Old Friends Who've Just Met

[The Count]

So long as it "does" get posted, that's the important thing.
Rully a slow day today, not that much people online.

And Ry... LMK if you've gotten the chance to go over those MT episodes. Awaiting updates to this eagerly.

 

[theprawncracker]

And Ry... LMK if you've gotten the chance to go over those MT episodes. Awaiting updates to this eagerly.

AUGH! I KNEW I forgot to do something...Ugh...Sorry Ed, I'll get that done ASAP, but that prolly won't be til Monday or Tuesday at the earliest...Sorry my friend...But I'm working on Chapter 18 as we speak...Type...Er...Yeah...

 

[The Count]

Is hokay, hokay. When ju get da chance, just send tose answeres to me, hokay.
Oh... And plese. Pos more story!

 

[theprawncracker]

Well guys...Chapter 18 isn't gonna happen tonight...Been stuck in grandparent overload again...*grumble* Anyway...There's a slight chance I'll get it up tomorrow, but it'll most likely be up Monday. *salutes* Adios heir amigos!

 

[The Count]

*Taps lightly with nagging stick. You gonna post more story... Soon? Please?

 

[redBoobergurl]

I would like more story too! When you have a chance anyway....

 

[theprawncracker]

Guuuuuuuuuuys...I had ALL of Chapter 18 typed up then hit submit reply and it my internet quit on me...UGH!! It makes me so mad!! So, sorry guys, no chapter tonight... But...I should be able to bring you all two new chapters tomrrow. So, until then, I'm still...

Ryan
Prawnie
theprawncracker

 

[theprawncracker]

Chapter 18

"Okay you rats, move that thing. Yeah over there, uh huh," Scooter shouted to some rats carrying a piece of scenery for Miss Piggy's big musical number. "Hey hey, wait," Scooter stopped the rodents. "Phil, what are you doing?"

Scooter asked a a tall headed Muppet wearing medical goggles, gloves and an apron who was helping the rats with the scenery. "Oh, well you know, I'm just trying to help out my little vermin companions here Scooter sir," Dr. Phil van Neuter told the go-fer.

Scooter shook his head. "No no Phil, we hired you as a veterinarian, not a stage-hand."

"Not that he was qualified for either," Rowlf remarked.

"Oh sure," Dr. van Neuter said. "Hire me as a vet, oh, and why don't you give me an assistant, Mulch, than use him as an extra in a movie and not me! Yeah, yeah, fine! Humph, c'mon rats, let's go!" the doctor said escorting all but one rat off stage.

"Hey der Scooter," the remaining rat said. "Don't let da doc get to ya, he's a few scalpels short of a dissection kit, if ya know what I mean," Bubba the Rat told Scooter.

"Yeah Bubba I know, I know," Scooter scribbled something off his list. "We wouldn't've hired him if you hadn't convinced us that his other job at the C.O.V.N.E.T. alien hospital bombed," Scooter muttered.

"Did somebody say bombed?!" Crazy Harry jumped up from behind Scooter and pressed down on his dynamite plunger, exploding dynamite in the rafters above making them crash down into the seats.

Scooter covered his eyes and shook his head. "No way we're gonna have a show ready when Kermit gets back..."

Uncle Deadly had come to check up on the Muppets after the explosion. If Kermit gets back. He thought to himself.

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Gonzo watched as the chains came into view above his head, stopping six feet above.

Gonzo looked down at Kermit. "Kermit, I'm gonna lift you up, grab the ledge!"

Kermit gulped as a finger slipped from Gonzo's grassped. "Okay Gonzo."

Gonzo lifted his hand hoisting Kermit up, one of the frog's hands fell loose. Gonzo lifted faster bringing Kermit up to the ledge. "Grab on!" Gonzo shouted urgently.

Kermit extended his free hand and grabbed onto the ledge. He let his other hand fall free of Gonzo's and grabbed on with it as well. Gonzo did the same.
"Flanzgo, we can't reach it!" Gonzo called up the chasm.

Flanzgo moaned. "Oh Uncle Gonzo, hold on please! I'll get help!"

"Gonzo?" Fozzie overheard. "Hey, hey Piggy, I think that girl over there said Gonzo was down that hole over there!" Fozzie told the kung-fu fighting pig.
"Oh yeah right," Piggy said as she karate chopped thin air. "Gonzo's on the space station with Kermit!" She was wacked in the back and she turned to hit back, but missed the invisible alien.

