The Love Triangle
Written by KingoftheJungle1993
In the nearly one year period that Norbert and Treeflower have been together, they've become the definition of a perfect couple. It's hard to believe exactly how much their love has blossomed ever since they first met. They never got into any confrontation with each other and they knew that they would never ever break up with each other. And knowing them, that will never ever happen.
However, that may change. As a recent enemy of Norbert has come into the picture.
And things are not looking good.
Our story begins on the morning of July 17, 1997. The birds are chirping as they decide to find a nice resting spot on the Beavers' mailbox. But unfortunately for them, this turns out to be a mistake as the mailbox collapses and causes the birds to fall off.
Inside the dam's kitchen, Norbert and Daggett look through the pile of mail they've received. A typical morning routine for the brothers.
"Junk. Junk. Junk. Junk." Norbert repeats as he tosses all the unnecessary letters and packages afar, Daggett watching as he does this.
Then Norbert gets to one letter that he stops to read for a bit.
"Hey! Daggett look at this! Richard Horvitz had a little baby boy on April 11." Norbert reads as he adjusts his reading specs.
"Ooooh!" Daggett notices and reads the note as well.
"Jake Elliot Horvitz." Norbert informs his brother.
"That's great!" Daggett cheers while clapping his hands excitedly.
"Yeah I think so." Norbert agrees.
There's a five second pause before Daggett asks his brother something.
"Who's Richard Horvitz?"
"Nobody." Norbert says as he tosses that note aside too.
He unfolds another letter, reads it, then explodes in a flurry of excitement.
"Dag! I just got the best-est news! Treeflower's coming to visit!"
Daggett groans angrily and tugs on his eyelids irritated. He does support his brother's relationship but hearing about it all the time drives him mad. Meanwhile, Norbert starts running around the dam ecstatic.
"Come on! We've gotta get ready. Clean the dam. Stuff the jalapenos. Whip up a fresh batch of Instant Wood." Norbert orders his brother while storming into the closet to grab some things to prepare.
"Eehhn, spooty spoot spoothead." Daggett mutters under his breath.
"We still have that huge bag of Instant Wood I bought, don't we? Some pesky little brother didn't eat a whole 50-pound bag, did he?" Norbert asks Daggett.
Daggett guiltily lifts an empty bag of Instant Wood he hid from under the sofa, knowing full well he ate every last morsel of the bag.
"Uh... A trip to the store would be appropriate now, wouldn't it?" Daggett chuckles nervously.
Norbert nods, slightly disappointed but not letting it get to him. Daggett stuffs the empty bag under the sofa and exits the dam.
Meanwhile, Norbert focuses on getting everything up and ready for Treeflower's arrival. Setting up the table with snacks, getting his hippie outfit (since the letter indicated that she would come right after hippie practice), and even singing the song they both sang the day they met.
"I met a gal, she sure is swell. And oh, so, fine, I know she's mine. Because she said, yes, she said...I think I like you." Norbert sings to himself while ironing his hippie outfit.
Norbert seems to be having no issues at all currently.
On the other hand, Daggett is currently going through the trouble of carrying a gigantic 50 pound bag of Instant Wood on his back with nobody to help him. Looks like him eating an entire bag and having to get a whole new one has finally came back to haunt him.
"Stupid Instant Wood. 'Just add water?' Ha! After you lug it home first." Daggett complains in between grunts and straining.
As Dag approaches a road, a massive tractor trailer tears angrily down the pavement. A now curious Daggett steps forward right near a large puddle. Suddenly, the truck looms over him, making Daggett's eyes widen.
Out of nowhere the truck starts peeling its back tires onto a nearby puddle, splashing Daggett and tearing open the Instant Wood bag in the process. As if that wasn't bad enough, the water activates the powder's contents and turns it into a large block of wood, trapping Daggett inside. Luckily for him, he uses his beaver instincts and chews right through the block of wood like nothing.
"Hey! Watch it you hammerhead!" Daggett yells angrily at the truck driver.
