Part 5
"Hi Franny!" Roger said, waving at her.
"What are you doing here?" She asked.
"I'm here too Francine!" Klaus hollered from inside.
"Sorry." Roger apologized. "We crash landed. Carry on with your hearing." He looked at a way to back up. The humans looked at the judge again.
"George Henston," The judge spoke in a firm voice. "You are sentenced to 20 years in prison!" Stan, Hayley, Jeff and Francine all gasped.
"What?" Roger said in shock. The judge pounded his gavel on his desk. "This case is now closed, meeting adjourned!" The jury got out of their seats and packed up. The judge stood to leave.
"Wait!" Roger called. Everyone stopped and looked at him. He jumped down from the helicopter and went to the front of the courtroom. ""Wait, hold everything! I got something to say!" He pointed to Stan. "Stan has been framed!" Everyone gasped except Stan.
"I knew it!" He said.
"And what makes you so sure?" The judge wanted to know.
"Because we got the real George Henston!" There was silence. "I said, the real George Henston!" Again silence. "Uh, hold on a sec." He went to the helicopter.
"Fins!" He called. "Bring George and the pilot! You're making me look bad!"
"Sorry, I can't!" Klaus shouted back. "They're too heavy! You will have to come and get them! Come and get me too!" Roger sighed.
"This will only take a minute." He told the court. He jumped in the helicopter and went to get them.
He came back with Klaus in the coffee glass and the crooks. The gun floated in Klaus' glass. The alien dropped the crooks to the floor and jumped down with Klaus. He went to the center again.
"As I was saying…we got the real George Henston right here!" He pointed to the two tied men, struggling to get untangled. "And his accomplice who flew him in this helicopter, thinking that they could get away! But they were gravely mistaken!"
"And you are…?" The judge wanted to know. Roger turned to him.
"Scott Silvermore, private eye! I would show you my ID but it's in the pocket of my other trench coat which is being dry cleaned at the moment."
"I thought Francine called you Roger." A jury member spoke.
"I'm Roger Silvermore! I solve crimes from all over!"
"I see." The judge said. He looked at Klaus. "And you brought your fish along with you because….?"
"Oh, my fish goes everywhere with me. For some reason he's my good luck charm. Can't catch a crook without him." Klaus smiled up at him.
"I see. So, why is he in a coffee glass? Won't he die in a…" Roger was now irritated.
"Look sir!" He barked. "Are we going to talk about the case that I just solved or are we going to talk about my stupid pet fish?" The judge looked shocked.
"Okay, continue."
"Well I was on a plane…"
"We were on a plane!" Klaus corrected, whispering to him.
"Shush Klaus!" Roger hushed him. "They do not need to know the minor details." Klaus was offended by this.
"Minor? Minor! I saved your butt from that plane explosion!" Roger sighed.
"Fine!" He looked back at the judge.
"Anyway," he continued. "My fish and I were on a plane to Tokyo, Japan because we found the ticket. About half an hour later, I overheard George say to his boss on his cellphone that he planted a bomb in one of the bathrooms."
"I did that you dumkoph!" Klaus whispered loudly to Roger. "You can't lie in court!"
"Klaus," Roger told him. "I can't say 'my fish overheard a bomb was going to go off and saved me from a fiery explosion,' they won't believe that! I'm just going to lie so that I don't have to explain." Klaus crossed his fins across his chest.
"Fine! But between you and me, I told you about that explosion and if it wasn't for me, you would have been dead with those others on board."
"Yeah, yeah, you're my 'hero'."
"Roger Silvermore," The judge spoke. "Are you going to continue or are you just going to whisper to your fish?"
"I'm going to continue!" Roger told him. "So anyway…uh, shoot, I lost my train of thought. Where was I?"
"You were talking about how you overheard a bomb was planted in the bathroom."
"Oh yeah! So anyways, we saw George parachute into the Atlantic so we went after him."
"Did you warn anybody about the bomb?"
"Yeah, I tried." He then did some fake crying. "Those poor, innocent people! They all died because of a heartless man!" He then was calm. "Sorry, I got emotional there. I found a wig in the ocean and saw that the man swimming away had black hair, was tall, and had a black mustache just like George's son described to me earlier that same day. So we followed him into a helicopter with his buddy. I fought them off with my super cool karate moves and we crash landed here in court and here we are now."
"So," The judge said. "What you're saying is that George Henston is this man here?" He pointed to George. Roger nodded.
"Correct, Your Honor." Next, the Judge pointed to Stan.
"And he is Stanley Smith?"
"Actually," Stan put in. "I just like to be called Stan."
"Mr. Smith, no talking unless you are asked."
"Sorry Your Honor."
"You're crazy," George spoke. "I already told you I'm not George, I'm Randy Moss."
"Isn't Randy Moss the name of that football player?" A jury member wanted to know.
"Yeah he is!" Spoke another. "And that sports reporter!" George chuckled.
"What do you know?" He said, going to Klaus' glass. "Small world." He was about to grab the gun when Roger spoke.
"I wouldn't touch that gun. My fish just pooped in there."
"What?" George asked in disgust. Klaus looked at him in puzzlement.
"Yeah, it's hard to tell because of all the brown."
"No I didn't." Klaus whispered to Roger.
