Antauri: I'm sorry I lost my temper. . . I just have a way of teaching Mimi a lesson. . .

Me: YOU NUTTY MONKEY! I—

*I suddenly disappear*

Antauri: Please read on. . .

(NOTE: Any word you might not know, I've labeled them like this: [1]. You'll find the definition at the bottom of this page! :))

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(Excuse for not updating sooner: I'm lazy. But now it's Spring Break! Hazaa!)

Chiro watched angrily as Mrs. Gottschalk sat down in a directors chair, her boney fingers gripping on her arm rests with impatience. He looked around himself, cameras were following his every move.

"Chad!" Mrs. Gottschalk hissed silently. "Do something, darling!"

He boiled red, his knuckles were turning white from clutching them so much. "You want me to do something, you. . . you. . . magpie!" Chiro began to rub off his forced-on make-up, fuming. "I'm not from this world! Not even from this galaxy! I'm from Shuggazoom; the setting for your movie! I want to leave, NOW!"

She clapped her hands together with enjoyment, grinning and revealing her bleached teeth. "Perfect! Your anger is so palpable[1]! Keep going!"

"YOU'RE NUTS!" Chiro screamed. He looked hopelessly to the ceiling, almost begging, "NOVA! SPRX! PLEASE, RESCUE ME!"

As if on cue, the wall behind the entire cast and crew explode; past the dust and dubree, two short figures stood in a fighting pose, smiling smugly at Chiro. Sprx and Nova, of course. . .

"We can't leave you alone for ten minutes, can we?" Nova grinned, signaling for Chiro to leave with them.

A body guard angrily put his fleshy hand on Nova's shoulder, making her eyes go blood red. "Hey, you can't—"

Without warning, Nova effortlessly threw him over her shoulder and glanced at the standing body guards, staring wide-eyed at their fallen companion. "Anyone else?" She hissed, shaking her activated fists.

They quickly shook their heads and disappeared in a cloud of dust, the sound of repeating foot-steps leaving them. Nova smiled, then turned to the magpie woman with just as much anger. "If you're smart, you'll never speak of this or us again. Clear?"

Mrs. Gottschalk made a confused face and blinked. "I'm sorry, do I know you?"

Sprx rolled his eyes, then pulled along Chiro by the wrist, escaping with him and Nova back through the gaping hole in the studio wall.

Those who remained also made a confused face, speechless and baffled[2] like babies whose dolls were suddenly taken away. Mrs. Gottschalk suddenly made a jubilant[3] grin and lifted her megaphone to her thin mouth. "DONUT BREAK!"

(Note: Magpie insult belongs to the book series Inkheart.)

***

Chiro smiled with relief when he boarded Sprx ship, then took off into space with a satisfied attitude. "Thanks guys," he plopped into his seat and put his arms behind his head. "That lady was off her nut."

"I don't know, Chiro. . ." Nova replied, keeping her eyes on the window at the head of the ship. "I don't think she was crazy. A bit stupid, yeah, but crazy?"

"Did she do anything odd while she held you captive?" Sprx grinned his cocky grin, laughing to himself.

He grew calm while he recalled a few things she did. . . eccentricly[4].

Flashback time!

"Chad! Darling! Where are you?" Chiro heard a nasally bird-like voice call for him. He was being held down in a make-up room, having his hair washed and his teeth cleaned by two women who stapped him down.

Mrs. Gottschalk entered his session of strange tourture and smiled. "Chad, darling, you must tell me: How do you feel about seafood?"

"What?" Chiro asked between struggles for freedom.

She pulled a plate of Mexican food out from behind her back and made a concerned face. "Seafood. Is it good to give to boa-constrictors?"

"What?" He repeated out of confusion. "First of all, that plate has tacos and rice and stuff! It's not seafood! Second, snakes don't eat seafood. Why do you even care?"

"Because," she shrugged simply. "The boa I had hidden inside of my bathroom sink escaped again into the studio, but I wanted to try a new way of catching him! See you on the set, dear!" left the room with a smile, leaving Chiro alone with the two women.

"Don't worry, kid," one of the women said calmly. "She thinks the boa is real, but it's just one of those boa scarf things."

The other smiled evilly and pressed her fingers together. "We take it every now and then to make her look stupid. . ."

