Chapter 5, Visiting Mr. Dink
The all too familiar older man with purple skin popped his head out from beneath the bushes, as Doug and Skeeter turned in the direction of his voice.
"Well hello Dougless, hello maskito, how goes things?" Mr. Dink greeted.
"Oh, just fine Mr. Dink." Doug replied.
"Yeah! We're heading off to our second Beets concert in Bloatsberg tonight." Skeeter added.
"Well of course you are, but, do you two have a minute to check out my latest gizmo? It's a car, and a rocket ship. Garenteed to get you to your destination, in half the time. Very expensive." Mr. Dink explained, pointing in the direction of his driveway, where a large funny looking gray car sat, with rockets sticking out of the back of it.
"Wow, that's surely something Mr. Dink." Doug said, as Mr. Dink pulled a set of keys attached to a remote out of his pants pocket and pointed the remote towards the car.
He hit a button on the remote that started up the car, but before anybody could approach the car, the rocket started to gain power, and the car flew off into outer space.
"Woops? Forgot the rockets on this thing sometimes, mal function." Mr. Dink said apologetically.
"Oh, that's okay Mr. Dink. Hopefully it can help some unlucky astronaut lost in space." Skeeter commented.
"Well, until one of those unlucky astronauts returns my car to me, would you boys care to come inside? I'm sure Julia could fix you a snack." Mr. Dink said, noticing the small children that were with the two boys.
"I couldn't help but notice you have some extra visitors." Mr. Dink said.
Doug and Skeeter exchanged glances, then looked down at their charges, then back up at Mr. Dink with smiles on their faces.
"Oh, yes, where are my manners, Skeeter and I met these children today at the Honker Burger." Doug started to explain.
"Yeah! Apparently their parents were having car trouble, so they asked us to babysit their kids, and we're gonna meet up with their parents at our concert tonight." Skeeter added.
"And so, we give you, from the oldest to the youngest, Angelica, Chuckie, Kimi, Lil, Phil, Tommy, and Dil." Doug introduced the toddlers to Mr. Dink, pointing to each one as he named them off.
"Well hello there Angelica, Charles, Kimiko, Lillian, Phillip, Thomas, and Dillon, it is a pleasure to meet you all." Mr. Dink greeted, shaking each child's hand.
The blond girl looked up to Mr. Dink.
"Nice to meet you too, Mr. Stink." Angelica said.
"Uh, the name's Mr. Dink, but the pleasure's all mine." Mr. Dink replied with a smile, turning towards the front door of his house, leading everybody inside.
"Where's Tippy Mr. Dink?" Skeeter asked.
"Well, our lovely fine Mayor of Bluffington is off at a rally today, apparently, elections are just around the corner, and some guy named Ronald Rump is trying to run against her, but I know that Ronald is up to no good. Tippy is the best mayor this town has ever seen, and I'm not just saying that because she's my beautiful wife of course." Mr. Dink said with a smile, blushing.
Doug and Skeeter quietly nodded yes, as the gang headed to Mr. Dink's kitchen, where they were met by the all too familiar, automated cooking unit, known as Julia.
"Good afternoon Julia." Mr. Dink greeted.
"Good afternoon Bud bud, how are you feeling today?" Julia asked in her accent high voice.
"Just fine, got any chocolate cake?" Mr. Dink asked.
"Now Bud, you ate the last piece of cake today at lunch time. When will you stop being such a pig. Here, how about some vegetables and bean dip instead." Julia said, as plates of various vegetables flew out of her compartments, a plate of broccoli bites landing in Angelica's hands.
Angelica stared at the plate in disgust, then tossed it on the floor, staring up at the appliance in disgust.
"Broccoli, I hate broccoli, Miss Julia mam, I want cookies and I want them now!" Angelica demanded.
"I'm sorry little girl, cookies are not a nutricious snack." Julia argued.
"I don't care lady, you get me my cookies right now, or else!" Angelica screamed, running up to the machine and kicking it with all of her might.
"Now now Angelica, be nice." Skeeter said, running up behind her trying to stop her, but it was no use.
Angelica was running too quickly for Skeeter to keep up with, as he eventually, grew dizzy and fell backwards on to Mr. Dink's kitchen floor, as Angelica continued to kick Julia, screaming at the top of her lungs. At this point, the appliance started to shake violently, like it was about to explode.
"Stop kicking me, you're gonna cause me to have a mal function." Julia screamed, but likewise, the three-year-old blond ignored her.
"Never! Not until you get me my cookies!" Angelica screamed.
