Author's Comments: The reviewers are right, I shouldn't give up. This chapter is part 1 of Lenny/Miss Mucus. Long chapter, wow! After taking time on what I can do, I found out how to do this. And to also tell yall, I was about to put a storyline truth between Lenny & Miss Mucus, but I found it too devastating and would probably ruin this story. So I decided to think of something else. Next chapter, I will go back to what the squirrel scouts, beans scouts, Lazlo, and Patsy are doing. I will put part 2 later.
Chapter 13 – Sympathetically, BustedLenny was walking, heading toward the den, after a bit of bad moments he had earlier.
"Stupid narrators… stupid stairs… stupid wet floor… stupid spilled coffee beans…" Lenny was talking to himself, obviously mad at the moment; blaming about everything that he had made a mistake on for today. He was carrying a different can of coffee beans since the other ones wasn't any useful then from getting spilled.
Lenny went past the entrance and entered the den. He went to the cabinet for first-aid, and to make some more coffee. Meanwhile while that was happening, someone was sitting at the large couch with a lard blanket covered. It was none other than the warthog herself, Miss Rubella Mucus. The big screen TV was on, but yet she wasn't paying any attention. She just sat there, with an angry look, not moving a muscle.
On the contrary she barely can walk as of now because the crash, occurring a couple nights ago, did too much damage to her legs where her muscle was tight and weakened from her barely being able to move them around. What this is was that she's paralyzed, temporally though. Also, beside her were crutches and a wheel chair (Her choice). But she barely moves around. Lenny on the other hand just got done putting alcohol patch on his scratches. And now he was pouring now the cooked up coffee beans in the yin-yang cup. Afterwards, he went to go sit down on the couch beside Rubella Mucus.
"Rubella Mucus…" Lenny lightly chuckled sitting down, and giving the warthog's attention, which she was looking at him cross-eyed. He just shook his head slowly with a small devious smirk on his face.
"Why did I save your life back there…?" Lenny asked. Miss Mucus didn't answer, yet she just kept staring at him with an angry look; the same look she always gives to anybody. On the contrary, she really hasn't even talked for days.
"I mean I don't get it… I saved SOMEBODY and at least helping SOMEBODY, who's that SOMEBODY turns out to be my enemy, because that SOMEBODY from years ago obviously hates me," said Lenny, slowly shaking his head. And then he makes like some sort of fake laugh, something that is vexing him.
"Why am I all of the sudden doing these things for you?" he asked, "It doesn't make any sense…"
Lenny turns his head from looking at her and sits back on the sofa; he crosses his arms. "I mean look at this… you took something away from that means so much to me; as much as what it means to you of what you are now," said Lenny, sighing. "So congratulations Rubella… you ruined my hopes and dreams… something that I wanted a long time ago…"
Miss Mucus on the other hand just rolled her eyes, seeming careless, and looks down. "BUT," Lenny catches her attention again, "I got something though. Something you will NOT believe."
Lenny then pulls out the tape and shows it to her and says, "This." Miss Mucus just glared at it, raising an eyebrow, and then frowns back at Lenny.
Lenny got up off the sofa and walked up to the big screen TV. On the contrary, the Den is the safest thing to clear out above water, because it's in preparation and smart to know that it has protections when it detects water. Lenny opened the entertainment center case and then there was a DVD/VCR Video machine. Afterwards, he inserted the tape in there.
Then the big screen TV turns to static, getting started to play the tape. Afterwards, the TV, from the tape, shows a video of the Japanese Swordsman. "So you remember this?" asked Lenny. Miss Mucus doesn't answer, but just watches; she thinks about on what the wolf was up to.
"Oh, no? Don't remember? Then how about this?" asked Lenny, making a devilish smirk. He fast-forwards the video to the end of the credits and then stops. Yet the screen was on static again and then it perfectly clears showing a video of what Miss Mucus was a bit surprised. She was seeing herself as a younger warthog at the time when she finally got her scoutmaster's assistant degree in college.
She was walking with a light-pink poodle with purple hair, and a camera girl, which she is a gold cat.
"Wow Rubella, looks you're going to be a scoutmaster's assistant now right?" asked the purple-headed poodle, which was walking by her on the video.