The truck door swings open. Now you would expect some big and huge muscular trucker to come out and turn Daggett into a beaver pelt hat right then and there.
But no.
The truck driver is actually a tiny but very tough shrew named Truckee. Daggett is enemies with him. In fact, Truckee is his worst enemy. It's always been this way ever since their rivalry started exactly thirteen months prior.
"What'd you say, little wood-muncher?" Truckee angrily asked.
"You heard me, hammerhead." Daggett taunts as he flicks Truckee's long nose, this clearly angering the little shrew even more than he already is.
"Listen here ya sap-suckin' clodpoll. And I'd squish ya real good now if I didn't have to be somewheres." Truckee explains irritatedly.
"Oh yeah? And where are you off to that's so important?" Daggett asks in a snarky tone.
"Like that's any of yer business, musk sprayer!"
Truckee hops back in his truck and guns the engine.
"Yeah, right, you dumb, dumb, dumb...dumb guy!" Daggett mutters.
Truckee burns rubber and peels off in his truck, splashing Daggett once more as he attempts to carry the already activated block of Instant Wood home with him. It's his only option at this point.
Back at the dam, Norbert had just finished putting together the final touches of everything for the date. He was already in his hippie suit and had just finished dying his tail by dipping it in a jar of tye dye solution.
"There! Finished! Now all I have to do is wait for my classy lady to arrive~"
Just then, he hears the doorbell ring as he immediately races to get it.
Norbert answers it and sees it's none other than Treeflower in her hippie outfit looking just as beautiful as always. She flutters her blue eyes and eyelashes at her boyfriend.
"Treeflower!" Norbert says excitedly.
"Norby! It's so good to see you!" Treeflower cheers while hugging her boyfriend tightly and giving him many cheek kisses.
"It's great to see you!" Norbert says right back.
"I've waited all day to get out of work so I can finally see my cute little beaver~" Treeflower tells him while pinching his cheeks cutely, making him blush.
"Awwwww…"
"I brought a gift for you from me and my band." Treeflower informs her boyfriend while smiling.
"Oh you did?"
"Yes, sweetie. Let me get it real quick…" She tells him while rummaging through her inside pocket on her hippie vest. After a few seconds of searching, she finally finds it.
"Aha!"
Treeflower places the gift in Norbert's hand as he looks at it.
"What is it?" Norbert asks his girlfriend.
"It's a tape with all the best songs from me and The Friendly Chartreuse Bubblegum Machine. I made it just for you as a little way to celebrate our first anniversary. Like a preview of sorts." She giggles.
"I'll be sure to listen to the whole thing." Norbert promises her.
He comes up with an idea.
"Why don't we go inside right now and listen to it?"
"Ooh sorry sweetie, I can't. I have a quick errand to run that I totally forgot about until right now." Treeflower regretfully informs him.
"Oh."
"Don't worry, It's not gonna take long. I'll take a few minutes and I'll be right back and we can spend all day together." She reassured him while rubbing his face gently.
"Sounds good. What's the errand you need to do?"
Just then, Norbert gets caught off guard by a truck horn blaring right near them.
Norbert and Treeflower look the other way to see Truckee having his truck Big Renee parked near the dam, as he hops out of the car.
"I needed to help out your friend Truckee with waxing his truck fenders. He needed someone to help him out since he's too short to do it himself and I told him I'd gladly help him out." Treeflower explains.
"Ohhhh." Norbert says.
"Is that okay?"
"You don't even have to ask me if that's okay. I understand. Do whatever you need to do." Norbert reassures her.
"Thank you, Norby…" Treeflower hugs her boyfriend.
Treeflower and Norbert walk over to Truckee who is leaning on Big Renee's front tire with a smug look on his face. There is no idea what his intentions are.
"Hey there, Treeflower. Before we go I wanted to give you this." Truckee tells her before he brings out a gift for her.
It's a bouquet of flowers which are many times his size. It's at this point that his intentions with her start to take a more suspicious turn.
"Awww, thanks Truckee! That's really sweet of you!" Treeflower embraces before sniffing the flowers.
