"And in a repeat news broadcast, more and more preschoolers across the country have been disappearing."
Nigel Uno was in the tree house flipping channels when he heard this and stopped. The bored Hoagie Gilligan looked up from the second couch. He glanced at Nigel with a confused expression. Nigel looked back at him as if to say, "Shhh, this could be something."
"Missing children under the age of five have been popping up in police reports everywhere, and parents are begging for their little ones to return," the news anchor was saying. A video of two parents wiping their eyes was shown on-screen.
"We don't know where he went!" the mother said.. "He just disappeared one night!"
"We just want our little boy back!" said the father of another couple. The mother was crying too hard to understand what she said next. The baby girl they were holding cried, "Ebul! Ebul!" and then started sucking on the collar of her pink dress.
"We've gotta do something about this," Hoagie said, as Nigel clicked off the TV. His communicator rang just then.
"Hello?" he said. "Yes….yes….really?….here?…alright." He hung up.
"We were just assigned to."