During the evening, Madame Groovy, Zondra and Walter were trying to get through traffic on their way to the Muppet Boarding house.
Meanwhile, Amber was inside the house, and had just tuned into the Muppet Show. "Now, to just wait until there is a preview that the Electric Mayhem are about to go on, then I will take my leave," Amber muttered as she watched the Muppet Show intro, with her hand petting the wooden box that contained her new gun.
At the theater, Zoot was in the Electric Mayhem band's dressing room, extremely nervous, but he didn't know why! He felt like something was going to happen that night, something very bad, but he had no idea what it was.
At that moment, Dr. Teeth entered the room to see his partner looking really nervous. "Hey Zoot, you alright?" the keyboardist asked the saxophonist.
"Kind of…no, I'm not alright," Zoot admitted, sitting down on the couch in the room.
Dr. Teeth went over to him and sat right by the Muppet. He didn't like seeing any of his friends in such distress, Zoot most of all. "What's wrong? Are you nervous about going on camera again after being away for so long?" he asked his lover, taking his hand.
"I don't know why, but I'm getting a very bad vibe about tonight's show. I feel like something is going to happen, something that will not end well," Zoot explained.
"Zoot, you're starting to sound like Boober. Have you hung around him recently? His paranoid attitude is starting to rub off onto you," Dr. Teeth said.
"No, I haven't seen the Fraggle ever since a few months when we dealt with Zia, but I'm telling you! Something bad is going to happen tonight. I can feel it," Zoot said.
"Zoot, you need to relax. Nothing is going to happen, but if something crazy does happen in the theater, I'm going to make sure you stay by my side so you don't get hurt," Dr. Teeth told his partner.
Zoot was silent for a few moments, until he smiled a little and said "Thanks Doc, that's real nice of you to say that."
"No problem," Dr. Teeth replied, grinning.
Zoot the leaned toward the keyboardist and said, "I love you."
"I love you too," the dark green Muppet said before pressing his lips to the blue Muppet's lips.
After a while into the show, after Gonzo pulled a stunt involving a pogo stick and some cannons, which went wrong, as expected, Kermit ran onstage and said, "Well, that's the show so far! Now, we'll just take a little break for intermission while you people watching TV watch some commercials. We'll be right back afterward with the Electric Mayhem and Solid Foam!"
At the boarding house, Amber grinned mischievously and said, "Excellent, that'll give me some time to get to the theater." The girl opened the wooden gun case, where she removed the silver gun and put all the bullets she had into it, before she slipped it into a purse she had nearby, hung the purse on her shoulder, and then exited the house, without even bothering to turn the TV off.
A few moments after she left, Madame Groovy's purple pick-up truck pulled up in front of the house and she, Walter and Zondra hopped out and dashed up the steps into the building.
"Amber! Where are you?!" Zondra shouted, going upstairs to look for the pink Muppet.
"It looks like nobody is here right now. Probably all at the theater for the show," Madame Groovy assumed, before entering the kitchen, hoping Amber was in there.
Walter saw the TV was switched on and a Toyota Highlander commercial was being shown, and it was the one with the Muppets. "Oh, it's this commercial," Walter said, about to sit on the couch, until he sat on the sharp corner of something, which made him jump out of the seat and look to see what it was. He saw it was a wooden box.
Curious, the Muppet picked up the box and opened it, where he gasped. "Oh no."
"What?" Madame Groovy asked, going back into the living room to see her friend holding the box. She went over to him and looked into the box, where she gasped and muttered, "Oh no."
"Well, Amber's not in her room or in any other room up the-," Zondra said until she saw the look of shock on the other two Muppets' faces as they looked into some wooden box. "What is it?" she asked her friends.
Walter showed Zondra the box, where there was a perfect imprint in the cloth foam inside that was in the shape of a gun! Within seconds, all three Muppets screamed. "AAAAAAHHHHH!"
After they calmed down a little, Walter shouted, "Amber is going to the Muppet Theater as we speak! The Electric Mayhem and Solid Foam must be about to perform. She's probably going to shoot Zoot when they're done!"
"How long will we have until she attacks?" Zondra asked.
Then, the commercials ended and the Muppet Show was back on. Kermit ran onstage and said, "And now ladies and gentlemen, I present to you, the Electric Mayhem and Solid Foam performing Counting Stars! Yaaay!"
"About 4 minutes!" Groovy stated. "That's how long the song is!"
"Let's go!" Walter shouted, switching off the TV and running outside, with his friends following close behind.
The curtains of the stage opened, revealing the two bands, where they started to play the music for Counting Stars and Flash took the first verse.
Flash: Lately, I've been, I've been losing sleep, dreaming about the things that we could be. But baby, I've been, I've been praying hard. Said, no more counting dollars, we'll be counting stars, yeah we'll be counting stars
At that second, Amber had arrived at the Muppet Theater and was starting to enter through the back door, while on the road, Madame Groovy was driving well over the speed limit and Walter and Zondra were hoping to get to the Muppet Theater before the worse occurred.
