Disclaimer: I own very little. Disney owns Newsies, Aesop owns the fables, other stuff belongs to other people, Ink belongs to me.

*Moral- Don't sue me.


A/N[1]: I'm back! Stupid computer broke down. Better now!






Tale 8: The Ant and the Grasshopper






Ink walks on stage carrying the bullhorn.


Ink on a bullhorn: "I HAVE TWO ANNOUNCEMENTS TO MAKE. ONE, COMPUTERS ARE THE WORK OF THE DEVIL! AND TWO, SINCE EVERYONE IS BETTER, THE SNOGGING CLOSET IS OPEN AGAIN!"


Specs, Dutchy, Snitch, Skittery, Spot, Race, Kid Blink, Mush, Jack, David: "Alright!"


There is a mad rush for the closet.


Ink jumps out of the way and grabs Jack and Race as they are running past.


Much to the disappointment of Spot and David.


Race&Jack: "Hey, what gives?"


Ink: "If you'd care to remember we still have a story to do, Jack go get in costume and Race, go make the costume for Jack."


Spot and Dave both sulk off to occupy themselves while their boyfriends are busy.


Kid Blink: "HA!"


He shoves Mush into the closet and pulls the door closed behind himself.


Mush: "We win!"


The other two couples look dejected for a moment before remembering that they couldn't care less whether or not people could see them making out.


Thus a snogging fest ensues!


Ink: "Guys! Have a little decency would you?"


She is promptly ignored.


Ink: "Race, are the costumes done yet?"


Race: "Almost."


Ink: "Well hurry up!"


Race: "Don't rush me or they'll be wearin' 'Phish' T-shirts again."


Ink: "There are no fish in this story."


Race: "Precisely why you shouldn't rush me!"


Snipeshooter walks out wearing nothing but underwear.


Snipeshooter: "Ink brought me to J.C. Penny's!"


Ink: "SNIPESHOOTER! GET SOME CLOTHES ON!"


Snipeshooter: "But then I can't show off my new underwear."


Les: "I get my underwear at garage sales!"


Ink: "You buy used underwear?"


Les: "Yup."


Everyone takes several large steps away from Les.


Ink: "Snipeshooter go get dressed, and Les, No more sharing any personal information EVER!"


Snipeshooter goes into the dressing room and comes out a few minutes later wearing a Superman T-shirt and his underwear on the outside of his pants.


Ink: "Oh for the love of God!"


Les: "Faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound. Look, up in the sky, it's a bird, it's a plane, it's..."


Snipeshooter: "SUPERMAN!"


Suddenly, out of no where music starts playing.


Itey grabs a random microphone, and begins singing.


Itey: "I took a walk around the world to ease my troubled mind."


He hands the mike to Bumlets.


Bumlets: "I left my body lying somewhere in the sands of time."


He cautiously hands the mike to Ink, who looks indecisive for a moment before shrugging.


Ink: "Oh what the hell, I watched the world float to the dark side of the moon."


By now almost everyone is gathered around and getting into the song.


Skittery: "I feel there's nothin' I can do, yeah."


Jack comes out wearing only half of his costume.


Jack: "I watched the world float to the dark side of the moon."


Dave grabs the mike.


Dave: "After all I knew it had to be something to do with you."


He hands it to Les.


Les: "I really don't mind what happens now and then."


Crutchy: "As long as you'll be my friend at the end."


Dutchy bounds up.


Dutchy: "If I go crazy then will you still call me Superman?"


Jake: "If I'm alive and well will you be there holding my hand?"


Snitch takes the microphone and jumps up on a conveniently placed table.


Snitch: "I'll keep you by my side with my superhuman might, kryptonite!"


Snitch hands it to Spot, who looks directly into Race's eyes.


Spot: "You call me strong, you call me weak but still your secrets I will keep. You took for granted all the times I never let you down."


Race takes the mike, and stares back at Spot with just as much intensity.