"Gonzo, is Kermit still alright?" Flanzgo called down.

"Kermie?!" Piggy shouted. "HI-YA!" Piggy screamed, kicking the invisible Xaldin in the side, making him visible again and knocking him over. "Humph," she snorted. "That'll teach you to mess wtih the platinum princess!" Piggy flipped her hair out of her face and scooted over to Flanzgo's side. "How may moi help dear?" Piggy asked.

Flanzgo looked into the lady pig's eyes. "The chains, the won't reach!"

Piggy stared down the hole and inhaled deeply. "Okay, I'm going to grab your feet and lower you down a bit, alright?"

Flanzgo nodded fast as Piggy grabbed her feet and drooped her down the side. When Flanzgo was lowered Piggy's arm length, Flanzgo called down again. "Can you get it now Uncle Gonzo?!"

Gonzo's breath was reckless, he reached up a hand and missed the chain by a few feet. "It's still too short!"

Piggy's face clammed up as Flanzgo's weight began to weigh down on her dainty diva arms. "Fozzie! Help!" she called to the bear.

Fozzie turned around and gasped. He began to bite his fingers. "Um...Um...Okay, okay, I'll go get help, gotta go get help...Where's help? Um...Um..."

"No Fozzie you help! NOW!"

"Oh oh, gotcha gotcha!" Fozzie ran over to grab Piggy by the ankles. "Okay, gonna lower you down, lower you down...Oh I can't look!" Fozzie let go of one of Piggy's feet to cover his eyes as Piggy was sent halfway over.

"Grab me grab me GRAB ME!!" Piggy screamed as Fozzie re-grabbed her ankle and lowered her down the rest of the way.

Piggy's scream awoke Zongo from his unconsciousness. He looked around and saw Robin hanging next to him. "What-Where are we?"

Robin turned his head to Zongo. "Well, uh, I'm not exactly sure, but Mr. Onzgo and Exod are fighting. And everyone else is trying to save my Uncle Kermit and Gonzo from down that cliff."

Zongo gasped. This was not going well at all.

"How 'bout now Kermie?" Piggy called.

"No! We can't get it!" Kermit's voice called back.

"Um...Help!" Fozzie cried as he too began to slip. "We are falling!!"

Butch turned his blue head over and saw the others falling. "Uh-oh, Clyde, take care of this, I gotta help!" he ran off, tossing Clyde a beat-up Xaldin from his hands.

"But-But..." Clyde stuttered. "Butch, don't be a hero!" Clyde called after his best friend.

"Butch turned around and laughed at Clyde. "Heh, there's a first time for everything bud!" he said before continuing over to Fozzie's feet.

"What's goin' on?" Butch asked, grabbing Fozzie's feet before he even had an answer.

"The chains won't reach, lower me down, we've gotta help our friends at the bottom!" Fozzie replied.

"Right!" Butch nodded.

Flanzgo began to whimper as she was lowered down more. "Uncle Gonzo," she cried. "Please tell me it reaches!"

Gonzo grabbed up and got hold of a chain, Kermit grabbed the other. When they let go of the ledge, their weight pulled down on Flanzgo making all of the others above her jerk down as well.

"PULL UP PULL UP!!" Piggy screamed in fear.

Butch began to pull backwards. "I can't! It's too heavy!"

"Watch it bub!" Piggy shouted back.

"His name's Butch!" Clyde shouted as he grabbed onto his best friend and began to pull as well. "C'mon pull!"

Bobo grabbed onto Clyde's furry pink back and pulled with all his strenght. "I gotcha small fry, don't fret!"

"Hey, who ya callin' small fry?" Rizzo asked, grabbing Bobo's leg with his entire body and tried to pull.

'Si si, we aren't small fries, hokay? We are small onjon rings!" Pepe pulled Rizzo's tail with all four arms.

"PULL PULL!" Animal chanted as he pulled Pepe and the others along, finally making a bit of headway, moving the chain of Muppets inch by inch.

Eight Muppets and an alien princess were either dangling or precariously perched over the side of a bottomless chasm, pulling with all of their strength to save a frog and a whatever. Just another day in the life of the Muppets.

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Exod stuck out his hand, causing a pointed rock to fly up from the ground. Onzgo jumped back before it could hit him and sent a blast of psi-energy through the rock and towards Exod, who dodged and glared towards the Gonzonian's leader.

