In the teacher's lounge, Dean Dennis was going over some mail when he came across a play that was supposed to be sent to the Dramatic Lotus Theater Company in Kansas City, Missouri. The addresses were a little similar, but the cities were mixed up.
Mountains of the Orangutan
After five minutes of reading the script, Dean Dennis got repulsed and gave it to Ms. Benjamin while she was grading homework. "Here, Kiki," groaned Dean Dennis. "You're the only teacher here who's too random to handle this script."
Reading the script within thirty seconds, Ms. Benjamin decided to make the play a reality.
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After school, Ms. Benjamin told the story of Mountains of the Orangutan via shadow puppetry to the ACS. Everyone applauded for the performance.
"That's cute and all," said Danna, "but how did you add those extra puppets?"
Behind the puppet theater, a funny-looking dodo bird popped up and shook their hands like crazy. "Go-Go Dodo from 'Tiny Toon Adventures'?" asked Presley Beth. "I remember watching your show from Papa Willie's videos."
"He and Papa Darwin kept a VHS player to keep the spirit of videos alive," Julianna explained.
"Cuckoo! Cuckoo!"shouted Go-Go. "We can't forget the '90s. Ms. Benjamin is right about you guys being appreciative of a crazy teacher."
"I just came out of Wackyland from 'Looney Tunes'," Ms. Benjamin explained. "Only those with the cuckooness of Go-Go can make it through."
"You've always had the cuckooness of Go-Go," admitted Julianna. After explaining to the girls that she wanted to put on the play to make a writer's dream come true, they decided to do it.
"We're going to need some faculty advisors," suggested Carla. "Not just Ms. Benjamin; she's too random. Mr. Janson is always too old-school and is too serious for the performance."
"Mates," Harley replied, "only two faculties we know besides Ms. Benjamin are capable of handling this."
XxoxX
Later that evening, they were setting up the play in the auditorium while Coach Howland and Nurse Millward were helping out. Coach Howland was rehearsing some dance moves while Nurse Millward was doing a costume test for the girls. As she was testing out her costume, Saatvika saw a picture of Mrs. Millward from a student performance in the late '70s. "Nurse Millward," she asked the school nurse, "isn't that your mom as a teenager?"
Nurse Millward nodded her head. "My mom was the first person in the CKH history to live in Kansas City too," she explained. "In fact, I was also a student here. Due to the fact there isn't any closet space at the Hodge Podge Lodge, Mom and Dad decided that I should stay at the CKH." She could remember being part of the drama department of the CKH and being captain of the cheer squad at the time. She also could recall of the Hodge Podge Lodge letting homeless children attend school there until they or their parents could get a job and pay off a mortgage.
"Aren't the homeless children in the E and F boarding wings?" Harley asked. "'Cause I remember them going to the city's thrift stores all the times."
"That's them, alright," replied Nurse Millward. "I supervise them most of the time so none of them could get hurt."
"Yeah," replied Harley. "I remember Uncle Allen telling me that he joins them once every three months to make sure he can see how well their doing."
XxoxX
Over the past three days, they rehearsed the play, worked on vocals, and did a costume check.
XxoxX
On the night of the play, everyone was arriving like crazy. Coach Howland had a feeling that Ms. Benjamin had something to do with it, so he went up to her. "How did you get the students to come?" whispered Coach Howland.
"I told them that they can get free pudding if they come," whispered Ms. Benjamin. "Lactose-free, sugar-free, and regular."
"Tips from the nurse," whispered Ms. Benjamin. "Now I'm going to check on it." In the janitor's closet, she spotted Go-Go making a giant pudding bowl out of a janitor's mold holder and stirring it with a mop, "Go-Go," she whispered, "how's the pudding coming along?"
"The Random Pudding is going perfectly," whispered Go-Go. "Plus, my clones are going to be the roadies for the show."
Turning her head, Ms. Benjamin could see Vada and Saatvika looking confused and curious. "What is Random Pudding?" asked Vada.
"Random Pudding is a special pudding made by Go-Go," explained Ms. Benjamin. "He only makes the pudding in a mop bucket."
"That's gross," admitted Vada. "Not to mention total food poisoning."
"Not unless you pour almond milk, banana peels, and whipped cream pies in it," Go-Go replied as he tossed the following ingridients into the vat. Sichuan and Bok Choy flew up to the vat, smelled it and said, "Hào chī! Hào chī! (Yummy! Yummy!)"
After freezing and buzzing, they shouted, "Wéixiǎn! Wéixiǎn!"
Knowing that they only had fifteen minutes until the show started, Vada, Saatvika, and Ms. Benjamin decided to find the danger. Go-Go wanted to join in to, so he replicated himself and told his clones to serve the patrons some pudding, hoping it would buy them time.
Mew Mew Vanilla, Metamorphosis!
Mew Mew Sundae, Metamorphosis!
Mew Mew Pudding, Metamorphosis!
