Monsters Incorporated had never looked better in twenty years. For years, Monsters Inc was the king of fear and the scream energy extracted from frightened human children when the monsters came into children's bedrooms to scare the living daylights out of them which were kept in canisters which in turn helped power the city of Monstropolis. Monsters Incorporated wss once owned by a monster named Henry J. Waternoose III, a spider like monster who was the CEO of Monsters Incorporated. He oversaw the company with an iron fist. Then one day, Monstropolis was on an energy crisis that was spearheaded by diminishing returns of scream power that threatened Monsters Inc. The children the monsters were scaring were starting not to get scared by monsters anymore as their belief in monsters grew less and less as they grew older. That was bad news for Monsters Incorporated, since it relied on children's screams as their primary source of power of energy that ran the city of Monstropolis.
Unbeknownst to the workers of Monsters Inc, Waternoose had secretly devoloped a plan to harvest the screams of human children illegally as a last ditch effort to save the company. He worked with a chameleon like monster named Randall Boggs to help him accomplish the task. Waternoose's plan was to kidnap human children in order to harvest their screams in a desperate attempt to save Monsters Incorporated from going under no matter what the cost. Unfortunately, his plan was foiled when during a heated argument with one of his employees James Sullivan about his plan to save Monsters Incorporated, he claimed that if it was up to him, he'd kidnap a thousand children and silence anyone who stood in his way before he would let his company die. He was exposed by Mike Wazowski along with the CDA (Child Detection Agency) who recorded Waternoose's master plan to endanger the lives of hundreds of human children in a desperate attempt to save Monsters Incorporated, which ultimately led to his arrest by the CDA. With Waternoose out of the picture, Sully took over as the new CEO of Monsters Incorporated.
It was soon discovered that a human child's laughter was more powerful than a human child's scream. With that discovery came the switch from scream power to laugh power as the new feul source of energy that powered Monstropolis. Monsters Inc, a company once well known for their monolopy over children's screams as reliable fuel source of energy and for having monsters scare the living daylights out of children was now well known for having monsters make the children they visited laugh instead of scaring them and making them scream like they used to. The transistion between fear and laughter wasn't easy for some monsters to handle, as all their lives they were taught to be scary and to scare children in the human world. Hell, their was an entire university that monsters attended that taught them how to scare human children to prepare them for scaring children when they eventually went to work at Monsters incorporated. But now with this renewable laugh power, the monsters that were taught all their lives to scare human children suddenly had to learn how to make children laugh instead of scaring them.
Life was simple for James P. Sullivan. He was now the CEO of one of the biggest monster companies the city of Monstropolis had ever seen. He'd never imagined in a billion years that he'd one day become the CEO of Monsters Incorporated. Sully, like every other monster, worked at Monsters Inc as a scarer. His scaring records were extraordinary, even beating out the likes of monsters like Randall Boggs in terms of generating scream energy. He was also the top scarer at Monsters University. Then, one day, Sully made a discovery that would change his life forever. He discovered a door that had accidentally been left out on the scare floor. Out of curiousity, Sully opened the door that was accidentally left out on the scare floor, inadvertently letting a little human girl escape from the human world into the monster world in the process.
Upon discovering the human child that had accidentally escaped from the human world into the monster world, Sully initially became frightened of the human girl as it was believed that human children were extremely toxic toward monsters and that a single touch could kill them. What led the monsters to believe that human children were extremely toxic to them wasn't really clear. Maybe a human child accidentally touched a monster one time and the monster spazzed out upon contact with the human child that resulted in the belief that human children were extremely toxic toward monsters and that a single touch would kill them, who knows? The fact of the matter was that monsters believed that human children were extremely toxic toward them and that a single touch would kill them. Which was pretty ironic considering that monsters were required to be around human children to be able to scare them as it was part of their job at Monsters incorporated. One would think that if children were that toxic toward monsters that they wouldn't be able to set foot into the child's bedroom without instantly dying.
