Just something I thought up while I was at Meijer. There weren't any gun-toting robbers holding up the store. Makes you wonder if this would actually work though. Sorry for any spelling/grammar mistakes.

Disclaimer: I don't own Ranger's Apprentice.

Will, Halt, Gilan, and Crowley sat at Halt's kitchen table sipping the coffee Pauline had brewed before she left for a meeting with Baron Arald.

"Will," Crowley said, "what are you doing today?"

Will shrugged. "Nothing really. Well, Gilan and I have to stop by the store later today."

"What store and why are you and Gilan going together?" Halt asked.

"This really big new store that has everything. And I'm going with Gilan 'cause almost the only time I get to see my friends is when we're trying to stop people from invading Araluen or saving people's lives," Will answered.

Crowley nodded. "Good point."

"Hey, you two wanna come?" Gilan asked.

Halt and Crowley glanced at each other then shrugged. "Sure. Why not?" Halt said.

SEVERAL HOURS LATER . . .

Halt, Crowley, Gilan, and Will stood in the middle of the produce section of the brand new store that Will had told them about.

"Do we need anything here?" Gilan asked.

Halt nodded. "Pauline said she wanted green peppers." They turned toward the stand of peppers.

Just then, a mean wearing a ski mask ran into the store. He held an odd metal contraption and pointed it at one of the clerks. "Give me all your money and valuables and no one will get hurt!" he shouted.

But the Rangers weren't going to obey this ski mask wearing man. Halt grabbed some nearby cucumbers and threw them at the man's head. Gilan snuck up on the man and thwacked him from behind with a stick of rhubarb.

"Ow!" the man yelled and dropped the metal contraption. He turned toward Gilan. "I'll get you for that!"

Luckily, Crowley grabbed a bottle of some organic juice, opened it, and splashed it all over the man. The man turned to face Crowley, a snarl on his face.

Gilan thwapped the back of the man's head with a rotten banana. The man turned around again, and Will squirted juice from half a grapefruit into his eyes. He screamed and clutched his face. Halt chucked a coconut at him. He fell to the ground, unconscious.

Crowley surveyed the wreckage to the store. "Wait—why didn't we just use our bows?"

Definitely one of my weirder fics but hopefully you enjoyed it. And thwapped is now a word. Please review! And please do not try this the next time an armed gunman holds up your local grocery store.