"Well, poop in there already!" Roger whispered back. "Poop, pee, it doesn't matter. Just do one or the other."
"Roger, I can't poop and pee whenever I please. It comes when it comes. Talk about disgusting!"
"Fine, party pooper, ha ha, see what I did there? I did some potty humor in a courtroom! Uh-huh, I am so bad!"
"But I can do this!" Before George could pick up the gun, Klaus bit him on the finger. George withdrew his arm quickly, taking Klaus with him.
"OWWWW!" George yelped in pain. He threw Klaus off. Klaus landed before the jury, gasping for breath. The jury screamed.
"I'll sue you for this!" George cried out in agony. Stan, Francine and Hayley all ran beside Klaus. George pulled out the gun from the coffee glass and pointed it at them. Everyone gasped.
"What are you doing?" Stan asked. "We're in court. You're not supposed to point a gun at us in court."
"Shut up!" George snarled. "I can do whatever I want and now the jury and judge will watch me kill you all before their very eyes!"
"You're insane!" Roger spoke. "First you brutally murdered your wife, then you killed all those people on the plane, and now you're going to kill these people in court in front of a jury and judge? What kind of crazy psychopath are you?"
"A really, crazy one. Now, bye-bye!" The Smiths except Roger all shut their eyes tight and hugged each other. George pulled the trigger but all it made was a 'click' sound. George looked at his gun in confusion.
"Ha-ha!" Klaus laughed weakly. "You…ran…out of bullets…on the helicopter….remember?" He coughed. He looked at the fish.
"But you said you would shoot."
"I did….(cough) but…(cough, cough) I didn't because I knew there weren't any bullets! I may be a fish but I'm not stupid." He coughed some more. The bailiff rushed forward and seized George.
"Okay!" Said the judge. "Will somebody please give that fish some water? This is just sad seeing him like that. I can't take it."
Roger grabbed the coffee glass, went over to Klaus and dumped him in. Klaus got his breathe back and did a huge sigh of relief. He was sure that if he weren't in liquid for three more seconds, he would be dead. The judge raised a questioning eyebrow at the alien.
"Can he survive in that?" Roger looked at him.
"Oh, this is water." He told him. "It just looks brown because he poops in there a lot. I'll clean it after we're done here." The judge and jury looked disgusted.
"Okay, that's disgusting, but I'll let it pass." Suddenly, Stan's lawyer pulled out his own gun and pointed it at them. Everyone gasped again.
"Don't worry George." He told him. "I got a gun and it's fully loaded." The bailiff was forced to let George go.
"Kenny?" Stan wanted to know. "What are you doing with that gun?"
"I'm not Kenny!" He went to a closet in the corner of the courtroom and opened the door. Inside was a man, who looked exactly like him, who was tied up. The tied-up man screamed but the tape on his mouth made it impossible to understand. "This is Kenny!" Stan's 'lawyer' said. "I'm Emmet Janks, Kenny Janks' evil, identical twin. I impersonated him. Pretty smart huh?"
"My gosh you look alike! No wonder you did that terrible defense and kept calling me George during the trial."
"Correct."
"But why would you do this?"
"George and I made a deal. I would help him kill his wife if he would help me kill my rivals who put me out of business. They were all flying to Tokyo for a conference on the same plane, so we decided to blow it up. Unfortunately, he was seen murdering Charlotte, so I decided to convince the local authorities that you were George. At least until we got out of the country with our hired pilot friend, here. Now we're here and…well, just shut up so I can kill you."
"You've gone mad!" He laughed. "You're all mad!"
"I guess we are!" He laughed and laughed. "Now, say goodbye!" He was about to shoot when all of a sudden a horde of police officers stormed in the court room. An officer came up and took the gun right out of Emmet's hands.
"What? Who called the police?"
"I did!" Francine said. The officer put some handcuffs on Emmet. Another one did the same to the pilot. One was about to do one to George when he ran for the door.
"You can never get me coppers!" He shouted. Roger ran and put his foot out. George ran into it and tripped. He tumbled and fell face first on the floor.
"Yes they can!" The disguised alien said. George mumbled in frustration as two police officers helped him up then handcuffed him. The officers then took the criminals away. Roger blew a raspberry at George as he looked back as he disappeared from the door with the others.
"That's right!" He said as they all went outside. The judge went with them, so did Kenny whom the judge untied. "You better go! No one messes with Fins and the Legman!"
"Fins und the Legman!" Klaus corrected. Roger looked at him.
"Fins, I'm this close to breaking your coffee glass and strangling you." He gestured how close he was with his hands. "This close! If the court members weren't here, I'd do it now."
"I can't believe it." Stan said. "My fish and alien just saved me from 20 years of prison."
"Well, believe it Stanly." The alien told him. "And we're not 'the fish and alien,' we're 'Fins and the Legman!"
"Und! Und, Fins und the Legman."
"That's it! I don't care if we are with the members of court." And with that, he threw Klaus onto the ground, smashing the glass. Klaus flopped around, screaming, and slipping away as Roger tried to capture and strangle him. "Come here, so I can strangle you!" The judge sighed.
"I'll get a zip lock bag and fill it with water." He went back in the building as the others watched as Roger ran in circles after a screaming Klaus.