The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy: Toon Edition

By Vivi Highwind

A/N: I have been reading this book lately and I've just become obsessed. If you have not read this I highly suggest you buy the first book of the ultimate one with all five in one. Also I highly suggest reading the book before you read this so as to not ruin the plot. Also at first I will be quoting a lot of the book but I will drift apart soon (I promise.)This chapter sets up the story. Currently I'm deciding on having Rugrats earth as the earth for this story but if you have an idea of who I could make Arthur into please tell me in a review also tell me if you have an idea for the Zaphod. (oh and Marvin too.)

Marvin: Oh yeah Thanks for including me… I'll be sulking off now

Disclaimer: Douglas Adams's The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy-published by the Random House publishing Group

Copy right dates for the series books as follows

THGTTG- 1979 by Douglas Adams

TRATEOTU- 1980 by Douglas Adams

LTUAE- 1982 by Douglas Adams

SLATFATF- 1985 by Douglas Adams

YZPIS- 1986 by Douglas Adams

MH- 1992 by Serious Productions

Ok here you go,

Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral Arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.

Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-eight million miles is an utterly insignificant blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.

This planet has-- or rather had--a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were concerned with the movement of tiny pieces of paper some fashioned like cards, which was odd because on whole it wasn't the pieces of paper that were unhappy.

And so the problem remained; lots of people were mean, and most of them miserable, even the ones with digital watches.

Many were increasingly of the opinion that they'd all made a terrible mistake in coming down from their primitive tree habitats and down to earth in the first place. And some said that even those trees were a bad move and they shouldn't have even left their prehistoric oceans.

And then, one Thursday nearly two thousand years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how nice it would be to be nice for a change, a girl sitting on her own at Java Lava a small café in a town of little importance or so would I hope to the storyline suddenly realized what it was that had been going wrong all this time, and she really finally knew how the world could be made a good and happy place. This time it was right, it would work, and no one would need to or have to get nailed to anything.

Sadly, however, before she could get to a phone to tell anyone about it, a really terrible, really stupid catastrophe occurred, and the great idea was lost for ever.

This is not her story.

But it is the story of that terrible, stupid catastrophe and some of its consequences.

It is also the story of a wonderful book, a book called The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy—not an Earth book, never published on Earth, and until the terrible catastrophe occurred, never seen or even heard of by any half-wit or whole-wit Earthman.

Nevertheless, a wholly remarkable book.

In fact, it was probably the most remarkable book to come out of the great publishing corporations of Ursa Minor – of which no Earthman had ever heard of either.

Not only is it a wholly remarkable book, it is also a highly successful one—more popular than the celestial Home Care Omnibus, better selling than Fifty-three More Things to Do in Zero Gravity, and more controversial than Homer Simpson's trilogy of philosophical blockbusters, Where God Went Wrong, Some More of God's Greatest Mistakes and Who is This God Person Anyways?

In many of the more relaxed civilizations on the Outer Eastern Rim of the Galaxy, the Hitchhiker's Guide has already supplanted the great Encyclopedia Galactica as the standard repository of all knowledge and wisdom, for though it has many omissions and contain much that is apocryphal, or at least wildly inaccurate, it scores over the older, more pedestrian work in two important respects.

First it is slightly cheaper; and second, it has the words DON'T PANIC inscribed in large friendly letters on its cover.

But the story of this terrible stupid Thursday, the story of its extraordinary consequences, and the story of how the consequences are inextricably intertwined with this remarkable book begins very simply.

It begins with a house.

A/N: please review my work and share your views as to who my characters should be thank you for reading this first chapter.