"Yeah, yeah," said Rubella Mucus obliviously, swinging her wrist carelessly.
"Hey Rubella, I heard what you did to Lenny," said the cat, sounding girly and graceful (A bit similar to Jane Doe).
"That wolf?" asked Rubella, "Yeah I got rid of that blue freak once and for all."
"What things did you do to him?" asked the pink poodle.
"Well if you must know, do you remember when he got jumped in the cafeteria?" asked Rubella. "Yeah" the dog replied.
"Well, I'm the one that set that up for him." Rubella smirked deviously. But the pink poodle just stared at her. "You did that?" asked the cat.
"Duh." Rubella rejoined. "Also, I got him to fail his tests many times. I got him disqualified on the so-called 'Games'. And last but not least, I was the one who set that tape up when he was showing the kids that crazy movie that my crazy uncle gave me a long time ago. I didn't care about the movie… because it wasn't good enough. And the video you're taping, is recording over it… you DID rewind it, did you?"
"Um-mm-oh-uh- Y-Yeah I did…hehe…" said the nervous cat, sounding not so sure.
"Rubella… that seemed a bit – you know – mean…" said the pink poodle, "Why did you do those things to him?"
"That's none of your concern!" said Rubella, shutting the poodle up.
Then the gold cat starts giggling. "Hey rubella," the cat began in a low loving tone, "I heard that you liked Lenny."
Then Rubella stops her own tracks with her eyes opened wide. Then Rubella frowns onto an angry look, for what the cat just said to her, even the word 'Lenny' to be put to her together.
"Huh… WHY YOU!" Then Rubella winds her fist and swings it to the camera. Then the camera was punched, as the video turns completely into static on TV.
Now that Rubella saw that, she was completely shocked. It was like a person beaten to his or her own game of checkers. Rubella also couldn't help to close her mouth, since she was still shocked on what Lenny had.
"Mm-m-m," Lenny uttered. "It's such a shame… you know that don't you?"
Lenny then stands all the way straight. He walked over back to the empty seat of the couch, with quiet footsteps. Miss Mucus on the other hand was still shocked on what he had, but she manages to close her mouth, but no effort of closing her wide eyes.
"Do you know what can really happen to me and you…? Well mostly you." Lenny points to her. "It's been 18 years of being restrained to participate the stuff of what you can do. And if I were to show this in court… Hehe I don't know… hmm like what was that?" Lenny sarcastically thinks, with a devious smirk on his face.
"Oh that's right! Maybe remove you from your duties… or probably spend the rest of your useless life in prison." Lenny said, making Miss Mucus lightly jump in distress at part times of someone being speechless and so don't have anything to say at the moment. Then Lenny drops his happy face, to a serious look.
"Well that's what happens Rubella… making me loose something that I wanted as much as you, in my life… a life that doesn't make any concerns to a warthog by the name 'Rubella Mucus'." Lenny points to her. "You may have tortured me then when we were younger. You may have gotten me in trouble from some video shown to kids. And you may have gotten me to where I did something to you where I was put in jail. But it's ok. I still got this."
Lenny points down to the floor, as a reference to pointing at his own cruising ship. "And this tape here," Lenny holds it up, showing her the tape, "This will change everything… But I'm a go now and keep searching for everybody else, while you just sit here and think."
Lenny gets up out of the couch, leaving Miss Mucus there. Her face didn't look shock anymore; but angry she looks that is. Lenny was about to exit out the door until he heard, "You…"
Lenny paused for a second and then turns back around looking at Miss Mucus. "I don't like you Lenny, I don't like you one bit," said Miss Mucus, in a deep tone of her voice. Lenny sucks his teeth and rolls his eyes. "Oh so you saying that you can talk all of the sudden, after not saying a word for a couple days!?" Lenny questioned; a bit angrily.
"There is NO reason for me to talk to the delights of you, Lenny," said Miss Mucus, "And I guess you really proud of yourself about that aren't you? And I bet feel like you a true hero traveling around the world with a fancy ship. And then be on world history about it, and be really rich over it. Wouldn't you?" asked Miss Mucus, glaring at him.
