CHAPTER FOUR
I forgot to put a disclaimer on my last set of chapters, so here it is: I don't own the rights to Monsters, Inc. If I did, I'd be too busy to write this story.
An array of objects was scrounged from various places throughout the house. Jackets, hats, vests, and shoes were all tried on for size and appropriateness. Finally, several outfits made the grade for the odd group's planned disguise. The results were surprisingly good.
"That turned out better than I thought it would," Jade commented about her handiwork.
"Do you really think a coat, a vest, and a couple of hats are really going to fool anyone?" Jade's mother (Iris Woodward) asked.
"They'll fool Uncle Gill, and that's what matters," Jade replied.
"I don't care who it'll fool," Mike said. "I just want to know how long I'll have to wear this stupid thing!"
Sulley and Mike were wearing human clothing to make their true nature less obvious. Sulley was wearing a dark gray wool coat that had belonged to Jade and Boo's Grandfather, and a beat up brown leather hat. He also had gloves on to disguise his furry four-fingered hands; and he had an ancient rubber mask over his face to make his furriness less obvious. Mike's guise was more embarrassing: an old, slightly faded dark blue Boy Scout vest and hat, complete with boondoggle. He was covered with makeup to disguise his green shade and had donned a pair of glasses with a fake nose. The idea was that Sulley was Iris's boyfriend and Mike was his nine- year-old kid. Yeah.
"You'll have to wear it until you can get back," Iris said.
"No! This is so embarrassing! Can you imagine what would happen if Celia saw me like this?" Mike whined piteously.
"She would probably say 'Googely Bear! You look so cute!'" Sulley said, affecting a falsetto tone at his guess of Celia's reaction.
"Real funny, fur ball," Mike replied sarcastically, crossing his arms irritatedly.
"Are we ready to get going?" Jade asked, looking to her mother for the answer.
"Yep. We're as ready as we're ever going to be," she replied.
The bizarre looking entourage made their way into the garage, which was almost un-navigable due to all the stuff stored there. There were boxes, lamps, a broken cooler, a thing that looked to Sulley like a shrunken scream or laugh canister, and a wide array of other objects unidentifiable to the two friendly monsters. The one uncluttered space housed the Woodwards' minivan. A white Dodge Caravan, the van had enough space for all five beings.
They made their way toward the vehicle, argued briefly as to who got to sit in what seat, and piled inside.
"Uh, pardon me, but, where do you get your energy?" Mike blurted randomly.
Jade, in the front passenger seat, leaned back to look at the green being seated behind her mother. "Do you mean how do we fuel our cells or how do we get electricity?"
"Um, the second one." Mike replied doubtfully.
"Oh. We get it a number of ways. My favorites are all driven by nature. You know, by hydropower, wind, and solar power, stuff like that. The most common ones are nuclear power and fossil fuels. They both have their drawbacks; and I especially object to nuclear power. It's cheap and all that, but busting atoms leaves a lot of nasty waste that really damages the environment. I hate that, and it's got to change." Jade explained, but this answer was still too vague for Mike.
"Okay. I didn't understand any of that."
"Eye - yia - yia. Okay. All of it involves turbines which..."
NARRATOR: I, the narrator, will not bore you with repeating all that Jade said. You live in the human world; if you don't know, you can look it up.
By the time Jade finished explaining how humans acquire electricity, they had reached the freeway. So Mike, in his best airline pilot voice announced, "Ladies and Gentlemen, we have now reached our cruising speed of 65 miles per hour. The temperature today is a balmy 73 degrees, with a few scattered clouds. Sit back, relax, and someone bring me a soda."
After the giggles had subsided, Jade inquired "So, how is it you know Mary? I mean, it's obvious you do, but I just don't see how."
"Mary?" Sulley asked. "Who's Mary?"
Boo looked up. "Huh?" She muttered at the furry sweetie that had said her real name.
"Sulley, she's talking about Boo," Mike said, indicating the three year old that sat between him and his best friend.
"Oh. Okay. Can I still call you Boo?"
"Tee hee. Sure, Kitty!"
Sulley told the story, with Mike ad libing with excessive hand gestures at various points. The pair was great raconteurs, with means good storytellers. They had Iris and Jade in fits of laughter, clinging to their seats, and wiping their eyes.
"That was so sweet," Iris said, still sniffling. "Thank you for bringing her back. I was worried sick. I was going to report her missing, but they said I couldn't yet because she hadn't been gone for 48 hours yet."
"Oh, you're welcome," Sulley said. "It was the hardest thing I've ever had to do, but obviously, she belongs here with you."
Suddenly Jade popped a CD into the player.
Boo yelled "Kitty & Mike Wazowski, you two are gonna hear some fantasmagorical human moosic!"
The rest of the trip was full of both commonly known and not-so-well-known musical groups. The two monsters were mesmerized by the Beatles, Elvis, Abba, the Mammas and the Pappas, Bob Marley, Outback (an instrumental group with didgeridoo) and a sampling of other types of music. By the end of the trip everyone was singing "California Dreamin'" and "Yellow Submarine".
