Craig of the Creek: The Movie

Chapter 15

"Your deep voice?" Craig said.

"Heh-Heh. Hi Craig." Jessica said in voice box.

"I don't get how come you couldn't just tell me what you knew? Why'd you have to make up all this crazy secret identity? And how did you get here?" Craig said.

"Okay, okay. I'll explain every thing. It was one morning. I overheard your plan on saving and the creek, so I decided to help you. The next day I was playing with Small Uncle, then a saw a strange looking man walking by. I decide to go inside, cause mom says always run in the house when you see a strange looking man, then I overheard him on the phone talking about you guys and the document on the phone. I notice that he had a key around his next and he works with Mr. Michaelson. I figure how to put the piece together, but you wouldn't take me serious. So I found that voice box thing in your room, so I disguise my voice as a grown up. I snuck in the back of the van when you and Bernard wasn't looking and whenever Bernard takes a nap. I sneak out to get to every payphone I see and call you. And that's how I became Deep Voice." Jessica said.

"Jessica, that was the most dangerous thing you ever done. You could've been hurt. What if something happened to you?" Craig said.

"Hey, I may be a first grader going to second grade, Craig. But I have 100 I.Q. Test Score. After hearing what Mr. Michaelson did to dad in college, that made me so mad, cause no one steal from my daddy like that." Jessica said.

"What? You just risked everything to help me save the creek, because of what Michaelson did to dad." Craig said.

"Yes. That what I've been trying to do. I love the creek as much as you do, Craig. If it wasn't for you, I wouldn't care about the creek. I love the creek because of you, Craig. You introduce me to it and you show me how great playing at the creek was. And made me try again at things that are too complicated for me. That's why you're my favorite brother, Craig. Because no matter what, you always try." Jessica said.

"Really? I'm your favorite brother?" Craig said.

"Yeah. Even though you Bernard don't have an easy going relationship. But you guys still manage to work things out. A little bit." Jessica said.

"Oh, Jessica. That's the sweetest and pretty amazing thing you've ever said, come here. I really am the best big brother." Craig said as he picks up Jessica and hugs her.

Kelsey and J.P. try to reach Bernard, but he fell asleep in the van. J.P. turn the volume up loud on the walkie talkie as the loud static sound woke Bernard.

"Ahh! Ah Oh, its' just Craig's friends. Yeah? " Bernard said.

"Hey, Bernard. We're outside the building can you come pick us up?" J.P. said.

Back on top of the building, Craig was still hugging Jessica and looked at his watch and realize its 20 minutes till the bulldozer start tearing down the creek.

"Oh no. We are running out of time! We gotta get back before the bulldozer starts rolling. " Craig said.

"Bulldozer rolling?" Jessica said.

"Jessica, the creek. We have to save the creek. Come on. Let's roll" Craig said as he pulls out a rope with a hook.

"You do know how to use that, right?" Jessica said.

They get down to the ground using the rope, passing by Michaelson's window while he was talking on the phone with Louie. Xavier spotted them.

"You got everyone there, because I hope you're smart enough to do that." Michaelson said on the phone.

"Uh, dad?" Xavier said.

"Not now, son. I'm on the phone." Michaelson said.

"But, Craig is escaping." Xavier said.

"That's not possible. I locked down the whole building." Michaelson said.

"He's escaping from a rope!" Xavier said.

"What? No!" Michaelson said as he look out the window seeing Craig escaping with Jessica blowing a raspberry at him.

Craig and Jessica see the van with Kelsey, J.P. and Mortimer in it.

"Come on, we have no time to waist." J.P. said.

"Jessica? What  are you doing here?" Bernard said.

"There's no time to explain. We only got 18 minutes to get back to the creek and stop the bulldozers." Craig said.

In the NTI building, Michaelson and Xavier walk in the hallways as he calls Louie on the phone.

"Louie! Duane's kid and his little pals have recorded a document on video camera and they're headed towards your direction right now in a dark red mini van. Get them!" Michaelson said as he and Xavier got inside an elevator.

"Don't worry, Boss. I'll take care of it. All right, everybody, listen up. There's a mini van headed uptown. Your job is to stop it." Louie said to the workers as NTI helicopters raise into the air.

Bernard was driving the van about 10 mph.

"Go! Go! Go! Come on, Bernard. Drive faster!" Craig said.

"Calm down, Craig. We..." Bernard said.

"Calm down? Our father's worst enemy and my worst enemy, who is his diabolical sinister son are about to have ten or thousands of bulldozers to demolish the whole entire creek, and you want me to calm down?!" Craig said.

"I understand that, but..." Bernard said.

"Understand? How can you understand? You're just a teenager who always spend his life in books, getting good grades and trying to be the perfect son. You never cared anything about the creek, what do you know about the creek?" Craig said as Bernard stops the minivan and turn the engine off.

"What are you doing?!" Craig said.

"Bernard, why are we stopping. Please tell me the van ran out of gas." J.P. said.

"I'll let you in on a little secret, Craig.  Every teenager you ever know that was a kid at some time in his life. You think we don't remember having fun? Playing Bring Out Your Beast, Riding bikes to the Duckmart, Camping out under the stars? Well, you're wrong. I used to play at the creek. A long time ago." Bernard sighed as he revealed he used to play at the creek.

"What?" the trio were shocked.

"You played at the creek?" Kelsey said.

"But I thought you hated the creek." J.P. said.

"I never said I hated it. I just try to put it all behind me. Move on from it. It al started when I was 11. I was walking down the creek and that when I first saw her, Alexis. That where we first met." Bernard said as he tells them his story on how he first met Alexis at the creek.

"Hi, I'm Bernard." 11 year old Bernard introduce himself.

"Alexis." 11 year old Alexis said.

"We were friends back then. We used to do everything together at the creek. We even made our own friendship necklace. Just kids being kids. We started to become closer. Until we both turned 14, we started to grow apart from the creek." Bernard said.

Bernard and Alexis start craving their first letter name on a tree and a heart around as they left the creek holding hands and not looking back.

"Somedays, I just sit in my room or in the kitchen doing my homework looking at you and your friends playing at the creek and I think, they don't know how good they got it. And a few years, you and the other kids are going to be teenagers like me and all those good times will just be memories for them, too. So go ahead. Call me a brainiac for all I care. Call me a bookworm all you want. Make fun of my dorky glasses, but don't you ever saw I don't you ever say I hate the creek. Cause those memories are the last part of my childhood I got left." Bernard said.

"Bernard, I had no idea." Craig said.

"Well, know you do. So, let's stop messing around. Buckle up and hang on to your goodies. We've got a creek to save." Bernard said as he turns the engine back on and put the gear in drive, going 30 to 40 MPH.

The kids cheered on Bernard, "Yah! Whoo!"

"Go, Bernard!" Jessica said.