Part 8
Before she could go to Hollywood, Aurora, like the fashionable woman that she was, had to pack. She allowed Fozzie and Lightning to come in her house on the pretense that they didn’t touch or take anything. She went upstairs, leaving Fozzie and Lightning in the parlor. Suddenly they heard a faint rapping coming from the coat closet.
"Should we look in there?" whispered Lightning to Fozzie.
"I don’t think we should; Aurora told us not to." replied Fozzie.
"Fozzie, is that you?" said the voice in the closet.
"That depends; who’s asking?" said Fozzie, nervously.
"Jasper, Mokey’s ex-roommate." answered the voice.
"You’re mean; we don’t like you!" exclaimed Lightning.
"No, no... I’m done being bad now. I’ll explain myself, but you have to let me out of the closet" said Jasper.
Fozzie opened the closet and out stepped Jasper Fraggle. Jasper was once a human before he crushed a Perfect Blue Rollie, which made him a Fraggle. He was beige in color with a brown mullet haircut, wearing a hunter-green tank top.
"I was the only survivor from the whirlpool." explained Jasper. "When the Coast Guard found Mr. Lords and Scoop dead, naturally they had to notify Aurora. I was almost dead when they found me, so Aurora agreed to take me in until I got better. Seeing as I’m a Fraggle now and I can’t be seen by the outside world, it only stood to reason that I stay here under wraps. So, what brings you two here?"
"Aurora’s taking us to California to go after Chamberlain. Of course, we’re planning to stop her" said Lightning, proudly.
Just then, Aurora came downstairs with both arms full of suitcases. When she noticed Jasper out of the closet, she screamed "Get your suit on; you’re coming too!". Jasper walked into the closet and came back a few seconds later dressed as a dog! Naturally, Fozzie and Lightning doubled over in laughter.
"Yeah, yeah, I know, laugh it up" said Jasper, embarrassed. "How do you think I feel?"
"The better question is, do we *care* how you feel?" asked Aurora.
"No" said Jasper, like he was used to answering these questions.
"Do you have a choice in the matter?" asked Aurora.
"No" answered Jasper, dejectedly.
"Splendid!" said Aurora as she attached a leash to Jasper. "Now come, my little hostages. Momma’s going to own a Fraggle fund soon!"