(Cue: Monsters Inc theme)
Our story begins in a child's bedroom, where a young human boy was asleep in his bed. It was a dark night and all was quiet… until the sound of a door creaking filled the room, waking the boy up. The boy looked around to see something hanging from his closet that looked like an arm. That had the boy gasping, but he looked again and it turned out to just be a sweater. So, the boy just went back to sleep. But he didn't know that something black was hiding underneath his bed.
Out from the bed rose something tall and black under a dark cloak with yellow eyes that looked ready to attack and devour the child.
The child woke up and screamed at the sight of the monster, but the monster screamed too and tried to run away, only to trip on a ball, sending it flying and bouncing against the wall, clocking him in the head, sending the cloaked figure onto a skateboard and landing on the floor on his butt, but onto some sharp jax.
"YOWCHIE!"
That had the cloaked figure jumping up so high that he crashed and found himself hanging from his cloak on a spinning ceiling fan. Then some lights came on, and the human child was revealed to just be a robot, and the cloaked figure hanging from the fan was revealed to be a gungan named Jar Jar, who was training to be a scary monster, and not doing a very good job so far.
Simulation terminated. Simulation terminated. A computer voice said.
One of the bedroom walls lifted up to reveal a whole other room where there sat a woman with butterfly wings at a panel named Mariposa.
"All right, Mr. Binks, is it?" said Mariposa.
"Mesa friends call mesa Jar Jar," said the Gungan. "Can someone get mesa down from here?"
A crew was sent in to get Jar Jar down, but he wasn't going to be able to sit down for a while.
"Okay, Mr. Binks, can you tell me what you did wrong?"
"Mesa tripped?" Jar Jar shrugged.
"No, no, before that." Mariposa turned to three other creatures who sat behind her. "Can anyone tell me Jar Jar's big mistake? Anyone?"
One of the recruits just coughed.
Mariposa facepalmed with a groan and rewound a video that was recorded of the simulation, which showed Jar Jar leaving the door open.
"See? The door. He left it wide open."
Jar Jar felt mortified by this.
"Mesa sorry. It was a accident."
"One that must not happen again, seeing as leaving the door open is the worst mistake any employee can make because…?"
It coulda let in a draft?"
"It could let in a child," said a new voice. And in came a man with slicked back white hair and sharp horns on his head, dressed in all red attire.
"Oh! Mr. Palpatine." gasped Mariposa.
Mr. Sheev Palpatine was CEO of Mutants Incorporated, a company that employed, in case you hadn't guessed it, monsters. Their job: scaring children. Why, though? Well, I'll let Palpatine explain that to you.
"There is nothing more toxic or deadly than a human child." Palpatine said. "A single touch could kill you."
Jar Jar backed away from the dummy in response to that.
"Leave a door open and a child could walk right into this factory, right into the mutant world!"
"I won't go in a kid's room! You can't make me!" Panicked a young zygerrian, jumping into the arms of a young vampire sitting next to him.
"You're going in there because we need this," said another voice. A female one.
And in came a lovely feline-like being with a yellow container in her arms. Her name was Miraj, and she was Mr. Palpatine's wife and CFO of Mutants Inc. She twisted the top, and out came a loud high-pitched noise that had everyone covering their ears, a werewolf howling, and everything electrical flashing or glitching until Miraj closed the container.
"Our city is counting on you to collect the screams of those little skugs." Miraj said, baring her claws.
"Thank you, Miraj, Dear." Palpatine said. "Without screams, we have no power. Yes, it's dangerous work, and that is why I need you to be at your best. I need scarers who are confident, tenacious, tough. Intimidating. I need scarers like… like… Anakin Skywalker-Jinn."
In a bed covered with black sheets lay a man with wavy sandy blonde hair streaked with black, snoring as he was neck deep in sleep.
The clock struck six o'five.
"Hey, good morning, Mutantis. It's five after the hour of six a.m. in the big Mutant City. The temperature's a balmy 65 degrees, which is good for you reptiles," narrated a voice which turned out to come from beside the nightstand.
The one narrating turned out to be a man who looked identical to the one in bed. Except, his hair was all sandy blonde and long like a mermaids, he looked like a normal human, and he wore glasses.
