Last time, our heroes were making their way to New York when all of a sudden, Boris and Natasha reported Jessie to the Indiana police and got her sent to the Federal Pen, leaving Rocky, Bullwinkle, Peabody, and Sherman all alone in the middle of the desert, having to complete the mission themselves.
"Come on gang times a wasting," Bullwinkle told his friends "We owe it to Jessie to go see the president about the trees."
"No Bullwinkle," Rocky corrected the misguided moose "We have to go to New York and stop Fearless Leader, not go to Washington."
"This is not time to worry about getting the washing done!" Bullwinkle told the plucky squirrel.
"Not washing done!" Rocky slapped his forehead "WashingTON!"
"Well that is a lot of laundry." Bullwinkle chuckled.
"Uncle Bullwinkle, that joke just won't wash." Sherman told the moose.
"Well Sherman, you can't blame your dear uncle for drying!" Peabody chuckled a bit.
"Ha ha ha ha!" Sherman laughed "I don't get it."
"That felt great, I haven't done any puns in a while." Peabody fixed his bow tie.
"I think I'll fly ahead and look for civilization." Rocky put his goggles on his eyes.
But it was just no use, faced with the utter hopelessness of their situation, they decided to continue on foot. So on they walked, four lone figures making their way through a forgein and hostile written landscape.
"I thought you said we were in Indiana!" Bullwinkle told the narrator.
Would you like to narrate buddy?
"No." Bullwinkle said, knowing when he was beaten.
Anyways, where was I? Oh yeah! And so on they walked, four lone figures making their way through a foreign and hostile written landscape. They walked until their thumbs ached, but no one wanted to take chances with a six foot talking moose, a talking dog with glasses, a plucky young orphan with orange hair, and a flying squirrel who somehow couldn't fly.
"I could fly if I had to." Rocky said to the narrator.
Just then, a random bus came to the street. The boys figured this was their perfect chance to get a ride to New York.
"But how do we get them to stop Mr. Peabody?" Sherman asked his master.
"Quite simple my boy," Peabody explained "Your uncles and I will go in front of the bus and we will tell them to stop."
"You sure that's a good idea Mr. Peabody?" Sherman asked.
"Of course Sherman," Peabody made a snooty smile "Peabody is always right."
Just as the bus was climb towards them, Rocky, Bullwinkle, and Peabody jumped in front of the bus that was heading toward them.
"Stop!" They shouted.
Unfortunately, the bus ran them over. Luckily, they are cartoon characters so they were flattened like pancakes.
"Gee, this story seems a little two dimensional." Bullwinkle chuckled.
Sherman walked to Mr. Peabody, Rocky, and Bullwinkle, picked them up off the road and made them round again.
"That's my boy." Peabody looked at his restored body.
Yes, things were getting kinda dark for our heroes.
"Yeah, it's just about nighttime already." Bullwinkle looked at the day turning into night.
"The author is talking about our situation Bullwinkle." Rocky corrected his dim witted friend.
Wait a minute boys, there's some headlights. It was a couple of fresh faced students named Martin and Lewis. They stopped right at where our heroes were.
"Come on gang, it's a convertible." Bullwinkle took the gang into Martin and Lewis' car.
"Buckle up now fellas." Said Martin.
"Yeah." Added Lewis "Safety first."
They drove off onto the road.
"So where do you boys go to school?" Bullwinkle asked the boys.
"We are undergrads at Wossmotta U." Lewis answered.
"Wossmotta U? Rocky and his friends asked.
"My Uncle Bullwinkle was a star football player at Wossmotta U!" Sherman told the boys.
"Quarter-Buck to be exact." Peabody finished for Sherman.
"I thought you looked familiar." Martin exclaimed.
"Where are you coming from anyways?" Rocky asked.
"We've been on the road looking for America." Lewis answered.
"We've been looking for America all day." Martin continued "We just can't find it."
"And boy are we exhausted." Lewis sighed.
"Gee fellas, maybe you're looking too hard." Bullwinkle shrugged.
"Yes, perhaps America is all around you." Said Peabody "Surrounded by thousands of beautiful manifestations."
Following above our heroes ominously in the Midwestern sky, Boris conceived a sinister plan. Flying ahead to Wossmotta U, the two villains made a sizable donation to the university in the amount of $500 in Bullwinkle's name. Prompting the dean of the school to bestow upon Bullwinkle an honorary Moosters degree.
Outside, Boris explained his plan to his sultry partner "And when moose goes onto podium for acceptance speech, I will stand on water tower with CDA."
There was only one problem, Wossmotta U had no water tower.
"Can't even find water fountain." Boris remarked.
Yes, all looked bleak for their dastardly plan, until they came up with something. They built their own water tower. Their plan was going to work like a charm.
Meanwhile a few hours ago, Jessie was thrown into prison with another female prisoner. But we will get to that in the next chapter.
Several states away, our hitch hiking heroes were making their way to New York City, but little did they know, they were really being lured into Boris Badenov's evil trap.
Just then, a fax came out of Martin and Lewis' car.
Martin took out the Parker and read it "Bullwinkle, it's for you."
Our heroes read the fax.
"Hokey smoke Bullwinkle!" Rocky looked at the paper "Wossmotta U wants to give you an honorary degree."
"And the ceremony is today." Bullwinkle finished reading.
"We should go get Uncle Bullwinkle his degree!" Sherman said "It will be the first degree I see that doesnt have Mr. Peabody's name on it."
"Quiet you!" Peabody scolded Sherman.
