History would call her "The Unsinkleable Megan Brown.
Her husband had struck gold somewhere out west... and she was what mother called: "New Money."
"I wasn't going to wait all day sonny. Here, can you manage?" Megan asked as she gave suitcases to a blue pig.
By the afternoon, we were steaming west from the coast of Cog Nation. A few interested toons had gone there to investigate what cogs have been doing there. When The Lunatic left... there were about 3000 toons on it. 800 had left to go to Cog Nation...
"Take her to sea, Mr. Skipper. Let's stretch her legs." Captain Bubblez said.
"Yes, sir." Skipper said as he entered the control room.
The workers started turning wheels in the control room to make the ship go faster.
"All ahead full!" Connor yelled in the Boiler Room.
The workers started turning wheels in the control room to make the ship go faster.
The Propellers started to twirl even faster now.
Zack and Brad ran to the front of the ship to spot dolphins in the water.
"Hey! Look!" Zack shouted. "See it? There's another one! Look at him jump!"
Brad observed them silently, amazed.
The propellers must of been spinning 100 miles per hour because of the wind in their faces.
"I can see the Statue of Pie already! Very small... of course." Brad said.
Captain Bubblez smiled as he saw all of his passengers having a great time.
"She is the largest moving object made by man in all history." Hatchi explained about the ship while eating dinner. "And our master ship builder Andy designed her from the keel plates up."
"Well... I may have knocked her together... but the idea was Chandler's." Andy said. "He envisioned a steamer so grand in scale and so luxurious... in its appointments that its supremacy would never be challenged. And here she is... willed into solid reality."
"Hear, hear." Hatchi said.
Blizzard smoked a cigarette while she listened to the conversation.
"You know I don't like that, Blizzard." Sasha said.
"She knows..." Poison said. "We'll both have the steak, rare, with very little mint sauce."
Everyone nodded around the table.
"You like steak... right sweet pea?" Poison asked Blizzard.
Blizzard just smiled at Poison with anger.
"You gonna cut her meat too?" Megan asked Poison. "Hey, uh, who thought of the name 'Lunatic'?"
"I did... actually." Hatchi said. "I wanted to convey sheer size, meaning stability, luxury, and strength."
Blizzard rolled her eyes, looked at the ceiling, then exhaled.
"What's gotten into you?" Sasha asked Blizzard.
"Excuse me..." Blizzard said as she got up and left.
"I apologize..." Sasha told the dinner table.
"She's a pistol. I hope you can handle her!" Megan laughed.
"Well, I may have to start minding what she reads from now on, won't I, Megan?" Poison asked.
Dottie walked over and sat down.
"Hey!" Dottie barked.
"Hello there, puppy." Sasha smiled.
"So, what's shaking?" Dottie asked.
"Nothing much..." Poison said. "Quite a lovely day? Isn't it?"
"Oh... shut up!" Dottie screamed. "You hacked the Lunatic's chat and now you act like royalty!"
"You should know better then to talk to Poison like that..." Chandler sneered.
"Whatever..." Dottie said as she walked away.
On the main deck... Zack sat on a bench drawing a picture of a blue dog pointing out nature to his son.
"That's typical... first class dogs come down here to take a shit." Anonymous told Zack.
"Uh... it lets us know where we rank in the scheme of things." Zack said.
"Like we could forget?" Anonymous asked. "Zack, do you make any money with those drawings?"
Zack stared off above to the 1st class deck. Blizzard walked out and looked out upon the railing.
"You'll never get next to the likes of her..." Anonymous laughed.
Blizzard looked down and watched the people stroll along the deck.
"Hey!" Ozzie said.
"Ozzie!" Anonymous said. "Did you hear... Zack has a crush on that girl standing on the balcony."
"Really?" Ozzie laughed.
"Uh..." Zack said.
"Nah..." Anonymous said. "It's fine. Don't protest. You know you do."
Poison came out on the deck and told her to come back inside.
"Well hello there Blizzard!" Megan greeted.
Blizzard was sick of her endless parties... she hated her life.
There were always toons drinking wine...
Toosn talking about their stupid lives...
She couldn't take it anymore.
She went outside and started to run.
"Ugh..." Blizzard sobbed as she held up her dress while she ran.
She finally reached the back of the ship and looked down.
There splashed the water, spread out in the Atlantic Ocean.
