Author's Note:
Well here it is like I said! The Rocky, Bullwinkle and Mr. Peabody prequel story I was talking about a while ago. Let's get to read about some things we've always wondered about our heroes and scoundrels.
BUT FIRST HERE'S SOMETHING WE HOPE YOU'LL REALLY LIKE!
THE ROCKY, BULLWINKLE AND MR. PEABODY FAN CLUB
Rocky: Hiya everyone! Welcome to the Rocky, Bullwinkle and Mr. Peabody Fan Club! Today, we are going to take you back to the very start!
Bullwinkle: The start? Will we go back to the time those prototype-mammals first started breathing? Or when mammoths were showers?
Mr. Peabody: No Bullwinkle, what we are going to do is show them how we met and where we came from.
Bullwinkle: Why didn't you say so? How should we start the story?
Mr. Peabody: Well, the story really starts with me...naturally.
Not really Mr. Peabody! We are actually going to start with Rocky, since his name is first in the title of the series. Bullwinkle is second and you are third.
Mr. Peabody: Better than nothing I guess.
Rocky: And now the story of how we met! How we became best friends and how we came to Frostbite Falls!
Our story opens in Winnebago, Nevada where we see none other than a gray squirrel child on his own. Gathering nuts and putting them into a hollow cactus.
"Boy" said the squirrel "Gathering nuts is hard work. Especially when you're on your own and putting them in a cactus"
Indeed that squirrel was gathering nuts, but why in cactus, you ask? Well, this squirrel wasn't exactly born in the woods. In fact, his first memory was waking up on his own. Nobody around him. No friends, no family, no nothing.
"And I've retreated to this hollow cactus in the desert ever since" said the squirrel "I'm on my own, and I always have been. It's a rare occasion when I can get anything to eat. I've been saving these nuts forever, now I think I have enough to last until spring"
However, just as the squirrel was about to pack in his last nut, the sky turned dark and stormy clouds covered the sun. This caused a huge storm, with rain and wind powerful enough to cause the cactus to fly up into the sky.
"MY NUTS!" the squirrel shouted.
Suddenly, the squirrel and his remaining nut were carried into the wind and were flown out of the desert and into a stray field in a park (in civilization). The squirrel tried to search for his one remaining nut and saw that it was in some lady's purse.
"There it is" the squirrel said in his thoughts.
He ran over to the purse and tried to look for his nut, but the lady saw him.
"AAAHHH!" she screamed "A RAT! IN MY PURSE!"
The lady grabbed the squirrel and tied him to the branch of a tree.
"You stupid rat!" she exclaimed "You deserve to be punished for what you've done! You should stay in that branch forever! Pathetic thing!"
The lady walked away while the squirrel looked at her sadly. His arms were tied as well, so he couldn't free himself. Suddenly, the strong wind caused the branch to snap and hit the ground hard. The squirrel was unconscious and knocked out cold. Just then, a little blonde girl walking in the rain had arrived and saw the squirrel's unconscious body.
"Oh dear" she gasped "A little squirrel. He's out cold"
The little girl picked up the squirrel and felt a pulse. He was still alive. Barley, but still alive. She decided to take the squirrel home.
Hours later, the squirrel woke up and saw that he wasn't in the storm. He was in a human bed in somebody's bedroom.
"You're awake" said the little girl who was smiling at him "You're saved!"
The squirrel was confused and surprised at what was going on.
"Who are you?" he asked "Where am I?"
"Oh my god!" said the girl "You're amazing!"
"Me?" the squirrel asked "Amazing? What do you mean?"
"I mean, I've never seen a talking squirrel before" said the girl "I mean it's just...wow!"
"Thanks" said the squirrel "But what am I doing here? And where am I?"
"You're in my bedroom" the girl explained "I found you in the storm and I decided to take you in. You've been unconscious for several hours"
"Several hours?" the squirrel asked "Hokey smoke! That storm must have done me good, and I'm only a child squirrel"
"A child?" the little girl asked "Where are your parents and where's your home?"
"I don't have a family" the squirrel sadly said "In fact, I've been all alone as long as I can remember. I don't have a home or a family"
"Well you're welcome to stay here with me and my mother" said the girl "You can be part of our family, and we'll be the best of friends"
"Thanks" the squirrel smiled "No one's ever done something so kind for me before. In fact, no one's ever done anything for me at all"
"Well, allow me introduce myself" said the girl "My name is Marigold. Marigold DuBois. What's your name?"
"Gee" said the squirrel "I don't have a name. No one ever gave me one"
"Okay" said Marigold "I'll give you a name. How about Rocket?"
"Why Rocket?" the squirrel asked.
"Well you're a rare flying squirrel" Marigold explained "And I heard they can zoom like rockets. So that's why I'm naming you 'Rocket'. It really suits you"
"Yeah" said Rocket "I think it really suits me too. Too bad I can't fly"
"Don't worry Rocket" said Marigold "I love you just the same. I know you'll never know who your real family is, but it's okay. You have me and I'll always be here for you"
"Thanks, Marigold" Rocket hugged Marigold.
Marigold then kissed Rocket on his nose right before he fell asleep in his arms. From that day on, Rocket and Marigold became the best of friends. Like a big sister and her adorable baby brother. Only, it was an adoptive human big sister and an adorable adoptive baby brother who was really a flying squirrel who couldn't fly.
"Not my fault I never learned" Rocket told the narrator.
Sorry about that. Several miles away in the vast North Woods, (an area bounded roughly by the Arctic Circle and the Mason-Dixon Line) there was a whole herd of moose's traveling together.
