Yay! Its my birthday today! Well actually, as a favor, I would like to also do a little celebration for Randall as well. Happy birthday Ran! Seeing as how he was and orphan, and being treated the way he was, he probably was never told when he was born. So as a favor for all he's done for me, I'm celebrating his birthday with mine. ^_^. As a little token of appreciation to this day, I've made a special chapter to The Old Days. You see, I'm going to do it over again. Yes, The Old Day's will still be on Fan fiction, but a new and improved version is in creation.
On the Improved Version, I will keep chapters 1-3, but new chapters will appear after that. So this means, that Chapters one and two, and this chapter right here, will be the first three chapters of the new version. Get it?
But I'm going to release this chapter early. Ok....This is chapter three of The Old Day's. So just think that Chapters 4 through 7 don't exist. Get it? If not, just think of this as a "special release" chapter. Enjoy!
Chapter 3 The Pawn
After work, yet again, Randall was pushing Sully to the limit. Randall seemed to be getting pretty tired of trying to knock Sully out of the company. So, he seemed fed up with it.
"Ok that's good enough Sullivan" Randall said, sending the door back. Sully was sweating his mind out. Thankfully, Randall handed him a towel, who then folded his four arms. "You think its easy to become a scarer Sullivan?!" Randall said, stretching his arms back, making his chest rise. "Let me give you an example....our boss Waternoose himself was a scarer......" Randall said, getting another towel. "Our boss?...Wow..." Sully said. "Yes...but....you're lucky I'm training you" Randall said, moving over to his desk.
"I mean....after all you've done to me.....I'm not sure why I'm trying..." Randall said at a bit of a growl. "Oh Randall....I...was a jerk then...but my parents knew about it but since that one....thing...I've decided to stop when I saw you again...." Sully said. "Yeah....well...my brother sure showed you...." Randall said with a whisper. "I guess we could....be equal..." Sully asked. "Equal?.....Equal?.....Sure...." Randall said with a sarcastic tone. He turned as Sully looked back. "Just get out of my sight....You can just say I'm through with you in this...this training...I've done as much as I could, your on your own..." Randall said turning back. Trying to think of something to say, Sullivan sighed and slowly exited out the Floor's back door.
"(Equal!? Him and Me!? That's it! He can stay here! But he'll never be a scarer)" Randall thought, closing a brief case filled with files, and started into the hall that Scare Floor F was connected to. He got near Roz's desk, but then stopped. A shadow came from beside Roz's area. Randall looked up to see who was coming......It was Waternoose.
"Ah Randall...". "Oh...Waternoose...sir....what are you doing here...so....so late?" Randall asked. "Well my boy, I am the CEO" Waternoose said, coming over to hi. "Yes well..." Randall said. "Well since I found you at a good time.....why don't you and me talk at my mansion, I need to talk to you.....I'll give you tomorrow off so we can talk" Waternoose said.
"?....Waternoose sir....I need to kept my numbers up" Randall said. "Oh my boy....don't worry...you have a load of confidence and the skill of the finest scarer....you won't be beaten...." Waternoose said. "Oh yeah...that....its not like any of those scarers would beat m.....uh.." Randall stuttered, thinking he should just get to the point. "Uh...well...ok I guess..." Randall said. "Good my boy.....I'll meet you mid day tomorrow..." Waternoose said, patting Randall on the back. "Now go get some sleep, I can't have any of my scarers falling asleep" Waternoose said with a grin.
Randall could tell Waternoose really wanted to talk...but about what? "......Yeah....see ya..." Randall said, trailing to the front entrance, his tail swishing rhythmically behind him as he turned to another hall.
"....(Yes....he's perfect....)" Waternoose thought, heading back the way he came.......
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Randall looked at the huge mansion of Waternoose's from outside the gate. "Oh boy.....one of these day's I'll have a party in a place like this....." Randall thought. He opened the bronze gate, not bothering slipping through which he could have. He headed up the cobble stone path. He passed gardens of flowers, keeping his tail close from the more....."forceful flowers" that could easily bite it off.