"What… Do I look like a ghetto Charles Lindbergh, to you?" asked Lenny, pointing to himself with his thumb. "Nope! Just a plain scurvy mutt," Miss Mucus answered back, making Lenny growl. "Jeeze! Thanks a lot Rubella. And I saved your life a couple of days ago and I tried being as nice as I can then and you still didn't even show any appreciation by throwing every nice thing I did back in my face." Lenny said, glaring at her.
"I could careless for what you do, blue boy," said Miss Mucus, "You the one that put us in danger."
"Yeah and I tried to fix that problem until you came along and ruined it!" exclaimed Lenny, as he immediately points his finger at her. "You think rowing to danger would save us? It looked pretty much like you was wanting to kill us, to me." Miss Mucus replied.
"For your info Rubella, I was going to the light. Another thing is I was trying to break the curse," said Lenny.
"Whatever Lenny," Miss Mucus rejoined, "And I should snatch all that blue fur off of ya, for hitting me with that stirring wheel."
Lenny lifts his head up. "Well you slapped me!"
"You called me a sour bacon!"
"Don't make sense that you should hit me because of that."
"And you called me a rusty old toenail eating freak!"
"What? You called me a twisted manic! And you grabbed my shirt, looking for a fight!"
"Because you yelled at one of my squirrel scouts, am I right?"
"What happen between me and that wild alligator doesn't concern you. And I tried to tell you I was sorry for tripping and bumping to you and you just went…" Lenny quickly grabs a cushion and place it under his shirt to make himself look fat and grabs two white candlesticks & places it on the side of his lips like horns, mimicking Miss Mucus, "I don't want to hear any of your excuse Lenny. You better stay away if you know what's good for you."
Miss Mucus frowns deeper at Lenny's insult, for mimicking her reaction and her voice. "Well I'm right about it, you don't know who you're messing with. And what you doing just makes you hate you even more!"
"Why trying to make any difference of how much you hate me now? You hated me at school! Even when I first introduce myself to you, you just growled at me," said Lenny frowning, at the same time the cushion slowly slides out of his shirt and the candlesticks falling out of his lips.
"That's right, and I'll always will Lenny, just like how much I hate and despise bean scouts," said Miss Mucus.
"Well what would you expect me to do? Make an embarrassing entrance on my first day, by walking around in bunny pajamas with hearts on it and have my back marked that I'm mentally retarded and act like I'm partying like a rock star that never made it on the first tryout? Is that what you expect me to do?" asked Lenny, folding his arms again.
"Try getting hit by a tanker, and then I would be satisfied." Miss Mucus said, smirking at him devious. "You're so cruel Rubella, you know that? Why hating me and why hating the bean scouts? Matter of fact; try the world. Why you hate that?"
Miss Mucus doesn't answer, but just glares at him.
"And I thought that every time you took my cheese off of my tray in lunch, WOULD make you at least happy for me," said Lenny, raising an eyebrow. Miss Mucus on the other hand, just stared at Lenny confusingly and doesn't say anything.
One minute later…
"…You think cheese would actually impress me?" asked Miss Mucus, staring at him conspicuously.
"We've waited one minute, for that question?" Lenny asked to himself. Then he places one of his fingers on his chin, while resting his elbow on his other hand. "Hmm… Not unless it's cheddar, right?"
Miss Mucus quickly sits back on the seat of the couch, sighing annoyingly.
"No? Just plain cheesecake?" asked Lenny, sounding curious at this moment and standing straight.
Miss Mucus frowns deeper and stares in a cross-eyed look, annoyed at this. "Wolfs… pathetic."
"Whatever Rubella," said Lenny.
"Well it served you right going to jail for throwing a chair at me!" exclaimed Miss Mucus.
"WHAT!? You the one that got me in trouble with that video in the first place!" Lenny exclaimed back.
"DUH!" Miss Mucus rejoined, causing Lenny to growl at her. Lenny immediately walked in front of her, looking at the angry warthog in the eye.
"Alright! I'm getting real tired of this! WHY do you hate me Rubella!?" Lenny questioned.
"Get out of my face Lenny!" Miss Mucus shrieked pushing him out of the way, which he tripped on one step ahead of them toward the TV. "I don't like it when people are up close to me like that. Especially wolfs."
