Hello guys! Nice to see you! I was playing Monopoly with my brother yesterday and I thought, I wonder how the Lab Rats characters would end up playing this game? So I wrote this... And by the way, I think the characters are a bit OOC, but this is purely for some 'family' themed comedy entertainment, nothing more, so I think that's kind of okay. :) So please, read on and review!
Donald Davenport was finally alone in his lab. The kids were all upstairs- where they'd been for the entire day! He couldn't remember having more fun alone.
"Tinkering away happily, right into the sunset." He mumbled, then frowned. "I need to work on a better happy ending."
He paused his train of thought to adjust a wire. Move this slightly an I'm almost done. There you- the elevator opened, and Donald jumped, yanking aside the wire. He groaned. He'd been so close! He turned to see who had come to visit him- and it was none other than the ladies of the house- Bree and Tasha.
"Hey Donald!" Tasha said with an overly friendly smile. "Watcha doin'?" She sat on the armrest of his chair, and Davenport was sure something was up.
"Hey." He said. "Just working...peacefully…without anybody here." He hinted, but Tasha laughed as if it was a joke and gestured to Bree.
"Go ahead, Bree." she said.
"So...Mr. Davenport!" Bree said. Nope. This was not the sarcastic, witty Bree that Donald knew. She was being way too sweet. "You know how desperately I want to be normal?"
"I'm not going take you to the mall Bree." Davenport said, turning back to his work.
"No, wait!" Bree protested, spinning her adoptive father's chair back towards herself again. She sighed. "Well, I thought that we could do something...together...Not the mall! Something else..." Bree said. She was trying to hint at a concert she really wanted to go to. She'd been talking about it for weeks, but you needed somebody over the age of 21 to get in.
"Yeah, Donald, she told me that...so I decided that all of us should play a board game!" Tasha exclaimed. "You guys will LOVE it! I borrowed it from Grandma Rose!"
Donald and Bree were surprised. "A board game?" Donald said, turning to Bree. "Seriously? Why don't we just go draw on walls with cavemen?"
Bree threw her hands up. "That wasn't what I was going for!" She protested. "I-" but she was cut off as Tasha stood up and walked upstairs.
"I'm going run set it up! You guys are going have SUCH fun!"
"But Tasha-" Donald protested. Tasha gave him her signature glare, and he backed down as she stepped into the elevator. Davenport turned to Bree. "If I'm gonna be tortured, everybody else is going down with me." He said. "Round up the boys. The end has come."
-Monopoly-
A few minutes later the boys and Bree were watching Tasha set up the game board.
"Seriously, Mom?" Leo sighed. "Monopoly? Why don't we just go draw on walls with cavemen?"
"Exactly!" Donald whispered to Leo.
"I'm outta here." Adam said, turning, but Tasha caught his sleeve.
"Uh uh uh." She said. "Anybody who leaves gives up their phones for a week. Adam- you'll lose your cartoons. And Chase and Donald will have to keep Adam from attacking the TV when the cartoons are on."
Chase and Davenport looked at each other in fear. The last time they'd received that death sentence, they'd both been sore for weeks. When Adam wants his cartoons, even a missile won't stop him. The two looked at each other hurriedly. "I'm in." They both said at the same time.
Bree and Leo groaned. "I'm doin' this for you, dear phone." Leo sighed, flopping down onto the ground, Bree reluctantly following with a pained expression.
Adam was last- he sat down with a defiant expression. "Don't worry, Smurfs! I won't betray you!" He declared, seemingly to nobody.
Chase rolled his eyes at the bag of rocks that just happened to be his older brother. "Are you sure I'm related to this idiot?" Chase mumbled.
"Are you sure I'm related to this little girl?" Adam shot back. "Get it? I mean you look like a girl and-"
"I get it." Chase rolled his eyes. "So how do you play?"
Tasha put her hands on her hips. "Don't tell me you don't know how to play!"
"I don't know how to play." Chase said defiantly.
"None of you do?" Tasha asked, cocking her head in disbelief.
"Well, sorry Mom, but the age of cavemen is over." Leo said, slowly getting up.
"Get back here, young man!" Tasha said loudly. "Okay, let's start by picking game pieces. We have eight pieces. Bree, why don't you pick first?"
"No fair, she always goes first!" Adam exclaimed.
"Fine, Adam, you pick." Bree said, not caring either way.
"Ooh! They have french fries!" He exclaimed, picking up a tiny, gray, metal edition of McDonald's french fries. "I wanna try eating some!"
Chase grabbed his brother's hand before he could attempt it though. "No, Adam. You can't eat that."
