Space Pirates 3: Russel's Revenge by Amber Riel (sad books to read .txt) 📕

          “Okay.”

          Zelda and John walked away from the other two.

          “What?” John asked.

          Zelda made sure that Olivia and Ben were out of ear shot.  “If you and Olivia ever get married, don’t let her cook.”

          “Okay.”  John knew that Zelda had more to say than just that.  “Is that all?”

          “Yes.”  Zelda thought for a second.  “WAIT!  No, don’t forget about Ben’s surprise party next Tuesday.”

          They walked back to Olivia and Ben.

          “What was that about?” Olivia asked.

          John put his arm around her.  He smiled.  “I’ll tell you later.”

          “We never decided on how we were going to stop my grandfather and the three turtles under him.”  Zelda had wished that Leo and Russel never told her the truth.  When people said that the truth hurts, they were right.  It hurt.  Zelda still didn’t want to believe that her grandfather killed her parents and now they both wanted to kill her.

          “You’re right,” Olivia agreed.

          “We’re just going to spy on them right now though and then we’ll go and talk to the cops.”  Zelda thought for a second.  “If Gregory makes me mad though, I swear I will attack him.”

          Peter walked over to them.  “Where are we going, captain?”

          Zelda suddenly felt anger burst through her for nothing.  “WE’RE GOING TO BLAZE!  HOW MANY TIMES DO I HAVE TO TELL YOU?!  NOW GO!”

          They all looked at Zelda, shocked.  She never really got mad, especially for no reason.

          Peter was afraid.  “I was just asking.”  He walked away before Zelda exploded.

          “What was that about?” Ben asked.

          “Yea.  He just asked a question,” Olivia stated.

         “I don’t know.”  Zelda realized what happened.  She felt bad because Peter didn’t do or say anything to yell at him for.

          “You guys think that was weird,” John jumped in.  “Yesterday, she was eating a peanut butter, banana, and fish sandwich.”

          “Really?” Ben asked.  “You hate fish.”

          Zelda smiled.  “Yea, but for some reason, I was craving it.”

          “Peanut butter and banana is good,” Olivia said, “but peanut butter, banana, and fish, now that’s just gross.”

          “Honestly,” Zelda admitted, “it taste better than it sounds.”

          “Ok-ay.” 

          Larry snuck on a cargo ship which was headed for Blaze.  “I’m going to become a pirate,” he told himself.  “I’ll find Zelda’s ship and sneak on it, no one will know.”  He thought about Gregory and how disappointed he would be.  “Gregory isn’t going to be happy though.”

          Larry hid in the storage area and found a gun and a sword.  “Good.  I killed two birds with one stone.  I have a gun and a sword.  I just hope that the gun is full.”  He picked up the gun.  He pressed a button on the side and a word formed on the side of it.  “Oh man…. It’s empty.”  He looked up at the boxes and thought about something.  “I got it.”  He read the sides of the boxes until he came up to one that read guns and lasers.  He used the sword to open it.

          When the box was opened, he took ten little boxes of lasers.  He opened a box of lasers which looked to be like a C battery.  He placed it inside of the gun.  He felt the cargo ship vibrate and knew that it was leaving the planet.  He also knew that he wasn’t ever coming back to Pluto.  “Well, this is the last time that I’ll ever see Pluto again.”  He felt bad for Gregory, but he was tired of being stuck on one planet.  He wanted to explore space, no matter how dangerous it was.

          Gregory knocked on Larry’s bedroom door.  “Larry, wake up, buddy.  You have to get ready for school.”

          Larry didn’t respond.

          “Larry.”

          Larry still didn’t answer.

          “Larry.”

          Larry still didn’t respond.

          Gregory was starting to get angry.  Larry usually answered him by this time.  He couldn’t understand it.  “Okay, Larry, this is starting to make me mad.  If you don’t answer me, then I’m coming in.”

          Larry still didn’t answer.

          Gregory was ticked off.  “THAT’S IT!  I’M COMING IN!”  He opened the door and walked in.  He noticed the blanket.  He walked over to the bed and moved the blanket to find a pillow.  “He’s gone.  Why?”

          Zelda and Ben were in the captain’s office.  Zelda was sitting on the chair, and Ben was relaxing on the bed.

          “So, do you remember what you were going to tell me yet?” Ben asked.

          Zelda smiled.  “Actually yea.  I’m….”

          Someone knocked on the door.

          “COME IN!”

          Olivia walked in, carrying a bag of chocolate cake.  “You two weren’t about to do anything, were you?”

          “No.”  Zelda was disappointed because she was going to tell Ben something and again Olivia ruined it.  “We were just talking.”