Norbert becomes suspicious of this, but decides to not say anything and brush it off as a gift from a friend.
"Also can I say something to Norb real quick?" Truckee asks.
"Go right ahead." Treeflower accepts.
Truckee then walks over to Norbert. Norbert believes that Truckee is simply going to have a civilized conversation with him about his intentions with Treeflower or what's gonna happen during the errand, or just maybe talk about life in general.
But no.
Things take an absolute turn for the worst.
Truckee jumps on the beaver's big bulbous nose and yanks on his eyelids leaning in very close to him, eye to eye. Norbert starts to become scared from this.
"You better kiss your girlfriend goodbye, Norb-butt! You will never get your precious Treeflower back, bark breath! She's mine now and there's nothing you can do to stop me!" Truckee whispers menacingly in his face.
Norbert merely stands frozen in fear, unable to process what had just happened. Not just at Truckee physically assaulting him, but also what he meant when he said Treeflower will be his.
It's at this moment that Truckee's intentions with Treeflower is not for a simple truck waxing session.
He wants to take her away from Norbert, like the spiteful little shrew he is.
"What did you say to him?" Treeflower asks.
"I told him that he's a great friend and that we should hang out sometime." Truckee tells Treeflower, lying right through his teeth.
"Awwww! That's very nice of you, Truckee."
Norbert then stares even more dumbfounded at Truckee.
Treeflower enters his truck in the passenger's side seat while Truckee enters the driver's side he came from.
"Wait, Treeflower!-" Norbert tries warning her before being cut off.
"See you shortly, Norby!" Treeflower says from the passenger's side window waving at him.
Right before they head off, Truckee glares menacingly at Norb with an evil smile on his face without her knowing before driving off.
Meanwhile, Daggett is nearly at the dam with the huge block of already activated Instant-Wood carrying it on his back. He makes it towards the front walkway when he notices Truckee's truck from before leaving the dam and Norbert walking in the house looking depressed.
"I hate you…" Daggett mutters to himself about Truckee.
Norbert enters the dam with his head hanging low, very much worried about that entire incident that happened before. Daggett follows behind him and pushes the Instant-Wood block into the dam with all his strength before finally getting it in the living room.
At this point, the Instant Wood is the least of Norbert's worries.
"Hey! What's that spooty spoot head king of the spoot stupid spoot guy doing here?" Daggett asks his older brother.
Norbert is almost too depressed to respond. His every gesture is overly-melodramatic in a B-movie way. He buries his face in his hands, he clutches his stomach in anguish, he looks plaintively to the heavens as if to ask "Why me?" He suffers in
a big way.
Norbert attempts to respond.
"Stealing... my... TREEFLOWER! HE'S GONNA TAKE HER AWAY FROM ME!" Norbert sobs loudly to his brother.
A few second pause takes place.
"That's stupid." Daggett simply says.
"Whooooahhhhmmmmmmamhhhh..." Norbert bellows, making the sounds of loneliness.
Daggett finally registers what Norbert said.
"What the? That paddle-eared, puddle-splashing punk, brother?! No way! We'll tell her that he's trying to steal her from you and you'll get her back easy peasy!" Dag tries reassuring him.
Norbert thinks about it for a second.
"You know, you're probably right."
"Of course I am."
"I am a pretty dynamic individual." Norbert says, his confidence having came back.
"Very dynamic!"
"But…how do we tell her?"
"Oh don't you worry about that. I've got it all under control." Daggett smiles deviously while rubbing his hands together.
Later, Truckee and Treeflower are driving around in their truck. Truckee is driving and, because he's so small, he reaches both of his arms all the way up to reach the wheel. He couldn't even be seen from the front windows.
Treeflower simply relaxes in the passenger's seat, resting in the comfy cushioned seats. Meanwhile Truckee plots on how he'll make Treeflower fall in love with him.
He then makes a move.
"You look very beautiful in that hippie outfit of yours." Truckee tells her.
