Rainbow Connection
by Coneflower Adams
This is a very special fic to me. It was my first comedy where I realized I could actually do something crazy, and it marks a time of a beginning and end of an era on the Newsies Mailing List. Even though it's a comedy, the ending is sorta bittersweet. All the listees belong to themselves. Me, CoRny, and Pinkguin belong to me. It starts off a little slow b/c I'm introducing the characters. Hope you people in enjoy this!
***
Everyone thought I was crazy…….to be such a fanatic of a movie I like to call Newsies! I could watch it over and over and over and over…ya get the pic! Oh, how much I wanted to be there in the movie. So, I started devising a way to go through the television into the movie. Crazy? I didn't think so.
With my partner in crime, Pinkguin, at my side, we finished the project in an hour. Pinkguin knows a lot about electronic stuff ;*) I had just finished my provoking newsie thought of the day.
"And, that's why I think Denton is Medda in disguise…" I clicked sent.
Pinkguin tugged on my sleeve. I looked at him proudly when I saw our machine was done. "We did it! Now, it has to be tested." Pinkguin nodded at me and fired the machine up. Apparently, by the way he was acting, he wasn't going with me.
"You're not coming with me?" He shook his head. I sighed frustrated and walked over to the television. "I'm ready, Pinkguin!" I took one last look at my room - my pics of Mush, pics of Jason Marsden ((he's not related to Newsies)), Pinkguin, and of course, my family pics.
Pinkguin wobbles over to the switch, opened it, and flicked it on. I was sent flying through space, stars, and newsie hats? I landed smack on my rear in what looked like Central Park. I regained my bearings and peered around. Yep, it was Cetral Park……in 1899!!!
"I did it!!!" I screamed at the top of my lungs, throwing my arms up in the air. I received strange stares from people around me. I slowly lowered my arms and snickered to myself.
"Are you okay?" I heard someone ask behind me. I turned my head to see….him!! My Mushie baby was standing there. Right in front of me! I couldn't say anything after that. I totally forgot about my stupid machine working and just stared blankly at him, my mouth catching flies.
"Are ya aw roight, miss?" I finally nodded my head, spitting out a fly that had flown in my mouth. This was too much! "Here let me help ya up." Mush stuck out his hand and I grabbed it. Boy, was I loving this! "Ya sure ya aw roight?" he asked again.
"Uh…huh" came out of my mouth.
"Okay, I was jist checkin'." He looked down at my hand. "You can let go now." I looked down. Opps…I was still attached to him. I dropped my hand very hesitantly and just stood there. "Bye, miss."
He walked off and I couldn't even say anything to him. No fair! I had been paralyzed by the powers of Mush. I watched my Mushie baby disappear into the crowd of people on the walk way.
"I have to go after him." I started running but stopped. "But, I want all the people on the list to come here." I thought for a moment. "Naw, who cares." I stopped myself. "But, they deserve to come. They are my friends for goodness sake." My conscience was wresting with me. I sat down on the grass again, and stared out in the direction where Mush had gone.
"I'll be back my dear Mush. Then, we can be together forever." I let out an wicked laugh, and got even more really odd stares from passer-byers.
I stood up and crawled into a bush where no one could see me. I uttered the words "Pinkguin Power" to get me home. A minute later, I fell smack on my rear on my room floor. Pinkguin giggled behind his flipper. I glared at him and he stopped.
"So, how long was I gone?" I asked him. He pointed at the clock. "I wasn't even gone for a second! Whoa! I'm gonna have to do that again. Ya think I could take along some friends?" Pinkguin nodded. "Great! Now, I have to tell everyone."
I sat at my computer and began to email people on my list. "Guys, you'll never believe where I have been!"
***
The next day, I had everyone in an uproar about going into the past! Pinkguin was working frantically to get all that electrical stuff ready. By lunch, Pinkguin was done and everyone who was going was ready.
"Are you guys set to go?" I asked in the chat room. Everyone replied 'yep'. I grinned. This was going to the coolest thing in the world. "Pinkguin, it is time." ((I said it like Rafiki)) I stood in a dramatic stance in front of the television.
Pinkguin hit the button and I was sent flying through space again. When I landed, once more in Central Park, I looked around to see about twenty girls on the ground.
"It worked - again!!!" I shouted. I jumped up and spotted my cousin a few yards away. "Kelly!" I ran to her and helped her up.