Blizzard climbed over the railing... and began to let go.
"Don't do it." Zack said.
Blizzard looked surprised. One minute she'd been alone, and the next, a toon stood there.
"Stay back." Blizzard said. "Don't come any closer!"
"Come on... just give me your hand. I'll pull you over." Zack said.
"No! Stay where you are! I mean it! I'll let go!" Blizzard said.
Zack threw his cigarette over the railing into the ocean.
"No you won't." Zack said.
"What do you mean, 'No I won't'?" Blizzard asked. "You don't tell me what to do... you don't know me!"
"Well, you would have done it already." Zack said.
"You're distracting me! Go away!" Blizzard yelled.
"I can't... I'm involved now. You let go and I'll have to jump in there after you." Zack explained.
"Are you stupid? You'll be killed!" Blizzard yelped.
"I'm a strong swimmer." Zack said as he took off his boots.
"The fall alone would kill you... fool." Blizzard said.
"It would hurt... but to tell you the truth I'm more concerned about that water being so cold."
"How cold?" Blizzard asked.
"Freezing... maybe a couple degrees over." Zack said. "You ever, uh... been to The Brrrgh?"
"What?" Blizzard asked.
"Well, they have some of the coldest winters around." Zack said. "I grew up there in Walrus Way. I remember when I was a puppy... me and my father... we went ice fishing in one of the ponds. Ice fishing is when..."
"I know what ice fishing is!" Blizzard screamed.
"Sorry... you just seem like, you know, kind of an indoor girl." Zack said. "Anyway, I fell through some thin ice... and I'm telling you. Water that cold, like right down there, it hits you like a thousand knives all over your body. You can't breathe... you can't think... at least it's not anything but the pain. Which is why I'm not looking forward to jumping in there after you. Like I said... I don't have a choice. I guess I'm kind of hoping you'll come back over the rail and get me off the hook here."
"You're crazy!" Blizzard said.
"That's what everyone says... but due respect, miss. I'm not the one hanging off the back of a ship here. Come on... give me your hand. You don't want to do this.
Blizzard grabbed Zack's hand, and came over the railing.
"I'm Zack..." he said.
"Blizzard..." she replied.
Suddenly, Blizzard slipped and fell. Zack grabbed her with both of his arms, and struggled to pull her up.
"Ahh!" Blizzard screamed.
Officers heard her from a couple yards away, and came running to help.
Zack eventually got Blizzard over the side, and she was safely on the deck.
"You stand back! And don't move an inch!" Skipper said as he saw Zack kneeling next to her.
"How dare you put your hands on my fiancee?" Poison asked Zack. "Look at me you filth!"
"Poison... stop..." Blizzard said.
"What do you think you were doing?" Poison asked Zack.
"It was an accident! It was... stupid really." Blizzard said. "I was leaning far over, to see the uh... uh... uh... the uh... propellers. And I slipped! I would of gone overboard... but Zack saved me and almost went over himself!"
"Was that the way of it?" Mr. Skipper asked.
"Yes, that was it." Zack said.
"Well... I guess that's it!" Poison said. "Back to our brandy!"
"What about something for the boy?" Mr. Skipper asked.
"Yes..." Poison said as he handed Zack a twenty dollar bill.
"That's the reward for saving the woman you love?" Blizzard asked.
"Blizzard is unhappy..." Poison said. "What to do? Ah! Zack, how about you join us for dinner tomorrow night?"
"Sure... sir." Zack said.
They nodded and walked away, along with Blizzard. Govna stayed behind.
"Hey... dude. Can I bum a smoke?" Zack asked Govna.
He nodded. "Interesting... lady slips so suddenly and you still have time to remove your jacket and shoes."
"Uh... I was there talking to her and she slipped..." Zack said.
"Hmm..." Govna said with fire in his eyes. "Do you want to be hacked?"
"No... sir..." Zack said.
Blizzard was listening to a Music Box in her room. There was a knock on the door. Poison opened it.
"I know you've been melancholy..." Poison said. "I don't pretend to know why. I intended to save this... until the engagement gala next week. But... I thought tonight.
He opened a box and a blue heart diamond was inside the box.
"This is the heart of the ocean..." Poison said. "We are royalty... Blizzard. There's nothing I wouldn't give you. Nothing I would deny you... if you open your heart to me..."
Blizzard stared into her mirror, without a thought.