Disclaimer: I don't own any character from the story, they're all from Disney.
TALKING PIGEON
Previously on chapter one
Carl: "Hey there little buddy. As you just noticed we just had a little explosion. We were testing a shield, but we did a wrong calculation with the simulation. It wasn't supposed to be this big. Happy now?"Suddenly his ideas were interrupted when a hand patted his shoulder.
Wilbur: " How do I know that you are not lying to me? What were you really doing?"
Cornelius: "Wilbur. Is nothing. Now don't touch anything till I get back…
Remember. Just open the windows. And CARL, watch for Wilbur…"
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Wilbur: "What is this Carl?"
Carl: "Give it to me Wilbur!"
Wilbur: "AHHH!!"
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Wilbur: "Coo coo cooo!! Coocoo cooo cooo!"
Cornelius: "Hey Wilbur. Glad to see you helped Carl with the smoke around here."
Wilbur winced in realization and his eyes popped out in was Cornelius. So that's why Carl looked like a frightened monkey. Cool. I'm doomed. Unless I…
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Chapter 2: A master acting saves the day
Cornelius patted cheerfully at Wilbur not averting Carl's panicked gaze. " Hey there! I see you haven't gotten into any trouble and managed to open the windows son. Thanks Carl." The inventor began scanning the room to look for the robot and was slightly surprised to found it standing still in front of the wall near the windows.
Carl stayed looking outside uneasily and waved the inventor casually in the middle of his silent whimpers. I'm dead. I'll get deactivated and then turned into a recycled piece of can. Way to go Carl. You had to let it go!!! And he had to tell that disturbing story about how Cornelius…
"Carl?" The inventor was waving his hand in front of the robot's face to get his attention and Carl gasped in the instant.
"Carl what is wrong with you? Did you even listen to what I ask?"
He felt embarrassed and frightened at the same time, but answer cooly "No. Sorry chief. I was wondering of the last experiment and-"
Cornelius narrowed his eyes "Carl there are more important things than that. Wilbur stayed too much time in the lab with that heavy smoke. Why didn't you just take him out of here?"
Carl arched his robotic eyebrow and glared Wilbur. The boy just smirked at him without letting his father notice. Soon enough he paid deep attention to his maker "Carl! Wilbur can't speak!"
Carl rolled his eyes "I know. And for the record…"
"This is all my fault Carl. Franny will skin me if she knows that Wilbur lost his voice for the smoke!"
Carl eyed Wilbur incredulously and mumbled out not loud enough to be heard "Oh really? Please don't tell me you fell for his act again?"
Cornelius watched him puzzled "What did you say Carl?"
Carl growled "Nothing. I just said that we are in a terrible dilemma. As you know, Wilbur isn't the type of person to remain quiet. Franny will know it anytime. So you better tell her."
The blond man sighed grabbing his collar resigned "You're right…Here goes nothing."
Wilbur got near his father with pleading puppy eyes and a I'm-so-sorry-for-this type of look. Then he tilted his head facing the floor and pretended to cough inaudibly afraid of letting any other coo out to blow his cover.
His father walked next to him and put his hand on his head "I'm sorry Wilbur. I should have taken you with me. I'm the one to blame for you being sick so sudden…"
Carl scowled at him knowingly and Wilbur bit his lower lip feeling guilty. Then the boy looked as his father again and shook his head. Dad please this is not your fault.
He then jumped to catch his dad's attention and the man stared at his son confused. The future boy smiled at him with his thumbs up.
"Wilbur, are you trying to say me that there's nothing wrong?"
Wilbur nodded.
"Wil." He sighed and moved his head to the floor. "I wished there was a time where both of us don't screw up. This time you didn't even touch anything in here. It was my entire fault and to add more spilled milk I happen to irresponsibly left you in here. A whole room full of smoke"
The raven boy frowned. He shook his head swiftly and pointed to himself. Then he grabbed a hand to put it to his throat unsure lowering his head. Maybe I should just tell him now. I can't make dad feel this way. He thinks he's the one responsible on this and if he knows, I won't be able to see him in the rest of spring break. Either way is going to end ugly…but I don't want him to have an argument with mom because of me…I
Cornelius could tell that his son was hardly thinking in front of him and Carl had no doubt he was fighting remorse sadly. His hand still picked his affected throat. Finally Cornelius saw the boy to stiffened and look back at him with a preoccupied, gloomy face. He opened his mouth to try to say something, but at the same time another sound caught the man's attention as it did to Carl.
"Cornelius?"
"Franny?" The inventor sounded distressed and lost.
"Cornelius? Is Wilbur-?"
"Hi honey. Yes, Wilbur is here with us…He opened the windows to clear the view when I left."
Franny stopped in awe "Wilbur stayed in here? Did he break something before you came back?" she eyed her son and the boy gulped.
Cornelius put his fingers over his temples "No he didn't, but….."
Franny kept watching skeptically at Wilbur "But he did something at the end…"
Her husband sighed and this stunned her "Honey he stayed too much time in the smoke and…"
Carl was as anxious as Wilbur. The boy felt so tensed that put his hands on his pockets to not shiver and Carl stood without moving an inch till Franny's warning tone got the best of him "Mrs. Robinson what Cornelius is trying to say Is that Wilbur is sick. He lost his voice after too much time in here with the dense smoke. He isn't used to this and hasn't stop coughing without pain in his throat…"
Franny exchanged glances with her husband and her son rapidly waiting for an answer. She swore she heard Wilbur's mouth quivered a low coo. She thought it must have been a result of his hasty illness. She faced Cornelius in disbelief. "Cornelius Robinson! My baby is sick because of that huge amount of smoke?!"