"Say" said one particular moose child, Bullwinkle "Where exactly are we going? If we're going anywhere, I hope it has somewhere great"
"Ugh" the head moose grunted "I swear this kid bugs the antlers off of me"
"Say, Zack!" Bullwinkle tapped on another moose's shoulder "Will we meet any moosestte's along the way? It is mating season after all"
"The sooner we leave him on the hunting grounds, the better" Zack said in his thoughts "I wonder how we'll abandon him this year"
Meanwhile somewhere in Cuba, a dog named Eduardo and his wife, Maria were tending to their puppies.
"There you go, ninos" said Maria "Drink up"
The puppies were drinking their mother's milk. There were about five puppies.
Roberto was the oldest of the litter. He was a very talented and had a knack for singing. Though he hadn't learned to talk yet, he could howl like an angel.
Tito was the second oldest. He was always full of energy and loved to play ball.
Enrique was the middle child and he was such a fussy eater, but loved the taste of dog biscuits.
Christina was the only female in the litter and she thought she was the prettiest of the litter.
And then there was Hector. Unlike his brothers and sister, Hector had some seeing problems, so he had to wear glasses. Hector also enjoyed playing with his red ball.
Eduardo then showed a bone-shaped mark on his right hind leg to the kids "See this mark kids? It means that we are the same, and someday you're going to be as wonderful as your mother and father"
The puppies ran to their parents and started playing with them happily.
Together, these two dogs and their young lived together in peace and harmony on their quaint little farm. However, there was someone seeking to take the puppies for himself, and that guy was none other than Pottsylvania's fearless leader, Fearless Leader.
"Understatement of the year" Fearless Leader told the narrator.
Fearless Leader had been watching this family of dogs for a while now and he was going to steal them and make them his own attack dogs. Once he trained them, they would attack anybody who was an enemy of Pottsylvania (or anyone Fearless Leader hated for that matter).
"Today's the day" Fearless Leader spoke into a radio to his spies "Those puppies will grow into remorseless assassins and work for me!"
"Yes Fearless Leader" said his spies "We will seize those puppies"
"You had better!" Fearless Leader shouted "Or else!"
The spies walked right to the field that Eduardo and Maria were. As soon as their backs were turned, the Pottsylvanian spies made a trail of dog biscuits to trap the puppies in carriers. The puppies then sniffed the ground and saw the dog biscuits and followed the trails of biscuits into the carriers and they were shut tight.
"Looks like you're coming with us, little doggies" one of the agents smirked.
"Fearless Leader, we have captured the dogs" another agent spoke into his walkie talkie "We'll be meeting you at the rendezvous point!"
"Ruff! Ruff! Ruff!" they shouted to their parents.
Eduardo and Maria turned around and saw their children being loaded onto the back of the Pottsylvanian spies' truck and driving away.
"Ninos!" Maria shouted.
"Maria! You stay here!" Eduardo told his mate before he ran after the truck.
Eduardo ran as fast as he could to catch up to the truck and hopped onto it. He used his paws to untie the ropes that were holding up the cages and the cages started to fall off the truck.
"Thank goodness you're alright" Eduardo sighed "Let's see...Roberto, Philipe, Christina, Tito and...HECTOR!"
Hector was the only puppy that didn't fall off the truck. Eduardo ran back to catch up with the truck, but it was sadly too late, Hector had been taken away. When he and the other puppies came back to Maria, boy was she in depression.
Meanwhile in Pottsylvania, Fearless Leader was distraught at the very sight of a disappointment.
"One one dog!" he snapped at his minions "Pathetic!"
"We are sorry, Fearless Leader" said one of the agents "We'll do better next time"
"What do you mean next time?" Fearless Leader growled.
"No! No! No!" the agents begged as the guards took them away.
As soon as the guard took the (former) agents away, Fearless Leader observed Little Hector.
"Still, a dog with glasses, eh?" Fearless Leader looked at Hector "I could use something like you!"
Fearless Leader opened up the cage and picked up Hector.
"You will make a great and wonderfully expendable right hand man" he told Hector "Your name is Peabody and I will train you be the worst person possible and my ever loyal henchman! Now we begin..."
Author's Note:
Here is the first of the prequels I was telling you about! We're going way back to the beginning to when Rocky, Bullwinkle and Mr. Peabody first met and please disregard the contradictions...this is the true origin of their friendship such as how Bugs Bunny's 100% true origin was in "What's Up Doc" and Darkwing Duck's true origin was in the episode, "Clash Reunion"
Also here's some big news! NBCUniversal has bought Dreamworks from FOX. Since we know that they now own Bullwinkle Studios and Jay Ward Productions, this could mean brand new content for our Jay Ward friends. New Rocky & Bullwinkle, new Mr. Peabody, new Dudley Do-Right and new George of the Jungle. Hopefully, this time they'll stay true to the source material.
However, there are some pros about the Mr. Peabody Show that make almost as enjoyable as the movie:
* I love the elephant's song. Easy to remember and easy to dance to.
* There are many historical figures I did not know about. For example, George Crumb. I had no idea the chips were invented by a black guy. That's great.
* I love that it ended in a cliffhanger.
Just like the much more exciting, All Hail King Julian. New season premieres May 13! Where did Julien go? Will Maurice Mort and Timo find him? Will Uncle King Julien and Mary Ann conquer Madagascar? Will LALA ever realize that Banana Guy Mike was Julien? And will Clover and Crimson ever reconcile? Find out on May 13th!
Get ready to see our friends finally cross paths real soon in our next chapter "The Start of a Journey" or "Traveler in the Sky"