"It looks like it's gonna be a perfect day to just, you know, lie in bed, sleep in, or simply work off that flab that's hanging over the bed! Get up, Anakin!"
Carmine pulled out a trumpet and blew it loudly, shocking Anakin wide awake.
Anakin bared his vampire-like fangs as he started to do push-ups before he would get to work.
"I don't believe I ordered a wake-up call, Carmine," said Anakin.
"Less talk, more pain, Marshmallow Boy!" Carmine blew a whistle and instructed Anakin through various exercises.
Pushups while roaring, jogging in place and dropping or roaring if the kid was awake or asleep, and practicing heavy breathing and practicing his lightsaber skills.
You see, Anakin was a top scarer at Mutants Inc. He was a very rare kind of vampire-like creature that wasn't afraid of the sun, but he was intimidating nonetheless. He often wore this frightening mask that made his voice sound big and scary, and held glowing red laser swords that terrified young children. If that wouldn't work, he could transform into a giant bat and bare his sharp fangs.
Carmine got out a broom with a crudely drawn kid's head tied to the bristles.
"All right, Anakin, you ready?" Carmine held the broom around for Anakin to chase and scare. "Don't let the kid touch you, don't let it touch you!"
Anakin hissed at the fake kid.
Then, Anakin pushed a bunch of heavy objects with Carmine sitting on top and singing, I don't know but it's been said, I love scaring kids in bed.
Then, Anakin had to brush his fangs.
"Come on! Fight that plaque. Fight that plaque! Scary monsters don't have plaque!" Carmine said, which was kind of hard to do while brushing his own teeth, and accidentally spitting toothpaste.
"Carmine! Say it, don't spray it!" Anakin said, wiping some toothpaste off his forehead.
Anakin hung from a bar in the living room, doing sit ups upside down while Carmine counted.
"One-eighteen. Do you have 119? Do I see 120?" Carmine gasped. "Oh, I don't believe it!"
"I'm not even breaking a sweat." Anakin smiled.
"Not you! Look, the new commercial's on!" Carmine ran off, and Anakin fell from the bar.
The future is bright at Mutants Incorporated, said the announcer on the T.V.
Carmine excitedly sat on the couch to watch the new commercial.
"I'm in this one."
Anakin sat beside his twin to watch with him.
We're part of your life. We power your ships, we warm your home. We light your city.
"I'm Mutants, Incorporated," said a cheetah-like humanoid girl.
"Hey, look! It's Kara!" Anakin smiled, seeing his big sister on T.V.
Carefully matching every child to their ideal monster….
A demonstration was shown on television, though Carmine found himself cringing for some reason as he saw the kid screaming when they were scared
To produce superior scream. Refined into clean, dependable energy. Every time you turn something on, Mutants Incorporated is there.
"I'm Mutants Incorporated," said Obi-Wan, a werewolf and fellow worker.
We know the challenge. The window of innocence is shrinking. Human kids are harder to scare.
Then, Palpatine and Miraj appeared on the screen.
"Of course, M.I. is prepared for the future." Palpatine said, wrapping an arm around his wife.
Carmine and Anakin both feigned barfing. They respected Palpatine okay, but Miraj honestly scared both of them. But then, Anakin came onto the screen, demonstrating his scaring skills.
With the top scarers, the best refineries, and research into new energy techniques.
"Oh! Here I come!" Carmine said excitedly.
That was when both Anakin and Carmine appeared on the screen, the two of them in identical outfits to say a line together. But Carmine didn't have his glasses on for this part.
"We're working for a better tomorrow… today," said the twins together.
The twins had to admit, the way they had to say that was kind of creepy.
"We're Mutants Incorporated," said the other workers.
We're M.I. Mutants Incorporated. We scare because we care.
Anakin turned off the TV.
Carmine sighed.
"I still don't get why I couldn't wear my glasses for that bit." Carmine said.
"Maybe 'cause the camera would've reflected in them with how close we had to stand to it." Anakin shrugged.
"Yeah, I guess. Either way… we were on TV! I'm a natural."
"We're identical twins," laughed Anakin.
Just then the phone rang, and Carmine answered it.
"Hello? I know, we saw it too. Weren't we great?" Carmine said, he looked at Anakin for a moment. "Did the whole family see it? It's Mom and Dad. What can I say? The camera loves us."
