Chapter 18: It's Just Going On
"Are you sure this is safe?"
"Trust me, I'm a pro."
"Ok..." Fozzie said as he watched Lisa jump out of the moving train and land on her feet. "Well it's now or never!" He grasped his nose and jumped from the train. He landed on his face. He rolled down the hill until he hit the bottom, of a tree. "Oh..."
"Fozzie!" Lisa called. "Are you ok?"
Fozzie sat up. "Yeah, the tree's bark's worse than it's bite. Get it? Tree? Bark? Tree bark!"
"Good greif the comedian's a bear..." She sighed. She extended her dry hand out and helped him up.
"Thanks." Fozzie said, dusting himself off. "Where to now?"
"Well," She said, looking into the sky. "Judging by the sun it's about 9:30pm."
Fozzie scratched his head. "There is no sun!"
"That's how I know it's 9:30." She grinned.
"Ah! Funny!" Fozzie shouted.
"Keep it down would ya? You wouldn't want the cops to hear ya!" She whispered.
"Oh! Sorry!" Fozzie whispered as well.
"S'alright. Follow me, I know a great bench we can sleep on."
"Oh great," Fozzie sighed. "Another bench."
"Oh Camilla." Gonzo sighed to his chicken. "Will we ever get a break?"
"Bawk." She clucked leaning towards him.
They both climbed on the same bench they always slept. It had been that way since the day he was kicked out of the motorcycle stunt show.
"You know Camilla," Gonzo looked up at the stars. "Even if I do go back there someday. I'd come back. The song is wrong. It should be, You can just visit, and I'll visit to. I'm going to go back there with you!" Gonzo sang the one line. "Like Ernie's song..."
"Bawk?" Camilla clucked.
"Oh, I'd like to visit the moon," Gonzo sang.
"On a rocket ship high in the air.
Yes, I'd like to visit the moon,
But I don't think I'd like to live there.
Though I'd like to look down at the Earth from above,
I would miss all the places and people I love.
So although I might like it for one afternoon,
I don't want to live on the moon.
I'd like to travel under the sea.
I could meet all the fish everywhere.
Yes, I'd travel under the sea,
But I don't think I'd like to live there.
I might stay for a day there if I had my wish.
But there's not much to do when your friends are all fish.
And an oyster and clam aren't real family.
So I don't want to live in the sea.
I'd like to visit the jungle, hear the lions roar.
Go back in time and meet a dinosaur.
There's so many strange places I'd like to be,
But none of them permanently.
So if I should visit the moon,
Well, I'll dance on a moonbeam and then,
I will make a wish on a star.
And I'll wish I was home once again.
Though I'd like to look down at the earth from above,
I would miss all the places and people I love.
So although I may go I'll be coming home soon.
'Cause I don't want to live on the moon.
No, I don't want to live on the moon."
Camilla had fallen asleep at Gonzo's side. "Goodnight my sweet." Gonzo kissed her head, covered up in some newspaper, and went to sleep as well.
Sweetums was on his knees mopping the floor of the mansion.
"I want you to see your face in it Jack!" The old man called from another room.
"I'd like to see your face in it." Sweetums mumbled to himself.
Tyler opened the closet door where he held the pig and the frog. They were sleeping. How cute. Not. He pulled Miss Piggy's beautiful blonde hair, then gave Kermit a slap on the face.
"Oh good," He grinned mennacingly. "You're up."
Piggy held back tears. Don't let him see you cry. She thought.
Kermit thought the same.
Tyler placed his hands on Kermit's chair again. "Geuss what frog?" He spat in his face. "I've got the deed. And geuss where I'm going? I'm on my way to your stupid theater. I'm meeting the demolision man. I just have to let him inside, sign a stupid paper, then BOOM!" He yelled in Kermit's face. "Your dreams, your hopes, your determination, is gone." He stood up cackling. He walked out of the door and slammed it.
"Kermie?" Piggy asked.
"What?"
"He's wrong."
"Huh?"
"He can't destroy your hopes, your dreams, or your determination. It's not found in some old rundown theater!" She told him. "It's found in your heart! In all our hearts! Fozzie, Gonzo, Scooter, Rowlf...everyone! So, you can just sit there moping about it, but I'm bustin' out of this joint frog!" She cried.
"And how do you plan to do that?" Kermit asked.
"Watch!" She began to push her arms out on the ropes binding her. She heard a rip. And then, the ropes broke. "AHH!!!" She screamed. "That's what I'm talkin' about!"
Kermit was dumbfounded. "Wow." He sputtered.
"Hmph, now look who's come crawling back to me?"
"Piggy..."
"Oh come on," She said as she began to untie him. "I was just joking." She said sweetly. "I'd never leave you Kermie." She batted her eyelashes at him.
He hugged her. "Thanks. Now, we've got a theater to save!"