Here's the final chapter of this story! I think a little wrap-up is in order! Anyway, enjoy!

Nadine smirked as she went deep into the forest as she started looking around for bugs. She had a certain eye for one, and she was really hoping to catch a rare bug.

Nadine smiled as she noticed a dragonfly flying around. Nadine smirked as she caught the dragonfly and examined it.

"I got a darner dragonfly!" Nadine smiled. "I got darn lucky!"

Nadine examined the dragonfly, then released it. Not quite what she was looking for as she released it. Nothing so far...

As Nadine went close, she then noticed a brown bug as she put it in her net. "I got a brown cicada! These things are everywhere... and certainly not a rare bug..."

Nadine tossed the bug aside as she continued on. Sooner or later, she was going to get a rare bug...

Meanwhile, with Tucker himself, he looked around, determined himself as he tried to search amongst the butterflies. Right now, it didn't matter how rare the bug was, he needed at least a butterfly or something that would look good...

...butterfly... just thinking about the word 'butterfly' reminded him of Nadine. He sighed as she invaded her thoughts for a brief second...

But he knew he had to stay focused. Pretty soon, he looked around as he noticed the Raja Brooke butterfly flying around. He smiled as he decided to get closer to it...

"I caught a grasshopper! Seems it hopped it's last!" Nadine giggled as she let the grasshopper go. "Not really rare, though..."

All of a sudden, he noticed the Raja Brooke butterfly laying its body towards a branch as she smirked. She smiled as she got her net up, lifting it, ready to catch it...

The butterfly then flew off as Tucker and Nadine, once again, caught each other with the nets.

Both of them looked at each other as they started blushing, Nadine giggling. "We've got to stop catching each other in our nets..."

"You know, I wouldn't mind catching you in my net..." Tucker smiled as Nadine blushed. "...my little butterfly."

"Tucker, stop. We have a competition to do..." Nadine smiled.

"Right!" Tucker said as they both followed the Raja Brooke butterfly, with an intent to catch it...

Only for Tucker and Nadine to stop when they noticed another Raja Brooke butterfly circling around the second butterfly.

Both Tucker and Nadine looked at each other before nodding. They both quickly caught each Raja Brooke butterfly in their net and put it in a glass jar with air holes.

Tucker smiled as he examined his Raja Brooke butterfly. "I think it looks pretty good, don't you..."

"They're certainly pretty creatures..." Nadine smiled.

Pretty soon, the contestants were waiting as the judges, including Arnold, were each examining each bug that the player had caught. Tucker and Nadine were sitting nearby as Tucker whispered, "If I don't win, butterfly, I'm happy that I lost to you..."

Nadine gave a warm smile as she said, "You are quite an interesting opponent as well, Tucker..."

From nearby, Coach Wittenberg and Tish were waiting as they saw Tucker and Nadine talking with each other. The two smiled a bit as Tish said, "Definitely a crush..."

"I can agree with that..." Coach Wittenberg laughed.

From nearby, Lauren and Jerome smiled, watching their daughter talking with Tucker as Lauren said, "She definitely has an interest in that boy..."

"For sure, babe." Jerome smiled. "She is taking quite a fancy to him..."

They noticed Rhonda smiling in glee as Jerome said, "Rhonda, could you tell us anything about that boy?"

"See that brown haired man with the blonde in the pink shirt?" Rhonda asked as she pointed to the Wittenbergs.

"Yeah?" Lauren asked.

"That's his parents." Rhonda explained.

"Hmmm... interesting." Lauren said as she and Jerome went over to the Wittenbergs to have a talk.

"It was a very interesting contest, and a pretty close call..." Arnold said. "But the winner, by a good bug and one inch... is Tucker Wittenberg!"

Tucker smiled as Nadine clapped. "Hey, you did great, Tuck! Go on, take the trophy!"

Tucker smiled as he went over and took the gold trophy.

"Second place... Nadine Robinson." Arnold said as Nadine went over to Arnold to except her silver trophy.

As Arnold was giving away the third place trophy to a random boy who caught a brown cicada, Tucker smiled as he turned to Nadine. "Can you believe this, butterfly?"

"Yeah, you may have won now... but wait until the next bug-off!" Nadine smirked as she held her trophy. "I may have second place now... but I think I'll win against you in your own game!"

"Oh really? Is that a challenge?" Tucker smirked towards Nadine.

"Basketball after school?" Nadine asked.

"You're on, my little butterfly!" Tucker laughed as Nadine laughed as well.

The two stopped as they noticed their parents talking as Nadine said, "Say, Tuck, isn't that our parents talking to each other."

"Those guys are your parents?" Tucker said in surprise as he pointed to him. "I can see they have that sixties' like look..."

"Yeah... they're really cool..." Nadine said. "Come on, I'm guessing they found out about us..."

