Sam & Cat & the Haunted Thundermans: The Vandal Look Alikes

I'd like to give a shoutout to RyanSmith020 for winning yesterday's mini contest.

Chapter Eight: Do I Look Like a Dog to You?
Dr. Colosso POV

"Oh please help us, Dr. Colosso!" Max begged as he, Phoebe, Hank, Barb, Billy, Carly, and Nora were all circled around my cage in the living room of our hotel room.

It was now 10:00 in the morning on Saturday, December 13th, and for some reason, everybody wanted me to sniff the scents of some vandals at some library, so that they could track them down and catch them.

"For the last time, I am not going to sniff another thing, just so you can catch more criminals!" I argued, "Do I look like a dog to you?"

"Come on, Dr. Colosso!" Phoebe exclaimed, "We were kind enough to go to the pet store and buy you your supplies! The least that you can do for us is help us catch those vandals, so Carly, Sam, Freddie, Gibby, Max, Dice, Taylor, and Frankie don't get in trouble!"

I thought for a moment. "Well, considering the fact that I am a super villain, I mustn't interfere with another wrong-doer's plans."

Nora rolled her eyes at me. "You just don't want to help us!"

"Correct!"

"Why don't you want to help us, Dr. Colosso?" Billy asked, as he cocked his head at me.

"Because I hate the feeling of being treated like a service dog!"

"Come on, Dr. Colosso! Just help us!" Barb begged, "We got your special food for us!"

"And we rescued you from those evil ghosts!" Hank added.

I began to hysterically laugh. "I'm a super villain, Hank. Do I look like I'm the kind of rabbit that returns kind favors?"

"Alright, we'll make a deal with you, Dr. Colosso," Carly began, "If you help us catch the vandals, we'll give you... What's your favorite desert?"

"Carrot cake."

"We'll give you as many slices of carrot cake that you want!"

My mouth began to water at the thought of having innumerable slices of carrot cake all to myself.

"You got yourself a deal, Carly Shay!" I told her, eager to eat some carrot cake.

"Alright, are you guys ready?" Barb asked us.

We all nodded in agreement. With that being said, Max unlocked the door of my black, metal crate and picked me up, but then placed me down on the brown coffee table that my cage was on. Hank, Barb, Carly, Nora, Billy, Max, and Phoebe then bundled themselves up in coats, scarves, hats, and gloves. As you can see, it's much colder in Swellview than it is in Hiddenville. It was so cold that Max had to wrap me up in a little baby jacket! Max then picked me back up and Barb then opened up the dark-brown front door of our hotel room and held it open for her family. We all headed out it and into the hallway, while Max was still holding me. Then all of the sudden, Billy used his super speed to race towards the elevator and press the down button before Nora could.

"BILLY!!!" Barb, Hank, Phoebe, Max, Nora, and Carly screamed, as they ran towards him.

"Ha! I beat you to it, Nora!" Billy laughed.

"BILLY, WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT!?!?" Hank asked, furious at Billy.

"Do what!?!?"

Barb, Hank, Phoebe, Carly, Max, Nora, and I all face palmed themselves.

"You your super speed to run through the halls!" Barb told him.

"Oh, oops!" Billy said, now realizing what he did.

"YOU COUL'VE GOT US EXPOSED!!!" Phoebe cried.

"YOU'RRE SO LUCKY THAT THERE WASN'T ANYBODY AROUND TO SEE YOU!!!" Carly added.

"I-I'm sorry! I-I forgot!"

"HOW COULD YOU FORGET NOT TO USE YOUR SUPER POWERS IN PUBLIC, BILLY!?!?" Max asked.

"I-I don't know!"

"Whataya mean, 'you don't know'?" Nora asked.

"Alright, family. Let's not let this little incident ruin the rest of our day," Hank stated, breaking up the feud that was starting, "Right now, we have bigger issues to deal with than Billy 'forgetting' not to use his super powers in public."

Then all of the sudden, we heard a loud, "Ding!", which meant that the elevator had finally arrived. As soon as the two elevator doors had opened up, we stepped inside of the elevator.

"Ha!" Nora laughed, as she pressed the button on the control panel that had a, "1" on it, "I beat you to it, Billy!"

"Hey!" Billy cried.

"Alright, kids, this is not the time to fight over the elevator again," Hank told his two youngest.

"Fine, we'll stop arguing," Nora promised.

"Good."

About a few seconds later, we all felt the elevator come to a halt. As soon as the elevator doors had opened up once more, we stepped out of the elevator and into the hotel lobby. We then walked past the dark-brown, wooden check-in desk and towards the two, glass automatic doors. They slid across from each other on their tracks, letting us step outside into the cold, refreshing air, and onto the fluffy, white snow.

