Our story opens on the road where we see Jon driving Garfield, Lyman and Odie to somewhere.
"Boy, you two have been awfully quiet" Jon said to Garfield and Odie while driving "That's so uncharacteristic of you"
"Yeah" Lyman said "It's great to see you two getting along. Usually Garfield is hissing and Odie is sticking his head out of the window. It's been so quiet"
"We're going to visit Jon's cousin Al" Garfield said in his thoughts "It's almost as fun as watching paint dry"
"I don't get it" Jon said to Lyman "What could've made Garfield and Odie behave?"
Garfield turned to Odie, who was muzzled by guess who?
"If only he knew" Garfield thought to himself.
"Mmm! Mmmm" Odie whimpered through his muzzle.
"Calm down" Garfield looked at Odie "We'll be there in 230 more miles"
Finally, the guys arrived at Jon's cousin, Al's place.
"Nice to see you again cousin" Al said to Jon "It's been years"
"Thanks for inviting us over here, Al" Jon said to his Al.
"Jon, you remember my son, Roscoe, don't you?" Al showed a little boy with glasses "Roscoe, say 'hello' to your Cousin Jon and his friend, Lyman"
"Pleased to see you again, sir" Roscoe said politely "And it's a delight to meet you too, Mr. Lyman"
"Pleased to meet you too, Roscoe" Lyman shook Roscoe's hand.
"Isn't Roscoe sweet?" Al ruffled Roscoe's hair "He's the most polite and kindest kid in the world. Roscoe, why don't you play with the kitty and puppy while I show Jon and Lyman some slides of my vacation?"
"Vacation slides?" Jon and Lyman turned to each other.
Al put his arms around Jon and Lyman's shoulders and took them into his house.
"Hey little kitty cat, wanna play?" Roscoe asked Garfield.
"No" Garfield hissed.
"Good" Roscoe said as he dragged Garfield by his tail "Let's go to my lab"
Odie noticed what was happening and followed Garfield and Roscoe to Roscoe's lab.
"I got an A in Advanced Thermonuclear Physics" Roscoe boasted to Garfield "I can disect proton paritcles"
"I know how to make toast" Garfield said in his thoughts.
Roscoe then took Garfield to some sort of shed with some gizmos and science stuff.
"This is my lab, like it?" Roscoe asked Garfield.
"That depends" Garfield thought "Can you make a nice smoked salmon?"
"I've been inventing since I was five, when I invented the world's first solar powered skateboard" Roscoe said as he took some jellybeans from a jar in a pantry "I'm going to show you my latest invention"
Roscoe then grabbed Garfield and showed him some sort of robot made from some sort of sweeper, a toaster and a trash can.
"It's a fully functional cybernetic robot" he said as he pressed buttons on a remote "I'll program it to...pet the kitty"
Just then, the robot started moving and chasing after Garfield. Garfield hid under a desk where Odie was.
"Here, pet him" Garfield put Odie in front of the robot "Come on Odie, lick him. Maybe it'll rust"
Just then, the robot grabbed Garfield and started petting him so much, that static electricity started absorbing into Garfield's fur.
"Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!" Roscoe laughed evilly as the robot was mercilessly petting Garfield "Okay, that's enough"
Roscoe pressed a button on the remote and the robot put Garfield down. Garfield was all poofy from the static shocking.
"Excuse me Odie, while I go lick myself" Garfield walked down to lick himself "It's a good thing you humans find this cute"
After a while, Garfield had finished licking himself free of the static.
"Finally" Garfield thought to himself as he finished licking "I got every split-end straightened"
"Kitty come back and play some more with my robot" Roscoe said as he pressed a button on the robot's remote.
Just then, the robot grabbed Garfield and started getting loose around the lab. The robot got so out of control that it crashed with Garfield right through the wall and started rampaging throughout the whole backyard.
"You know, help would be pretty useful right now" Garfield said in his thoughts.
Meanwhile inside the house, Al was showing Jon and Lyman all of his vacation slides, unknowingly boring them to tears.
"And there I am at the Cheese Dip Fair" Al said as he showed him the slides "There's Marge waving, and there's Marge waving with the other hand, and there's-"
Just then, the adults heard a crash and went outside to see what it was. They saw Garfield and the robot crash into the fence.
"At least I stopped" Garfield thought as he climbed out of the robot.
"The mean kitty stole my robot!" Roscoe said as he walked over to Garfield, his father, cousin and Lyman "Bad kitty! Bad kitty!"
"Garfield!" Jon roared "How could you?"
