Chapter 7, part two
Here's part 2 of Chapter 7. I hope you all enjoy it! We're getting down to the end; one more chapter to go after this I think. Anyway, here it is!
Professor Krassmen continued to giggle as Doc Hopper and Max left the abandoned supply shed. “All right, bring over the frog!” he said to one of Hopper’s kronies
Piggy started to inconspicuously maneuver the ropes binding her in order to escape. Tears started falling from her eyes as two of Hopper’s thugs untied Kermit and carried him over to Professor Krassmen. “Oh Kermie, whatever happens next, I wouldn’t give up this evening together for anything! Would you?” she cried.
"Uh, make me an offer” retorted Kermit. Romance was the last thing on his mind as he was being manhandled into an electric chair. The thugs held him way too tight for him to get away, and he was trying to quickly deduce a way out of his predicament but his mind kept drawing a blank.
"Oh Kermie” Piggy cried as she kept trying to break free from her ropes.
As the kronies gave Kermit to Krassmen, Kermit desperately tried to flail out of Krassmen’s hands, but the leather gloves he wore held onto Kermit for dear life and Kermit could not escape.
Uh huh, Uh huh, I got him, I got him. Good, And why don’t we take a little seat Kermit!” said Krassmen as he was frantically trying to maintain a strong grip on the frog. Krassmen shoved Kermit into the seat of the celebrectomy.
As Krassmen was making sure Kermit’s hands and feet were in the proper place, Kermit tried to fly out of the seat and kicked Krassmen square in the jaw. Krassmen thwarted him once again however by putting Kermit in a choke hold while he rubbed his jaw. "Pretty strong legs you have there Kermit! Too bad you’ll be using them to sell chopped off frogs legs pretty soon!” said Krassmen. He went over the other side of machine and started pulling switches and pushing buttons. “Okay, herr machine! This is big time here! Ready to go to verk?” he asked. He then turned a red dial and yelled “Hand clamps” while a clear plastic bands appeared on the chair Kermit was sitting in that completely restrained his wrists. Krassmen then turned another dial and yelled “Foot clamps” and the same type of bands appeared just above Kermit’s flippers to restrain his legs.
Kermit enthusiastically tried to wriggle free of these restraints while Krassmen started laughing. “ Ah hahaha! You can struggle all want now frog, it vill do you very little GOOD” shouted Krassmen right next to Kermit’s face, causing the frog to recoil in his seat.
Alright, and now it’s time to drop” Krassmen said as he reached up high for another switch “the electronic beanie”. He flicked a small switch which caused a small dome to drop from the celebrectomy and fall closer and closer to Kermit’s head. Kermit looked up at the beanie, and his impending doom, praying to everyone and anyone that could get him out of this mess.“Soon there will be enough voltage coursing through your little frog brain to light up..Pittsburgh! hahaha” chuckled Krassmen as he secured the dome on top of Kermit’s head.
Piggy was almost through her ropes but she had to buy more time. “Oh please, please I beg you, not my frog, please” she pleaded with the quintisential nutty professor.
Krassmen was no man for pathetic sentiment. “Say goodbye to the frog, pig!” he replied.
Whys should I?” she asked in an ever-delicate tone.
Because in ten seconds, he won’t know you from kosher bacon!” remarked Krassmen.
"THAT DOES IT” yelled Piggy with no delicacy in her voice anywhere. She gave one last hard push of her body and it was enough to break the ropes that bound her. Her fight or flight instinct was back, and there was no way in heck she was running from that comment. She lunged at Krassmen and with a “HIIIII-YAAAAA” she kicked him in the chest so hard he was knocked over.
One of Krassmen’s thugs came up behind her, but she felt him coming, turned around, and head-butted him in the stomach and kicked him, putting him out of service. She was bombarded by another thug and Karate chopped him so hard that he went right through a wall of the abandoned storage shed. Hopper’s thugs kept coming after her but she quickly kicked and chopped her way through them all, ready to clobber anyone who got in her way.
"What the heck’s going on here?” yelled Krassmen from behind the celebrectomy. “A pig that goes bananas? What is this, a luau?"
Kermit just looked at Piggy in awe and amazement. She was literally beating the crap out the large group of Hopper’s thugs. She was delicate and crying one minute and tough and ruthless the next. She had a fire in her eyes like he had never seen before. All of Hopper’s kronies got up and shook themselves up, looking for Piggy, but she was nowhere to be found. All of a sudden, from the top of the second floor came, “Oh boys” said by Piggy in a sultry tone. She then pounced on top of the mass of them and seemed to get lost in the huddled mass of muscle and dumbness. Kermit became very worried that she wouldn’t be able to fight the all off of her and tried to break free of his restraints once more.
Krassmen came from around the celebrectomy and eyed the main switch of the machine with passion. “I must svitch the svitch! I must..svitch..I must svitch” he chanted as he stretched to reach the switch.
"Oh no” said Kermit. He tried to get his legs free to kick Krassmen’s hand out of the way but it was no use, he couldn’t break free!
Out of nowhere, Piggy pushed herself free from the musclely mound of men, knocking them all out and over. She quickly looked around and saw Krassmen trying to pull the switch and gasped. She hurredly head-butted him in the stomach so hard that he backed into the machine, which caused it to spark and release the restraints that held Kermit in.
"Now Kermie” Piggy cried as she pulled him out of the chair.
"Oh Thank you!” cried Kermit and he frantically hopped out of the hot seat.
With one last blow, Piggy blew Professor Krassmen back into the chair, and the electronic beanie began to fry his tiny German brains out. He shouted and quickly jumped out of the chair and muttered in a robot-like tone, “Ribbit, Ribbit, Ribbit, aah” and with that he forcefully tumbled to the ground, giving Kermit and Piggy a start.