"No Mr. Peabody, Sherman is right." Bullwinkle said "I must have it on the fridge so all our friends can see it."
"I guess if it'll get Mr. Peabody to stop gloating about his many achievements, let's go." Rocky said.
They arrived at the campus for the ceremony. It was a happy day at Wossmotta U, scene of Bullwinkle's football days.
"Boy, it's great to be back in my old school." Bullwinkle observed the campus "It looks pretty different though."
"Well Wosmotta U has been building up their enviorment and there funding has been growing since you dropped out back in 1964." Lewis explained.
"No wonder the place looks so different." Bullwinkle said.
"And I must admit, it looks much better than it did 51 years ago." Peabody observed.
"So, what you have you guys been doing these past 51 years?" Asked Martin.
"We've been in Frostbite Falls and traveling the world fighting bad guys." Rocky, Bullwinkle, Peabody, and Sherman answered.
"Anyways, there's still a lot of anti-animal feeling on campus." Martin added.
"Hokey smoke Bullwinkle!" Rocky saw the entire student body holding up protest signs and shouting at the place where the podium was.
"What're the kids protesting about?" Sherman asked Martin and Lewis.
"Is it a civil rights march?" Bullwinkle asked.
"No." Lewis nervously answered.
"Is it an Anti War rally?" Rocky asked.
"Not exactly." Martin shook his head.
"Tell him boys." Said the Dean.
"It's an Anti-Moose March." Martin and Lewis both answered.
Yes it seems that a raging controversy and prejudice had occured among the students that very morning when they heard Bullwinkle was being given an honorary degree.
"I guess it's true Bullwinkle." Rocky said sadly to his friend "You can't go home again."
"Look!" A student shouted "There's the antlered freak of nature over there!"
The students started booing Bullwinkle and throwing things at him.
"My fans." Bullwinkle cheered.
"Bullwinkle, these aren't fans!" Rocky said angrily "This is an angry mob!"
"They are discriminating against us!" Peabody said.
But at the face of danger and prejudice, our hero bravely made his way through the angry crowd. He made his way up to the stage.
As the students ranted about their prejudice against Bullwinkle, Rocky, Mr. Peabody, and Sherman were suspicious about this. And suddenly, they're sharp eyes picked up the figure of Boris Badenov near the top of the water tower.
"Boris Badenov!" They exclaimed.
Bullwinke went to the podium to give his acceptance speech and lecture about trees. However, the kids were too busy protesting with their hatred towards Bullwinkle.
"Uncle Bullwinkle look out!" Sherman shouted. "It's a trap!"
But the plucky young orphan's voice couldn't be heard with the shouting of the entire student body.
"Uncle Rocky, you have to fly up there and stop Boris from blasting Uncle Bullwinkle." Sherman told his uncle.
Rocky saw no other way, so he decided to try to fly again. But at that moment, Boris turned on the CDA.
"I've got to save Bullwinkle!" Rocky zoomed into the air and started flying uncontrollably.
This caused the students to stop yelling and see what Rocky was doing, while Bullwinkle was still giving his tree lecture.
And with an accidental blow, Rocky sent the CDA hurdling through the sky. Whereupon Boris retched out to retrieve it, until he remembered something important.
"I'm standing on air." Boris fell right to the ground and landed right on Natasha and the computer hit his bald head.
Rocky lost his control and fell down into the stage next to Sherman, Peabody, and Bullwinkle. Bullwinkle wasn't paying attention and kept doing his speech
"I've lost the knack." Rocky sighed sadly "I'll never fly again."
"Uncle Rocky," Sherman out his hand on Rocky's shoulder to comfort him.
"...yes, without trees, we couldn't be around." Bullwinkle finished his speech.
"Bullwinkle!" Rocky said "They're listening!"
The students cheered for Bullwinkle. You see, Bullwinkle's speech was so inane that the students didn't know what he was saying and realized they had nothing to object to.
So Rocky, Bullwinkle, Mr. Peabody, and Sherman bid a farewell to the staff of Wossmotta U and Martin and Lewis.
"I just wanted to thank you fellas." Said the Dean "You four brought unity and tolerance back to our troubled school."
"It was no problem." Rocky turned away.
"And Martin and I would like to wish you guys luck against Fearless Leader." Said Lewis.
"We'd help you guys, but we got our studies and we don't wanna get near him." Martin shrugged "And until we met you guys, we lost all faith in America. Until we met you guys, we lost all faith in America and our car. But since we met you guys, we love our car again."
"So, as a token of appreciation and to help you get to New York faster." Lewis handed the keys to Bullwinkle.
"Gee thanks fellas." Sherman got into the car.
"It was much appreciated." Peabody got into the car as well "And we'll call you guys as soon as we stop Fearless Leader."
And soon enough, Rocky, Bullwinkle, Mr. Peabody, and Sherman were back on the road once again, ready to stop Fearless Leader's evil plan. Meanwhile, Boris and Natahsa emerged from the student infirmary ready for action.
Author's Note:
Rocky, Bullwinkle, Peabody, and Sherman have gone to Bullwinkle's old college and they've brought unity, anti-racism, and tolerance back to Wossmotta U. Now, they're on the road to New York once again. But what about Jessie? She's in jail and has to get out. In the next chapter, we will see what our heroine was doing while our heroes were hitch hiking all night and attending the ceremony half the morning. As I said, she's the star of this story. And here's an FYI: the next chapter will be more emotional and dramatic than this one. Stay tuned readers!