Race: "You stumbled in and bumped your head, if not for me then you'd be dead. I picked you up and put you back on solid ground."


Blink and Mush stop making out long enough to join in.


Blink: "If I go crazy then will you still call me Superman?"


He hands off to Specs.


Specs: "If I'm alive and well will you be there holding my hand?"


Pie Eater takes over.


Pie: "I'll keep you by my side with my superhuman might kryptonite!"


Snipeshooter throws his hands up into the air and screams,


Snipeshooter: "YEAH!!!!!!!!!"


Mush: "If I go crazy then will you still call me Superman?"


He gives the mike to Swifty, who says swiftly,


Swifty: "If I'm alive and well will you be there holding my hand?"


Snoody: "I'll keep you by my side with my superhuman might kryptonite!"


Snoody thrusts the mike at Boots, who finishes the song.


Boots: "Ooohhh, oohhh, oohhh."


The music stops and everyone pauses for a second.


Les: "Well, that was weird."


Ink: "So that's what it feels like to randomly break into song."


Snipeshooter: "Lets do another! I can't stand to fly, I'm not that naive..."


Ink: "NO! We are NOT doing another song. We have to do the story!"


Snipeshooter pouts, and everyone goes back to what they were doing.


Snoody walks center stage carrying with him the giant storybook.


Snoody: "One frosty autumn day an ant was busily storing away some of the kernels of wheat which he had gathered during the summer to tide him over the coming winter."


Boots, dressed to resemble an ant, walks onto the stage, and begins stacking cereal boxes.


Ink: "Let me guess, Wheaties?"


Boots: "Yup."


Ink: "Figures."


Snoody: "A grasshopper, half perishing from hunger, came limping by."


Jack, wearing a grasshopper outfit complete with antenna, comes on stage limping over-dramatically.


Snoody: "Perceiving what the industrious ant was doing,"


Jack looks at Boots in an over-dramatic fashion, which is a very hard way to look at something and to date has only been done by Jack himself, and by Jim Carrey, who has the ability to do anything in an over-dramatic fashion.


Snoody: "He asked for a morsel from the ant's store to save his life."


Jack: "Please may I have a bowl of Wheaties, the breakfast of champions, which is sure to tide me over for the entire winter, because everybody knows that grasshoppers only have to eat once in the autumn for their lives to be saved that winter."


Boots: "Neva, Die sucka, I'm da baddest motha whose eva lived!"


Ink: "Boots! You are not now, nor have you ever been Shaft, now stick to the script!"


Boots sighs.


Boots: "Fine."


He turns his attention back to Jack.


Boots: "What were you doing all during the summer while I was busy harvesting?"


Swifty: "Inquired the ant."


Snoody: "Swifty, stop reading over my shoulder, and that's my line! Ahem, Inquired the ant."


Jack: "Oh,"


Snoody: "Replied the grasshopper,"


He says quickly before Swifty has a chance.


Jack: "I was not idle."


Everybody gives him the 'yeah right' look.


Jack: "I was singing and chirping all day long."


Swifty: "'Cause that's much better than doing nothing."


He says sarcastically.


Bumlets: "Hey, somebody's gotta do it."


Ink: "Boys can we wrap this up?"


Boots: "Well,"


Snoody: "Said the ant, smiling grimly as he locked his granary door,"


Boots locks up the boxes of Wheaties, as Jack looks distraught.


Boots: "Since you sang all summer, it looks as though you would have to dance all winter."


Jack: "What the Hell is that supposed to mean you...."


(Here Jack goes into several minutes of swearing at and insulting Boots, including several choice words about his mother. But as this story is still rated PG-13, and I would like to keep it that way, I will not tell you what all Jack said. Instead, I will let you in on a secret because by the time I am done revealing my secret, Jack may be done ranting and raving. So here is my secret, Ever since I was young, I have always had little flying pink elephants which come into my house and steal my Ego waffles in the middle of the night. Now you may go back to the story which is already in progress.)


