*Author's Note Time: Just a little story I thought of, hope you all like it! I own and have nothing to do with the Imagination Movers or their brand!*
A Very Un-Boring Problem:
By Taralynn Wakelin
Another day began for the four best friend's who worked together solving people's problems, and played music together as the 'Imagination Movers'. They worked out of their huge warehouse full of many fun, and awesome rooms. Each Mover was doing something different; Mover Dave was busy in his workshop working on another of his invention's, Mover Scott was busy putting together his new Burro jigsaw puzzle, Mover Rich was busy in the 'Wind Room' flying his kite, and Mover Smitty was playing checkers with the Movers furry, little friend Warehouse Mouse. Dave finally finished his new machine that change's thing's from broken, back to fixed, and he was sure this time his invention would work! He wheeled his machine out into the main room just as Rich was coming into the room too, he spoke.
"Guy's come check out my latest invention!" Dave said smiling.
"Wow! That's so cool Dave! What is it?" Scott asked, just as a knock came to the front door's all four turned to the door and spoke smiling together.
"A CUSTOMER!" They yelled together, as the door opened and their friend and neighbour Nina came in followed by her boring Uncle KnitKnots.
"Hey guy's!" Nina greeted them smiling.
"Nina! KnitKnots!" The four Movers greeted them happily.
"What's that!?" KnitKnots asked pointing at Dave's invention. "It look's much too exciting!"
"You're just in time! This is my latest invention, I call it the Renewanator!" Dave said proudly as he pointed to his new machine, Nina smiling spoke.
"Wow! What's it do?" She asked.
"You put something broken here." Dave explained as he stood near one side of the machine. "Then you push this button, and it turn's whatever it is back into new again right here!" He said as he went and stood at the other end.
"Like I said, much too exciting!" KnitKnots said as he stood at the opposite side of Dave's machine. "I'm going back to my nice…" He was cut off when Warehouse Mouse appeared, scaring him. He yelled, and jumped, as he did he pushed the button on Dave's machine and it came on. It began to make strange noise's, and smoke before it broke with a loud crash. When everything settled, they quickly rushed to where Dave and KnitKnots lay on the floor after being caught in the middle of the blow up Rich spoke.
"Are you guy's okay?" He asked helping Dave up, Scott helped KnitKnots.
"I don't think you're machine worked Dave?" Smitty said gently.
"I really thought it would work this time!" He said sighing.
"Uh…why would you think that KnitKnots?" Scott asked confused.
"What are you talking about? I didn't say anything!" KnitKnots answered.
"Guy's why are you all looking at us that way?" Dave asked.
"Dave I…I think your machine did work!" Smitty said.
"What are you…wait a minute! Why…why am I looking at myself right now?" Dave asked confused as he looked at the others.
"Dave I think when KnitKnots bumped into your machine and pushed the button it made you two switch bodies!" Rich said.
"Ahhh…this is much, much too exciting!" KnitKnots said sitting on the couch as he looked at the ground trying to relax and think boring.
"Can you switch back?" Nina asked patting her Uncle on the back.
"I…I don't know! My machine wasn't even made to do that!" Dave said looking at the body he was now trapped in…the very boring body!
"Uh guy's, I think we have another situation?" Scott said pointing to the now obviously broken machine. "The machine's broken, look!"
"Scott's right! There's piece's missing, and without them I…I can't fix it and switch us back!" Dave said upset.
"This is a big problem!" Nina said looking at Dave and then her Uncle.
"This isn't just a problem!" Rich began.
"IT'S AN IDEA EMERGENCY!" All four guy's said together.
"We need to find a way…" Smitty spoke.
"To fix my machine…" Dave continued.
"So we can switch Dave, and KnitKnots back to their own bodies…" Rich added.
"Which mean's we need some good idea's…" Scott said.
"LET'S BRAINSTORM!" All four finished together, as they did they looked at Dave, it was very weird to have KnitKnots smiling, and joining their brainstorming. Once they had finished the guy's were still feeling weird seeing KnitKnots dancing, and singing, even though it was Dave!
"Guy's it's still me!" Dave said sighing frustrated.
"Right! Who has an idea?" Smitty asked.
