering the missile
with his body.P He figured one of two
things would happen.P One, the missile
would blow him to smithereens, and hopefully somebody would give a touching
eulogy at the funeral.P Or two, the
missile would blow his bizarre body into globs of silver pudding, and hed
spend the next five minutes reassembling himself, to the screams of horrified
mall-goers.

Then he could try explaining to Dr. Wakeman why her evil lab
rat was here, to Jenny why Sheldon was here, and to Sheldon that hed just
spent a romantic afternoon of crime-fighting with another guy.P Hmmm, option one is sounding pretty good
right now.

The salesman never saw what hit him.P Jenny flew into the Slumber-rific Mattress
Factory like a bullet out of a rifle barrel, and sent him tumbling over a stack
of mattresses.P Shed apologize later,
but she had, maybe, one-half of a second to fool her mother.

Jenny picked out one of the sample beds and flopped onto her
back.P Just as her head hit the pillow,
her chest-plate split open, and the video monitor deployed.P She had just enough time to close her eyes
before her mothers face popped on the screen.

XJ-9, I trust everything is still running smoothly on
P Mrs. Wakeman stopped, and
sighed.P Oh, for heavens sake, XJ-9,
are you asleep?P You arent scheduled to
power down for another five hours!

Jenny woke up with a long, exaggerated yawn, stretching
her arms for the video screen.P Just
having a rest, Mom, she blurted.P Not
much to do in the ol bedroom.P Which is
where I am.P Its been a pretty quiet,
boring afternoon on the monitors.P Here
in my bedroom.P My monitor-filled
bedroom.P Heh-heh.P Ummm whats the problem?

I wanted you to do me a quick favor, dear.P Could you run down to my lab and see if I
have any spare flux-couplers in my parts inventory?

Run down to the lab oh, nuts.P Ah . I ah dont need to, Mom.P Youve got plenty down there, you picked up
half a dozen flux-couplers when you went grocery shopping, remember?P So you dont need to buy any more at the
mall.

Oh, thats right.P
Silly me, Id forgotten!P I guess
I can be on my way P Mrs. Wakeman
suddenly looked puzzled.P XJ-9, how did
you know that I was at the mall?

Uh-oh.P Ah
I ah can see somebody with a shopping bag behind you!P Gasp.P
Gasp.

For a young lady who was resting comfortably on her bed,
XJ-9 was acting particularly nervous.P
Are you feeling all right, XJ-9?

Yes!P Im feeling
great!P Feelin super!P Thanks for asking!

Jenny didnt notice that the salesman had gotten back to his
feet, with an annoyed look on his face.P
Can I help you with something, miss? he asked.

Her mother frowned a bit.P
And just who is that?

Jenny grimaced in fear, and grabbed the monitor to prevent
it from turning to look.P Nothing!P Nothing!P
Just a door-to-door salesman.P
I need to go get rid of him!

Door-to-door salesman ?

And with that, she slammed her monitor off, and folded it
back into her chest.P She sat up, and
tried to calm herself down.

The salesman just scowled as Jenny ran to the front of the
store, and peeked down to the ground floor.P
Her mother scratched her head, shrugged, and put the communicator back
in her pocket.P Then she got up off the
bench.P Yes!P Shes leaving!P Jenny slapped her forehead.P
Which means that I might have ten minutes to fix everything and beat
her home.P Oh, brother.

Drew gritted his teeth, waiting for the explosion, but it
never came.P Was the missile a dud?P Ha!P
Theres no way Im that lucky.P
Drew took a look under his steel stomach.PP He didnt hear or see the missiles nose beeping.P In fact, he didnt see the missile at
all.P He rolled over on his back and
looked around.P There was no way that it
could simply have rolled away.P What
gives?

A warbling feeling radiated up his body from his stomach.P Suddenly he realized what had happened to
the missile.P Hed eaten it.P Or more accurately, his nanobot body had
absorbed it and broken it down.P Some
kind of reflex?P He didnt know, and
right now, didnt care.P The important
thing was that nobody had seen it.P Drew
sat up, and took a deep breath.P Mama
Mia, thats-a spicy meat-ball.

Everyone in the store, including Sheldon, was staring at
her.P Oh, right Im still the
super robot girl.P Okay, lets wrap this
up and get out of here.

