Chapter 8: Return of the King
"Baby Bear!" Elmo called. "Bring me Robin's brain!"
"Yes sew, wight hewe sew!" The frightened bear said as he carried in a tank containing a brain about the size of a chocolate chip cookie.
"Excellent. Now hook the brain up to the mind reading machine!" Elmo said as Baby Bear hurried over to a large machine and sat the brain on top of it. Elmo put on a set of headphones and plugged them into the machine, then pressed a large green button.
The machine flashed and buzzed as it read Robin's brain. Elmo heard all of the information the young frog knew.
All useless. Elmo thought to himself. Frog Scouts, fly eating, singing, leapfrog. Wait! The Fraggle Pebble is located in... "Shut it off Baby Bear." Elmo told him.
"Did you find what you needed?" Baby Bear asked his master.
"Yes, indeed Elmo did." He turned around to face a motionless, lifeless, Robin. "Now Robin, get Elmo the Fraggle Pebble." Elmo told Robin, as Elmo pressed a button on a remote control.
"YeS mAsTeR." Robin said.
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"Well, here we are. Elmo's building." A nervous Kermit said as he, Grover, Rowlf, and Sweetums approached.
"Yes, and Elmo's World is on the very top floor!" Grover told them.
"How are we s'posed to see what's happenin' up there if their on the top floor?" Sweetums asked.
"Oh, I know!" Grover cried as he rushed into a nearby phone booth, and leaped out wearing his Super Grover costume, backwards. "Oops, ha ha ha." He went back in, and came back out with the costume on correctly. "I Super Grover will fly up to Elmo's window to see what is going on!"
"Grover," Kermit asked. "Can you fly me up there with you?"
"Sure Froggy Baby, anything for you." Grover told him as he picked him up and flew to Elmo's window.
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Robin hopped on to the front porch of the Muppet Boarding house and knocked on the door. Hard. So hard that the door fell to the floor.
Lew Zeland was the first to notice. "Hey! It's little Mr. the Frog!" Lew said as he came up to Robin. "What's going on Robin? How'd you get in here? Why's the door broke? Is something..."
Robin cut him off, he picked him up and hurled him across the room like a boomerang fish.
"Ow!" Lew said before fainting.
Robin walked up the stairs, to his room. And there, sitting on his nightstand was a small pink stone. He picked it up, put it in his backpack and walked out of his room.
"Mr. Lew!" Bunsen cried. "Are you alright?"
Robin walked down the stairs.
"Mee mo mee!" Beaker said as he saw Robin coming down the stairs.
"De froogy!" Chef said.
"Robin are you okay?" Beauregard asked. "Did you do this?"
"Crazy Frog!" Crazy Harry said.
Robin reached the bottom of the stairs and looked at them all. Once his friends, now he felt no emotion towards them at all. In fact, he felt no emotion at all. He was no longer frog. He was Elmo's mind slave. Robin punched the floor, causing a tremor knocking the Muppets on their backs.
"How..." Bunsen started to say as he got up. But he stopped, because Robin had dissapeered.
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"Hey, hey, Clifford. Get up. Hokay? It's Pepe." The prawn said as he sat on top of Clifford who was still asleep. "Hokay Ritzo, it's not working. Bring de water. Hokay?"
"Right!" Rizzo said as he brought Pepe a bottle of water.
With his bottom left arm Pepe held the bottle, and with his top right, he unscrewed the lid. "He he he." He chuckled as he poured the water on to Clifford's face.
"Okay, not cool!" Clifford said as he awoke with a jolt. "What the heck are you doing?"
"Well, we were waking jew up. Hokay." Pepe explained. "Jew see, WE ARE LOCKED INSIDE OUR HOTEL ROOM!!! Hokay?"
"What? How?" Clifford asked as he got out of his bed and picked up his cell phone.
"We dunno, that's why we woke ya up!" Rizzo told him.
Clifford dialed a number on his cell phone. But Elmo was the one who answered.
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Fozzie awoke and went into the kitchen, where his mother already had coffee prepared. Fozzie looked inside a cabinet and rumaged around for something.
"Mom, do we have any honey?" He asked.
"Oh fiddlesticks." She said. "I forgot to get some from the bees out back before you came. Be a dear and fetch some for Mom."
"Well, I would, but there are bars on all the doors and windows!" Fozzie screamed.
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Zoot awoke when the sun rose and hit his eyes.
"Aww man." He said quietly as not to wake the others. "What a night. We musta jammed all night. Man, glad we have this bus to sleep in. Or we'd be stuck on the ground!" He felt his sax proping up his feet. And he wanted to play. He knew that if he played in the bus he'd wake Animal, and that wouldn't be pretty. So he decided to go outside. He walked to the front of the bus quietly so he wouldn't wake Dr. Teeth at the wheel. He grabed the handle to open the door, but it wouldn't budge. "Huh?" Zoot said. "What's wrong with this thing? Man I better wake Dr. Teeth. Psst, Dr.Teeth get up!"
"What, what? Oh Zoot it's you. What's wrong?" The good doctor asked.
"It's the door man, it won't open." Zoot said.
"That's crazy." Dr. Teeth said as he pulled the handle and it wouldn't budge. "What's goin' on here?"
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"Please remain calm Mr. President." Sam Eagle reasured him.
"I don't know if I can Mr. Eagle, all of my secret service is gone!" President Bush said.
"Don't worry, once the White House is on permanent lockdown, no one gets in, and no one gets out." Sam told him.
"Well, then how are we supposed to get out?" He asked.
"It's quite simple really, we just over ride the system! I know this house by heart, and I know every room. Even the control room. Now quickly, let us go!" Sam said.
"I'm gonna call Laura and make sure she's okay." The president told Sam.
"But of course!" Sam replied.
The president dialed a number on his phone and geuss who answered.
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"Skeeter! Are you okay." Scooter called to his twin in the pitch black cave.
"I'm fine little brother." She said as she ignited her lamp.
"Thank goodness." Scooter said. "What do you think caused that cave in?"
"Probably an earthquake." She replied. "Wait, do you hear that?"
"Hear what?" Scooter asked.
"Running water! Come on." Skeeter said as they ran into the dark depths of the cave.
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"Sal, I don't believe this." Johnny said.
"I know Johhny I can't believe we're stuck in a canoli joint!" Sal said.
"I know! All the canolis I can eat!" Johnny cried.
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"Alright honey hang on, here's the drop!" Gonzo told his girlfriend as they plummeted over Niagra Falls. "WHEEEE!!!"
"BAWK!!!!!!!!!" Camilla cried.
When they hit the bottom, Gonzo tried to lift the lid, but failed.
"Uh oh, looks like we're stuck!" Gonzo said. "Cool!"
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Robin teleported back to Elmo's World with the Fraggle Pebble in hand.
"Look at that!" Grover said.
"How did Robin do that?" Kermit asked.
Robin walked over to Elmo and bent down on one knee and held the Fraggle Pebble out in his hand.
"No! Not the Fraggle Pebble!" Grover cried as he lifted his hands to his face, and let Kermit fall.
"Thank you Robin. Elmo loves you." Elmo said as he combined the Fraggle Pebble with his ruby and a flash of red and pink lights blinded Grover.