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Violet CLM

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Jan 25, 2002, 03:12 PM
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In a whole different country, the Ham'nPork Byproduct of the South, Ducky, also watched the sad sight. It took Ducky little time to decipher that the Magic Dandelions had been Monotone's doing, and she decided to take action. Waving her hands over her magical Tinfoil Wrapping, Ducky directed a nearby snowstorm to the patch of Dandelions where Dreama, Tweety, Gizmo and Unknown lay. The snow fell and fell until the four various animals woke up, at which point they saw iCeD's form receding in the distance. Not really bothering to think how they had woken up, the four ran after iCeD, not noticing the highly magnified face of Ducky in the sky, waving her wand and smiling benevolently.

Soon after catching up with iCeD, the travellers saw the amazingly gaudy Zircon Castle of Here. After some murmurs of awe, they began walking once more. Soon, they walked up to the gate of the Zircon Castle and bid it open. As it was not enabled with a voice command system, the gate just stood there. This greatly puzzled them all, until iCeD spotted a sign on the door, and pointed to it solemnly. The sign read 'Gate our of order. Please use bell.' So they hunted around for a bell, until Dreama managed to find a button on the wall that looked like a doorbell, and Unknown pressed it. A knocking sound was heard from within the castle, and an ornery looking eye looked out from a small peephole in the gate and said "Who knocked that bell?"

After some thought about if the bell had knocked, or if the door had rung, or if they were just in mental trauma and in need of treatment, the five politely replied "WE DID".
"We? Who's We?" asked the eye, though it was presumably a mouth attached to the eye with a face that actually did the talking.
"We is Us!"
"Your grammar stinks."
iCeD looked at the gate a little bit, then attempted to confirm the eye's statement. "My grammar perfect totally is doubt of any without!"
A laughing sound emerged through the peephole, and the eye withdrew for a little bit before reappearing. "Enough funny buisness. Who's Us?"
"Us is We!"
"What are your names, you poor fools?"
"We are not poor!" shouted Tweety indignantly. Meanwhile, Unknown replied to the first half of the derisive question.
"We are Unknown Rabbit, Tweety, iCeD, Dreama and Gizmo. We have come to this Zircon Castle by the Lilac Gravel Road, in order to search out and find the Wonderful Beauthing of Here!"
"Too bad. You can't see him. Nobody sees the Wonderful Beauthing of Here, not nobody, not nohow!"
Tweety brightened up, if only to ask if augmented vision was more common then she had thought. But the gate peephole slammed shut, so they were forced to think of a new way to get in. Unknown Rabbit shouted at the gate "But you have to let us in! We're important!"
"I've always thought so" muttered iCeD.
The peephole opened once more, and the eye looked out. "Important? How are you important?"
Unknown Rabbit thought for a bit, and finally said "I've got the Amethyst Purple High Heels the Good Witch of the North gave me!"
"How does that make your imporant?"
"Anything with that many capital letters has to mean important!!!"
"Good answer. Well, that's a tileset of a different style! Come on in!"
And the gate opened of its own accord. There was nobody on the other side, and the travellers had no idea who they had been talking to, but they walked onto a red carpet which somehow carried them to a large and shiny room. They all started dancing and singing for no reason, with Dreama getting lost in a small grove of potted plants, until some sort of servant looking person came out a vera long hallway and said
"The Wonderful Beauthing of Here is not taking visitors. Now GO AWAY."
The travellers burst into tears, except Gizmo, who was drinking from a convinient saucer of milk. "Oh, but we've come so far already!!" cried Tweety, trying to see around the servant looking person. "I feel so blind!"
"And I feel so homeless!" cried Unknown, burying his head on the shoulder of the servant looking person, who drew away hastily.
"*Lostee! (*" cried Dreama.
And iCeD just stood there, looking at the sky.

"Hey iCeD, what're you looking at?" asked Unknown Rabbit, after recovering a little.
"That." said he, pointing up at the sky. A large airplane with the initails FM printed on it was skywriting the words "SURRENDER UNKOWN". "Why can't anyone ever spell my name right?" grumbled the one whose name had been spelled wrong, then noticed what the skywriting was saying. Various Zircon Castle inhabitants were running everywhere screaming for no reason, and the servant looking person turned to Dreama, after finding her beneath a big throne, and asked "Who's Unkown?"
"I am Unkown." said Unknown Rabbit, trying to stand up proudly. "At least, I'm an Unknown Rabbit. She spelled it wrong."
"Then you'd better get out of the open. Come on, I'll take you to the Wonderful Beauthing of Here."
None of them really knew what had caused this change of heart, but they followed eagerly enough, Gizmo pausing to touch noses with a small white statue of a sphinx. So after going through the entire vera long hallway, they came to a large gate, where the servant looking person departed. After opening the gate, they went through another vera long hallway, and another gate, and another hallway until they were amazingly tired when they finally reached the large room where they supposed the Wonderful Beauthing of Here resided.