Anakin and Carmine left their apartment with their briefcases, ready to head to work.
"I'm telling you, Big Bro, you're gonna see this face on TV a lot more often." Carmine said.
"Yeah? Like on Mutantis' Most Wanted?" Anakin teased, laughing.
"Hardy, har, har," said Carmine sarcastically. "You know my musical career's gonna take off soon. Just you wait."
As you might've guessed, Carmine was not as intimidating as his brother, or as tough. See, the Jinn family had a mix of monsters. The firstborn child, Kara, was half cheetah, Anakin was… hard to explain, and Carmine was a siren. Naturally, Carmine was born with musical abilities, and when he and Anakin were at Mutants University, Carmine studied music, rather than scaring.
Here in Mutantis, you did see monsters such as vampires, zombies, and furry creatures, but not just them. You could find plenty of other humanoid beings as well. Cereans, Twi'leks, Togrutas, even Trandoshans. You could also find magical creatures like unicorns, witches, or griffins. Basically, if it wasn't a quote unquote, "Normal human," it lived there.
Carmine loved to sing and play music, but he hadn't had much luck in launching his career. When he wasn't working at Mutants' Inc, he worked any musical gigs he could snag and posted videos of himself singing and dancing on Boo-Tube, hoping to get a record deal or something.
Anakin may have looked and acted intimidating when he was at work, but inside he was a real softie; he had to be to fulfill the requirements of being a good big brother, although he was only older by three minutes.
"You know, maybe this scream shortage is a blessing in disguise," said Carmine. "It's nice walking down the street and getting some fresh air before a long day at work."
"I would agree with you if I didn't depend on a collection of screams to have a job." Anakin replied.
Lots of people said good morning to the twins as they walked by.
On one of the streets, the twins passed by an apartment building where some kids were playing jump rope. A young wizard named Petro, a tholothian girl named Katooni, and a wookie named Gungi.
Sitting on the porch playing with a ball was a rodian girl named Ganodi.
"Morning, Anakin. Morning, Carmine." Ganodi greeted them with a wave.
"Morning, kids." Anakin greeted, ruffling Petro's hair.
"Hi, Carmine. Bye, Anakin." Gungi growled, getting so distracted that Katooni tripped on the rope and fell to the ground.
"Ouch! Gungi!"
On another street, a Nautolan male named Kit Fisto was singing to himself as he was filling the produce baskets with some fresh fruits, when he saw the twins coming by.
"Fellas," smiled the nautolan.
"Hey, Kit." Anakin greeted.
"Morning," smiled Carmine.
"I hear somebody's close to breaking the all-time scare record." Kit hinted, referring to Anakin.
Anakin laughed it off and said, "I'm just making sure there's enough scream to go around."
"You could learn a thing or two from him, Carmine." Kit commented.
Carmine rolled his eyes at that. This wouldn't be the first time people compared him to his brother. In case you hadn't guessed, a lot of people questioned the Jinn family as to why their youngest child refused to study scaring at Mutants University like his siblings. But Carmine was passionate about his music. The way he put it, when he listened with his heart, he found real music in so many things, and he played more musical instruments than any student at M.U. ever!
"I'm a musician, not a scarer. My career is gonna take off, you'll see."
As the twins left, Kit tossed them a couple apples on the house, which the twins were thankful for. They were going to need the energy for today.
Pretty soon, the twins came upon a large building that was noticeable due to the big M symbol on it, the M being big and red, and the font looked like it was made by something with sharp claws tearing through paper or cloth.
Inside, there were all kinds of creatures in there, some monstrous, others more… cute. You probably think it's just the beastly looking monsters that are scarers. Well, you're right to some extent. But there were a few monsters who only looked cute now, but looked scary later.
"Morning, boys," said a man with dark skin, dressed like a lumberjack.
"Morning, Garrett." Anakin said.
Garrett, for example, looked human now, but once he entered a room where a full moon was out, he got scary.
"Anakin, Carmine, good to see you." greeted Obi-Wan.
"See you on the scare floor, Obi-Wan." Anakin waved.
"Hey, Ahsoka," said Carmine. "Good to see you."