Adam pouted, and Tasha sighed. "Okay, now Bree." Bree looked through the pieces in Tasha's hand.
"Hmm." She mumbled. "Running shoe." she shrugged. "Works for me."
Tasha moved her hand to Chase next. "Ooh, I want the thirty year old laptop!" Chase said in a high pitched voice and rolled his eyes, poking at the little metal laptop that was in Tasha's hand. "You got a newer model?"
Tasha sighed. "Pick already!"
Chase sighed and took the little laptop. "No fair!" Donald sighed. "I wanted that!"
"There's more pieces, Donald." Tasha sighed, and dropped a little car in his hand. Finally, Leo chose a little airplane (not without giving his mother a pouty face, though) and Tasha took a little coffee mug.
"Aren't these cute?" Adam exclaimed, poking his french fries. "Look Chase, they finally made stuff in your size!"
Chase pretended not to hear the comment. He was not in the mood for short jokes today. But when Davenport, Leo, and Bree all giggled, he gritted his teeth and turned to Leo and Donald. "What are you laughing at? Both of you are shorter than me!"
"It's still funny!" Leo laughed.
"Funny…" Chase growled. "What's funny is that you're about to lose horribly at this game- to me!"
"Is that a challenge?"
"I guess it is." Chase smirked. "How about…the losers have to do the chores this weekend and the winner gets the day off?"
"Done." Leo said.
"Hey!" Bree protested, watching her brothers shake hands. "The rest of us never agreed! You can't throw us in!"
"Sorry honey-" Leo grinned. "Don't get stuck in the crossfire next time!" Bree slumped, scowling.
"Just great."
-Monopoly-
-One Hour Later-
"This game is sooo boring…" Davenport groaned. "I can't survive this…"
"Donald!" Tasha said, slapping his shoulder. "At least act interested. Why don't you build a house? You've got all the red cards."
Donald groaned and complied. For some reason, spending all that money made him sad- even if it was fake.
In a few turns, he had a hotel on each card.
"Great, now what?" He asked.
"Just wait." Tasha said, and Donald wanted to just go to bed.
-Monopoly-
-Fifteen Minutes Later-
"NOOO!" Adam cried as he landed on one of his father's red squares.
"HA HA!" Donald yelled. "You're done for! Hand everything over!" He started flipping through the bills and gazing at the fake money. "You're out, Adam!"
Donald got up and starting dancing. "Money money money money money money money!" He yelled, like a crazed maniac.
"All that for a few million dollars, Mr. Billionaire?" Bree scowled, upset that she'd probably be stuck on chore duty after a boring game instead of going to a concert.
Davenport straightened himself up. "Of course not. I'm just happy that YOU'RE LOSING!" He laughed, laughing at his entire family.
Chase rolled his eyes. "We'll see about that." Second place out of everyone left, Chase wouldn't go down without a fight. "And it's just a game, anyway." Nobody noticed his phone behind him as he quickly memorized Monopoly cheats. He was good to go.
-Monopoly-
-One Hour Later-
Chase was sitting back on the couch comfortably. "Well, well, well." He said with a smile. "Who's losing now?" Donald sat at the board, his face melancholy.
"Where did I go wrong?" He said quietly. "I BET YOU'RE CHEATING, CHASE!"
Chase was taken aback. Sure, he'd kind of cheated…but he's just looked up the game strategy! To level the playing field! Since Adam, Bree, and him didn't know how to play before now! That wasn't bad, right?
Then he remembered rule three of the strategy- never, ever pity the opponent. Play to win. No mercy. And it was just a game- which meant that Chase would run wild. With an evil grin, Chase began planning his next move. He was going to be the king of this game!
-Monopoly-
-Ten Minutes Later-
"You really want to make that trade, Chase?" Donald asked with a sly smirk.
"Yes, yes I do." Chase said without hesitation.
"If you want…." Davenport barely swallowed his excitement. He could win again!
-Monopoly-
-Thirty Minutes Later-
"You're out, Tasha." Chase grinned inwardly. Everything was going according to plan. Donald was on a power trip, Bree was near losing, Leo was surviving, and he was right where he wanted to be- in a safe place near the middle. Calculating the probability of getting the number he wanted, he dropped the dice on the board. Seven. Perfect.
-Monopoly-
-One Hour Later-
"I'm hungry…" Adam groaned. "Can you guys hurry up already?"
"Winning takes time, Adam. Not that you'd know, anyway." Chase teased, but the comment didn't even bother Adam, who was too busy yanking something out from under the couch.
"I'll order a pizza." Tasha said, still slightly dejected that she'd have to do chores now.
