On the set of Up Late with Miss Piggy, all the Muppets were reuniting with their friends after their long season hiatus, asking each other what they did over the last few months.

Basically Gonzo and Camilla went to China, where Gonzo bungee jumped off the edge of the Great Wall and got escorted off the premises, but they managed to get a few good pictures;

Fozzie and Becky used this time to work on their relationship, which was going really well;

Scooter had taken the time to sign up for knitting and crocheting classes, mainly because he didn't want to being around his home too much since his mother and Ken were spending more time together;

Rizzo and Yolanda went to New York to check out the city and to meet up with a few old friends of theirs that they used to work in a diner with (Muppets Take Manhatten reference);

Pepe went to France to check out the beautiful "French womens", as many people have expected;

and as far as anyone knows about how Kermit and Miss Piggy's trip to Thailand went, it seemed like it went okay, but whether sparks flew between the pig and the frog, nobody could tell.

As for what the Electric Mayhem did for their long vacation, well, the only members chatting up with their friends were Floyd Pepper, Janice, Lips and Animal, mostly about how they went to Las Vegas for two weeks to do a couple a gigs and Animal got involved in a poker game in some casino that nearly resulted in him gambling the band's instruments and van away. The band's leader and keyboardist, Dr. Teeth, and saxophonist, Zoot, were nowhere to be found.

The two Muppets were sitting in their hangout area, relaxing a bit before having to get back to work. Dr. Teeth glanced at the blue saxophonist, who was cleaning his saxophone, as expected since Up Late with Miss Piggy was going to air later that evening. Despite how zoned out Zoot seemed to be sometimes, he always seemed to keep his focus when doing anything that involved his saxophone, whether he was playing it, tuning it, or cleaning it. But that wasn't the only thing Zoot could easily focus on from time to time…

"Well, that was quite a vacation in Vegas," Dr. Teeth said, starting a conversation.

"Yeah, a lot of gigs too. I'm surprised that a lot of casinos were so eager to book us," Zoot said, nodding, not looking away from his work.

"But it wasn't the gigs that I liked best," Dr. Teeth admitted.

Zoot stopped his polishing and looked up at the keyboardist, "Really? What did you like best?"

"Guess," Dr. Teeth said, sitting closer to the man and putting his hand on Zoot's leg.

The Muppet's light blue skin turned to a crimson shade and he cleared his throat. "Oh...that," he muttered. "That...was really nice."

"Yeah, and it would've been incredible had Lips not banged his fists on the door to our room, screaming about Animal and his gambling," Dr. Teeth stated.

"Yeah, talk about a mood killer, and you were close to getting my shirt off too," Zoot sighed.

For a long while, Dr. Teeth and Zoot had been dating behind the scenes of the Muppets works. It all started with Zoot having a simple small crush on Dr. Teeth back in the old Muppet Show days, and when he actually informed him of his feelings, Dr. Teeth...well, he reacted extremely well. And by extremely well, he pinned Zoot against a wall and gave him the most passionate of kisses. The two kept their relationship secret from most of their coworkers, the only people who actually knew being the rest of the Electric Mayhem and a friend of theirs named Clifford, who promised to keep their mouths shut until they were ready to come out to the rest of the crew.

When gay marriage got legalized in the US, Dr. Teeth saw it as the perfect opportunity to come out to the rest of the Muppets, but Zoot still wasn't completely ready to do that yet, mostly worried that some newspaper or something might create scandal about it, so Dr. Teeth agreed to wait until the saxophonist was ready. Dr. Teeth had also been planning on proposing to Zoot, since they had been together for so long, but he was still waiting for the ring he ordered to come in. Once it came in, he'd pop the question.

"You know, while we're still all alone in here, we could…" Dr. Teeth said, brushing his hand gently on Zoot's face.

Zoot turned scarlet and raised his hand to touch Dr. Teeth's hand on his face, silent for a few moments, before smirking and saying, "Sure."

Zoot set his saxophone aside, moved closer to Dr. Teeth, and pressed his lips to the other Muppet's. As expected, Dr. Teeth's lips were very soft and smooth, and he melted into the kiss. Dr. Teeth wrapped his long arms around the blue Muppet's waist, pulling him closer. Zoot put one of his arms around Dr. Teeth's neck and ran his free hand through his lover's beard. The two Muppets moaned against each other's mouths, starting to feel aroused a bit. Dr. Teeth pulled Zoot onto his lap, making the saxophonist jump in surprise, but that didn't stop their sweet moment. They hoped this would last for a while before someone needed to speak to one of them. Sadly, that was not the case today.

