Iheartgod175 presents:

Best Friends Forever Redone

Created: March 8th, 2013

Published: March 9th, 2013

Rating: K

Summary: This collection of eight shorts focuses on the various friendships of the Veggie Tales cast, as well as showing the differences between simple and real friends. Rewrite of my first Veggie Tales story. As before, the only shipping in the story is friendship.

Author's Note: While writing Hugs and Kisses' fourth chapter (I know, I really have to get back to that.), I began thinking about eventually rewriting my first Veggie story, Best Friends Forever. It wasn't bad, but Bob and Scallion 1 ended up being a bit out of character in one short, and there were a few that I felt were better suited for the other characters than Bob and Larry. This story is going to change that around, and I will do my best to nail the character's personalities. PM me by all means if you'd like to help out.

Disclaimer: I love, LOVE Veggie Tales, but I'm not Phil Vischer, or Mike Nawrocki, the creators behind the show. Besides, if that were really the case, I'd be pretty rich. But I'm not. So don't count on it.


Short 1

Characters: Jimmy, Jerry and Pa Grape

Friends: Never ask you for food or drink

Real Friends: Are the reason you have neither.

Pa Grape looked up from his newspaper to see Jimmy and Jerry finish off the last of the nachos and queso dip that he had prepared for the small tailgate party Larry decided to hold. The dip was pretty much a hit with everyone there...especially Jimmy and Jerry. They were sitting in front of him, scraping out the very last bits of dip into their tortilla chips-and arguing about it.

"Hey, you're hogging all of the dip, Jimmy!" Jerry said.

"You should talk! You ate majority of it!" Jimmy retorted.

"Did not!"

"Did too!"

"Did not!"

"Oh, boy..." the elder grape sighed as they continued to argue. The two gourds had eaten everything that everyone had brought to the party-from Bob's steakhouse burgers to Mr. Asparagus' chili dogs. And they had made a lot of too; the minute Larry announced that they were coming to the party, everyone came over three days later with three to five trays of food.

Pa had insisted that everyone should bring one tray each so that way he wouldn't be stuck with a lot of leftovers. But once he saw how the two ate, he was glad everyone brought extra. That meant less work of having to go back and forth to the kitchen and bring out snacks for him.

At last, the party was over, and disappointed that their team had lost, everyone left Pa's house to get ready for work tomorrow. Soon, there was nobody left but Pa, Jimmy and Jerry. The entire living room looked like a hurricane had torn the place up. It would put Bob's brother Andrew to shame.

Seeing as Pa would have to clean all of this by himself, Jimmy said, "Hey Pa, we can help you clean up so you can get this done faster."

"Yeah!" Jerry agreed.

Pa Grape smiled, relieved. "Thanks, fellas. You really are a great help. And I thought the only thing you cared about was food," he said, and both gourds had to laugh at that.

"We'll get the living room and the fireplace," Jimmy said, and went to get a broom. Jerry started to pick up the leftover plastic cups.

"I'll get the kitchen. And speaking of which, I'm parched. I'm gonna get something to drink while I'm in there," Pa said, and went into the kitchen.

As the two got started picking up any other trash, Jerry commented, "Kinda disappointing about the game, huh?"

"Yeah. Those new guys couldn't catch a ball to save their lives," Jimmy replied, but a few seconds later, Pa Grape yelled. Both gourds ran into the kitchen to see what was going on.

"Pa, what's wrong?" they both asked at the same time.

"Look at my refrigerator! It's completely empty! No butter, no eggs, no nothing! Zilch! Nada!" the old man wailed. Both Jimmy and Jerry went over to see that Pa Grape's was indeed completely empty. While they were looking at that, Pa opened the pantry and saw nothing there either.

"Oy! Someone ate all of the food in my pantry!" he said. "This is crazy! Who would have an appetite large enough to eat everything in my fridge and the pan-" At this Pa stopped, and he turned to Jimmy and Jerry, who were looking at each other with nervous looks. After a few moments of uncomfortable silence, Jerry broke it.

"You know, I-I just remembered, I have to, um...go to a really important appointment somewhere," he said.

"Uh, yeah! And I have to go too, so, you don't mind if we leave, right?" Jimmy said. He and Jerry were trying to look as sincere as possible, but their smiles came off looking really nervous looking.

Pa Grape, however, was not amused.

5 minutes later

Bob was watering his lawn when he caught sight of Jimmy and Jerry running down the sidewalk, yelling the whole way. They were being chased after by a very upset Pa Grape, who was hopping after them as fast as he could in his state.

"Get back here, you two!" he yelled. "You ate everything in my house! When I catch up with you...!"

Bob watched as the three disappeared, their shouts echoing throughout the neighborhood. His neighbor, Mr. Nezzer, came over to his yard, having also seen the chase. His face was filled with both confusion and bewilderment.

"Bob, what's going on with Pa Grape, Jimmy and Jerry?" he asked.

"...Maybe we should ask Pa about it tomorrow," Bob said. "It's not a good idea to ask him a question when he's angry."

Mr. Nezzer thought for a moment, then nodded. "Good point."

This was the original short 1 from Best Friends Forever. I changed it to Jimmy and Jerry, since they're the ones who eat basically anything and still have enough room for more. I think Pa Grape was a good choice for the whole food scenario. I would've chosen Bob, but I think that he might be a little harsh on them if I did.

Also, there is a Pirates Who Don't Do Anything reference. See if you can find it.

And for the record, I don't like football, but I don't know a thing about any other sport.

Stay tuned for the next short! R&R~

God Bless, iheartgod175