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Chapter 9
At five am Thursday morning, four cars and a psychedelically colored bus drove down the street leading to the light house on top the sand at Cape Doom. The lime green Volkswagen Beetle was towing a trailer loaded down with a large tarp, of course there was something underneath the tarp.
The red corvette led the pack of cars down the stretch of sandy road to the lighthouse. The car parked and from either side hopped out Johnny Fiamma and Sal Minella. “Gee Johnny, don’t you feel bad about not bringing anybody else in the car with us?” Sal asked.
Johnny casually strolled over towards the light house with Sal. “Are you kidding Sal? Bring those others in my curvy crimson corvette? They could dirty it up!”
“Yeah, I guess you’re right,” Sal said, kicking some sand. “After all that car of yours has been through I’d be pretty careful too.”
Suddenly the crunching of metal on metal was heard behind the two of them. When Johnny turned around, his car was nowhere in sight, and Bunsen’s lime green Volkswagen was in its place. “What the-Bunsen what happened here?!” Johnny shouted.
Bunsen, Beaker and Beauregard emerged from the vehicle. Bunsen approached the front of the car. “Oh my Mr. Fiamma I am sorry about that,” Bunsen said. “No worries however, I can buff out this dent in my car with the new Muppet Lab’s Fender Defender Beaker and I installed yesterday! Beaker if you would.”
Reluctantly, Beaker leaned down and pressed in on the hood of the car, sending the fender flying right off, taking Beaker with it and right into the ocean, on top a red corvette.
“My baby...” Johnny moaned. Sal patted his back as he chuckled underneath his breath.
Kermit’s green mini van, Clifford’s black sports car and finally the Electric Mayhem’s bus pulled up behind Bunsen’s Volkswagen and the trailer attached. The rest of the Muppets in the various cars joined the others on the beach.
“Ok Dr. Honeydew let’s get this show on the road,” Gonzo told Bunsen.
Beaker walked out on to the beach, dripping wet, and over to Bunsen. “Yes sir Mr. Gonzo, come now Beakie let’s get the trailer,” Dr. Honeydew said. The two scientists moved over to the trailer attached to Bunsen’s car and unhitched it. The two of them hauled the trailer over to the center of where all of the Muppets had gathered. Bunsen yanked off the tarp revealing a medium sized metallic rocket perched on the trailer.
Gonzo approached it slowly, carrying a small duffel bag with him. “Wow doc, it looks great,” he said. “Well I guess I should be on my way.”
He turned around and looked at his friends, everyone had gathered to see him off. Kermit, Fozzie, Miss Piggy, Bunsen, Beaker, Crazy Harry, Floyd, Dr. Teeth, Janice, Animal, Zoot, Lips Scooter, Rowlf, Lew, Sam, Rizzo, Pepe, Clifford, Beauregard, Johnny and Sal, Dr. Phil van Neuter, The Swedish Chef, Zippity Zap, Pops, Bobo, Link Hogthrob, Julius Strangepork, rats, cats, penguins, even Statler and Waldorf came to heckle the launch.
He felt a rubbing against his chest. He looked down and saw Camilla looking back at him. “Oh Camilla, I’ll miss you too,” he grabbed her close to him. “Until we meet again my darling,” he gave her a peck on the cheek. She pecked back, literally.
All of the Muppets offered their goodbyes.
“Gonzo go bye bye?”
“Hasta luego senor spaceman, hokay?”
“See ya Gonzo, good luck.”
“Keep your groovy blue self jammin’ out there in space Gonzo my main alien man.”
“Fer sure, make sure you like, stay rully organically cleansed out above the atmosphere.”
“Have a good trip there Gonzo.”
“Yeah see you next fall! Ahh! Wocka wocka!”
“I wish we could go into space with you.”
“I wish we could get some space from all of you!”
“Do ho ho ho!”