"Guess Waternoose has no need for guards....hmph..." Randall said to himself as he continued. He passed a couple fountains that were spitting out shinning water into their lower area, the sun shinning the water itself. Randall stopped beside one and looked up at the mansion. "Hmm....reminds me of that worker Ted....hmph....idiot could live in this thing if he didn't squish it first...." Randall said. The mansion was white with gold framing. Windows that seemed to be constantly transparent. Randall could sight a window washer on one of the far windows. The cutting of grass can be heard and he turned seeing a monster like Smitty on the Scare Floor cutting with a triangle type mower.
"(Even his own personal crew?.....How is he getting all this?)" Randall asked to himself as he went up the small stairs to a blue wood door. Pillars with a Waternoose carved into them, holding up the over head block of stone. Next to the door was an inner com, which Randall pressed. "Randall...is that you?" Waternoose's voice came. "Yes its me..." Randall said. ".....You alone?" Waternoose asked. Randall felt something up his reptilian spine....why did Waternoose ask that? "......Yes I am...." Randall said, still unsure. "Good, come in...second floor in the dinning room" Waternoose said as the door unlocked.
*
Inside, the whole room was sparkling marble....or rather what seemed marble. Black and whit like a chess board the room was. Over head was stairs. Randall headed forward onto the carpet and stopped in the middle of the room and looked back toward the entrance. A staircase that went on the right and curved to the right to a higher floor. On the walls were pictures of the previous Waternoose clan. Randall looked above to see a crystal chandelier. "Crystal?" Randall questioned. Crystal was a rare find in Monstropolis. But it can be imported, but at a high cost.
Randall turned around and saw there was another hall that led deeper into the mansion. Not wanted to take a tour, Randall started up the stair case. He circled upward as he neared the second floor. "(.....What's with Waternoose?.....Are you alone?....Hmm....well....He did get me into the company....I guess I don't need to be suspicious)" Randall pondered. He got up to a stable floor and went to the left into a blue hall with gold triangles. He slowly walked ahead, seeing pottery set on desks, expensive. "(Perfect rich guy.....nope...not me....)" Randall thought. He continued and then stopped and turned to the left. There was the dinning room. He headed in, seeing Waternoose at the far end. The room was wood, a long table with eight chairs with holes for tails set around. Randall closed the door and headed over.
"Randall my boy...." Waternoose said, getting up and heading over to him. "Please spare me the welcome...what is it you wanted to discuss?" Randall asked, sitting down in the nearest chair, planting his back against the chair, his tail and back legs near the floor with his front feet in the air, ignoring the tail hole.
"Well....get comfortable...my cook can fix you anything..." Waternoose said. Randall's fronds moved bit. "(Where is he getting at?") Randall pondered. "....Lets just get down to business" Randall said. "Very well then...." Waternoose said, heading over to the far chair, him and Randall across from each other. Randall crossed his front legs and starred at him.
"As I'm sure you know....my family has preserved Monsters Inc. for 3 generations" Waternoose began. "Please spare me the story" Randall said, rolling his eyes. "Well.....so far the company has been sustaining power...we might get shut down when we start losing power..." Waternoose said. "This concerns me how? Even if the company goes down I can always get a new scarer job...." Randall said.
Waternoose clamps his hands together, making Randall feel something boil in his mind. ".......Do you realize....why I took you in?....I'm more of a respective CEO rather than those others....I took you in because I knew you would do as good as your brother....think about it......who'd take you into their company?" Waternoose said.
Randall looked down at his side. Being reminded of his brother, and how that he was only accepted into Monsters Inc by Waternoose's courtesy. "I.....I guess your right..." Randall said. "...Now my boy.....I've come up with an idea that would help both you and me...." Waternoose said. "....What idea?" Randall asked, still worried about getting fired. "You see....one scarer can make about one canister per child..." Waternoose began. "Yeah...." Randall said, raising and eyebrow.....if he had one that is.
"Well....think if one child could supply fifteen canisters?" Waternoose said, clearly catching Randall's interest. "What are you getting at?" Randall said, moving a bit to get comfortable. Waternoose then went over to a wood desk and pulled out something from a cylinder that went into the desk. He came over to Randall and stretched it out in front of him. It was a blue print.
