Good Bye, Good Riddance? |Henry Danger|

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Tess

"So that means we won't have money for other things, such as crime fighting, which is why we're cutting your budget by 90%." Are they insane? Why am I asking that about this backwards town?

"90?!?"

"Per what?!?" Both Uncle Ray and Hen stand up, and I'm now off the ground. 

"What is he saying?"

"He's saying they're gonna take away almost all the money we get from the city, which we need to run our crime fighting operation!"

"And can you please put me down?" Hen lets me down. 

"Whoa whoa, whoa, whoas...There's some good news, too...Look, I got you guys three tickets to our new high speed railroad." 

"So?!?"

"Nobody wants to ride on a railroad!"

"Good, 'cuz it won't be ready 'til the year 2059." 2059??? That's 41 years from now! Hen, Char, Jasp, and I will be almost in our 60's and Uncle Ray will be almost in his 80's by the time this thing is ready. 

"I'll be long dead by then!" 

"YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!" Why is she back with a weapon? Uncle Ray takes her down. 

"Cassie, get outta here!!!"

"Disarm!" Uncle Ray gets her to drop her weapon. 

"All right, okay."

"Just calm down! Settle down!"

"You're tickling my wrists. Ha ha ha!" The security for the town hall come in to deal with Cassie. 

"Just take her to the basement."

"Who would like some bottled water?" 

"No one!"

"Not me." The officers and Cassie leave.  

"They took away my scissors!!"

"Anyway, Vice Mayor, you can't cut our budget by 90%."

"Sure I can. I'm the Vice Mayor--not the 'nice' mayor. Ha ha ha!"

"What?"

"Yeah...but we need that money to run the Man Cave. Y'know, all that equipment."

"And to buy fuel for the Man Copter." 

"I mean, how are we supposed to fight crime and keep this city safe if you take away all of our money?"

"Good questions--for which I have no answer. You boys and/or girl want some strudel?" I see the woman from earlier in the window with scissors in her mouth. She seriously should see a psychiatrist.

"I see you, Cassie." She goes back down. I'm guessing she does that a lot, and I thought I was scary. 

Man Cave

Uncle Ray has put together a power point presentation on how we're going to be saving money due to now only having 10% percent of our budget from the city left. 

"Okay, let's get started. Today in the Man Cave, we're gonna be talking about, 'Budget cuts.' What does it mean?" Char raises her hand. 

"Charlotte?"

"That our budget's been cut."

"Yes. And, since the city of Swellview isn't gonna be giving us nearly enough money to fight crime anymore...we're gonna need to make some changes around here."

"Ooo! Show them what you made me do to the schnack machine!"

"I was just about to talk about that! G'yah! The auto-snacker is no longer free, as I will now demonstrate. Tuna pot pie."