Kermit and Rizzo approached Gonzo from the pack. “Gonzo buddy,” Rizzo said. “I want you to take my lucky skippin’ stone wit’ ya. Now, I don’t know if dey got any water up der where your goin’ but maybe you can use it,” the rat handed his best friend a decent sized flat rock.
Gonzo took it and put it in his pants pocket. “Thanks Rizzo, I’ll take care of it. Bye Rizzo,” he hugged the rat, and the rat hugged back. This was goodbye to his best friend.
Kermit looked down at the ground, avoiding his goodbye. Gonzo turned to Kermit and smiled. “Kermit, thank you so much. And, I know I’ve told you this before but...But you’re the best friend I could ever hope for Kermit,” Gonzo said grabbing Kermit and hugging.
When Gonzo let go, Kermit smirked a bit. “Well, I know we’ve already told you this before but, we love you Gonzo,” Kermit spread his arms out, “All of us.”
All of the Muppets nodded and smiled in agreement. Gonzo nodded once too and turned to the now upright rocket ship. “Oh, Gonzo wait!” Kermit called. He handed Gonzo a folded piece of paper. “Here, it’s from Robin, you know he wanted to be here this morning, but we left him with Sweetums at the boarding house so he could sleep.”
Gonzo smiled and pocketed the picture. “Tell him I said thanks, and that I’ll miss him.” He pulled open a door on the bottom of the ship and placed his suitcase inside. He turned around and looked at his friends one more time before finally climbing into the ship.
“Okay Mr. Gonzo, just flip the switch and press the green button!” Bunsen called out as he closed the door.
“Yo Dr. Dew, you sure this is safe?” Clifford asked.
“Oh absolutely Clifford,” Bunsen said. “Our tests on the ship have proven it to have a 1/1000 chance of success!”
Clifford lowered his glasses. “Could you run that by me again?”
“Dr. Honeydew a 1/1000 success is not good!” Scooter said.
Bunsen scratched his head, “That explains why all of the inventions I’ve tested on Beaker have...Mr. Gonzo wait!”
It was too late, Gonzo had already flipped the switch and pressed the button. As the base of the rocket ignited, Gonzo looked out the window and waved. He took a seat inside the ship and waited.
The other Muppets watched on as the rocket lifted up from the ground and shot up into the early morning sky.
Rizzo had his eyes closed and his hands together. “Oh please let Gonzo make it, I’ll never steal anyone’s pizza again...Ok maybe I will, but please let Gonzo be okay!”
Gonzo faced massive turbulence inside the Earth’s atmosphere. All of the Muppets gasped as a small piece of the ship broke off and fell to the sandy Earth below.
Gonzo clenched the arm rests on his chair as the rocket broke through the atmosphere and into the great beyond.
All of the Muppets down on Cape Doom sighed in relief and began to return to their respective cars.
“Well that was anti-climactic!” Statler said.
“Are you kidding?” Waldorf asked. “That was the most excitement you’ve had since the Revolutionary War! Do ho ho ho!”
When Gonzo reached the vast starry reaches of space he could finally relax. Now all he had to do was wait as the ship piloted itself to his family’s space station thanks to the coordinates he had given Bunsen.
But now he was alone again. He silently hoped that it wouldn’t take too long to reach the space station. He sighed. “No one’s here for me right now...No one to talk to, no one to sing with, no one to dance with...” he stood up and walked to the center of the ship and began to dance around.
“On the floors of Tokyo
Down in London town to go go,” he looked down at the metallic flooring and saw his reflection.
“With the right direction
And the mirrors reflection
I’m dancin’ with myself
“When there’s no one else in sight
In the crowded lonely night
If I had the chance I’d ask the world to dance
Now I’m a’dancin’ with myself
Dancin’ with myself
Dancin’ with myself
“Well there’s nothin’ to lose
And there’s nothin’ to prove
I’m a’dancin’ with myself,” he began to dance around and around the ship.
