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 * __Appo's Revenge__**

John and Teddy leave the field tired, beaten, and once again at loss for words. Their repeat of yet another loss to the Appoquinimink football team hung over them. There has always been a rivalry where both teams, in an effort to outperform one another, play their best, but in Middletown's case their team is not nearly as talented nor do they have the heart or tenacity to outperform the Appoquinimink Jaguars these days. As John and Teddy head for the locker room their broken spirits are obvious as their frustration begins to spill out into words.

"Why do we even try Teddy?", said John "I have no idea, we give it our all on every play but some of the other guys just don't have the same amount of heart that we play with every game", said Teddy.

John then yells throughout the locker room, "WHY DON'T YOU CARE LIKE WE DO?!" The locker room was speechless with only the sounds of the opening lockers and the clacking of the metal cleats. As the locker room empties, John and Teddy do not dare leave, for the guilt and shame they have to feel after every game is getting impossible to cope with. The coach approaches John and Teddy, "Hey boys, you two played hard tonight, keep your heads up. I know we can beat them next week when we play them in our make-up game." John holds in every bit of his anger and asks, "We have to play them again?" The coach replies "Son, in all honesty I know we can beat them, you two just have to lead the charge next week and get your teammates as fired up for the game as you guys are" "Alright coach, we will study our playbooks inside and out, and see if we can't get the guys ready for this epic battle of a game." Replied Teddy somberly.

The next day John wakes up, sore and ashamed to go to school. As John pulls up to school he sees Teddy, and approaches him. Before he could utter a word. Teddy said, "I'm tired of losing to those Appo kids." John replied, "I know, I am tired of it too. We need to come up with a plan to get them back for all the times they've beaten us." "But how could we get back at them?", asked Teddy. John answers, "We have to get the team ready to go this week, and we need to study those playbooks better than we ever have before."

The next Friday morning, the two boys were getting dressed up for the big game. John was at his house and was looking for a tie in his father's closet. Then, out of the corner of his eye he saw a device that resembled a bomb on the floor. He quickly called Teddy. Teddy told John to bring it into school today. John did exactly what Teddy had asked him to do. "So Teddy, why did you want me to bring this bomb thing to school?", inquired John. "'Because I have a plan to get back at those Appoquinimink kids, and to end our devastating losing streak that has been going on for far too long." Replied Teddy simply. "Well let's hear this master plan." Replied John eagerly awaiting Teddy's response.

At the same time on the other side of town, Eddie and Ned were heading towards school in their hovercar. "Hey Eddie look out!" Yelled Ned. Within a second, the hovercraft jolted to a stop as it hit the back of the hovercar in front of it. "Great... looks like we are going to be late to school." Said Eddie with a slight grin, knowing that he would not have to sit through his monotonous calculus class that he dreaded going to everyday.

"Alright, John I want you to put this into a package and drop it off at Appoquinimink, just say that it is a package from FedEx or something." "All you have to do is make sure that they keep it until whatever this thing is goes off." Said Teddy with a devious look about him. "That's your plan to end this losing streak to Appoquinimink? You're going to blow them up?" Asked John in a nervous tone. "Come on man, just do it. They will never know, and then Middletown will be back on top in everything just like we used to be." Pleaded Teddy. "No way man, I'm out." "Here, take it and do whatever you want with it, just make sure to leave me out of whatever it is that you had in mind." Replied John sternly. "Whatever you little girl." Replied Teddy in an aggravated voice.

Teddy took the device to Appo and proceeded into the office where he planned on dropping it off to the secretary. "Here you go ma'am said Teddy to the secretary". She accepted the package without any questions.

Meanwhile, Eddie and Ned pulled up into the parking lot, late. Everything looked to be strangely quiet around the Appoquinimink campus. They walked inside to hand their late notes to the secretary and realized quickly that something wasn't quite right.

"That's funny" said Eddie "I mean I know that Mrs. Seley isn't the nicest woman ever, but I never imagined that she would simply ignore us like she just did" "Hmmmm... She is unresponsive, and she seems to be out of her normal character" Said Ned as he analyzed the woman from head to toe looking for anything that seemed to be out of the ordinary. "I've never seen this before, I just don't know what it could be" Said Eddie as he stood with a puzzled look on his face. "Mrs Seley is acting like a zombie" said Ned. "It can't be" said Eddie. They started to stroll down the hallway and they saw that every person in the school were zombies! "This has to be dream" exclaimed Ned. "It's not, and I can't help but suspect that my stupid brother has something to do with this" said Eddie. "Are you sure? I mean I don't think that Teddy is the brightest bulb in the box, so I'm not sure he could pull something off of this stature." exclaimed Ned "Yes, he may not be the sharpest tool in the shed but he has some people around him that could definitely help him out with his evil ideas" Replied Eddie.

Across town at Middletown High, John and Teddy were sitting in biology class. "So did you go through with you master plan?" Asked John halfway through biology class. "Yeah, and they didn't suspect a thing!" "The way I see it, whatever was going to happen has happened and our worries of losing to Appo are now over!" Gloated Teddy. "Well you better hope so, because if this doesn't work and my dad finds out, I'm dead" Said John nervously. "Don't worry man we're gonna be fine, after the big game tonight everyone is going to love us and we will be heroes." Reassured Teddy "Alright bro, whatever you say." Said John concedeing defeat to Teddy's plan.

All around Appoquinimink's campus there were zombies stumbling around aimlessly. Everyone looked the same as normal, except they all had a blank look on their faces and a glaze over their eyes. It seemed as though they could communicate using a series of grunts or moans. However, it was a very primitive means of communication. For all intensive purposes the students and faculty of the school were rendered utterly useless.