Sully tried everything in his power to try and put the human child back in her bedroom. The little girl had taken a liking to Sully. Sully then brought the human child to Harryhausen's restaurant where Mike Wazowski and his girlfriend were in the middle of their date. The little human girl unknowingly wreaked havoc inside the restaurant which led to pandemonium in the monster world. As Sully was around the human girl more and more, he started to like her and treat her like a surrogate daughter of sorts, even going so far as to name the little girl Boo (A/N: Which in my opinion is a stupid, nonsensical name for a monster to call a little human girl. Sully could've taken the time and effort to find out what her real name was by looking in the Monsters Incorporated archives instead of calling her Boo. Monsters Incorporated has files for a reason). Randal wanted Boo for his own nefarious purposes. Mike and Sully had to protect Boo from Randal by going through a series of doors that led to various places in the human world.
Shortly after Waternoose was arrested, Sully had to put Boo back inside her bedroom in the human world, where he tucked her into bed before saying goodbye to the human girl he loved so much. Her door was shredded to pieces. Mike luckily rebuilt the door to let Sully visit Boo once more. Boo was excited to see Sully return to her bedroom.
It had now been a few years since Sully had last seen Boo. He missed seeing her. They had devoloped a special bond together. Sully wasn't sure if he would ever see Boo again. James P. Sullivan was new the current CEO of Monsters Incorporated along with his friend Mike Wazowski. He oversaw the operation of the company and the laugh energy that had been collected from human children. Sully also oversaw the Monsters Inc laugh simulation room where monsters went to make a dummy modeled after a human child laugh. He now had an office that had huge windows that overlooked the sprawling view of the city of Monstropolis. James P. Sullivan was a large cyan blue monster with purple spots and indigo blue eyes. He had curved horns, white claws, razor-sharp teeth and fangs, had a huge chin, with white spikes that ran down his backside that ended toward his dinosaur-like tail that was long. He also had a large furry fat belly. He had bushy eyebrows and a teal colored nose. Sully also had the ability to shed his fur. It was late in the day.
Sully was busy working at his office that had huge windows that overlooked a sprawling view of the city of Monstropolis. He had a desk that was filled with paperwork that consisted of graphs that charted how much laughter the monsters were generating through human children, analytics along with other boring stuff. Sully heard someone come into his office. He looked up from his paperwork to see Roz entering his office to come visit him. Roz was an old slug monster with brownish-yellow skin, grey eyes, and had light gray colored hair that pointed straight up like a cone. On her face she had a mole located at the bottom corner of her mouth and wore pink bluish and dark pink colored lipstick. Roz wore a maroon V-neck vest and black cat-eye glasses that hung on a chain.
Roz was the administrator and key master of the Scare Floor F section of Monsters Incorporated. She was usually seen over by her office located near the scare floor that was separated from the rest of the factory by a retractable metal shutter. Roz was responsible for handling Mike Wazowski's paperwork and would always call him out whenever his paperwork was handed in late or if he didn't turn it in to her. Roz almost never smiled. She also had the tendency to say to Mike that she was always watching him.
"Hi, Sully." Roz said as she slithered into Sully's office. Her voice was nasally and raspy. It sounded shrill and nasally. Almost everyone who worked in Monsters Inc could instantly recognize Roz's shrill and nasally voice that sounded like how someone would sound like if they plugged their noses with their fingers while talking to somebody.
"Hi, Roz." Sully said. He hadn't expected Roz to visit his office. He was nevertheless glad that she came to visit him in his office. He always liked having Roz around.
"How's everything been going lately?" Roz asked Sully.
"Thing's have going great. You hear that Mike's getting married to Celia on Sunday. It's like the forth time they tried to marry each other." Sully said.
"So I've heard. I still don't get why Mike Wazowski and Celia are getting married again. They should've already have been married by now." Roz said, upset at the fact that Mike Wazowski and his fiancee Celia were once again getting married again for the fourth time already.
"Mike and Celia had to postpone their wedding yet again because Mike isn't willing to complete his wedding vows to her by saying I do to her at the altar. Whenever the preist asks him whether he takes Celia to be his wife, he doesn't have it in him to say that he accepts Celia to be his wife. Celia had to postpone their wedding three times already. If Mike doesn't say I do to Celia at the wedding on Sunday, she's never going to marry him again." Sully explained to Roz.
"Damn. Sounds like Wazowski doesn't really want to marry Celia then if he can't be bothered to say whether he'd like to take Celia to be his wife." Roz said.
"Well, Mike just has to work on saying the words "I do" so that he can say it confidently to Celia come the day of the wedding." Sully reassured Roz. "Maybe he's nervous about saying I do to Celia. It happens sometime."
