Revenge R Us

***Revenge R Us*** is the 7th book in the Goosebumps Series 2000 series.

## Plot

Wade Brill is preparing for her friend's birthday party. She is waiting for her brother, seventeen-year-old Micah, to pick her up to take her over but he has not returned from the gym yet. She goes over the other times he has been somewhat of a bad brother then, such as the time he interrupted her and her friends while wearing Wade's underwear on his head.

Soon more time goes by and Wade decides he probably forgot about the plans and she decides to just brave the rainstorm outside. She soon comes by the gym her brother was at around the time she loses her umbrella and he pulls up next to her. But then purposely he hits a puddle in the process, spraying her and her soaked white sundress with mud. He then drops her off, then without so much as an apology he speeds away. Wade goes into her friends bathroom to dry off, when she notices a newspaper ad that will solve all of her problems! It is for a revenge business called Revenge R Us.

Not wanting to go alone however, Wade waits a couple of days until her friend, Carl Jeffers can accompany her. Between then, Micah has stolen Wade's diary and read it over the loudspeaker at a public pool. This has shocked Wade considering he is always sneaking around her bedroom in search of it, but she always kept it in a well hidden spot, under her mattress. Until she can get real revenge, Wade then proceeds to slip a dead garden slug into his coffee while he entertains a girlfriend. Except her mother accidentally took the coffee cup with the slug in it.

Finally the day arrives for Wade and Carl to take a trip down to
Revenge R Us, which is located in a trailer park in "the wrong part of
town." Once the children arrive at Revenge R Us, they meet the
proprietor, a gypsy named Iris. Iris is pretty excited about finally
getting some customers, as her business is a new startup, But she is
less thrilled, when Wade explains that she has no money. Proving her
business model is probably not a good one, Iris offers to let Wade have a
 free preview of her revenge services, with the warning that they are
magical. Wade thinks it is a fine idea and pets Iris' magic crow, Maggie, three times while the gypsy witch casts an itching spell on Micah.

Unfortunately, Iris has trouble and somehow the revenge spell
involving the horrible itching is transferred from Micah to Wade! She
itches so badly that she scratches herself until she bleeds. Iris
reverses the spell then tries to cast another spell so that Micah's hair
 will fall out during a date. But that spell also gets transferred to
Wade, only reversed so that she grows hair. After Wade grows so much
hair that she gets weighted down and can't move, Iris reverses her
second failed revenge spell and then casts a third and final spell
against Micah.

Iris' third revenge spell erases Micah entirely. But oddly
enough, Wade finds herself missing her brother, and wants him back.
Despite the many things he has done to her, such as shoving her into the
 bathtub for basically no reason. She goes to Iris and pleads for her to
 bring Micah back. Unfortunately, Iris is sick of giving away free
ineffectual revenges that are horrible, and this reversal will cost
Wade. She explains that Maggie, her crow has a sister named Minnie that
was captured by Iris' evil sister, which happens to be a house on the
same street that Wade lives on. If Wade can go into the house and rescue
 Minnie, Iris will use the collective power of the two magical birds to
bring her brother back to life.

Wade breaks into the witch's house and steals the magic crow,
only to be stopped by the familiar-looking hag. It is Micah! He reveals
that the entire time, this was a revenge prank against Wade. To ruin her
 life for absolutely no reason! He explains how he came across the ad in
 Wade's room and gave Iris 300 dollars to help him instead of Wade upon
learning that she had planned on getting revenge against him. Enraged by
 her brother, Wade steals Maggie and casts a spell on Micah that causes
him to do back flips. Micah warns that she probably should not have
stolen the gypsy's magic bird, but Wade explains that the hag does not
have their address.

She then cuts the debate short by turning him into a slug. Then
that gets boring, so she turns him into a frog. After a while, Iris then
 shows up at their home one day. She apparently got their address from
the check Micah wrote to her. Wade refuses to give the bird back and
instead casts a frog-turning spell on the witch using Maggie. However,
Iris does not transform. She explains that magic birds have rules, and
Wade just broke one. Iris explains that you can only use a magic bird
for three spells in a day. On the fourth spell, the wish is cast back on
 the spell-caster, so Wade is transformed into a frog.