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Later, the three Mew Mews arrived at an abandoned warehouse by the Kansas City International Airport where they saw Arethra, Elthunt, and Crossni smuggling some orangutans from Borneo.
"Borneo?" asked Go-Go quietly, "Boring."
Arethra was hypnotizing the orangutans into following her to a poaching machine. Go-Go and the Mew Mews didn't want to be hypnotized, so they covered their ears.
"Huāshēng! Huāshēng!" whispered Sichuan and Bok Choy.
"Your smelling peanuts?" asked Mew Mew Pudding while using her monkey instincts. "Good thing we can understand other Mew Mews by heart and that we planned to cause a random distraction."
"Random distraction?" asked Mew Mew Vanilla quietly.
"I always have a plan!" Go-Go shouted as he started blowing an air horn. The noise was so loud that Arethra, Elthunt, and Crossni turned their heads. Quickly, Elthunt injected a McCart Bug to one of the orangutans and it turned into McCart Orangutan.
"Vanilla, Sundae," shouted Mew Mew Pudding, "distract the orangutan! Go-Go and I will stop Elthunt, Arethra, and Crossni: the wacky way!"
Remembering the peanuts that Sichuan and Bok Choy smelled, Mew Mew Sundae broke them all with her Illusion Staff. Vanilla combined Sichuan with her Freezing Flute, blew some bubbles, lifted the peanuts, and made them rain on McCart Orangutan. One by one, the smuggled orangutans climbed on the orangutan."
"Since we've been hanging out with Ms. Benjamin for so long," realized Mew Mew Vanilla, "care to say the Mew Mew call in Chinese?"
Miāo miāo fēnggé
Miāo miāo ēndiǎn
Miāo miāo fēnggé
Zài nǐ de liǎn shàng
Within three seconds, the McCart Orangutan turned back into a normal orangutan and ate the peanuts. "WOOO!" shouted Go-Go from behind, behaving like a sports fan.
"Shouldn't you and Ms. Benjamin be stopping Poach's cohorts?" asked Mew Mew Sundae.
"You mean that psycho space man who pulls pranks?" asked Go-Go. "Ms. Benjamin has a plan to stop those Three Space Stooges and return the smuggled orangutans to Borneo."
Above them, a giant shadow of a Chinese dragon displayed. Immediately, Mew Mews Vanilla and Sundae recognized this as one of their teacher's shadow puppetry skills. The shadow was so real that Arethra, Elthunt, and Crossni thought it was real too. So they teleported back to the spaceship. Painting a Borneo landscape on the wall, Go-Go transported the orangutans back to Borneo.
"We better get back to the show," Mew Mew Sundae suggested. "The show must go on."
From his feather, Go-Go got out a giant hole. "I've got a hole in my pocket," he joked doing a Ringo Starr impression, making the three Mew Mews and their Mini-Mews laugh. Quickly they jumped into the hole, which lead them back to CKH.
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Back at the auditorium, everyone was enjoying some Random Pudding. Thanks to Chanel's powerful smelling for growing up in France, she could tell that Go-Go tainted it. The Mew Mews were all afraid that they could get food poisoning, or worse, turn silly. Instead of those two things, everyone breathed out illusions of Chinese creatures, much to their delight. The Mew Mews were amazed by how Go-Go prevented the show from being a flop.
From the Go-Go hole, Ms. Benjamin, Saatvika, and Vada arrived in the nick of time. "Ni hao." greeted Ms. Benjamin. "What in the name of monkey barrels is going on?"
From the curtain, they could see that everyone was delighted by the Chinese animal illusions. Ms. Benjamin was glad that Go-Go didn't cause a wacky poisoning. Just as soon as she turned her head, she could see that Vada and Saatvika were already in costume, and they'd even didn't go to their dressing rooms. On top, Go-Go placed an Asian comical hat on Ms. Benjamin and changed her apparel into Chinese apparel.
"You gotta be in character," reminded Go-Go as he turned to his clones. "Okay boys! Get ready to bring the house down with our wacky special effects!"
XxoxX
During the next hour and a half, they displayed wonderous Chinese culture within the play, along with a bunch of silly random cookooness - courtesy of Go-Go Dodo and his clones. In the end, everyone applauded.
"This is going in the entertainment section as the best CKH comedy EVER!" shouted Leighton.
"Never thought that it'd be this funny," chuckled Curtis.
"And those special effects look so real," laughed Rodrigo.
Backstage, Go-Go and his clones hugged the ACS and turned back into one Go-Go. "Check your phone, Kiki," he advised Go-Go, "and check out the livestream."
On her phone, Ms. Benjamin could see that "Mountains of the Orangutan" had reached five million hits. "Go-Go," replied Saatvika, "there's a strict no-filming policy in theater, unless the managers say it's okay with it."
"Dean Dennis didn't mind it," Ms. Benjamin replied. "I explained to him that the person who wrote it would be wondering why it never got to Missouri. So I decided to post it online for them."
"I bet the writer would be proud of you," replied Presley Beth.
The End.