"Yeah. Hopefully Wazowski can finally say the words I do to Celia come the day of their wedding." Roz said. Then she asks Sully, "Hey Sully. Do you ever miss scaring children like you used to do before?" That question hit Sully hard. Of course he missed scaring children like he used to. Sully's mind quickly rushed to his fond memories of scaring children at Monsters Incorporated. He was the top scarer back then. His scaring records were legendary. Scaring children was practically in the Sullivan family name. James Sullivan's father, Bill Sullivan was one of the best scariest monsters around. Sully used to actively like scaring children at Monsters Incorporated, as he was Henry Waternoose's top scarer on the scare floor. That all changed when Sully became the first monster in existence to fully interact and actually care about a human being as opposed to just scaring a human being exclusively as previous monsters had done in the past.
Sully was forced into a scaring simulation by Waternoose when he was trying to tell him about Randal's plan of harvesting children's screams to suck the screams out of children using a canister. Sully then went along with Waternoose's request that he scare a child for a simulation. He proceeded to scare a child in the simulation, unknowingly scaring Boo in the process. When Sully saw the fear that was in Boo's eyes upon him unknowingly scaring her, it was at that moment where Sully realized that scaring human children was bad. It was then that he decided to not scare children anymore. He didn't mean nor want to scare Boo. He was forced by Waternoose to scare a child inside a simulation against his control. Sully decided from that moment on, he would never scare any kid ever again.
"Yeah. I don't miss scaring children. It got to be enjoyable for a little bit, but after awhile, it started to get old, especially when children these days aren't really scared by monsters anymore. Before I met Boo, I loved to scare children. It was after meeting and interacting with Boo and after Waternoose forced me into the scare simulator to demonstrate my scaring ability and unknowingly scared Boo did I realize that scaring children was bad. I couldn't bear seeing the look on her face when I scared her. That's when I knew that scaring children wasn't something I wanted to do, for when I saw the look of horror upon Boo's face, I knew right then and there how horrible scaring children truly was. That it wasn't just about making someone scream to harness energy to run Monstropolis. Scaring children could also get them to cry out in fear. That was the moment where I decided that from that day on, I would never scare any child ever again."
"Shortly after I accidentally scared Boo, I discovered that by making her laugh that a child's laughter was far more powerful than a child's scream. That's why I miss scaring children as much as I used to before." Sully said to Roz. "I'm also going to miss Mike when he and Celia get married. He won't be able to visit me as much as he used to anymore since he'll be busy spending time with Celia. I won't be able to see him as much as I used to before."
"I feel sad that you miss scaring children like you used to do and that you are going to miss Mike once he gets married." Roz said to Sully. "Right. It was nice talking to you, Sully. I'm going to let you go back to work now. Talk to you later." Roz slithered away from Sully's office to let him continue his work. Sully went back to filing out paperwork that he had to do. Twenty minutes later, he was ready to print out the data he had collected about the various human children that the monsters were making laugh. He hit the Print key on the keyboard of his computer. The printer that sat beside his desk had trouble printing the paperwork that he needed to be printed out because there was a lack of ink in the printer. Sully was upset that the printer wasn't working properly. Whenever Sully got upset at something, he had the tendency to throw a bit of a temper tantrum as a way to vent out his frustration. Whenever he had those temper tantrums, he sometimes couldn't control his actions and more often then not he ended up unintentionally destroying things.
He knew that it was a bit unexpected for him to throw a temper tantrum over something as simple as a printer not working the way he wanted to. But, when Sully got upset, he'd occasionally throw a temper tantrum over a mundane problem when it wasn't that big of a deal. The printer had been working fine a few weeks prior. Sully didn't know exactly why his office printer wasn't working properly. He had asked his employees to fix the printer several times. They hadn't fixed it yet. He wish they'd fixed the printer a long time ago wheh he intially asked his secretary to fix it initially instead of doing nothing to fix it. The blue furred monster lightly knocked the printer with his fist in an attempt to make the printer work the way he wanted to. Knocking on it didn't do it any good. If anything, it just made things worse. The printer was now malfunctioning, spewing ink everywhere.
