Chapter 29 - Cracking Down On The Pencil Black Market (2)

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At Starlight City Park, several young kids are running around having the time of their life in the playground. Some are sliding down the long colorful slides, others are climbing the dangerous monkey bars, and some are even swinging on the swings.

However, despite the kids' enjoyment, the parents watching them are all concerned about the group of high schoolers all in the sandbox.

"Can I play in there, Mommy?" A child asks their mom.

"No honey in fact we're leaving," The mom says as she takes her child and storms away from the sandbox.

In the sandbox, The Three Ts look baffled at the mom & child leaving.

"What's her issue?" Tim-Tom questions judgmentally.

Tim-Tom turns his attention back to the sandbox where he is holding a long wooden stick. Outside of it are Alex, Marcus, Elizabeth, & Ronnie sitting on the woodchips.

"Uh, why are we here again?" Marcus asks.

"Oh that's because Tim-Tom's a visual learner," Tim says before questioning, "Or is it visual teacher or-"

"Whatever it is, he's quite the good artist," Tom admits, "You should see some of his paintings."

Tim-Tom clears his throat, a bit embarrassed at the praise, before he crudely draws several circles into the sand with the stick.

"Yeah, those sure are something," Ronnie teases.

"I get nervous under pressure okay?" Tim-Tom defends himself before explaining, "All right, this is just a guess but from what you've told me, it's clear that there are numerous different sellers of this junk. Which means this isn't just one person doing this. It's a coordinated attack on the school."

"Yeah, it looks like they're trying to make it into some sort of black market," Tom theorizes.

"Exactly," Tim-Tom replies before he begins to draw a big circle and begins to connect the tiny circles to the big one, "now that means that they need someone to organize the whole market and do so in a very efficient and easy way so all the sellers know what's going on."

"I should've done this instead of fighting for money," Alex thinks out loud, causing Elizabeth to elbow him.

"So wait, if that's the case then all we need to do is find the ring leader to end the market?" Marcus asks.

"Exactly," Tim-Tom says.

"So we know how they operate but how is that going to help us?" Ronnie asks.

"I'm getting to that!" Tim-Tom snarls.

"Yeah, give my man some time!" Tim The First Thug defensively retorts.

Tim-Tom clears his throat he says, "Nowadays there are many ways to tell people information like by sending emails or making a group chat, but these kids are high schoolers and amateurs, so all we need to do is find just one of the sellers and we'll..."

Tim-Tom points his stick at a tiny circle and then follows the line connecting it to the big circle, he smiles as he finishes saying, "Be able to trace this back to its roots!"

As Tim-Tom finishes he hears both Tim & Tom clapping for his well-articulated explanation.

"Wow that actually makes some sense," Ronnie remarks, "You guys really are experts at this kind of thing."

"Why thank you," Tim-Tom begins to respond snarkily as he rubs his nose, "this is why everybody calls me The Golden Goose of Starlight City."

Tim & Tom stop clapping as everyone else there cringes at the name.

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