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Bijou's Babysitter Blues
Chapter 7: A Love of Maxwell and Green Day
"You'll never get away with this, Tekkie!" Stan yelled as he, like all the others, was tied to the couch by way of sticky tape.
"Of course I will!" Tekkie scowled in her nasally voice. "No one can stop me!"
"I know," Stan shifted his nose to adjust his sunglasses. "I just always wanted to say that."
"This is like, so not the time to be dramatic!" Sandy told her brother. "Does anyone have a clue about, like, what's gonna happen to us?"
"Not at all." Bijou and Pashmina sighed together.
"Well, I guess I'll just have to fill you in then!" Tekkie smiled devilishly.
"Fill us up! Fill us up!" Pretzel and Cinnamon yelled, their mouths hanging open.
"Lower life forms!" she smacked them both on the head and gave her attention to the teenagers. "Now, get ready for punishment!"
She picked up the remote and flicked it on.
"Wha-what's this?" asked Stan cautiously.
"A four hour documentary on the Salt-Sucking Sodiopterus!" she squealed with glee and took a seat on the couch.
"NOOOOOO!" Stan shouted. Everyone knew that educational things were definitely not his strong point.
"Welcome to the Boring Science Fun Presentation." Droned the voice on the screen. "Today we will be discussing the topic of the Salt-Sucking Sodiopterus. This creature's main food supply is salt, so let us spend twenty minutes looking at detailed close-ups of salt crystals."
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"Auuuuuggghhh…!" Bijou moaned after watching an hour and a half of the horribly boring production. They had moved on from looking at salt crystals to examining pictures drawn by three year olds of what the Salt-Sucking Sodiopterus looked like.
"How are you all fairing out?" Tekkie smirked.
"Make…it…stop!" Sandy cried.
"Horrible, truly horrible." Stan said with his eyes wide.
"Actually I find this quite interesting." Maxwell said.
"Really?" Tekkie's head shot up and she walked over to Maxwell.
"Indeed." He said. "I particularly liked the forty-seventh salt crystal. Magnificent!"
Tekkie suddenly saw Maxwell in a whole different light. "You know…" she sighed. "You're really dreamy when you're thinking."
"What are you…?" Maxwell began. But Sandy extended her elbow and hit him.
She hissed into his ear, "This is our chance! Play along with it!"
"Uh, thank you!" Maxwell said oddly. "Please, could you show me some more of this stuff?"
"Of course!" Tekkie cried happily, flushed with red. "Come with me!"
She pulled off the tape and led Maxwell by the hand into another room.
"Wait! Maxy, come back!" Sandy cried. "You were supposed to set us all free!"
"Don't fret Sandy," Stan said, pulling his hands out from behind his back. "I was waiting for a moment like this."
"Stan!" Pashmina said happily. "You escaped?"
"A long time ago." Stan said. "I just had to wait for Tekkie to leave."
He stood up, stretched his arms, and freed all the girls, as well as Pretzel and Cinnamon. Then, with one awesome move, he spun around and turned off the TV with his foot.
The girls could not help but be grateful and they all gave him a 'Thank You' to show it.
"Let's go rescue Maxwell now." Sandy said, a little worried. They found Maxwell and Tekkie in the kitchen, a bunch of videos scattered around them.
"And this," said Tekkie, holding up a videotape. "Is the two hour special on bacteria! It's one of my personal favorites."
Maxwell did not respond, he just looked severely annoyed. "Maxwell!" Sandy cried, happy to see that he was not enjoying himself.
"Sandy!" he said, hugging her. "This is humiliating! Help!"
"What?" Tekkie said, looking confusedly at Maxwell and Sandy. "Bodily confrontation by draping the arms tightly around each other's shoulders?"
"Uh, it's called a hug, girl." Sandy said, her eyebrows rising. "People do this. Well, normal people do this."
"What is this hug you speak of?" Tekkie said, putting a finger delicately on her glasses.
"Ugh," Pashmina spoke up. "We don't have this sort of time! Someone explain to her what a hug is!"
"Maxwell's the one with the dictionary." Stan said plainly. Everyone nodded and eventually, Maxwell was outnumbered.
"Oh, alright." He spat, taking out his dictionary from his bag. "Hug. Bodily contact between two people involving arms stretching across the shoulders of the other person. Sign of affection."