Floyd: I see this life like a swinging vine, swing my heart across the line, and my face is flashing signs. Seek it out and you shall find
Clifford: Old, but I'm not that old. Young, but I'm not that bold. I don't think the world is sold, I'm just doing what we're told
Janice: I feel something so right doing the wrong thing. I feel something so wrong doing the right thing. I couldn't lie, couldn't I, couldn't lie. Everything that kills me makes me feel alive.
Flash: Lately, I've been, I've been losing sleep, dreaming about the things that we could be, but baby, I've been, I've been praying hard. Said, no more counting dollars, we'll be counting stars.
Floyd: Lately I been, I been losing sleep, dreaming about the things that we could be. But baby, I been, I been prayin' hard. Said no more counting dollars, we'll be, we'll be counting stars.
At the same time, Amber was walking through the theater, trying to get by everyone without being noticed, specifically Kermit or Scooter, who would both question her presence, but all the Muppets were all downstairs in the canteen, watching the acts on a TV monitor Digit hooked up in the theater a few months ago, which allowed the Muppets to watch each other's acts.
Clifford: I feel the love and I feel it burn, down this river every turn. Hope is our four letter word, make that money, watch it burn.
Digit: Old, but I'm not that old. Young, but I'm not that bold. And I don't think the world is sold, I'm just doing what we're told
Lips: And I feel something so wrong By doing the right thing. I couldn't lie, couldn't lie, couldn't lie. Everything that drowns me makes me wanna fly.
Zoot: Lately I been, I been losing sleep, dreaming about the things that we could be. But baby, I been, I been prayin' hard. Said no more counting dollars, we'll be counting stars.
Dr. Teeth: Lately I been, I been losing sleep, dreaming about the things that we could be. But baby, I been, I been prayin' hard. Said no more counting dollars, we'll be, we'll be counting stars
Janice: Oh, oh, oh. Take that money, watch it burn. Sink in the river, the lessons I learned.
Floyd & Janice: Take that money, watch it burn. Sink in the river, the lessons I learned.
Floyd, Janice & Clifford: Take that money, watch it burn. Sink in the river, the lessons I learned.
Both bands: Take that money, watch it burn. Sink in the river, the lessons I learned.
Dr. Teeth: Everything that kills me…makes me feel alive
Both bands: Lately I been, I been losing sleep, dreaming about the things that we could be. But baby, I been, I been prayin' hard. Said no more counting dollars, we'll be counting stars.
Dr. Teeth: Lately I been, I been losing sleep, dreaming about the things that we could be. But baby, I been, I been prayin' hard. Said no more counting dollars, we'll be, we'll be counting stars.
At that moment, Madame Groovy drove her truck into an alleyway next to the Muppet Theater, knocking over some garbage cans in the process. She, Walter and Zondra jumped out of the vehicle and ran inside, hoping to find someone to tell about Amber's plot to kill Zoot before it was too late.
Both bands: Take that money, watch it burn. Sink in the river, the lessons I learned.
Take that money, watch it burn. Sink in the river, the lessons I learned.
Take that money, watch it burn. Sink in the river, the lessons I learned.
Take that money, watch it burn. Sink in the river, the lessons I learned!
After the band had finished performing, they were greeted by loud applause from the audience. At that moment, Amber had made it to the backstage area where she got a side view of the band…and a clear view of Zoot. She smirked at the saxophonist, who was smiling at the audience, glad they liked the performance, and the girl muttered, "I hope you enjoy the applause, Zoot, because it's going to be your last."
The pink Muppet pulled the gun out of her purse and aimed it at Zoot, ready to pull the trigger, when Digit saw her out of the corner of his eye. He looked toward her and asked, "Amber, what are you doing he-?" But he stopped as soon as he saw the gun in her hand.
Amber looked up at the android, mortified that he had seen her.
"Why…why do you have a gun?" Digit asked the girl, wide-eyed. Then, he saw where the gun was aimed; directly at Zoot. "Oh no," Digit muttered, looking back at the Muppet.
In the canteen, Walter, Zondra, and Madame Groovy burst in, with Zondra shouting, "There's trouble!"
"Trouble? Where? And Madame Groovy, what are you doing here?" Kermit asked, surprised to see the musician back.
"Well, you see Kermit, Amber-," Madame Groovy started to explain until Walter screamed, "AMBER HAS A GUN!"
Then, there was a loud gunshot, which resulted in some yelps and small shrieks of fear.
"What was that?" Rizzo asked.
"DIGIT!" everyone heard Vicki scream.
Everyone looked at the monitors to see Digit had been shot in the shoulder it see, due to smoke emitting from a small hole on his shoulder, and he looked like his circuits were starting to spaz out!
"Oh no!" Kermit shouted.
Onstage, the musicians saw everything and were mortified. "Oh my god!" Clifford shouted, throwing off his bass and going over to Amber. "What the heck did you-?!" But Clifford didn't finish his statement, for Amber shot him in the side, causing him to fall to the ground and cry out in pain.