Relax, everybody.P
Everythings okay.P Umm resume
your normal shopping activity.P Drew
plucked the semi-conscious lab rat out of the robot suit by the tail, and
lifted him into the air.P Do you have a
box or something I can put this in? he asked the cashier.

Ewwww!!! she squealed, tossing an empty shoe box.P Just get that disgusting thing out of
there!

Hes not disgusting!P
Sheldon caught the shoe box.P
Sure, he was going to take over the town with mind control serum, and
he tried to destroy our lovely guardian angel here he gestured to Jenny,
who just cringed but that just makes him evil, not disgusting.

Vladimir shook his fists in rage.P Evil!P I will be showink
you evil!P Release me at once!P You cannot hold down my proletarian brothers
forever!P Ve vill rise up

Drew groaned, and dropped the lab rat in the shoebox.P Just shut UP.P Geez.

He had to do something with Vladimirs robot, and he had to
do something with Sheldon.P He walked
over to glance out of the front of the store.P
He didnt see Dr. Wakeman down by the benches anymore, so she must have
left probably to go home.P But he did
see a pale blue streak swoop down into the Kwicky Kuts.P He didnt have a lot of time.P How the blazes am I going to beat Jenny
and her mom back to the house?

The four pop sensations, the Back Sync Boys, were shivering
with fear, tied up in barber chairs.P
The henchmen of the Lonely Hearts Club Gang growled at the hairdressers,
who cowered at the back of the shop.P
Please, please dont hurt us! pleaded one of the hairdressers.P Take the money, take whatever you want!

The only thing were taking from you today is you naivety,
sneered the Boss.P After you see these
four pretty boys stripped of their carefully cultivated coiffures, then you
will gain an appreciation of our grief.P
The grief of those who didnt have happiness handed to them at birth, on
a silver platter.P Ill think well
start with you.P The Boss turned on a
pair of electric clippers, and had one of his henchmen lift him up behind
Logans chair.

Say good-bye to your status as pop culture icons,
gentlemen, gloated the Boss.

But before he could start, Jenny frantically swished into
the store with a gust of wind, landing a few feet away from the barber
chairs.P The Lonely Hearts jumped in
surprise, and the Boss sulked in frustration.P
You again!P I thought wed lost
you in the parking lot!

Jenny took a second to calm herself down.P Well, you thought wrong!P All right, Lonely Hearts, put the clippers
down and put your hands up. PYou can
walk out of here, or you can be carried.P I dont have a lot of time to waste.P

I think youre overestimating your position, sneered the
Boss.P He raised his clippers into the
air.P Make one more move, and the Back
Sync Boys will have to be renamed the Cue Ball Boys!

NO!!! Jenny gasped.P
Wait!P Dont do anything
crazy!P Jenny suddenly realized that
she was standing not more than ten feet from Logan.P Logan!P She blushed
and giggled, and gave a little wave.P
H-hi there, Logan!P Eeeee!

One of the henchmen took advantage of Jennys distraction,
and pulled a sink hose from a hair-washing station.P He blasted her with a shower of water.P Jenny shuddered and crackled as the water hit her metallic body,
throwing short circuits and tiny bolts of electricity into the air.P Small wisps of smoke started to drift from
her pigtails.

Im actually glad youre here to see this, robot girl, the
Boss gloated.P In a few minutes, your
precious crooner is going to have more of a shine on his head than you do.P The clippers turned on with a buzzzz.

Drew struggled with Vladimirs battle robot as he carried it
towards the exit doors of the mall.P It
was heavy, and awkward, and he was trying not to bump into too many
shoppers.P Sheldon was two steps behind
him, carrying the shoebox with Vladimir inside.P And he hadnt stopped talking since they left the clothing store.

cant believe that we captured a dangerous villain
together, Jenny!P I mean, I never had
any doubt in my mind that you were going to catch him.P After all, youre a professional
crime-fighting hero!P But it was so awesome
helping you out this afternoon.P Not
that you needed any help, of course.P
Although I always secretly hoped that youd find my inventions useful