"I think it's really cool how you carry a dictionary around all the time." Tekkie said, spacing out a bit.
Apparently, nothing of what Maxwell said had gotten to her. However, Maxwell couldn't help feeling a little complemented.
"Why thank you!" he said happily. "I always keep it in my bag, right next to my formula for self creating energy!"
Tekkie's eyes scanned her surroundings, and then, with one quick motion, she darted her hand inside Maxwell's bag and pulled out a few sheets of paper.
"This is genius!" Tekkie said.
"Yes, I dare say it is. Now if you'll just give it back to-" Maxwell was cut off.
"Mine!" she swatted Maxwell's hands away and jumped off the table. Quickly, she snatched her bag and by the time she was running out the door, the teens could barely hear her screaming, "I'm rich! Rich, rich, rich!"
"Gee, sorry Maxwell." Sandy said, patting him on the back.
"Oh, it's okay Sandy!" Maxwell said cheerily. "At least I still have my documents on how to bring about world peace!"
He reached into his bag, but screamed in shock as Pretzel and Cinnamon popped their heads out of the bag, bits of paper in their mouth.
"Cinnamon and Pretzel eat funny white thingies with black scribbles!" Pretzel said dementedly. Cinnamon followed with a cheer.
"Now I'm ruined!" Maxwell cried, curling up in the corner.
"Don't worry Max!" Sandy cried. "I'm sure you have more things in your lab!"
"But," Maxwell walked over to his backpack. "This is my lab!"
He pressed a small button on the side of the backpack, and instantly, it transformed into a huge laboratory with lots of bubbling test tubes. Of course, everything was trashed thanks to Pretzel and Cinnamon.
"This is terrible!" Maxwell said sadly. "But maybe…no, it's far too optimistic to think that…but maybe, I have to go check!"
"Maxwell," Bijou said. "What are you talking about?"
In response he led them to a platform in the middle of the lab. Then he punched in a code, and the platform lowered and brought them down into a small chamber. At the end of a chamber, there was a shimmering glass case. Maxwell walked down and removed the case.
"Yes!" he jumped in happiness. "It's still here!"
"What is it?" Pashmina's head poked above the rest to get a good look.
"My prize experiment!" Maxwell cried. "It's a portable interactive system with handheld playable features! I call it the GameBoy Advanced!"
Stan frowned. "Uh, dude, that thing's been outdated since like, three years ago."
"What?" was all Maxwell could mutter.
"It's already been invented." Bijou said sadly.
"Oh," Maxwell sounded disappointed. "Well, that was quite embarrassing. Let's go back up now."
Maxwell hung his head. Just as they were heading up, the floor tilted, and they fell down! Not down on the floor, down…into the depths of the GameBoy…
Nobody acted the least bit surprised as they tumbled down the pitch-black vortex, landing in a heap upon a grassy area. In fact, Bijou even yawned as they fell.
"It figures…" Pashmina scoffed as she picked herself up.
"Hmm, how do we get out?" Maxwell puzzled.
"Are you kidding?" Stan gave an exasperated look. "We're inside a freakin' video game and all you guys can think of is how to get out? It's our world in here! No one can tell us what to do or what to say, or what to eat!"
"That mean we can eat blueberry pie all day?" Pretzel asked Stan.
Stan nodded.
"BLUEBERRY PIE!" screamed Pretzel, as well as Cinnamon, and in a matter of seconds they had launched themselves onto Stan.
"Whaaoooo!" Stan mumbled, as he toppled backwards and tripped over something, smashing it to pieces.
"Who goes there?" called a voice from inside a bush.
"Gah!" Pashmina shouted. "There are other people here too?"
"Duh, it's a video game!" Sandy responded. "And this seems to be a really old game. Everything is 2-D. So that means…"
Sandy walked over to the bush. Because it wasn't three dimensional, it was flat, and on the other side she saw a small blue figure. Sandy picked it up and held it out to her friends.
"No…way! It's Sonic the Hedgehog!" Stan cried joyously. "I've been waiting for this day!"
"Oh no, it is I who've been waiting for this day!" Sonic exclaimed. "You, the hero who smashed the music box!"
Stan looked over his shoulder at the thing he had fallen on.
