Michelle couldn't help but feel just a little bit guilty. Sure she won, But only because Jason fell for her little "Pidgel" trick. Sure she didn't believe him about the whole "The Penguins are alive and they pulled me into their ship" story, but she couldn't help but feel like her victory came in the form of a lie.
Grandmum's words didn't help either, as they were just rubbing salt into the wound. She glared down at the piece in her hand "I didn't cheat. I just bent the rules...a little." she told herself, hoping the guilt would go away soon. However, just as she hit the Squid Hopper, she panicked as she noticed that it accidentally hit the toy ship...and the penguin figures were still in it!
She cringed as the toy ship hit the ground, hard plastic meeting wooden ground. However, in her panic, she failed to hear the sound of an engine starting up. Michelle scrambled to her feet, hoping that there wasn't much damage to the figurines (After all, Those were granddad's wedding gift to grandmum, and she did say that they were fragile) She looked and hoped that the ship would stop bouncing around, and luckily it did...and started flying on its own!
Michelle's eyes widened as the ship flew towards her. Sure her vision was blurry without her glasses, but she could very clearly see the toy ship, now fully flying around her. The pigtailed twin backed away into the couch as the ship circled around her and hovered directly in front of her. This was crazy...But didn't Jason say that this happened to him as well? Well, Then again, she didn't see the-
"Michelle Frances Conrad?" a voice from the now opened ship...and inside stood a big haired penguin. Michelle shook her head as she couldn't believe what she was seeing. But why were they talking to her? Maybe they were just looking for Jason? "Uh...Jason? It's for you." She said, her blurry eyes cutting back toward the ship, and the staircase, hoping that she really wasn't seeing things.
However, the ship zoomed back in front of her face "Not so fast! You're the one we need this time!" the same penguin said, pointing towards her. Michelle almost couldn't wrap her head around this...Jason was telling the truth! "Jason was right. You guys ARE alive!" She exclaimed, still not believing what she was seeing. "Either that or you're daydreaming." an Australian voice from a smaller penguin said. "Whoa! Déjà Vu!" a much MUCH bigger penguin said.
"Dr Fidgel, Galeezel Her." the first penguin said. "Right Away Captain." a skinnier penguin said. Michelle tensed up. She remember that Jason heard those words just before he was shrunken down and pulled into the ship. Although...Surely he was making that part up. Hopefully. Unfortunately, she got her answer in the form of the skinny penguin pulling put a strange looking ray gun, and out of it popped a green claw...that looked to be getting bigger...Wait, it WAS getting bigger!
Once it was fully outside of the ship, Michelle's eyes shrunk as she saw that the claw was as big as her. Michelle turned to run, but the claw quickly grabbed her and lifted her above the ground. "WAIT!" Michelle cried, hoping to get the attention of Jason or Grandmum, but they didn't seem to hear all the commotion. She struggled to get loose, but she gave a yell as she felt herself getting pulled backwards, and the world started to get bigger. The living room started to grow in size the more she was pulled backwards, until she finally felt the claw let go, and she recovered her balance...inside of the ship.
Michelle shook her head, hoping that it was only her blurry vision and guilty conscience making this up, but no, she really was on the ship, and the penguins really were alive! and it's crew! "Amazing! An exact duplicate of your brother. Only with Pigtails!" She heard the skinny penguin chuckle. Michelle felt her cheeks heat up whenever she heard anyone say that she looked even REMOTELY like her brother.
"We're not Identical twins, we're just the same age. Well I'm 5 minutes older but-" She was cut off when she heard the bigger penguin point out "There's no Pidgel." "And no glasses." she heard the shorter penguin say, a knowing frown on his-er, beak. "Wait a minute Fidgel, You missed the glasses." He said, turning back to the skinnier penguin, now known as 'Fidgel' "Right! Sorry!" He said, aiming that strange gun to the outside again. "Oh, and don't worry about the glasses, I don't need them." she said, hoping that they'd leave it be.
The two penguins on the other hand didn't see her point of view. "Sure you do Kid, you gotta wear your glasses." the smaller one said, patting Michelle's back. "Unless they leave red marks on your beak." the big haired penguin said, looking at himself in a small handheld mirror. Michelle rolled her eyes and crossed her arms "Oh they make me look silly." she grumbled, looking away. "See that! they make me look silly-! Ahem, I mean they make HER look silly." she heard the big haired penguin say.
"Nonsense, I'm sure she looks just smashing." Michelle heard Fidgel say. She perked up and turned towards him...just as he slipped her now shrunken, round glasses back onto her face. Now seeing the ship and its crew more clearly, she could see that they clapped for her with her glasses on. Michelle blushed, she wasn't used to this kind of attention when her glasses were on. Maybe she should keep them on more often...
"Well, Why don't we save the chit-chat for our next tea party, right now, we've got a bandicoot to save!" the big haired penguin said, causing the other penguins to scramble...as he slowly tiptoes over to the captian's chair. Michelle then felt the speed of the ship as they zoomed through the room, and out of the cottage through the chimney...and into the vastness of space...
Well...Jason is never going let it go.