Atomic Puppet: New Adventures

Chapter 14: Atomic Cruise

If there's one thing that Phillip Felt was skilled at, it was bragging about his beloved pet cat, Bubbles; a skill that he'd mastered after seven years of practice.

To him it was an art. One that he never hesitated to use anywhere.

"STAND ASIDE! MAKE WAY! HERE COMES THE CUTEST CAT EVER!"

Including now, at Mega City's docks, where the Felt family, (including Pauline, and the disguised AP), were now boarding the S.S. Regent, on an all-expense paid cruise to the Caribbean, thanks to Bubble.

Now Phil will brag about Bubbles for basically any sort of reason, (which of course annoyed everybody), but winning a cruise was something truly worth boasting about; and Phil was more than glad to share his cat's accomplishment with everybody around him as the Felts made their way towards the front desk of the ship's lobby.

"Ah," said a man behind the front desk, dressed in a fancy, white suit. "You must be the Felt family. I'm Mr. Seamen: manager of the S.S. Regent."

Phil: "That's right. I'm Phillip Felt and this my wife, Vivian, our beloved cat, Bubbles, our other cat, Scruffy, (though he used to be my mother's at before she died), our daughter, Abby, our son Joey, and our son's girlfriend, Pauline Bell."

"And this," said Vivian as she wrapped one arm around Pauline's belly while pointing at it with the other, "is our future grandchild."

Joey: "MOM!"

Pauline: "SERIOUSLY!"

Mr. Seamen: "Aw congratulations.

Joey: "Thanks. We're excited about this baby. But would you mind keeping it to yourself. My girlfriend and I prefer our privacy."

Mr. Seamen: "No worries. Anyways, allow me to take you all to your deluxe suite."

Pauline: "Cool thanks."

Five minutes later

"Here we are," said Mr. Seamen, opening the door while saying this: revealing a two bedroom suite, (one having two beds while the other had one), with king sized beds, a bathroom attached to each room, a living area containing a three-person couch, two beanbag chairs, a coffee table, and a flat screened TV. The entire suite itself was decorated with sparkling, aquatic themed Knick knacks."

Phil: "Holy mother of suite, "see what I did there".

Abby: "Wow."

Vivian: "Amazing."

Pauline: "Impressive."

Joey: "Cool."

AP: "Eh, I've seen better suites."

Everyone immediately turned their heads towards AP with shocked faces.

"I mean uh meow," said AP, trying to cover things up.

"Eh," said Mr. Seamen as if nothing unordinary had happened, "I've seen a lot of weirder stuff during my time on this ship. So here's your keys to the suite, a map and schedule of the boat, oh and enjoy your time on the S.S. Regent."

"Oh we will," said Phil. "And thank you Mr. Seamen," says this while giving the man a tip.

"No, thank you," replied Mr. Seamen as he left the suite, closing the door behind him.

As soon as he left, everybody turned their attention towards AP, with angry looks on their faces.

"Look," said AP, trying to cover things up, "I know I made a mistake, but like the guy said, he's seen weirder stuff. Plus I haven't exactly played the part of a cat in over five years."

"Yah will you better refresh yourself, or you're going overboard," threatened Abby.

Vivian: "Whoa, whoa, whoa, easy Abby. Let's just forget the whole ordeal, unpack our bags, and start exploring."

"I'm into that agreed Phil. "So which couple gets a bedroom to themselves?"

After debating for five minutes, Phil and Vivian ended up getting the bedroom with only one bed, due to how they were the ones who took Bubbles to the cat pageant in the first place.

Then after a few minutes of unpacking, the family dropped Bubbles and AP at the cat spa, splitting up afterwards with the intention of meeting up for dinner later at the ship's five star buffet.

Phil & Vivian

For the last two months, Phil and Vivian had been doing research on the cruise ship that they were going on, figuring out what they needed to do most. Right now they were participating in a couple's limbo contest on the sky deck.

The Felts had managed to make it through the first ten rounds of the competition with twenty, (out of thirty), couples being eliminated.

"Okay everyone," said one of S.S. Regent's Disc Jockeys. "It's time for round eleven. Mike, Joseph lower the bar down two our second lowest position, and let's see which of our couples are the true limbo masters."