When Tasha got up, it was Bree's turn. She rolled the dice, and she swallowed. Nine. She carefully moved her piece nine squares, leaving it square on what was equivalent to a landmine. One of Chase's squares, also the most expensive on the board- not to mention the little hotel sitting on the square. Twenty million dollars for her to pay- she didn't have that much. All her deeds were mortgaged and she had barely a few million. Chase grinned evilly.
"Um…look at that!" Bree pointed, and the idiots her family consisted of, they all turned, and Bree reached over with her super-speed and grabbed a few five million bills from the bank and stuck them under her leg. "Oh, it was just a bird. Huh." She laughed. "Now for the rent payment…" Bree pretended to notice the money sticking out from under her leg. "Oh, looks like I can afford it, phew." She remarked, picking up the bright yellow bills. "Here Chase!"
Chase simply smirked. "You got that from the bank, didn't you? When you told us to look the other way?"
"What?!" Bree exclaimed, acting offended. "Is that what you think I am? A cheater?"
"Give it up, Bree. We all know you were broke. Now hand everything over." Bree grumbled and she handed over her deeds, and went to do something with her phone on the couch. Chase organized his abundant deed center and turned to Leo and Davenport. "Let's finish this, shall we?"
Leo gulped. He was gonna go down, he just knew it.
-Monopoly-
-Ten Minutes Later-
"Dangit!" Leo said, slamming his fist on the ground. "I'm out!" he handed everything over to his stepfather and went to watch the game from the sidelines with the rest of his family, chomping on pizza. "Who do you think is gonna win?" Leo asked, elbowing Bree.
"I could care less. I'm stuck with chores now….!" She groaned.
"Totally Chase." Adam said. "Have you seen him? If he loses he's gonna use his lady golfer club to putt Mr. Davenport to the moon!"
Tasha shrugged. "If Donald loses, he's gonna be in a pouty mood til he gets back at Chase somehow- and when he does, he won't shut his mouth for eternity." She offered.
The kids shivered. Both outcomes were horrific- which fate would the family end up suffering through? A moody, then obnoxious Davenport? Or an angry, seething Chase? Only time could tell.
-Monopoly-
-Two Hours Later-
The showdown went on for hours. Roll the dice, pay the rent, roll the dice, pay the rent- it was all going down. But just as Chase had calculated, the trade he had made had put him one deed behind, but one of the deeds he had, Donald landed on almost every single time. It was a perfect. Most of the family had fallen asleep, unable to take the suspense of which fate would befall them, but Chase had known all along.
"You're out, Mr. Davenport!" Chase yelled, effectively waking up the sleeping family members.
"So it's moody and vengeful Big D then." Leo whispered to Bree, who made a face. "Hey, it's better than a potential Spike, right?"
Bree shrugged. "If Mr. Davenport gets revenge on Chase for winning, there's probably gonna be his face plastered over everything and he'll have his own theme song."
"He has a theme song already!" Leo exclaimed, then turned back to Donald and Chase
"No…" Davenport mumbled. "THIS CAN'T BE!"
Chase smirked. "Oh, but it is, Mr. Davenport. Or should I say, Mr. Loser?"
Donald rose, super slowly. "It's over. It's all over." He walked, seemingly in slow motion, down to lab.
"Well, glad that's over." Adam said, stretching. "Gotta go to bed so I can get up early for cartoons tomorrow."
"Uh uh uh Adam!" Chase said, mimicking Tasha from earlier. "You got some chores to do tomorrow…I think your cartoons will have to wait." He smiled evilly. "I have the list of chores set and ready. Better get your sleep, you have a busy day tomorrow!" He declared, and with that, he was off to his capsule, leaving an aggravated family behind him.
"Maybe we shouldn't wait for Donald to take revenge on him." Bree said slowly. "We should do it ourselves!"
"You suck at pranks, Bree." Leo rolled his eyes. "Remember last time?"
Tasha nodded. "Well, I'm here…I could be a help."
"Hey, what about me?" Adam said loudly.
"Yes, you too. Let's get planning!" Leo said rubbing his hands. "Time to get even!"
-Monopoly-
Chase grinned as he turned off his super-hearing. Suckers. He knew what they were planning, and it would backfire on them for sure. He couldn't wait.
Thanks for reading, everyone! Please tell me if you think I should add one more (and only one more) chapter where revenge goes down, or if I should leave it! If I get less than five 'write another chapter' reviews, I probably won't do it. If I get five or more, I'll write one, deal? I'd normally write it, but I'm not sure if I want to, so I'm leaving it up to you to inspire me. :) And if you want me to write one, please give me some suggestions in the review box below and I will try to include everything I can. :D Thanks everyone!
~Lea