Disclaimer: I do not own Animaniacs or Naruto…if I did then Sasuke would have been MUCH less of a douche, Danzo would have died of incurable diarrhea, and Madara would be too senile to do anything. I'm back guys! Sorry for the long pause on this fic, but a mixture of writer's block, college work, and inability to find sources lead to having my ass kicked by life :P ANYWAYS! I'm back and thanks to everyone's excellent ideas I have new ideas! GAME START!
Maelstrom on the Lot
"Goodnight everybody!" –Talking/yelling
'I'm hungry!' –Thinking/thoughts
"Love ya babe!" –Narrator (show episodes only)
"HELLO NURSE" –Singing
"GO AWAY!" –Shouting
Chapter 9: Hooked on a Ceiling REMIX!
Last time on Maelstrom on the Lot; they just glared at the cat and said, "SHUT UP!" before storming out to try and follow Naruto and Dot. Rita chuckled and said, "Wonder how long it'll take them to realize they can all be with him?" she looked at the camera and smirked evilly, "cat has to have some fun, doesn't she?"
Now; Inside the Water Tower
After dragging Naruto around the lot several times to lose her competion, Dot had finally pulled him into her home. There, they found Yakko and Wakko standing around a big hot air balloon, trying to decide what to paint it. They listened for a moment while the brothers argued.
"I'm tellin' ya Wakko, we should paint a clown face on it," Yakko said to his little brother. "Just imagine it, people going about there every day, boring lives when suddenly…" he clapped his hands together loudly, "BAM! A clown in the sky!"
Wakko just shook his head, "I know you think it's funny Yakko, but you forgot one thing." He motioned for his brother to lean down, once he did Wakko let him have it. "I HATE CLOWNS!" Yakko's head vibrated quickly as his eardrums beat loudly. Watching from the side, Naruto held in a laugh at their antics while he moved over to their paint supplies.
Dot finally had enough arguing and jumped in between them, "Alright you numbskulls! That's enough of that." She then proceeded to literally zip their mouths shut. As they mumbled through their zipped mouths she said, "Today we have a tag along for our adventure." Seeing their questioning looks, well Yakko's questioning look (Wakko was just trying to eat his zipper), she pointed behind them, "I invited Naruto along."
The brother's turned to see their new fox friend standing next to a newly painted hot air balloon, a smirk on his face. Unzipping his mouth, Yakko spoke up. "Well, if it isn't our new friend," he grinned as he high-fived the fox, "so, she tell you where we're going?"
Naruto just smiled as he said, "she wanted it to be a surprise." He winked at the Warner sister, not noticing her float a few feet above the ground with hearts in her eyes. Yakko did though, but didn't say anything to his new friend (he thought it'd be funnier when he found out by himself).
Giving a giant grin, Yakko said, "well! Let's get going then, everybody load up!" what followed was a mad dash for shotgun, which Naruto won.
A few minutes later
From the top of the tower, four pairs of eyes peeked out. Looking around quickly, they dived back in as the top of their balloon began popping out. When it was all the way out the design was proudly displayed. On it was a big grinning fox face, its tongue hanging out the right side of its mouth. It was also holding up one clawed hand which was giving the peace sign.
Laughing at the shocked looks below, the Warners and their foxy friend set off on their first adventure. Their destination? Italy, the Renaissance period.
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(We come in on a map view of Italy, with a whiny narrator's voice talking over the visuals. Such visuals include the displays of famous art works and statues)
"The Italian renaissance, a glorious time of unprecedented achievements in the arts. And perhaps the year's greatest figure, was Michelangelo Buonarroti."
(A sewer lid pops off from bottom screen, followed by four turtles in brightly colored masks. As they take fighting stances a bubble with the Narrator appears while he talks in annoyance.)
"I'm afraid popular culture," he says as he glares at the surprised turtles, "has eradicated the true identities of the poets of art." He sadly shrugs to the camera. He reached into his bubble as he says, "in my opinion, this stinks!" he then slams a net around the turtles. One of which says, "Hey! Watch it dude!"
(He pulls them off-screen as he mumbles, "I shall deal with you later." He then turns back to the camera) "now for a brief reality check. Michelangelo was a brilliant artist! Not a turtle." (As he talks, pictures of Michelangelo's most favorite pieces are shown through slideshow) "His most famous works include the marble masterpiece of David, and of course the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel." (Zoom in upon the ceiling, so famous for its vibrancy and color…WHAT THE FREAK DID I JUST SAY?) "Yes this too was created by the tortured genius Michelangelo, but even THIS great artist needed help to carry out his vision." (Two things…one, *Punts the Narrator out of sight* OUT OF MY MIND, YOU'RE CONTAGIOUS! *chough* two, on with the good stuff!)