"I do!" KnitKnots spoke as he stood. "I'm going back to my nice, boring office to try and relax!" He said as he left the warehouse in Dave's body.
"I'll stay and help you guy's!" Nina said smiling.
"Thanks Nina! Okay, so who has another idea?" Rich asked.
"While you guy's think, I'm going to go change into something less boring." Dave said looking at his clothes.
"Alright KnitKnots!" Scott said accidentally. "Oops I mean Dave, sorry buddy! I'm still getting used to the whole thing!"
"It's alright Scott; I think I have a spare Mover suit in my locker." Dave said as he went to go look, Rich stopped him by asking him about his hat.
"Uh…where's your Gadget hat Knit…Dave, I mean Dave!" Rich asked.
"My hat?" Dave asked as he quickly checked his head. "My Gadget hat! It's still on my…I mean KnitKnots head!" Dave said sighing.
"Okay, we'll go get it Dave, you stay here and change." Smitty said smiling as Nina, and the three guy's left the warehouse.
Meanwhile…
After leaving the warehouse KnitKnots went straight to his office, once there he quickly searched for his spare boring suit to change into. After finally finding it, he sighed in relief, then he went to the bathroom to change. As he came out carrying Dave's Mover suit, and hat in a bag Nina, and the guy's arrived. They just starred at him, it was even stranger to see Dave dressed in a boring suit, and matching beige bowtie, even though it was KnitKnots. Finally already having had enough excitement KnitKnots went over to his desk and stood behind it as he looked at them and spoke.
"What do you want?" He asked as he sat.
"Well, Dave…I mean KnitKnots, you left with your…I mean Dave's Gadget hat!" Rich said.
"It's over there with his Mover suit." KnitKnots said pointing to a chair.
"Great!" Scott said going and picking up the bag.
"I knew going over to see you would be too exciting!"
"It'll be okay Dave…I mean Uncle KnitKnots! The Movers will fix the machine, and everything will go back to normal!" Nina said smiling.
"I hope you're right Nina!" KnitKnots said fixing his bowtie.
"Come on let's get back to the warehouse and help Dave!" Smitty said.
"Bye KnitKnots!" They said together as they quickly left the office.
Once gone KnitKnots began to work, trying to get his mind off of being trapped in Dave's body.
Back At The Warehouse…
While the others were over at KnitKnots, Dave went to his locker and thankfully found a spare Mover suit he smiled as he took it out and then quickly went to change. He finished and had just returned to the 'Think Tank' when Nina, and the guy's returned and they starred at the strange sight of KnitKnots standing there in Dave's Mover suit again Dave spoke.
"Still me guy's!" Dave sighed.
"Right! Sorry Dave!" Scott said. "It's just a little strange for us!"
"How do you think I feel? I'm actually starting to feel boring!" Dave said.
"Say it isn't so Dave!?" Rich asked all of them in shock.
"It's so! Did you guy's get my hat?"
"Here! Put it on, maybe that'll help!" Smitty said smiling giving it to him.
"Thank you Smitty!" Dave said smiling as he quickly put his hat on.
"Wow! That's even more strange looking!" Rich said as the other's agreed.
"Alright, first off I think we should look at the plan's I drew up for my machine!" Dave said taking off his hat and began looking for them. "Aha! Here they are!" Dave said pulling them out; he opened them and laid them on the counter. "Okay, let's see…I'll just check and see if all the piece's are here!" Dave said going to the machine and began checking it over.
"Well Knit…I mean Dave?" Smitty asked after a few minute's.
"Guy's we have a problem! There's three piece's missing, and without them I can't fix the machine!"
"Alright what pieces are missing? They have to be here somewhere?" Scott asked, as Dave joined them at the counter.
"Okay, see this main gear?" Dave asked pointing it out on the plans. "It's missing, so is this spring, and the main part that's missing is this disc. I used it to program all the functions of the machine, it's the brain!" Dave said sighing.
"If we can't find them can you replace them with something out of your workshop?" Rich asked.
"Nope!" Dave answered shaking his head. "I had to order the part's the first time, and I have nothing here to replace them with!"
"Okay, so we have three part's to find! Let's start looking around here; maybe they're here in the 'Think Tank'?" Nina said.
"What are we waiting for!?" Dave said smiling, as the other's agreed.
