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Notes: her friends call her grape.
~ Massive crab’s story A.K.A. Mkay6 ~
Chapter 1: homecoming
There once was a Poptropican who was not special in any way. She was 9 years old, had black hair, eyes that were sky-blue, her went to school at PS 101 at shrink ray island, he lived at a tower in one of the Poptropica towers on early Poptropica island, his best friends were C.J. and Ned Noodlehead from super power island, and her name was Massive crab. The only special thing about her was that he used to be in his school’s technology/chemistry club.
One day, Grape went to C.J.’s house after school to help her create her latest invention, a cloning device. He was pretty excited about it, because he thought they’d be rich, since C.J. said they could make the clone do anything they wanted if we added it to their programming, so they could sell robot servants. And, unlike where we live, Poptropica has no cloning devices, and the president of Poptropica said that he would make cloning humans Poptropicans legal if it existed. They were just about finished when C.J. said that they needed an energy source more powerful than Poptropica’s sun, so Grape thought that their chances of getting rich were ruined, since the only energy source that big belonged to the Binary Bard, and he lives in another galaxy, so they could never get to him.
At 3:00 Grape and C.J. went to see Ned Noodlehead at the comic shop. They read some comics, played some checkers, fought a few copy cats (One of her copies got out and made more copies), read some more comics (Ned had quite a few of them), and then got ready to go home. But just as they were about to leave, Ned said, “I heard you need an energy source to get rich.”
“Yeah. We do,” Grape and C.J. responded.
“Well I think I know where you can get one.”
Grape’s eyes widened. “You do?” He said in disbelief.
“Just take a look at this newspaper.”
Ned handed him the newspaper and Grape read aloud, “Scientist discovers two identical maps to jewel that came from the galaxy of the Binary Bard, has five hundred trillion as much energy as the sun, and is worth 8 hundred trillion dollars. The maps will be given to the highest bidder at Saturday’s auction.”
“This is awesome!” said Ned. “We could be rich!”
“That sounds interesting,” Grape said. “But I really need to get home by dinner or my parents will start worrying.”
“Me too,” Said C.J.”But we can talk about it tomorrow.”
“Okay,” Ned said with a sigh. “See you tomorrow.”
The next day was Saturday, so Grape had the day off from school. It was 8:30 A.M. “RIINNGG!” went his alarm clock. “Huh?” Grape said, sleepy. “Just ten more minutes…” He pressed the snooze button. “RRIIIINNNGGG!” It went. “Huh?” he asked. He pressed the snooze button again. It rang louder. “Another faulty alarm clock?!” He said, grumpily. He pressed the off button instead of the snooze button. The ringing got even louder. “Stupid alarm clock!” He said as he took a hammer off a shelf. He slammed the hammer onto the alarm clock to break it and stop the ringing. “That’s the 48th faulty alarm clock she’s made! When is C.J. going to make a working alarm clock?!” he said angrily.
He went to his closet to change out of his pajamas. Once he was dressed, he found a note he wrote to himself to talk to Ned and C.J. about the cloning device. So he went to the comic shop to find C.J. and Ned waiting outside for him. “You made another faulty alarm clock,” he said as he walked up to C.J.
“Again?!” she asked. “Yep,” Grape answered. “Hey, guys, let’s go inside. They just shrugged and went inside. “So, how are we gonna get that jewel?” Ned asked the others.
“We don’t know!” said Grape. “Why did we even plan to do this? Only rich people can afford one of those maps! I thought that we were gonna talk about getting a different energy source!”
“I didn’t think about that…” Said Ned.
“Wait!” said C.J. Grape and Ned looked at her.
C.J. took out of her backpack (Which Grape had not noticed) a large piece of paper. “I was up all night making this plan!” she said.
She pointed to a picture of Gretchen Grimlock at the auction. “Gretchen Grimlock is the richest and greediest person in Poptropica the most likely person to win both the maps,” She pointed to a picture of a piece of paper on a conveyor belt to an incinerator. “She’s also one of the most predictable people in Poptropica She’s most likely to use her disintegrator to destroy one of the maps so that nobody can steal it from her and try to get the jewel themselves.” She pointed to a picture of herself shooting a laser at a control panel. “She has an incinerator?” asked Grape. “Rich people have everything,” C.J. answered. “We can use a piece of rope from kitty’s kites tied to ourselves and someone holding the other end to fall down her chimney without falling. Gretchen should be asleep by the time we get there. She has one of the slowest conveyor belts in Poptropica so we should have plenty of time. Once we get into the house, we’ll go into the hall with the room with the incinerator, although the incinerator is guarded with hundreds of security lasers, so we can’t get to the incinerator. But lasers can’t track other lasers, so we can use my shrink ray to shrink the wires in one of the laser shooters, making it too small for the computer’s signals to travel through it. The laser will go out, causing a chain reaction, making all the other lasers go out. Then we sneak in and take the map, look inside it and then try to get to the jewel before Grimlock does.”
There was silence, and then Ned and Grape said together, “You’re BRILLIANT!”
C.J. blushed. “Thank you!” She responded. “So, if that’s the plan, then we’ll be leaving at…” She took a calculator out of her backpack and started dialing. Then she looked at her watch. “… 7:30 P.M.” She continued. “And I think that we should disguise Ned as room service so that he can place a hidden camera that Grape and I made to find out when she goes to sleep and how long we’ll have until the map is incinerated.” Grape and Ned both agreed so two hours later they went to the apartment where she lives, and if you’ve seen a 50 foot tall building, then you know what it looks like. They went in.
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chapter 2: homecoming 2

