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The Shreklax; A Dr. Seuss story comes to life again
Topic Started: Nov 12 2012, 05:06 PM (1,361 Views)
JusSonic
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All right, folks, time for my fanmake of the Dr. Seuss film The Lorax at last. And yes, I will be using the Alien Force version, okay? Now then, let the fun begin!

Chapter 1: Welcome to Thneedville

JusSonic Productions Presents

"The Shreklax"

Starring

Mike Myers as Shrek

Steve Carell as Gru

Yuri Lowenthal as Ben Tennyson

Keith Ferguson as Blooregard Q. Kazoo AKA Bloo

Tom Kenny as Eduardo

Colleen O'Shaughnessey as Jazz Fenton

Beth Littleford as Sandra Tennyson

Jason Marsden as Max Tennyson

Trey Parker as Eric Cartman

Julie Andrews as Marlena

Corey Burton as Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum

Candi Milo as Yzma

Michael Keenan as Conan McNultry

We see a theater as a sponge named SpongeBob SquarePants appear with a huge fellow. The later is a very large green figure with a round head, light brown eyes, peculiar looking ears and wearing a white shirt and a brown vest and brown boots. His name is Shrek.
"Hi everyone! Thanks for coming!" SpongeBob exclaims happily. "Welc..."
"Ahem! I am the main star, you're just co-hosting." Shrek interrupts SpongeBob before looking at his card. "Ay, I am Shrek, I speak for the trees...yes, doesn't make sense for an ogre but bare with me, okay? And I like to say a few words if you please, regarding the story you're about to see."
"It really did happen, just take it from me. But there's more to the story than what's on the page, so please pay attention while we set the stage."
Shrek roll his eyes while throwing the card away before he and SpongeBob leaves the stage, the card transforms into pixie dust. The curtain opens as the story begins.

We see a town of Thneedville which appears to be night until lights begin to turn on all over. It's almost morning. Shrek begins to narrate...

"We open in Thneedville, a city they say with no plastic and fake and they liked it that way. A town without nature, not one living tree. So what happened to them? Cue the music! Let's see."

As dawn appproach, a truck came over to a house. We see a moleman named Harry carrying what appears to be a water bottle over to a house, taking an old one and replacing the bottle with the new one.
Yes, I know what you're thinking but this isn't water in that bottle. No, it's actually air? Sounds crazy, right? Well, you will find out why in this story. Once Harry leaves for his truck, the mechanical flowers came out of the flower followed by a mechanical bee, buzzing.
At a house, a 15 year old boy came out of his room and head down the stairs to the second floor of his house. He had brown hair, green eyes, a green jacket, a black shirt, blue pants, and black and white shoes. He's Ben Tennyson, hero of the Omnitrix, a powerful watch from space, and today is the day that will change his life forever.
Ben jumps out the top of the fire escape before landing in a bush. He goes over to a monocycle and calls out, "Guys, come on."
Two figures came over to Ben's monocycle. One of them is a blue Pac-Man like blob-like robot who can have his arms appear and disappear into his body. His name is Blooregard Q. Kazoo AKA Bloo.
The other is a muscular male purple-furred male Minotaur wearing a pair of gray pants, gray boots, and a black belt with a white skull belt buckle. His name is Eduardo.
"What are we doing?" Bloo ask Ben bored as he and Eduardo got onto the sidecar of the monocycle. The boy didn't answer as he drove off, making the robot scream. "Whoa!"
Soon everyone begins to sing a song.

Crowd: In Thneedville, it's a brand new dawn

A armless man named Homestar Runner smiles at his huge car which he drives away from. We also see a gumball man named Benson inflating his bush, but ends up blowing it up too high to the point of it popping, sending him right to the ground.

With brand new cars
And houses and lawns
Her in got-all-that-we-need-ville


Ben, Bloo and Eduardo rode town while the folks kept on singing.

In Thneedville
We manufacture our trees
Each one is made in factories


We see a bluejay and a raccoon named Mordecai and Rigby opening up a tree to show some batteries that fell out. As the two try to put them back in, Mordecai sang.

Mordecai: And uses 96 batteries

In town, Harry Moleman goes over to a house that belongs to a woman named Ahsoka Tano to make another delivery. The moleman switch the old bottle of air with a new one, putting the bottle into a machine before turning on the air. Ahsoka breaths the air with relief before paying Harry for the delivery.

