A/N: Welcome to Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends: The Movie Novelization. This'll be a departure from my usual works, which mostly is from Family Guy, and will instead venture into a one-off for Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends! This show I have very conflicting feelings on. I feel it started off on great terms with its pilot movie and first season, then slowly went down in quality each season (well, season three is a big nose dive) and just warped the show from its original soft, welcoming image into something really, really, REALLY nasty.

Well today, I decided to give my own take on the show. With me instead of rewriting an episode or making an episode, I'm going to rewrite the pilot movie - House of Bloo's - as a movie novelization! And in my take, Foster's would be just the movie, as honestly, we all know it should've stayed that way (and from looking online, people seem to remember the pilot movie more fondly than the actual show it was the pilot for! How sad is that (lmao)?). Also note that I'll be reincorporating certain scenes and moments from seasons of the show for this, to make it feel as the sole movie.

But before we get to the big meat, we're going to go and see the prologue to this. As if this will be the true sole movie, I felt there should have been a little more meat to the movie to help give it weight

Prologue: The Best Friends are Imaginary

"Nooo! Give it back, Daddy!" cried a little toddler, jumping up and down in front of his father and older brother as they were walking away with something of his: his favorite blue security blanket. He was currently fighting to get it back, but it was just out of reach.

"No! You're way too old for this, and it's time you man up!" The father rather rudely replied. The boy was only just three years old, and it didn't feel fair for him to give up something he didn't need to give up at that age. As he and the brother got closer to where they were taking the blanket, the trash burner, the little boy pleaded harder.

"Daddy, pwease! You can't take it 'way wrom me! I-it's all that I have!"

But the father was apathetic to his kid's cries. He opened the trash burner and tossed it in, destroying it without a care in the world.

"There. It's gone and it's never coming back."

The father dusted off his hands from the deed, but he heard something. Crying. That's what he heard. The little kid was openly crying because of his lost blanket. But the father was having none of it. He harshly slapped the boy behind the head.

"Oh my God, STOP CRYING! WAH, WAH, WAH! I DON'T WANNA HEAR IT!" The father yelled at the little boy.

"Yeah, stop crying, stupid!" The older brother copied after his father and slapped his younger brother's head, only making him cry harder.

"Dear!" A female voice called out and drew the attention of the father and the older brother - with her being the mother and wife - as she walked to them angrily. "Why did you throw out Mac's blanket?!"

"Because the boy's way too old for it, Rita! He doesn't need it!" The father tried to reason with his wife Rita, but the crying of Mac didn't prove anything.

"'Didn't need it-'? POOR MAC'S CRYING!" The mother angrily pointed out, applauded at her husband's apathy for his child's well-being. She picked Mac up and cradled him to make him feel better, but nothing changed.

"Dad's right, Mom! The little booger will get over it." The older brother reasoned, siding with the dad.

"Watch it, Terrence!" The woman sniped at the older brother - revealing his name - before directing her attention to the father "And you; you and me, our room: NOW."

Later on, Mac was sitting in his room, but he was still crying at the front of his door, tears ran down his face. His homelife was a mess with his father and older brother Terrence being awful to him, and his mother not always able to be around for him due to the fact she had to work her job to support the family while her husband stayed at home (he was quite the lazy parent). And now the only bright spot in his life, his blanket, was ripped from him for no good reason by his abusive father and was now being "rewarded" with hearing yelling and complaining of his parents. Something he always heard day and night.

Right now, all he wanted was at least company. Someone to help him feel better, someone who'd play with him when he wanted to play a game, someone who'd help him out when he needed it, someone … someone who actually cared about him…

And at that moment, someone was born. He opened his eyes and was met in the darkly lit room. The imaginary friend decided to not focus on that and looked down at his hands. They were round (like stubs) and blue. He looked at the rest of himself. He was, in short, a blue blob.

After this, he saw Mac crying in front of him. He had the urge to go comfort him, but why? He decided not to question it further.

"Hey, you okay?" He asked.

The boy jolted in surprise and looked up. Tears tracks stained his face. He just paused and responded.

"N-no."

"Why?" The blue blob asked as he sat with the boy.

"M-my daddy m-made me give up my b-blanket." He sniffed.

"Your blanket?"

