Chapter 3: Money
Louie looked around excitedly with such Dewey fervor as he walked down one of the aisles in a supermarket. Yup, today's the day for Louie to launch his ultimate get rich quick scheme: Buy some priceless looking items and sell them off on dBay! Yup, this definitely won't fail!
So he simply looked at many priceless things, trying to determine which will sell for the most money! And frankly, this was not a walk in the park. The green triplet wanted the one that sells off the most money compared to every other priceless item.
After much searching, he found the most priceless item: A cheese puff shaped like Abraham Ducklin, which was left on the floor in the junk food aisle.. Yeah, truth be told, the supermarket doesn't sell priceless antiques at all. Nope, just boring, ordinary stuff. Oh well, at least that uniquely-shaped cheese puff is better than nothing.
Before he can pick it up though, he noticed something interesting hiding between the bag of cheese puff and the bag of Duckeritos. He inspected that interesting item and picked it up to reveal...a money printer!
Yay! Louie is downright ecstatic now! He clenched the money printer in his hands and turned around. Quick riches, here we come!
...That is, until he bumped into Scrooge.
The elderly duck has an unamused look on his face. "What have you got there?" He asked slowly, but intimidatingly. Louie sweats nervously as he replied, "Umm..." He smiled sheepishly before continuing, "A foolproof way to donate to charities?"
Scrooge shook his head with a sigh as he took the money printer and threw it into a nearby trash can. "This household doesn't accept a shortcut from work, magical or otherwise. Do I make myself clear?" He stated.
Louie sighed as he responded with lack of enthusiasm, "Yes, Uncle Scrooge..." Scrooge nodded, happy to teach Louie a lesson, and then he looked away. That made Louie go back and fish the money printer out of the trash can. It wasn't glorious, but it's worth getting that money maker.
Once he got it, he inspected the two buttons on the money printer. One is green, one is red. Louie decided to press the red button and see what happens.
The result? A trapdoor opened beneath Louie, making him fall through and drop on the slide, which took him to the underground part of the supermarket.
Once he slid all the way down to the ground, he got up and looked around and WOW! Look at that ginormous pile of money! He looked around at all of the money that's piled up in the center of the underground room. He happily ran over to the pile, but something popped out of the top of a pile. It's an...orange cave troll?
"Who are you?!" The troll screamed at Louie. That's when Louie decided to put on the good ol' rich person act. "I am Sir Louie Duck Esquire! I'm just here to take some money so I can donate them to charity!" He smiled sheepishly after saying that. Then he adopted a deadpan tone as he asked, "And who are YOU?"
The cave troll just spoke in angry gibberish before jumping from the top of the pile...and landing on his face. Is this guy dumb or what? Louie certainly thinks so.
Then the cave troll got back up and hissed. "You can't take my money! They're all mine! They're my precioussss!" It continues to hiss after saying that.
Louie shook his head and replied, "Obvious reference aside... Greedy much?" "I'LL SHOW YOU GREEDY, YOU LITTLE HYPOCRITE!" The cave troll screamed as it lunges at Louie.
That's Louie's cue to scream and run for his life. He ran all around the room while the cave troll kept lunging at him. It sure ain't giving up, that's for sure.
Louie continued running all over the room...that is, until he noticed something interesting hanging above this room. There's a huge rock held up by the rope up there. If Louie can find the trigger to let the rock go, it can fall and crush the cave troll! Of course, it can also destroy the whole room and the huge pile of money, but if there's anything Louie values more than money, it's his life.
He spotted a door to the exit near him, making note of this. Then he also spotted a pulley rope near him, which could be the trigger. Ah yes, Louie is starting to see all the angles of this situation! It's time to take down this surprise!
He pulled the pulley rope and the rope holding up the huge rock snapped, letting it go. The rock started to fall to the ground, which is a cue for Louie to run inside the exit and shut the door, just in time to hear the rock slam into the ground and the cave troll's scream of pain. "AIIIIEEEEEE!"
Louie sighed sadly, mourning not for the cave troll's death, but for the loss of the huge money pile. He would have gotten such a huge income for that amount of money. "I'll miss you dearly!" He said dramatically before walking up the stairs that lead to the aboveground.
Once he got there and opened the door back to the supermarket, Scrooge is there, waiting for him. "Lad, where have you been?! I have been looking all over for you!" He said in a bit of a distressed tone.
Louie shrugged as he lied, "No worries, Uncle Scrooge. I just learned the important values of money and hard work, that's all." In actuality, he still wants to be the richest duck of the world and he still would do any get rich quick schemes just to achieve this.
Scrooge didn't see through that lie though, as he smiled and said, "Good. I knew you'll understand. Now, let's go home, shall we?" Louie nodded, wanting to go home after the scuffle he just went through.
Despite feeling tired though, money is still on Louie's mind...
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