Sure, that sounds great unghhh whatever.P Jeez, does he ever stop talking?P Hes got to run out of air sometime.P Drew was trying to figure out how he was
going to make this stunt work, and he was barely paying attention to Sheldon.

and Im really grateful for the opportunity to test the
jet pack and the sludge gun.P And I just
wanted to say thanks for all the times you saved my life this afternoon.P Weve stared down the grim reaper and laughed
in his face, side by side!P And Id
Jenny, Id really like a chance to show my appreciation to you ummm like on
a ummm you know

Unghhh can you get that door, please?P Drew shifted his grip on the robot suit,
while Sheldon happily threw the glass doors open with a sweeping gesture.P Drew carried the robot suit a few more
steps, and set it down on the pavement.P
Lets see our little prisoner, he said.

Uh sure, Jenny.P
Sheldon handed him the shoebox.P
So, as I was saying, Id be honored if you

Drew ignored Sheldon, and grabbed Vladimir from the shoebox,
clutching him in a metal fist.P Okay,
listen up, rat fink.P I have one
question for you.

Bah! spat Vladimir.P
I am not afraid of goody-goody robot girl.P Nothink you do can be makink me talk!

Drew growled in anger.P
Oh, yeah?P Just inside those
doors, theres a pet store.P I know
they have a lot of cats.P And they have
lizards and snakes, too.P Even a
python.P I wonder if theyve been fed
yet today

Vladimir gasped in horror.P
All right, I am talkink!P I am
talkink!

Drew pointed to the robot suit.P How do I turn on the rocket engine?

All this time, Sheldon had still been talking
nonstop.P and can assure you that
contrary to popular misconception, the Museum of Entomology is really quite
fascinating, especially the section on swamp insects, and its a lovely way to
spend an evening

Drew rolled his eyes and sighed.P Sheldon!P Okay, look,
yes!P Sure!P Whatever you say!P I need
to concentrate here for a second!P He
turned to Vladimir.P Show me the
button, unless you want to wind up as a bowl of Python Chow.

He wrapped his arms around the battered robot suit, and the
shoebox, and took a deep breath.P Okay,
Jennys house has to be in that direction.P
I sure hope Im still alive five minutes from now.P He tapped the button and tightened his grip.P The rocket motor at the bottom of Vladimirs
robot suit deployed, and a belch of orange flame shot out, launching the robot,
and Drew, and Vladimir, screaming into the sky, at an insane speed and barely
under control.

Sheldon stared up into the sky, coughing on the dark exhaust
fumes, grinning ear to ear.P He spun
around and punched the air with his fist.P
Yesss!P Sheldon Lee, its
your lucky night!P Chuckle!P Snort!

Sparks and smoke continued to shoot off of Jennys
head.P As long as that henchman kept
that sink hose trained on her, firing water full blast, she was going to have
problems.P And the clock was
ticking.P Mom must be on the highway
by now.

Jenny deployed an umbrella from her left wrist, deflecting
the water away from her face.P She
balled her right hand into a fist, and then jettisoned her entire right arm at
the shoulder, firing it at the gangster like a missile.P Small rocket jets blasted from Jennys
detached arm, and it landed a mighty blow to the gangsters chin.P He was out cold before he hit the floor.

While her flying right arm doubled over another surprised
gangster with a punch to the stomach, Jenny leapt towards the two biggest men,
knocking them senseless with a spinning helicopter kick.P Three more of the mopey miscreants dropped
to the floor, making a nice, neat unconscious pile.P The only one left to go was the pint-size Boss.P Alarmed at the speed with which the robot
girl dealt with his four partners, he brought the clippers down to within half
an inch of Logans head.P Dont make
another move, you tin-plated teenybopper, he threatened.

She hovered in front of the him with a sly smile.P Whatever you say.P Jennys flying arm looped around behind the
Boss, and punched him in the back of the head.P
Mission accomplished, she grinned, as she reattached her arm

But the clippers tumbled out of the Boss hands, and before
Jenny could react, thick chunks of luscious brown hair were flying into the
air, and landing onto the floor of the shop.P
Logan looked in the mirror, mortified.

