Chapter Thirteen
(Hey, y'all!
Interesting fact:
Charles Fleischer, the actor who played Roger Rabbit, would wear a Roger Rabbit costume whenever he had to do a scene with the other actors in the live-action set. He claimed that it helped him stay in character and it even helped Bob Hoskins keep track of his lines.
That's all!
Enjoy the story and life as it goes!
-imaginarytoon1)
Beatrice:
I immediately closed the journal because my heart was beating really fast. I had no idea what to expect.
Relax, Beatrice. I thought. Just relax. Let's hope that the whole destiny thing isn't really too big of a deal.
I took a deep breath and opened the journal.
The words written on the pages were kind of bunched together and a few minutes later, I was hooked into what Dad wrote in the journal:
"Dear Beatrice and Thomas (Tommy),
This is something that I wrote down and share with you two once you get a little older. I wrote everything about this particular topic because I was afraid that I was going to forget as you grow up. This topic is about your destinies that are waiting in your future and Scarlett (your mother) is trying her very best to not think about them.
Here's how this whole destiny begins…with details:
When Scarlett and I were thirteen, we met each other in a bookstore somewhere in Houston for the first time. Before Scarlett was your mother who had a tendency to zone out in some situations, she was a person who was laid back and always had a smile on her face…"
…..
Tommy:
"So Beatrice is at this place that's an hour away from here?" Sleazy asked me (after I told him that 'Birchwood' is our last name).
"Yeah but our grandfather's…probably an hour and a half away if we walked the whole way." I replied.
"Really?" Smarty asked in an irritated and shocking matter.
"Really, really." I replied to Smarty. "We can't drive to our grandfather's place because, thanks to this note that I finally noticed just a few minutes ago, my truck is getting repaired and Beatrice's truck is also not available due to a broken window. So we are going to walk to our grandfather's house."
Then, I noticed that Psycho wasn't present in the living room.
"Where did Psycho go?" I asked.
Smarty groaned and we all began to look for Psycho.
…..
Beatrice:
"After our second date on June of 1988, when we were nineteen, Scarlett and I decided to have another date a few weeks later. The third date was when Who Framed Roger Rabbit came out.
I thought that the movie was really good but Scarlett was a little freaked out by Judge Doom (Once you're old enough to use the computer, you'll know who he is after looking him up.).
When the movie was over, Scarlett and I went to a Chinese restaurant that was at least five blocks away from the movie theater. After our meals were put in to-go boxes, an employee came up to us and gave us six fortune cookies…even though it was just me and Scarlett…"
…
Tommy:
"Why can't we take the bus or 'sumptin' '?" Smarty groaned as he looked under the couch to see if Psycho was hiding under there.
Sounding like Beatrice, I said,
"You keep forgetting that Beatrice and I are probably the only ones who can see, hear, and talk to you and other Toons. If we took the bus and if you were talking to me, then the other people on the bus would look at me funny. I don't want that to happen."
"Thomas has good point there." Wheezy said and blew out a cloud of smoke.
Then, I heard a high, squeaky voice humming and somebody…or something…bumping into the wall. I turned around and I saw Psycho.
"Where were you?" Smarty asked and tapped his foot on the carpet.
"Hee, hee!" Psycho giggled. "In Pretty Girly's bedroom! Hee, hee, hee, hee…hee, hee!"
"Psycho, no es agradable para pasear en la habitación de una niña, sobre todo si la chica es la muchacha." Greasy said.
He said that it wasn't nice to wander around in a girl's room, especially if it was…Beatrice's room ('Muchacha' is probably Beatrice's nickname that Greasy gave her.).
"Are all of you ready to go?" I asked.
"Yeah, we're ready." Flasher replied.
…
Beatrice:
"…Scarlett was really nervous about opening the fortune cookies after we arrived in her apartment but I convinced her that nothing bad was going to happen and everything was going to be all right.
This is where it really begins and when our lives began to change.
From all six fortune cookies, Scarlett and I were given these strange messages that were the most strangest and insane things that we have ever heard. I taped them right underneath this paragraph. Don't ask how I manage to keep those little slips of paper in good condition:
'Your offspring are the key to stop conflicts',
'A great threat lies in the future of your family',
'Anger and fear revives your dangerous enemies',
'Your offspring will be exhumers of forgotten things',
'There is a hidden destiny in your offspring's future',
…and last of all,
'Underdogs are the greatest heroes '.
Scarlett and I were really shocked to hear those things. We were freshmen in college and someone who wrote those fortune cookies is talking about Scarlett and me starting a family. Of course, Scarlett didn't believe anything on what those fortunes say because just you read something from a fortune cookie; it doesn't mean that something is going to happen…"
…..
Tommy:
So far, the Toon Patrol and I have walked for only fifteen minutes and Smarty is already beginning to complain about not bringing the Toon Patrol car with him.
Seriously, nobody in 2012 drives a paddy-wagon anymore. I thought.
"Thomas, how does your sister know a lot of big words and say things that are usually said by adults?" Wheezy asked.
"Beatrice reads a lot of books and kind of watches too many movies." I replied. "She's pretty quick to picking up some things."
"Even 'farin' languages?" Smarty asked.
"Uh, Beatrice is quick on speaking and translating the German language but she has a hard time with other languages."
"She speaks German?" Slimy asked.
"Yes and she's really good at it, too." I replied.
…
Beatrice:
"…Three weeks after the third date, the power of the fortune cookies began to take their effects.
When Scarlett's father died, he left her with enough money for us to have a wedding and to find a place to live. After our marriage, Scarlett and I left college and we found a nice place with a big backyard with a tree.
