Third Person Perspective

Jack and Indie was heading to Medda's from the Newsies Square when Davey walked up with Les and a girl with auburn hair. Jack smiled when he saw him.

"Heya Dave! Heya Les! Who's dis?" he asked, pointing to Copper - who was by Davey's side.

"I should ask you the same question" Davey retorted, gesturing to Indie - who was hanging on Jack's arm.

Copper and Indie grinned at each other. They knew one another, but the guys didn't know that.

Jack smiled. "Dis is Indie. She's heah ta help wit da strike."

"Oh" Davey bluthered. "This is Copper. She's a newsgirl."

Indie laughed. "You are?" she asked, straight to Copper.

"Yeah" Copper replied. "What's wrong with that?"

Indie shrugged. "Nothing at all."

Jack and Davey watched as the two talked. Les started to sneak away, but Davey grabbed him by the collar and pulled him back.

"So, Dave, whatcha want? Something about da strike" Jack asked, offhandedly.

"Oh, uh…no, nothing about the strike. I came by to tell you that I forgot to tell you something today. It's about Sarah" Davey replied. Les started sword fighting with the air.

"Go on…" Jack trailed off. At this time, the guys had caught the interest of Copper and Indie.

"Uh…yesterday we found Sarah ramming herself into a brick wall. We think her brain overloaded when Momma sent her to fetch some lace from the store."

"We threw her in an insane asylum!" Les shouted, a little too hyped sounding and acting very hyperactive as well.

Jack's face lit up. "Hallelujah!" he yelled. He grabbed Indie and started dancing around. She really didn't know what was going on, but she didn't care. Jack Kelly was dancing around with her.

"I thought you would be upset by this? I kind of assumed you liked my sister" Davey said, confused as ever.

Jack stopped dancing around, and became serious. "Ya sure 'bout dat, Davey?"

Davey was still confused, and looked over at Copper for help. She shrugged and didn't say anything. "Okay. Whatever you want. C'mon, Copper. Les!"

Les was now running around in a circle - apparently trying to catch his tail. Davey grabbed him by the collar again.

"Bye Jack. Bye Indie" Davey said, walking off with Copper and Les.

"Bye David!" Jack shouted, with the biggest grin on his face.

~*~

Pulitzer paced around his office. The newsboys were really getting on his nerves. They had been striking for a while now. It seemed like forever to him though.

"I have to stay strong. I have to stay solid" he reassured himself. "I will beat them. I will break them." He walked over to the wall. "I'll breaking you." He started poking it furiously. *poke* *poke* "You shut up! Shut up!" He screamed to no one. He poked the wall some more till his finger hurt. "That hurt my finger. I better not do that anymore. Jonathan!"

The really…uh…bald guy came in at the call of his name. "The world is ending. The world is ending." He fluttered, trying to composed himself. "Yes?"

"Make a note…" Jonathan got out his notepad. "Remind me never to poke the wall. It. Hurts. Poke only newsboys. Got that?"

"Yes sir" Jonathan replied, twittering out the door.

Pulitzer sat down in his fancy chair, and started smoking a cigar.

"Y'know, those could give you lung cancer" a voice came from the doorway.

Pulitzer looked up to see a girl leaning against the door frame. "Who are you? And, why are you in my office?"

"I'll spare you an intro to get right to the point." The girl sauntered into the office, and jumped up on Pulitzer's desk. "I'm CoRny, and I know a way to get rid of the newsies forever."

Pulitzer acted interested. "Do tell." CoRny evilly grinned.

Coneflower's perspective

"So, what's up?" I asked.

"We have a problem" Owl said, pointing to Pinkguin.

I groaned. Why?! I screamed in her head. I glared at Pinkguin. "And, what happen to you?"

Pinkguin lowed his head and wiped a tear.

"Awww…Cone, he said he was sorry" Pearl included.

I looked over at Pearl. "I know he probably did, but Pinkguin…" I turned back to him. "what did you do?"

A few minutes later, Pinkguin explain to me what had happen. He had no idea how he was going to get us back to the year 2000. I didn't know if I wanted to go back 'er not. I didn't know how everyone else felt about that either.

"Well, I have nothing to say" I said, turning away. "Mush, can we go upstairs?"

"Wait!" Owl shouted. "How are we going to get back?"

I shrugged. "I don't know. Ya wanna get back that fast?"

Owl shrugged as well. "I guess not."

Just then, Mystic and Skittery strolled in talking, but stopped when they saw the tension on everyone's faces.

"Uh…wha's wrong?" Skitts asked, meekly.

Mystic saw disgruntled look at my face, and knew something was really wrong b/c I'm hardly ever not happy especially when I'm with Mush.

Then she saw Pinkguin. "Did something happen that all of us should really know about?"

"As a matter of fact, yeah" I replied. "We can't get back to the future. Not just yet."

"The future?" Skitts asked, confused. He peered over at Mystic by his side.

"I'll explain to you later" she said, taking his hand. "Let's go on the roof like we said we were." The two passed by everyone with a 'good to see you', and disappeared upstairs.