We then began to look around for our red rental mini van. When we had finally found it, we all climbed into it and buckled ourselves up with our seat belts. All except for me, of course. You see, now that I am a rabbit, I am way too small to fit into a seat belt. So, Max just had to hold me in his lap.

"Did you set-up your GPS, Phoebe?" Barb asked, as he turned around to look at her.

"Uh-huh!" Phoebe replied, as she turned the GPS app that she had on her MePhone on.

"Drive straight onto Chestnut Avenue, then in three-hundred miles, make a left onto Benin Street," the robotic voice of Phoebe's phone instructed us.

With that being said, Hank stuck his key into the start engine, which caused the mini van to turn on. Then, he pulled out of The Swellview Hotel parking lot and onto Chestnut Avenue. Off we went to some library that I have never been to to try and catch some people that I have never heard of.

It took us about five minutes to get to the library, which was actually pretty quick. When we had arrived, Frankie, Taylor, Michelle, Dice, Sam, Cat, Goomer, Nona, Freddie, Gibby, Spencer, a boy with brown hair and green eyes, whom I am assuming is Louie, an older boy with dark-brown hair and brown eyes, whom I am assuming is Miles, and a man with eyes that were so dark, they were almost black and with brown hair that was so dark, it looked black, whom I am assuming is Ray were already there.

"Hey, there you guys are!" Cat greeted Hank, Barb, Carly, Phoebe, Max, Billy, Nora, and I, as we climbed out of our minivan.

"Hey, did you guys find any evidence yet?" Carly asked.

Everybody just shook their heads.

"Nothing but the paint on this wall," Miles answered, as he pointed towards a graffiti-covered wall of the library.

I carefully began to study the wall. I noticed that there were five different colors spray painted onto it; red, green, orange, black, and yellow. I carefully began to study the comments about Thunder Man and Captain Man that were on the wall. I must admit that they were all very rude, but they made me laugh with delight. What? These vandals were speaking the truth!

"What are you laughing at, Dr. Colosso?" Dice asked me.

"Yeah, what's so funny?" Frankie added.

"Nothing!" I lied.

"Come on, just tell us!" Taylor demanded.

"Yeah, we wanna laugh too!" Goomer added.

"Fine, I was just laughing at the hilarious things that the vandals wrote on the wall!" I admitted.

"Hilarious? You think those comments are funny, Dr. Colosso?" Michelle asked me.

"They are shameful and hurtful!" Nona exclaimed.

"Yeah, especially towards me!" Hank agreed with Nona.

"And towards Carly, Freddie, Gibby, Max, Dice, Taylor, Frankie, and I!" Sam added.

"Yeah, if we don't catch those vandals, then we'll get arrested for those words, even though we didn't write them!" Freddie agreed.

"Yeah!" Spencer, Gibby, Nona, Goomer, Sam, Cat, Dice, Ray, Michelle, Taylor, Miles, Frankie, Louie, Hank, Barb, Carly, Phoebe, Max, Billy, and Nora all agreed.

"Fine, whatever. Let me just sniff the wall, since it's the only evidence we have, and get it over with," I sighed, "Max, bring me closer towards the spray paint."

Max then carried me over to the graffiti-covered library wall and held my pink nose up to it. I took in a huge whiff of it. For some reason, I could not pick up any human scents; just paint and old wall. I tried sniffing the wall once more. Still, no human scents.

"Hey, why can't I smell anything!?!?" I asked, getting a bit annoyed.

"Here, let us try!" Ray offered.

"But, Dad, if we un-possess these people, then all of their senses will come back to them and they'll realize that they weren't in the same spot that they thought they were just in," Miles argued.

"Well, we could just use Max's Brain Melt 3,000 to erase their memories, once we're done turning into bloodhounds and sniffing the wall," Louie suggested, "Or Max, Phoebe, and Carly could freeze them, while we're possessing them, and then we could un-possess them."

"I kinda like your second idea better, but the problem is if it's going to work or not," Ray told his son.

Louie just shrugged. "It's worth a shot."

"Yeah, and if it doesn't work, we can also use Max's Brain Melt 3,000, like you said," Taylor stated.

"But, what if somebody catches them using their super powers?" Gibby asked.

"Well, we could gather around them, so that nobody sees them," Spencer suggested.

"That's a good idea," Carly complimented her older half-brother.

"Alright, are you guys ready?" Phoebe asked.

We all nodded in agreement.

"Ok, I'm going to need somebody to hold Dr. Colosso for me," Max announced.