"Why thank you, Truckee. I wore it just for my dear Norby...I know how much he loves seeing me in this so I figured I might as well make him happy~" She giggles.
Hearing her talk about Norbert and not him upsets him.
"Uh huh. You know, you're making me quite happy with that hippie outfit~" Truckee attempts to flirt with her.
This makes Treeflower a tad bit uncomfortable but she tries to not make a big deal out of this line.
"Oh…how charming." Treeflower simply responds.
Truckee notices a sign saying Free Truck Wax and Balloons Nearby.
"Oh look! Free truck wax! My favorite!" Truckee says excitedly.
They then park right next to a stand that has balloons, but no truck wax. Truckee exits the truck and starts walking to the stand.
What he doesn't know is that in a nearby bush right behind the stand, Norbert and Daggett are hiding behind it. This is a part of the attempt to get Truckee away from Treeflower and tell her about his evil intentions. Accompanied by the brothers is their lizard friend named Bing, a hyperactive green anole lizard that usually clings with Norbert & Daggett. Bing is part of this as well. The three discuss exactly how this will go.
"Okay...so after I give him the balloons and he floats off, you come out and pretend to be Tina, the customer service person." Daggett whispers to Bing as he points to a puppet named Tina, who is made out of many different items including a bowling ball, golf clubs, brooms, a vase, etc.
"Okie dokie, Daggy-o!" Bing agrees, speaking in the usual fast voice he has.
"Meanwhile, Norb will watch to see how everything goes."
"Okay." Norbert agrees giving a thumbs up.
Daggett puts on a pair of Groucho Marx glasses as a disguise against Truckee.
"Alright. I'm gonna go out there."
He then heads out disguised at the salesman holding a handful of balloons and jumps right in front of Truckee who is standing right outside of the stand.
"I'll take the free wax, hold the balloons." Truckee says to the "salesman".
"No. YOU hold ze balloons!" Daggett responds in a very thick German accent.
Truckee grabs the balloons and starts flying up high in the sky, due to being a lightweight shrew.
"What the?!" He shouts while flying off.
Meanwhile, Treeflower relaxes in the truck. Oblivious that Truckee is currently ascending to the atmosphere with balloons, she turns on the radio to pass the time.
Seeing that his plan has so far gone perfectly, Daggett takes off his Groucho Marx glasses and heads back to the bush behind the stand.
"Okay, and now we wait until she notices he's gone. That's when Bing will come out as Tina." Daggett explains to the other two.
"Alrighty!" Bing cheers.
The three simply sit for a few seconds. Completely motionless.
Until…
"What do we do now?" Norbert asks.
Daggett thinks for a second.
"Hmmmm….charades?" He responds.
"Sounds good." Norbert agrees.
"Cooley cool cool!" Bing cheers.
The three start playing charades to pass the time.
Ten minutes goes by.
Treeflower had been napping in the truck for the last ten minutes waiting for Truckee to come back. She stretches for a bit, letting out a yawn. Had Truckee had been in the truck with her, he probably would've made a move on her regarding her yawn.
Only now does Treeflower notice that Truckee still isn't back yet.
She checks the clock in the truck's dashboard. It reads 2:27 PM. It was 2:17 PM when Truckee got out of the truck.
"Huh. Truckee should've came back any minute now. It's been ten minutes." Treeflower notices.
She steps out of the truck and starts walking around looking for the little shrew.
"Truckee? Truckee, where are you? Truckee?" She calls out.
Meanwhile, the three boys are playing a round of charades. This game has distracted Norbert of the stressful situation they're currently in.
Daggett makes some gestures and Bing and Norbert are the ones guessing.
"Big? Scary? Pointy?" Norbert guesses.
"Little? Mean? Self absorbed?" Bing guesses.
Daggett makes a gesture simulating big ears and a skinny tail using his hands to simulate ears and coiling up his tail to make it appear skinny. He's trying to portray Truckee.
"Ooh! Ooh! Shrew? Truck? Tail?" Norbert guesses.
Just then, a female voice calls out catching the boys's attention.
"Truckee?" Treeflower calls out.
