Author's Note:
A thunder of jets and an open sky and a cheerful "ha-ha"! You'll know that it's once again time for another awesome adventure with that sonic speedster, Rocket J. Squirrel and pals, Bullwinkle the Moose. As well as that canine genius, Mr. Peabody and his pet boy, Sherman!
Without further ado, time for another amazing adventure starring Rocky, Bullwinkle, Mr. Peabody, Sherman, and a host of others.
Before we open our story today, let me just tell you that I shall take you back to the year 1969 to the first landing on the moon. Yes, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were the first men to land on the moon and the moment was celebrated worldwide.
However, many decades later, someone had just called America's bluff. Of course, that was the leader of Pottsylvania, Fearless Leader. He was broadcasting an announcment on National TV.
"Attention people of America, this is Fearless Leader, the fearless leader of Pottsylvania." He boasted "As you remember, back in 1969, the first man landed on the moon. But what you didn't know was that Americans forgot to claim ownership of moon! That is why I, Fearless Leader have proof that Pottsylvania owns the moon."
Just then, Fearless Leader turned on a video. It was a video of a Pottsylvanian man landing on the moon.
"I declare the moon in the name of Pottsylvania." Said the man as he stuck a Pottsylvanian flag onto the moon.
"That is right." Fearless Leader said "The moon belongs to Pottsylvania and everytime you use our moon, we charge you money!"
Little did Fearless Leader realize that this was being viewed by none other than our heroes, Rocky, Bullwinkle, Mr. Peabody, and Sherman who had been shocked by this whole newscast.
"I can't believe this!" Rocky said.
"This is as the kids would say, whack!" Peabody added.
"Yeah Mr. Peabody, this is whack!" Sherman added.
"Quiet you!" Peabody scolded Sherman.
"I'll say," Bullwinkle said "I just went ten paragraphs without a line."
"No Bullwinkle, I mean Pottsylvania owning the moon." Rocky said "This seems pretty strange."
Rocky went right over to the computer and typed something. "I'm gonna get to the bottom of this."
"How are you gonna do that Uncle Rocky?" Sherman asked the plucky squirrel.
"I'm sending an email to our friends, Gidney and Cloyd." Rocky explained "They might have answer."
And so with a press of a button, Rocky sent the email to their friends, Gidney and Cloyd, aka the Moon Men.
ON THE MOON...
Gidney and Cloyd had been inside their spaceship/house on the moon, eating extra butter popcorn and enjoying some galactic cable when Gidney heard something.
"Cloyd what was that?" Gidney asked.
"It must be our computer." Cloyd responded "It must mean that we've got mail."
Cloyd went right to the computer and saw Rocky's email about Pottsylvania landing on the moon. Luckily, he responded to it the minute he was finished reading.
"What was it about?" Gidney asked.
"It was from our Earth friend, Rocky." Cloyd said "He was asking if any Pottsylvanians landed on the moon, I responded to it by saying that was LMAO."
What Rocky didn't know was that what LMAO mean't in Moon Language mean't "Laughing Matters of Abnormal Obsceruity." Meaning that the whole Pottsylvanian on the moon thing was just a scam. Meanwhile, on the Earth Pottsylvanians had been charging money for use of "their" moon all over the country.
In schools when the mere mention of the moon is discussed.
"The cow jumped over the moon..." The teacher read to her students.
Just then Natasha came out of the window "If cow jumps over our moon, you owe us money."
When dogs howl at the moon.
"If you howl at out moon, you owe us money." Natasha came up to the dog.
"The things I do just to clear my sinuses." The dog handed Natasha some money in his ID tag.
Heck, even on honeymoons.
"If you go on honeymoon, you use our moon in name." Boris said "So, you owe us money."
Yes, everywhere, Pottsylvanian spies were charging money for every little thing involving the moon. No matter you little it was. The only ones suspicious of course, were our heroes.
"We gotta do something about this Bullwinkle." Rocky said to his allies "Pottsylvania couldn't have owned the moon."
"But how on Earth do we do that?" Bullwinkle asked.
"Why don't we use the WABAC machine to go back in time and see if it really did happen?" Sherman suggested.
"No no Sherman, we were around for when the people first landed on the moon." Peabody assured "And I assure you, they didn't land on the moon."
Just then, something came up on the TV. It was the news.
"This just in, we have a transmission from the country of Pottsylvania with a special announcement." Said the Anchorwoman.
The transmission played and on said video were none other than those two no goodniks, Boris Badenov and Natasha Fatale and their fearless leader, oddly enough named, Fearless Leader.
"Attention United States, this is Fearless Leader coming to you live from the Pottsylvania Space Center." He said "I would like to announce that my two spies, Boris Badenov and Natasha Fatale will be flying to the moon to claim Pottsylvania's ownership of the moon! We will broadcast it from the moon in three days! Toodle loo!"
The transmission ended.
"Well there you have it, Pottsylvania natives are flying to the moon!" The anchorwoman said "They will be broadcasting from the moon to claim their ownership."
"That's it!" Rocky snapped his fingers "We'll go to the moon and prove that their ownership of the moon is a scam!"
"How do we do that Uncle Rocky?" Sherman asked.
"It's quite simple my boy." Peabody said "We will go to the Frostbite Falls Space Center and prove this scandal."
"Frostbite Falls has a space center?" Bullwinkle asked.
"That's pretty fantastic." Sherman said.
"It sure does." Peabody said "Now come along everyone."
BACK IN POTTSYLVANIA...
While our heroes had made their way to the space center, Fearless Leader had been discussing his master plan with his evil cohorts.
"Now listen Badenov," Fearless Leader said "You must claim ownership of the moon!"
"Yes Fearless Leader." Boris saluted.
"You'd better." Fearless Leader growled "We didn't make that fake video footage of us landing on the moon for nothing. So you'd better claim it for Pottsylvania."
"I sure will Fearless Leader." Boris said.
As Boris and Natasha made their way to the rocket, Boris had thought of something else. What could he possibly have in mind?
Author's Note:
Well it looks like it's time for Rocky and his friends to go into orbit and save the moon from Pottsylvania's clutches. But what does Boris have in mind? Stay tuned and find out in our next chapter, "Launch Time" or "One Small Step for Moose Kind"!