"Hey Nina! Whoa! It worked! Now, we don't have to travel a million miles to see each other." The million mile thing was little much, but we do live a long ways away from each other.
"Whatcha goin' by, now?" She hadn't picked out a nickname yet.
"Uh…you can call me Tumbles or Damsel."
I shook my head. "Cool! Damsel, then."
I turned to everyone else. "Heya everybody! Geez, I don't know what to do now. Oooo! Introduce ourselves!" I was sounding a little hyped about then. But, then I saw someone else who was basically the same way. "Clink?"
"Yeah, it's me!" she shouted. "What gave me away?"
Uh……I noticed her back pack full of surge and pixi sticks. Wow! She stocked up. I shrugged. "Just a guess. Okee! Everyone else!"
Let's see. There was Raindrop, Mystic , Piper, Magellica, Lily, Filly, West, Owl, Copper, Indie, Pearl, Gypsy, Dice, and…who was that? That girl looked familiar. It was - she turned around - my evil twin, CoRny! How did she escape from the institute? Oh, well. I blew her off.
"Now, what do we do we, dahlings?" Piper asked.
"Let's go look for our guys!!" Lily, all the sudden, yelled.
No one had to think about that suggestion. We all started running around Central Park looking for a newsie, but couldn't find not one! Me,
Damsel, Clink, and West were walking around a bush ((a bush, okay)) when we heard something 'meowing'. We went around the rest of the bush to see Piper meowing.
"Piper, what the heck are you doing?" West asked.
"I'm making cat noises" she replied. "It's my trademark."
Owl, Pearl, and Gypsy walked up behind us.
"I don't think we're gonna find any newsies here" Pearl said, as they stopped.
"That's okay! I don't need a guy anyway. I just wanted to come!" Owl started dancing around in a circle on the grass.
West cocked her head. "Oh, that's useful!"
"Any luck, guys?" Raindrop asked, with Copper, Filly, and Dice with her.
"Nope! No guys. Nothing! We're never going to find them!" Damsel said, pouting.
Copper saw Owl dancing around the park. "Oooo! Can I join you?"
"Yeah!" Copper ran over to Owl and they started dancing around the grass again.
"Wow! I already feel right at home with you guys!" Clink said, throwing her arms around mine and Damsel shoulder. "But, I wanna find Shaker!"
"Okay, someone go find Indie, Mystic, Magellica, and Lily. I think I might know a way to find our guys." I started walking off with some of my posse ((*shrugs* I didn't know what else to call it)). We didn't notice, remember, or particularly care - that CoRny was lurking around. She'd always been a lurker on the list too. I wish I could figure out how she escape from the institute. Maybe, Clink let her out when she was in there. Hmmmm….I feel a conspiracy coming on.
Anyway! Me, Damsel, Clink, West, and Raindrop walked up to a girl selling stuff. She had her own little cart and everything.
"Heya!" I greeted.
"Hi. You wanna buy something?" the girl asked.
"Um…not today. We just want to know where all the newsies are."
"You're looking for the newsies?"
We all nodded our heads, enthusiastically.
"They're all on strike right now."
"What?!" we all shouted. It was true. We had come in the part of the movie where our guys were on strike. We realized that was a good thing 'cause they'd have more time for us than sellin' papes.
"My names Cocoa." I shook the girl's hand.
"Heya, I'm Coneflower. And, this is Damsel, Clink, West, and Raindrop. There's a lot more of us somewhere around here."
"If you want to see the newsies, me and my friend Rags can show you where they are."
"Cool! Let's go then!" I shouted. We all shouted a lot while we were there.
We rounded everyone up. We had to drag Owl and Copper away from their dancing frenzy around the park. All of us followed Cocoa and Rags down streets of Manhattan till we came across The World building where we all became wide eye at seeing our newsie guys there. Right in front of us too. Before I knew it, I was standing alone while my posse had ran off into the crowd to search (and claim) their newsie guy - except for Owl, Pearl, Gypsy.
"So, why aren't you guys going nutball right now like everyone else?" I asked them.
"Because" Owl started. "Us girls with no newsie, have to stick together. Don't we?!"
Pearl and Gypsy shrugged. I shrugged as well and disappeared into the crowd to find my Mushie baby.