"There must be some reason for this, it just doesn't make sense" Said Eddie. "I just don't know, this seems odd, you are right, there has to be some sort of explanation for this." Replied Ned, racking his brain for some sort of explanation.

As they walked, they ducked and dodged to avoid the zombies for fear that physical contact would result in some sort of terrible reaction causing them to turn into zombies like their fellow classmates and staff. The duo went from room to room looking for any sign of intelligent life. It was in Mrs. Bear's science classroom that the light in Ned's head turned on.

"Hey Eddie! I've got it!" Exclaimed Ned. "I remember my father talking about a device that he was developing for military use." "He had said that he designed a device that when detonated would send a certain chemical compound into the air that would make anyone exposed to it unresponsive and incapable of communication or intelligent thought." "Well I must say Ned, it would seem as if that would be a very likely explanation." Said Eddie.

"Did your father say anything about counteracting the device"? Asked Eddie. "Well he did say one thing about counteraction, but I'm not sure if they have finished the the design for it yet" Ned said thinking about what his father was telling him about it. "Well Ned we have to do something or else this, or my unintelligent brother might change the future forever, or even worse my brother Teddy will get what he wants and they will beat our school in the big game tomorrow night!". "Oh no!" yelled Ned, "I forgot all about that." "We have to go to your house right now and figure out how to counteract this mess that Teddy has gotten everyone at Appo into". Said Eddie in a commanding voice. "Well lets get going then" said Ned.

The boys went back to Ned's house to find a device in his closet. They read the tag on the apperatus and it read "Military Zombie Counteraction."

"Perfect"! Exclaimed Eddie and Ned symaltaneously. "Wait a second, I think I know where they could have gotten this device from in the first place" Said Ned "I think that I remember my dad talking about one of his co-workers". "He said that this man's son was the star wide receiver at Middletown High School". "Doesn't Teddy have a best friend on the football team?" Said Ned.

" Yes, his name is John". "It must have been John that got the device for Teddy" Said Eddie

"Yes it had to be" "My father and John's father are the only two that have access to these types of devices" Said Ned "Alright well we had better get this thing to school so we can fix this mess before we lose the big game, or worse." said Eddie "Agreed" Replied Ned.

The two hopped into their hovercar and raced off back towards school as fast as they could. Both had smirks on their faces because they kner they were going to for once be the heroes of the school.

"Now we'll be remembered long after we graduate" said Eddie. "Man i can't wait to be cooler than my brother for the first time in my high school career"

The two boys had the counteraction device in the car and they were heading back to AHS. They passed Middletown high on their way and saw that everything seemed to be going smoothly and it just looked like a normal school day.

"The word must not have gotten out yet". "No one knows about my brother's actions yet, but when they find out, I am hoping that even Middletown's class will think i am the cooler brother". "I am sure they will Eddie" Said Ned with a smirk. "Maybe they will even think I am not a nerd anymore" Said Ned adjusting his glasses on the bridge of his nose.

They passed all the high rise buildings as they moved through the congested city of Middletown, and at last they arrived at Apooquinimink High School. Ned reached into the back of the car and grabbed the device that would turn the School back into normal. As they walked inside the zombies were making their way to the exit of the school

"This is perfect timing" Chimed Ned. "All we have to do now is set it down and press this remote button and everyone should be back to normal in no time"

Ned placed the device on the floor about two feet in front of the zombies feet. The two young men bolted outside of the doors to avoid being poisoned by the gas that would be released.

Ned glanced over and noticed Eddie staring at the detonator. "I would be glad to let you do the honors and push the button." Said Ned. "Thank you." said Eddie excitedly.

Eddie pushed the button and in a matter of seconds they could see every zombie changing back to normal one by one. The two boys jumped for joy and they slapped five because they knew that they were the new heroes of the school.

The game was still on tonight and as soon as the bell rung the two boys were making up a mischevious plan to get back at John and Teddy. They conversed and figured out what they were going to do. They decided that they would make a device that looked exactly like the one that turned everyone into zombies at Appoquinimink, but this similar device would not turn John and Teddy into zombies. In fact, the device would actually be an explosive and it would blow them up while they were studying their playbook.

"I think that our plan is bullet proof." said Ned. "I think that it will work marvelously." replied Eddie.

The boys got back to Ned's mansion of a house and they were ready to get to work. They pieced the device together and made a nearly identical copy of the other device. They were not ready to take the device over there yet because they knew that the football stars were not yet at their house.

"Hey Eddie, aren't we supposed to have that tedious calculus test tomorow?" Said Ned. "I believe we do." Replied Eddie.

The two boys did their normal routine before a test and hit the books. They quizzed each other on the material and like usual they got each of the answers correct. They did so for about an hour and they decided that they have had had enough, and were prepared for the brain busting calculus test. After that, they decided to have a little fun so they decided to play their high tech video games. They walked into Ned's room and started to play. This feeling was very unusual for them because they usually only play their high tech video games on the weekends when they had spare time. Schoolwork is always more important, but this is a different story, they could do anything they wanted because they were preparing to be the new stars of the town.

As the two friends played their intense video games, there was the faint sound of sirens as smoke rose on the horizon. They knew that it was over for Teddy and John. It was the beginning of a new time. More importantly, it was finally thier time, John and Teddy's time was over. The two looked at each other and grinned, knowing that they would never have to worry about Teddy and John ruining their school, or lives for that matter, ever again.