Fishy's Adventures

Chapter Twelve - The Return

The next day, Goldy did some more scouting around the abandoned engine factory, where his headmaster was being kept. Bukky apparently had put the janitor on guard duty. He was carrying Fishy's 'k, as if it was his own firearm. Goldy got the impression that it would not be too hard to slip past him or even sway him back to the dethroned principal's side. He headed back home and prepared for tomorrow's classes.
Meanwhile, inside the „prison", Ms Important made her way into Fishy's cell. He was slumped in a corner, paler than the wall itself. The weed hunger seemed to slowly devour him from inside.
-"I graciously ignored the fact that you scoffed at another dinner prepared by me, so now, enjoy the dessert! Onion-flavored ice cream, from Bukky with love." - Ms Important put the culinary abomination on the floor and left.
Fishy was too weak to even take a look at it. He focused all his remaining energy on surviving, despite the smell of rotting food in the other corner of the room. Though even mold didn't seem to get to it too much..
An hour later, at the railway station, a foot stepped on the platform. It was Froggy, who had just returned from Germany. Having slept at his house, he got all set and went for the IIIrd LO. When he was about to enter the school, he was spotted by Goldy. Thoughts went through the student's brain quickly: "He was Fishy's most valuable ally! Bukky will deal with him as soon as he steps into the school if I don't react!"
Not thinking much, he shouted: "Hold up right there, mister!"
Froggy turned around, perplexed.
At school, Bukky heard the noise and looked out of the window only to spot Froggy and the traitor student. He grabbed a tranquilizer gun he had obtained from a mail-order catalog and jumped out of the window. It wasn't too hard of a leap, as it was just a meter or two above ground level.
Froggy stood in front of the IIIrd LO and didn't know what to do. He only saw a man with a gun coming for him, which triggered his survival instinct. Having left his briefcase, he ran from Bukky, towards the shouting Goldy, until they met up.
-"No time for explaining, follow me!"- Goldy said hastily. The two ran as fast as they could, but Froggy lacked physical fitness and was lagging behind a bit, which allowed the pursuer to get close enough to fire off a shot. It hit Froggy's back.
Goldy knew the clock was ticking from now on. He hoped that Bukky will be too busy reloading to notice what he's about to pull off. The greatest evade of the century. Goldy reached into his bag and having lit them up, he threw a handful of petards at Bukky. He then grabbed Froggy's sleeve and pulled him into the nearest tenement house. They descended into the cellar, but Froggy seemed to be slowly losing consciousness. Goldy made him comfortable, after making sure that Bukky is no longer in pursuit. He now had to wait for some time before his former teacher wakes up. To kill some time, he pulled out his phone and listened to 'The Rise of Dankiness', a cool, new album.
After some time, when Froggy finally awoke from the anaestesia, Goldy took his time to explain everything that happened in the IIIrd LO during Froggy's absence.
"-...and now they trapped Mr. Fishy in the abandoned engine factory, torturing him until he dies of weed starvation. We have to help him." - Goldy concluded.
Froggy's brain was processing the news slowly, since he just woke up. He came to the conclusion that Fishy was the only person in his life that didn't openly hate him. He agreed to join forces with Goldy in the effort to save their headmaster.
"-I guess we don't have to return to the IIIrd LO now, unless we want to share Fishy's fate.." - Froggy said.
Goldy nodded. At the same time, his phone rang. Mom's calling. Goldy picked up.
-"Son, we have to say we're deeply disappointed with you. Mr Bukky, your headmaster, has sent us the CCTV camera pictures of you smoking cannabis in the school's toilet. He also said that your behavior is in every aspect condemnable, doing things we'd never expect from you.
This is not why we sent you to learn in the IIIrd LO. You also swore to us never to use drugs, so we have to punish you severely. You are hereby disowned, banished from the family and left to starve to death. Hope you die in suffering, junkie! Don't even try to return to the house, unless you want to get shot. Don't call us back. Farewell, son."
Bukky definitely had it in for Goldy. He now had nothing to lose, he had to free Fishy and prove his innocence to the parents!