Craig of the Creek: The Movie

Chapter 11

Bernard drove them near a neighborhood on the other side of town. Kelsey looked up the address for Louie on Bridget's tracking device and found it.

"This must be the place." Kelsey said as they found his home.

"Bernard, you can let us right here. We need to follow that guy." Craig said.

"But I'm in the no parking zone." Bernard said.

"We gotta follow that guy, he's got the key." J.P. said.

"I'll park the van down further." Bernard said.

"But we'll lose him by then." Craig said.

"Ugh! We don't have time for this!" Kelsey said as she open the van door and the rest of them got out.

"Hey! My kid brother." Bernard sighed.

Craig, Kelsey, J.P. and Mortimer were following Louie as Craig was using Bridget's high tech binoculars. They saw him entering a restaurant with a sign that says, "No one under 21 can enter."

"Guys, I may be the older kid, but were way under 21." J.P. said.

"Maybe we can get in around back. Come on, I have an idea." Craig said as they went to the back.

In the restaurant, Craig, Kelsey and J.P. were posing as a waiter while Craig was on top with a fake mustache, while Kelsey and J.P. were on bottom. They use Bridget's microphone to listen to what Louie and his female companion were saying.

"J.P. go left. No the other left." Craig said as J.P. were moving away from Louie side.

"I got him." Kelsey whispered.

"What are they saying?" Craig said while looking down in the long waiter shirt.

"Mr. Michaelson wants to know, if the key is safe." said the female companion.

"Yes. 'Course it's safe. I got it right here." Louie said.

"Well that's good. He just wants to make sure it doesn't fall into the wrong hands." said the female companion as Mortimor took pictures of Louie having the key on his little bowtie.

"Guys, the key! He's got the key with him." Kelsey whispered.

"Maybe that's the key Deep Voice was talking about." Craig said as Kelsey is trying to adjust the microphone and louie's voice is unintentionally transmitted through the restaurant loud speakers, by accident.

"Don't worry about the key" Louie said on the speakers as the clients of the restaurant were confused.

"What key?" said a person.

"What the heck's going on?" Louie said as he got up.

"Kelsey, what happened? What did you do?" Craig said.

"Hey, who's doing that?" Louie said.

"Guys, I think we should go. My neck is starting to hurt." J.P said.

"Good idea." Craig said as J.P. quickly tries to leave, but were stop by Louie.

"Hey, busboy! Over here. Clean this up and get us a couple drinks. What are you, deaf? Come here or I'll talk to your boss." Louie said.

"Be right there, sir." Craig said in his grown up voice.

"Uh no." Kelsey said.

"J.P. turn around and walk up toward him." Craig whispered.

They reached for his table.

"Kelsey, use the napkins." Craig whispered as Kelsey use her hands to wipe the drink stains off the table.

She unbutton the long white waiter shirt and saw the key around his neck.

"The key." Kelsey whispered.

"And get us two more Bartletts pronto. No ice time. And I don't want to see anybody's lipstick." Louie said as he notice Craig's mustache starting to fall off.

"We'll get those for you right away, sir." Craig said in his grown up voice as the kids quickly leaves the restaurant.

"Hmm. That's couldn't be.... Nah." Louie said.

Back at Craig's house, Duane was having a meeting of his own meeting with Neil, Laura, Kat and his brother Darnell.

"Alright, troops. Listen up. The kids are off risking their young life with some crazy, dangerous plan to get a rare historic document from the hands of my worst enemy from college and they don't stand a chance. Which will be the only and last time we'll let them do something like this. We're got to think of a back-up scheme that'll bail us out when their crazy, lame brained plan fizzles. So come on. Think of a plan. It's got to be smart, logical and feasible." Duane said.

"Maybe we could paint the house with vanishing cream. Then it would be invisible." Neil said.

"That's tis the stupidest idea I ever heard! What if it rains? Ding-dong. You ever think about that, Kat? It'll wash the vanishing cream off, and then everyone will us." Laura said.

"Oh, dang, you're right." Neil said.

"What we gotta do is build a dummy neighborhood one block over. That'll put the wool over their eyes." Neil said.

"You do know it takes months to build a dummy house." Darnell said.

"Like I said, that's the most stupid idea and that will never work." Laura said.

"Oh, yeah? I don't see you coming up with anything, Ms. Genius. Why you won't dig it a little deeper into the caverns of your puny mind, missy." Neil said.

"Hey, wait a minute. That's it. Digging and caverns. The secret tunnels!" Duane said.

"What secret tunnels?" Darnell said.

Duane took them to the secret tunnels.

"Marone!" Darnell words are echoed.

"Heh, he. Pretty impressive, huh? A network of tunnels that honeycomb the entire block and possible lead to the rest toward the creek.

"I hate it! It's dark, and it smells. It's very creepy." Kat said.

"Yeah, let's go back, Duane."

"Wait, wait, wait, wait. Listen. One of these tunnels goes under the street from our house to the one across the creek. If we wire it with explosives, we'll blow a hole in the street that the bulldozers can't cross." Duane explain his plan.

"Yeah? Just one little detail, Duane: Where you gonna get the explosives?" Neil said.

"From you, of course. Just go down to your job site and lift a couple hundred pounds of explosives when no on's looking. Huh? Huh?" Duane said.

"That's the craziest thing I ever heard! Especially considering I got twice that much stashed under my bed. What? Hey, we all got our little peccadilloes." Neil said as the rest look at him incredulously.

"I guess you're still pressed on what Michaelson did in college, huh?" Darnell said.

"You bet, man. I can't believe you use to hang out with that guy." Duane said.

"I can't believe you let Craig and his friends go after Michaelson. You think Nicole will be okay with that?" Darnell said.

"She told him to keep fighting no matter what. That was the exact same words she said to him right after she got arrested." Duane said.

At the police station, Nicole was still locked up and plans her escape one last time. She was digging a hole in the wall with a poster to cover it up.