"Yes! That person got it right!" Bing exclaimed happily and energetically.
"Sush, Bing!" Norbert whispered as he grabbed him and pulled him to the side.
"That's Treeflower. She's coming out here to find Truckee." Norbert tells Bing.
"Which means you have to go out there and tell her what's happening just like we told you." Daggett adds in.
"Righty-O, best buddy Daggy!" Bing salutes cheerfully as he bolts out to the stand.
Treeflower walks up to the stand and sees Tina, the "cashier", being controlled by Bing. He uses the golf clubs as arms and speaks in the best female accent he could.
"Hey there, beaver lady! What can I help you with?" Tina greets Treeflower.
"Oh well I was just looking for my friend Truckee. He came out here to get free wax for his truck and he's been gone for ten minutes and I'm trying to look for him." Treeflower explains.
"Oh well I can help you look for him. Me and my friends Norbert and Daggett will help look for him, you can count on us!"
Norbert and Daggett facepalm, as Bing is obviously doing something wrong.
"I told him multiple times to stay on script. He was supposed to say 'Truckee is trying to steal her away from you!'" Daggett irritatedly explains.
Meanwhile, outside the stand.
"You will? Thank you so much. C'mon, let's go!" Treeflower thanks "Tina" as she heads off expecting the puppet to follow her.
Just then, Daggett and Norbert pop out of the bush with angry expressions on their faces.
"Bing, you did that wrong!" Daggett fumes at the lizard.
"Whaddya mean?" Bing asks.
"You were supposed to tell her he was trying to steal her from me! You had one job!" Norbert explains angrily to him.
"Oh sorry about that. My bad."
"Look...we'll just do the rest ourselves." Daggett sighs.
"Okay! See ya later, beaver bros!" Bing bids them farewell as he sprints off cheerfully.
Daggett simply walks off upset while Norbert just sits down on a nearby log and pulls out a book to pass the time.
As Daggett walks off, Truckee floats right above him while still holding the balloons, glaring down at him menacingly. He's been using Daggett's own balloons to hunt him down. And when he finally finds him, it's not pretty. He angrily gnaws through the balloon strings on his wrist and dives straight towards the brown beaver, closing in on Daggett like a killer missile. But when Truckee lands, the shrew weighs so little Dag
barely notices. So Truckee climbs onto Dag's nose, grabs the skin between his eyes, and pulls it out like an underwear waistband, snapping the skin painfully into Daggett's face.
"WHY YOU LITTLE!" Daggett angrily screeches.
He tries stomping the shrew to a pulp, but that does nothing as he ends up bending his toe all the way back. Daggett now is really angered as he starts trying to punch Truckee off of him, however the shrew keeps moving away too fast for Daggett to successfully hit it and makes him hit himself instead.
After a couple minutes of brawling, Daggett finally leaves the scene completely bruised and worn out, even having gained a black eye during the aggressive fist fight. His teeth and his ears have also been messed up as well.
"And don't try that again, me Buckaroo!" Truckee yells from afar as he heads back to the truck with Treeflower inside and drives off.
Daggett ends up toppling down onto the ground with a thud while groaning. Completely weakened.
Norbert walks over to his brother and picks him up by the head with no trouble whatsoever.
"Nice job, Big D." Norbert tells his brother sarcastically while smirking.
"Shut up." Daggett growls.
Hours later, at 7:43 PM, Truckee has taken Treeflower to watch the sunset at a hill in the forest to try to seal the deal with her and make her his. Norbert and Daggett look onward through a bush. The sight of this makes Norbert reasonably angry. It makes Daggett even angrier though, given how his arch nemesis is trying to ruin his brother's romantic relationship.
"Look at him...that two faced, snot-nosed, sewer stenched, long tailed spoothead." Daggett fumes.
"I got an idea. I'll walk over to her and tell her everything while you stay here and watch." Norbert whispers to his brother.
"Sounds good. Now go out there and win your girlfriend back." Daggett places a hand on his brother's arm.