"Mal function, mal function." Julia started to say, as the unit continued to shake violently, like there were an earthquake.
As the circuits inside started to overheat, nearly starting a fire, and plastic pieces started to break off, foods of various types started flying out of Julia's compartments in all directions, leaving Mr. Dink's kitchen in a complete mess.
"Angelica stop!" Doug yelled above all of the loud noise, which had scared the rest of the toddlers.
"AAAHHH!" The other babies screamed, as Dil started crying.
Doug picked up Dil out of his stroller and started comforting him, as the rest of the toddlers got out of their strollers, except for Chuckie and Kimi, who were walking to begin with, grabbed one another's hands, and started running through Mr. Dink's house, looking for places to hide. Eventually, they found themselves in Mr. Dink's bedroom, thankful they were gfar away from that really scary machine.
"What are we gonna do Tommy?" Chuckie asked in a panic.
"I bet if we all split up and find places to hide, we'll be safe." Tommy said, crawling beneath Mr. Dink's bed.
Phil and Lil hid in the closet, Kimi hid in a wardrobe, and Chuckie, while he was looking for a place to hide, accidentally tripped over his untied shoelaces, and ran face first into Mr. Dink's zit removing machine head first, starting up the machine by accident. Thinking Chuckie's freckles were pimples, the machine attached itself to Chuckie's face, trying to remove his freckles without much luck, even though it was highly unlikely Chuckie would stay connected to that gizmo for the seventy-two hours that it was required for that machine to do its job.
"Help!" Chuckie screamed, just as a loud crash was heard downstairs.
Back in the kitchen, Julia finally gave up, as the unit exploded, shattering into several pieces, as smoke went up the stove pipe that remained attached to the wall, causing Mr. Dink's poor kitchen to now appear in ruins, and he, Angelica, Doug and Skeeter had moved into the living room.
Skeeter and I had accidentally broken Mr. Dink's grill once while playing softball, but never in a million years did I ever think a child I was babysitting for would break one of his other appliances, which sadly, not only did I not have a decent substitute for this item, like the case was with my dad's grill, but no way would Skeeter and I ever be able to raise enough money to replace his automated cooking unit. We couldn't even raise enough to pay him back for the barbecue grill we broke.
"We're really sorry Mr. Dink." Doug said apologetically.
"It's okay boys, Tippy never appreciated that item anyway." Mr. Dink said, just as everybody noticed some strange noises coming from upstairs, looking around to see that Tommy, Chuckie, Phil, Lil, and Kimi had all disappeared.
"Uh, Doug, where did the rest of the kids go?" Skeeter asked.
Doug looked around to notice they had disappeared.
"I don't know Skeet, but we'd better find them and hurry if we're gonna get out of here on time." Doug said, glancing up at a clock on the wall of Mr. Dink's living room, an old fashion coocoo clock.
"Wow Mr. Dink, I never saw that before." Doug said, pointing to the clock.
"Oh yes, Tippy's coocoo clock, she got it out of storage last year, and just, had to put it up." Mr. Dink said.
"Coocoo, coocoo, coocoo, coocoo, coocoo." The bird said, as the clock turned to five-o'clock.
"Come on Doug, we've only got thirty minutes to catch the bus, and we still gotta find the rest of the kids!" Skeeter cried, racing towards the stairs.
Doug, Angelica, and Mr. Dink followed him upstairs, where they immediately discovered where the noises were coming from. They also heard Chuckie screaming, as Mr. Dink entered his bedroom to see his zit removing machine attacking his face.
"Hold on Charles, I'm coming!" Mr. Dink cried, running up to the machine and turning it off, gently moving the redhead away.
Chuckie was pretty shaken up at that moment, but as he caught his breath, he looked up at Mr. Dink and smiled, thankful he saved his life. Meanwhile, Doug and Skeeter looked around the room, where Dil reached out and started tickling one of Tommy's feet that was sticking out from beneath Mr. Dink's bed. The toddler giggled and crawled out, happy to see Doug, Skeeter, his brother Dil, and Mr. Dink surrounding them, and Chuckie calming down from whatever machine caught him.
"Hey guys, it's okay, you can all come out now." Tommy called, as Kimi, Phil and Lil emerged from their hiding places.
"Shew!" Doug breathed a sigh of relief, looking at a clock on Mr. Dink's dresser to see it was only five minutes after five.
"Well, thank you for helping us find the kids Mr. Dink, we'd better be going, or else we'll never make it in time to catch our bus." Doug said, heading back downstairs to the front door, the rest of the kids following behind him.
