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Date Posted: 08:19:37 05/29/02 Wed
Author: kjhlkj
Subject: kjhlk


The Mission, part 8

From the shadows of the closet stepped a strange looking man. He appeared to be wearing large lobster shaped pot holders and on his head sat a crumpled cardboard crown.

"Oh my GOSH! Who ARE you?" asked Judi, taking a step back.

"I'm Spoiler King!" the man explained. "I had given up all hope! Thank you so much for coming to rescue me!"

"Umm.. You're welcome!" Cece said hesitantly. "....Ummm... Did you say we're in Lu's CLOSET?" she asked, excitement rapidly replacing any previous fears. "Anyone ELSE in here with you?" she queried hopefully, peeking around behind him.

"No.. I'm alone," SK replied.

"Shoot!" Cece said disappointedly, snapping her fingers in the air.

"There were a BUNCH of people in here," he continued, "but most escaped the last time someone opened the door. Then the rest poofed out when you poofed in. I was up on the top shelf and couldn't get down in time!" Bitter tears began to well in his eyes.

"Umm...I'm almost afraid to ask, " Judi began, "but.. why are you here .... and like this?"

"Well... do you remember when I posted that spoiler puzzle a while back. You know.. the one with all the mixed up letters?"

"Ummm.. yes, I remember," said Judi. "How could she forget?" she thought. The board had practically gone into meltdown. The posters for whom English was a second language had been particularly traumatized, and Lu..... Lu had to be restrained. Judi had suffered migraines (and e-mails) for days.

"Well, Lu poofed me in here right after that," SK continued to explain. "She said since I liked puzzles so much, she just knew I would love this. She gave me twenty-four 5,000 piece jigsaw puzzles and told me when they were all put together she would let me go home."

"But.. the.. pot holders...." Judi gasped.

"Yes, yes, I know," SK sighed. "She said she didn't want to spoil my fun and have it not be a challenge, so she superglued these to my hands. Then she mixed all the boxes... btw, no two pieces are alike ... oh.. and if you put the wrong piece in the wrong hole? It implodes and you must start over. That's pretty fun," SK giggled a bit hysterically, tears again welling in his eyes.

"Oh my gosh," Judi said. "You poor man! How many times have you started over?"

"Oh.. I don't know. A couple...thousand I guess," SK's bottom lip quivered.

"Oh my!" exclaimed Judi, glancing over at Cece who by now was examining with great interest what appeared to be a small fuse box door.

"Yes.. My advice is if you have any spoilers, engrave them in gold and send them immediately to Lu. Oh.. and no puzzles!" he warned. "Apparently she really isn't much for 'games.'"

"Riighhht..." Judi agreed, arching an eyebrow.

"Ummm... Judi... can I see you for a moment?" Cece interrupted. Taking her aside she whispered, "Judi! We are in Lu's closet! The Commander must be around here SOMEWHERE! Plus I just found this door... I say we ditch Mitten Man and get busy looking for Harmkins!"

"CECE! Shame on you!" Judi scolded. "SK is our FRIEND."

"He's YOUR friend," Cece corrected. "I could never figure out those stupid spoilers he gave EITHER. Plus if I e-mailed him once, I e-mailed him a thousand times. Not ONE response!"

"Cece... you e-mail EVERYONE a thousand times. NOONE can answer your e-mails. It takes six years just to figure out what you're TALKING about!"

"Oh you HUSH," Cece scoffed. "They are NOT that bad. You've been listening to LU!"

"O.K. For instance," Judi said. "Here's the last one. I printed it out so I could work on it whilst waiting in lines and such. Yes. Here it is: 'Beloved Judith, In what way or manner of reality are you in existence presently?'"

Judi gave her an accusing look.

"What?" Cece asked innocently.

"What?! Why can't you just speak English and put 'Dear Judi, How are you?'"

"That IS English," Cece hissed. "I was just trying to make it more.. interesting! Oh for heaven's sake! Why are we talking about this??! Let's go find Harmkins!" Cece exclaimed.

"Well.. what about SK?" Judi whispered, smiling and waving reassuringly to him over Cece's shoulder.

"I'm thinking, I'm thinking..... Perhaps I can poof him!" Cece whispered back.

"WHAT?!!" Judi nearly shouted. "Oh Cece.. I don't know. I mean.. it was just by accident you got us here. What if you poof him somewhere weird or something?"

"Shhhhhh! Keep your voice down! And for heaven's sake! Where could I poof him that would be weirder then Lu's closet?"

"Good point," Judi admitted. "Go ahead."

"O.K. Stand back."

"Wha..." SK began.

~POOF!~

~SK disappears in puff of smoke~

"Where did you send him, Cece?"

"How should "I" know?"

"What? You don't know where you SENT him?"

"Oh Judi, for heaven's sake. I'm sure he's perfectly fine."

~Somewhere in Canada SK finds himself perched in a pine tree with some squirrels~

"Why did I ever go to that board? Why? WHY?!" he sobs.

An irate squirrel looks at SK for a moment then drops an acorn on his head. SK wakes up at home in his nice soft warm beddie. It was all just a bad dream. (Well.. I didn't want to traumatize the poor man too badly. LOL!)

Meanwhile back in the closet there is a sound outside the door. SOMEONE IS COMING!!!!!

~TO BE CONTINUED!!!!~


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