Methos came in and told them they were on shortly, so, Amber, Richie and Cory headed out to the center ring, Richie had Cory by the neck of his shirt, and Amber was ahead of them doing backflips and screaming like a chicken, she flipped around a ring, back to where Richie and Cory where. Then she took the tie on Cory's outfit, stretched it out as far as it would go, practically choking Cory, then she took out a pair of scissors and snipped it in half. Then she snapped her fingers, and Richie held him up like a doll while she sprayed him with a bottle of seltzer water.

Joe and Amanda were watching from the front row in the audience through a pair of bionoculars.

"Well, looks like so far so good," Joe said.

"Why do you need bionoculars to see them? They're straight ahead," Amanda said.

"I know, I'm watching the numbers on that time bomb Richie has in his back pocket," Joe replied.

"WHAT?" Amanda asked.

"Shhhhhhhhh, sit down," Joe whispered, "Richie put a bomb in his pocket, and when it goes off, there's going to be a lot of smoke, a lot of confetti, and they'll be pulling what they think is the final stunt for Cory Raines."

"What's that?" Amanda asked.

"I don't know, they wouldn't tell me," Joe said.

"Of all the fine-"

"Shhhhhhhh!" Joe repeated.

Cory flipped into the air and landed on his hands with his feet still high in the air, Richie picked up an anvil and put it on his heels, the weight overthrew him, knocking him on the ground. Amber came out of the audience dressed like a mixture between Groucho Marx and a clown, she walked over to Cory and lifted up the bottom of his suit a bit.

"Look!" she said, "your petticoat's showing!"

Cory picked up the bottom of his uniform to look and Richie put him in a headlock with one arm and slapped him silly with the free hand, before picking him up and throwing him straight across the room like a dart. He got up and realized he was behind bars, he looked around and found himself in the cage with a lion!

Amber and Richie were applauding the sight of Cory running for his life when Amber got called out of the ring by Methos.

"Looks like I'm being called out of the center ring, folks, so now I leave you with Brutus Maximus and Zippo Deflato," Amber said.

Amber left, leaving Richie to deal with Cory, Richie put Cory down and handed him a bowling ball, a cactus, and a dumbbell to juggle, Cory started to do allright, until Richie threw in a basketball, a potted ivy, and a shoe. He started to get nervous and worry about missing, and he did when Richie threw a seal his way. Cory caught it, the seal nuzzled his nose with its, and then Cory got a concussion when everything came down and hit him on the head.

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"What's wrong, Methos?" Amber asked.

"Apparently that clown just doesn't want to give up, come and look at Duncan," Methos said.

Methos took Amber over to a clown car nearby, Duncan was behind it, Amber walked around and saw him smoldered and black again.

"Mac, what happened?" Amber asked.

"Cory, he put a bomb in the engine of his car, then the next thing I knew, I'm blowing black smoke out of my nostrils, while confetti's shooting out of the carbeurator," Duncan said.

"Don't worry, Richie's got him cornered in the center ring, I don't think he'll left him off easy, on the other hand, he's not going to kill him while they're in the ring, especially with about 600 witnesses, most of them being under 14 years old," Amber said.

"How much time's left?" Duncan asked.

"On what?" Amber asked.

"You mean he didn't tell you?" Duncan asked.

"Tell me what?" Amber asked.

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Richie had found out a way to keep Cory from getting of the hook easily, right now he was chasing Cory around the center ring with two large ginzu knives, Cory kept trying to escape but he kept ending up running one way or the other, both sides Richie cut him off at, he would've tried escaping through the middle if there weren't 2 flaming hoops in the way.

Richie was chasing Cory with the knives because he got out a 4-piece mystery closet, and had an idea to spice up the show.

"Now, now, now," Richie said, "Zippo, you know that in order for this trick to work, I need to cut you up into 4 pieces and put you in the mystery cabinet."

"Oh but...the kids here don't want to see that, do you?" Cory asked.

However, there was a large response of 'yes' coming from the crowd, Cory felt something touch his neck, his pupils went to the corner of his eyes and saw Richie ready to hack him up into a halibut, he jumped out of Richie's reach and started to run around the ring again. Richie made his knives disappear and started chasing him, the bomb in his back pocket was running out of time, no one could see it, but the time had run down to 2:17, meaning he had to catch Cory, and fast, for his plan to work.

At that time, Amber came in riding in a yellow VW that had its roof taken off, and a few bike horns installed in it. The car had a strange engine, the car would travel a few feet, then it would bounce up and down like the engine was about to drop, and then it'd start all over again.

Cory and Richie saw it and ran separate ways, but Richie wasn't fast enough, Amber snagged him by the back of his jeans as she headed by in the car.

"What do you want?" Richie asked.

"Why didn't you tell me you had a bomb in your pocket?" Amber asked.

"What? And ruin the grand finale?" Richie asked, "Look, just keep this yellow buggy jumping around for a few more seconds, then when the bomb goes off, wait for Cory up by the high wire."

"What happens when the bomb goes off?" Amber asked.

"You'll know, now let go of me," Richie told her.

Amber dropped Richie on the floor, Richie got up and chased after Cory again, but this time he tripped over a bale of hay, he took the bomb out of his pocket and put it behind the bale, a few seconds later, it went off. Black clouds of smoke surrounded the ring as confetti filled the area, Richie nabbed Cory and took him up the ladder to the high wire, when he got to the top, Amber swung by on a trapeze and grabbed him by the arms and took him swinging.

"HEY!" Cory screamed, "What do you think you're doing!"

"Getting my revenge on you for Mac," Amber replied.