Ned rang the bell on the counter.
“Hello, how can I help you?” asked the person behind the counter.
“I’m here to apply for room service,” Ned answered.
“Oh, good, Gretchen Grimlock needs you to deliver her some lunch,” The person behind the counter said as he handed Ned a lunch box. “She lives on room 4, floor 6. So Ned took the elevator up to floor 6 and walked to room 4 and knocked on the door.
“Room service!” He said.
“Finally!” Gretchen responded.
So Ned went in and put the lunchbox on a table, and while Gretchen wasn’t looking, he put a camouflage camera in a potted plant. So he left the room and went back to the ground floor and told the person behind the counter, “I quit.”
“You quit? But you haven’t even served 2 people!”
“I know,” He answered.
So Ned went outside to meet Grape and C.J. waiting for him.
“So… what do we do now?” Ned asked.
“We wait till tomorrow’s auction, I guess,” Said C.J.
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chapter 3: ned breaks the forth wall.

The next day…
Grape, Ned, and C.J. were at the cryptids island auction house waiting for Grimlock to win the maps.
The auctioneer was talking fast the whole time, and this is how it went:
“Okay, Okay! The price starts at 50,000 dollars, anyone got 50,000 dollars?”
“50,000!” Said someone in the crowd.
“70,000!” Said Grimlock.
“70,000, going once, going twice, going-” said the auctioneer until he was interrupted.
“100,000!” Said someone else.
“300,000!” said Gretchen.
“500,000!” Said somebody else.
“800,000!” Said Gretchen.
“1 Million!” Said someone else.
Gretchen looked annoyed. “700 Million!” She yelled.
Everyone in the room gasped.
“1 Billion!” Somebody else yelled.
“400 Billion!” Yelled Gretchen.
“450 Billion!” Yelled someone else.
Now Grimlock looked really angry. If being annoyed could kill, then everyone in Poptropica would be dead.
“950 Trillion!!!” Screamed Gretchen.
Everybody, including the auctioneer, gasped and there was complete silence, so quiet that you could hear the flutter of butterfly’s wings, until the auctioneer said, “950 Trillion, going once, going twice, going three times, and, SOLD! To Gretchen Grimlock!”
So Gretchen gave the auctioneer about 300 suitcases full of money and left with the two maps, not knowing that C.J., Grape, and Ned were following her.
That Night…
“So how long have we got left?” Ned asked C.J.
“We have…” Said C.J. She looked at her cell phone. “About 45 minutes.”
They were outside the apartment where Grimlock lived.
“Oh, bad news, guys,” Said C.J. “Gretchen doesn’t have a fireplace. I thought this was an apartment that has a chimney. We’re gonna need a new plan.”

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