NO! screamed Jenny.P
She quickly caught the clippers, and untied Logan, but the damage had
been done.P Oh, Logan!P Im so sorry!P I was trying to save you but my mom was outside the store and I
couldnt let her see me and I really love all of your songs and me and my
friends all think youre the cutest well except for Connie but what does she
know and

Logan ignored her and patted his hair, examining the
damage.P Oh, man!P Its a total write-off!P Theres no way I can get another one in
before tomorrows photo shoot!P Somebody
get Morty on the phone.P Well have to
reschedule.

Jenny clasped her hands, pleading.P Let me do it for you, Logan!P
Please!P Ive got to make it up
to wait a minute.P Get another what
before tomorrow?

Logan pointed to his hair.P
A replacement, you silly twit.

The unthinkable suddenly entered Jennys mind.P She reached for Logans hair, gave it a
firm, gentle tug and it came off in her hand.

Jenny was stunned.P
What what whats going on here?!?P
What is this?!?

Its my wig, groaned Logan, and a very expensive
one!P I get these things custom-made in
Italy!P Ah, the spare is back at the
studio, and its going to take at least six weeks to get another one made

But but how can you be bald?

I started losing my hair five years ago.

WHAT?!?P Jennys
neck telescoped, shooting her head to within six inches of Logans nose.

He shrunk back into the salon chair.P Uh you see well, Im thirty-two years
old.

Jenny just stared, and her mouth quivered a few times.

Youre an old man!!!P AUUGGGHHH!!!P Tears
streamed from her eyes.P I cant
believe this!P My life is over!P My world has no meaning!P The Back Sync Boys are total frauds!

Shhhh!!!P Not so
loud!!! said Logan, trying to calm her down.P
Look, tell you what well do.P
Dont breathe a word of this to anyone, and well well write a song
about you.P Well put it on the next
album!

That got Jennys attention, then she looked at Logan again,
and his receding hairline.P Tell you
what, she grumbled angrily.P You dont
mention anything about me, I wont mention anything about this she
lifted Logans wig in her hand and you can write a song for my mother.P Maybe a nice polka.P Or something really ancient like like disco!P She threw the wig on the floor, and blasted
out of the salon, crying as she flew through the roof of the mall.

Two of the Back Sync Boys exchanged a painful glance.P I rather like disco, sulked K.J.

Shooting through the clouds over Tremorton, a bizarre pair
of robots spiraled wildly though the sky.P
Drew was trying to steer by shifting his weight to point the rocket in
the right direction.P The world spun
upside-down for a few seconds, until he managed to turn the robots body around
and finally got on top of it, riding it like a race horse a horse that was
going to toss him into the next county if he wasnt careful.P Gasp.P
Gasp.P Just a few more minutes.

That looked like it might have been the high school.P And over to his left he recognized that
intersection.P He was close, but oh
nuts, Im going in the wrong direction.P
Ive got to turn this thing around.

Drew leaned to his left, but the rocket pitched straight
down instead.P The whole flying mess
started cartwheeling through the air, out of control.P Drew grabbed the shoebox with Vladimir inside and jumped away
from the robot suit.P The suit crashed
into a local junkyard, where it and the mind-control serum harmlessly burned
up.P But some lucky suburban family was
about to get a Jenny-shaped hole in their front yard. PDrew turned his body to shield the little rat
from the fall, and plunged into a grassy lawn, blasting a crater ten feet deep.

A few passers-by stared, until finally, a quivering steel
hand raised up and sat a crumbled shoebox on the lawn.P Drew pulled himself up a few moments later,
and collapsed on his back.P Maybe
Ill just admire the sky for a minute.P
Gasp.P Pant.P Gasp.P
A quick rest would let the nanobots do a little repair work

But that was going to have to wait.P Zipping through the sky, Jenny streaked
overhead, heading back to her house.P
And she could fly an awful lot faster than Drew could run, even as an
android.P No rest for the weary, I
guess.P Drew picked up the shoebox,
and sprinted down the sidewalk as fast as he could.

Jenny touched down on the sidewalk in front of her house,
and slumped towards the front door.P
Moms car wasnt in the garage, so shed beaten her home.P Shed snuck out of the house to see the
biggest concert of the year, and gotten away with it.P But it turned out to be the biggest fraud of the
year.P She wasnt crying anymore now
she was just mad.P Im going upstairs
and throw every single Back Sync Boys album and poster I can find into the
trash.