"H-he told me I-I was too old for it. B-b-but I'm not. It's the only thing that kept me secure..." The blob looked sad at the boy, and comforted the boy,

"Don't worry, buddy… I'll always be there for you to make you feel secure." the blob promised. "And I'll make you feel less… blue."

"P-Pwomise?"

"Promise."

Mac wiped his tears away, smiling at his new friend … He then was tackled into a hug by him and hesitated before happily hugging back.

As time went on, things slowly changed. The blobby imaginary friend got named: Blooregard Q. Kazoo (or just Bloo). And Bloo revealed what Mac was missing: his sense of confidence. The side who wanted to be more reckless and bolder when he couldn't. And t When Mac was getting picked on by Terrence, Bloo fought back with a nasty vengeance. When Mac was nervous - like during big tests or stage nights - Bloo used his assuredness to calm his buddy down. And when Mac feels he is not worthy after Terrence screws with him, Bloo feels enough entitlement for the both of them.

But Mac's more shy sensitivity also helped keep Bloo in mind. When Bloo was being inconsiderate, Mac reminds him to be kind (or apologize to who he offended). When Bloo impulsively charges into a bad situation, Mac holds him back, and when Bloo, despite his good intentions, handles a situation selfishly or in a poorly thought out manner (I mean in a really poor manner; one time he accidentally broke Rita's vase and went on a whole plan to fix it without telling her), Mac steers him on the right path.

Both showed to bring the best out of the other and seemed to be nearly unbreakable. And as time went on, things slowly changed for the boys. Their mother divorced their father when Mac turned eight after Terrence (and to a lesser extent, Bloo) was starting to develop more violent tendencies, and believed their father was the culprit of it (even though Terrence was already developing them from his dad beforehand, so too little too late). His mother gained custody of the kids and Bloo while their father gained custody of their house. Leading them to move out of their old house and move into an apartment complex from far out. It was ... livable. Even if the electricity was weak, had inconsistent running water, and its pool wasn't even really a pool but more of a 5-foot puddle from a hole in the ground the complex branded as a 'pool'.

Mac and Bloo believed that with this change, that things would improve. But it ended up causing more problems. Their mother Rita had to work more jobs to support the four of them, leading to her being gone even more than when the parents were together. With her not getting home until the boys have all gone to sleep. And with Ma gone, Terrence has declared himself the "man" of the house, and man what a pain he is! Rope burns, noogies, and wedgies are some of the 'fun' bonding activities that Terrence and Mac participate in. Though Mac could count on Bloo to fight against Terrence when he was being picked on, Bloo knew he needed to toughen up to save Mac with them being stuck without a helpful support network for hours on end. Which led to Rita coming home many times to see the apartment a wreck from their fights.

It then became a cycle. Mac would get bullied by Terrence, Bloo would fight back to save Mac and it would end with Rita seeing a giant mess that she would need to clean up. And it stayed that way for two years... until one faithful Saturday.

A/N: And there's the prologue to the whole shbang! It was a short chapter, but it's intentional. Just as a way to set up what's to come. This was not actually from any episode but completely written by me. And for the prologue, I wanted to focus on Bloo's creation and some misc. details before starting. So here's some bullet notes:

1. The bit with Baby Mac losing his security blanket actually was the reason he created Bloo, as revealed in the series pitch bible (also I know Craig confirmed Bloo being a replacement security blanket at an SDCC panel around '06 or '07)! And while some people find it too mean, and I've seen some fanfiction giving a different origin for Bloo's creation, I think it makes perfect sense for Bloo's original personality. He was Mac's protector, someone who would give him the confidence and was as the pitch bible said it, a walking talking security blanket.

2. Mac's father being seen and him being an abusive father was added by me. As with me taking into account the pitch bible mentioned Mac and Terrence's parents divorced not to long before the start of the show, so I incorporated an idea based on a TV Trope idea that he was an awful father that Terrence took after, and also being the one to get rid of Mac's blanket instead of the two of them. And I know this felt a little sad to read, but don't worry. Abusive Papa's never going to be seen again. Just mentioned.

3. The mention of Mac and his brother moving to a new town was an idea mentioned in (you guessed it) the pitch bible, and I used it to show time passing by more quickly.

And, I think that's it. In the next chapter, we see the present day Mac and Bloo fend off against Terrence.