The ruckus stopped for a moment as the two rulers stared back into each other's eyes.

"We...Are even..." Exod breathed out.

Onzgo controlled his breathign, he couldn't show signs of weakness. "I would sacrifice my entire being to destroy you."

Exod didn't knwo how to respond, so he erupted geysers in a circle around Onzgo. Onzgo took control of the steam with his mind and blew it back into the ground causing it to crack all around the floor.

"Do not test my power," Exod barked.

"I already have," Onzgo said calmly. "And you have failed!" he shouted with an extended hand and a blast of psi-energy, knocking Exod on his back side.

"My lord! My lord my lord my lord!" Xander shouted as he darted over to Exod's side. "Are you okay?"

Exod glared up into the servant's eyes as Onzgo prepared another attack. As Onzgo fired, Exod grabbed Xander by the neck and hurling him into the line of fire.

The psi-beam hit Xander directly, sending him flying back against a nearby wall. The loyal servant fell from the wall to the ground silently and stayed that way.

Onzgo fell to his knees. "What have you done..." he said.

"I have done what was necessary to win," Exod stood up from the ground.
Onzgo shook his large head. "But winning...Is more important to you...Than your own brother?"

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Death stroked his long wooden scythe. He pondered life, death, the pursuit of happiness...The usual. Life, the Muppets all lived, the lived well. The Muppets died, or at least Uncle Deadly did anyway, and Statler and Waldorf couldn't be too far behind. Happiness...This one was tough. The Muppets tried to always remain happy and care free, but, when they get themselves inot the situations such as they were in now, the pursuit of happiness seemed farther away.

Uncle Deadly reentered his private room quietly, Death didn't notice his arrival. The phantom watched his employer and his scythe, the two were never seperated. Uncle Deadly approached the cloaked arch angel. "The Muppets are doing well Death," the dragon-like creature informed.

Death nodded his hooded head. "I EXPECTED NO LESS."

"What about the others?" Uncle Deadly asked intently.

"SEE FOR YOURSELF, I THINK YOU'LL BE PLEASENTLY SURPRISED," Death motioned towards the fire with his bony hand.

Uncle Deadly strolled to the fire and looked intensely into the flames. He saw the chain of Muppets sprawled out across the throne room floor and smiled. "They do know how to handle things," he chuckled.

"NO MATTER HOW ODDLY THEY DO IT," Death replied.

"Well, you can't use the word 'Muppet' without having the word 'odd' to accompany it."

"I'VE COME TO REALIZE THAT OVER THE PAST FEW YEARS."

Uncle Deadly grimaced. "Try being with them for thirty years my friend, you learn a lot more."

"YOU'VE DUG YOUR OWN GRAVE UNCLE DEADLY, METAPHORICALLY AND PHYSICALLY," Death said from inside his hood.

Uncle Deadly laughed once more. "And I have come to learn that over the past few years my old friend."

Death turned his head and looked directly at Deadly's blue face. "AND THAT'S WHAT I'VE BEEN THINKING ABOUT UNCLE DEADLY, ALL LIFE IS ALWAYS TEETERING ON THE BRINK OF LIVING AND DYING, SO WHEN DEATH DOES FINALLY COME, ALL LIFE FORMS ARE TRULY MY OLD FRIENDS WHO'VE JUST MET."

Uncle Deadly smiled and placed a clawed blue hand on the black cloak. "You know, they really do need a word for that."

Both friends laughed, Death's laugh was gentler and warmer than usual, perhaps because of the suddenly roaring fire at their feet.

Uncle Deadly glanced down at the flames. "Death, what's going on with the fire? The picture's muddled."

Death stood up in a flash. "DEADLY, STAY HERE," he told the phantom.

"What? Why? Where are you going Death?" Deadly tried to protest, but it was no use, Death disappeared in an eruption of black flames around his body. Uncle Deadly jolted back to the fire, he stared hard into it. He began to realize where Death had gone. He just hoped he wouldn't return with one of his friends in his arms.

 

[theprawncracker]

Chapter 19

Flanzgo felt her feet come back to the ground. "Uncle Gonzo, I'm at the top, you two are just at the bottom of my chains!"

All of the Muppets behind Flanzgo were pulling with all their might. Piggy's face scrunched up as she used all of the strength from her karate chopping arms, Fozzie was glad that she was using that strength to help, and not hurt; him.

Flanzgo's body was up enought on the cliff that she could stand and hold onto her chains with both hands and now able to help pull. "Come on you Muppets, we're almost there!"