She walked in the house and grabbed a trash bag from the
kitchen, then dragged herself slowly up the stairs, brooding.P I got myself grounded to get tickets
for that concert! she shouted to herself.P
Augh!P And then I risked getting
myself permanently grounded to sneak out and see these guys!P I would have been better off staying at
home!

She heard a loud thud come from upstairs.

What in the world was that?P Oh, right Drew!P
Shed almost forgotten about him, and suddenly she felt even worse.P I made him give up his afternoon and stay
home with Mom so I could go to that stupid concert!P Oh, no Id better pretend that I enjoyed it, or else hell feel
really bad.

She reached for her bedroom door.P Hey there, sis!P Im back
huh?

Her bedroom door wasnt there.P It was lying on the floor.P And so was another Jenny.

Drew was lying on his stomach, on the bedroom floor,
exhausted, clutching onto a beat-up shoebox.P
And he looked terrible.P His pale
blue coating was covered in dents and clods of dirt from his toes to his
pigtails.P His shoulder was flattened
and his hips were crooked.P And her
bedroom her bedroom was a disaster area!P Everything was scattered all over the floor!P The window was broken!P And one of the wall monitors was totally
smashed up!

Jenny grabbed her pigtails.P
What happened?!?

Drews head lifted up.P
J-Jenny?!?P Hey there h-how
was the concert?!?

Drew, what happened to my bedroom?!?

Lets see, thought Drew.P One of your moms lab rats totally trashed the place, and
blasted my butt out the window in a plot to take over the town.P Then Sheldon and I ewghhh Sheldon and
I P I would rather skinny-dip in a
live volcano than tell her about that.

I tried to get the football game on that monitor and it
blew up.P Heh-heh.P Sorry.

The monitor blew up?!P That doesnt make any sense!P
But then Jenny heard another noise.P
A familiar one.

Her moms car was pulling into the driveway.

My mothers home!P
Oh, no, weve got to clean this room up!

Drew cringed.P And
Ive still got to get this stupid rat downstairs.P For some reason, Jenny was carrying a trash bag.P Here!P
Ill fill this and toss it in the back yard!P You get your bedroom door back on its hinges!

He frantically filled the trash bag with blast debris while
Jenny deployed a power drill from her right wrist, and raced to fix her bedroom
door.P Her left arm extended and
deployed a powerful dust-buster, and her lower body converted into a carpet
vacuum.

What about the wall monitor?P I cant let my mom find out you blew it up!

I Ill think of something!P The trash bag was filled.P
Drew grabbed it, tucked the shoebox under his arm, and raced downstairs.

He sprinted to the back of the house, threw open the door,
and hurled the trash bag outside.P It
landed in the pool.P Doh Ill
worry about that later.P Drew raced
back to Mrs. Wakemans laboratory.P He
opened the shoebox, and lifted a disoriented lab rat up by the tail.

This is outrage!P
I vill not tolerate such handling in brutish fashion!P Vladimir was seething with rage.P And vhy am I hearink voices of two
robot thugs?P And vhat is a Drew?!?

Oh, crap.P
Listen up.P Its your lucky day,
Mortimer, hissed Drew.P You tried to
take over the town, and blow me up, and now Im just going to put you back in
your cage like nothing happened.P
Catch my drift?P Youre going to
run in your happy little exercise wheel and keep your mouth shut, and nobody
will ever find out about your little one-day release.P Because if they do P He
poked a threatening finger into Vladimirs chest.P Python Chow.

XJ-9!P What are you
doing out of your room, young lady?P A
shiver went up Drews back.P Sure
enough, Mrs. Wakeman was standing right behind him.

He turned around, holding Vladimir in his hands.P Hi, Mom!P I uh heard a squeaking noise downstairs, and thought I should
check it out.P I think he was just
hungry.P Drew took a piece of kibble
from Vladimirs cage, and held it up to him.

Eat up, cute little mousey, he said through a
forced grin.P Python Chow, he
whispered.P Vladimir grabbed the food
pellet and started nervously nibbling away.

