At the Monsters Inc Corporation, there was commotion. They were fifteen
minutes late, which meant business was not running smoothly, like it was
meant to be. There were monsters running everywhere, carrying bottles of
"laugh" – the energy source – monsters not knowing what to do since their
boss was not there... and everything else.
"See what your exercise made me do?" Sully muttered to Mike, whose mouth was hanging open in shock. "QUIET!" Sully's loud voice boomed and echoed throughout the main hall. All the monsters froze and turned to look at Sully. "All of you will return to your positions at once!" Mike had finally regained use of his mouth, and was speaking on behalf of Sully, since he was their boss. A babble of low talk broke out in the hall suddenly afterwards, as Sully and Mike had left the hall to collect "laugh" from the door factory. The monsters at Monsters Inc entertained young children instead of scaring them, and the energy was ten times more effective than "scream" – their old power source. Monsters used to think that children were poisonous, and dared not touch them, in case they were to die. But this was not true – Sully and Mike's adventures with a child– "Boo" as Sully had called her - proved this wrong.
So their old boss, Mr Waternoose, a greyish monster with six legs, and skin with the texture of lumpy glue, said he would kidnap a thousand children before he let the company die; and therefore was arrested by the CDA: (Child Detection Agency).
He was never seen again, so all the monsters thought that this meant it was the end of Monsters Inc, but Sully took charge of the company, running the monster world with cleaner "laugh" energy instead of "scream".
In the door factory - the place where children's wardrobe doors were used to visit the children and entertain them - was at least a hundred doors or so, standing in rows, held up by machinery. Monsters were waiting on one side of each door to collect the "laugh" after each monster had finished with entertaining the child.
A low siren indicating the monsters were coming for the training alerted the other monsters by the doors. They all pressed a white button to one side of a panel near the door, and instantly a hundred bright lights were flashing above the doors.
Suddenly, a door at least two garages wide, at the front side of the room, opened, revealing all the monsters, and up front was none other than Mike, top entertainer.
The monsters lined up in front of one door each, looking ready, some had wide grins on their faces, others looking nervous that they might scare the child and get the wrong type of energy.
Mike lined up in front of quite a strange looking door, a door the colour of quicksand.
A light labelled "standby" flashed on, just as Mike was checking if his door was a real child's door; he and the monster had finished arguing when the "standby" light went out with a flicker, and was instantly replaced by a light: "entertain".
Some monsters trampled, some squeezed, some pushed and some shot through the doors like bullets. Mike walked casually and briskly through his door.
Inside there was a plain white bedroom, with a child sitting in a bed, eyeing Mike with interest.
Mike grabbed a stool and sat down, ready for action.
"Hi! My name's Mike! What's yours? Mike asked, expecting an answer. But the child, instead of answering, burst out laughing right on the spot.
"What? What is it?" Mike asked in confusion. "Is it my eye? Is it my horns? Is it the fact that I have no hair or fur? Come on, kid – out with it!"
But the child laughed harder.
Very bothered, Mike walked out of the door muttering about time wasters.
"You did well, Mike! You're well ahead of everyone else!" Said a short, long jawed monster – Ricky. "No surprise in that!" Mike breathed, as another set of doors were collected by the silver, arm-like machinery, and were brought down to their places, for the monsters to start entertaining children again.
After about twelve doors, Mike hurried off, thinking: "I can't be here any longer... I have paperwork to finish... or Roz will be after my eye!"
"See what your exercise made me do?" Sully muttered to Mike, whose mouth was hanging open in shock. "QUIET!" Sully's loud voice boomed and echoed throughout the main hall. All the monsters froze and turned to look at Sully. "All of you will return to your positions at once!" Mike had finally regained use of his mouth, and was speaking on behalf of Sully, since he was their boss. A babble of low talk broke out in the hall suddenly afterwards, as Sully and Mike had left the hall to collect "laugh" from the door factory. The monsters at Monsters Inc entertained young children instead of scaring them, and the energy was ten times more effective than "scream" – their old power source. Monsters used to think that children were poisonous, and dared not touch them, in case they were to die. But this was not true – Sully and Mike's adventures with a child– "Boo" as Sully had called her - proved this wrong.
So their old boss, Mr Waternoose, a greyish monster with six legs, and skin with the texture of lumpy glue, said he would kidnap a thousand children before he let the company die; and therefore was arrested by the CDA: (Child Detection Agency).
He was never seen again, so all the monsters thought that this meant it was the end of Monsters Inc, but Sully took charge of the company, running the monster world with cleaner "laugh" energy instead of "scream".
In the door factory - the place where children's wardrobe doors were used to visit the children and entertain them - was at least a hundred doors or so, standing in rows, held up by machinery. Monsters were waiting on one side of each door to collect the "laugh" after each monster had finished with entertaining the child.
A low siren indicating the monsters were coming for the training alerted the other monsters by the doors. They all pressed a white button to one side of a panel near the door, and instantly a hundred bright lights were flashing above the doors.
Suddenly, a door at least two garages wide, at the front side of the room, opened, revealing all the monsters, and up front was none other than Mike, top entertainer.
The monsters lined up in front of one door each, looking ready, some had wide grins on their faces, others looking nervous that they might scare the child and get the wrong type of energy.
Mike lined up in front of quite a strange looking door, a door the colour of quicksand.
A light labelled "standby" flashed on, just as Mike was checking if his door was a real child's door; he and the monster had finished arguing when the "standby" light went out with a flicker, and was instantly replaced by a light: "entertain".
Some monsters trampled, some squeezed, some pushed and some shot through the doors like bullets. Mike walked casually and briskly through his door.
Inside there was a plain white bedroom, with a child sitting in a bed, eyeing Mike with interest.
Mike grabbed a stool and sat down, ready for action.
"Hi! My name's Mike! What's yours? Mike asked, expecting an answer. But the child, instead of answering, burst out laughing right on the spot.
"What? What is it?" Mike asked in confusion. "Is it my eye? Is it my horns? Is it the fact that I have no hair or fur? Come on, kid – out with it!"
But the child laughed harder.
Very bothered, Mike walked out of the door muttering about time wasters.
"You did well, Mike! You're well ahead of everyone else!" Said a short, long jawed monster – Ricky. "No surprise in that!" Mike breathed, as another set of doors were collected by the silver, arm-like machinery, and were brought down to their places, for the monsters to start entertaining children again.
After about twelve doors, Mike hurried off, thinking: "I can't be here any longer... I have paperwork to finish... or Roz will be after my eye!"