“Well I’ve looked all over the world
And there’s every type of girl
Well if I had the chance I’d ask the world to dance
If I had the chance I’d ask the world to dance
If I had the chance I’d ask the world to dance
“Dancin’ with myself
Dancin’ with myself
Dancin’ with-“
“You don’t have to dance by yourself,” a small voice said from behind him.
Gonzo jumped in the air and turned around to see Robin the Frog smiling at him.
“Robin?! Wha-What are you doing here?” Gonzo shouted.
Robin shrugged, “Well I-I haven’t really gotten much time to see you. And I wanted to come with you Gonzo.”
Gonzo fidgeted. “But, but you can’t be here! Kermit’s gonna be so worried and-And...”
“Don’t worry, I wrote him a note and left it in a place where he can’t miss it!” Robin said.
Gonzo sighed. “But Robin...You can’t be here, this is going to be too dangerous for you!”
“I’ll be okay Gonzo, you’ll be here to protect me,” Robin smiled.
Gonzo rubbed the back of his head, “Okay, but we’ll still have to call Kermit when we get to the space station. But you can’t let anyone see you! I don’t know if there are any spies, and I can’t let you get hurt.”
Zongo watched a monitor from the space station, he saw the rocket launch from Cape Doom. He walked through an automatic door and bumped into a red feathered, pink nosed Gonzonian. “Oh Princess Flanzgo excuse me,” the Earthling said helping the Gonzonian up from the floor.
The red feathered female dusted herself off. “It’s my fault Zongo, I should’ve been paying attention to where I was going. But I noticed you were in a hurry to, where are you off to?”
Zongo smiled at the princess, “I’m off to tell your father that your uncle Gonzo is on his way to our craft here.”
Flanzgo gasped. “He’s coming! Oh praise the sky we may be saved!”
Zongo nodded. “I’m sure he’ll be able to help us.”
“Well what are we waiting for? Let’s go tell daddy!” she said running off.
“Wait for me!” Zongo called after her.
At five am Thursday morning, four cars and a psychedelically colored bus drove down the street leading to the light house on top the sand at Cape Doom. The lime green Volkswagen Beetle was towing a trailer loaded down with a large tarp, of course there was something underneath the tarp.
The red corvette led the pack of cars down the stretch of sandy road to the lighthouse. The car parked and from either side hopped out Johnny Fiamma and Sal Minella. “Gee Johnny, don’t you feel bad about not bringing anybody else in the car with us?” Sal asked.
Johnny casually strolled over towards the light house with Sal. “Are you kidding Sal? Bring those others in my curvy crimson corvette? They could dirty it up!”
“Yeah, I guess you’re right,” Sal said, kicking some sand. “After all that car of yours has been through I’d be pretty careful too.”
Suddenly the crunching of metal on metal was heard behind the two of them. When Johnny turned around, his car was nowhere in sight, and Bunsen’s lime green Volkswagen was in its place. “What the-Bunsen what happened here?!” Johnny shouted.
Bunsen, Beaker and Beauregard emerged from the vehicle. Bunsen approached the front of the car. “Oh my Mr. Fiamma I am sorry about that,” Bunsen said. “No worries however, I can buff out this dent in my car with the new Muppet Lab’s Fender Defender Beaker and I installed yesterday! Beaker if you would.”
Reluctantly, Beaker leaned down and pressed in on the hood of the car, sending the fender flying right off, taking Beaker with it and right into the ocean, on top a red corvette.
“My baby...” Johnny moaned. Sal patted his back as he chuckled underneath his breath.
Kermit’s green mini van, Clifford’s black sports car and finally the Electric Mayhem’s bus pulled up behind Bunsen’s Volkswagen and the trailer attached. The rest of the Muppets in the various cars joined the others on the beach.
“Ok Dr. Honeydew let’s get this show on the road,” Gonzo told Bunsen.
Beaker walked out on to the beach, dripping wet, and over to Bunsen. “Yes sir Mr. Gonzo, come now Beakie let’s get the trailer,” Dr. Honeydew said. The two scientists moved over to the trailer attached to Bunsen’s car and unhitched it. The two of them hauled the trailer over to the center of where all of the Muppets had gathered. Bunsen yanked off the tarp revealing a medium sized metallic rocket perched on the trailer.