"Oops, sorry dude." He said.
"Don't be sorry!" Sonic said ecstatically. "I've been trying to destroy that thing forever!"
"Can't you just, you know, smash it with your superpowers?" asked Bijou.
"It seems that resident from this world cannot touch the music box." Sonic said. As a demonstration, he leaped at the smashed form of the music box. A small shield formed around it and Sonic collided with it, scattering a rain of copper colored rings. "See?"
"Why would you want to destroy it in the first place?" asked Pashmina, lifting up Pretzel and Cinnamon to stop them from tossing the pieces of the music player.
"You try listening to the same cycle of music for days and night on end and tell me how you like it."
Everyone nodded except for Maxwell. Sandy noticed this and asked, "Max, you haven't said anything for a while. What's up?"
"The music wasn't just for sound effects." He stated plainly. "Look around."
Everyone stared into space. Pashmina noticed something wasn't right. The clouds weren't drifting off the screen to be replaced by more clouds. Small birds were frozen in midair. Even a few fireballs launched from enemy creatures had halted in space.
"I get it!" Pashmina cried. "The music-"
"Is what makes things move in the game." Maxwell finished. "Yes. The only reason Sonic wasn't frozen, I'm guessing, was because of his super speed."
"This is not good." Sonic said grimly. "Without the music, the game can't go on! But I can't stand one more second of that darn game music!"
"Here!" Sandy fished in her purse. "I have a CD."
Of course, something always happens to ruin a perfect plan, and at that moment, the things that ruined this plan were spelled P-R-E-T-Z-E-L and C-I-N-N-A-M-O-N. They leapt onto her back, just as they had with Stan, and the CD flew into the air and out of sight across the video game landscape.
"Great." She scowled.
"Not to worry!" Sonic said. "I believe in you guys! So here's my plan. Someway along the middle of the level, there's a secret area. The door only opens once every five second, so if we're lucky, the door will have been open at the time that the music stopped. Inside the door there's a sort of mini-level. I'm sure there's another boom box there. You guys go find the CD. I'll meet you all by the door."
Before anyone could say anything, Sonic had raced away on his speedy feet.
"Well, it looks like we have no choice." Bijou said sourly. "We have a quest to do!"
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Panting hardly, Stan mocked Bijou's words in a babyish tone. "We have a quest to do! Quest schmest! I say we ditch this whole thing. We've been walking for over an hour, my feet are killing me, and I'm starving my butt of here!"
Pashmina, Sandy and Maxwell had similar looks on their faces. Bijou noticed this and nodded. "Fine. Let's take a little break."
Everyone sat down on a small bridge. Maxwell laid his head down on the grass, but sat quickly up, with an, "Ouch!"
He placed a hand on the grass and felt something hard. He brushed the dirt away to reveal a CD case!
"You found it Maxy!" Sandy hugged him tightly. "Now let's go find Sonic."
But Maxwell had barely begun to pry the CD case from the dirt when there was a huge rumbling noise. Then, out of the dirt poked an eyeball, followed by a long, slimy stalk and a huge body with tentacles that looked like they were made of jelly. The creature roared, splattering Maxwell and the others with saliva.
Everyone screamed except for Stan. The others went to run behind a tree, but Stan stood alone in front of the beast.
"Like, Stan! Get out of the way!" Sandy shrieked.
"Running away won't do any good sis." Stan told her. "If it's not frozen by now, it must be pretty fast. Anyway, this is a video game. Maybe, because we're here, Sonic's not the only one with powers."
And with that, he leapt into the air and pulled out his maracas from his pocket. He directed them towards the sun and shouted, "Sunbeam Reflection!"
The sunlight bounced off the surface of the maracas and into the monster's eye. It snarled but stayed standing.
"Sandy!" Stan cried out. "Back me up here! Just shout the first words that come to your mind!"
Sandy was ready. She stepped out from behind the tree and pulled out her ribbon, screaming, "Twirl Wind Attack!"
The ribbon spun so fast that it became a blur in front of Sandy. She stopped spinning abruptly, and directed the resulting tornado with a slap from her ribbon, sending it crashing into the monster. It howled with rage and lifted it off its feet, smashing it to the ground. It was getting tired but stood back up.
