The Tool Room

"Guys, have you seen my engineering scale?" Dave questioned, digging around at his work bench.

"Nope."

"Not me."

"Nada. Did you check your hat?"

"Oh, right." Dave pulled his hat off and rummaged around in it, pulling out everything from an air compressor to a wood router, but no scale in sight.

"Maybe you left it in the Tool Room?" Scott suggested.

"Donkey Player Defeated in Battle." The video game announced.

"Well, crud!" Scott sighed, throwing down his controller.

"That's a good idea, Scott. I guess I'll go look."

"I'll go with you." Scott and Dave started back into the twisting, turning halls of the Idea Warehouse, in search of the Tool Room.

"Where is it again?" Dave questioned as they wandered.

"I'm not sure. The Warehouse is just so big!" Scott sighed, scratching his head.

"Oh!" Scott exclaimed, pointing to an ambiguous sign.

"Um... Looks like the Sugary Foods Room. Best to keep you out of there, Scott." Dave pushed Scott from behind until they were past the room.

"Lets see... We have the small, fuzzy animal room... The reptile room... Still don't know how those rooms got put next to each other..."

"Here's the balloon room, the bouncy ball room... the round toy room... the wheel room... Wow! Here's a room that's got a completely un-ambiguous sign!" Dave exclaimed, pointing to a sign that said "Tool" on it. "I wonder why they couldn't have put a picture of a hammer or something?"

"Um... Dave..."

"It'll just be a sec, Scott." Dave reassured his long-haired friend as he opened the door.

"DAVE!" A bunch of well-sculpted men wearing nothing but their shorts exclaimed from the other side of the door.

"You're just in time for our kegger! But, we have to be finished by midnight, because if Kyle doesn't get home to Amy, she's not going to give him..." The man made a rude gesture.

"Wha..." Dave's eye twitched.

"Dave, this room is not the Tool Room, this is the Men-Who-Are-Tools Room." Scott whispered.

"You couldn't have told me this before I walked in?" Dave hissed.

"Chug-chug-chug-chug-chug...!" The Tools were chanting as one Tool chugged beer through a hose while another Tool poured beer into the hose via a funnel. "WHOOOOOO!!"

Dave slammed the door shut and marched away.

"I'm having them all arrested... As soon as I find my stupid scale."

***

"And that's the story of the Tool Room!" Nina finished.

"...Why would the Movers even put in a room like that?" Kitty asked after a moment of thought.

"Who knows. I don't even think that the Movers know half the rooms that are in the Warehouse."

"But, Rich has that map of the Warehouse."

"It's really just a map of rooms that they do know. Almost like in the early days, of people like Christopher Columbus, when maps of the world were incomplete, because they didn't know what was out there."

"Oh. I see." Kitty realized that her ice-cream was dripping all over her pants and stuck the spoon in her mouth and went to go get a paper towel. "So, what's up with Freddy?"

"Ah, Freddy..." Nina started as they went back into another flashback.