Chapter 4, Doug and Judie's Argument
Doug, Skeeter and Angelica, all got up to the top of the stairs, where sure enough, standing in the doorway of Judie's room was in fact, Judie herself.
"Well, hello Judie, you're home early." Doug greeted, trying to pretend he knew nothing, when he peered around her to see the babies, all dressed in several of Judie's costumes for her various plays, playing on the floor in her room.
Judie looked less than amused to see her brother and his friend at that moment, as she scowled.
"Dougless Yancy Funnie, just what on earth are these babies doing, in my room?" Judie screamed.
Angelica turned towards Doug, a huge smile on her face.
"Your last name if Funnie? That's the dummest thing I ever heard." Angelica said, laughing histarically at how ridiculously funny his last name sounded.
Doug just glared at the three-year-old blond with embarrassment. He then turned his attention back to his sister.
"Judie, Skeeter and I were babysitting these kids, their parents arrived today at the Honker Burger after running into some car trouble and…" Doug started to explain, before his sister cut him off by placing a hand over his mouth.
"Not another word. You get these mutants out of my room right now! Heck, what would mom and dad think of this? Maybe I should make you serve me for another week again." Judie said.
Doug brought his hands up to his face and thrust Judie's hand away from his mouth, before he coughed and let out a reply.
"Uh uh, no way Judie, I'm not being your slave again, once was enough. I'm certainly not wearing your dresses again, that was just, too much." Doug protested.
Judie glared at him, her hands on her hips.
"Then get these babies out of my room, and in the next ten minutes, I'd better come back up here and find my room the way it was when I left this morning to go looking at colleges." Judie demanded, as she walked out into the hall and started descending down the stairs.
Once she had reached the bottom step, Doug, Skeeter, and Angelica, all went into Judie's room, where they saw to rounding up the babies and putting everything back in its proper place.
"Okay kids, play time's over, it's time to clean up." Doug said.
All of the toddlers started tossing off their oversized clothes and wigs on to the floor, except for Kimi, who didn't want to stop playing. At this time, she was now wearing an oversized pink ballerina tootoo, looking at herself in a large mirror that went the length of Judie's closet door, admiring how beautiful she looked.
"Come on Kimi, it's almost time for us to go to the concert." Skeeter encouraged, trying to grab a hold of Kimi, who slipped out of his hands.
The nearly two-year-old Japanese girl turned to her blue skinned babysitter, shook her head no, then went back to doing her clumbsy dancing as she giggled. By this time, Doug had the rest of the items back into Judie's trunk, minus Kimi's costume.
I knew getting Kimi to cooperate wasn't going to be easy. It reminded me of that time when Skeeter and I accidentally threw Patti's whacky wizard into her neighbor's yard, and that giant dog Lady ate it for lunch. Thinking back to that, I started to think, what would Race Canyon do in this situation?
At that moment, Doug started to have an imaginary moment, where he was Race Canyon and his pal, Skeetari was next to him, as they were trapped in one of those fun house rooms of mirrors, with a crazy out of control ballerina, that appeared to have a stick of dynamite in her skirt.
"What are we going to do Race, what are we going to do? This little girl is out of control, and if we don't stop her soon, she could blow up the sacred shrine of mirrors at any second, making the evil queen very angry!" Skeetari said worriedly.
Race reached into his pocket, where he pulled out a giant ice block and showed it to his companion.
"I've got it Skeetari. Once this ice block hits the crazy ballerina, she'll become frozen, allowing us to move her out of the sacred shrine of mirrors, saving it, once and for all." Race explained, as he threw the ice block in the ballerina's direction.
The ballerina tried to dodge the ice block, but failed, as it came down on top of her head, encasing her inside. Before the ice could thaw and melt, Skeetari and Race got on either side of the giant ice block, and moved it towards the exit of the Sacred Shrine of Mirrors, where a giant gust of wind blew into the open doorway, blowing the giant ice cube with the ballerina trapped inside away. At this moment, Doug's fantasy ended, returning him to reality.
Obviously, while Skeeter and I couldn't exactly trap Kimi inside a giant ice block, Race Canyon did give me an idea.
"Okay Skeeter, you hold Kimi down and do your funny impressions, while I sneak in and take off the costume." Doug commanded.
"Okay Doug." Skeeter said, gripping on tight to Kimi's shoulders, as she fell backwards to the floor, kicking her feet, thinking this was all a game.
"I am the astronaut, here for a special visit from space." Skeeter said in a funny tone of voice, keeping the child entertained, as Doug reached in, and started to carefully take the ballerina tootoo off.
Kimi was so distracted by Skeeter's funny impressions, that she didn't even notice that Doug was undressing her. A few minutes later, he had her undressed, and the tootoo back in Judie's trunk. Once the trunk was closed, Doug ran for the door of Judie's room back into the hall.
"Come on everyone, let's get out of here." Doug said, running towards the stairs, Skeeter and the Rugrats following behind him.
Once everybody got downstairs, they ran into the living room, where Judie was sitting on the couch, watching some soap opera on TV and eating a bowl of chips. Overhearing the massive number of footsteps, she looked up from eating to find Doug, Skeeter, and the toddlers all before her.
"Get out of my sight. Besides, don't you two have some place to go tonight?" Judie asked sarcastically, looking towards the clock on the wall, which read four-o'clock.
"Uh, yeah Judie, our second Beets concert in Bloatsberg, but our bus doesn't leave for another ninety minutes." Skeeter explained.
"Well I don't care! Get those mutant toddlers out of here, if you don't want me telling mom and dad that you all were up in my room, without my permission!" Judie screamed at the top of her lungs, about ready to throw the TV remote at Doug's head.
Doug backed away, holding his hands up in defence.
"Okay Judie, we'll leave, come on, it probably wouldn't hurt if we start heading towards the Honkder Burger now to ensure we get good seats on the bus." Doug said to Skeeter, as they went into the entry hall and got the kids put into their strollers, grabbing up their diaper bags, and heading out of the house.
Before they left, Doug made sure he had his keys and his ticket for the Beets concert, along with his bus ticket, and Skeeter, while he made sure to grab his stuff that morning before going to his final day of being Fry Guy at the Honker Burger, he double checked his pockets just to make sure nothing had happened to his stuff, and luckily, his tickets were still there. Once the two adolescents found they were all set to leave, they grabbed up their pink Beets jackets they had received from the Beets themselves back when they met them outside the Honker Burger some time ago, and after that, they headed outside of Doug's house with all of the kids in their strollers, except for Angelica, Chuckie, and Kimi, who held hands and walked closely behind Doug and Skeeter, this time, Doug pushing Phil and Lil, while Skeeter pushed Tommy and Dil in their double strollers.
"Come on Skeet, I know we'll get there pretty early, but just think, if we can get the first seats on the bus, we'll be the coolest Beets fans ever!" Doug exclaimed.
"Well okay Doug." Skeeter said, as they started walking down Jumbo Street.
However, they didn't get too far, until they heard a familiar older man's voice call out to them from behind some bushes.
And this, ends chapter 4. Who is by chance, this older man? Have you figured it out? Well the answer shall be revealed come the next chapter, so please, do stay tuned!