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The Flintstones: Chip and Roxy Get Gazooza'd

(A Fan-Fiction Story based upon the animated T.V. series, "The Flintstones" (1960-1966), with Chip and Roxy from animated T.V. film sequel "Hollyrock-a-Bye Baby" (1993), both created and produced by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera of Hanna-Barbera Productions, Inc.)

Chapter One: A Quick Dip at Rock-Climber's Beach

The sun shone down upon the busy little settlement of Bedrock. The time of summer was here, drenching the people of the Modern Stone-Age civilization in warmth and light.

After what seemed like an eternity, the doors of Bedrock High School were opened and the students poured out of it like prisoners from a jail. The last school day of the year had ended! Among the freed captives were a twin brother and sister duo named Charleston Frederick and Roxanne Elizabeth Flintstone-Rubble, also known as Chip and Roxy.

Chip was a tall, red-haired young man wearing a blue-spotted orange caveman's tunic while his sister Roxy wore a black-and-white dress to compliment her snow-white hair. The young fourteen-year-olds were eager to get out and go swimming at Rock-Climber's Beach before going home to their parents, Bamm-Bamm Rubble and Pebbles Flintstone, who were cooking a special meal tonight for the kids and their grandparents. Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm had recently moved their family from Hollyrock back to their old home-town of Bedrock, so that the kids could spend more time with their grandparents, Fred and Wilma Flintstone and Barney and Betty Rubble.

They had been told to come straight home after school; but before they went home to eat, however, they intended to take a quick dip in the local swimming hole, a small pond surrounded by cliffs on either side.

They jumped on their bikes and pedaled as fast as they could up the road and onto the forest path leading to the special swimming hole—a favorite place which was off the beaten track just enough that many people still did not know about it. It was the best kept secret in Bedrock.

When they arrived they parked their bikes. They had put their bathing suits on under their clothes at the school washroom in order to save time. As soon as they arrived, they threw off their clothes and dashed into the water. They splashed and swam about happily for a while before Roxy decided that she wanted to climb the rocks up to the top of the "cliffs" which surrounded the swimming hole.

She gingerly climbed over the huge rocks, making her way up until she was able to walk around the upward-sloping path to the highest cliff. Chip followed her, slightly more cautious than his beautiful, super-strong sister.

Finally, they both stood at the edge of the cliff, looking down at the swimming hole below. The water-hole was perfectly positioned underneath the cliff, with the deepest area directly underneath the highest point. This was why they called it "Rock-Climber's Beach."

Without a word, Roxy jumped fearlessly out into the air, dropping down like a stone into the deep waters of the swimming hole. She went way down underneath the water before swimming upwards and out of the way so that Chip could go next.

After several minutes, Roxy became impatient.

"Come on, Chip!" she urged him, "Stop stalling. It goes better if you don't think about it too much. Just jump!"

Chip shivered, looking down at Roxy nervously. No matter how many times he did this, Chip could not get used to making this jump. He knew the water would break his fall, but he was anxious about it nonetheless. He knew that Roxy was right—he just needed to jump—but the more he thought about it the more he could not quite convince himself to do it.

"After all," he reasoned, "What animals other than Humans are nutty enough to do this?"

Even so, he did not want to look like a scaredy-cat in front of his sister. After what seemed to have been forever, he at last stepped out into the air, embracing the terror of his fate. He felt his heart jump and his stomach churn.

"Yabba Dabba Dowk!" He yelled at the top of his lungs as he plunged downwards, splashing into the swimming hole.

He swam upwards, relieved to have made it into the water with no mishap. As he swam to the shore, he noticed with some chagrin that Roxy was climbing the rocks in order to do it again.

Chip, however, collapsed onto his towel. He had endured enough for one day. Roxy continued to "cliff-hop" for the next hour, until finally Chip yelled at her in his loudest "Grandpa Fred" voice, "Roxy! It's time to go home, now!"

Roxy pouted and shook her fist at Chip. She knew he was right, but she could not leave without staging a protest. She used her super-Human strength that she had inherited from her father, Bamm-Bamm, and picked up a large boulder, hurling it over to the shallow end of the swimming hole. It sent up a gigantic spray, which re-soaked the sun-bathing Chip.

"Real nice, Roxy!" Chip grumbled, drying himself off.

The pair changed quickly into their clothes and packed up their still-wet bathing suits into their knapsacks. As they were doing so, they suddenly heard a voice, which seemed to come from out of thin air:

"Would you like to join me on my spaceship?"

The two teens looked around themselves, startled.

"Who is that?" Roxy called, "Show yourself, immediately, or we won't be going anywhere."

"Roxy!" Chip whispered, "We have to get home anyways for the dinner with all our grandparents. Don't listen to this...voice."

"Oh, don't be such a wet blanket, Chip!" Roxy replied irritably.

"Come aboard my ship, and you will see me," the female voice called out, "If you don't come here, you can't see what I look like."

Chip peered worriedly at his twin sister Roxy. He knew that she was becoming dangerously curious. Before he could stop her, Roxy had said to the voice, "All right! Bring us up to this...spaceship of yours."

The words were no sooner out of her mouth than the twins seemed to sparkle out of existence. The beautiful forest water-hole suddenly disappeared, to be replaced by the white walls of a...spaceship?