They all began to search, looking everywhere leaving nothing unchecked, and an hour later they stood together, no one had found anything yet.
"Any luck?" Dave asked.
"Nope!" Everyone said together.
"Well…what do we do now?" Rich asked.
"We have to check the rest of the warehouse!" Scott said sighing.
"It's so big though! Where do we even start?" Smitty asked as they all went into the hallway, and stood starring at all the doors, Scott spoke up sighing.
"It's too bad we can't see through walls!"
"Uh…Scott?" Dave said smiling at the others.
"Yeah Dave?"
"What about your Wobble Goggles?" Dave asked smiling as he pointed at them.
"Oh right! I can see through walls! I forgot about them!" Scott said putting them on, he tapped the sides twice and they came on. "Not in here!" Scott said looking into the first room. "Let's go on, they're here somewhere!"
They continued walking the hall's, waiting for Scott to see something, but after the 10th room there was still no sign of the part's anywhere.
"I'm beginning to think we'll never find them! I might as well start learning to enjoy stapling, stamping, and stacking, boring paperwork!" Dave said sadly, everyone looked at him sadly, as Rich finally spoke to him.
"Don't give up yet Dave! We're the Imagination Movers! We can solve any problem!" Rich said patting him on the back.
"I think I found something guy's!" Scott said happily. "Dave is that spring black, and this big?" Scott asked making the size with his fingers.
"Yes! That's it! You found it Scott! Where is it?" Dave said happily.
"In there!" Scott pointed. "The 'Farm Room', it's with the duck's."
"Come on let's get it!" Nina said happily, as they went inside the room. "Wow! Look at all the animal's!" She said looking around smiling.
"There's all kind's of different animals in here! We can come back later and you can meet them!" Scott said smiling.
"I got it!" Smitty said returning from the duck pond holding up the spring.
"Great! Thanks Smitty! Come on let's go put it on the machine before we lose it again!" Dave said as they quickly left the room.
Meanwhile…
KnitKnots tried to relax by working, but every time he looked at his hand's he remembered he was trapped in a Movers body. Then he began to think he'd never get back into his own body, and that maybe he should learn to get used to singing, dancing, and problem solving. Then he shook his head and went back to work, that was not an option! He wasn't very fond of his noisy neighbour's, but he had to admit that they were good at what they did! He liked things the boring way, and hated having to rely on the Movers who never did anything boring! Once this was all over, he'd need a nice, boring vacation away from his neighbour's. Unable to concentrate on paperwork, he decided to think of some new boring product's, that always calmed him down. As he passed a mirror, he caught sight of himself and stopped, maybe if he made his hair more boring it would help!
At The Warehouse…
While Dave put the spring back on the machine, the other's looked over the plans again to see the other missing part's and maybe think of something to replace them with. Soon Dave was done and stood smiling as he saw the other's looking at the plans and talking so he joined them.
"Okay, so now we're only missing two parts!" Rich said smiling.
"Alright, so now we need to look for the gear, and disc. The gear could have rolled anywhere where should we look?" Scott asked.
"Well, maybe my little buddy saw where it went?" Smitty suggested.
"Yeah, great idea Smitty!" Dave said smiling, as they went over to Mouse's hole and Smitty knelt down to check if he was home, but he wasn't.
"He's not home!" Smitty said as he stood again.
"Where would he be?" Scott asked.
"He could be anywhere in the warehouse. We need to find those last pieces or we'll never be able to switch back! I don't want to be stuck in KnitKnots body forever!" Dave said beginning to freak out, Scott stopped him.
"Relax Dave, we'll find those part's and you'll be back to your body before the day's over okay?" He asked as he patted Dave on the back.
"You're right Scott thanks man!" Dave said smiling.
"Mitty, Mitty, Mitty!" Warehouse Mouse said running into the room.
"Hey little buddy we were just looking for you! What's wrong?" Smitty asked as he picked him up and held him, as Mouse told him. "My little buddy found the missing gear!" Smitty said happily.
"Really? That's great! Where is it?" Nina asked.
"In the 'Bubble Garden'! It rolled after my little buddy and he ran into the 'Bubble Garden' to get away from it and it chased him into it." Smitty said.
"Great!" Dave said sarcastically.
