"The Moppet Family - Same Family, New Thread..."

[christyb]

Up ahead the mists parted and Beauregard Parker Moppet was on a ship. A ship he had not seen in years. A flood of memories came back as he found himself aboard the good ship Christy. Beau looked to Hevej who place a fingers to his lip and pointed.

Nicky: *steps from the Captain's cabin. She's obviously pregnant as she walks to the helm looking around* Ron, have you seen Vic?

Ron: *smiles and places an arm around Nicky* He's up there. Shouldn't you be resting? Wouldn't want anything to happen to the little one.

Nicky: Oh gee it's grand to feel loved because I'm a walking boulder. *looks up towards the crow's nest.*

Vic: *about four years old, jumps from the crow's nest landing on his feet, not even flinching at the pain, runs off to find Dooley*

Nicky: You did remind him to keep his dagger on the ground when he does that until he's older right?

Ron: I did. You're such a worrywart these days. *kisses Nicky*

 

[Beauregard]

In alternate universe where he was never born, and in the past...

Father: Christy...Nicky...Vic...RON!?

Hevej: Aye. In this universe I never killed that yellow-livered husband of hers...

Father: You didn't actually kill him in the real world.

Hevej: Well, I did but he came back to life.

Father: So he didn't really die then...

Hevej: He did!

Father: ...

Hevej: ...want to move on?

 

[christyb]

Back in the real world....

Mother: *at the Cole's house* Adam? Have you seen Beau? I can't seem to find him anywhere and he's hidden Jana's Christmas present which I can't find.

 

[The Count]

Well... You might want to talk to the twins and use a simple locator spell to find Jana's Christmas presents.
As for that Beau of yours... You're welcome to use the Psi-Net mind-tracker machine if you want. It'll probably find him not 50 feet from town, most likely at the park or the old robot factory dismantling those nuclear weapons he brought back from Japan.

 

[Erine81981]

A bunch of fog fills the ship and Father is rushed away from the sea to the town. Where he for some reason doesn't know why he's here.

Narrator: In the hallucination world (here, everyone speaks in loud, theatrical voices)

Person: *opens window* Shhhhhh....I'm trying to get some sleep.

Narrator: *clears throut* Sorry for that. *whispers in a theatrical voice* Now as I was saying in a little shop by the bay a festive party was going on. *camera pans down into the little shop to see a bunch of people dancing around*

Biggy/Angle: Hello there Mr. Moppet. It is I. Biggyoutropie. I am your guardian angel.

Father: More like a big hairy ape.

Biggy/Angle: I beg your pardon sir. *slaps Father*

Father: Ow!

Biggy/Angle: *grabs Father's head and holds it to the window* See there?

Father: Where?

Biggy/Angle: There! *points to woman in a white/blue gown*

Father: Who's that?

Biggy/Angle: I really don't know. I just wanted to point her out. Isn't she a doll? *eye brows go up and down*

Father: Aren't you spoused to be looking out for me?

Biggy/Angle: I could care less. Come on. Let's go! *grabs Father and shoots up in the air*

 

[Beauregard]

In hallucination world...

Father: *is hauled up into the air* Furry, er, Fury...put me down or else I swear I will...NO! Do NOT drop me! Aaaaaaaa-aaaaaaah! *falls thirty feet and (naturally) lands unharmed, thanks to the hallucinative nature of the dream* Man...really...where am I now? Oh...Italy in the past, as if I had never been born and had never come here as a secret agent in an attempt to prevent a Nazi invasion and...*frowns* Why is it exactly the same?

Bob (Father's brother, recall?): *steps from the shadows and speaks in a theatrical voice* It's a good thing that Mum trained me as a special agent and that I managed to illicit the right secrets from fem-fatale Italian agent in order to stop the invasion. Pity she had to...dissapear though.

Father: What!? Bob? What are you talking about?

Bob: *without seeing father* Sure wish I was just running a pancake house somwhere...*to camera*...since that's what I would be doing if my lousy brother wasn't hallucinating on iced tea again...*begins to fade*

Father: Bob! Wait! Don't you know me? What happened to Vanessa's mother! Why can't I just step out of this dream?

Bob: *turns to Father* Maybe it's not a dream? *disappears*

Father: Bigg-er-angel! I need serious guidance right now! *the world shifts and suddenly Father is standing in the present as if he had never been born* Will there be a ghostly apparition to guide me here? Or a monstrous freak with uncanny knowledge? Oh, hi again Biggy.

 

[Erine81981]

Yakky/Ghost: *covered in chains and white powder* Hey there. Oh and by the way....I'm Yakky your guide to the all knowing world of the present day. Yes. I'm here to take you through a world during the present from which you had never been born.

Biggy/Angle: *up in the sky* Uh...hi down there.

Yakky/Ghost: What in the world are you doing here? Your part is over! Zip! Zero! Kaput!

Biggy/Angle: I'm his guardian. *fluttering*

Yakky/Ghost: Yea...so.

Biggy/Angle: I have to look after him. That's what!

Yakky/Ghost: Are you trying to get my job?!

Biggy/Angle: Why would I want your job? I have wings you don't.

Yakky/Ghost: So. I can float. I'm a ghost. *puts hands on hips*

Biggy/Angle: So I can get to see the all knowing mighty person.

Yakky/Ghost: I can walk through walls.

Both keeps auguring

 

[The Count]

The scene plays out, the two guardians still quarreling amongst themselves.

A stage technician watches the scene commencing, as he just got there and stands in the wings of the theater where the hallucinatory dream is being staged: He's wearing what? OK, who forgot to read the book this time.
*Goes up to Yakey, whispering at first and then dragging the beast offstage. No, you've got it all wrong! Chains and ghost powder and sulfurous cigar are for the Ghost of Christmas Future.
From behind the dressing stand, sounds of discomfort can be heard, the costume being forced onto Yakey's hairy body.
Ghost of Christmas Present has the flowing robes... The hair that turns from red to white, we'll just treat your stubble with a quick-aging coloring dye... And then there'll be the twins showing up as the carollers... Now get out there and show Beauregard Moppet the futility of his non-existance as it would've carried out into the present.
The massive brute gets shoved back out on stage, hurriedly as the hallucinatory dream must continue.

 

[Erine81981]

Yakky/Ghost: How was I spoused to know I had on the wrong getup.

Biggy/Angle: That's better. Now carry on.

Yakky/Ghost: Come on young man. This way to a bar in which you had meet your wife now Vic your son is working there. That is what would of been your son.

Both walk into the bar with Biggy Angle right behind them.

 

[Beauregard]

Father: *walks into a bar* Ouch! *moves the metal bar, and walks into Diana's Cafe (now pub) where loud music greats his entry* What is this place...and...is that Diana over there? Diana! Listen! I may need a slap or something becuase something is going on and I'm not sure what. And...Vic? Are you working here now...and who is...*watches Vic talking to some young woman* What you have a girlfriend in the universe I was never born in. Someone should have brouht you up better than this, where is your mother...*suddenly, realises that the woman Vic is talking to is Rosa!!!* Oh ghost, how can this be? Rosa has taken vengence on me by falling in love with Vic in the world where she never wanted to have vengence on me in the first place and...*pause* What was I saying?