"You being quite the freelance mechanic...I figured you could make this..." Waternoose said. Randall starred down at the print....the name gave him quite a shiver in his reptile body. "Scream Extractor?" Randall said. "Yes....you see you can make it from pieces inside the factory...you just hook a child to the chair then..." Waternoose began, but Randall jumped onto his feet, pushing the chair back, and now facing Waternoose with a shocked look. "Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Bring in a kid?! You know how dangerous that is!" Randall shouted, his tail and fronds up, like what he will do when Fungus starts spitting out in the bathroom.
"Its easy to bring one in at night.....with your ability's, you can think of something.....but Extracting a child doesn't take as much work as...." Waternoose began. Randall took his right feet back a step, his fronds and tail feeling as if about to pop out.
"What!? I don't wanna hurt a kid! Scare, sure....but hurt! No way! I'm sorry Mr. Waternoose, but you can find someone else to build that....that thing!" Randall stated, almost disgusted, and started toward the door.
"But think of what you could have! Revolutionizing the Scare industry would make you millions!" Waternoose said. "I'm not interested in money boss!" Randall said, having reached the handle. "But think....you could be famous..." Waternoose said. Randall was halfway through the door, but stopped, moving back to get Waternoose in his sights.
"...Think of the respect and praise you'll receive...." Waternoose said. Randall moved back, closing the door. He looked down at the marble floor. "(....Respect?.....I would get that?....I've.....tried so hard over those years....but its a risk....then again....this...this might be a chance....)" Randall thought. "....I'm.....I don't know..." Randall said, all he could say. "....Randall....listen to me....you have to either make this or get fired and never work in the Scare industry as I have so granted to you....besides....with you fired, everything goes crashing down for you...." Waternoose said. "(Fired?!.....no......maybe....I should do it......yeah I can.....I mean.....getting a simple feeling one deserves?.....But I have to at least tell him....)" Randall thought. He went back over to Waternoose and sighed out, trying to get things in order, so he finally would speak.
".....Its....not a deal yet but.....if....I make this thing.....I'll get all that you said I would?" Randall asked. "Of course...." Waternoose said. "So its a deal?" Waternoose asked. "(Think about it......all I ever wanted....and seeing Sullivan working for me!.....I....don't want to hurt a kid through....but I have to do it....I've gone through so much....I need to change it for the better...." Randall thought. "Ok....but halve deal....I'm not fully in it yet....I'm in the consideration part ok...." Randall said. ".....Alright Randall....you think about it...." Waternoose said. "But I still don't want to hurt a kid....." Randall said. "Yes, yes, yes....now....go home and rest....I'll said over a good pay for you...." Waternoose said, patting Randall's back, and Randall then headed to the door, but then stopped.
"Uh sir.......there's something I've been meaning to ask you....I think its the right time and all" Randall began. "Yes?". "......Has anything on my brother come up? Or know anything else about his disappearance" Randall asked. "Randolph?.....uh....well...no...nothing at all..." Waternoose said, seeming to stutter. "Well.......remember that I'm not getting my scales ripped or being banished..." Randall said, heading out.
He closed the door behind him and went back over to the stairs. "(...Hurt a kid?.....But....get what I always wanted.....but its such a deep deal.....even if I don't do it...I'm done for....fired and taking a long shot chance of getting even a simple job....I just hope I'm not being forced in something again.....)" Randall said, reaching the base floor. "....Because it always hurt me more....".
*
"(He's getting suspicious....I tried being thoughtful with Randolph....maybe I need to try a different approach to Randall....perhaps being forceful and getting him with what he is best at.....yes...)" Waternoose said in thought, alone. "(Hmm...I have to keep an eye on him....)" Waternoose thought. "Hmm....I have seen him and Sully doing something after work...but Randall's not the cheating type....hmm..." Waternoose. "(Ha! Randall's the pawn.....I'll take care of him just like I did his brother!)"........
Explains allot don't it? You see, Ran wasn't going to do it at first.
Anyhow, I'd like to end this with saying, happy birthday Randall!