"Well thanks for stopping by, and I hope you have a good time at your concert. So long Dougless, audios Maskito, Angelica, Charles, Kimiko, Lillian, Phillip, Thomas, and Dillon, it was a pleasure to meet you all." Mr. Dink said, waving goodbye as the gang left his house and continued walking in the direction of the Honker Burger, praying they'd make it there in time.
On the way there though, they passed the park, where Doug stopped dead in his tracks, as he saw Patti, along with Connie, Chocky and Beebe, tossing a whacky wizard around. Of course, this caused Doug to stare longingly at the girl he admired, just as the whacky wizard flew out of her hands, right into Phil and Lil's double stroller, where the twins proceeded to toss it back and force, arguing over it.
"Hey! That's my disc Lillian." Phil argued, tossing the whacky wizard back at his sister, who caught it.
"Uh uh, it's my disc Phillip." Lil argued, tossing the whacky wizard back at her brother.
"No mine!" Phil argued, tossing the wizard back at Lil.
"Mine!" Lil argued, this time, losing her grip as soon as she caught the whacky wizard, sending it into the middle of the street, where a car passed by at that instant, smushing it.
Seeing the entire thing, Doug and Skeeter turned to Patti who approached them.
"Oh, hi guys." Patti greeted.
"Hi Patti, well, as you can see, another one of your whacky wizards got ruined. Sorry about this, Skeeter and I are babysitting, and…" Doug started to say, before Patti interrupted him.
"It's okay guys, remember? My dad gets these free from work. We'll just head back to my apartment and get another one to play with. Would you like to join us? I bet the kids would have fun." Patti said.
"Oh we'd love to, but we're off to that Beets concert, and to take our charges back home." Skeeter said.
"Yeah, sorry Patti, we've gotta go, maybe some other time." Doug said with disappointment, as they waved goodbye and kept heading in the direction of the Honker Burger.
"Well okay then, see you later." Patti said with a smile, waving goodbye as she and her friends headed towards her apartment.
As we neared the Honker Burger, I was starting to get worried. Would we make it in time?
They got there to see a large crowd had gathered to catch the Beets bus, and by sneaking a glance at the wrist watch of one of the ladies they passed while finding a spot in line, Doug saw it was now five-twenty, and the bus had just pulled up, giving people time to board before they left in ten minutes.
Finally, it came time for Doug and Skeeter, along with their charges to bored the bus. They had their tickets ready to hand to the K Bluff Beets Bus driver, when he put a hand up to stop them.
"Hey you two, hold it right there." The bus driver said.
"What's wrong sir?" Doug asked.
"Those kids, are they coming with you?" The bus driver asked.
"Uh, yes, sir, they are." Skeeter replied.
"I'm sorry, but nobody under the age of five is allowed on this bus, and we need to leave in three minutes." The bus driver said.
Catching a glance at the dashboard on the bus, the clock read five-twenty-seven.
Great, I knew getting to our Beets concert in Bloatsberg might possibly turn into another adventure like it did the last time, but at least the last time, catching the Beets bus in Bluffington wasn't an issue. This time however, it was. How on earth were Skeet and I gonna get the kids on to the bus? Then, it hit me! Smash Adams! He'd know how to get the kids on to the bus.
And just what would Smash Adams do? And will Doug and Skeeter manage to get themselves and the Rugrats on to the bus and heading off to Bloatsberg in time? Find out, in the next chapter!
Author's Note: For anybody who hasn't seen Doug in a long time, not sure if you guys ever noticed, but did you ever notice how most of Mr. Dink's gizmos, we only saw in action in one, maybe two episodes at most? Well I always noticed that too, and thought it might be interesting to have some of them make another appearance, those being the automated cooking unit, Julia, introduced in the season 1 episode, Doug's Cookin' and the zit removing machine, obviously introduced in the season 3 episode, Doug's Huge Zit. I also made references to the episodes, Doug is Slave for a Day, Doug Needs Money, and Doug and the Yard of Doom, along with another reference to the episode, Doug's Hot Ticket. Also, you may notice here that Tippy Dink is the mayor of Bluffington. She became mayor, winning the election over Mayor White in the season 4 episode, Doug Runs. And yes, the OC of Ronald Rump, who's running against Tippy in her second election, is a parody of the real, Donald Trump. Also, have you noticed how Mr. Dink tends to refer to people by their full names, as he does with Doug and Skeeter? I thought it would be cute if he called the Rugrats by their full names as well. Anyway, hope you all enjoyed this chapter, and be looking for more chapters, coming soon!