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Quinn saw Cindy's signal. She moved forwards.

Tori saw Quinn emerge from the undergrowth. “There you are,” she said. She fired, but Quinn dodged.

Quinn fired back, Tori dodged by falling to the ground, and rolling back, towards Stacy. “Sandi!” she called.

'I have you now...' Sandi thought. “Ah ha! Geekendorffer!” She gloated. She signalled Stacy and Tori.
Tori stood back up, and all three remaining Fashion Club members opened fire, but Quinn had retreated back into cover.

“We weren't quick enough,” Sandi said. She turned. “Stacy, go after her!”

“S-sure, Sandi,” Stacy said, although she was sure that Sandi was setting her up. She moved forward, toward where Quinn had dashed back into the bushes. As she passed Tori, the latter girl gave her a look of apology. 'It's not your fault, Tori,' she thought.

“Very predictable!” Cindy muttered.

Quinn nodded. They both trained their paint guns on her as she came closer.

“You're gon-na shoot Stacy?” Tiffany asked Kristen.

“Not yet,” Kristen answered. 'Almost there!'

Stacy approached the bushes. Kristen sent another txt to Cindy.

Quinn and Cindy heard the 'incoming text' sound, and moved to intercept Stacy as she entered the bushes. They fired. Stacy was splattered.

“Oh!” She said. She collapsed to the ground and started crying.

“We need to do something,” Quinn said.

“Tiffany can comfort her, while we deal with the other two,” Cindy said.

“Sure,” Quinn said.

Cindy sent a txt to Kristen.

Kristen read the text message. She turned to Tiffany. “There's a slight change of plan.”

“O-oh?”

“Stacy's crying. You need to comfort her while we confront Sandi.”

“Su-ure.”

A quarter minute later, Kristen and Tiffany came up to the other three. Stacy had stopped crying, but she still looked miserable. “Sta-cy?”

“Why would Sandi do this to me? Why?”

Tiffany just stood there, without a word. But she did place a hand on her arm and gave a small smile. That seemed to comfort Stacy a little.

“Right, we have Sandi and Tori to deal with,” Quinn said.

“Go ahead!” Stacy said.

“Are you sure?” Quinn asked.

“Yes!”

Sandi could hear them talking, but couldn't make out the words. She turned to Tori while keeping an eye on the spot where Stacy had entered the bushes. “They're about to attack. Do I have you at my back?”

“That is your plan? We go back to back?” Tori asked, dubiously. It seemed that she didn't trust Sandi.

“Yes,” Sandi answered. 'I have no other idea!' she thought.

“I have a few other ideas, but I'll go with yours,” Tori said. She approached Sandi. They adopted a fighting stance, back to back. Sandi briefly wondered what Tori's ideas were but then focused on the task at hand...

Kristen had returned to her original position, while Cindy moved in the other direction. They waited for Quinn to make her move...

Quinn breathed deeply. 'Deep breath. One. Two. Three.' She breathed deeply again. “Here we go!” she said, quietly, eyeing Sandi through the foliage.

She had waited for half a minute. “Come on, Geekendorffer! I know you're there!” Sandi said, trying to egg her on.

“Sandi!” Tori hissed. Sandi was giving away her position. 'You are going about this all wrong!'

“I'm ready!”

Quinn emerged from the foliage.

Sandi saw Quinn emerge from the foliage. She smiled. “Prepare for pain, Geekendorffer!” She pulled the trigger...

Several things happened at once...

Tori saw something that Sandi wasn't noticing. “Sandi!” She said in an annoyed tone.

Unknown to Sandi, Cindy and Kristen had emerged from the bushes, having already aimed their paintguns at her torso.

'She's focused on Quinn,' Kristen thought. She opened fire. So did Cindy.

As she called out Sandi's name, Tori twisted round in Cindy's direction, but she fell down, before she could aim at her. Therefore, she was in Cindy and Kristen's crossfire!

Thump! Thump! Both paintballs hit come. Then another two. Sandi winced at the pain. But Quinn was in her sights, so she ignored it.

Quinn saw that Sandi was still gunning for her (so to speak), so she dashed back into the bushes as quickly as possible.

Tori saw that Sandi was still going for Quinn. “Sandi! No!” She stood up, and ran to intercept Sandi.

Tori, Cindy and Kristen all tackled Sandi at the same time. Sandi fell down, Tori falling on her lower body, Kristen, and then Cindy on her upper body. “Oof!” Tori felt both the other two on either side of her.

