Chapter Three
As Doc crept around the house, late that night, he was quite astonished at what he had found.
They were living like normal people. They ate food, they bathed, they clothed themselves...except for the frog, but that was another matter entirely he thought. They were normal. He had for a very short time, back in his own dimension...or timeline, worked as a set designer for some muppet show. He had helped when a few actors that had worked on Star Wars had come to the show. He remembered the preformer for that small orange muppet, Scooter.
"What was his name again?" He asked himself softly, as he was prying through the cabinets in the kitchen. "I can't believe I don't remember him at all...he was quite the engaging fellow. Always kept me laughing.."
A female orange muppet stood in the doorway, although he didn't notice her at all. She held a frying pan in one hand, and was wearing a bright green bathrobe on, her flaming red hair was in rollers, with a blue face mask on. Her glasses were glinting in the soft moonlight that poured through the kitchen window.
"Hm. I don't remember you at all." The icy female voice pierced the relative darkness of the kitchen. Doc flattened himself against the counter, turning around slowly. He saw the woman standing there in the doorway, balancing the pan in her hands. It was cast iron, and quite heavy he noted mentally.
"Ah...h-hello there....I'm...I'm Doctor..." He was quite nervous, trying to be polite, but he was very worried about where he was and everything, he had intended to leave as soon as possible the next day.
"...You're a snoop and a thief. Get out of this kitchen and out of this house, before you say hello to this pan!" She hissed, lifting the heavy pan above her head, while walking towards him. "I'm giving you 5 seconds to get out of this house!"
He couldn't move at all. He was rooted to the spot.
"Okay, times up buster!" She yelled as ran towards him, ready to swing the pan against his head. She saw him as an intruder, as Kermit had brought them inside late that night, when everyone was still asleep.
He grabbed the nearest thing to him, which was the toaster and held it in front of him as she swung towards him. Pan collided with toaster, and she dropped the pan, which hit his foot with a loud thunk.
"EEEEYOOOOWWWWW!!!" He yelled, leaping up onto the countertop, if the female's scream hadn't woken everyone up, certainly his did. She dashed backwards from him, before the toaster hit her. And she ran out of the kitchen, only to run into Dr. Teeth.
"There's a thief in the kitchen! I tried to run him off, but he wouldn't leave! He was....he was....rifling through the cabinets and everything!" She was saying to everyone, as Dr. Teeth picked her up gently, and helped her to stand up.
Kermit walked into the kitchen, only to find Doc Brown sitting on the counter top, one of his loafers off, and examining his now-broken foot, while wincing. He flipped the light on, and sighed.
"Sadie, you just hurt our guest! This is Doctor Emmett Brown!" Kermit exclaimed as he walked over to Doc, and looked at his foot as well. His toes, as well as a few inches up his instep were already a little swollen and bruised.
Sadie looked down, feeling quite ashamed of it. Then she looked Kermit straight in the face, angry. "You should have told us we had guests, Kermit!"
"At 11 pm at night!? Everyone was sleeping when they came in!"
"He should have stayed in his guest room then, he shouldn't have been sneaking around the kitchen, poking his nose in all our of stuff! He could have poisoned us and we wouldn't have known!"
Doc looked at her, his eyes wide. He was a little shocked she would say something like that. "Poison you? Why would I do something like that?" He asked, quite innocently.
He stepped down from the counter, and ended up putting pressure on his broken foot; he bit his lip to keep from cussing and yelling. He awkardly hopped over to the island counter, and held onto it, so he could keep his balance. Marty stepped through the throng of muppets and glared at him.
"Doc...why were you in here? I thought you had gone to sleep in the guest room with me!" He looked outright tired, and frustrated.
"I....I wondered how they lived, that's all. A little scientific research." He nodded, shoving his free hand into his pocket, while keeping his broken foot above the ground.
Marty sighed, and shook his head. "You could have done all that, when everyone was AWAKE, Doc. Kermit...he probably wouldn't have minded it, would you have?"
Kermit shook his head a little. "He's right, Emmett. I wouldn't have minded. You could snoop all you want, just do it when we're awake. You're a guest anyways...it's kinda rude to do that." He looked down at Doc's foot which was absolutely purple now.
"Yes, before anyone asks, it is broken." He sighed a bit, and started to hop over to the doorway slowly. "I've got a med kit in the DeLeoran, I'll just get that, and I'll be fine!"
Piggy watched him as he started for the door, she didnt' get in his way; but this was a little more then weird. "How can a med kit help with a broken foot?"
Doc stopped, he didn't want to say what kind of technology he had, it was from their future and he had kept it for emergencies like this. "Uh....um....I've got one of those foot things, like the hospital has! This should just heal up normally, I believe." He coughed a few times, and with Marty's help went out to the car.
He sat in the driver's seat, while Marty leaned against the car. "I really hope you do have that, Doc. Cause they will be asking a world of questions if you don't."
Doc pulled out a small pen-like device, with a small washcloth rolled up between his teeth. He closed his eyes, and turned the device on. A small blue light emitted from it, and his bones in his feet reset themselves, and healed almost instantly. The price was you could feel every bone, intensely. Marty could hear Doc's heavy breathing through the washcloth.
He figured without it, Doc would probably be yelling again from the pain that it caused. Looking closer, he saw a thin tear stream on his cheeks. Doc put the device away, and took the washcloth out of his mouth. He sighed deeply, rubbing his foot gently.
"Great scott, what you pay for for instant healing, Marty." He reached behind him, and grabbed a small blue foot supporter. He slipped it on his foot, then slid his foot with the support into his loafer.
"That'll work, don't you think? They won't ask at all." He smiled, quite proud of all the devices he had to cover up and disguise the results of futuristic items.
"Yeah, I hope so. Just tell them it's a slimline foot support, and I don't think anyone would care. Just make sure it dosn't look like you're putting full weight on it, and don't run."
Doc stood up, and walked slowly back to the house, he foot was still hurting though. "I can't walk fast anyways, Marty. That thing only heals bones, not tendons and muscles. They still hurt like everything!"
Marty nodded, as the two went back inside the house, and to finally go back to sleep again. The next morning, Doc figured, he'd really get a good look at the house.
At least the women won't be assulting him anymore then.
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