"Well, at least someone took that well" Gypsy said, hopping off Kloppman's desk.

Pearl jumped off as well. "Now, what do we do?"

I shrugged. "Hang around. Take Pinkguin for a walk. I'm…going upstairs." With that, I disappeared upstairs with Mush. He was totally dazed, so, I knew I had to explain to him what in the world was going on.

Meanwhile, back to 3rd person perspective

Pearl, Gypsy, and Pie Eater decided to take Cone's suggestion and take Pinkguin for a walk - even though the bulls might be out. They didn't really care. Owl stayed at the lodging house to bug Kloppman with her cynical ways for fun. Pie lead them to the newsie square where the Horace Greenley statue was.

"This is newsie square…wow!" Pearl said, walking up to the statue.

Gypsy teased with a smirk. "Looked bigger in the movie."

"What in the world is this movie thing you girls keep talking about?" Pie asked, getting frustrated with all the secrecy.

"A movie. A moving picture. I thought those have been invented by now?" Pearl asked, thinking back to facts she learned in history class.

Pinkguin stepped in and straightened all the confusion with his charts and graphs that appeared out of no where. After the long learning session, Pie just shrugged and went on with his business. Pinkguin leaned against the statue pedestal to rest. Gypsy and Pearl had strolled over to look at the distribution center.

It was a few more minutes before the sky opened up ((apparently no one saw this happening)), and two figures came flying down from it.

"We're here!" Spot the girl announced.

"We couldn't stay away" Melody yelled.

"Oooo! Horace Greenley!" Spot jumped on the statue and started to dance around it.

Melody ran up to Pinkguin. "Ya need a ride home?" she asked him. Pinkguin nodded. "You're coming with us then!" Melody grabbed

Pinkguin and flow off. "Come on Spot!"

Spot realized Melody was leaving and flow off after her. "Wait! I have to stop by someplace before we go back home!"

Pie Eater, Pearl, and Gypsy witnessed the entire thing, but couldn't believe what was happening.

"Wha' wha' wha' jist happen?" Pie stuttered, pointing to the sky where the two girls and Pinkguin. He started to twitch.

"I think you need a good nights sleep" Pearl told Pie, leading him back to the lodging house.

***

Somewhere in Brooklyn, Spot was just standing around doing nothing when - out of nowhere - a crazy looking girl appeared and jumped onto him. "Aren't you glad that I'm here?" she said before kissing him.

"Spot! We have to get back! Come on!" Melody yelled, grabbing Spot the girl's shirt and tugging her back to non-existence in the newsieverse.

***

Back at the lodging house and a Cone perspective later, I laid on Mush's bed while he eavesdropped on Mystic and Skittery's conversation up on the roof. I watched him sit there by the window, and thought maybe I shouldn't want to leave. This was actually turning out to be a great trip 'er time travel 'er whatever.

Mush turned to me and smirked, "They haven't said anything for about five minutes. I wonder what they're doing?"

I rolled my eyes and walked over to him. "Hmmm……I can't guess" I remarked. "Maybe something we should be doing." Well, I was giving it a try to see if he'd catch on. My luck, he did! Mush pulled me to his side, and was about to kiss me…………when someone walked in. HOY! I was about to die! I peered over at the door to see Pearl and Gypsy leading a very 'out of it' Pie Eater to his bed. "Is he okay?"

"Yeah" Pearl replied.

"He just needs to lie down" Gypsy said, helping Pie to bed.

Pearl walked over to me and Mush. "Um…Pinkguin is gone again. Spot and Melody appeared from no where and took him with them."

I smiled and jumped up and down. "Goody! They got my call from my head. I'll have to send them a thank you." I thought really hard for a moment and spaced out to thank them for helping me. When I came back to reality, everyone was looking at me really dazed. I only smirked and said, "Anything is possible in my world."

A few seconds after I had 'thanked' Spot and Mel through uh……my head ((?)), Cocoa and Rags walked in.

"Heya!" I exclaimed as they walked in.

"Hey!" they both greeted at the same time. "What's going on?" Cocoa asked.

"Oh, just the usual" I shrugged, hanging all over Mush.

"Pinkguin was here but Spot and Mel got him out of the newsieverse and Pie Eater is very 'out of it' right now" Gypsy replied.

Cocoa and Rags just stared at them like they were crazy. There were 2 girls who they didn't really know there. A new girl - meaning me - was hanging all over Mush that they didn't know. Pie Eater was in the corner of the room staring into space with a blank expression.

Rags turned to Cocoa and whispered, "Do you know what a Pinkguin is?"

Cocoa shook her head. "Let's go that way." She grabbed Rags hand and ran out the bunk room.

"Look at the pretty butterfly" Pie said, pointing to something flying in the room.

"No Pie, that's a cock roach" Pearl informed him. She realized what she had said and screamed - running out the room. Gypsy finally realized what it was and run out, screaming.

