NOTE: This is the first story where the SSD first met with others in an attempt to save David from the Spacey Awards. It is rather disjointed as there was no set 'author team' and people were wandering in and out occasionally.
*Feel free to read italics with a corny narrator voice.*
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ALERT!! It was recently discovered that the executives who run the Space Channel are in reality some kind of alien scientists!They choose their human subjects by their extreme knowledge, joy of Sci-Fi and amount of awesome and then they rig the Spacey Awards to make sure those people win! They set up a gene-altering gas to be released from the "Spacey Award" in order to conduct experiments on people without them knowing!
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McKay strives to push his hand through the stringy alien restraint goo, and Fraggle Dragon is there to grab hold of his tired hand. But who is gonna help Fraggle pull McKay to safety?
Kass calls out “I'm here!” as she reaches out and grabs Fraggle and tugs backwards helping to free them all! Quenderra dashes in and grimaces at the prospect of possibly getting "Stringy Alien Restraint Goo" on herself before grabbing onto Kass and pulling, thereby adding to the effort to save David...
Quenderra's fear of the goo caused Fraggle and others to be thrown through a time zone delay, resulting in Fraggle ending up in bed before the action finished. As she raises her head from the pillow, she asks "Did we do it? Did we get him?" She realizes where she is, and what must have happened. "Oh No!!" What happened to the others? Did they rescue David? Did Quenderra escape the pull of the stringy alien restraint goo? Will Fraggle D ever get back? ...... HELP!
At that moment NZJ wanders by. "I am here to help! With my ability to misspell the simplest of words, my in-ability to use the space bar on my keyboard and my power to rip Duck Tape in half in a nice straight line; I also make good Chocolate Cake I might add," she declares. “I come with the Wisk of Doom!(kinda like the eyebrows of doom) but worse...I venture forth with no knowledge on how to spell it...Had to look it up on Word...I creep onwards stopping only to move the mouse, click in the middle of a weird-looking word and hit my space Bar directly in the centre.”
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Fraggle hears something. It's slowly making its way through the dark. She can hear mumbling... “how was I to know that ruddy space bar would bring me here...I don’t even know where I am..” Fraggle listens until she hears, “I will show em, I will whisk up trouble with my whisk of doom!”
Instantly she knows its a friend and calls out to NZJ. "Over here! Get me out of here!!" NZJ appears through the dimness, her bewildered look being replaced with a look of relief when she realizes where she is, and sees Fraggle. NZJ rips the ties of sleep like duck er, duct tape, freeing Fraggle.
"We have to go and find Kassandra and Quenderra and David. We all went to rescue him, but a time thingy happened and we all got split up," Fraggle shouts as she gets up and starts running."I will explain on the way!"
"Ok, just don't ask me to spell anything..." NZJ replies quickly.
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Quenderra hangs her head, drawing her knees to her chest after sinking to the floor."What have I done?" she wails. "We've failed, and are all separated, and, and... I GOT IT ON MY HANDS!!!" After determining there were no sinks or faucets nearby in the inky darkness, she rises to her feet to go off in search of her companions. "Oh, great! Now I've got to choose which way to go!"
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Fraggle notices that NZJ has now disappeared. She wonders if the time zone phenomenon is occurring again, as she finds herself lightheaded. She notices that she is back in the room with the alien stringy restraint goo, and that poor Quenderra has become entangled in the sickly stuff. No one else is to be seen."Are you ok Quenderra? Here let me help." Fraggle pulls out her trusty baby wipes, and frees her from the goop.
“Oh, you are my hero! Let's go find the others!” Quen quickly cries.
Fraggle looks around, at a complete loss as to what to do. Whatever had to be done, had to be done before the next time zone delay phenomenon occurred. Was that someone lying in the corridor ahead of them? Its too dark to make out. "What do you think, Quenderra?"
And suddenly, in a puff of blue smoke, the GRARR arrives."Sorry it took so long," She mutters to others, "Hot dogs for everyone! Yayyy!" Pulling out her super-nerdy-yet-awesome goggles of immense looking/seeing power, she dodges left, then right, then left again."I CAN SEE THROUGH THE WALL!" A wild hand shoots up from her side, missing Quen's face but a mere half of an inch. "David is THAT WAY!" Alas.... no door. They've got to go around.
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As Kass awakes in the slowly fading darkness, her head pounding as she tries to remember what had happened with the rescue mission, she slowly realizes that she had been separated from Quenderra and Fraggle, with David no where in sight.
"HELLO???!!! Is anybody out there?" She reaches up to touch her head and found a bump on it. As she glances at her hand, she notices a note: 'Memo to self: no watching “Misbegotten” with headphones.' She wonders where she'd gotten the pen as she doesn't remember bringing one with her, only the Keyboard of Truth. She struggles to her feet and set off in search of her companions and, most importantly, David.