Piggy's purple gloved hands wrapped around Flanzgo's waist, Fozzie grabbed Piggy carefully, as not to touch anything he wasn't supposed to. Butch held onto Fozzie with his brute strength, and Clyde tugged on the blue monster's waits while Animal, Bobo, Rizzo and Pepe used all ten of their arms at once to save thier friends inside the chasm.

The slack of the chains reached the top of the cliff and slid along the throne room floor while the others began to step back in unison with each other in their amrs.

Finally, a green hand and a blue hand were seen by the group (or at leased those in the group that didn't have their eyes closed from pulling so hard, which were about two of them).

When the bodies of the two friends finally came to the top, the instant loss of weight sent the "chain" gang flying backwards on top of one another.
Kermit and Gonzo lay on their stomachs, finally feeling land as oposed to suspension. "Kermit..." Gonzo said.

"Yeah...Gonzo?" Kermit asked.

"That...was too cool..."

Flanzgo carefully set herself up from on top of Miss Piggy. "Sorry Miss Piggy," she said.

"Oh, no problem at all dear," Piggy said. "Now," she grunted. "Could you...Ugh...Help me up?"

"Yes...Please help her up..." Fozzie moaned from beneath the pounds of weight.

Flanzgo grasped Piggy's hand and pulled her up, Fozzie and all of the others stood up as well.

"Oh Kermie!" Piggy shouted running to her green groom.

"Gonzo Gonzo Gonzo!!" Rizzo squealed as he ran past the others towards the weirdo.

"Rizzo buddy!" Gonzo embraced the rat.

"Ooh, hey look over there Butch!" Clyde said. "It's one of those wrestling matches you love to watch on pay-per view!"

"That anin't no wrestlin' match! ...Although, those outfits do look like wrestling garb." Butch stroked his chin.

"What?" Gonzo asked. He turned around and witnessed his one and only brother engage Exod in life-threatening combat.

"Robin!" Kermit pointed to the wall. "Animal, Butch, get him down! And Ed too!"

"Oh, hey, I ccan get him Kermit," Bobo siad. "Us C.O.V.ies gotta stick together," the bear smiled. All of the Muppets ran to the wall, all except Gonzo and Flanzgo.

The two aliens stared across the chasm and at the leader of their people. A psi-wave split across the room towards Exod, who dodged, and countered with a shard of broken rock from a pillar he brought up from the ground. "Uncle Gonzo," Flanzgo placed her hand on her uncle's shouler.

Gonzo gulped. "I have to help him."

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The black flames erupted in a roar in front of Xander's motionless body. Death emerged from the flames and moved toward the body. He shook his head slowly. "THIS WAS NOT SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN," he sighed. He picked the alien up into his arms and stepped back into the still flowing flames.

The slight distraction was not enough to turn away the violence ensuing between the two enemies that were Exod and Onzgo.

Gonzo ran over to the outer lining of the pseudo ring that was drawn around them. "Onzgo! Let me help you!"

"Gonzo, you can help by getting your friends and family out of here! Now!" his brother shouted back, dodging a rock.

Gonzo turned his body back to the wall where the prisoners hung. Zongo and Robin had been successfully removed from the wall and their chains and Flanzgo from hers, thanks to a little help from Animal. Gonzo turned back to his brother. "Alright, Onzgo I'll get my family out of here, when can you come wiht us?" Gonzo asked.

Onzgo blasted Exod with a shot of psi-power, knocking him on his side. "I will not be going with you my brother," Onzgo said courageously.

Gonzo rose his eyebrows. "What? Of course you are, let's go!"

Onzgo shook his head slowly. "The only way to bring Exod's terror to an end...Is for me to use all of my psychic powers in one mind-blowing blast. Literally."

Gonzo could barely breathe. "But...But...You can't..."

Onzgo smiled. "Do not worry for me my brother. It is every Gonzonian's wish to go out with such a bang! Let me live out my last act audaciously, courageously and all around groovy-like."

Gonzo smiled back at his brother for the last time. "I understand completely. I'll miss you," he hugged his brother.

Onzgo hugged back. "I will miss you too little brother. I love you, pbe sure to let my dear Flanzgo and all of my friends know the same."

"I will, I promise."

Onzgo grasped his brother's hand with both of his. "Take care of them Gonzo," he said quickly before running off.