"Come on guy's let's go see if we can find it using Scott's goggles!" Rich said. "We'll find them I promise Dave!" He said as they all ran to the garden.
"Okay Movers, let's find that gear!" Nina said smiling.
After searching for a half an hour, they still hadn't found anything and Dave was about to give up when suddenly Nina came running over to him.
"I found it!" She said showing him as the other's quickly joined them.
"Thank you Nina!" Dave said as he took it from her. "And thank you Warehouse Mouse! Come on let's go put this back on the machine!" Dave said as they all quickly raced back to the 'Think Tank'. Dave got to work putting the gear back in place while the others began to think of where the disc would have gone. After a few minute's Dave was done and turned to the others and spoke smiling and asked if anyone had any ideas.
"Okay, so who has any ideas?"
"Well, the only part left is the disc. It's so little where do we even begin to look for it?" Nina asked as they looked at the plan.
"Well…we've already looked in the 'Think Tank'." Rich spoke.
"We've looked in our rooms." Scott added.
"So where else is there to look?" Dave asked. "What about Warehouse Mouse's house?"
"Let's try!" Smitty said as they rushed to it and knelt down, this time Mouse was home. "Hey little buddy, we need to fix Dave's machine, and to do that we need to find all the missing piece's. We're only missing one more and it's a small disc, but it make's the machine work have you seen it?"
"Nope! Sorry Mitty!" Mouse said as he turned and went back into his hole.
"He hasn't seen it! Sorry guys!" Smitty said as he stood and they all went back to the couch and sat. "Anyone else have any ideas?"
"No, we've looked everywhere! I guess I'm stuck like this forever!" Dave said sadly, as Nina patted his back, just as KnitKnots came in and saw them sitting on the couch he spoke as he joined them hoping the machine worked.
"Ah, you're sitting doing nothing, that's what I like to see! You're finally nice, and boring!"
"BORING!?" All four Movers said together shocked that he had called them that.
"What have you done to my hair?" Dave asked standing as he starred at him in shock at the boring hair on his head. "It looks so boring?"
"It's nice and boring now! It took a long time to get it this boring, it wouldn't stay flat." KnitKnots said patting the hair down, Dave was in shock. "Have you Movers fixed the machine yet?"
"Almost!" Rich said smiling. "We're just missing one more part and then we're done!"
"That's great! So why aren't you working on it?" KnitKnots asked.
"Umm…we can't find the missing part anywhere!" Nina said sadly.
"You mean I'm going to be trapped in this exciting body forever!?" KnitKnots asked getting upset as he began to pace, Dave spoke.
"Hey you're not the only one trapped you know!? I'm stuck in this boring body too!" Dave said just as upset as he began to pace too.
"Okay everyone calm down, there has to be something we can do!" Scott said not believing that everyone was willing to give up! "We're the Imagination Movers! We never give up, I know there's something we can do we just have think!"
"Scott's right! Come on let's think!" Smitty said smiling.
They all began trying to think, and come up with some way to fix the machine, but every time they told the others about it, Dave told them it wouldn't work. They had officially run out of ideas and the machine was still broken, Dave went to leave the room when KnitKnots spoke.
"What does the piece look like?"
"It's a small, silver disc it looks like a miniature CD." Dave explained, as he turned and left the room, KnitKnots spoke again about the piece.
"Does it look anything like this?" He asked holding up a disc.
"That's it!" Dave yelled coming back into the room, after hearing, KnitKnots tell the other's he had the disc. "That's the missing part! Where did you find it KnitKnots?" Dave asked smiling as he took the part.
"Well when I changed out of your much too exciting Mover suit and into my nice, boring suit this fell off the leg of your suit." He explained.
"Now I can fix my machine! You saved the day KnitKnots!" Dave said as he quickly went to the machine and began to put the disc back into its proper place. A few minute's later Dave stood and turned to face the others smiling, they all looked at him waiting and finally Smitty spoke.
"So, is it fixed Dave?"
"Well…everything is back in the machine, but I'm not sure if it'll work! After all I didn't even know my machine could even switch bodies!"
"Okay, well maybe to make sure it work's we should do exactly like it happened the first time!" Rich suggested.