As the time passed, Scarlett told herself that there is no destiny for her children (you two).
On 1994, Scarlett finds out that she's pregnant.
Although that I was frightened by the fortunes of the fortune cookies, I was actually happy to hear that we're about start a family.
Scarlett still tells herself, me, too, that we would live long, happy, and NORMAL lives…"
…
Tommy:
When Greasy was about to ask me another question about Beatrice, a man (who looked like Judge Doom) in a black suit (with a green belt and turban) riding on a bicycle came up to me and the Toon Patrol, even though he wasn't one of those people who can see Toons.
"Is it all right if I can ask you a couple of questions, boy?" He asked.
"Judge?" Smarty gasped. "Is that you?"
I ignored him and I said to the Judge Doom-look-alike,
"I don't mind if you ask, sir."
"My name is Diomedes and I run the Houston Juvenile Institute. Three of my patients escaped and one of them goes by the name 'Beatrice'. Have you seen running around this area?" He asked.
…..
Beatrice:
"…A few months later, Scarlett said that she'll be delivering a boy and I thought of having a daughter as an additional part of the family. Before we went to the hospital, Scarlett said that I have to give her ten dollars if she was right.
To my surprise and to Scarlett's horror, the doctor revealed that not only a boy (Tommy) was going to come in to the world…but a girl (Beatrice) is coming along, too.
I was happy to hear that I was going to have a daughter but Scarlett was upset about that. She never told me why she was mad and I don't think that I will ever know…"
…
Tommy:
After Diomedes rode away from me and the Toon Patrol, I let out a huge sigh of relief as we went back to our walking.
"That was really close." I said.
"Why did you tell that man to go look for Pretty Girly in every library in the city area?" Psycho asked.
"If I told Diomedes where Beatrice really is, then he will take her to the asylum. I don't want Beatrice to go there. It's not her place to go."
"I can tell that you're really close to your sister." Sleazy said.
"And when are we going to find a better way to go to your 'rind-farmer's' house?" Smarty asked.
"Walking is the only way, Smarty." I said. "Plus, I don't have enough money to buy us bus tickets."
Then, pretty much after that, no one says a single word.
Yes…we stopped…just like that.
…
Beatrice:
"…On July 23, 1995, Scarlett and I were walking down the park when Scarlett told me that she doesn't want you two to fulfill your destinies and the whole hidden destiny in the future is a really big mistake. She walked away from me and I began to explain to her that the future and destinies are inevitable.
But the conversation came too late.
A bus came out of nowhere and it speeded towards your mother. She got hit by the bus and she was unconscious when the bus stopped.
Your mother was rushed to the hospital and I found out that after getting hit by the bus, three ribs from your mother's chest were broken.
A few minutes later, Scarlett had to give birth prematurely.
I watched the nurses carry you two away to another room where you were immediately getting medical help.
When I saw you two, you were really skinny and were about the size of a tennis shoe in a size six or seven. I was horrified to see you two getting hooked up to those machines and struggle to come to life…"
…..
Tommy:
After walking for twenty more minutes, the Toon Patrol and I walked into a trail with a thick layer of trees.
As we walked, I was slowly getting confused. Since I haven't been to Grandpa Fauntleroy's house in a while, I'm not even sure if we're going the right way.
"Thomas, I think we're lost." Slimy said.
"I'm actually confused." I replied. "I haven't been down this trail in a while and I'm not even sure if we're going down in the right direction. Let's stop right over there and I'll try to think about our route."
We walked to a bench and a rock that was big enough for two people sit on and we all took our spots. Along with Greasy, Stupid, and Sleazy, I sat on the bench. Psycho and Smarty were sitting on the rock while Flasher and Slimy sat down on the ground.
"I know that when we leave the forest area, we have to walk through a trail in a field of grass. Either my mind is blanking out or I'm getting my directions mixed up." I said.
I put my hand on my forehead and I began to think.
Which way to go? Which way to go? Which way to go? I thought. How much longer will the trail continue to go on?
"I'm Henry the Eighth, I am,
Henry the Eighth, I am, I am." I heard Psycho sing.
The other weasels and I look at Psycho as he continues to sing and begins to dance.
"I got married to a widow next door,
She's been married seven…times before."
"What the heck is Psycho singing?!" Flasher exclaimed as Psycho continued to sing and dance.
"A really catchy song called Henry the Eighth. It's a really random song and I can't really describe it as anything else." I replied.
"SECOND VERSE…SAME AS THE FIRST!" Psycho exclaimed and clapped his hands.
Seriously, what is up with weasels and music? I thought.
…
Beatrice:
"…When night came, Yen Sid, a Toon wizard, came by to tell me that he gave you two some stuff called 'T-324'. It's a substance that's rarely used on humans and it gives them some of the qualities that makes a Toon…a Toon, like super speed, endurance, quick reaction to things, have the ability to mix up real life physics with Toon physics, unusual flexibility, and Toon strength. Yen Sid also told me that the 324 helped improve your health conditions but you two remained as really skinny babies.
After he told me that, Yen Sid began to talk about your destinies. Since your mother was deeply scared of Judge Doom, her fear brought him back to life and Doom planned to take over our world and destroy a portal that leads you to a dimension where Toons and humans coexist. Doom also plans to exterminate all Toons after he gets rid of some humans.
When Yen Sid was done explaining, he gave you two the gifts of being really intelligent, kindness, independence, determination, and observation. Before he left, Yen Sid told me to make sure that you two fulfill your destinies or bad things would happen…."
That was the end of the journal.