          “Okay.  Good.”  Olivia placed the bag on the desk.  “Here, John said that you guys liked the cake so much that you guys wanted me to bring it here.”

          Zelda looked at the bag, wide-eyed.  She looked at Olivia and faked a smile.  She didn’t want to hurt Olivia’s feelings.  “Oh he did.  Well, thank you, but you didn’t have to.  I mean you really didn’t have to.”

          “I know,” Olivia laughed, “but I wanted to.  Well, I got to go.  Will wanted to talk to me about something.”

          “Okay.”

          Olivia left.

          Zelda lost the smile and looked at the cake.  She had no idea what she was going to do with it.  “I can’t believe that your brother would do this to us.  We need to talk to him.”

          “We?” Ben didn’t want to get dragged into John’s mess.

          “Okay fine.  I need to talk to him.”  Zelda stood up and started walking to the door.  When she got to the door, she turned to face Ben.  “I just want you to know that if he gets killed it’s not my fault.”

          Ben laughed.  He stood up and walked over to his lovely wife.  “So, you’re going to kill him because had his girlfriend bring us that gross cake.”

          Zelda also laughed.  “That’s exactly what I’m going to do.  Would you like to watch, Sweeny Todd?”

          They shared a kiss.

          “I would love too, Miss Lovett.  But isn’t it Sweeny, who does the killing?”

          “Not today.”  Zelda opened the door and they walked out.

          Zelda and Ben walked onto the deck of the Black Velvet.  They noticed that John was over by a pole which led up to the crow’s nest.  “Hey, Scooby-Dumb, can you explain to us why Scooby-Doo brought us a bag of that really gross cake?” she asked.

          John noticed that Zelda was kind of ticked off at him.  He had to explain to her what happened.  “Well, she offered me a piece, and if I said, ‘No,’ I would of felt bad, so I said, ‘Yea,’” he admitted.  “When I was eating it, I told her that you two would like it, so I kind of gave her the idea to bring it to you guys….” He paused.  “At least, you two can get rid of it, but I had to eat it, and she was watching me as I ate.  I forced myself to eat it.”

          Zelda decided to leave John alone about it.  She just needed to get rid of the cake though.  “Well, we can’t get rid of it.  With my luck, she’ll catch us….” She thought for a second.  “Wait.  I have an idea.”

          “You do.  What?” Ben asked.

          “We can use it to distract the bad guys.  It works.”

          “But they won’t eat all of it,” John pointed out.

          “I know,” Zelda paused, “but they’ll have to throw it away, and when they do we can walk into the castle, because they’re going to need to get that taste out of their mouth.”

          “Oh.”

          Will and Olivia were in the dining room on the Black Velvet.  They were sitting at the table, next to each other.

          “If you break up with John,” Will told Olivia, “and go out with me, I could give you whatever you want.  Because I am a prince, you will become my princess, Olivia.”  He took her hand.

          Olivia looked into his beautiful dark blue, fiery eyes.  “I would love that…. But I can’t just break up with John.”

          “Forget about John,” he told her.  He gripped her hand, tighter.  He was determined to win Olivia’s heart.  “He can’t give you what you want.  He can’t give you your desires.  I can though.”

          Olivia knew that Will was right.  She was confused.  They went to kiss when….

          “No.”  Olivia couldn’t believe what she had almost done.  She stood up and backed away from Will.  “I can’t do this.  I can’t do this to John.”  She felt as if she wanted to cry.  “He’s my boyfriend.  I’m really confused right now.  I have to go talk to Zelda.”  She walked around the table to get to the door.

          “I understand.  Go and think this through.”

          Olivia left.

          Zelda, Ben, and John were still talking about the plan and what they were going to do.

          “So, who’s going to tell Olivia the plan?” Zelda asked.

          “Not me,” John and Ben said.

          Zelda dropped her mouth.  “So, I have to tell her?”

          “Yep,” John answered.

          “Pretty much,” Ben agreed.

          Olivia walked over to them.  “Zelda, I need to talk to you.”  She grabbed Zelda’s arm and started dragging her.

          “Okay.”  Zelda was confused.  She looked back at Ben and John who were waving at her.

          “GOOD LUCK!” Ben called to her.

          Zelda and Olivia were in the captain’s office on the Black Velvet.  “I’m in trouble,” Olivia said, freaking out, “you have to help me, Zelda….”

          “Okay, but just so you know John, Ben, and I came up with a plan to distract the bad guys….”

          “Will was telling me all these different reasons why I should break up with John, and go out with him….”

          Zelda and Olivia weren’t really paying any attention to what was being said by the other.  They were kind of ignoring each other.

          “Okay.  Anyways, we’re going to use your really yummy cake to distract them….”

          “He said, ‘How unlike John,’ he could give me what I want, my desires, and