I forgot to put a disclaimer on my last set of chapters, so here it is: I don't own the rights to Monsters, Inc. If I did, I'd be too busy to write this story.
An array of objects was scrounged from various places throughout the house. Jackets, hats, vests, and shoes were all tried on for size and appropriateness. Finally, several outfits made the grade for the odd group's planned disguise. The results were surprisingly good.
"That turned out better than I thought it would," Jade commented about her handiwork.
"Do you really think a coat, a vest, and a couple of hats are really going to fool anyone?" Jade's mother (Iris Woodward) asked.
"They'll fool Uncle Gill, and that's what matters," Jade replied.
"I don't care who it'll fool," Mike said. "I just want to know how long I'll have to wear this stupid thing!"
Sulley and Mike were wearing human clothing to make their true nature less obvious. Sulley was wearing a dark gray wool coat that had belonged to Jade and Boo's Grandfather, and a beat up brown leather hat. He also had gloves on to disguise his furry four-fingered hands; and he had an ancient rubber mask over his face to make his furriness less obvious. Mike's guise was more embarrassing: an old, slightly faded dark blue Boy Scout vest and hat, complete with boondoggle. He was covered with makeup to disguise his green shade and had donned a pair of glasses with a fake nose. The idea was that Sulley was Iris's boyfriend and Mike was his nine- year-old kid. Yeah.
"You'll have to wear it until you can get back," Iris said.
"No! This is so embarrassing! Can you imagine what would happen if Celia saw me like this?" Mike whined piteously.
"She would probably say 'Googely Bear! You look so cute!'" Sulley said, affecting a falsetto tone at his guess of Celia's reaction.
"Real funny, fur ball," Mike replied sarcastically, crossing his arms irritatedly.
"Are we ready to get going?" Jade asked, looking to her mother for the answer.
"Yep. We're as ready as we're ever going to be," she replied.
The bizarre looking entourage made their way into the garage, which was almost un-navigable due to all the stuff stored there. There were boxes, lamps, a broken cooler, a thing that looked to Sulley like a shrunken scream or laugh canister, and a wide array of other objects unidentifiable to the two friendly monsters. The one uncluttered space housed the Woodwards' minivan. A white Dodge Caravan, the van had enough space for all five beings.
They made their way toward the vehicle, argued briefly as to who got to sit in what seat, and piled inside.
"Uh, pardon me, but, where do you get your energy?" Mike blurted randomly.
Jade, in the front passenger seat, leaned back to look at the green being seated behind her mother. "Do you mean how do we fuel our cells or how do we get electricity?"
"Um, the second one." Mike replied doubtfully.
"Oh. We get it a number of ways. My favorites are all driven by nature. You know, by hydropower, wind, and solar power, stuff like that. The most common ones are nuclear power and fossil fuels. They both have their drawbacks; and I especially object to nuclear power. It's cheap and all that, but busting atoms leaves a lot of nasty waste that really damages the environment. I hate that, and it's got to change." Jade explained, but this answer was still too vague for Mike.
"Okay. I didn't understand any of that."
"Eye - yia - yia. Okay. All of it involves turbines which..."
NARRATOR: I, the narrator, will not bore you with repeating all that Jade said. You live in the human world; if you don't know, you can look it up.
By the time Jade finished explaining how humans acquire electricity, they had reached the freeway. So Mike, in his best airline pilot voice announced, "Ladies and Gentlemen, we have now reached our cruising speed of 65 miles per hour. The temperature today is a balmy 73 degrees, with a few scattered clouds. Sit back, relax, and someone bring me a soda."
After the giggles had subsided, Jade inquired "So, how is it you know Mary? I mean, it's obvious you do, but I just don't see how."
"Mary?" Sulley asked. "Who's Mary?"
Boo looked up. "Huh?" She muttered at the furry sweetie that had said her real name.
"Sulley, she's talking about Boo," Mike said, indicating the three year old that sat between him and his best friend.
"Oh. Okay. Can I still call you Boo?"
"Tee hee. Sure, Kitty!"
Sulley told the story, with Mike ad libing with excessive hand gestures at various points. The pair was great raconteurs, with means good storytellers. They had Iris and Jade in fits of laughter, clinging to their seats, and wiping their eyes.
"That was so sweet," Iris said, still sniffling. "Thank you for bringing her back. I was worried sick. I was going to report her missing, but they said I couldn't yet because she hadn't been gone for 48 hours yet."
"Oh, you're welcome," Sulley said. "It was the hardest thing I've ever had to do, but obviously, she belongs here with you."
Suddenly Jade popped a CD into the player.
Boo yelled "Kitty & Mike Wazowski, you two are gonna hear some fantasmagorical human moosic!"
The rest of the trip was full of both commonly known and not-so-well-known musical groups. The two monsters were mesmerized by the Beatles, Elvis, Abba, the Mammas and the Pappas, Bob Marley, Outback (an instrumental group with didgeridoo) and a sampling of other types of music. By the end of the trip everyone was singing "California Dreamin'" and "Yellow Submarine".