Gonzo approached it slowly, carrying a small duffel bag with him. “Wow doc, it looks great,” he said. “Well I guess I should be on my way.”
He turned around and looked at his friends, everyone had gathered to see him off. Kermit, Fozzie, Miss Piggy, Bunsen, Beaker, Crazy Harry, Floyd, Dr. Teeth, Janice, Animal, Zoot, Lips Scooter, Rowlf, Lew, Sam, Rizzo, Pepe, Clifford, Beauregard, Johnny and Sal, Dr. Phil van Neuter, The Swedish Chef, Zippity Zap, Pops, Bobo, Link Hogthrob, Julius Strangepork, rats, cats, penguins, even Statler and Waldorf came to heckle the launch.
He felt a rubbing against his chest. He looked down and saw Camilla looking back at him. “Oh Camilla, I’ll miss you too,” he grabbed her close to him. “Until we meet again my darling,” he gave her a peck on the cheek. She pecked back, literally.
All of the Muppets offered their goodbyes.
“Gonzo go bye bye?”
“Hasta luego senor spaceman, hokay?”
“See ya Gonzo, good luck.”
“Keep your groovy blue self jammin’ out there in space Gonzo my main alien man.”
“Fer sure, make sure you like, stay rully organically cleansed out above the atmosphere.”
“Have a good trip there Gonzo.”
“Yeah see you next fall! Ahh! Wocka wocka!”
“I wish we could go into space with you.”
“I wish we could get some space from all of you!”
“Do ho ho ho!”
Kermit and Rizzo approached Gonzo from the pack. “Gonzo buddy,” Rizzo said. “I want you to take my lucky skippin’ stone wit’ ya. Now, I don’t know if dey got any water up der where your goin’ but maybe you can use it,” the rat handed his best friend a decent sized flat rock.
Gonzo took it and put it in his pants pocket. “Thanks Rizzo, I’ll take care of it. Bye Rizzo,” he hugged the rat, and the rat hugged back. This was goodbye to his best friend.
Kermit looked down at the ground, avoiding his goodbye. Gonzo turned to Kermit and smiled. “Kermit, thank you so much. And, I know I’ve told you this before but...But you’re the best friend I could ever hope for Kermit,” Gonzo said grabbing Kermit and hugging.
When Gonzo let go, Kermit smirked a bit. “Well, I know we’ve already told you this before but, we love you Gonzo,” Kermit spread his arms out, “All of us.”
All of the Muppets nodded and smiled in agreement. Gonzo nodded once too and turned to the now upright rocket ship. “Oh, Gonzo wait!” Kermit called. He handed Gonzo a folded piece of paper. “Here, it’s from Robin, you know he wanted to be here this morning, but we left him with Sweetums at the boarding house so he could sleep.”
Gonzo smiled and pocketed the picture. “Tell him I said thanks, and that I’ll miss him.” He pulled open a door on the bottom of the ship and placed his suitcase inside. He turned around and looked at his friends one more time before finally climbing into the ship.
“Okay Mr. Gonzo, just flip the switch and press the green button!” Bunsen called out as he closed the door.
“Yo Dr. Dew, you sure this is safe?” Clifford asked.
“Oh absolutely Clifford,” Bunsen said. “Our tests on the ship have proven it to have a 1/1000 chance of success!”
Clifford lowered his glasses. “Could you run that by me again?”
“Dr. Honeydew a 1/1000 success is not good!” Scooter said.
Bunsen scratched his head, “That explains why all of the inventions I’ve tested on Beaker have...Mr. Gonzo wait!”
It was too late, Gonzo had already flipped the switch and pressed the button. As the base of the rocket ignited, Gonzo looked out the window and waved. He took a seat inside the ship and waited.