Amber and Cory swung around as she wrapped her legs around another trapeze, Cory looked down and quickly panicked.

"Eh what do you want?" Cory asked.

"I want you...to take back that money you lifted...then turn yourself in...and if you ever come within 3 feet of Duncan, Richie, or Amanda, I'll blow you sky high into the Netherlands, do you understand?" Amber asked.

"Ehhhhh," Cory mumbled.

Amber gripped him harder as they moved over onto another trapeze, this time at a greater risk of falling because Amber was becoming careless.

"Okay, Okay, I promise, I promise, I won't step within 3 feet of you or your screwed family again," Cory flabbergasted.

"Wonderful, here's your dropping off place," Amber said.

"Huh?" Cory asked.

Amber let go of Cory and he fell into a bucket of confetti.

"Well, at least that's over," Cory said.

"Don't even move!"

A sword came an inch away from Cory's nose, his pupils traveled to the side of his eyes and saw Duncan, dressed as the strong man, and apparently ready to gut him like a kippur.

But now Amber had a problem, it was only by luck she managed to get across the three trapezes, she only made it back onto the second one now, and was starting to panick herself. Richie jumped on the first trapeze and made his way over to her, and grabbed her by the arms.

"You okay?" Richie asked.

"I'm dangling 20 feet above a hard ground, in front of 600 people, yeah, I'm fine," Amber sarcastically replied.

"Well, there is a chance of an easy landing," Richie told her, "that trampoline in the middle of the floor."

"Yeah, but what are our odds of landing on that, and not 12 feet below the dirt?" Amber asked.

"I guess we'll find out soon enough," Richie said.

Richie let go of the trapeze and they both fell to the ground, fortunately, they had a soft landing, they fell on the trampoline and bounced back up again. The second time they went down, they bounced off the trampoline, and into the audience. Richie wound up next to Amanda, and Amber wound up next to one of the trained bears.

"Hi there," she said.

Just then she realized who she was talking to and turned back around.

"Whoa, you should see a dentist," she said.

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They headed back to the house, after seeing Cory get hauled off to jail, and by the time they got home, they were glad everything was back to normal...well, almost.

"Mac's still coughing up confetti," Richie said, "but I think it'll pass by morning."

"Richie, were you ever an acrobatic?" Amber asked.

"If I was, do you think we would've fell into the audience?" Richie asked.

"That certainly was an interesting show, Duncan was excellent as the strong man, and Methos looked pretty much his character as the ring leader, and Richie, you were a handful of personality, there's just one thing I want to know," Amanda said.

"What?" they asked.

"How did you know Cory would land in the confetti?" Amanda asked.

"I didn't, I was hoping he'd land on Ethel, the roller-skating elephant," Amber replied, "can you imagine being stuck on a thing weighing 1,200 pounds on roller skates, and as soon as you land on her back, she goes bizerk and tries to stampede out of there?"

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The next day, Richie was up early and down in the kitchen when Amber came downstairs.

"How're you?" he asked.

"I'm okay, but the hallway's covered with confetti, Mac must've had a real bad cough last night."

"He'll be fine, I'm just glad that we don't have to put up with Cory anymore," Richie said.

"There's just one thing I still don't get," Amber said.

"What?" Richie asked.

"He seemed real worry when I threatened to drop him from the trapeze, but he's Immortal, the only real way for him to die is if someone takes his head, why was he scared last night?" Amber asked.

"I don't know, he did the same thing shortly after Mac and I met him. We had him tied up, and he was being a real jackass, so Mac and I were going to drop him out the window, and he went into an absolute panic trying to talk us out of it," Richie said.

"Now there's a guy I wouldn't give anymore than 50 years...He can't fight, he doesn't have a sword, he's always running from everything, how's he supposed to fight if he comes across someone like Connor or Methos, or maybe someone worse?"

"Worse than Methos? Are you sure you didn't hit your head when you fell in the audience?" Richie asked.

Richie turned and looked out the window and noticed something, "What's that?"

"What's what?"

Richie got up and headed out the front door to see dark clouds moving around, the sun was still out, but lightning was coming out of the clouds.

"What would you call that?" Richie asked.

"I don't know...Richie..."

"What?"

"What's today?"

"Tuesday..."

"Exactly," Amber said.

"Huh?" Richie asked.

"Look."

Richie looked down and saw that the front porch was back! He forgotten that it got blown away last week...

"What did you say when that bomb went off?" Richie asked.

"I said the front porch got knocked into next Tuesday, why?" Amber asked.

"You know, I'm starting to think you're haunted," Richie said.

"You wouldn't be the first," Amber said.

"You know what? I got an idea," Richie said.

"About what?" Amber asked.

"I'm heading down to the airport and seeing if by any chance, they have any early flights heading out to Florida."

"Okay, see ya later," Amber said.

"Oh no you don't, you're coming with me."

"How come?"

"Because, I'm not taking any chances on leaving you here alone, if I do, by the time I come back, the house will probably be on fire."

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"MAC! Amanda! Joe! Everybody get down here!" Richie called.

"What is it?" Duncan asked.

"Pack your bags, there's a flight heading to Florida in 5 hours," Richie said.

"Are you kidding?" Amanda asked.

"Amanda, look at me, do I look like someone's playing a practical joke? Am I laughing? Or else am I telling you to get ready for Tampa?" Richie asked.

"Are you serious, Richie?" Duncan asked.

"Yeah, yeah, I got the tickets with me and everything, now come on, let's get going!" Richie said.

So, it was off to the airport again, the surprise this time was that when they landed, it was in the right place, and the weather was actually good. Now, if only they could get this whole wedding on the way.