Townspeople: In Thneedville, the air's not so clean

Ahsoka: So we buy it fresh

Harry: It comes out this machine

Townspeople: It's satisfaction guarentee-ville

Harry leaves the house, joining the folks in the performance.

Harry and Townspeople: In Thneedville
We don't want to know


Harry wasn't watching where he was going, falling right into a manhole. In an area, there's clean water while the other look clean but it wasn't And despite that, the folks go clean in it.
A boy named Mowgli was swimming in the toxic water before his parents Aladdin and Jasmine pulls him out.

Where the smog and trash and chemicals go

Mowgli: I just went swimming and now I glow

The water did leaves one crazy side effect: the radiation in the water made Mowgli glow green. We see bits of the town that has people skiing on one side and people relaxing on the 'beach' on the other. One skier, Bucky Katt, accidentially spill some snow onto Hank the Cowdoy, but the dog kept smiling, continuing what he's doing.

Townspeople: In Thneedville, we have fun year-round
We surf and snowboard right in townspeople
We thank the Lord for all we got


Gobber (singing in opera): Including this brand new parking lot!

The Viking points to a parking lot that looks cool.

Chorus: Parking lot
Paaaaaaaaarking lot!


One of the citizens named Minerva Mink, flying a kite, look up and exclaimed "Oh, look it's him!" She points to a blimp that has a boy in it.

Citizens: Oh look it's
Eric Cartman up there


We see someone looking from his blimp before grinning as he sits in his chair. It is a fat kid, who wore a cyan hat with a yellow poofy ball on it and has brown hair. He is wearing a red coat, yellow mittens, brown pants, and black shoes. His name is Eric Cartman, the mayor of the town (surprisingly) and the inventor of the bottled air company.
Cartman walks over to the top as his guard Wreck It Ralph put a parachute right on him.

The man who found a way to sell air

Cartman grins as he jumps out of the blimp as he sings.

Cartman: And became a zillionaire
Everyone round here works for me.


He pulled the cord and then a parachute comes out as he floats gently down and continues.

I sell them something they can get for free.

Citizens: We live in perfect harmony!

Once Cartman lands onto the ground, his guards bring over his limo. Everyone dances and sang with Harry doing a split on top of the limo.

Cartman and Townspeople: In Thneedville
We love living this way
So give into paradise
It's perfect!
And that's how it will stay(oh yeah!)
Here in Love-the-life-we-lead-ville
Destined-to-Succeedville
We-are-all-agreed-Ville
We're all we need in
Thhhhh-Thneedville!


Once the song is over, the folks go back to what they were doing. Hasrry was still in his musical pose as Cartman's guards carry him off, the fat boy got into the limo before driving off.
The folks of Thneedville thinks that everything will remain the same...until now.

Author's note
Very interesting song number, eh? In the next chapter, Ben prepares to impress his crush Jazz Fenton, finding out her desire. Read, review and suggest.

Harry Moleman is the luckmess moleman from the Sam and Max series.

Benson, Mordecai and Rigby comes from The Regular Show.

Ahsoka Tano is the apprentice of Anakin Skywalker from the current Star Wars: The Clone Wars series.

Gobber the Blech is the Viking with metal parts for some missing limps from How to Train Your Dragon.

Wreck It Ralph is the villain/hero in the movie with the same name.

Some lyrics of the song were included on the soundtrack version of the song, but not in the film version.
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To be honest, Solid Sun, I just do what I want with my fic. KingHuffman, got your suggestion. Good one.

And to Secret Universe, I believe Nobodiez suggested him for me.

billy arratoon, I have seen them and updated my journal entries with them.