Jack: "...like a walrus on Tuesdays!"


Everyone else: "......???????"


Jack: "You herd me!"


Ink, who figures it's about time to end the story, goes in search of Snitch, who has yet to do the moral.


She finds him and Skittery together in a corner having an in depth discussion about the differences between Pepsi Vanilla, and Vanilla Coke.


Ink: "Snitch, it's time to do the moral."


Snitch: "Okay."


He turns back to Skittery.


Snitch: "But I still think Pepsi Vanilla tastes more Vanilla-y."


He then runs to the stage arranging the halo as he goes.


Snitch: "Da moral of the story is; It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow."


Ink: "Mush, Blink, Get out of the closet, it's someone else's turn."


She opens the door revealing two nearly naked newsies.


She hastily shuts the door.


Ink: "Finish what your doing, THEN get out of the closet, it's someone else's turn."


The curtain closes.





A/N[2]: I tried to make this chapter as long as possible to apologize for the break. My computer stopped working and I have had to do everything on my friends computer lately. But now I'm back! Yay! Okay, the song Kryptonite is the property of Three Doors Down, and the song Superman belongs to Five For Fighting. I'll try and have another chapter out real soon!

~Ink


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Shoutouts!



T-R-US~ I always do shoutouts, because I love reviews and reviewers! Going into the closet is very fun, Too bad I gave all of my favorite Newsies boyfriends. Lol. Thanks for the review!



FIVEFOLD~ OMG, I loved your review! It made me feel better just reading it. "STAY SICK! But wait again..." That had me laughing for a good ten minutes! I like the grand plan and I'm gonna try and update more often now that my computer is fixed. Thank you for reviewing.



SPAZJOSLYN~ Race got the message! I have made him well again with my magical healing powers.


Race!muse: "Yeah right, healing powers, we're lucky you didn't try and find leaches to cure us!"


Shut up Race, and get out of the shoutouts!


Race!muse: "Fine then, I will."


Good!


Thank you for reviewing, I hope you liked this chapter!



SPECSGLASSES~ Fanfic.com, for some weird reason, will not let me review your story, Survey Says. So I shall tell you in the shoutout that chapters 16 and 17 were awesome! I was cracking up! I LOVE YOUR STORY! Now then, YAY I get new bunny slippers! (Parades around in bunny slippers)


Snitch!muse: "Whoooooo!!!!!! I get lots of chapstick!"


Skittery!muse: (wiggles eyebrows suggestively)


Snitch!muse: (grabs the pixistix and drags Skittery off to Spot's room to test all of the flavors of chapstick which are now available to him.)


Skittery!muse: "Thanks Alarice!!!!!!!!!"


No wonder it took me so long to write this chapter, all of my muses are off somewhere snogging each other! Yay! I got flowers and pretty tissues too! I feel loved! Thank you, thank you, thank you, times infinity for the review!!!



LIAMS KITTEN~ I am easily pleased as well. I can be pleased by the smallest little things, like when my mom makes something cool for dinner! I am in a really rambly mood right now! WHOOOOOOO!!!!!!!! I get a GINORMOUS Teddy Bear! Alright! Dude in the little world inside my head, fishing dohickies really is the technical term! It is in fact the only term anyone is allowed to use. Fishing in puddles is ALWAYS fun! Your Dutchy!muse only has one pair of underwear! Hehehehehe, that was the most amusing thing I've read in a review so far! Sprite up the nose is always fun!(hands you a tissue.) OMG, that's how I wear chapstick too! Poor LK has no money for marshmallows : ( (Glares at evil Spot!muse) She deserves pity you big meanie! Your reviews STILL amuse me!!!!! I am better now, thank you for the well wishes! Hehehehe, Skittery will rock me! (wiggles eyebrows suggestively) LOL! Thank you for reviewing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!