As you can see, the twins were pretty popular in Mutants Inc. Although, Anakin got more attention than Carmine did, being the top scarer, where as the younger twin was merely an assistant. Sometimes, when he was cleaning his glasses, people mistook him for Anakin despite their different wardrobes.
Within the large entrance hall of Mutants Inc were a pair of green equines, one a pegasus and the other an alicorn with curly hair and a purple and white pinwheel symbol on her flank.
"Hey, it's still leaning to the left," said the older horse, whose name was Emeraldi.
"It is not." said the curly maned pony, who was named Comedia.
"Hey, girls." Anakin said.
"Hey, Mr. Jinn." Emeraldi said, approaching the twins.
"Girls, I told you, call me Anakin." Anakin said.
"We just wanted to wish you good luck."
"Fly!" Comedia exclaimed, seeing a fly buzzing around and chasing after it. "Come here, you!"
Comedia used her magic horn to roll up a newspaper and tried to kill the fly, but only succeeded in whacking everything but the fly, including hitting Anakin in the butt.
"Sorry!" Comedia said before trying to get the fly, only to knock Carmine down. "Oops!"
Anakin couldn't help laughing though at the young alicorn's antics.
"You're funny, you know that, Comedia?" Anakin said.
"Why do you think I got kicked out of charm school?" Comedia said.
Carmine picked himself up and dusted off before looking at something in his bag to make sure it was okay. He sighed with relief.
"It was nice seeing you girls, but Anakin needs to focus." Carmine took his brother's hand and dragged him off.
"See you later, ladies." Anakin said.
"Go get him, Anakin!" Comedia said. Then the fly buzzed again. "And I'm gonna get you so bad."
"Comedia!" Emeraldi groaned as her sister went chasing after the bug again.
Before going to work though, Carmine decided to make a little stop at the reception desk, where a lovely human woman with feathers on her dress and in her hair sat. Her name was Caroline. What made her a mutant? She could become a literal swan.
At the moment, Caroline was answering phones
"Mutants Ince. Please hold. Mutants Inc. I'll connect you. Ms. Fearmonger is on vacation. Would you like her voicemail?"
"Good morning, my swan princess." Carmine sang, love clear in his voice.
"Carmy, my love." Caroline smiled when she turned and saw her boyfriend.
"Happy birthday."
"Oh, Carmine. You remembered."
Caroline kissed Carmine's cheek, which had him practically fainting.
Anakin couldn't help finding it amusing how Carmine still swooned every time he got kissed by the girl he'd been dating since high school. Then again, word had spread like wildfire that Anakin just got engaged.
"Hello, Anakin." Caroline greeted her boyfriend's twin.
"Oh, hey, Caroline. Happy birthday."
"Thanks. So, Carmine, are we going anywhere special tonight?"
"Oh, I just managed to get us into a little place called… Crytalos."
That had Caroline gasping.
"Crystalos? But it's impossible to get a reservation there."
"Not for yours truly." Carmine smiled. "I will see you at quittin' time. Not a moment later."
"Okay, sweetheart."
"I'll be thinking of you every moment of the day."
And Carmine burst into singing Sweet Caroline, good times never seemed so good.
Carmine might not have been the scariest mutant, but he definitely had a voice like an angel.
Anakin and Carmine got into the locker room to get what they needed. Carmine took out a velvet box he was going to keep safe in his locker.
"Just look at it."
Carmine opened the box, revealing inside a beautiful silver ring with a princess cut diamond on it. You can probably already guess what he was planning to do with it.
"Tonight's gonna be the night. She is the one."
"I'm happy for you." Anakin smiled, putting on a mask that went over his nose and mouth.
"Oh, and thanks for helping me out with those reservations."
"No problem, little bro." Anakin said, his voice sounding deep and scary, which startled his brother. "They're under the name Carmy Jinn."
Carmine rolled his eyes; it was so like Anakin to tease him with the nickname their mother and Caroline gave Carmine.
"Maybe you could learn a thing or two from Comedia about how to be funny."
Suddenly, Carmine's locker slammed shut.
"Huh?"
Carmine opened his locker, only for it to slam shut again.
"What the…"
Then out of the blue, someone slowly turned visible.