The crowd burst into cheers as the remaining couples lined back up, (with Vivian and Phil in the back of the line), while Mike and Joseph, "who are cruise ship employees", lowered the bar down as ordered.

Vivian: "Oh boy, this is exciting. I can't believe we're in the final ten."

"I can. After all, we've won every limbo contest that we have participated in since we met," boasted Phil.

Vivian: "Good point. Alright let's do this!"

A few minutes later

Disc Jockey: "Ladies and gentlemen, our winners for today's limbo contest are Mr. and Mrs. Phillip and Vivian Felt."

Everyone on the sky deck began cheering as the Disc Jockey handed the Felts a small trophy of two people doing the limbo.

Phil & Vivian: "BEST VACATION EVER!"

Joey & Pauline

Joey and Pauline were at the ship's massive, (and fully stocked), arcade, playing the two person Alien Blaster VII game together.

Joey's mom had wanted them to come join her and Phil in the limbo competition, however, the idea sounded pretty much like a double date. Which made the younger couple feel too awkward to participate in, especially since it was with Joey's parents.

So far Joey was on fire, "not literally", due to having seen all seven Alien Blaster movies at least a dozen times each.

"C'mon, c'mon," Joey said to himself as he kept getting closer to winning the game. All he had to do was destroy a few more aliens and victory would be his.

"Just as a few more, and…YES!" Shouted Joey in success. "Victory is mine."

"Yah, and you only had to lose twenty four different games before finally finding one to beat me in," remarked Pauline in an amused sounding voice.

Joey: "In my defense you're more experienced at these games than I, due to you having had more time to play them."

Pauline: "That and I'm way more athletic than you."

Joey: "Hey I thought Stella was the bragging type."

"Ohhhhhhh," responded some random guy near them who'd overheard the conversation, but didn't know what was going on.

Pauline: "Oh no you didn't?"

Joey: "Oh yes I did."

Pauline: "Not a good move Felt."

Joey: "oh really? Than what are you gonna do about it?"

As a response Pauline grabbed Joey's shirt, pulling him close enough that his face was less than half a centimeter apart from hers, and kissed him on the lips.

Random Guy: "Aw come on. Where's the fighting? If you're gonna do something like that, than you need violence, not lovey-dovey mush.

Ignoring the guy, the two young lovers continued their, (now), make out session.

"Umm, best vacation ever," the two said when taking a quick break for air before going back to kissing each other.

AP

The pet spa had everything: massaging cat beds, soothingly hot water with live fish to snack on, mellowing music to further sooth all cats into a state of peace; and right beside the spa was a cat play room, "which Bubbles was currently playing in at the moment", with all sorts of toys for the felines to play with.

"Meowsah," said AP in response to affects he was getting from one of the misusage beds.

Surprisingly, AP was quit enjoying his time onboard, especially all the pampering he was receiving. Last time he'd been disguised as a cat, it'd been as a cover at some kitty show while Joey went to find Bubbles; getting kidnapped by Naughty Kitty while doing so. This time, however, he was disguised in order to be able to partake in the family vacation, with no signs of villain, or any crazy cat people onboard, (well, none that were out to kidnap AP anyways).

Plus as Joey had mentioned a few months ago, he was finally able to enjoy interacting with cats, as they didn't see him as a toy, and weren't trying to, (playfully), tear him apart.

AP: "Ah, meow this meow is meow the meow best meow vacation meow every!"

Abby

Abby was definitely enjoying her "personal time" onboard the cruise ship: after unpacking her stuff in their cabin, Abby changed into her black bikini with the plan of going to the ship's outer pool. She was especially excited about the wicked waterslides and soda bar at the pool, "I just made up the soda bar. It like a bar, though it serves only soda/pop related beverages instead of alcohol".

She'd also been enjoying all the attention from the male teens at the pool.

Ever since AP had spread that rumor about her secret crush on Scar Inflictor, the bad boy had begun to completely ignore her. It brock her heart, but after some time thinking about it, Abby began to see that AP and the rest of her family had been right about Scar. So Abby had slowly worked towards moving on by flirting with other guys, and cutting out positive thoughts of Scar from her mind.

At the moment, Abby was laying down on one of the long beach chairs surrounding the deck while enjoying a nice cool, refreshing, cream soda, without any worrisome thoughts in her mind.

Abby: "Best vacation ever."

To be continued…