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Coppertop

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Apr 15, 2004, 11:55 AM
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*agrees*

At the trial which inevitably ensued, the judge addressed Spaz, who was wheeling around in his spin-chair, directly.
"You have been accused or allowing Carrotus' most feared enemy to escape. You may even be in league with him. Have you anything to say, to defend yourself with, before the jury gives a verdict?"
For an answer, Spaz leapt up, dodged to the judge's pulpit, grabbed the gavel from its resting place, clobbered himself over the head and shouted, "PIEEEEEEEEEEEEE!" at the top of his voice. Then he staggered back to his seat, tripping over a bench and falling on his nose. He abruptly got up and plopped himself down in his spin chair again, looking extremely pleased with himself.
The judge had a quiet conversation with the jury, and then turned back to Spaz again.
"The jury has reached a verdict. You, Spaz Jackrabbit, have been convicted of helping Mr. Shell escape. However, as you do not seem at your best at such a time as this, you will be given a choice of options. You may either spend the next seventeen years of your life in a high-security prison, or you may pay a sum of 1,000 Carrotan credits to me, as an act of good faith, you understand, and recapture Devan Shell!"
Spaz grinned and ate a bird.
Then he dashed over to the astonished judge and plopped a thousand Carrotan credits into his hand and fell over, goggling at the dust motes.
"Very well," the judge said with as much dignity as he could muster, given the circumstances. "Be on your way, then."
Spaz let out a snore and woke up. He got to his feet, flicked an invisible dust particle from his shoulder, and weaved out the door with a muffled, "Fankoo".
Jazz followed his brother out the door and into the street where he climbed into the shining black speeder that was waiting for them and ordered the driver to take him to the castle. Halfway there, Jazz happened to look out the window and see a broomstick zoom past with a gnarled green lady seated atop it. He did a double take and ordered the driver to stop. Spaz looked at him questioningly as the driver pulled over to the side of the road.
Jazz flung open the door and jumped out, staring in the direction that the strange object had been headed. Spaz poked his head out, apparently still waiting for an answer. Just then, the broomstick wheeled high overhead, and a spell splatted against the sidewalk next to Jazz. He jumped in surprise and, wasting no more time, dashed to the back of his speeder and yanked open a hatch, whereupon he pulled out a small contraption.
It looked like a snowboard, except it had jets on the bottom and a small speedometer beside the straps for his feet. This was his high-velocity, top-of-the-line, 2004 brand-name airboard. He slammed the hatch shut and ordered the speeder to bear Spaz to the castle.

Hilda the Witch shot past the Carrotus Castle on her tattered broomstick. She shot a spell at a passing rabbit, who croaked and turned into a frog. She cackled with glee and zipped by the panicking rabbittoad, who was hopping frantically up and down in one spot on the sidewalk.
The entire of Carrotus' main city was in an uproar, and it was all her fault. Chaos reigned in the air and on the ground as screaming rabbits fled her spells and potions, many of them turning into croaking toads simultaneously. Jazz was powerless to stop her now, she thought. Eva could NEVER kiss ALL those toads!
A gleaming red airboard roared past her. Jazz was crouched on it, his ears flapping and the ends of his red bandanna streaming out behind him. He glanced at the witch, then swerved his airboard to collide with her. She shot a spell at him, but he swerved to the side and hit his airboard instead.
Very suddenly, he found himself riding a frog - who was now falling at an alarming rate to the pavement, far below.

In case you haven't realized, this is actually for those unaquainted with JJ2 - namely the grandparents. So there will likely be some unrequired explanations.