It was Pashmina's turn, and she bounded out from her hiding place and without fear, yelled, "Scarf Lasso!" She tore her scarf from around her neck, spinning it around in midair, and then sent it sailing towards the monster. The beast was trapped in the scarf and couldn't resist when Pashmina gave a thrust and it soared a few feet away, tumbling to the ground.
Maxwell didn't even wait for it to get up again. Instead he grabbed his dictionary and pointed it at the monster. "Gold leaf Attack!" The book rose from the ground and grew bigger and bigger, finally reaching maximum size and opening wide. It crushed the monster in between its pages. But the monster was barely clinging to life.
"This is it!" Bijou screamed, removing her bows from her hair. "Blue Blaster!" she called, bursts of energy erupting from her bows and launching towards the monster. It didn't even have the energy to howl in pain now.
"One more should do it!" Stan called. "Let's try a combo attack!"
Maxwell, Sandy, Pashmina, Bijou and Stan stood in a circle and held their hands tightly. The words came clearly to their heads. "Rhythm Quintet! Finale ala Mode!"
The resounding sounds that came from the group of teenagers were enough to drive anyone mad, or in this case, destroy a monster. And that's what it did. The monster shattered into a million pieces, and the CD floated down from the sky, landing in Sandy's outstretched hands.
"Alright!" she said happily. "Let's go find Sonic."
In about ten minutes, they spotted the blue hedgehog standing by a small wooden plank.
"What took you guys so long?" Sonic asked.
"Monster troubles." Stan said. "So anyway, where's the door?"
"This is the door." Sonic said, gesturing towards the piece of wood on the ground. "We weren't so lucky. The music stopped while it was closed."
"I have an idea." Pashmina said. "What about Pretzel or Cinnamon? They must have an attack too, right?"
"Hey Cinnamon," Sandy pushed her on top of the wooden plank. "Wanna play a game?"
"Game!" she repeated, jumping up and down.
"Okay!" Sandy smiled. "To win the game, all you have to do is think, and shout the first words that come to your mind really loudly, okay?"
Cinnamon thought for a bit, and the yelled out, "Spice Mine!"
For a second, nothing happened. But then, a loud boom came from Cinnamon and a cloud of smoke appeared, surrounding her. When the smoke cleared, she was standing there, her face covered in ash.
"Game was fun!" Cinnamon shouted. "Can we do it ag-"
Cinnamon was cut off because at that moment, the plank beneath her snapped in two, and she tumbled down into the chamber.
"It worked!" Bijou and Pashmina said together, patting Sandy on her back.
Everyone climbed down into the chamber, where indeed, another music player was sitting. Sandy popped her CD into it, and 'America Idiot' poured out of the speakers.
"What is this?" asked Sonic blankly.
"It's called Green Day, dude!" Stan said. "What, you don't like it?"
"No!" Sonic cried. "It's much better than that other music. Thanks to you all, my world is restored and that evil music is gone!"
"Come on guys." Stan said, helping everyone out of the tunnel. "Let's go!"
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Everyone followed Stan to the same field they had fallen into the game on. He looked around and then sighed. "Darn it!"
"What, did you expect there to be a ladder leading to the real world?" Maxwell asked.
"Maybe…" Stan said shyly.
"I think I know how to get us outta here." Pashmina said. "Pretzel hasn't used his attack yet, maybe it's something useful."
"Come on Pretzel!" Bijou said energetically. "Use your attack to uh, beat up the bad guys!"
Pretzel sat and scratched his head for a moment and then stood up. He put his arms on his waist and screamed, "BLUEBERRY PIE PORTAL!"
The result was instant. Everyone felt themselves tumble into blackness and felt the familiar feeling of tumbling to the ground in a heap.
"Finally we're home!" Bijou cried happily. But once she got a look around she wasn't so perky.
"Uh Bij," Sandy said. "I don't think we're in Kansas anymore."
"Not in Kansas?" Maxwell yelled. "Of course we're not in Kansas!"
"Whoa Maxwell, why the sudden rage?" Stan asked.
"Don't you get it?" he spat angrily. "I don't know where we are! We could be anywhere. In fact, I'm not even sure we're on Earth anymore…"
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Longest chapter ever! Yay! I hope you all managed to struggle through it! The next chapter will be the next to last, so be ready for it!
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