"You have a kid like this in your neighborhood and you'll hate him on the spot" Garfield looked at the readers.
Roscoe started to fake cry and his dad walked him back to his lab.
"It's okay Roscoe, it's okay" Al said as he comforted his son "Daddy will buy you new parts for your robot"
"Oh thank you, daddy" Roscoe said as he sobbed "Thank you so much"
Jon picked up Garfield and set him down on the ground "Garfield! How could you do such a cruel thing to my cousin? Roscoe is such a sweet little boy and you break his robot!"
Garfield opened his mouth.
"Don't make excuses!" Jon cut him off before he said anything "You go apologize to Roscoe this instant!"
Garfield walked over back to Roscoe's lab.
"Gee," he thought "He won't let me get a word in edgewise. Maybe it'd be easier to explain if I could talk"
Garfield walked back to the shed where Roscoe was finishing something. Just then, Garfield noticed the cabinet of candy was still open and stood on his hind legs to reach the candy, but Roscoe stopped him.
"Hey, kitty!" Roscoe shouted as he picked up Garfield "Don't touch my candy! It's mine! Besides, I've got a huge surprise for you"
"Here we go again" Garfield thought.
"Would you like to take a nice trip?" Roscoe asked Garfield.
"That depends on where you aren't" Garfield glared at Roscoe.
"How would you like to take a trip to Mars?" Roscoe showed Garfield a rocket made of scrap metal.
Roscoe then opened the rocket and put Garfield right into the seat.
"No! No!" Garfield banged the hatch "My vet said I'm not supposed to travel off this planet! Space travel is for monkeys!"
"Grrrr" Odie growled as he tugged onto Roscoe's pants.
"Stupid dog! Get off me!" Roscoe said as he kicked Odie "Heh! Heh! Heh! Heh!"
Roscoe walked over to his computer and started typing in some coordinates.
"Ready for liftoff" he evilly snickered.
Meanwhile inside of the house, Al was still boring Jon and Lyman to death with his vacation slides.
"...and there's Marge waving north" Al continued.
"Gee Al, this is very exciting" Jon sarcastically said.
"That's great, cause the next slide shows Marge waving in 3-D" Al said as he put some pairs of 3D glasses on Jon and Lyman's eyes.
Back in the shed, Roscoe was about to launch Garfield into space (or at least somewhere far away).
"3...2...1! Launch!" Roscoe pressed a button on the computer's keyboard.
The rocket launched right out of the shed and started zooming right into the house, where Al was showing his slides in 3D.
"...and here's a fireworks show we saw" Al said as he started to show another slide.
All of a sudden, Garfield crashed right through the wall and ruined the slide projector.
"Golly" Lyman remarked "This sure looks like it's popping out"
They took off their glasses and saw the rocket, crashed through the wall. They walked to the other side of the wall and saw Garfield's dizzy head sticking out.
Jon stormed over to Garfield "That's it Garfield! If you can't play nicely, I'm going to have to take you home!"
Garfield jumped into Jon's arms "That's the best thing you've ever said to me"
Jon, Lyman, Odie, Garfield and Al made it back to the driveway, ready to go home.
"Now before we go, you apologize to Roscoe for wrecking his toys" Jon scolded Garfield.
Garfield hissed at Jon.
"I'm not leaving until you do" Jon sternly said.
Garfield walked back to the shed and saw Roscoe digging through his cabinet with candy. Garfield snuck behind him and started messing with the remote control which caused the robot to activate and go right towards Roscoe.
"Is that you, daddy?" Roscoe asked, not knowing the robot was comings towards him "That mean kitty cat stole my rocket!"
Roscoe turned around and saw the robot glaring right at him.
"AAAHHH!" Roscoe screamed.
The robot started chasing Roscoe all over the shed, while Garfield carried a jar of jellybeans from the cabinet in his mouth.
As the guys were driving back home, Garfield was holding the jar in his front paws, while Jon was scolding him.
"Garfield, I can't believe you would be so cruel to Roscoe" he ranted "Roscoe's such a sweet, well behaved little boy, I am furious at the way you acted around him, I..."
"Boy" Garfield thought "The brat acts like what he is and I get the short end of the stick. At least I'm free from him"
Jon kept on rambling to Garfield about Roscoe being a sweet little boy while driving back. In his usual Garfield fashion, Garfield just ignored it.
THE END
Author's Note:
Nobody wants a kid like Roscoe. Trust me. Well at least we come to another episode of Garfield & Friends once again. Stay tuned for another episode coming real soon.