"That there's the school."

Tom was taking his relatives for a tour of his town. He had just shown them a small red building with the word "school" on it that looked like a small church. There was a wooden ramp going up into the door, now they were walking down a dirt path to the next.. The Baudelaires showed interest, though they pretended not to. Of course the fact that there was more wilderness around than buildings were making the Baudelaires go on REALLY long walks.

"Say, Tom." Klaus asked. "There any libraries around here?"

"Yep." Tom said. "Though I ain't never went into any of 'em myself."

"Really?" Klaus asked.

"Yep." Tom replied. "Why? You interested in 'em?" Klaus shrugged.

"Reading is my favourite pastime." Klaus replied.

"Oh, just like Sid." Tom replied. "Sid ain't never done anything fun. Never went on any adventures."

"Well." Klaus said. "Count Olaf has sort of made us go on adventures."

Tom looked at him with interest. "Ya don't say." Tom asked. "What'd this Count Olaf guy do anyway?"

"Well." Klaus started. "For starters, he's the reason we're orphans." Tom looked at him, sullened.

"You, Violet, Sunny are orphans?" Tom asked.

"Pretty much." Klaus said. "He burnt our house down with a large magnifying lens in his house's tower killed our parents, who were inside."

"Boy." Tom said. "Sounds awful. I don't know what I'd do if I lost my aunt Polly to a fire."

"Well, anyway." Klaus continued. "Afterwards, he got arrangements to have us to live with him." Tom just stopped in his tracks looked at the 3 orphans.

"You 3? Live with him?" Tom asked.

"We didn't know he did it at the time." Violet said.

"Anyway." Klaus said. "First he made us clear the rats out of his house. Violet didn't wanna do this, but she made me something to help he take care of them."

"Violet was scared of rats?" Tom asked.

"They were no ordinary rats." Klaus said. "They were as big as your shoe." Tom jumped at this.

"Woah!" Tom said. "Really?"

"Yep." Klaus said. "And this is what Violet made for me to get rid of them." Klaus pulled out what looked like a coffee can with a boxing glove on a spring sticking out of it, and the business end of a broom for a handle. Tom looked at it in amazement.

"Wow." He said. "What'cha call it?"

"Violet also named it." Klaus said. "It's called, The Brilliant Bopper."

(A/N:I'm gonna be using stuff from the ASOUE video game in this fic, so if they pull out a device, it's from the game.)

"Neat." Tom said. "How's it work?"

"Well…" Klaus started, but he was then interrupted.

"Tom!"