"And crazy," the other added, giving the other a high-five.

Chiro made an understanding look, then nodded his head. "I see. . . Can I leave now?"

"Nope. Mrs. Gottschalk'll go nutty when she finds out you're gone. She lost it so bad one time that she ran outside, called everyone within five-miles a hobo, and threw a turkey sandwich she stole from a guy at some kid with curly hair." The first one explained, examining her nails with boredum.

"Oh. . ."

End flashback!

"Pfft," Sprx rolled his eyes with bisbelief. "That still doesn't mean she's crazy, kid! A little strange, maybe, but not crazy!"

Nova leaned back into her seat and closed her eyes. "You know, you would've been a really bad debater, Chiro."

"Well, do you know how many times she's called me Chad?" Chiro began to pull at his hair with anger. "Over a thousand times! She can't get anything through that thick skull of hers!"

"No one can mess up a thousand times, kid!" Sprx smiled, keeping his eyes on the window before him and moving his steering wheel carefully. "Not even me or Otto!"

"And even if she did forget your name a few times," Nova explained calmly, not lifting an eyelid. "I bet she has ADD or something. It's not crazy that she can't remember your name."

"Oh, yeah?" Chiro questioned. "I kept track! Look!" He rolled up his sleeves and pants legs to show frequent tally marks lining around them. "Over a thousand times!"

"I'm still not convinced." Sprx said, sounding almost annoyed. "You're going to have to do better than that."

"She names her food." He replied instantly.

"Maybe a hobby."

"She wore her shoes on her hands and made spitty noises to the floor."

"A disorder of some sort, maybe."

"For fifteen minutes, she was accusing chesnuts of being lazy."

"You took that idea from Austin Powers, kid."

"She was collecting broken wires from the cameras, then taped them all over her hair."

"Probably for scientific research."

"Oh, I give up." Chiro leaned backwards in his seat and groaned. Nothing would convince Sprx and Nova, would there?

"You know what's weird?" Nova said after a long session of silence. "I'm not even tired yet. What time is it?"

"Can't say." Sprx responded. "We're in a different universe, so we might need to wait a little because the times would be different. And I'm not tired either. Are you, kid?"

He shook his head. "Not even. I lost track of time before we left. Estimated, how long have we been awake?"

"I guess about six or seven hours." The yellow monkey shrugged. "I wasn't really paying attention to the time, either. Have you Sprx?"

The two heard loud snoring from him, then they spun around at the same time to see he was asleep on the wheel. A red alarm system went off, signaling that his ship was out of control, shaking and flying everywhere.

"AH!" Nova ran to Sprx side and began to shake him furiously. "Sprx! Sprx, wake up! You have to drive us! Sprx!" She placed him down and raced to the wheel, took a firm hold of it and tried to steer around in all the confusion. "Chiro! I— I can't drive this thing! Do you know how?!"

"Oh, right Nova! Like Sprx would trust me with this tiny ship of his after what I did to his model airplane!" Chiro yelled sarcasticlly over the sirens.

"We just veered[5] past our universe and we're heading into another!" Nova yelled tensely, trying to gain control of the wheel.

"Does it say which one?!"

She looked over-head to a screen above the window, trying to read as the ship quaked along with them. "All it says is B.L.! What does that mean?!"

"How should I kn—"

Before he could finish, they crashed into a mound of strange pink and white dirt violently. Nova hit her head on the window, making the glass crack, and Chiro flew into a few gears and switches on a wall in front of him. Almost the entire ship was detroyed, inside and out.

Nova slowly and carefully lifted her her head of of the glass and wobbled over to Chiro and Sprx, who were both face-first in a wall. "Sprx? Chiro? You okay?"

The leader groaned along with the red monkey, who raised themselves up from the wall. "Ooh, what happened?" Sprx asked, runned the side of his now bleeding head.

"You fell asleep on us, that's what happened!" Chiro yelled, ripping of one of his sleeves and tying it around his friend's head.

"Well, I guess I'm out of the compitition then. I fell asleep." The red monkey shrugged merely. So I guess it's up to you and—"

"LET'S START AT THE VERY BEGINNING! A VERY GOOD PLACE TO START!" Nova sang suddenly, then she instantly covered her mouth with shock.