The other Muppets watched on as the rocket lifted up from the ground and shot up into the early morning sky.
Rizzo had his eyes closed and his hands together. “Oh please let Gonzo make it, I’ll never steal anyone’s pizza again...Ok maybe I will, but please let Gonzo be okay!”
Gonzo faced massive turbulence inside the Earth’s atmosphere. All of the Muppets gasped as a small piece of the ship broke off and fell to the sandy Earth below.
Gonzo clenched the arm rests on his chair as the rocket broke through the atmosphere and into the great beyond.
All of the Muppets down on Cape Doom sighed in relief and began to return to their respective cars.
“Well that was anti-climactic!” Statler said.
“Are you kidding?” Waldorf asked. “That was the most excitement you’ve had since the Revolutionary War! Do ho ho ho!”
* * * * * * * * * * * *
When Gonzo reached the vast starry reaches of space he could finally relax. Now all he had to do was wait as the ship piloted itself to his family’s space station thanks to the coordinates he had given Bunsen.
But now he was alone again. He silently hoped that it wouldn’t take too long to reach the space station. He sighed. “No one’s here for me right now...No one to talk to, no one to sing with, no one to dance with...” he stood up and walked to the center of the ship and began to dance around.
“On the floors of Tokyo
Down in London town to go go,” he looked down at the metallic flooring and saw his reflection.
“With the right direction
And the mirrors reflection
I’m dancin’ with myself
“When there’s no one else in sight
In the crowded lonely night
If I had the chance I’d ask the world to dance
Now I’m a’dancin’ with myself
Dancin’ with myself
Dancin’ with myself
“Well there’s nothin’ to lose
And there’s nothin’ to prove
I’m a’dancin’ with myself,” he began to dance around and around the ship.
“Well I’ve looked all over the world
And there’s every type of girl
Well if I had the chance I’d ask the world to dance
If I had the chance I’d ask the world to dance
If I had the chance I’d ask the world to dance
“Dancin’ with myself
Dancin’ with myself
Dancin’ with-“
“You don’t have to dance by yourself,” a small voice said from behind him.
Gonzo jumped in the air and turned around to see Robin the Frog smiling at him.
“Robin?! Wha-What are you doing here?” Gonzo shouted.
Robin shrugged, “Well I-I haven’t really gotten much time to see you. And I wanted to come with you Gonzo.”
Gonzo fidgeted. “But, but you can’t be here! Kermit’s gonna be so worried and-And...”
“Don’t worry, I wrote him a note and left it in a place where he can’t miss it!” Robin said.
Gonzo sighed. “But Robin...You can’t be here, this is going to be too dangerous for you!”
“I’ll be okay Gonzo, you’ll be here to protect me,” Robin smiled.
Gonzo rubbed the back of his head, “Okay, but we’ll still have to call Kermit when we get to the space station. But you can’t let anyone see you! I don’t know if there are any spies, and I can’t let you get hurt.”
* * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Zongo watched a monitor from the space station, he saw the rocket launch from Cape Doom. He walked through an automatic door and bumped into a red feathered, pink nosed Gonzonian. “Oh Princess Flanzgo excuse me,” the Earthling said helping the Gonzonian up from the floor.
The red feathered female dusted herself off. “It’s my fault Zongo, I should’ve been paying attention to where I was going. But I noticed you were in a hurry to, where are you off to?”
Zongo smiled at the princess, “I’m off to tell your father that your uncle Gonzo is on his way to our craft here.”
Flanzgo gasped. “He’s coming! Oh praise the sky we may be saved!”
Zongo nodded. “I’m sure he’ll be able to help us.”
“Well what are we waiting for? Let’s go tell daddy!” she said running off.
“Wait for me!” Zongo called after her.
Oh well, it's awesome. And I also realized that I've been spelling Johnny and Sal's last names wrong throughout my fan-fic career. 
Oh well...
So not only will you guys not get any story for almost two weeks, but I'll miss Lisa's return home! UGH!!