"Carmine Jinn!" shouted a Trandoshan, sending Carmine falling over the bench backwards and losing his glasses and the box.
"Where's the ring? And my glasses?" Carmine panicked.
The trandoshan chuckled.
"What do you know? It scares little kids and little monsters."
"I'm taller than you, Dar." Carmine said, still looking for his stuff. "And I wasn't scared. I'm just anxious."
Carmine was relieved to finally find the ring.
"Found your glasses." Anakin said, putting them back on his brother. "And save it for the scare floor, will you, Dar?"
"I'm in the zone today, Skywalker. Gonna do some serious scaring. Putting up some big numbers."
"Dar, that's great. That should make it even more humiliating when we break the record first. Ha!"
Dar jumped at Carmine again, this time sending him jumping into Anakin's arms.
"Shh! Do you hear that? It's the winds of change."
Without another word, Dar left.
Carmine mockingly repeated Dar's last words. "What a creep. One of these days I am really… gonna let you teach that guy a lesson."
"Can I put you down now?" Anakin said.
"Please."
Anakin set his brother down and told him he needed to learn to stand up for himself.
For as long as Anakin could remember, he'd had to rescue Carmine so many times from bullies, getting stuck in a tree, oral reports, embarrassing himself, even once from the water, which was humiliating since Carmine was a siren and was supposed to be a natural-born swimmer.
"I love you, Carmine, but once I'm married, we're not gonna be roommates much longer. You gotta learn to put your own foot down, use that voice of yours to stick up for yourself."
"Easy for you to say. You graduated from the scaring school with high honors." Carmine said.
"And you graduated from music school with the top honors and have a hot girlfriend. Well, not as hot as mine, but you know what I mean."
Before Anakin could do any scaring, Carmine needed to pick up the card key with the files for the children to scare today. In charge of the files was a trandoshan named Cid.
Unfortunately, this was one job, Carmine really disliked. Cid scared him sometimes. Then again, Carmine was scared of a lot of his superiors.
"Uh, good morning… Cid." Carmine said as calmly as he could. "Ready to start the day."
Carmine was about to pick up the files, when Cid slammed her scaly claws onto them.
"Listen, Four-Eyes. I was checking, and you didn't file last night's paperwork." Cid said.
"What? I'm pretty sure I did." Carmine said. "I distinctly remember filing last night. Maybe I just put them in the wrong file by accident?"
"Maybe get your glasses cleaned or replaced." Cid said. "Do it again, and I won't be nice about it next time."
Carmine squeaked a yelp, took the files, and ran off. Sometimes, he swore Cid purposely acted this way just to scare him.
"She is aware my screaming won't power this place, right?" Carmine whispered to himself before making his way to the scare floor.
All scare floors are now active. Caroline said over the P.A. Assistants, please report to your stations.
Carmine got to his station and set up the first canister and got the card key for the first kid Anakin would scare. Other assistants did the same, and out from a rack above came a series of doors that would lead them through children's closets.
A map then popped up on screen that indicated the location of the children being scared at this time.
Obi-Wan got on his headset to start work.
"Okay, everyone. Eastern Seabord coming online. Scarers are coming out." announced Obi-Wan.
All the assistants stood by the doors as the scarers all entered together like Hollywood stars walking the red carpet. Each scarer got to their station and met with their assistants to warm up and make themselves as scary as could be.
A scoreboard was now on the screen, Anakin being at the top, Dar a mere hundred and twenty-eight points behind in second place.
Anakin looked at Dar and held out his hand.
"Hey, may the best mutant win."
"I plan to." Dar hissed.
Anakin rolled his eyes. So much for good sportsmanship, he thought sarcastically.
Then, Obi-Wan commenced the countdown.
"We are on in seven, six, five…"
Everyone got ready and activated the door. All scarers got ready. On your mark, get set… scare!
All the scarers entered the closets. Anakin managed to fill the canister within seconds with how loud the child screamed.
"Ooh! I am feeling good today, Carmine!" Anakin cheered, exiting the door.
"Good job, Big Brother. Another door coming right up." Carmine hit the button to send the door away to make room for another.
Dar exited his door and looked at the scoreboard, but he was still behind Anakin. Dar hissed in anger.