"I'll hold him," Taylor volunteered, as she walked up to Max.

"Ok, thanks!" Max thanked her, as he handed me over to Taylor.

With that being said, Spencer, Nona, Hank, Michelle, Gibby, Sam, Cat, Billy, Taylor, Freddie, Frankie, Goomer, Barb, Dice, Nora, and I all gathered around Ray, Carly, Miles, Phoebe, Max, and Louie, so we blocked them from everybody else's view. Carly then used her freeze breath to freeze the person that Ray was possessing, Phoebe used her's to freeze the boy that Miles was possessing, and Max used his to freeze the boy that Louie was possessing. Since I was a rabbit and no longer had my super powers and Spencer, Nona, Gibby, Sam, Cat, Freddie, Goomer, and Dice were non-supes, we could not tell if Ray, Miles, and Louie were able to un-possess the people because we don not have the ability to see ghosts. The only reason that Hank, Barb, Nora, Billy, Phoebe, Max, Michelle, Taylor, and Frankie can see them is because Hank, Barb, Nora, Billy, Phoebe, and Max are supes and Michelle, Taylor, Frankie live in the same house as them.

"Can you guys get out?" Cat asked.

Since we cannot hear ghosts either, Spencer, Nona, Gibby, Sam, Cat, Freddie, Goomer, Dice, and I could not tell if Louie, Miles, and Ray replied to us or not.

Before Hank, Barb, Nora, Billy, Phoebe, Max, Michelle, Taylor, or Frankie could answer Cat, we heard Ray project his voice, "YES, LUCKILY, WE WERE ABLE TO GET OUT OF THEIR BODIES!!!"

"NOW ALL WE HAVE TO DO IS TURN INTO BLOODHOUNDS AND SNIFF THE WALL!!!" Miles added.

"Ok!" We all replied.

We all patiently waited for Ray, Miles, and Louie to sniff the walls and tell us in what direction the vandals were. After waiting about a minute or two, Carly, Max, and Phoebe used their heat breath to unfreeze the people that Miles, Louie, and Ray were once possessing. Clearly, they had already sniffed the wall and were now possessing them again.

"So, where are they!?!?!" Sam asked, eager to catch the vandals.

Miles, Louie, and Ray just shook their heads in disappointment.

"I hate to tell you guys this, but my awesome plan failed," Louie sighed.

"You mean that you weren't able to pick up their scents!?!?" Spencer asked, shocked.

"Unfortunately, no," Miles sighed.

"Well, how come!?!?" Gibby asked.

"I don't know, Gibby. We just couldn't smell anything."

"Oh."

"Well, we can always go with Plan B, which is to look up Swellview and to see what places they might decide to vandalize, so we can catch them," Freddie suggested.

"At this point, Freddie, it looks like Plan B is our only option," Dice sighed.

"Yeah," We all agreed, as we nodded our heads.

"Alright, now that I've done my part, where's my carrot cake?" I asked.

"You're not getting any, Colosso!" Max told me.

"WHY!?!? A DEAL'S A DEAL, MAX!!! I EARNED THAT CARROT CAKE FAIR AND SQUARE!!!"

"No you didn't, Colosso!" Phoebe argued.

"WHATAYA MEAN THAT I DIDN'T!?!?"

"Dr. Colosso, the deal was that if you helped us caught the vandals, you could have as many slices of carrot cake that you wanted!" Carly explained.

"I know that!"

"Yeah, but what you did didn't help us catch the vandals at all!" Nora told me.

"THIS IS AN OUTRAGE!!! I WANT MY CARROT CAKE AND I WANT IT NOW!!!"

"Fine, you can have some carrot cake, Dr. Colosso!" Max gave in, "But not that many!"

"Alright, we'll be right back," Hank announced, "We have to find a few slices of carrot cake for Dr. Colosso."

"Alright, here's Dr. Colosso back, Max," Taylor said, as she handed me back to Max.

"Thanks for holding him for us!" Billy thanked her.

"You're welcome!"

"Hey, can you guys start to look up some places in Swellview that the vandals might vandalize on Google, while we're gone?" Carly asked.

"Sure!" Sam, Cat, Taylor, Michelle, Freddie, Spencer, Dice, Goomer, Nona, Frankie, Gibby, Ray, Miles, and Louie all agreed.

"Ok, thanks!"

Hank, Barb, Carly, Max, Phoebe, Nora, Billy, and I then climbed back into our rental mini van and buckled ourselves up.

"Phoebe, Max, and Carly, can you please look for some bakeries in Swellview, so we can get this over with?"

"Ok," Phoebe, Max, and Carly all agreed.