At this point, Sully was now really upset. He proceeded to lose his temper and proceeded to bang incessantly on the printer in a vain attempt to make it work. He had failed to notice that he was starting to lose his balance in his throes of anger. Sully suddenly loses his balance and falls backwards into a filing cabinet, destroying it and sending various files and paperwork toward the ground, making a huge mess. The filing cabinet fell onto Sully's body. Sully eventually got up from the ground and took a moment to look at the mess he'd inadvertently made in his office space. Papers and manila folders containing various files of human children were scatered everywhere, on the floor, on top of his desk, everywhere. To say it was a mess would be an understatement. Sully knew that it would take him an extremely long time to sort all of the paperwork out and to clean up his office. He didn't intend nor wanted to make a huge mess of his office. If he wouldn't lost his temper ovdr changing to change the ink of his printer, his office would've nevrr have been in the mess it was currently in. If only he could've controlled himself from losing his temper.
Sully then to slowly clean up the mess he inadvertently made in his office. He went to work trying to sort out the files of each individual human child that Monsters Inc kept track of. One file in particular caught Sully's eye. He picked up the manila folder and opened it. Inside the folder was a file that contained the information of a certain human girl. A picture of a small human girl that had fair skin, with dark brown hair that was styled in little pigtails, had brown eyes and who wore a pink nightshirt was laid out next to the file. It only took a moment for Sully to recognize who the girl in the picture was. It was none other than his human friend named Boo. Sully saw that her real name was listed in the file as: Gibbs, Mary. So that's what Boo's real name was. Sully thought to himself as he looked at Boo's file.
A flood of memories suddenly filled Sully's mind. Memories of the times he and the little human girl had since he had first met her a few years ago: memories such as the first time he had taught her how to sing a monster's lullaby to help her go to sleep, when Boo had showed him a loose floorboard in her room where she kept all of her valuable items and also showing him her drawings that she had made using a glow-in-the-dark pen, among other things. Sully had really missed playing with Boo. It had been a while since he last saw her. He wanted to see her again. Sully waa so lost in his memories of Boo that he had failed to notice his friend Mike Wazowski had walked into his office.
"Hiya, Sully." Mike's voice called out, breaking Sully out of his trip down memory lane. He saw his friend Mike Wazowski standing in front of him. He was a bit surprised to see Mike in his office as he was so lost in his memories of Boo that he hadn't noticed Mike walking into his office.
"Hiya, Mike." Sully said happily to his friend. "I didn't notice you walking in. Don't mind the mess, I was trying to change the ink on my printer when I got upset and I kinda lost my temper which caused me to accidentally lose my balance and I landed headfirst into the filing cabinet, sending all of the files flying everywhere around my office. I was in the middle of cleaning it up when I stumbled upon Boo's file and I quickly got lost in a trip down memory lane of all the time I used to spend with her."
"I know. I saw you looking at Boo's file. You do know her birthday is tomorrow. She's going to be six years old." Mike told Sully, which caught him off guard. Sully had been so busy with his work that he had nearly forgotten about Boo's sixth birthday. He mentally kicked himself for failing to remember that her birthday was tomorrow. This would be the perfect opportunity for Sully to visit Boo once again since it had been a while since he last visited her.
"Crap. I nearly forgot that tomorrow was Boo's birthday. It's been a while since I last saw her." Sully said to Mike as he was cleaning up his office. "Aren't you going to come visit her tomorrow for her birthday?"
"I can't come to Boo's birthday party tomorrow. I got a pre-wedding lunch I have to attend to with my family as well as Celia's." Mike explained.
"How did the wedding rehearsal go? Did you finally work up the nerve to say "I do" to Celia at the rehearsal?" Sully asked Mike.
"It was miserable," said Mike. "I couldn't work up the nerve to say that I would take Celia to be my awfully wedded wife. Celia got upset with me. She's giving me one more chance for me to make up my wedding vow to her. She says that if I'm not ready to say "I do" to her at the wedding on Sunday, she's calling off the wedding permanently."
"That's horrible, Mike!" said Sully. "You better work on saying "I do" to her come Sunday." By now, Sully was nearly finished cleaning up his office. He looked at the clock on the wall and saw that it was getting late outside. It was time for Sully and Mike to head home for the night. Mike helped Sully close up his office for the night. Then, the both of them left Sully's office and headed towards the exit doors of Monsters Inc, eager to head home for the night. Sully couldn't wait to head back home after a long day of work at Monsters Inc.