Chapter III: Meetings and Connections

Chapter III: Meetings and Connections

"Wow, between the kid at the concert and the fire, I don't ever think were going to freaking enjoy this trip," Rat said.

"Chill, Rat. Stuff like this happens all the time. Although it is a tragedy, I doubt that it is anything more than a coincidence," Goat responded.

"Yeah Rat, relax." Farina quipped. She had seemed to be hanging out a lot more with Goat. Rat was not oblivious to this.

They all sat at the beach. It was really quite beautiful. Koony, being the energetic little kitty he was, was trying to swim out to the sandbar with Pig and Mary Anne.

The three kids among us, Rat thought. He laughed, he, on the very deep inside was glad that Pig had found someone. He only wished the same would happen to him.

The sunbathers and surfers were interrupted by a flash, just like the one that they had seen at the concert. A little blonde kid and his tiger were being chased by a grown woman in an apron.

"Can't catch me!" The boy ran into the water. Koony turned around to see them barreling at him. The tiger caught his eye.

"Cuz Hobbes!"

"Koony!" the tiger responded. He walked over to Koony on the sandbar.

"Hey dude how's it been?"

"Well, same old, same old, hanging with the kid you know."

"Great!"

While Koony and Hobbes exchanged small talk the kid and his mom made it back to shore and were tearing up beach umbrellas and generally causing chaos. Everything was in a ruckus and Rat was taking his usual course of bellowing profanities. In another flash, the kid, the mom and Hobbes were gone.

The gang all met back on shore.

"Everyone, I think that I've figured something out. We saw Koony's Cousin Hobbes, Calvin the kid and his mom running on the beach." Goat explained.

"Great strip, but we saw the same flash and two random kids appeared. How is that connected?" Zebra responded.

"Hey, those two kids looked like… What's that funny li'l strip… they looked like… Curtis and his buddy!" Pig proclaimed.

"So we saw two characters from random freaking strips. That basically means…" Rat thought.

"That the comic universe is tearing apart." Goat replied.

"Wow, we burned the Fourth Wall down!" Farina said.

Rat replied, "Well… Calvin did it first."

The gang walked up to a lunch bar. They were hungry from all of this weirdness. But the announcement that was about to be made wouldn't help Rat out at all.

Goat walked up to the counter and said. "Umm… well this is kind of an odd time, especially with all the weird stuff going on, but I'd just like to tell you that um well Farina and I are kind of going out."

Rat looked completely heart broken. His face looked angry, and very sad. He hung his head, but then looked up at the new couple, looked his cloven-hooved nemeses straight in the eye and said:

"You damn dirty goat."

A/N: Well, that's it, I will have chapters 4- 6 up in maybe 2 weeks, where you can find the explanation behind the weirdness, see more of it, witness Rat's reaction to Goat, and see how the Pearl's gang plans to save the Funnies. Please Review. I need to know what to change to make future chapters better.