Mrs. Wakeman clasped her hands together in delight.P Oooh, youve made friends with Mister
Scruffles!P Thats wonderful, dear!P Oh, was my schnookums hungry?P Was he?P
Jenny handed the lab rat to her mother, grinning, and took off for the
kitchen.P Mrs. Wakeman carried Vladimir
back to his cage, scratched him behind the ears, and set him down in his little
bed of shredded newspaper.P Look at
that rattled look in his little eyes.P
The poor thing needs to get some sleep!

She set down her shopping bag, and a thought occurred to
her.P XJ-9 was looking a little rattled
too.P In fact, she looked as if shed
suffered some kind of superficial damage.P
Perhaps the emergency monitors had sounded off while she was out
shopping for regulators.P Shed best
check out the monitor logs in XJ-9s room.

Drew ran out the back door of the house, sprinted around to
Jennys window, and made it to the upstairs window sill in one jump.P Jenny was working madly away with every
piece of cleaning equipment that she had, deployed from her legs, arms, wrists,
chest, head, and pigtails.P The bedroom
door was fixed, the debris was swept up, and the scorch marks were washed off
of the walls.

Shes in the house! he said, drawing the curtains
shut.P Thatll have to do for the
window, for now.

Jenny was fighting back a panic.P The wall monitor!P What
about the wall monitor?

A pair of footsteps walked towards the bedroom door.

Jenny quickly retracted all of her brooms, vacuums,
polishers, brushes, and sprayers.P
Drew, hide!

Mrs. Wakeman shouted down the stairs.P XJ-9, Im just going to zip into your room
for a moment to check the afternoon monitor logs P Then she turned around, and almost jumped out of her shoes.P She rubbed her eyes for a moment.P What in sweet Aristotles protractor!P XJ-9, I was just talking to you
downstairs!P How did you

Uh-oh.P Ohhh
think fast, girl.P Heh-heh yes,
yes you were, because I was downstairs, with you, and then I ran right back
up here!P To my room!P She lowered her head, in a respectful manner.P Because thats where Im supposed to be.

Mrs. Wakeman walked into Jennys room, and slowly looked
around.P It was spotless.P The carpet was clean.P The walls were shining.P No magazines on the floor.P Everything neatly in its place.P All the monitors humming away, with their
volumes turned on.P And XJ-9 didnt look
damaged or soiled in any way.

Her jaw dropped open.P
Why, Im Im very impressed, young lady.P Your room is cleaner than my quarantine isolation tank!P And you spent your afternoon watching your
monitors and doing your studies!

Jenny smiled innocently.P
I did?P Okay sure I did.

Her mother lifted her lecturing finger, with a satisfied
smile on her face.P I knew all you
needed was a little guidance, to help you apply yourself to your duties.P And with what youve shown me this
afternoon, I believe that youve learned a few things about responsibility as
well.P She clasped her hands behind her
back.P Your grounding is concluded,
XJ-9.

Thats great!P
Thanks, Mom!P Mrs. Wakeman trotted
back downstairs, justifiably proud of her parenting skills.P Jenny let out a huge sigh of relief, and
collapsed on her bed.

Is she gone? asked the wall monitor.

The shiny, undamaged wall monitor, which wasnt functional
but looked an awful lot like a wall monitor, warbled into a silver-green
mass, and flowed away from the wall.P It
stretched and squashed into a humanoid shape, and with a few last shimmers,
took on the form of a familiar gray-green android.P Drew reached up to his throat and tapped it like a
microphone.P There were a few muffled
chirps, and he finally smiled in relief.

Oh, wow, does that feel good, he said in his own
voice.P Then he collapsed into the
beanbag chair, next to Jennys bed.

So, you have a good time at the concert? he mumbled.

Uh sure, sure, great time, Jenny mumbled back.P You have any excitement here?P Besides the monitor, I mean.

No, no pretty dull, just like you said it would be.

They glanced at each other, almost as if they didnt quite
fully believe each others answers.P But
they were too tired to say anything about it.

Thanks for subbing for me, Drew, Jenny finally said.P I owe you a big favor.

You can pay my therapy bills for the next five years, he
mumbled.P Forget about it.P Really.P
I plan to.

