"Ahhhhhhhh-hhhhhhh-hhhhhhhhh!" The wind rushed past the cage, as it fell twisting, screaming, daring to hope, giving up hope, crying, wishing, and being filled with peace all in one drawn out moment as the cage dropped sickeningly from it's hook, as if in slow motion.
It wheeled downwards...and then...
"Omf! Got you!"
The cage jarred as the hand caught the rungs of its caging. Robin slammed against the bars, and lay there for a moment breathing hard....
(*)(*)(*)(*)
Kermit examined the machine, while Sam the Eagle fussed behind him. "This is not the American way. We do not simply waltz into someone elses propety and fiddle with their belongings. It is not Decent."
Kermti pointed to a small screen that had been hidden to one side. "Gonzo, look at this."
"Oooh! Check that out. Looks like a record of something. See..."
"Yes," Kermit agreed. "The line moves across the screen like a heartbeat monitor, and here and there, there is a peak and jump in the line."
"Towards the end here, it is gettign faster," Gonzo said. "Like when Animal ate my Mexican Jumpign Beans."
"...And good upright Americans would know better than to stand gawping at a screen that belongs not to them at all. If placed under circumstances such as our own, i.e. for example being sent unexpectedly into the home of another they would quickly find the afore-mentioned house owner and explain the incalcuable mistake."
"You are right," Kermit said to Gonzo. "The blip is getting fast. And more frequent. Something big must be happening."
"Soething is," said Sam. "We are dwelling where no man should step. In the personal home of..."
"SHUT UP!" Gonzo said.
"Shuttign up," Sam replied.
"Thanks Gonzo," Kermit said under his breath.
Rowlf the dog returned from examining the premases. "The doors are locked," he said. "And...kermit! Look! A rainbow!"
And it appeared, arching out of the machine and spining slowly around. The colors were crisper than any imagiation can bring into being. Every part glowed with an undulating light like no other. The rainbow reflected back in the eyes of the behilders. Floating higher, and higher, spinning so slowly and so magicly.
Kermit gulped, a tear forming for no reason. This was it. The rainbow...a rainbow unseen before by man, or frog. A rainbow he had dreamed of in black and white, it made every color seen before like an insipid grey in comparison.
Rowlf opened and shut his paws. His wide eyes gazed up into the depthes of the rainbow, and he knew he was the only dog to see this.
Sam folded his arms, opened his mouth, shut his mouth, blinked. Said nothing.
Gonzo touched his hand to his nose, unable to believe it real, this bow in the sky.
Floating dots of sparkling light etched from the bow, dancing like fairys around it, encircling it, and darting in and out of the pure pool of light.A music seemed to play...not music, a sound, a sound.
And then they moved as one, Kermit Gonzo Sam Rowlf, they lifted their hands, stepped, pressed their fingers into the light, like pressing into soft clay....