[Hey, never thought you'd ever hear from me again, huh? Well here I am, Raddachux2 in the flesh! Finally coming back to this site after nearly two years, I began to reread some of my stories to see how much my writing skills have changed over all this time. In doing this, I realized something... These stories could really use some major tweaking. Don't worry, I'm not going to change the story so dramatically that you'll have to start reading it all over again. I'm just fixing a bit of the grammar issues. So, reread the chapters if you like, but if you miraculously managed to memorize where the story left off, then I'm sorry to say you may still have to wait a bit to see how it continues while I go though the editing process. This update is as of March 8th, 2012, so just totally ignore this Author's Note if you are reading this for the first time. So, to my new and/or old readers, please critique the redone chapters and tell me what you think! I look forward to continuing this story, and I hope you all anticipate it as well! Thank you to those who have remained my fans even after all this time. I'm sorry for the wait! Enjoy!]
"GAZ! HEY!" The spiky-haired boy yelled as his little sister grabbed the remote and started flipping though channels. "I WAS WATCHING THAT!"
"Shut up, Dib." She snapped back. "You've seen this rerun at least a thousand times already."
"But it's Mysterious Mysteries, Gaz! MYSTERIOUS MYSTERIES!" Dib's arms waved about ridiculously to emphasize the emphasis he put on his favorite television program. "Don't tell me you don't like it!"
Gaz stopped channel surfing, lowered the remote, turned to Dib, and punched him hard in the arm for being stupid.
"Ow!" He was knocked clean off the couch. Stumbling back on, he made sure to sit a few inches farther away from Gaz. "Okay, fine. But it's not like you ever watch T.V. What are you looking for?"
"It's this new show a few kids at school were talking about. It's airing on CartoonNetwork tonight. 'Adventure Time', or something. It's supposed to be good."
Dib gave her a weird look. "Since when do you care what kids talk about at school?" Gaz just shrugged.
"Oh, hey. This is it." Said Gaz, pointing one small, slender finger at the television screen.
The opening sequence began with a flying camera shot of a cartoon forest, followed by a snowy mountain landscape with penguins and a blue wizard, a pink castle with little candy creatures, a princess riding a rainbow-unicorn creature, past some more mountains, crossing paths with a vampire playing a stringed instrument, and then lastly flying through the window of a tree house, where inside a boy with a weird hat next to an orange dog pounded fists. Then began a gentle melody sung by a soft-spoken male voice:
Adventure Time,
Come on, grab your friends.
We'll go to very
Distant lands.
Jake the Dog and Finn the Human.
The fun will never end,
It's Adventure Time!
"Well, this is doomed to be mind-numbingly lame in every way possible." Gaz muttered, jumping off the couch and walking into the other room. Dib kind of felt the same way, but didn't bother changing the channel. He just continued to watch out of his own curiosity…
The art style was pretty unique, at least. And the jokes weren't half bad, but they were incredibly random. Everything talked and had a cute simply drawn face, from intellectual worms to back-talking shrubs. The situations were ridiculous and usually made very little sense. The oddest part, though was that Dib was actually enjoyed it a little. He felt a bit silly being entertained something so childish. He felt a bit too mature to be watching it.
The clearly much more sophisticated boy reached for the clicker and pressed the power button, without realizing that the boy on the screen did the exact same thing simultaneously with him. Dib felt a sudden jolt of energy from the remote, traveling through his hand, up his arm, and into the rest of his body. He popped out of sight a split second later.
Gaz had come back into the room with a can of Poop Cola and saw the whole thing. She stared blankly at the now empty sofa for a moment, then turned on her heels and stomped back into the kitchen like nothing happened.
