Fri, 20 Oct 2000 




REVENGE
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  by
Stephni 
   &
Tristan



     Sherri continued to fume, even after she
arrived at that Non-Reality dimension called
College. Imagine forcing her into a situation where she
kept getting "whammied" by the Vampires at other
people's behest.  She WOULD  get her revenge, it
was just a matter of how.
     Unfortunately everything that she could think
of needed the help of someone else.  But who?
Steph was hibernating, Daygold and Cyn were
playing at the military base in Barstow.
     That left......Tristan.  And knowing his
past exploits, she knew he HAD to be up to
something, especially since he has been lurking
in his room for so long.
     So, the next chance she got, she headed back
to the castle.

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   Sherri, sneaked down to the caverns where
Tristan had his room, and knocked.  Inside she
heard a lot of movement, before Tristan called
out "Yeah!"
     "Open up it's Sherri."
     She watched as the door opened a crack.
     "You're supposed to be in school."
     "Yeah, well I need some help."
     Tristan looked at her for a moment,
wondering if this was some kind of joke. Then,
after telling Sparky to move out of the way, he
slowly opened the door to let her in.

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     Once inside, she looked around to find a
combination of a normal adolecent boy's room 
(complete with Kiss posters,  unmade bed, & and
messy floor) and mercenary room (with various
guns, bows, & crossbows hanging on the walls)  He
had counters against three of the walls, covered
with tools, toys, and....let's not E.V.E.N think
about it.  And a rather large blood red blanket
covering the wall opposite the door she had just
entered.
     She looked down at Tristan, who was sitting
on the floor next to Sparky, and sighed, this was 
going to be harder than she thought.

     Tristan looked up at her, and finally broke
the silence with: "Yeah...what do you need?"
     "You remember when several people had me
being "whammied" by the resident vampires?"
     Tristan nodded.
    "Well I want to get even. "
    "Okay"
    "And like I said I'll some help."
     Tristan looked at her as though she was
speaking in tounges, then looked at Sparky, then
at Sherri again.
"Uh-huh...Where's the candid camera?"  Sparky
nodded in agreement.
     "I mean it Tristan. I need your help.  Like
you said, I'm supposed to be at school.  If I
start to wander around the castle, people are
going to notice."
     Tristan nodded to himself as he thought
about what she had said.  "What do you have in
mind?"

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     Tab finished adjusting her toolbelt, "So
just were exactly did you get the maps?"
     Tristan gave her a sly look, "I have my ways."
     "In other words, I don't want to know right?"
     Tristan grinned, then pointed upwards,  "You
want the right or the left crawlspace?"
     "Ummm...right."
     "Right lets go."

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     Steph came up from the caverns looking
around at the upper levels.  Finally spotting
Abra, she called out, "Hey, Abra, can we borrow your Vats?"
     Abra looked away from her various dials to
Steph, wondering just what she was up to.
After all, she HAD been fairly quiet
lately...except for that comment that got Mommy
Teri to climb on that soapbox.  That had been
fun.  Well, why not, Abra knew she could always
overide if the need arose. And it might be fun.
     "Okay."

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     Sherri and Tristan went over everything
again, then along with their helpers, went to
their asigned places.

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     It began simple enough, a small misreading
in the enviromental systems.  Causing a reading
of smoke in the castle.  Thus causing the
sprinkler systems to come online.
     As the readings became stronger, the systems
reacted by checking each area of the castle.
While sighting no fire, the systems registered
even more smoke. And now...heat.
     This was all that was needed to ignite the
spinkler systems, which in turn mysteriously
activated the Vats.

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     The screams could be heard thoughout DenialLand 
as each of the castle's residents found that
they had a clone, and that now that clone was
disintegrated.  To add insult to injury, they
were each now also wet from the sprinklers and the
Vats.  No place was safe from the water.  From
top to bottom each room and each hiddy-hole was
wet.

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     The real Lacroix looked down at the angry
residents, his arm on Tristan's shoulder.
     "Good.  Very good my apprentice."  Lacroix
patted him on the shoulder.
     He looked over at Sherri, who moved forward
to the railing.   "I trust, my dear, that this
will satisfy you?"
     Sherri nodded reluctently, knowing that this
was likely the best she would get.
     Lacroix looked down again at the residents.
     "For your information, my dears, My son is
preparing for his stay with Gersgal, where as the
Spaniard has just discovered that all of his
personal things are now clean as is trying to
rectify the situation. And as for myself...As soon as Renee has
activated the cloning machines, she and I will
depart..  Now if you will excuse me."

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Epilog

     With the aid of person or persons who will
remain unnamed Sherri was able to escape the castle 
and go back to school.
     Sparky and Daygold quickly cleaned up the
mess and prepared the castle
for....whoops...that's another story.
     And each of the residents was able to get
their clone before retiring to bed.

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Stephni / Danu40k
Tristan / LCspawn