The audience screamed in terror and some even started to evacuate the theater!
"CLIFFORD!" Lips cried, about to run to his boyfriend, where Amber then aimed her gun at the trumpeter and pulled the trigger, but before the bullet had the chance to strike the blonde Muppet, Janice tackled him to the ground, saving him.
"Don't go to him! It's rully dangerous!" she told Lips, who just whimpered, "Clifford…don't die."
In the canteen, all the other Muppets were freaking out.
"What do we do?!" Annie Sue cried.
"We got to get out of here!" Scooter shouted.
"Yeah, or it's Meet the Feebles 1989 all over again for us!" Rizzo screamed.
"No! We can't go! Not without the others! If we leave them there, they'll die!" Kermit said, running out of the canteen and headed down to the stage.
"Kermie! Don't be a hero!" Piggy hollered to her love.
"Come on!" Walter shouted to his friends as he, Zondra, Madame Groovy, Fozzie, Gonzo, and several others followed the frog up to the stage.
"Oh what the hay," Miss Piggy muttered as she started to follow them too.
On stage, everyone was still freaking out about Digit and Clifford being shot.
"Oh man, this is not cool!" Floyd shouted, and tried to run off the stage to get help.
Seeing this, Amber aimed the gun at him and shot him in the back of his right knee, causing the bassist to fall to the ground and holler out in agony.
"FLOYD!" Janice screamed.
Upon seeing his friend in danger, Animal jumped off of his spot on the black pyramid and started to go over to him, shouting "Help Floyd! Help Floyd! Gotta help Floyd!"
Amber aimed her gun at the drummer and pulled the trigger. The bullet would have gotten Animal in the head if Dr. Teeth hadn't jumped down to the floor, grabbed his chain and quickly yanked him back, where the bullet flew just an inch past the Muppet's nose.
"Animal! Are you crazy?! She'll kill you!"
"Need to help Floyd!" Animal shouted in protest.
"Don't worry, man, it's not Floyd she's after. It's someone else…" Dr. Teeth told the drummer.
Amber then aimed her gun at Zoot, who was trembling with fear. "Any last words?" she asked the saxophonist.
Zoot stuttered a little, trying to think of something to say fast, when Amber said "I thought so; you were never much of a talker on camera." Then, grinning sinisterly, she pulled the trigger.
Zoot dropped his saxophone and just stood on the pyramid, thinking it was the end and he shut his eyes.
At that second, Kermit, Madame Groovy, Walter and Zondra had made it onstage before any of the other Muppets did, where Kermit shouted, "Amber, no!"
Then, Zoot heard a thump, the sound of tearing felt, and heard a grunt of pain. Zoot opened his eyes to see Dr. Teeth had gotten in front of him and had taken the bullet somewhere on his chest!
"See…I told you I wouldn't let you…get hurt," the Muppet told his lover, before suddenly collapsing to the ground!
Zoot stood over his boyfriend's fallen body in shock, stuttering, "D-D-D-D-D-D." Then, he fell to his knees and cried out, "DR. TEETH!"
Amber stood on the stage, with an expression of horror plastered on her face, seeing what she had done. She dropped her gun and cried, "I didn't mean to get him! I was trying to kill you but he got in the way, you jerk!"
Then, Zondra hit her in the back of the knee of the leg that was injured, making the pink Muppet cry out in pain and fall to the ground. "That's for shooting my friends, you little brat!" the punk Muppet hissed at the girl.
Fozzie, Gonzo, and Scooter started calling out into the audience, "Is there a doctor here?! Hello! Doctor! Paging Dr. somebody!"
At that moment, Clifford muttered to Flash, who was right near him, "Where's Lips? Is he okay? I heard him scream…"
Lips ran over to the Rastafarian and grabbed his hand. "I'm right here, man! Right here!" the trumpet exclaimed as tears dripped from his eyes.
Janice had run over to Floyd and had taken his hand into hers, crying too.
Animal had run over to his friend and was shouting his name over and over, while Floyd tried to calm both of them down, insisting that he was going to be fine, despite the fact the pain in his leg was bothering him badly.
Bunsen and Professor Madcliffe were starting to remove the bullet from a shutdown Digit and were in the process of repairing his shoulder while Beaker was holding back an extremely upset Vicki.
Madame Groovy went up the pyramid to see Dr. Teeth was laying on the floor, unmoving and Zoot crying. The female musician bit her lip and clenched her hands into fists, trying to hold back her tears, but it didn't work.
Before she knew it, she threw her head back and screamed at the top of her lungs, "JOHN!"
Oh no! Some Muppets got hurt! And Amber is definitely going to get in trouble next chapter!
Who else had witnessed the great attack on the Muppet Show?
Will Dr. Teeth survive the shot he took in the chest?
Will the other Muppets be alright too? Find out in the next chapter of Madame Groovy!
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