Meanwhile…
Pinkguin was fiddling around with the machine. He wasn't really paying attention to what he was doing and sucked himself into the movie as well. Oh, no! Now we can't get back to the year 2000!
by Coneflower Adams
This is a very special fic to me. It was my first comedy where I realized I could actually do something crazy, and it marks a time of a beginning and end of an era on the Newsies Mailing List. Even though it's a comedy, the ending is sorta bittersweet. All the listees belong to themselves. Me, CoRny, and Pinkguin belong to me. It starts off a little slow b/c I'm introducing the characters. Hope you people in enjoy this!
***
Everyone thought I was crazy…….to be such a fanatic of a movie I like to call Newsies! I could watch it over and over and over and over…ya get the pic! Oh, how much I wanted to be there in the movie. So, I started devising a way to go through the television into the movie. Crazy? I didn't think so.
With my partner in crime, Pinkguin, at my side, we finished the project in an hour. Pinkguin knows a lot about electronic stuff ;*) I had just finished my provoking newsie thought of the day.
"And, that's why I think Denton is Medda in disguise…" I clicked sent.
Pinkguin tugged on my sleeve. I looked at him proudly when I saw our machine was done. "We did it! Now, it has to be tested." Pinkguin nodded at me and fired the machine up. Apparently, by the way he was acting, he wasn't going with me.
"You're not coming with me?" He shook his head. I sighed frustrated and walked over to the television. "I'm ready, Pinkguin!" I took one last look at my room - my pics of Mush, pics of Jason Marsden ((he's not related to Newsies)), Pinkguin, and of course, my family pics.
Pinkguin wobbles over to the switch, opened it, and flicked it on. I was sent flying through space, stars, and newsie hats? I landed smack on my rear in what looked like Central Park. I regained my bearings and peered around. Yep, it was Cetral Park……in 1899!!!
"I did it!!!" I screamed at the top of my lungs, throwing my arms up in the air. I received strange stares from people around me. I slowly lowered my arms and snickered to myself.
"Are you okay?" I heard someone ask behind me. I turned my head to see….him!! My Mushie baby was standing there. Right in front of me! I couldn't say anything after that. I totally forgot about my stupid machine working and just stared blankly at him, my mouth catching flies.
"Are ya aw roight, miss?" I finally nodded my head, spitting out a fly that had flown in my mouth. This was too much! "Here let me help ya up." Mush stuck out his hand and I grabbed it. Boy, was I loving this! "Ya sure ya aw roight?" he asked again.
"Uh…huh" came out of my mouth.
"Okay, I was jist checkin'." He looked down at my hand. "You can let go now." I looked down. Opps…I was still attached to him. I dropped my hand very hesitantly and just stood there. "Bye, miss."
He walked off and I couldn't even say anything to him. No fair! I had been paralyzed by the powers of Mush. I watched my Mushie baby disappear into the crowd of people on the walk way.
"I have to go after him." I started running but stopped. "But, I want all the people on the list to come here." I thought for a moment. "Naw, who cares." I stopped myself. "But, they deserve to come. They are my friends for goodness sake." My conscience was wresting with me. I sat down on the grass again, and stared out in the direction where Mush had gone.
"I'll be back my dear Mush. Then, we can be together forever." I let out an wicked laugh, and got even more really odd stares from passer-byers.
I stood up and crawled into a bush where no one could see me. I uttered the words "Pinkguin Power" to get me home. A minute later, I fell smack on my rear on my room floor. Pinkguin giggled behind his flipper. I glared at him and he stopped.
"So, how long was I gone?" I asked him. He pointed at the clock. "I wasn't even gone for a second! Whoa! I'm gonna have to do that again. Ya think I could take along some friends?" Pinkguin nodded. "Great! Now, I have to tell everyone."
I sat at my computer and began to email people on my list. "Guys, you'll never believe where I have been!"
***
The next day, I had everyone in an uproar about going into the past! Pinkguin was working frantically to get all that electrical stuff ready. By lunch, Pinkguin was done and everyone who was going was ready.
"Are you guys set to go?" I asked in the chat room. Everyone replied 'yep'. I grinned. This was going to the coolest thing in the world. "Pinkguin, it is time." ((I said it like Rafiki)) I stood in a dramatic stance in front of the television.
Pinkguin hit the button and I was sent flying through space again. When I landed, once more in Central Park, I looked around to see about twenty girls on the ground.
"It worked - again!!!" I shouted. I jumped up and spotted my cousin a few yards away. "Kelly!" I ran to her and helped her up.
