Fairly Oddparents copyright Viacom
Chapter 38: Everyone Gets Caught
Written: 27 Sep 2006-9 Oct 2006
Posted: 9 Oct 2006
"Timmy! Just what do you think you are doing here?"
"But I thought you had called for me."
"No." Fanny was starting to get a bad feeling about this. Not just because Timmy had disobeyed a direct order to stay with the others, though Fanny had the impression that he wasn't in the habit of following orders, but also because Momma Cosma had known that he was coming. That fact alone never boded well. Fanny had had some dealings with the woman in the past the past. Damn her and her schemes! "No, I didn't."
"Then who did?"
Momma Cosma smiled daintily.
"Oh." Things weren't exactly going in the direction that Fanny had hoped that they would. But how to put things back onto the right track? Fortunately Fanny knew trick. She hoped that it would work. But it needed time, a resource that she seemed to be in short supply of.
So she decided to play to Momma Cosma's weaknesses. "Do you know where is your son is?"
"Of course I do. Don't play games with me, woman. I have a loaded wand here and I'm not afraid to use it."
Fanny smiled. "Yes, but you can't use it to harm humans." But she was bluffing. She knew that fairies could all sorts of nasty things to a human without actually hurting them. She knew from experience with Sally what was and what wasn't possible.
"Actually," Momma Cosma replied, "I was going to turn him into a pig."
Fanny gasped. "Don't!" The idea of somebody being turned to a pig… was just disgusting. She sighed. "I'll do as you say." Or at least pretend to.
"You don't need to worry, Fanny," Timmy said. "I've been into a pig before. It isn't so bad. Really."
Momma Cosma raised an eyebrow. "Oh? I guess maybe I will have to turn into something else then." She paused to think of what it might be.
Fanny took this opportunity to act. She fired a blast at the lights, sending a shower of sparks to rain down.
And everything went black.
-OOO-
Timmy hid under the floorboards still trying to catch his breath. Everything had happened so quickly. It was a wonder that he hadn't been caught already. So what did happen there? Why had he been able to escape so easily?
Quickly he began to think. Fanny shot the magical blast toward the lights plunging the room in shade. That was a great help, except that the front doors were uncovered. So the room was quite light up. And that Momma Cosma had had the grip of a steam shovel. But for some reason she let go of Timmy and… did something.
Timmy just realized that he was probably paying attention to her as he should have had. Now he had absolutely no idea about what's going.
And where's Fanny?
He didn't remember seeing her since Momma Cosma was pointing a wand at his head. And then just like that, she was gone.
Timmy swallowed. It could only mean one thing.
Fanny had been captured.
Or worse.
Ever so cautiously, Timmy opened up the trapdoor overhead took a look around. No one was in sight. He breathed a sigh of relief. Now he could look for Fanny. And everyone else too. With no time to lose, he popped out and shut the trapdoor behind him.
"There you are, twerp!" Timmy froze when the voice blasted into him.
-OOO-
Cosmo floated down the hall and found the nurse's lounge. He opened the door and spotted his cousin. "Lulubelle! What are you doing here?"
"I work here, silly. I'm a nurse, remember? But what are you doing here?"
"I'm looking for Wanda."
"Who's Wanda?"
"She's my wife."
Lulubelle dropped her coffee cup. "You got married?" Then she got kind of pale. "I have to find myself a man." And without another word, she rushed out of there, nearly knocking over Cosmo in the presence.
"Okay. See you around, Lulubelle." He sighed before continuing back on his way. "It's always good to see the family."
He continued down the hall, checking every door that he could open for his beloved Wanda. But every door he looked behind still had no Wanda.
And there was an awful lot of locked doors.
Cosmo stopped in his search when he spotted the human kid wandering the halls. What was really noticeable about the kid was that his baldhead looked like an egg. Though he did look familiar. "What's you in here for, kid?" Cosmo asked. "Did your mother stick here in here to keep you away from your wife?"
"What? I'm not married. I'm just a kid."
"Riiight." Como wasn't born the day before after all.
"Say, have we met? You look like someone I have seen before."
Cosmo shook his head. "I don't think so. Must be somebody else."
The 'egghead' sighed. "I supposed that you're right." He looked around. "What is this place anyway? A sanitarium."
Cosmo got the chills. "It's much worse." Then he scratched his head. "What's sand-a-tour-him?"
The kid considered the answer. "It's a place where they mentally ill."
"Does that include being an idiot?"
"No. I wouldn't think so. Because if they did, they would have to lock up about half of everyone." Then he seemed to remember something. "My name is A.J."
"Oh right," Cosmo said as he shook A.J.'s. "Mine's Cosmo."
"Well, good to meet you, Cosmo. But don't you think that we best be getting out of here."
"Right."
It was several minutes after they had parted ways before Cosmo remembered who that was. It was one of Timmy's best friends, A.J. Ibahim. He went back to look for him, but he was no longer there. "Well… if he got in," he reasoned, "he must know the way out." And if A.J. was there, then perhaps Wanda was as well.
-OOO-
"Funny meeting you here, Vicky." Timmy laughed uneasily. You can never rest too easy around Vicky Spain around.
"Oh, real funny." Vicky was leaning by the door that led to the gift shop. "Yes, real funny. Especially after what I'm going to do to you."
Timmy swallowed. "Which is?"
"Just what I've been wanting to do all week long." She began to approach closer and closer, flashing a smile devoid of any good humor.
Timmy backed up slowly. Sweat formed on the back of his head. "Uh, Vicky, we're in a public place. You'll get caught."
She stepped forward. "As long as I get you before that happens, I don't really care."
Oh.
He felt as if he were falling.
That sinking feeling got worse when he backed up into someone. He looked up. "Ah, I have finally found you," Momma Cosma said.
"Yipe!" Timmy tried to get away, but Momma Cosma caught him.
"Don't run, Timmy. Your friends are waiting for you."