The Suite Life X

14 - The Wisdom Tooth Incident

Meanwhile, everyone left behind was trying to figure out how to get a freaking out and stubborn London in front of the scanner. Unlike Cody, who went through it in spite of his reservations, the golden Hunter was proving rather unyielding.

"Come on, it's only for a few seconds. Get...over...here!"

Alia was busy attempting to physically drag her in front of the scanner towards the red scanner situated in the back of the room. Being surprisingly strong for her petite figure, that was proving to be no easy feat, forcing Bailey, and eventually even Ruby and Sapphira to step in and help. Cody, however, simply stood there staring at a scene he had not pictured being a part of when he woke up this morning...

"No way! I'm not going anywhere near that thing," came what felt like the thousandth protest from the girl in question.

"Dearest Boyfriend, you know you can help now, right? Why don't you use that magnificent brain of yours to think of a plan to get her to stop thrashing around!"

The sound of the brunette's "you're in trouble" voice (and London kicking her in the face with her loose foot) snapped the boy out of his trance-like state. He didn't really have any ideas on how to deal with this.

Unless...

Cody gave Bailey a look. "I...we could try that again..."

Her eyes went wide. "No. We're not doing that again. You remember full well what happened last time!"

Alia was huffing and puffing as she begged. "Anything, I'll try anything. I don't care as long as we leave with our arms intact!"

Before any suggestion could be given, however Zero walked up, apparently through watching all of this. He simply picked her up, thrashing or not, and put her through the scanner before putting her back down.

"There. Happy?"

"It was that easy...?" The blonde female reploid fell to her knees. "All this time...?"

Everybody was exasperated. Even Ruby, who barely interacted with the group, did a silent face-palm.

"Wait a minute," Axl said, glancing at his recovering partner before turning his gaze to the couple in the room. "You said you've done this before? I'd like to hear that story..."

"Um, it's not exactly something we look back on fondly..." the brunette looked anxious.

"...especially Zack." Cody added, hoping that the scarred reploid would just drop the subject.

Unfortunately, much like his twin, he wasn't about to do so until he got what he wanted.

Caving finally, and after a quick look around to ensure a certain someone was still out of the room....

"Fine. But you didn't hear it from me..."

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The so-called "Wisdom Tooth Incident" left lasting scars for everyone involved. Everyone in London Tipton's life (especially the S.S. Tipton's Manager, Marion Moseby) had been goading and begging her to get her wisdom teeth taken out. In her mind, however, no "wizard tooth" or whatever was about to slow her down or keep her out of the spotlight. This went on until the pain was obviously unbearable and she was drooling.

The truth was written all over her face even as she continued to fight this, however, and everyone who knew her personally could see the truth right through her bluster.

She was scared.

The dark-skinned Brit had run through absolutely all of his options. Nothing had worked, not calls from her oldest friend, Maddie, not an old friend by the name of Arwin offering to extract the tooth himself (which would be highly illegal, by the way), not Woody's plan to hypnotize her (which went straight over her head)...