"Well” Piggy said as she playfully tossed her hair back, “Shall we go now, Kermie?”
"Wow, Miss Piggy! I don’t know how to thank you! That was amazing. Where did you learn to fight like that!” said Kermit
"A woman never reveals her secrets, Kermie. Moi am just glad that vous are ok” Piggy said as she dusted him off.
"That Krassmen was a crackpot” said Kermit
"Vous could say that again” said Piggy dryly.
Yeah, even if he fried my brains, I would still know you from kosher bacon. I don’t think I could ever forget you!” said Kermit with that same smart-aleck grin as he grabbed Piggy by the waist.
"Oh Kermie” said Piggy as they leaned in close for a sweltering smooch when the phone inside the shed rang and startled them both.
Well, uh, uh, just a second” said Kermit as he went to go answer it. It had to have been to cops or something after all of the noise that was going on in there. Kermit picked up the old-fashioned phone’s receiver. “Hello?” he said into the small round piece of the phone mounted on the wall. He looked surprised after he found out who it was, dropped the receiver slightly and said, “Uh Piggy, it’s, it’s your agent".
Ooh” said Piggy. Geez, that man could find me anywhere! Good, that’s what I’m paying him for she thought to herself. She thanked Kermit kindly, took the phone, turned on her all-business tone and spoke into the wall piece. “Yeah Morty what d’you got?” She listened. “A commercial?” she replied. She quickly looked at Kermit, who was looking away but obviously eavesdropping. She turned so that Kermit was directly behind her, to block him from hearing. “How much?” she asked. “ Mm-hmm, When?” she replied to his answer. Once she heard when she said with force “Take it” and with that she hung up the phone.
Piggy’s mind was racing as her eyes were filling with tears. Her fight or flight instinct was coming back all over again and she was scared to death of her newly-found romance. She needed the job, that she knew, but to leave him again? With no time to think and her emotions in a wreck, her flight instinct unfortunately won again. “Umm” she said nervously. She took all the courage she had to back him into the support beam and kiss him fiercely. After a decent interval she broke apart from his lips with tears in her eyes and cried, “Goodbye” as she fled from the storage shed in a sprint, never looking back…
Kermit had to catch his breath after coming back to reality as the flashback of their final moment of his first date with Piggy melted away. While remembering how he felt when she left that night, he had forgotten to breathe. Now it was even harder for him to look back at that moment. Twice, she left twice! Kermit looked across Piggy’s dressing room and saw Piggy reading the script changes, with tears rolling down her eyes like steady rain.
"Moi can see how vous really think of moi” Piggy mumbled between sobs. “Vous have me leaving vous in the movie without care, like moi thought that the commercial was more important. “How could vous picture moi like that!” Piggy cried
"Well it wasn’t too far from the truth, was it? You left me twice that night” said Kermit sternly. He was angry. All this time he didn’t know the truth about that night and all she can think about is the way she’s being portrayed in the movie.
"Moi told vous why I left! I was scared, even more so after just escaping from Hopper, that crazy professor and all of those creeps! I didn’t know what to think, so I ran. And I regret it more than anything, being so afraid that I left again, but I can’t change the past and I’m sorry. And maybe after saving your life that night, vous can give moi a little bit of slack!” she cried before sitting on the loveseat and burying her face in a throw pillow.
That was true; she did single-handedly beat up a bunch of crazy people to rescue him. After that kind of danger, it would be hard to logically think about anything Kermit thought. He was still upset about the whole situation, but he could not change the past. All he could do was focus on the present, and presently, Piggy was crying into a pillow feeling miserable because she thinks that he thinks she is a terrible person, and that he expressed that in the movie with the script changes.
Kermit walked over to the loveseat, sat down next to her and wrapped his arm around her shoulder. “Piggy, listen. I don’t think badly of you at all. I admit I am upset about what happened but that’s because that was a crazy night and you drove me wild! You were so beautiful, and talented, and versatile even that when you left and I thought that I wouldn’t see you again, I was devastated. And to find out now that it sort of happened twice? It’s a little bit of a shocker!” he said as he tried to wipe away her tears as she looked at him fondly with those adorable soaking wet eyes. “But I can sort of understand why you were afraid and why you left, so it’s ok”. He then pushed her hair away from her face and smiled. “Fate brought us together again and that’s what is important. We have a whole new opportunity to make mistakes together, and hopefully go on a date that doesn’t involve kidnapping and crazy German professors. Even though that night was crazy, I will never forget how beautiful you looked throughout the whole evening!"
Piggy smiled and held Kermit’s hand. Actually, it was me refusing to do those bacon commercials, and buying several road maps to figure out where you would be driving and inconspicuously hitchhiking in the same place that you would be that brought us together, but I don’t need to mention that. As soon as I was gone, I knew that I loved Kermie so much that I would have searched the world to find him again. “Oh Kermie” she wimpered. “So the script changes have nothing to do with how you think of me?"
"No Piggy, I only made the cuts and changes I made to make the movie shorter, without having holes in the main plot that would have to be explained in the movie somehow for resolution. I promise that I had no intention of making you look a certain way. The only way you look in the movie is gorgeous, and that’s all you,; I have nothing to do with it” said Kermit as he wiped away the last few tears from her eyes and kissed her on the cheek. “Now, do you think we can go back to the set and finish shooting so maybe after this week of filming is over, we can go on a normal date?” he asked with a chuckle.
Piggy got up, fixed her hair, and reached out for his hand. “Yes Kermie, but I have some script changes of my own in store for shooting tomorrow” she replied.
The county fair scene? What could she possibly change?
We’ll see” said Kermit as he put his hand and hers to go back to the set. He glanced up at the clock in her trailer and noticed that they had been in there for about an hour…Jim should be ready to continue shooting the scene by now.
To be continued
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