At that moment, Kermit had asked Floyd to get Dr. Teeth and Zoot for the morning meeting to discuss the plan for tonight's show, and Floyd had just entered the room to see the two Muppets kissing. When each of the band members entered the room to see Dr. Teeth and Zoot having a "groovy moment", they each do a different thing; Janice would quietly leave them to continue, respecting their privacy; Animal would enter for a few seconds and then leave, also respecting their privacy, surprisingly, and Lips would stay the room and read a book until Zoot or Dr. Teeth notices him and questions how long he had been sitting there. As for Floyd, he would do something that would fall under the category of "smartass".

The bassist said, "Didn't you have plenty time to do that in Vegas?"

Zoot quickly pulled away from Dr. Teeth and shouted, "Floyd!"

Floyd laughed at his friend's annoyed expression and said, "Have I ever told you two how much I love doing that?"

"Yes, every time," Dr. Teeth said, shaking his head.

"The Frog in Chief needs you two at the morning meeting to discuss tonight's show," Floyd explained, before leaving, still laughing.

"We need to replace those beads with a lockable door," Dr. Teeth stated.

"That's a good idea, man, but we might have to take that up with the people who made those beads," Zoot warned his partner.

"Oh right; Lips and Janice," Dr. Teeth said, knowing the guitarist and trumpeter wouldn't want to take their groovy bead door taken down.

"Better get to that meeting," Zoot said, packing up his saxophone.

"Yeah, we'll continue with our romance later," Dr. Teeth said, getting up from his seat and giving Zoot a kiss on the cheek before leaving the room, with the saxophonist following close behind.

In the meeting room, the Muppets were still talking amongst themselves, but this time, the subject was on Kermit and Miss Piggy's relationship.

"Deadly, you're one of Piggy's friends. You have to know something," Yolanda asked the dragon.

"She didn't tell me about her trip, but I could tell she got a lot of shopping done. She brought back 3 boxes of silk clothes," Uncle Deadly stated. "It's even worse than when she brought back all those ponchos from Argentina."

"I liked those ponchos. They gave me a sort of calm when I wore them...then again, a lot of soft materials seem to calm me, like velvet, wool, my baby blanket…" Scooter started saying when Kermit entered the meeting room.

"Good morning everyone. I believe you all had very good vacations," Kermit said.

"Yeah, the scenery I saw from the Great Wall of China was incredible, and it was even more incredible when I was hanging upside down off the edge of it," Gonzo stated.

"You didn't get arrested for that did you?" Kermit asked the whatever.

"Nah, it was my first offense and I was a tourist so they went easy on me. Also, I was the first person to actually do that so the security was very impressed!" Gonzo explained.

"Okay," Kermit said, not actually surprised to hear this. Gonzo has been known to do some crazy stunts on his vacations and nothing really shocked the frog anymore.

"So Kermit, how was your little vacay?" Yolanda asked.

"It was fun to be in Thailand, seeing the monuments, experiencing the culture, meeting the people. Makes me want to go back there someday," Kermit stated. "But I'll tell you all about that after work because tonight is the season premiere of the show and we really have to wow the audiences tonight."

"Wait, what happened with Pig-?" Scooter started asking when Kermit cut him off saying, "And due to the fact that our branding guru Paché quit under 'unknown' circumstances, the network is sending us a new person to help us with our show."

"Who is it?" Fozzie asked.

"I don't know, they never told me a name," Kermit admitted.

At that moment, a female Muppet walked into the room. She had ebony hair that was short and stuck out in a couple different directions, black eyeliner and lavender eyeshadow on her eyes, a narrow nose, skin so pale it was almost white, and wearing some sort of purple and black punk/Goth ensemble with dangling silver earrings.

"Are you guys the Muppets?" She asked, looking at a slip of paper.

Upon seeing her, Bobo and Rizzo went into a bit of a freak out and quickly hid behind the nearest Muppet, Bobo hiding behind Sam the Eagle and Rizzo taking cover behind Gonzo.

"Rizzo! Bobo! What's the matter with you?" Kermit asked the bear and rat.

"What's the matter is the fact that we know her and we know she hates bears and rats, me and Bobo mostly," Rizzo stated.

"Pardon?" The girl Muppet asked.