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And so, the group moves on. It is an odd group. One is a goggle wearing materializing dodger, one a forgetful memo writer, one with a small case of OCD, and one with baby wipes hanging from her combat trousers. As they run through the darkened corridor, all are glad that they had met up again. The only one missing now, is David.
"Where the hell could they have taken him now?" Fraggle says. "I mean....." (ZZZZZAP!) "What the..."Fraggle finds herself falling backwards, a strange tingling throughout her body. Blackness fills her mind...
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Quenderra lets out a small groan."Ow.. crap. What is doing that?" She winces at the sudden brightness as she opens her eyes. Squinting, she takes in her surroundings. Everything is so... white. Slowly, she rises to her feet.
"What in the--there aren't any doors!!!" she cries, then proceeds to hit one of the walls. "Hey! Somebody lemme out! I've gotta find my friends!!! Let... me... OUT!!" Frustrated, she punches the wall, letting out a small curse and grimacing in pain. So much for not punching things any more. "Somebody, help!"
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'I thought so, I have it too!!!! Quite crippling case actually!'Fraggle awakens in a room very like Quenderra’s. No doors, dark and really smelly! But she is not alone in her little box. Who the hell is that gripping onto her leg?!!!
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Grarr opens one eye and wonders for a moment why there is a shoe attached to the giant hot dog she had discovered..."Oh! Hello Fraggle!" She surveys the room, yelling out "LET THERE BE LIGHT!!" as she raises her hands and pulls a string from somewhere above. An overhead light comes on and it is good. To their shock and surprise, there is a Spacey Award hovering three feet off of the ground in the corner, the 'Jeremiah was a Bullfrog' song blaring from little speakers behind the eye pieces."OH NOES!"
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"Garr! For goodness sake! Stop chewing my leg!!! It's Fraggle, not a bloody hot dog!! Your hot dog is in the corner." Now that there is light and the mysterious hovering statue had been found, they listen to the mesmerizing music. It is hypnotic."Bullfrog....yes..." Then as if a spell had been cast, an invisible door opens and Garr and Fraggle leave the room. "Bullfrog....yes...Bullfrog....."
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"Let me out!" Quenderra shouts again, her voice becoming hoarse. As music begins to blare through some unseen speakers, she claps her hands over her ears, throwing herself against the wall farthest from the sound. She lets out a small shriek as what she thought was a solid structure gives behind her.
"There--there's a door?" she gasps, having been unable to see it before. Pressing it open further, she stumbles down the hallway, wishing whoever had turned on the music would turn down the volume. "Think Quenderra, think!" she murmurs. "Gotta find the others..."
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Grarr curiously follows Fraggle out of the room and they find a blinding white hallway. Just ahead is...."QUENDERRA!!!" Grarr yells out, after pushing the goggles up onto her head. Taking a running leap, she tackles Quen to floor.... *huggle* "Big, uhm... pointy thing... flying. Went, uh, Shooom! And yeh, good thing I tackled you, or your head? Ka-Splat."
"Ooph!" Quenderra grunts as an unidentified mass lands on top of her. 'How'd I get on the floor?' She looks up, blinking as stars dance about her head."Grarr?" she asks, and then, "Fraggle! Have you guys seen Kass? Or David? What is going on here??"
As Garr tackles Quenderra, Fraggle shakes her head free from the hypnosis. "I've got it!!" She shouts as the two get off the floor. "It was in the song...Bullfrog! Its telling us where to go! I think Kass left it for us to find." The others look at Fraggle as if she is losing it. "Honestly, it said to me, in my mind, go to the bullfrog!" The others start to back off, in case Fraggle really does lose it, she is acting a little crazy and is, well, freaking them out. "Guys! The Bullfrog outside the room with the alien stringy restraint goo! Its a charm on the wall!!"
"What do you mean I'm crazy!" Fraggle shouts, but she knows that neither Garr nor Quenderra had uttered a word."Oh! I...I can hear your thoughts...I can hear everyone’s thoughts! I am crazy!" She turns her head and tilts it to the side, as she hears more voices in her head. "It's Kass and David. Shouting for help. They are in separate rooms upstairs." Fraggle stares hard at the unbelievers."I know that you are wishing you could eat that stone over there coz you think it looks like another hot dog, Grarr." Then the truth hits Grarr and she believes! "We've got to get to that Bullfrog. Its the only way upstairs. Sorry Quen, its the goo room again!" Fraggle says as she begins to run...again.
"Oh.. okay--as long as I don't have to touch that stuff!" Quenderra murmurs as she reluctantly follows after her companions. As they reach the goo room, they can see the goo wriggling down the corridor in another direction.
"Its alive? OOOOOOH! Double EUCH! I had my hands in that stuff! Oh wait! It must be one of the aliens!" Fraggle retches as she watches the horrible goop body turn a corner, leaving a slime trail of luminous yellow. She presses the Bullfrog charm button and a secret door opens onto a stairwell. At least no one has to touch the goo!
