A.N: Hey guys I'm back with another chapter for the story, I hope you like it. We will finally get to see one of my favorite characters from the movie enter the story :) Here we go...
Sulley walked into the building the next morning and saw everything was going smoothly. He looked around wondering where Mike was. The little green eyeball was not at home that morning when he woke up. He remembered that he went out with Celia the night before and the last time he saw the little lime green monster was the day before when they were leaving work and shutting down the factory for the night. He joked with Sulley telling him not to "wait up" for him. Sulley just laughed.
"Hm. Now where did that little green friend of mine go?" Sulley asked himself. He continued further into the lobby and his eyes panned around the large crowded room hoping that he would find his green friend. He looked over at the receptionist desk where Maggie was working with Celia and Valentine was there giving Celia paperwork.
He walked over. "Hey guys, have you seen Mike around? It's not like him to miss work." Sulley asked, "Sorry Sulley, I haven't." Maggie frowned shaking her head. "Nope. Sorry big guy." Valentine said, folding her arms and leaning against the desk. "I believe that last time I saw Googlie Wooglie was last night, when he dropped me off at home." Celia explained, suddenly, they heard someone breathing heavily. That's when they all saw Mike run up to them holding what looked like a piece of paper and wearing a worried expression.
"Mike, where were you?" Sulley asked wide-eyed, "Yeah." Maggie added on. "What's wrong with you man, you look like you've seen a ghost." Valentine commented, which earned her a dirty look from Maggie. "No offense, Maggie." She said ashamed, "Non taken." Maggie said, still slightly offended. Mike was still panting and wheezing and he had his hands resting on his knee caps while he was struggling to catch his breath. He held up the paper with a shaking hand.
"I went to the mail room this morning to see if me and Sul got any mail, okay? and I-I was told we got a letter that looked urgent. So I opened it and...look…" He handed the paper to Sulley who began to read it aloud.
Dear Mr. Sullivan and Mr. Wazowski,
It is my greatest regret to inform you that you are being sued by the Boggs family in regard to the unfair banishment of their son, Randall S. Boggs. They do not want a trial and want to settle this peacefully. You must pardon Randall and let him back into this world and return him to his former duties at Monsters Inc.
Sincerely, Patricia Slimefield attorney at law
Sulley looked up from the letter and stared at his best friend who just stared back. "Randall." Dudley said still in shock.
"Wait a minute, hold the phone." Valentine said, cutting in. Who's Randall?" "He was Mike's old college roomie. They were best friends at first but they sadly grew apart because of popularity and became rivals." Sulley explained. "Then years later the three of us met again here when he first applied for a job." "Then a few years ago because of him Sulley let in a human girl and she caused us a whole lot of trouble." Mike continued on.
"Aren't human children supposed to be toxic? We were taught that back in Transylvania as well." Maggie explained, "We thought so too. But then we discovered that human children aren't toxic after all, but still kept the rumor around to keep the company in business." Mike explained.
"But...what happened to Randall?" Maggie asked,
"Well, the reason he had her door out in the first place was because he was trying to use her for a machine that the old CEO made him build. Luckily we managed to save Boo, that's what we called the human girl, and banished Randall to the human world." Mike finished.
When the two monsters were finished telling their tale, Maggie and Valentine had their eyes wide and their jaws dropped. Even Celia was in shock too. She heard the story and she knew what Randall tried to do but she never heard about what happened to him.
"But..if his boss told him to build the machine, then doesn't that make him innocent?" Maggie asked, "No it doesn't." Mike answered, "He built the machine with his own four hands. He went along with it." Mike explained.
"What if he had no choice?" Maggie asked him, "What if Waternoose or whatever his name is threatened to fire him if he didn't comply. If that's the case then Waternoose should be taking the fall."
"She's got a point." Valentine agreed, pointing to Maggie.
Mike looked up at his best friend. Sulley shrugged down at him. "They're right."
"Sulley...you can't be serious..." Mike said, in complete shock. "He tried to murder us!" "But it's true, Mike. He was probably blackmailed by Waternoose into building the machine and Waternoose intended for Randall to take the blame and he was wrongfully banished and he could possibly be dead and it's all our fault!"
Mike just stood there speechless. He couldn't believe that Sulley was actually going to let Randall back into their world! Back into their lives!
"Fine, but don't expect me to be nice to him." Mike grumbled, folding his arms.
There they stood. In front of the door that would bring Randall back. They went to Roz and thanks to her and the CDA, they managed to track Randall down and rebuild the door that they busted up. With just one turn of the doorknob, the lizard monster that they banished a few years ago would spring back into their lives again. Who knows what he was going to do to get back at them for what they had done! "Alright Mike..." Sulley said still frightened, "Let's do this..." Sulley shakily put his hand on the doorknob and gave it a turn. The door flew open slowly and the two gazed into the door seeing nothing but darkness. They were confused, where was he? He knew they were letting him back in tonight.
"Right behind you, idiots." A voice immediately came out sounding annoyed. The two monsters froze up. They recognized that voice. They both turned around shaking and there they saw before them a lizard with purple scales covering his body and blue ones covering his tail. His eyes were a really bright green and each had an odd squint. He looked just like the Randall they banished three years ago. The only thing that was different was the huge scar running down the right side of his face. Mike and Sulley both assumed that the scar was from the night he was beaten on the head with a shovel. Randall had all four of his arms folded and was giving them a dirty look.
"Hey Randall! Good to have you back! Let me just say you are looking great! Did you lose some weight? You do something with your scales?" Mike said trying to get on his good side. Randall just closed his eyes and shook his head obviously aware of Mike's pathetic attempt at getting out of trouble.