Zooming out from the chapel, two artists are forced outside by someone who is shouting. "OUT! OUT! You incompetent FOOLS!" the man is very large and muscular, blonde haired man. He is wearing a white toga and sandals on his feet. He continues, in a cheesy Italian accent, "You call yourselves artists?!" he slams a sign on the door, saying Painters wanted, as he walks back inside. "You just can't get good help these days."
We move into the building, following the big man inside. He marches up to three praying people, grabbing the middle one. "And you! How can I work with all you peasants kneeling and mumbling!"
The skinny man he picked up stutters out, "b-b-but Michelangelo this is a church." He's cut off by Michelangelo as he says, "Oh, that explains that infernal bell ringing!" sure enough, the chapel's bell is ringing loudly as the man walks away from the peasants.
Marching over to a door labeled Bell Tower, Michelangelo opens the door to find a hunchback shouting, "SANCTUARY! SANCTUARY!" Michelangelo growls as he cries out, "QUIET!" He slams the door on a confused hunchback before storming over to a ladder and climbing all the way up to the ridiculously high top.
Staring at the ceiling, he talks to himself, "I must be done with my great masterpiece by TONIGHT! Before his eminence arrives." He holds his head in aggravation as he continues, "But I fired all of my assistants! I'm alone! All alone!" he falls to his knees praying as he calls out, "oh Heavenly muse send me some HELP!"
Down below, a certain Warner's foot bangs the door open. This in turn, brings the entire structure upon which Michelangelo is on straight down. Covered in red paint, Michelangelo sees the Warners, who introduce themselves. "Here's Yakko and Wakko, and our sister Dot!"
They begin bouncing as music plays, pointing towards the camera as they sing.
If you need your ceiling painted, come to us!
We will paint it better than a guy named Gus
If it's flaking and it's peeling, we will renovate your ceiling
We will make it so appealing, come see us!
A spotlight shines on Naruto, who is laying on his back as he sings his part into a paint brush, which also makes Dot sigh dreamily.
Ceilings! Nothing more than ceilings!
The spot light goes out as Yakko talks, "Friends! We'll paint any ceiling for just 29.95!" He moves close to the camera as he says, "RIGHT! How do we do it?" He pulls back and shrugs, "no overhang. In fact we get through you'll have nothing overhead!" behind him, the ceiling falls down on Wakko as Yakko keeps the sales pitch up, "and if you hire us, you'll have nothing in your head!" he pulls down a chart and points to the words on it, "we paint ceilings, ceilings and only ceilings!."
Naruto pops up as he winks to the camera, "we don't paint floors because no one ever needs us." Michelangelo gets up out of the paint as he asks, "Who are you? What're you doing here?!" the paint is steaming off of him because of his anger. Unseen to him, Naruto is holding a marshmallow over his head as it cooks.
Yakko answers the fuming man, "We hear you had a ceiling that needs paint." Dot looks around, "nice bungalow, this your place?"
The windb- I mean *artist* says, "You fools I'm the great Michelangelo! And this is the Sistine Chapel!" Naruto peeks at the camera and whispers, "one could say this guy is full of hot air." (That's what I said!)
Yakko jumps on Michelangelo's chest and pokes him between the eyes, "Oh yeah? Well if you're so great what did you do with the other fifteen chapels!" he crosses his arms with a smirk, "Huh? Got you there." Michelangelo just growls and grabs the Warners, apparently forgetting out favorite fox for the moment.
"OUT! OUT! OUT! HOW DARE YOU!" he yells as he tries to throw them out, but ends up landing on his but with a confused "huh?" as the doors close.
Patting his hands, Yakko says, "well that takes care of the competition." Soon, the Brothers and Naruto are lined up for a race, rollers in hand. Dot jumps to the side and cries out, "GENTLEMEN! START YOUR ROLLERS!" beginning the race.
The three of them rush up the walls, getting ready to paint the ceiling. Yakko leans down to say, "You know a little touch up will do wonders for this place," before getting back in the race.
Outside, Michelangelo is banging the door (GOODNIGHT EVERYBOY *SMOOOOCH!*), and shouting. "LET ME IN! LET ME IN!" Yakko pops his head out, wearing green clothes, a green hat, and a fake beard. "Nobody gets in to see the wizard! Not nobody, not no how!" he says. The body builder wannabe says, "But I'm Michelangelo!"
Yakko blinks at that before gasping, "the witch's Michelangelo?! We-he-he-ell, now that's a ceiling of a different color!" he slams his mini-door close and the whole door slowly opens to a pitch black room, Michelangelo being silhouetted by the sunlight.