Lenny only sat up after falling. "But why? Why do you hate me more than you could hate anybody else? Why you did those things to me!?"
"Like you don't know!" Miss Mucus responded.
"Like I don't know? What the heck are you talking about?" Lenny asked sounding a bit more frustrated. Miss Mucus folds her arms rolling her eyes and looking away.
"Hey I ask you a question you fat freak! I said why, and what are you talking about!?" Lenny asked, sounding impatient at this.
"You blue dirty mutt! I told you that you should already know why!" Miss Mucus hisses through her teeth with a snort. Lenny just glared at her, obviously getting tired of her not telling him. So he just sighed shaking his head, with an irritated sarcastic laugh.
"Forget it…" Lenny said to himself. "You know what? I'll just do that. I'm a just think whatever I did that made you like this," he continues, crooking his two fingers from both of his hands, "And I'm a keep searching for everybody else, so I'm outta here."
Afterwards, Lenny gets up and then picks up his cup full of coffee that he sat on a stool (The time before he inserted the tape in the VCR). But when he took a walk heading out, he kicks his foot on a step and immediately trips.
"AHH-OW!"
As soon as Lenny fell face first, the cup full coffee flies up and then lands on the ground, as the cup shatters into piece along with the coffee lying messy on the floor. Lenny lifts his head up, looking a little shock because of his once again another clumsiness and the shattered mess and coffee spilled on the hard carpet.
"Hahahahahahahaha!" Miss Mucus laughed. This yet caused Lenny to stare at her with an annoying look almost reminding him like the time when they were in college.
"Hahaha very funny… that was a special yin-yang cup," said Lenny in a low and vexing tone. Then a second later, while Miss Mucus laughs at his tripping, Lenny opens his eyes with a blink and then turns his shock look into a warm smirk. Then he looks over to the laughing warthog.
"Oh yeah you really think it's really funny, huh?" Lenny asked, with the same look on his face.
"Haha, and I thought bean scouts are partially dumb to trip over everything, but you on the other hand, it's funnier," said Miss Mucus, with a devilish smile on her face. Next, Lenny gets up brushing the dust off of his white shirt and pants.
"Well whatever you say… piggy," said Lenny, causing Miss Mucus to stop laughing with a snort. After she was opened with a shock look, she turns her face into a really mean look at Lenny.
"What, did you call me?" Miss Mucus hiss through her teeth, sounding really mad.
"What? Piggy?" Lenny asked, looking back with a smile. This caused Miss Mucus to growl at him.
"If you called me that again…"
"Piggy." Lenny said again, chuckling. Miss Mucus shrieked and grabbed one of the crutches that was sat beside her, and throws it at him, since she's still a bit paralyzed and doesn't have much the strength to get up and walk again, yet. Lenny moves out of the way, almost getting hit. The flying crutches hits on the corner side of the wall of the den. Lenny laughed more at her attempt doing that.
"Jeeze calm down… piggy," said Lenny, insulting the word 'piggy' to her again, as he laughed once more, obviously enjoying this making Miss Mucus mad. Miss Mucus on the other hand, throws another crutch at him, making Lenny duck this time. The crutch this time flew out the window.
"Come on piggy, you could seriously hurt somebody doing that," said Lenny, innocently sarcastic.
"Yeah that's exactly what I'm trying to DO TO YOU!!" Miss Mucus exclaimed, looking around her to find something else to throw at him.
"Ok, ok, I'll leave you alone. I'm a just go back out there without any coffee and continue looking for everybody," said Lenny, pointing out to the door, with a chuckle.
"I'm sorry that your mother called you a p-"
"JUST GET OUT!!" Miss Mucus yelled, making the room to shake, and almost making items and objects almost collapse. Lenny had a surprise look at this.
"Wow… sorrrry," said Lenny, stretching the word 'sorry'. But he yet smiled and then waves at her. "Ok… see ya piggy."
Lenny immediately runs out to make sure she doesn't throw anything. But Miss Mucus only growled at the blue wolf at the same time he done so. Miss Mucus still stares at the door, that Lenny left out of, with an angry look and then sit back on her seat, crossing her arms. Then again, she makes a small annoying sharp growl.
"I'm going to kill that wolf, if it's the last thing I do."