Sprx and Chiro glared at her with puzzlement. Anime sweatdrops appeared on their heads, then they smiled slightly with nervousness.

"Erm, Nova?" Sprx asked her tentatively[6]. "What was that?"

She slowly took her mettalic hands off of her mouth then frowned. "I. . . I seriously have no—" Nova stood up straight abruptly[7] and grinned. "WHEN YOU READ, YOU BEGIN WITH:"

"A B C!" An imaginary sounding voice of small children rang through the broken ship.

"WHEN YOU SING IT BEGINS WITH: DO-RE-MI!" She clapped her hands together and skipped outside, leaving Sprx and Chiro bewildered.[8].

They followed her outside, seeing a pink and white landscape with flower bushes and trees to match the ground. A pink, purple, and light red rainbow towered over them, so the automatcilly activated their weapons.

"Sprx," Chiro asked, back to back with his friend and in a fighting stance. "I don't like this place. . ."

"Me neither, kid. . ." Sprx whispered back, keeping his glass eyes on his girlfriend, prancing around and singing happily.

"DO-RE-MI-FA-SO-LA-TI—" She stopped suddenly in her tracks. "LET'S SEE IF I CAN MAKE THIS ANY EASIER. . ."

Unknown music began to play around the three as Novas began to dance around again. It was familiar to them: The Sound of Music. . .

"DO, A DEER! A FEMALE DEER; RE, A DROP OF GOLDEN SUN; MI, A NAME I CALL MYSELF; FA, A LONG LONG WAY TO RUN;" Nova picked up a group of matching flowers and threw them into the air, contintuing to dance as they fell around her. "SO, A NEEDLE PULLING THREAD; LA, A NOTE TO FOLLOW SO; TE, A DRINK WITH JAM AND BREAD! WHICH SHOULD BRING US BACK TO DO-O-O-O!"

Chiro and Sprx watched nervously as she hopped around merrily, throwing flowers and singing Do-Re-Mi. They felt something was wrong with the planet they were on, but they couldn't tell what. . .

"Dude. . ." Chiro leaned sideways to whipser into Sprx's ear. "This is creepy."

"I know. . ." He nodded, unactivating his weapons and watching Nova carefully. "So, where do you think we are?"

Chiro shrugged, pulling out his wrist watch (Yeah, I gave him a wrist watch. . . So?) and checked the time, which read: 00:00. "Er, the screen above the viewing screen said we were in a place labeled B.L. about. . . ten minutes ago . . . What does B.L. stand for?"

Sprx looked to the multi-colored sky with a serious, yet thoughtful glare. Then, his eyes widened with fear. "Oh, no. . . KID! WE HAVE TO GRAB NOVA AND LEAVE! NOW!" He panicked, darting his head around with worry.

"What is it?" He replied, looking around also, but slower. "I don't see any—"

"GAH!" Sprx yelled while he had his head urned. Chiro looked back around, but saw that Sprx was being sucked into the pink and white ground like sticky quick-sand. "KID! DON'T TRUST THE PINK DINOSAUR! WHATEVER HE SAYS, DON'T—" But before he could finished, he was eaten alive by the ground.

"SPRX!" Chiro yelled to where Sprx was eaten. "Give back my friend, you weird-colored dirt!" He began to hit the ground firecely, but gave up after a few moments. "Aw, man. . ." He groaned, looking back to Nova, who was still dancing and singing. "Now I'm stuck with another nut. . . Only this one sings show-tunes."

He stood back up and wiped his pants legs, then put his fists on his sides and looked around for any sign of life that wasn't pink. "Hmm. . . I wonder what pink dinosaur means."

Behind him, a large and mysterious shadow twice his size towered over him. . .

Me: Ooh, cliffy that doesn't make much sense! You know how it works: I say I update soon, then I say no flames if you review. Yay!

Antauri: Get back in your closet!

Me: NEVER!

*I run away, with him chasing after me*

[1]: palpable: able to be felt

[2]: baffle: to puzzle someone

[3]: jubilant: feeling great delight over a sucess

[4]: eccentric: odd or mildly unusual

[5]: veer: to change direction suddenly

[6]: tentative: uncertain

[7]: abrupt: sudden

[8]: bewilder: to confuse somone