He marches in and looks up, screaming, "WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO MY BEAUTIFUL CEILING?!" The ceiling is now two colors, half white and half-orange. Yakko looks down at the muscle-for-brains and asks, "You like it? I tell you, we had a heck of a time covering up those naked people." He looks over to the orange side, where Dot and Naruto are painting, "hey, what's with the orange?"
Naruto just looks at him with an are-you-serious look, "why? BECAUSE ORANGE ROCKS, DATTEBAYO!" Dot giggles at his confidence in orange being the best color, while also thinking, 'Maybe an orange dress? That's sure to get his attention.'
The four converge near Michelangelo as he shouts, "you FOOLS! You've ruined it!" he flails his arms around as he says, "it's supposed to have pictures!"
Wakko smiles, "Pictures? He wants pictures!" Yakko throws an arm around him as he says, "hey don't worry mike, our mistake!" he leans in to whisper to the artist, "this hasn't happened to us since that Venus di Milo arms fiasco" this just makes Michelangelo's jaw drop to the floor in shock.
Dot grabs Mike by the hand and walks him away, "say, why don't you go paint that moaning Lisa Leonardo." Mike snatches his hand away and says, "That's Da Vinci!"
Dot smiles, "that's de-lightful." Yakko smirks as he leans on Mike, "that's de-lovely, but we gotta ceiling to paint." Yakko begins to drag a sputtering Michelangelo aside, before Dot and Naruto slap a mound of wallpaper into the artist's hand. "Here, just pick out what kind of wallpaper you like and relax, we'll take care of everything."
"Yeah, when it comes to ceilings we're the tops!" says an upside down Wakko. Soon, everyone is piling home improvement parts into Michelangelo's hands, creating a giant stack of items. Yakko leads Mike outside and slams the door after saying, "Oh, by the way, nice toga"
Outside, Mike is going through everything the Warners and Naruto gave him. "Let's see now, this lovely floral pattern might be just-Hey wait a minute!" he growls as he throws everything away, "I'll show those idiots to fool with the great Michelangelo!" He barges into the building, but cries out in horror, "no, No, NO!" He looks around, seeing painting after painting on the ceilings, but none of them are right! He breaks down crying (strong willed, isn't he?), "I'm ruined! RUINED!"
Dot sighs, "I knew it! He prefers the young Elvis." Mike growls, "it's supposed to look like this!" he pulls out a smaller scaled version of the original painting. Dot fakes a gasp, "oh! More naked people!" Yakko sighs next to them, "I wouldn't go flashing that around if I were you Mike." He then whispers, "This is a church," before taking the paper version and crumbling it up and throwing it away.
A hysterical Michelangelo grabs Yakko and says, "but his eminence is coming tonight and I must be finished!" he starts begging, "Please! You gotta help me!" the four stand in front of Mike, giving fake glares, as Yakko says, "wait a minute, you expect us poor innocent children to climb up scaffolding and paint naked people all over a church!" there was a brief pause before they all got in Mike's face, grinning ear-to-ear and cheering, "WE'LL DO IT!"
Yakko stands at a podium, his brother and sister playing kazoos as Naruto dressed up like secret service. "But we're not doing it for the sake of art, and we're not doing it for the sake of money. No, we're doing it because…" they all smile together as Yakko finishes, "we like painting naked people!"
We are then witnessed to a montage of cleaning by Yakko, sketching by Wakko, numbering by Dot, and quick painting by Naruto. Until the last bit of paint is done, and the ceiling is finished, with a sliding view of the entire thing. That is until we come to a big blank space. Michelangelo is agitated, "I still don't know what to paint in this blank space! And his eminence will be here any minute!"
Almost immediately after, a friar pops in to announce the arrival of his eminence, followed by the awed voices of several people outside. A red carpet rolls in, and Yakko sends Michelangelo along to greet his eminence while our four heroes finish up. When Michelangelo looks he cries out, "AH! I'm ruined!" There in the blank spot is a painting of E.T and a human boy, their fingers touching. His eminence just says, "I like it!"
Back on the Lot
The group of four returned home later that night, happy and exhausted. Going their separate ways, Naruto walked home by himself. Once he got there he found Rita watching TV and waiting for him. She smiled, "enjoy your day?" Naruto just smiles, "Yeah, it was fun. I'll have to go out with them more often." He yawns loudly and walks down the hall, "but right now I need some sleep, night Rita."
Once he was in his bed with the door closed, Rita allowed a smirk to come to her face. "The boy is dense with a capital D, I can't wait until he figures out that was an attempt at a subtle date." She snickered to herself before heading to bed herself, thinking a single thought before falling asleep, 'who needs a soap opera? I can just watch his life.'
Chapter 9 END