"You're still behind, Dar." said a young Twi'lek named Jinx, Dar's assistant. "Maybe I should realign the scream…"
"Just get me another door!"
Jinx yelped and went to do as told.
Lots of human children were frightened, terrified shrieks filling the air. So much in fact , that Carmine had to put headphones on to protect his ears.
Palpatine came into the scare floor and spoke with Obi-Wan.
"Mr. Kenobi, what is the damage so far?" asked the CEO.
"We may actually make our quota today, sir."
"Hmm. First time in a month."
Meanwhile, at another door, a pretty witch named Brenda, another scare assistant, looked at the canister as it started to fill up, only to go down.
"Huh?" Brenda tapped the canister.
All of sudden, a werewolf popped out from the door and reverted to human form, looking absolutely terrified. His name was Mace Windu, and he started to cry.
"Mace, what happened?" Brenda helped her husband up.
"The kid almost touched me. She got this close to me!" Mace holding his finger and thumb so they were almost touching.
"She wasn't scared of you?" Brenda gasped. "She was only six!"
Mace shook his wife by her shoulders in a panic.
"I could've been dead! I could've died."
Brenda slapped her husband out of it.
"Keep it together, Dear." Brenda whistled. "We got another dead door here."
"Here we come!" Comedia shouted. "Coming through."
Comedia imitated a siren wailing to get people out of the way as she and Emeraldi rushed in with a door shredder. Emeraldi had a roll of yellow tape in her mouth, which she used to make a Void tape cross over the door so no one would go in again, while Comedia got the shredder ready.
"We've lost fifty-eight doors this week, Mr. Palpatine." Obi-Wan said.
Palpatine sighed. "Kids these days. They just don't get scared like they used to."
Soon, Emeraldi and Comedia shredded the door into oblivion.
A few more doors later, Jinx had something to tell Dar.
"What?" Dar exclaimed.
"Look," said Jinx, pointing to the scoreboard.
Dar looked at the scoreboard, and saw he was now at the top of the screen, fifty-four points ahead of Anakin.
Attention, we have a new scare leaser. Dar Doshan. Caroline announced.
Other assistants came to congratulate a proud Dar, until the sound of a lot of children screaming. That sound turned out to come from another door where Carmine pulled out a lot of full canisters. Out from the door came Anakin who cracked his knuckles.
"Slumber party." Anakin smiled underneath his mask and high-fived his twin.
And then, Anakin was bumped right back up to the top with two hundred points.
Never mind.
The assistants immediately went to congratulate Anakin, but knocked Carmine down in the process. But it wasn't just assistants who approached the top scarer.
"Well, Anakin, that was an impressive display." Palpatine commented.
"Oh, just doing my job, Mr. Palpatine." Anakin shrugged modestly. "Of course I did learn from the best."
Dar was very jealous seeing Anakin laughing with the CEO. He looked at Jinx and said, "If I don't see a new door in my station in five seconds, I will personally put you through the shredder!"
And Jinx took off screaming.
"Hey, Carmine. Nice job." A togruta assistant named Ahsoka commented, sending another door off. "Those numbers are pretty sweet."
"Thanks." Carmine said. "You're doing a pretty great job too for a newbie. How's that guy…Ord Enisence, treating you?"
"Just fine. Big guy's probably gonna be my mentor." Ahsoka said.
"Keep the doors coming, Ahsoka. I'm on a roll today," said Ord.
"Yes, Sir." Ahsoka saluted. "See? We're bonding like a…"
Ahsoka stopped and gasped, then started screaming.
"2319! We have a 2319!"
2319 was code for "Contamination in the factory!"
Obi-Wan quickly hit an emergency alarm.
Red Alert! Red Alert! A computer voice announced.
Ord Enisence. Please remain motionless. Prepare for decontamination.
Enisence, however, panicked when he realized there was a sock on the back of his jacket, and he immediately took it off, but still panicked.
"Duck and cover people!"
Carmine hid under a table, and everyone else panicked as sirens were heard and various creatures, magical and mutant alike, in yellow hazmat suits entered. They were a group called the CDA (Child Detection Agency)
One of the unicorn agents used their magic horn to carefully pick up the sock and move it to a safe location, where a small dome was placed over it and bolted to the floor. Then another agent hit a button, which had everyone covering their ears. But, they didn't have to worry because the explosion was tiny and muffled. The dome was removed, and the debris was vacuumed up.
