Chapter Three: Lets Get This Parted Started
Susan and Sarah stared with their mouths open, suddenly their confusion turned into complete surprise. They took each others hands and screamed like school girls, jumping up and down and making the ground shake. With all the hard work they had been doing they had completely forgotten that today was their birthday (being parallel meant that their birthdays were on the same day as well).
"Good job keeping it a secret, B!" Link called to his buddy.
The giantess' turned to the butterfly, "Did you know about all this?" Sarah quizzed the bug.
Butterflyosaurus looked the other way and attempted to whistle but having only two teeth meant it only came out as a raspberry. Sarah simply nudged the bug in the foot and they knelt down to their family and friends, "I don't really know what to say," Susan said, all a flutter.
"You girls don't have to say anything," said Mr Murphy, "it's your birthday so come and celebrate it with us!"
The girls soon got stuck in with the parties that seemed to be going on all over Modesto, they chatted to different groups of people and enjoyed food and drink specifically made from the Modesto snack food plant. Their monster friends also mingled in with the crowds, Link and Fang went from group to group chatting up hundreds of different women, trying to impress but not getting very far. B.O.B and T.O.M had drunk too much lemonade and were now 'wasted' as they stumbled along the streets laughing.
"I gotta feeling," sang B.O.B and T.O.M together, "That tonight's gonna be a good night!"
Dr Sprocket was working on his home built dj set made from broken up cars which originally belonged to local residents. As he beated out tunes, the crowds danced to the music with Dr Cockroach in the middle of the crowd showing off his dancing skills.
Rex was giving children rides down the streets; the kids loved him and gave him belly rubs as a reward. Butterflyosaurus stayed on the outskirts of the town, swaying to the music from Dr Sprocket's decks.
Later, Susan and Sarah returned to their parents, they were still flustered from the surprise. They gave their folks hugs, careful not to squeeze too tightly and then sat in front of their houses. When Sarah's group arrived in this dimension, General W.R. Monger was able to acquire a home for her parents, right next to Susan's parents. Their moms soon fetched the girls' presents from behind the houses (with the help of Link and Fang as the presents were quite big). Their dads delivered the rest in two trucks (they were too big and heavy even for the fish ape and the snake), "Hope you like them, girls," Mrs Miller smiled.
The girls took it in turns to open their presents, Susan got new clothes consisting of jeans, sneakers, jumpers and skirts, an enlarged mobile phone, a headband and an enlarged photo of her with all her friends. Sarah also got new clothes and an enlarged stereo, sunglasses and a wrist bracelet that had pictures of her friends on it. There were also smaller presents from the townsfolk, some involving fruit baskets and cards. The giantess' were both really pleased with what they had they got but Mr Murphy said there was one last present for Susan.
He went inside to go get it, everyone waited to see what it was, B.O.B and T.O.M could barely stand the suspense. Eventually Karl came out again holding a large white box with a pink ribbon wrapped round it, he handed it to his daughter who held it in her hand, "I think you'll find this the best present of all," he said.
Susan carefully tore the ribbon off and slowly lifted the lid off the box, revealing what was inside. She gasped as her hand covered her mouth, Sarah looked over her sister's shoulder to see what it was, and she too gasped at the box's contents. Susan reached into the box with two fingers and pulled out a gold chain with a shinning white gem on the end. The monsters were transfixed at the bright stone; it was slightly larger than a bowling ball.
"Mary mother of-" started Fang, Dr Sprocket slapped him before he could finish.
"Oh, daddy, is this…?" Susan struggled for words.
"The very white stone that you and I found on that camping holiday when you were a little girl," her dad revealed, "I had it made into a necklace."
"It's beautiful." breathed Sarah.
"It is," smiled Susan, "oh thank you so much, daddy." She leant forward and kissed her dad and her mom, then Sarah helped Susan put the necklace round her neck, the white gem glistened in the street lights.
A bark from Rex signalled that there was still a party to finish, Dr Sprocket returned to his decks and Dr Cockroach continued doing his break dancing.
A while later Butterflyosaurus had to bid goodbye to everyone, it was getting late and Esqargantua would be getting worried. The butterfly spread her wings and rose into the night sky until she disappeared into the darkness. Link and Fang were running out of women to impress as the night went on.
It was now past midnight and most of the townsfolk had gone back to their homes, some were still laughing about and having a good time. Dr Sprocket was now converting his dj set back into several cars, Fang had disappeared and the brainless duo were unconscious on the floor, surrounded by bottles of lemonade.
Susan was sitting in the back garden of her house, her back against the building and her feet dipped in the swimming pool, the water overflowing onto the grass, she held the gem necklace in her hand as she looked into the clear starry sky.
"So what's the story behind the jewellery, my dear?" came Dr Cockroach's voice. Susan looked behind her to see Dr Cockroach and Link climbing onto the roof to sit next to her.
"When I was little I went camping with my dad one summer, I went exploring into the woods and found a boulder with this white gem sticking out of it, I touched it and it flashed brightly, then came loose. Since then I've had it in my bedroom, a sort of memory of that holiday."
"When you say 'little'," Link began but a shot from Doc caused him to be quiet.
"How's the rest of the party going?" Susan asked them.
"Well," Doc reported, "The brainless bunch are snoring loudly, Dr Sprocket is giving three of the residents their cars back after he turned them into his music set, Rex is having his night time walkie round the town and Fang is at some students apartment participating in a game of Guitar Hero."
"All that work and I didn't get one phone number," grumbled Link.
"Oh, didn't you?" smirked Dr Cockroach, "you should've been on the dance floor more." He waved notes of paper in the fish apes face.
"You didn't!" stuttered Link.
"Girls like disco dudes apparently!" said Doc, thumbing through the papers. Link muttered incomprehensibly under his breath.
"Oh, by the way," Dr Cockroach remembered, "That Derek and his camera crew tried to get in and film stuff, but we had security throw them out!"
"Douchebag," snorted Link, "Just trying to get exclusive pictures of the birthday girls."
"Where's Sarah?" asked Susan, she hadn't seen her for a while.
"Last I saw her she was making out with some guy on the top of a house," Link replied.
"Well, it seems that the dear child is settling into this strange new world quite nicely, good for her." said Dr Cockroach happily.
"Wait! My little sisters making out with some boy?" Susan stated, she wasn't sure what to make of this.
"A: technically she's not your sister! B: she's old enough to kiss who she likes! And C: little?" Link pointed out.
"Look at you all 'protective big sis'," grinned Dr Cockroach, "Don't you think she deserves some happiness after everything that's happened to her?"
"Yeah, I suppose so…It's just a bit of a surprise, that's all." sighed Susan, "On another subject…where's Monger? He could've turned up for at least a few minutes!"
"All I keep hearing is that he's on some secret mission," said Link, "Like there's many 'secrets' going round these days!"
Susan gripped her necklace and looked up to the glittering sky again, "Do you think there's any life out there? You know, life that doesn't want to destroy our world?"
"Maybe," theorized Doc, "the universe's parameters are beyond anything so there must be at least one species out there of the friendly type."
"Well we could do with some friendly visits for a change instead of all the 'I am gonna destroy your world' stuff." grunted Link.
The three monsters sat in silence from then on, all looking up at the full moon. Unaware that, in Susan's hand, the white gem was starting to glow like it did when it first came to Earth.
Earths upper atmosphere
Three Minutes Later...
"Master, we are receiving a signal! It's faint but traceable! You were correct; the DNA core is on this planet!"
"At last! After all these years!"
My computer is gradually falling to pieces so updates will be slightly slow. sorry.
And the 'What If' series is on hold until further notice. again sorry. :-/