So it was finally over.P
Drew was back in his own form.P
Jenny had gotten away with playing hooky.P Drew had gotten away with running around half of Tremorton
impersonating a super robot girl.P A
megalomaniac lab rat was thwarted from an attempt to drug the water
supply.P And some local troublemaking
gangsters were even more depressed than usual.P
And best of all, nobody would ever know about any of it.

The doorbell rang.

They heard Mrs. Wakeman answer the door.P There was conversation and she burst into
a giggle.P That was a little out
of character for the doctor.

XJ-9!P There is
somebody at the door to see you!P She
sounded almost impish.

Drew grit his teeth.P
Why do I have a feeling that Ive forgotten something?

Jenny got up and walked to her bedroom door, a little
confused.P Mom?

Young lady, you have a gentleman caller, she
giggled.

Jenny took a few steps down the stairs, and her eyes shot
out to the size of pie plates.

Sheldon stood in the doorway, hair combed back, wearing a
sport jacket and tie in clashing colors, of course.P He was holding a bouquet of flowers and a heart-shaped box of
candy.P Good evening, Jenny.P I got here right at seven oclock, like we
agreed.P Well, actually Ive been
standing on the sidewalk for two and a half minutes.P I didnt want to get here early.

Jenny stammered, unable to put a sentence together.

Mrs. Wakeman wagged a finger at her.P Ohhh, you little dickens!P You made an extra effort today in
order to make sure that your evening would be free for your special night.P She chuckled again.P Well, youve certainly earned it!P You two young people enjoy yourselves.P I hear the Museum of Entomology is a
wonderful way to spend an evening.

Jenny grabbed onto the handrail to steady herself.P Sure Mom just let me uh freshen
up.

She flew back into her bedroom, her cheeks turning red with
anger.P Drew!P Drew, are you in here?P Is
there anything that happened this afternoon that youd like to share
with me?!?P Get out here, you big
chicken!P Drew!!!P But Drew was nowhere to be seen.

Jenny, hurry up! shouted Sheldon.P The swamp insect exhibit closes at eight
thirty!

Jenny slapped her forehead, and her shoulders sunk.P She couldnt think of any way out of this
without making an even bigger mess.P
She clanked down the steps, where Sheldon proudly presented her
with the flowers and the box of candy, which was actually filled with an
assortment of lug nuts.

Shall we commence our evening, fair maiden?P Sheldon extended his arm, blushing
furiously. PMrs. Wakeman dabbed at a
tear in her eye.

Jenny rolled her eyes, and grabbed onto Sheldons arm.P Commence away, Sheldon, she sighed.

They walked out of the Wakeman house, and ran into Drew,
who was walking down the sidewalk, trying to look innocent.

Mrs. Wakeman was still looking on, so Drew feigned
surprise.P Jenny!P Sheldon!P
Why hello there, two people who I have not seen yet today!P Just out for a little night air!P Yessirree!P
Just happened to be randomly walking though the neighborhood!P He laughed nervously.P Look at you two, now!P Aw, isnt that nice?

He gave Sheldon a playful punch on the shoulder.P Way to go, Casanova.P Sheldon beamed with pride.P Jenny gave Drew a look that nearly set his
metal skin on fire.P There was no such
thing as robot ESP, but he didnt need it to read that look:P I know youre responsible, and I am
going to get you for this.

Sheldon and Jenny walked off for their romantic evening at
the insect museum, and Drew sprinted in the opposite direction.P Maybe Ill stop when I reach Mexico.P Maybe.

Brad and Tuck walked out of the One Hour Photo at the
Tremorton Mall with big smiles on their faces.P
Tuck handed a set of photos over to Brad.P Thanks for paying for the double prints, he said.

Oh, believe me, little bro, it was my pleasure.P Wow, these disposable cameras actually take
a really nice picture, dont they?

Id like to think so, said Tuck.P He flipped through the pictures, admiring his photography
skills.P There was Jenny hiding behind a
fake tree, next to Dr. Wakeman.P And
there was Sheldon running behind Jenny in the mall.P And there was Sheldon making goo-goo eyes at
Jenny after catching the robot.

You do know what this means, dont you? grinned
Brad.

Oh yeah, grinned Tuck.P
It means weve got volunteers to rake our yard, shovel our driveway,
and mow our lawn for a long, long time.

THE END