The Chronicles of Fringe: The Traitor, the Criminal, the Lunatic and the Tank
No in FRiNGEment intended.
Some journeys take us far from reality. Some adventures lead us to another realm of consciousness. There are many stories of Fringe. One of them is about to be told.
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CHAPTER TWO
ROOTBEER FLOAT AND ONION SOUP
Bishop the Elder is not so shy and gleefully waives his constitutional rights to make a paramount return to his little shop of horrors.
Positing that he had been craving for traditional American cuisine for the best part of the last two decades, and fed with horrid butterscotch pudding instead, he swears that nothing must come in the way of his search for the perfect food.
In his gargantuan task, he is assisted by a hybrid of Jeeves and Pocahontas, special agent Asteroid, Asterisk, Astrid, whatever. She is more than happy to provide him with all sorts of beverages and to help him with finding the remote and her name. And when she's not, he merely verbally or otherwise assaults her to get what he needs.
In spite of a profusion of popcorn, pigeons, pancakes, papaya and all kinds of food which name begins with a p, Walter's diet is unbalanced. Short of a driver's licence, he cannot buy his regular supply of over-the-counter vitamins and he has no alternative than to implement a substitution program of his own design and to moonshine his personal supplements.
Fortunately, thanks to Peter, he has access to additional nutriments which channel his obsessive compulsive disorders into building entertaining science kits for Astrid and Olivia.
TO GERMANY
Because of a dysfunction in the postal service Olivia has to non-celebrate her birthday on a bench. Back at her place, while breaking out the cereals and cheap whiskey, she discovers that she has yet to set the record straight with a wraith.
Since she has already dealt successfully with brain waves, radiation poisoning, sonic vibration and electrical shock, there's not much left in that department, and it is time for her to get something of a more biological nature to sink her teeth into, --so to speak; hence she's given the opportunity to destroy a gruesome parasite with a riddle.
Resisting Walter's gentle but persistent attempts to turn his son into her new significant other, she decides to jet off to Germany to reunite with an ex-. Unfortunately, Walter gets to pull a Frankenstein on Peter while she's gone. Out of guilt, he trades his freedom for a Red Castle and a song and becomes an instant hero when Olivia and Peter are left behind to play with Christmas lights.
OLIVIA STEPS INSIDE THE TANK AGAIN
Based on the common knowledge that people are shallow and easily entertained, Olivia takes advantage of Peter being away on his deed of the week to strip down to her statutory underwear again and gets back in the tank. Walter having adamantly demonstrated in the past that he was not ready to go cold turkey just yet helps her overdose. Sorry to say, she ends up having a lot more on her mind and misses out that Peter has reconvened with a very, very, very old flame, and that the Bureau gained its very own Kitty Pride. That's probably why she's so stunned to be kidnapped.
TBC…