"Thanks, Dag." Norbert smiles.
"No problemo, bro."
Norbert then walks over to Treeflower and Truckee.
"Hey, Treeflower." Norbert greets her.
Treeflower turns around and smiles at her boyfriend's presence.
"Oh, hi Norby! What's up?"
"I need to tell you something…"
"Oh? What is it?"
"I know you might not believe me when I say this but…Truckee's trying to seduce you and steal you away from me and make you his." Norbert spills the beans.
"What?" Treeflower asks, shocked at this.
Immediately, Truckee gets defensive.
"I would do no such thing! Go back to your pond, tail slapper!" Truckee demands of Norbert.
Norbert starts snapping at him.
"Oh really? How about I tell her that you whispered in my face, and I quote, 'You will never get your precious Treeflower back, bark breath! She's mine now and there's nothing you can do to stop me!' How about I tell her that? Oops! Already did!"
"Truckee...is that true? Were you trying to steal me away from Norb?" Treeflower asks Truckee, hoping that this is not the case.
"I...um...uh...I...uh…" Truckee stutters, trying to cover himself up.
As if things couldn't get any more damning for the shrew, a little piece of paper falls out of his truck vest. A now curious Treeflower grabs it and opens it up and begins reading.
What she finds on this piece of paper is truly disturbing and gut wrenchingly diabolical.
"1. Give her flowers. 2. Compliment her looks. 3. Wax truck with her. 4. Watch sunset with her and talk badly about Norbert. 5. Kiss her." Treeflower reads, becoming more and more disturbed with each step.
Truckee's cover is completely blown. He knows very well he is in very deep trouble.
"Wait! It's not what you think!" Truckee tries pleading with the female beaver.
She angrily grabs him by the tail, completely furious at what he had been trying to do to her throughout the whole day.
"I can't believe you! Why would you do that?!"
"Um…uh…"
Treeflower then grabs a balloon, ties Truckee to it, and sends him off to the skies again. She is beyond furious at the evil plot he had tried on her to get her to break up with the man she loves a lot.
"Toodaloo, Mr. Shrew!" Norbert yells to Truckee from below.
"NOOOOOOOOOO!" Truckee bellows while flying high again.
Treeflower turns to Norbert, now sad at how foolish she was to Truckee's manipulation.
"I'm so sorry, Norby...I should've never said yes to helping him if I knew he was gonna try to steal me away from you…"
She starts tearing up.
"You must hate me now, don't you…" She worries as tears well up in her eyes.
"Hey hey, it's okay, Treeflower...I still love you a lot…this isn't your fault at all, and I don't want you thinking it is. You just didn't know. It happens to the best of us." Norbert comforts her as she strokes her hair for her and wipes her tears with his thumb, making her feel calmed down.
Treeflower smiles at her boyfriend. No other man in the planet could ever treat her as well as Norbert does.
She kisses him on the lips for a solid eight seconds, as Norbert reciprocates and kisses her back. We can very much tell all is well for them again.
Treeflower breaks the kiss to say something to him.
"You know, no matter what happens Norby…"
She hugs him as tight as she can.
"I'll always be your girlfriend…"
Norbert hugs her back.
"Same here, Treeflower…Same here."
They embrace each other for a good while. What was actually about twenty two seconds felt like an eternity of them embracing.
"So Norby…how would you like to watch the sunset with me?" She asks as she flutters her eyelashes.
"Oh yes I would love to." Norbert smiles.
They both sit down together and watch the sunset, as Treeflower watches it with the right man. She leans into Norbert's side and cuddles him closely as Norbert wraps his arm around her.
"I love you so much, Norby…"
"I love you too, Treeflower…"
Daggett watches and couldn't help but shed a single tear of happiness for his brother.
"Welp, my work here is finito!" He exclaims as he dusts his palms off and walks back to the dam.
Thanks to Daggett's rare full usage of his brain power, Norbert's relationship with Treeflower had been saved from a potentially devastating incident. And Truckee learned a valuable lesson that day. Never to mess with Norbert ever again.
The End.