"Good idea Rich! Okay KnitKnots you stand here." Scott said as he placed him where he had been standing the first time. "Dave you stand here!" Scott finished putting Dave into his position too. "Okay, so what happened next?"
"Then KnitKnots pushed the button and it came on!" Smitty answered.
"Okay then, go ahead KnitKnots push the button!" Rich said smiling.
"I will not! It's much too exciting and the last…" He was cut off by Warehouse Mouse appearing on the back of the couch laughing, he scared KnitKnots again and he screamed and jumped hitting the button turning on the machine. Again it began to make strange noises and smoke, before it exploded again, knocking both Dave, and KnitKnots to the floor hard. Once everything settled down, they waved away the smoke and quickly rushed to them. Rich helped Dave up and Scott helped KnitKnots up as he spoke.
"Well…did it work!?" Scott asked.
"Somebody say something!" Nina said anxiously.
"Hello!" Dave and KnitKnots said together.
"One at a time!" Rich said nervously. "Dave you go first!"
"Hello…I'M BACK! I'M ME AGAIN!" Dave said smiling.
"What about you KnitKnots?" Smitty asked.
"Hello…I'm back too! It feel's so good to be back in my nice, boring body again!" KnitKnots said smiling.
"Yay! They're back! We did it guy's!" Scott said as everyone cheered.
"Now that I'm back in my own body I think I'll go change into something a little less boring, oh and I'm definitely fixing my hair!" Dave said smiling as he rushed to change into the Mover suit the guy's brought back from KnitKnots earlier that day; KnitKnots spoke as he turned to leave.
"I'm going to go change too! I'll be back later to return this Mover suit, and retrieve my suit as well! Have a good day Movers…and by good I mean boring!" He said as he went to leave.
"Bye KnitKnots! Thanks, and we…won't!" All three Movers said together.
An hour later Nina, and the Movers sat in the 'Think Tank' talking, Dave had changed back into his regular clothes and was sitting beside Scott.
"I'm so happy to be back in my own body!"
"So are we Dave, that was just weird!" Scott said smiling patting his back.
"Could you imagine if KnitKnots had to take your place as a Mover? And you took his place?" Rich asked.
"Nooooooooooooo!" Everyone said together.
"I think I'll take a break from inventing thing's for awhile." Dave said sighing, the other's looked at him shocked, Smitty spoke about it.
"Dave you can't stop doing what you love, just because of one…"
"It's not just one time Smitty though!" Dave said sadly cutting him off.
"Dave your inventions may not always work the way you want, but a lot of them do help us solve our idea emergencies." Rich said smiling.
"Guy's thanks, but…" Scott cut him off.
"Dave inventing thing's is what make's you happy! You wouldn't be you if you didn't invent cool things!"
"Maybe you're right Scott! I'm exhausted I think I'll just go home, night guys, night Nina! Thanks again for your help!" Dave said as he got up and left. Once gone Nina asked the other's if he'd be okay and they smiled and reassured her he would be, and by tomorrow morning he'd be back to inventing.
The next morning the Movers arrived and met up with Nina at the front door's to the warehouse. After greeting each other, they realized Dave wasn't there. Before anyone could ask if they saw him, a loud bang came from inside the warehouse, confused they rushed inside the unlocked doors.
"Almost have it!" Came Dave's voice from his workshop. Nina and the Movers looked at each other smiling, as Dave came into the room.
"Oh good, you're all here! I got here early to work on this great invention I thought of last night." Dave said rushing to his workshop and returning five minute's later with a small dog robot. "Ta da!"
"Wow! What is it Dave?" Scott asked.
"It's a guard dog robot! It's better than the real thing too, it doesn't need to be walked or fed and it never get's tired!" Dave said proudly.
"Does it work?" Nina asked.
"Of course it does! Just watch!" Dave said turning it on and it came to life. "See I told you, now let's see what it can do!" Dave said pushing a button and the dog began to move towards them; suddenly the button broke in Dave's hand. "That's not good!" He said as the robot began to bark at him. Then suddenly it began to chase Dave around the 'Think Tank', before it chased him through the entire warehouse, the Movers and Nina quickly gave chase too trying to stop it. Once again, things were back to normal for them…well as normal as you can be when you're an Imagination Mover!
THE END
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