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(X-files style)

Croft Manor 7.30 am

*A cockerel is heard...*

*...followed by a gun shot.*

*Silence, except for the flapping of wings as birds fly from trees*

*Lara knocks on a door*

*DK opens the door to his bedroom*

Lara: Morning DK!

DK: What's that smell?

Lara: 7.30!

DK: *groan*

Lara: Hurry up, it's time to go! By the way, do you know you have your pants on backwards?

DK: *looking down* Didn't know I had any pants on......

*Lara then proceeds down the hallway knocking on all the doors and calling the Crofteers*

Lara:Time to go adventuring!

*She meets TTL walking the other way, head in a book and still in her pajamas*

Lara: Ready, TTL?

TTL: Absolutely, give me 5 minutes!

*Meanwhile... Downstairs, Lude is snoring loudly on top of the breakfast table, in a pile of drool, clutching an empty cookie jar. TTL wonders in and puts on the kettle. After making a pot she carefully, trying to avoid the drool, pours a cup of tea into Lude's mouth. LM then marches into the kitchen fresh from the shower and flapping her wings dry. She hooks Lude up with a morphine drip.*

LM: *clapping hands proudly* There, that should do it!

TTL: *tea pot in hand* LM! I'm trying to get her OFF that stuff!

LM: My dear TTL, it's kinda like dropping your keys in a lava pit- forget 'em hon, they're gone. Some things are just a lost cause...

*Kitty then appears through the cat flap, swishing her tail behind her and searching out some ice cream.*

LM: Morning Kitty, good night on the tiles?

Kitty: *kicking off shoes* Owwww...... my paws are killing me!!!

Lude: *mumbling* Fobberbob bob mooooo mooch pertang zig ziig eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek

TTL: *grinning* Excellent! She's coming round!

*Dagger enters*

DOX: Morning all!

LM: Dagger, have you been up all night?

DOX: Well, yeah! I didn't want to get left behind again! Plus, something was moving around down here last night - kept waking me up.

TTL: It was probably Lude, although she was upstairs for most of the night...

*TRC then enters the kitchen looking lovely as ever.*

All:*Grin*

LM: How do you do that?

TRC: Ah... I have a secret!

Kitty: Oh come on! Share! We're all girls here...

Lude :*burp*

Kitty: Well, of sorts...

TRC: It's simple!

*TRC gestures for the gals to come closer.*

TRC: I floss!

All: HUH!?

*Just then, Donny joins them, dressed in black and loaded with more weapons and ammo then you could shake a stick at.*

Donny: Morning ladies!

Lude: *burp*

Donny: ...and Lude...

TTL: Well, we are all almost here, where's DK?

Donny: He's having a fight with his pants.

TTL: And Diva?

LM: Oh, she left early, said she had to catch the shops and she would catch up later.

TRC: Any news of Aqua?

LM: Naaaa... that was one STRANGE night!

All: *nodding in agreement* yeah...

*The gang stand in silence for a moment trying to figure out if last night was just some really weird dream they had all had.*

Lude: *breaking the silence, sitting bolt upright and shouting* TURNIPS! *then falling back on the breakfast table*

TTL: Oh dear... we REALLY need to bring her round quicker. If only I had some bacon I could cook, that usually does it...

Kitty: *licking the ice cream off her paws* Why don't you just stick her head in a bowl of water?

TTL: Nah. I tried that once. She just drowns.

Kitty: I was joking!

*Just then the gang hear a low rumbling noise growing louder by the second. The house shakes as something flies over the top of it. The Crofteers run to the back garden just in time to see Lara landing a helicopter on the lawn!*

TTL: I HATE it when she does that! Winston will NOT be pleased!

LM: Well, looks like our lift is here.

Donny: *snapping a magazine into his Uzi and loading it* It's about time!

Kitty: Off to the factory then!

Lude: *suddenly sitting up* The Factory!!! Rapunzel!

*Lara bolts through the door*

Lara:Right, gang! Let's go!

Lude: WOOHOOOO!!!!

Lara: Ahhh... erm... Lude, I have a very important job for you to do...

Lude: OOOOOOooooo, are you sure ?

Lara: Yes. You are the only one I can trust to do this.

*The others look confused and even more so as Lara begins to lay newspaper down on the floor.*

Lara: I want you to stay here, and if Aqua comes back or any of the other Crofteers I want you to bring them with you in the jeep. Got it?

Lude: Bring jeep, leave others, yes got it, but you are forgetting one thing - I have the ticket to Milly Monka's Mole Factory. It's in my pocket.

Lara: No,it's in mine. I took it last night.

*Lude's bottom lip begins to quiver*

TTL: Oh dear! Better stand clear, everyone!

*Lude then begins to have the biggest tantrum in the history of all tantrums.*

Lara: *sigh* Lude, GET UP!!! Alright, alright! You can come with us.

Lude: *jumping to her feet* Cool! Can I fly the copter?

Lara: NO!

*Lude pouts*

Lara: Let's go!

*All the Crofteers grab their backpacks and head out to the garden as Lara fires up the engine. Just as they are taking off, DK runs out of the house and jumps into the helicopter!*

Lara: *shouting over the noise of the engine* All set, DK?

DK: *groans*

Lara: You still have your pants on the wrong way 'round.

DK: *looking down* Damn it!

*Meanwhile, back in the house, all is quiet again, but it appears not empty as something is still inside, moving around...*