Sulley cleared his throat. "Well Randall, it sure is great to have you back. I hope there's no hard feelings." He said, Randall just continued to look at them with that dirty look of his. The two buddies were still confused as to why he wasn't attacking.
"Of course." He finally replied, "I assume you were told I was innocent?" He asked, "Yes. Your parents were the ones who filed the lawsuit. They talked it over with Roz and she allowed us to let you back in." Sulley explained.
"It's true, that old crab Waternoose played me like a pawn from the very start. I was blackmailed into committing the crime. So at least you are now aware that you were both in the wrong." Randall said seriously.
"Yes, and we deeply apologize." Sulley said, with a nervous smile. Randall then spoke up again.
"What about my job, Sullivan? Did you manage to get my old job back?" The lizard monster asked, now kind of annoyingly. "Yep, it's yours again." Sulley nodded. "There's just one thing you ought to know about it..." "What?" Randall asked, "Right after you were banished we converted from scream power to laugh power. Now instead of collecting screams, we collect laughs." Sulley explained. The lizard's eyes widened. Laughs instead of screams? This didn't seem right.
"Let me get this right. You're saying I have to go out there and make a total fool of myself as my job." Randall said, still processing everything. "Sure if that how you wanna put it. But you'll be doing it for a good cause." Sulley smiled with a shrug.
"Then leave me out of it!" Randall snapped, "Unlike the rest of you morons, I have my dignity." "Look, do you want the job or not?" Sulley suddenly asked, in a stern manner. Randall then paused for a second. As humiliating as it was, he did need the money to get back on his feet, all four of them. It looked like he had no other choice.
"Alright Sullivan, I'll take the job, but don't expect me to do anything degrading." Randall said, snapping a little bit. "Of course not, happy to have you back Randall." Sulley said, holding his paw out to shake Randall's hand. Randall didn't take it, he just gave Sulley another look and said, "See you around, Sullivan." He then turned his attention to Mike. Mikes eye immediately widened and he started shaking in fear. Randall got closer to him and gave him a weird glare that look angry yet..hurt. "Wazowski." He said, still disinterested. Then he turned and left.
Maggie and Valentine were talking in the lobby. The workday was almost done and Valentine already helped Roz with all of the paperwork. Maggie was typing a scream-Mail at the computer while Valentine was sitting on top of the desk talking to her.
"So Maggs-" Valentine said, being cut off. "Valentine I told you not to call me Maggs. I hate that name." Maggie said seriously.
"That's why I call you Maggs." Valentine joked giving Maggie a playful punch on the arm laughing. Maggie didn't laugh.
Valentine cleared her throat. "So Maggie do you wanna see a movie or something?" I was heard there was some choice movies out in theaters right now." Valentine asked, "No way Val! Everytime we go see a movie you make me sit through something scary! Not this time!" Maggie said angrily.
"What? Since when have I ever done that?" Valentine asked pretending to sound hurt.
"Wait a minute, who's that?" Maggie asked looking in a certain direction, "What?" Valentine asked, she looked in the direction Maggie was looking. There was a certain lizard walking towards the front doors to the factory.
"Who's that guy?" Maggie asked, "I don't know, I haven't seen him around the factory and believe me I've met quite a few laughers." Valentine replied. They both froze up when they saw the lizard monster talk to Celia who pointed to the receptionist desk and he looked at them. Valentine's blood red eyes went wide and Maggie's ghost heart skipped a beat. The two monsters began to walk in their direction and both girls were motionless. Finally Celia spoke up.
"These are two of our new workers. Maggie and Valentine." Celia gleamed.
"Hi." Maggie waved shyly. Faint shades of red began to fill her pale cheeks. Maggie always acted like this. Whenever she met someone new she would get all shy. Whether it were some friends of Valentine's or some distant family members, she was always shy.
"Yo." Valentine said giving off a peace sign. Valentine was more outgoing than Maggie was. She was almost never shy when meeting someone new.
"Hey." The lizard said, kindly holding out one hand. Maggie took it with a shaking hand. She was worried he could feel the sweat coating her palms and see her face red from embarrassment. She didn't want him to get the impression that she thought he was cute or something because that wasn't the case at all.
"Nice to meet you both." The lizard said, now shaking Valentine's hand. "Yeah man, you look like an awesome dude." Valentine complimented, "Thanks." The reptile replied. Celia then cleared her throat.
"Girls, this is Randall Boggs." She introduced, "So you're Randall!" Valentine said suddenly cheerful. "So you're the one who got banished by Mike and the Big guy!" Randall gave Valentine an uneasy look. "You'll have to excuse Valentine. She never thinks of the right things to say before she says them." Maggie explained, Randall just gave her an awkward grin. Then he turned his attention back to Celia.
"I think I'm going to take off. Can I start tomorrow?" He asked, "Absolutely." Celia told him, then the lizard turned and walked away. The girls released the breath that they were holding the entire time that they were talking to that lizard.
"Geeze, he's scary." Valentine stated.
"I don't know, he seems nice." Maggie said,
"Believe me I've known him for eight years. He was never nice before." Celia said, "Maybe time in the human world did him good." Suddenly the phone rang and Celia picked it up to answer it. "Hello Monsters Inc. this is Celia Mae, how may I help you?" Valentine looked back at Maggie.
"So Maggie how 'bout that movie?" She asked, Maggie turned off the computer. "Why not?" She said, "But nothing scary." "I promise." Valentine swore. Unfortunately for Maggie, she didn't see Valentine's fingers crossed behind her back.
Oh boy...Valentine's gonna trick her! Well that's all for this chapter, I'll see you guys in the next chapter.