"Yeah..." Tucker smiled as he held hands. "We better tell our parents about our new friendship..."

Rhonda watched as Nadine and Tucker started talking with their parents and introducing one another.

"To think... it took a bug catching experience for a potential soul mate to meet up..." Rhonda sighed as she noticed Arnold coming over. "Oh, hey Arnold."

"Hi, Rhonda." Arnold said as he put down his checklist. "What a day, huh?"

"You said it." Rhonda smiled as she looked over to Nadine and Tucker. "You see Nadine and Tucker over there?"

"How can I miss them?" Arnold asked as he saw the two talking and laughing with their parents.

"You know, I kind of had my doubts about it at first, but the more I see these two together, the more I think... yeah... they're perfect." Rhonda sighed. "It makes me wonder if we'll ever find potential soul mates."

"Who knows..." Arnold said. "For all we know, our soul mate may not be too far behind..."

As Arnold said that, Helga was passing right by, skipping and sighing as she was looking at her locket of Arnold. Fortunately, Arnold didn't notice as he kept talking with Rhonda.

"I agree." Rhonda nodded. "I mean, sure, maybe they won't be perfect, but hey, not every person needs to be perfect, right?"

As Rhonda said that, Curly was seen running with a can of red paint as he was laughing maniacally, shouting to the sky, "BY THE NAME OF BUCKY B. KATT, I WILL PAINT A MUSTACHE ON THE PRESIDENT'S PHOTO!"

Curly ran off, but fortunately for Rhonda, she didn't notice (or maybe she did, and just didn't care).

"I guess you're right..." Arnold said. "But you know what? I'm sure that sooner or later, we'll meet up with them... maybe not now, but maybe soon."

"Yeah..." Rhonda nodded. "But for now, it's nice to see Tucker and Nadine get along in their own way..."

"Yeah... well, I have to go. I'm sure my grandfather and the boarders will want to hear how the contest went out." Arnold said as he left. "See you at school, Rhonda."

"See you later, Arnold." Rhonda waved to Arnold as he walked off.

As Rhonda watched Arnold walked off, she heard a squeal from Nadine as she turned to see her coming up to Rhonda, hugging her. "Whoa, what's up?"

"Rhonda, you won't believe this... but my parents and Tucker's parents have been talking, and his parents are actually considering transferring Tucker to PS 118!" Nadine said in excitement.

"Hey, that's great, Nadine!" Rhonda laughed. "What does Tucker think?"

"He's as equally excited as I am!" Nadine smiled. "Now I can spend a lot more time with him in school! Maybe we'll meet up at recess!"

"Hey, I'm glad you're getting to see your new boyfriend..." Rhonda smiled as she and Nadine walked off.

"Rhonda, I told you, we're not that far into the relationship yet..." Nadine said.

"So you do admit to wanting a relationship with Tucker Wittenberg?" Rhonda laughed.

"Oh, shut up, Rhonda." Nadine laughed.

"I really can't thank you enough for this opportunity, dad!" Tucker smiled as he was hugging his parents.

"Son, when we noticed you talking with that girl, we kind of suspected you had something for her..." Coach Wittenberg smiled.

"We wanted to tell you next week, but knowing your friend was from that school, we figured we tell you now." Tish explained.

"Still... thanks..." Tucker smiled as he looked up at the sky. At last, he felt closure. He can talk with Nadine at any time now that he's going to be transferred to PS 118... it was certainly going to be an exciting rest of the school year, especially for himself...

Little did Tucker and Nadine know was that their relationship would eventually spark as they would begin dating in a couple years' time... but it was all good... it was all good...

Helga snapped her fingers as she saw Nadine and Rhonda walking over. She marched up to Nadine and said, "Spidine!"

Helga laughed as Nadine looked at her in confusion. Helga laughed as she snapped her fingers. "Nailed it!"

Helga then started to walk off, feeling slight victory in her hand.

"That... just wasn't... I don't get it. Spidine?" Nadine sighed.

"Let's just give her that one and run with it." Rhonda sighed as the two continued to walk off.

Orange Ratchet Story

"That's All, Folks!"

An Orange-Ratchet Fanfiction

And that's this story done! How'd you like it?

Final thoughts overall! Okay, so maybe this story didn't have a lot of Arnold or Rhonda as the previous titles do... BUT hey, I love writing for Nadine, she's a very underused character, and I felt she had untapped potential. Same goes with Tucker, he was used for one episode and never appeared again. And I thought about the possibility of them as a couple and I figured, 'hey, this might be a pretty cute idea. I'll try it'... and pretty soon, Tucker x Nadine was born! It's a little short, but that's okay, I didn't expect this story to be quite as long anyway, so yeah.

Anyway, that's about it! Thank you very much for reading, have a great day!