Kass stands tapping away at the Keyboard of Truth trying to find a way out of the small room to the one that seemed to be next door from where she could hear David. "WE MUST SAVE DAVID" echoing in her head, the tap, tap, tapping of her keyboard loud in the small space. With everyone trying to save themselves and David, their very lives depending on the tapping of Kass' keyboard.
David notices a smell coming from outside his door. Slowly and horribly, the goo monster pokes a tendril under the door....Everyone stops in horror at the sound of David’s high pitched screams from the room that seem to be so very far away from them...
Time is running out...
Kass taps away quickly at her keyboard, hoping that the message is getting out as she dashes down the seemingly never ending hallway towards where the sound of David’s scream was coming. "COME ON WE MUST SAVE HIM BEFORE THE SPACEY GETS HIM!"
They run in the painful slow motion that only a nightmare can make, as the goo slips its final bulk under the door. Fraggle can sense the time zone delay phenomenon quickly forming, and soon they would all be forced away from this place once more. But David may not be able to wait for the next forming of time, the loop that would bring the group back to save him. Kass can see Fraggle, Grarr and Quen running up the corridor behind her. Kass is the closest to the door, but what is stopping her getting in...
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Thoughts of hot dogs running through Grarr's head distract her and she slips on a sudden random banana peel~! Her head dives towards the wall and she braces herself for impact----Instead of hitting the wall, she is surprised to run into a soft warm object and it falls to the floor with her. Startled she scrambles to her feet and realizes that she has found David! (huzzah) Ignoring the puzzled and slightly mortified look on his face-- "Wow David, you look like you use a hot dog or two..." --she helps him to his feet and yells out..."THE WALL!! IT'S a FAKE!! This WAY!!! .Bring the goo-destroying ray-gun things!"
"Alrighty then!" Quenderra exclaims, then halts suddenly. "But wait... we, uh, forgot to bring Goo-Destroying Ray-Gun Things!"
As the others stumble into the room, to find the gooey alien shuddering in the corner, Fraggle looks at David, surprised to see him unhurt."Why were you screaming? Are you hurt, did that thing hurt you?"
"Eh, no. The alien just smelt of lemons, and I know its really Rodney that has the allergy, but... It's kinda rubbed of on me...." he ends lamely.
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"WHAT do you mean we FORGOT the Goo GUNS!!!"
"Well, er..." Quenderra begins, digging into her pocket and retrieving her face-mask. "Grarr didn't say anything about goo... she said gas, I prepared for gas--no one said anything about goo! ...wait a minute--anyone have nail polish remover on them?" David regards them all perplexedly. This wasn't quite how he'd imagined meeting some of his squirrels...
It was then that the importance of Kass' typing became clear. Like buzzing insects, the letters of text pound frantically on the keyboard, buzzing in the air towards the frightened alien. In one last attempt to get David, the alien rose to a 7 feet tall wall of goop, reaching its tendrils towards him... It is struck by the text, exploding into bits of rubbery slimy goo over them all.
“Oh, YUK!!!!” Quen cries loudly. Fraggle's hands were a blur of motion, whipping baby wipes around like a fiend. In no time they were all clean again. The alien gone, and all were safe.!!!! Yay!!
"Okay!" Grarr says, "Now we gotta... HangOnASec..." Taking the moment, and since goo was already there all over everybody, she styles David's hair into a mohawk.
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"Oh Well. Time to go then?" No sooner had Fraggle--may she be forever blessed!--managed to get everyone clean again than the whole place, whatever it was, begins to tremble and the roof begins to cave.
"Okay--it might be time to go!" Grarr exclaims.
"Agreed!" choruses one or two of the others. They turn to flee the destruction when a strange sensation creeps down their spines and their heads began to feel light.
"Oh, no!" Quenderra cries. "It's happening again!"
Grarr awakes with a headache and looks around. No longer is there a great pile of alien goo. She rolls around, then falls, landing with a thump. She is at the base of a tree. The dGeek Tree. Glad to be back where she belongs, with David and the other squirrels safe and sound, she grins like a mad thing and wanders off, following the smell of a hot dog barbecue.
And with that the Time Delay Phenomenon opened above Fraggle D's head. She waves goodbye with the hopes that a new thread will have been started when she returns. Then she is sucked back to Scotland and her bed......Phfoot!
Quen calls out to her departing friend, “Goodnight, Fraggle!” *waves as she is doubled over laughing at the episodes she had downloaded as she looks at David’s hair still styled into a mohawk "JUST HOW DO YOU GET YOUR HAIR TO GO LIKE THAT?", she paused and saw that Fraggle had disappeared into the time portal.
“Good bye, dear friend, till tomorrow when the psychic squirrels shall ride again!”
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The End. (For now.)
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Attempted editing for optimal readability by Quenderra.
1 comments:
Great story. Loved it.
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