I was laughing until the roach came flying my way. I jumped into Mush's arms. "Get it away!" Mush crow-bared me off of him and throw a shoe at the flying vermin. That didn't work. The roach came flying after him. He run off, jumping over the bunks and drove under one bunk, trying to hide from it. I was sitting helplessly by the window fixing to jump out. The roach was flying straight at me! *screams* Pie had somehow knew what was happening and grabbed the roach in mid-air. I was impressed.

Pie walked over to me and stuck it in my face. "Ya wanna pet it?"

I gagged and pushed him away. He opened the window and let the roach go. "Goodbye pretty butterfly!"

I went over to the bed Mush had dived under. "You can come out now."

"Uh……" he stuttered.

"It's gone" I reassured him. I helped him out from under the bed. "Y'know, I think that roach was possessed!"

Outside with only 3rd person perspective

Pearl and Gypsy didn't even stop to tell Kloppman and Owl what was wrong. They high tailed it out of the lodging house like there was no tomorrow. They didn't even watch where they were going - just rammed right into something that knocked them flat on their rears.

"Wha' the heck?" Dutchy said, sitting up on the hard ground.

"Something killed me!" Lily screamed, dramatically falling on Dutchy's lap.

Dutchy rolled his eyes. "Dat didn't kill ya, but I'll take advantage of ya dying on me." He attacked belly with a tickle. Lily screamed again and squirmed away.

Pearl and Gypsy were very scared by this and scooted away from them. Gypsy got up helping Pearl up as they spotted Cocoa and Rags go down the street with Cocoa's cart.

"We need to find everyone" Pearl said.

"Maybe they can help us!" Gypsy replied, pointing to Cocoa and Rags.

The two girls ran over to them. "We need your help!" Pearl yelled.

Just then, Race came up the street with West and Filly by his side. They were singing and dancing down the street. Apparently, he had a lot of money in his hand. Race throw his arm around West's shoulder. "Whatcha think I should buy foist?"

"Uh……whatever ya want, I guess" she replied.

"I think I'll buy me two lucky goils something special."

"A car!" Filly all the sudden yelled.

Race stared at her. "A wha'?"

Filly innocently grin. "Nothing. How about a cookie!"

"I'm hungry." West smacked Race on the back. "Buy us dinner."

"You got it, goily!" The trio walked right pass the 'four', not even saying anything.

Meanwhile, somewhere else - Davey was going home. Or at least, he was bring Les home. Copper was still with him, of course. Les had been a big 'distraction' for them. He'd run in front of a few carriages and wagons, almost getting hit. Davey went nuts and started running in a circle all frantic when Les disappeared behind something. When Copper had saw the Brooklyn Bridge close by, she wondered if Davey would become all neurotic if she'd push Les off the Bridge and lie by saying he just went home.

Oh well! They were all headed to the Jacobs apartment anyway. Copper grabbed Davey's arm just to hang on him. Les saw this. "You shouldn't do that! You'll give my brother coodies!"

"Les" Davey said, sternly. "Shut up."

Copper evilly grinned. "Would ya mind, Les, if I did this?" She gave Davey a short kiss on the lips.

He looked shocked at her. "That…that…that…"

"What?" Copper asked.

Davey didn't wasted any time and kissed her for like five minutes really hard and junk. Les was bouncing around going 'ewwww'. He bounced backwards so much he bounced in front of a wagon and was run into the ground. Davey and Copper finally came out of the kiss and he stared at her then fainted b/c it was his first ever being kissed by anyone but his mom….Ha! Ha!

***

Pulitzer and CoRny were peering out the big window of the Word building. He had been waiting for her to tell him the evil plan to get rid of the newsies. The girl was being very stubborn which was apart of CoRny's own evil plan.

"Oh call boy" CoRny shouted in a sing-sang voice.

Jonathan fluttered in. "Yes?"

CoRny smirked at him. "Can I hurt you?"

"Um…" Jonathan wasn't sure. Did he want her to hurt him or not? He wasn't sure, so, he turned to his boss. "Sir, what do you think this young lady should do to me?"

It didn't take Pulitzer long to answer. "Hurt him. Have a great time, girl."

"Yay!" CoRny squeaked, running up to Jonathan and popping him one upside his head.

"Ouch" Jonathan yelled very meekly. CoRny did it again. "Ouch" he said again.

"Hey this is fun! It's kinda like an automatic reaction." She popped him one once more.

"CoRny dear" Pulitzer said. She turned to him. "Would you STOP doing that and tell me the evil plan?!"

"OH! Forgot! All righty then!" Pulitzer sat down in his chair and CoRny did a little tap dance for him on his desk while explaining her evil plan to get rid of the newsies.

After an hour and some take out from the Chinese restaurant down the block, Pulitzer jumped up on his desk and yelled, "That's perfect! You are evil, my dear. Evil I like."

"I know" she replied, coolly. He picked up CoRny and……dropped her.

"Let's start this plan tonight" Pulitzer ran out the room, clicking his heels. CoRny snorted and brushed herself off.

"Oh, if only he knew." She smirked evilly then throw her head back and laughed.