He shuddered slightly dropping his lenses slightly as he tried to catch them clumsily. "Actually you see…"
She half smiled, what made the other three in room linger perplexed. She twirled around studying the sky above the dome and headed back to her shocked spouse. "What am I going to do with both of you?"
Carl stifled a laugh in vain and cheekily added "Mrs. Robinson I don't think you could do anything..."
Wilbur and Cornelius on the other hand scowled at him. Franny noticed it shook her head gently letting pass the fact that the rest were ogling her.
Baby blue eyes made contact with her brown eyes "You're not angry with me?"
Franny did not resist to answer sarcastically "Why would I?"
"Fran. I think the reason is obvious."
"Cornelius it is also obvious that Wilbur wouldn't have listened anyway. He's pretty stubborn."
The inventor snickered mumbling "Of course that doesn't come from me."
"What did you say honey?" Franny batted her eyelashes.
"Nothing Fran…"
"Then we just need to call the doctor to take care of this"
At the sound of doctor Wilbur panicked gasping a low coo. Carl helped him out pretending to cough and made some noise.
Franny eyed her son curiously. Since when Wilbur gets sick that easy? she thought. That was a question she couldn't answer, but worried her. Maybe he hasn't been eating properly.
Wilbur walked in circles on the floor after his mother's plan. Oh no. I'm dead. I'm dead. I'm so so DEAD. It has been a nice short life for Wilbur Robinson. I'll leave my chargeball game and T-Rex pet to…
His thoughts were interrupted again by Franny's voice. "Come on honey this isn't that bad. RIGHT CORNELIUS?"
The inventor flinched. Wilbur instead chose to not look at his mom to concentrate on Carl.
Carl saw the nervousness of the kid and he put his hand over his neck moving his mouth without talking the words "YOU-ARE-DEAD".
Wilbur ignored his last remarked and mimicked frantically to help him while the robot stared doubtful. "You know little buddy. Now will be the right time to use what you were supposed to learn in the standard sign language…" The boy raised his hands up in the air frustrated.
Carl! Why can't you get me?! Ugh. I need to get outta here in style and you're not helping!
The raven hair boy began walking to the hall leaving his parents and his buddy pondering once more. Franny called him back, but her son only whirled around to grab his head with his hands.
What the…
"Honey, are you ok?"
Urgh. Too many people speaking…
"Son! What's the matter?" Now it was Cornelius' turn to exchange a worried query.
In the meantime Carl dragged in to buy some time "Chief, Mrs. Robinson I think Wilbur got stressed of knowing of a doctor coming. You know how he hates needles."
The sounds of needles did the trick to make Wilbur jog in the opposite direction facing the window of the observatory. What he saw outside trapped him in an astounded gawk.
An infinite group of pigeons were passing by the garden heading to the forest on the other side of the neighborhood. As the flock went flying he was aware that he could understand the birds' conversation.
P1: "No I think we should pick some beechnuts! There are some Beech trees on the other side."
P2:"What about some juicy, marvelous flowers? They always taste good to me."
P3: "Come on! Acorns taste better than that."
P4: "Nonsense. Everybody knows there is as much chances for you to find acorns now as it is for you to stop thinking aloud in this flight."
P5: "Hey! Stop you two! We don't need a fight again."
P4: "So I can suggest resigning on worms and insects this week."
P3:"Thank you. I feel so much better now. Anyway I'll find berries around! You'll see!"
P4: "Some seeds will suffice…"
P5: "I'm warning you two for the last time!"
P3, P4: "Yes sir!"
So that's what I was hearing. And I thought animals didn't have problems as I do.
HEY! WHY AM I TALKING TO MYSELF? This beats being grounded.
"Cornelius I warn you if my baby-"
"Honey. That isn't helping"
Wilbur put his hands over his ears again to avoid listening the large group of pigeons that were surrounding the areas in spring.
My ears!!! Too many pigeons talking!! And they're talking nonsense!!
He pouted and breathed heavily fighting the urge to scream to shut up every single pigeon.
Don't scream.
Don't.
If I yell, they'll know!!!
Carl studied Wilbur carefully and went to the window and saw him biting his lips. His eyes twitched, his body trembled and he put his hands around his throat and his mouth. In a second he run away ignoring his parents yelling. Few moaning was heard from him, but the rest didn't hear it.
Cornelius, Franny: Wilbur!
Carl: I told you before to not mention doctors in front of him…
Wilbur winced again, not afraid of the doctor and needles, but scared that he was discovered to be perfectly fine and with a unique pigeon voice.
In the middle of his confusion he tripped over a pile of metals bruising his knees and hit his head on the wall. He faced the ground and Cornelius turned him around to watch him again. Franny shook the boy adding dizziness.
Ugh. I hit my head in the most stupid way.
My knees burn
Mom you're hurting me…
Thanks dad. The floor has too much dust already…
Carl also appeared to be talking to him, but he didn't understand anything.
Silly robot. What are you saying?
Suddenly his sight turned into a deep black scenario.
I can't see….I
He was unconscious.
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