Disclaimer: I don't own Plum characters. A nod of respect goes to Janet Evanovich and her imagination for creating these characters.

Challenge 5: Delusional

A/N: I'm just going to apologize ahead of time.

"I must've been high."

Mooner laughed and it was more like a high pitch squeal. Dougie threw himself off the couch in a fit of hysteria and was laughing so hard he could no longer be heard.

"I swear to it on the Vulcans, man." Mooner held two fingers up in a Scouts' honor way. "I saw the Dali Lama."

"Bullshit!" Dougie said, moving away from the table and tripping over a chair. "What did he look like?"

Mooner gave the chair a second glance and made a motion with his hand to signal an aura. "He was green, man. With octopus arms and purple eyes. He was staring right at me man. I swear… he could see my soul."

"Nah, nah, nah," Stephanie said shaking her head wildly. "You're thinking of a cartoon…" she snapped her fingers, thinking madly. "Shit. I just had it. It was on the tip of my tongue."

Mooner sauntered over to Stephanie. His moon suit like a bright purple beacon in the hazy fog that was Mooner and Dougie's house.

"No way!" Mooner said. "Lemme see!"

Stephanie stuck out her tongue and Mooner studied her tongue for a long moment while Dougie continued to laugh madly on the floor, rolling around back and forth.

"'An 'ou 'ee it?" Steph asked, making sure to stick her tongue out as far as it would go.

"Dude! It's already gone. I can't see it."

"Bummer," Steph said. She flopped back onto the couch, staring up at the ceiling. "Can you turn the lava lamp back on. I feel the need to ebb and flow."

Dougie shot up from the floor and at the top of his lungs began to sing, "A Whole New World!"

"It was the Sea Witch! I'd know her anywhere man!" Dougie exclaimed, "A whole new world…. A whole new world… She comes and see me in my dreams and like I tell her that she's got gross teeth and I'm not into that but she totally goes down-"

"Whoa, whoa, whoa man! Lady present dude!" Mooner said, shooting Steph an apologetic look. "He always goes on about the Sea Witch going down on him when he's high. He's totally delusional man. It's the skunk he's been smokin'. I told him not to get it from the Mexicans on 9th street, but he doesn't listen to me… Nope Nope they lace it with the dust man. Gotta getcha White Widow uptown man."

Steph nodded in agreement, "Word."

"A whole new world!" Dougie sang, twirling around the room. "La la la a place I never knew…"

Stephanie was drawing air circles through the colors beaming from the lava lamp. "The colors are so pretty. Like pretty fluffy color clouds dancing around like Thumper in a flower field."

There was a loud knock on the door and it flew open in slow motion, the rainbow colors splintering off outlining a huge figure in the door frame.

"Dun-Dun-Dunaaah!" Mooner shouted and thrust his hips forward with his fists, his cape was billowing in the imaginary wind. "Batman!"

Steph cut her gaze away from the hypnotizing lava lamp show. Lo and behold the figure standing in the door frame was shrouded all in black. His black tights showcasing his magnificent thighs bunched with hard muscles and encased his eight-pack abs like second skin. Ranger wiggled his Batman ears, "Babe."

His voice echoed like a great stereo beckoning Steph like sailor to a siren. She stared in awe of his magnificence but mostly in awe of his enormous package.

"Don't go, dude! We're just getting started!"

"Forget her man!" Dougie hit the pipe again and handed it over to Mooner. "Hit this and chill."

Ranger reached out a hand to Stephanie and she hopped up and wiggled her nose, a la Samantha in Bewitched and changed herself into a child size Wonder Woman costume grabbed a hold Batman's hand, flying out the door.

When Stephanie turned her head to look at the moonlight streaming through Ranger's Batman ears, his eyes changed from black to red and Stephanie instantly dropped his hand and started to fall from the sky. The gray streams of air followed her down until she rolled over and was staring at the blurring red alarm clock numbers and the familiar sounds of Rex running on his wheel.

Stephanie sat up in the bed and ran a hand through her hair, "Man, I really gotta lay off the birthday cake with extra frosting before bedtime. Yeesh!"

Challenge: Delusional

Original Posting Date: March 12, 2007