Quinn, Tiffany and Stacy looked at the scene. It looked like Sandi was still struggling.

“Oh no!” Stacy said.

“Be ready to run,” Quinn said.

Stacy nodded.
“Sandi! Face it, you've lost!” Kristen said with a grunt!

“No! I will defeat that Geekendorffer!” Sandi said as she squirmed.

“Her name is Morgendorffer. Show some respect!” Cindy said.

“No!”

Cindy called out to Quinn. “Quinn, run, go! We may not hold her for much longer.”

Quinn heard Cindy's direction. “Sure. I'll catch you later! Bye!” She gave a Stacy an apologetic look and ran off.

Sandi heard Quinn run off. She stopped struggling. “Oh! Get off me! She's gotten away!” she said with tears.

“How are we to know that you aren't going to follow her?” Kristen asked.

“I don't know where she's gone! You can take my paintgun!”

Kristen looked to Cindy, and Tori. They nodded and got off Sandi. Tori seized the paintgun from her grasp. She pointed in the direction opposite to where Quinn had gone. “Go!”

Sandi ran off. In tears. “I may have lost today, Le-ung-Bell and Brolsma! But I will be triumphant!” She said just before disappearing into the bushes.

“Well, there's that crisis averted,” Tori said. She brandished both paintguns at Kristen and Cindy. “But there is still a friendly competition here.”

“Wait!” Kristen said.

“Yes?” Tori asked.

“Wait until we're back in the bushes, right?” Cindy asked.

“Sure,” Tori said.

Kristen and Cindy retreated.

Soon, they engaged in the paintball game again, unworried about the threat that Sandi might have posed to Quinn. Soon, it began to rain...

Sandi as she ran off, fell into one of the underground tunnels...

Daria, Jane and Jennifer, rather soaked, arrived at the Great White Shark.
“We're here to see the Great White Shark.”

“Oh, it's a beauty aint it,” the lady behind the counter said.

The three teens looked at the exhibit. “That's it?” Jennifer asked.

“It's a tooth,” Daria stated.

“You wouldn't say, 'it's a tooth,' if you know the legend of Great White,” the lady, Jordana, said.

“...Until Great White was captured two months ago, he terrorised the eastern seaboard, chomping on tourists and spitting them out like bad red wine.”

“Excellent,” Jane said.

“I'd say she has watched Jaws too many times,” Jennifer whispered to Daria.

Daria nodded.

“What was that?” Jordana asked.

“Nothing,” Jennifer said, loud enough for Jordana to hear.

Jordana continued. “It was the peak of tourist season, when a mangled body washed up on shore, scaring the beachcombers...”

Back at the paintball range. Cindy and Kristen found Quinn at the Hanoi Hilton. “So, what happened with Tori?” she asked.

“We got her,” Cindy said with a slightly triumphant tone.

“Gamer Chicks; 1. Fashion Club; 0!” Quinn said with a giggle.

“...Of course, the mayor claimed that the chewed-up bodies were the victims of a propeller, but the people knew better...”

Daria had had enough. “Excuse me, but isn't this the plot of Jaws?”
“No, no! This is completely different. That's when they called in the great white shark hunter. That's when they called in... me.”

Meanwhile, Helen and Ms. Li were talking. “I'm glad to see you take such an interest in your daughters, Mrs. Morgendorffer.”

“Well, it isn't easy rasing two teenagers all by yourself... With Jake.”

“Of course, I'd like to think the school environment also plays a pivotal role.”

“Absolutely. Although it would be nice if the students got a little more encouragement. Maybe bright kids like Daria and Quinn would have a better attitude and better focus respectively.”

Ms, Li laughed.

“Did I say something funny?” Helen asked.

“With all due respect, I can't think of a prison that could create an attitude like your older daughter's much less a school. No, I always assumed that came from interaction with her parents, or lack of it.”

That riled Helen up. “Oh, so you draw a distinction between prison and school. Because from what I've heard, you run the one pretty much like the other.”

Ms. Li was angered in turn. “I don't have to listen to this!”

“No, you dont!” Helen shot back.

“And by the way, you look fifty!” Li said she left the tent.

When the rain stopped, Daria, Jane and Jennifer left the 'Great White Shark' exhibit, without Jordana noticing...

They arrived back at the buses in time. But Sandi didn't.

As the School Bus's pulled out, Sandi ran out shouting. “NNNooooooo!” She fell down in a puddle of mud. As she looked at one of the buses, she saw Tori and Stacy turn away from her in the back seat...