Just as iCeD reached around for a light switch, a black light began to shine throughout the room, and smoke colored by red lights filled the chamber. A door in the back exploded, and a huge figure stepped clumsily out of it. Dramatic elevator music played from a speaker in the background, and a drumbeat was beat out elseplace. Several fireworks and rockets launched, and drama was everywhere. "WELCOME, PUNY ONES" cried a loud voice sounding as if it came from a loudspeaker. The huge figure arrived in the center of the room, and stopped. Then the voice continued. "I KNOW WHO YOU ARE, AND I KNOW WHY YOU ARE HERE, AND I KNOW THE AVERAGE WINGSPEED OF AN AFRICAN SWALLOW. I AM THE WONDERFUL BEAUTHING OF HERE."

"COME FORWARD, BEEPING, BLINKING, BLIPING, BABYISH BATCH OF BUGS!" cried the voice, and iCeD shivered all the way to a few feet ahead of the others until the booming voice boomed out again.
"STOP THERE. YOU ARE iCeD, THE PUNY HIGH THINKING ROBOT FROM EASTERN MONGOLIA!"
"Err, yes sir. Except for the last part, sir."
"SILENCE!"
iCeD backed shaking to the others, one of his readouts off the scale. Unknown didn't bother to ask which one it was.
"Now, WHY have you come?"
"If you please sir, we came to"
"SILENCE! YOU, FURRY ONE, YOU WANT A WAY BACK TO THE PATHETIC HOVEL YOU CALL YOUR HOME. AND YOU, BIRD, YOU WISH TO SEE. AND YOU, COLLECTION OF GEARS, YOU WANT A CONSCIENCE. AND YOU, LION, YOU WISH TO BE FOUND. AND YOU, KITTY, YOU WISH TO BE MORE PERFECT THEN CHICKENS!"
The four looked at Gizmo with various expressions of surprise, but then turned back to the huge figure.
"I SHALL DO THESE FOR YOU, IF YOU WILL DO ONE VERY SMALL TASK. BRING ME THE NOSE RING OF THE WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST!"

At this, Dreama ran with all four paws along the hallway for a bit, until she leaped out a window. iCeD and Tweety quickly followed, until they reached the window, at which point they started yelling at each other to go first. Unknown then showed up, saying fire had sprung up everywhere in the room, and pushed both of them through the window while jumping through himself. And Gizmo calmly walked through, and fell onto a patch of soft grass.



Several days later, after being properly outfitted, the small group of wantees set out once more, this time from the Zircon Castle. iCeD had a small battery package, and Unknown carried a basket of food, and Gizmo had somehow aquired a small hovercraft, to the envy of his companions. They walked around randomly, heading towards the west during the general time of sunset, but in the wrong direction the rest of the time, until they somehow reached the west forest. They were all vaugely sick of forests, but they continued anyway, not noticing the sign saying "Microsoft - 2 Milebytes. I'd turn back if I were you."

Flamingo Monotone, who had gotten back to her castle after skywriting for no real reason, looked once more into her China Tea Set and saw the travellers in the west forest. She got out her police whistle and blew on it. A large horde of Winged Office Assistants flew out from every nook and crany of the castle, Clippy the Paperclip in the lead. They swooped down towards the forest, with Writers Block screaming "GO! GO! GO!" for the sake of screaming "GO! GO! GO!".

"Don't you think we should be getting to the castle around........ now?" asked Tweety, trying to look around. A short scream answered her, and she ran around frantically, trying to figure out what was happening. Gizmo's hovercraft had been busted open, and The Genius had grabbed him and was pulling him up into the air. Unknown Rabbit was seized by Clippy and Link, and Mother Nature was supporting his feet, and went soaring out of sight. iCeD got out a really huge machine gun from nowhere, but Dreama jumped on him, as he might hit their friends as well. He couldn't be expected to care, of course, having no conscience. So after a little more confusement, and the remaining Winged Office Assistants not bothering to lift up Tweety, which they could have easily done, the three travellers who had been found by Unknown Rabbit were left in the forest. They decided to press on anyway, and trudged along through the forest miraculously going west.
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