"All clear. Situation is niner-niner-zero. Ready for decon."
"Thank you, boys. That was a close one." Enisence sighed with relief.
But the ordeal wasn't over yet. The CDA agents pulled up some kind of privacy curtain and had to strip the guy of his clothes to pour some decontaminant liquid on him, then place him into a clean new set of clothes. Unfortunately, the decontaminant had a side effect of… temporarily turning someone's skin pink, and the clothes they had available to give Ord were pink too. Not very scary for a monster. Ord might as well have avoided blushing all together, because the colors on him now were mortifying!
"Take a break, everyone." Obi-Wan announced. "We gotta shut down for an hour and reset the system."
"An entire scare floor out of commission." Palpatine groaned. "What else can go wrong?"
Palpatine went to a coffee machine to get himself a black coffee.
"What a day."
"We're just going through a rough time, sir." Anakin said. "Everyone knows you'll get us through it."
"Tell that to my wife and the board of directors." Palpatine said, taking a sip of his coffee. Anakin shuddered at the thought of Miraj. "Anakin, this company's been in my family for three generations. I would do anything to keep it from going under."
"So would I, sir."
Then, Palpatine had an idea.
"Say, I could use your help with something."
"Anything, sir."
"You see, we've hired some new scare recruits, and frankly, they're…"
Palpatine tried to come up with a nice way to put it.
"Inexperienced?" Anakin guessed.
"They stink."
Anakin understood that.
"I thought maybe you might come by tomorrow and give them a demonstration. Show them what it takes to be our top scarer."
"I'll started out with the old Palpatine jump and growl."
Anakin took out his red laser sword with a jump and a roar that had Palaptine scared so much he dropped his cup and nearly lost his balance. Palpatine laughed; only a top scarer could successfully even startle him.
"Now, that's my boy." Palpatine patted Anakin's shoulder.
Anakin then spotted someone he was glad to see on his break. A lovely woman in green by the name of Padme Naberrie, a forest nymph and Anakin's fiancé.
"I said we needed a miracle, and we got an angel." Anakin flirted.
"Oh, Ani. Do you ever get tired of saying that?"
"Nope." Anakin whispered in her ear. "Got a moment for our space?"
Padme fluttered her eyes at him.
Anakin stood in a dark spot in a filing room with Padme, his arms around her as the two of them kissed like there was no tomorrow. Padme worked with the files at Mutants Inc, and she knew spots where no one went, which was perfect because with Anakin and Carmine being identical twins, the two could swap when Carmine had to file paperwork so Anakin could have an excuse to meet up with Padme and they could just make out without being disturbed.
Padme shined a beautiful ring on her finger. One that belonged to Anakin's grandmother, and with which he'd proposed to the lovely woman whose lips he was kissing now.
"I love you, Padme." Anakin sighed.
"I love you too, Ani." Padme said, puckering up again.
Anakin kissed Padme deeper this time; he couldn't wait to see Padme in her wedding dress and kiss her as her husband.
Padme was the most beautiful Mutant in the world, and Anakin felt like the luckiest man ever to have won her heart. Most said that a Magic and Monster would not be a good match, not being able to create a new generation of scarers, but Anakin didn't care. He loved Padme from the bottom of his heart and couldn't see himself kissing anyone but her.
Anakin stopped smooching for a moment and hugged Padme closer to him, lovingly resting his head gently on her shoulder.
"I wish this time never had to end." Padme said. "When we go on our honeymoon, I'll have you all to myself."
"You can have me anytime you want now, my love." Anakin said. "And I can't wait to marry you."
Padme sighed happily and closed her eyes once more. "Ani, kiss me again."
And Anakin happily kissed Padme's lips once more.
I hope you guys enjoy this new Jedi Storytime tale. Please be sure to review
Also, minor note. Some guest reviewer has been asking a lot about Comedia and her cutie mark. Just to be clear, Comedia has her mark in the stories already. My stories may feature colorful magical horses, but they are totally different from My Little Pony. Yes, some do have marks on their sides, but others get different kids of marks on different parts of their bodies. In other words, they are totally different.