"Hey sister, what do you got against us rats?" Yolanda questioned the Goth, a little peeved to hear what Rizzo said.

"Oh wait, I know what's going on. Boys, who are you assuming I am?" The new person asked the rat and bear.

"Uuuh," Bobo stammered. "Darci Brill?"

"Case closed. I figured you knew her since you were both on Muppets Tonight together," Zondra said. "Darci's my twin sister. I'm Zondra Brill, and just so you boys know, I hold nothing against bears or rats."

"Oh, Zondra! I think Darci may have mentioned you once," Rizzo said, stepping from behind Gonzo, feeling more safe around the Goth.

"Yeah, sorry about freaking out. Darci kind of scared us back in the day, what with her insanely one-sided songs," Bobo explained.

"I assumed that. She's been getting a lot of backlash for it lately, so she's trying to write about something that people won't bash her about," Zondra stated.

At that moment, Chip the IT guy entered the room, gripping his laptop, saying, "Sorry I'm late. I was stuck on a very difficult level of Star Wars Battlefr-" until he spotted Zondra.

Upon seeing her, his mouth dropped open and to everyone's shock, he dropped his laptop, something the geek never did!

"Zondra?! Is that you!?" He asked excitedly.

"Chip! I didn't know you worked here," Zondra exclaimed.

"Yeah! I'm the IT guy here," Chip stated.

"Oh, well, I'm the show's new branding guru," Zondra said.

"Really! Cool! I know you'll have some great ideas for the show!" Chip said.

"Uno momento!" Pepe shouted. "Chip, you know this woman?"

"If they dated I'm going to be very shocked," Rizzo whispered to the king prawn.

"What? No! Chip and I were old friends in college, because, believe this or not, guys and girls can just be friends," Zondra explained. "There was a third person in our trio named Ubu but I haven't heard from him in a long while."

"I heard he hightailed it to Canada. He didn't like the odds of one of candidates becoming president," Chip explained.

"And for that, I will not blame him," Zondra said, shaking her head. "Trump's a terrifying man."

"Actually, it was Cruz that scared him most, but you were close," Chip corrected.

Kermit walked up to the female Muppet and said, "Well, Zondra, I can tell you're going to fit in very well around here, so welcome to the show."

"Thanks Kermit, it's great to be here on the set of Up Late with Miss Piggy," Zondra stated. "Now, I believe you were about to discuss tonight's show?"

"Yes! So let's get right to that!" Kermit said, as all the Muppets sat at their places around the table.

"Now, any ideas for sketches," Kermit asked his friends.

Bunsen Honeydew raised his hand immediately, "Beaker and I have been in the middle of perfecting a new invention of ours that we would like to present to the audience," the scientist stated.

"It's not something dangerous is it," Kermit immediately asked.

"Oh, most certainly not! We tested it over our vacation and it's quite successful," Bunsen explained. "We already have a volunteer, who might I add is NOT going to be Beaker, for the demonstration and it'll be simple as that."

"Oh, well, what's the invention?" Kermit asked, curiously.

"Can't say! It's a surprise! But it'll change the world as we know it!" Bunsen exclaimed excitedly.

"Mee meep!" Beaker meeped happily.

Zoot pulled Dr. Teeth aside and whispered, "For some reason, I've started getting weird vibes when Bunsen started talking about his invention. Do you think it's bad vibes I'm getting?"

"Relax Zoot, Bunsen knows what he's doing. I doubt it'll result in anything too crazy...other than Beaker getting hurt in some way. I'm sure it'll be fine," Dr. Teeth assured his boyfriend.

But Zoot was still a little nervous about Bunsen's invention. He wish he knew why.

Well, the Muppets are back for a season 2 (In this fictional universe. Cross your fingers for a second season in reality!) and Dr. Teeth/Zoot as my OTP is still going strong! (I'm thinking about naming it Smooth Jazz. What do you think?)

And Zondra has made a triumphrant return! (In case you couldn't figure it out, I had Zondra and Darci be separate characters instead of being the same person like how it was in my other Muppet Universe)

Now I know you have a lot of questions:

What happened with Kermit and Piggy while they were in Thailand? (Don't know if this'll get answered at some point)

What ideas does Zondra have for the show now since Paché is out of the way?

What is Bunsen Honeydew's new invention?

And why is Zoot, the chilliest of the chill, nervous about it.

Find out in the next chapter of Making Lullabies!

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