A tear slipped from Gonzo's eye down his long nose and hit the floor. "Goodbye," he said to his brother quietly. He walked back and gathered his friends. "We have to get out of here and fast," he told all eleven of the people who gathered around him looking for guidance.

"But how?" Robin asked. "We're stuck here!"

"Yeah, we don't even have a spaceship!" Rizzo said.

Gonzo looked around. "We need to find a place where we can contact Des Filmer, he said he'd bring a ship when we needed him!"

"Well dis es a good idea, hokay?" Pepe said. "But how are we going to find a transmissions room?"

"Maybe he could help us," Kermit pointed towards Xaldin who was propped up against a wall, nursing his wounds.

"Kermit, are you crazy?" Fozzie asked. "He's the bad guy!" the bear whispered.

Gonzo took one last look around the throne room. "It looks like we don't have any other choice! C'mon!" the weirdo ran off with all of the other Muppets following behind him.

Flanzgo stood with her eyes glued on her father's attempt to distract Exod as his prisoners escaped.

"Flanzgo we have to go!" Zongo told her.

"I...I can't...I won't...I won't leave my dad."

"It's what your father wants princess," Zongo tried to tell her.

Flanzgo's knees buckled, she fell at Zongo's feet. Zongo kneeled down and placed a comforting hand on her shoulder. "You must princess. It is your royal duty."

He took the alien by the hand and pulled her along with him towards Xaldin and the rest of the gang. Flanzgo cried, Zongo's eyes began to mist and Onzgo prepared to die.

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Death returned to the Muppet Theater with Xander's motionless body in his arms. He lay the alien's body down on the ragged couch inside Uncle Deadly's quarters.

Uncle Deadly walked up behind Death slowly. "What...What has happened to him?"

Death stood straight up. "HIS BROTHER. HE HAS FINALLY BEEN FREED FROM HIS BROTHER."

Uncle Deadly placed his hand on the alien's chest. "But he's..."

Death nodded. "HE HAS DIED. AND THAT IS THE ONLY WAY HE COULD BE FREE."

Uncle Deadly sighed. "What will we be doing with him?"

"I HAVE NOT DECIDED YET," Death declared. "BUT ONE THING IS FOR CERTAIN, EXOD WILL NOT COME IN CONTACT WITH XANDER'S SOUL EVER AGAIN."

"And Exod is his brother...?" Deadly asked.

"YES, AND THE ONE RESPONSIBLE FOR ENDANGERING THE LIVES OF YOUR FRIENDS."

Deadly nodded. "Than perhaps it really is best for this one to stay away."

Death had a sudden thought. "PERHAPS NOT," he said. "PERHAPS HE DOES HAVE A USE BACK ON HIS PLANET OF EXODIA. BUT ONLY TIME WILL TELL."

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"We interrupt this fan-fiction for a Muppet Newsflash!" the Muppet Newsman said from behind his desk. "Our studio has just been informed that the tour bus carrying the Senior Citizen Penguin Vacation Club has crashed on a beach near San Francisco, California! One can only wonder how those poor penguins; who are used to such chilled environments; are handling the hot summer day."

Suddenly, a group of penguins fell from above the Newsman's head. What quack quack whack!" the penguins quacked around the newsroom.
"What is going on here?" the Newsman asked.

A penguin ran up with a cue card in his hands and held it up in front of him, it read, "DANCE."

"This is no dance hall! This is a newsroom!"

The penguin held up another cue card from his stack that read, "AWW."

"Don't try sympathy with me Zany! This is no time for cue cards!"

"SIGH" the next cue card Zany the Penguin held up read.

"Will you please knock it off you insane penguin?! The heart rate of the readers are dropping rapidly!" the Newsman shouted, he looked up. "No! No! Heart rates not heart-" crates of heart shaped boxes of chocolate fell from the ceiling, burying the Newsman underneath. "Crates..." his muffled voice said.

Zany held up another cue card that read, "AHH." He looked down at it and shook his head, he shifted through his pile of cards and found a different one, he held up his last cue card reading, "LAUGH." Zany and all of the other penguins continued to dance around the studio and laugh.

The Muppet Newsman poked his bedraggled head from beneath the candy. "Ugh...We now return you to your regularly scheduled fan-fiction..."

 

[Skeeter Muppet]

Okay, the Muppet Newsflash at the end of chapter 19 there?

Genius. Pure genius.

*walks away sniggering about "heart crates"*

-Kim