I smirked as I turned on my blender, mixing a bunch of random liquids together. My plan is to trade this random concoction for random stuff i'll need for the future. Also it will be funny seeing everyone drink this. Sure, I could trade more fun items like adult magazines, or even fireworks, but I want to avoid too much trouble. My smirk turned into a frown when Maria walked into the kitchen.

"What are you doing Smelvin?"

"Just planning on tricking some fools into drinking this, by claiming it's a fancy energy drink from Japan," I answered.

"Please we all know your plans always backfire."

I rolled my eyes, "Well, it won't happen this time."

She scoffed, "Yeah, you always say that."

"Don't you have something to do?" I asked her.

"For once I agree with you. Why am I wasting my time here with you," She said before leaving me.

I sighed before getting a bunch of bottle and a funnel to pour my energy drink into them. I am not letting Maria mess with me too much this time around. When her and her stupid group of friends decide to strike, I will make sure they end up even more humiliated than last time.

As I was climbing the trading tree, I pondered how things will turn out this time. For the next few days I wondered what I should do. Eventually, I decided to take the horn-a-corns for myself and lead the girls on a wild goose chase. Considering, I have some time to kill until they show up, I might as well scam a few kids before meeting up with Tiny.

After a few moments of introducing my product, a small crowd formed. I smiled and hope for a bunch of useful stuff. It turned into a small frown when Bobby showed up, but I wasn't too worried about getting banned.

"You have interesting sounding items, Melvin," Bobby told me in his calming, yet scolding tone, "I hope you don't mind me checking it out."

I opened the backpack I brought to carry the bottles and handed him one. He looked at the bottle and raised an eyebrow at the label I made for them.

"A strange label."

"Different country. Different tastes," I simply said, "You shouldn't judge what you don't understand."

He mumbled before opening the bottle and taking a sip. To my complete surprised he smiled.

"Well, it tastes good," He said.

What? It actually tastes good. Geez, I was hoping for it to be yucky and respond by saying they don't appreciate fancy Japanese products. Well, I guess they could work better in my favor. After Bobby's approval of my product many others in the crowd tried to get some. After a hectic few minutes I had a backpack filled to the brim with items to use for later. I was about ready to go meet Tiny and make the trade, when FruFru appeared with a curious look.

"I hear you have a fancy Japanese energy drink?" She asked me.

I smiled, "Yes, princess. In fact I have a special bottle just for you."

Truth be told I was kinda hoping to run into her, so I got a special large girly bottle for her and I even added more sugar to hers to help spice things up. It's a shame that it's actually good, but you can't always win.

"About dang time somebody sees how special I am," She said as I handed her the bottle.

She took a sip and was actually pleased.

"Not bad. What do you want in exchange?"

"Well, princess there is something you can do for me."

A minute or two later I rushed towards Tiny and pulled out a top hat, ready to make the trade.

"Tiny, my friend how would you feel about getting a little taller?"

"I would do anything to," He told me.

I smiled and gave him the hat, "It can be yours if you give me the horn-a-corns."

Tiny looked stunned, but ultimately agreed. I put them in my bag and gave Tiny another smile.

"No worries Tiny they will get them. I just want to annoy them a bit." I assured him before leaving.

As I was leaving the trading tree, I saw the girls approaching it. Audrey saw me and narrowed her eyes.

"What are you doing here?" She asked me.

"Nothing much. Just making some trades."

"More like getting banned again," She countered.

"Actually beautiful I didn't this time," I told her before smirking, when her cheeks turned pink after my beautiful comment.

"You really expect us to believe that?" She asked harshly after snapping out of it.

I chuckled, "Believe what ever you want sweetie."

I whistled as I left the stunned Harvey girls and began to make my way to my tree house. Eventually they will arrive to get their horn-a-corns back and I will enjoy a few laughs. All and all so far today has been pretty good, aside from my energy drink turning out to be good. Perhaps, I can turn it to my advantage and sell it for some decent cash. Well, better get ready for the confrontation.

About an hour later Fredo, Pinkeye, and I were waiting patiently for the girls to arrive.

"Melvin why aren't we destroying them?" Fredo asked me.

"I don't feel like it," I answered.

"Why not?"

"I just don't," I responded before giving him a glare, "Don't like it? Deal with it."

"Ok fine," He said nervously.

"I am still not used to the new you," Pinkeye commented.

Before I could respond we heard angry shouting.

"Bloogey boys you better gives us our horn-a-corns or I will really bash your heads in."

I chuckled, "Wait until she learns how to swear."

Fredo and Pinkeye gave me confused looks.

"Sometimes, you are weirder than usual Melvin."

I simply smiled at him before going outside, with the backpack in my hand.

"Hello girls. How may I help you?" I asked trying to hold back a laugh.

Audrey gave me a death glare, but after years of receiving one, when I pissed her off on an almost daily basis, I became immune.

"You know why we are here," Audrey growled.

"Please, give us it back," Lotta pleaded.

"Even though I doubt you will, you have surprised me with your behavior," Dot told me.

Pinkeye and Fredo approached beside me and started laughing.

"Please girls. He is not going to part with them without a fight."

I opened the backpack and placed the horn-a-corns into the bucket and lowered them.

"Fine here. All I wanted was to annoy you for a bit," I told them before going back inside the tree house.

Fredo and Pinkeye followed me and gave me questioning looks.

"Seriously, Melvin? You could have made them do anything for them and then keeps the horn-a-corns anyway," Fredo told me.

"Yeah, it would be funny," Pinkeye added.

"I am not in the mood to," I responded before shrugging my shoulders.

"Please tell me you messed with the horn-a-corns to prank them," Fredo told me.

I simply shook my head before picking up a comic book.

"Well, the looks on the girls faces were priceless at least," Pinkeye said.

"Really?" I asked.

"Yeah, I guessed Audrey thought it was a trap, so the girls are hesitant."

I sighed before looking out the window and smiled as I saw Lotta and Dot inspecting them and after a few moments they realized they were perfectly safe. I went back to reading my comic. Well, today has been a success for the most part. Can't wait for what's next. Hopefully the girls actually getting the horn-a-corns this time doesn't cause too many changes. We'll see what happens.

A shorter chapter since Melvin doesn't appear much in this episode, so why not show new new actions he takes and do a take on the episode what his perspective. I am going to find episodes where he has no involvement to be difficult. I might skip them if I can't think of anything. We will see what happens. Sorry for the long wait. The next episode should be more fun when I get to it.