"Hey Nina! Whoa! It worked! Now, we don't have to travel a million miles to see each other." The million mile thing was little much, but we do live a long ways away from each other.
"Whatcha goin' by, now?" She hadn't picked out a nickname yet.
"Uh…you can call me Tumbles or Damsel."
I shook my head. "Cool! Damsel, then."
I turned to everyone else. "Heya everybody! Geez, I don't know what to do now. Oooo! Introduce ourselves!" I was sounding a little hyped about then. But, then I saw someone else who was basically the same way. "Clink?"
"Yeah, it's me!" she shouted. "What gave me away?"
Uh……I noticed her back pack full of surge and pixi sticks. Wow! She stocked up. I shrugged. "Just a guess. Okee! Everyone else!"
Let's see. There was Raindrop, Mystic , Piper, Magellica, Lily, Filly, West, Owl, Copper, Indie, Pearl, Gypsy, Dice, and…who was that? That girl looked familiar. It was - she turned around - my evil twin, CoRny! How did she escape from the institute? Oh, well. I blew her off.
"Now, what do we do we, dahlings?" Piper asked.
"Let's go look for our guys!!" Lily, all the sudden, yelled.
No one had to think about that suggestion. We all started running around Central Park looking for a newsie, but couldn't find not one! Me,
Damsel, Clink, and West were walking around a bush ((a bush, okay)) when we heard something 'meowing'. We went around the rest of the bush to see Piper meowing.
"Piper, what the heck are you doing?" West asked.
"I'm making cat noises" she replied. "It's my trademark."
Owl, Pearl, and Gypsy walked up behind us.
"I don't think we're gonna find any newsies here" Pearl said, as they stopped.
"That's okay! I don't need a guy anyway. I just wanted to come!" Owl started dancing around in a circle on the grass.
West cocked her head. "Oh, that's useful!"
"Any luck, guys?" Raindrop asked, with Copper, Filly, and Dice with her.
"Nope! No guys. Nothing! We're never going to find them!" Damsel said, pouting.
Copper saw Owl dancing around the park. "Oooo! Can I join you?"
"Yeah!" Copper ran over to Owl and they started dancing around the grass again.
"Wow! I already feel right at home with you guys!" Clink said, throwing her arms around mine and Damsel shoulder. "But, I wanna find Shaker!"
"Okay, someone go find Indie, Mystic, Magellica, and Lily. I think I might know a way to find our guys." I started walking off with some of my posse ((*shrugs* I didn't know what else to call it)). We didn't notice, remember, or particularly care - that CoRny was lurking around. She'd always been a lurker on the list too. I wish I could figure out how she escape from the institute. Maybe, Clink let her out when she was in there. Hmmmm….I feel a conspiracy coming on.
Anyway! Me, Damsel, Clink, West, and Raindrop walked up to a girl selling stuff. She had her own little cart and everything.
"Heya!" I greeted.
"Hi. You wanna buy something?" the girl asked.
"Um…not today. We just want to know where all the newsies are."
"You're looking for the newsies?"
We all nodded our heads, enthusiastically.
"They're all on strike right now."
"What?!" we all shouted. It was true. We had come in the part of the movie where our guys were on strike. We realized that was a good thing 'cause they'd have more time for us than sellin' papes.
"My names Cocoa." I shook the girl's hand.
"Heya, I'm Coneflower. And, this is Damsel, Clink, West, and Raindrop. There's a lot more of us somewhere around here."
"If you want to see the newsies, me and my friend Rags can show you where they are."
"Cool! Let's go then!" I shouted. We all shouted a lot while we were there.
We rounded everyone up. We had to drag Owl and Copper away from their dancing frenzy around the park. All of us followed Cocoa and Rags down streets of Manhattan till we came across The World building where we all became wide eye at seeing our newsie guys there. Right in front of us too. Before I knew it, I was standing alone while my posse had ran off into the crowd to search (and claim) their newsie guy - except for Owl, Pearl, Gypsy.
"So, why aren't you guys going nutball right now like everyone else?" I asked them.
"Because" Owl started. "Us girls with no newsie, have to stick together. Don't we?!"
Pearl and Gypsy shrugged. I shrugged as well and disappeared into the crowd to find my Mushie baby.
Meanwhile…
Pinkguin was fiddling around with the machine. He wasn't really paying attention to what he was doing and sucked himself into the movie as well. Oh, no! Now we can't get back to the year 2000!