Chapter 2: For the Love of Jazz

Ben and his pals came back to their street, stopping by at a house. Ben took out a box that he brought while in town.
"So what did you buy this time?" Bloo ask Ben bored. The robot and Eduardo saw him opening the box and took out what appears to a mechanical airplane.
"What are you up to, Ben?" Eduardo ask puzzled. Why did Ben buy that airplane?
Ben took his helmet off then turns the toy plane on. The toy flew off and around the sky as the boy fly it. His pals watch as Ben flew the toy down downward...and caushing it to land behind the house with a crash.
"All right!" Ben cheers eagerly. "Come on!"
"Oh brother, he's going to try to impress her again." Bloo said, rolling his eyes as th trio goes up to the door of the house that the toy airplane crashed behind. "Why am I not surprised?"
"Oh, it's so romantic." Eduardo said as Ben rang the doorbell 3 times while waiting. "He really likes her."
"Yeah, much to my annoyance."
The door opens as Ben's vision glow a bit. In front of him is the most beautiful girl around his age. She has long red hair with blue eyes. She wears a blue headband, red lipstick, black shirt, blue jeans, and blue sneakers. Her name is Jasmine Fenton or Jazz Fenton,m a girl that Ben has a crush on for a while now.
Ben smiles a lovestruck smile as Jazz spoke up, "Oh hey Ben."
Suddenly Eduardo snaps his friend out of his love daze while saying, "Knock it off, Senor Ben. You're looking at Ben as if she's your mother."
"Oh right, right." Ben said with a sheepish chuckle. "Ahem, hi Jazz."
"Let me guess, your ball in my backyard again?" Jazz teases Ben a bit. The girl knew that the boy would throw one of his toys into her yard by 'accident' just to get her attention.
"What? No way! Not really...a model airplane this time."
"Very typical." Bloo said bored. "Can we get the airplane back and go?"
"Maybe..but do you guys want to see something cool? Come on!" Jazz insists as she goes into the house. Ben smiles as he put some breath spray into his mouth in case of any lip locking.
"Get inside, romeo!"
Ben shook his head as he, Bloo and Eduardo goes into the house to follow Jazz to see what she wants to show them (or mostly Ben).

In a backyard, Jazz was covering Ben's eyes then removes her hands. The boy gasps as he and his pals saw a mural that consist of purple, orange and magneta pompoms.
"Ay carumba!" Eduardo exclaims in amazement as the boy goes up to touch the mural.
"Did you paint this?" Ben ask Jazz in amazement.
"Did you like it?" Jazz ask Ben and his group hopefully.
"Yeah, I like it. This is cool!"
"Yeah...what are they?" Bloo ask his friends a bit puzzled, not sure what these things on the mural are.
"They are trees! There are some back in Quahog where I used to live until we moved!" Ben explains to Bloo and Eduardo excitedly. The boy with the watch used to live in Quahog during the times of the incident with Cartoonville, where Jazz used to live at until magic was able to let her and other Cartoons to leave.
"Carumba! How come Azul and I never saw any?" Eduardo ask Ben and Bloo in surprise. "Did Senorita Jazz?"
"No, we barely get any trees, the real ones, and I still don't see any here in Thneedville, but I heard they used to grow all over." Jazz explains to the boys. "People say, that the touch of their tuffs were softer than anything, even silk and they smelt like butterfly milk."
"Wow...what does that even mean?" Ben ask Jazz, puzzled as to what she just said meant at all.
"I know. I am amazed too."
Jazz eagerly flips Ben, causing him to land onto the 'grass' before the laid down on it herself. As Ben groans from the pain, his pals laid down nearby.
"Well, nice, very nice..." Bloo said in boredom. "Right, so a real tree...sounds...interesting for you anyway."
"Yeah, oh, what I want more than anything on thius planet is to see...a real living tree in my backyard." Jazz said with a sigh. Ben's eyes widen in eagerness and hopeful. The girl he loves who used to live in Cartoonville wants a tree. Maybe...
Ben then begins to ask Jazz curiously, hiding his anxiety, "Let's just say, a guy was able to find a real tree. And give it to you."
"Why, I'd probably give a hug and kiss him on the spot. I bet that sounds crazy, does it sound crazy?"
"Yes. It sounds very crazy." Bloo scoffs a bit, earning a frown from his pals.
"Well I don't think it's crazy." Ben assures Jazz with a smile, doing his best to ignore the robot's smart butt remark. "Especially if the guy always cared about you."
The four continue staring at the sky, Ben is thinking of something. If Jazz wants a tree, then the boy will get her one. One question: where can he even find a tree?

Author's note
So Jazz wants a tree and Ben wants to get her one, but how? In the next chapter, the boy gets advice from his Grandpa Max and send him, Bloo and Eduardo out of town to find a man named Gru. But the trio's departure rose the suspicions of Cartman. Read, review and suggest.

This chapter holds references to two of my Dr. Seuss fanmakes 'How Danny Phantom Stole Christmas' and 'Peter Griffin Hears A Cartoon'.
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To be honest, Agent C.H.A.O.S., the song doesn't feel out of place at all and I don't mind what I normally do with the characters. And I only use a spell check if I want to.

Now for the next chapter.

Chapter 3: The Quest Begins

It was nighttime as Ben, Bloo and Eduardo are at the table with with Ben's family. One of them is a woman with blond hair with green eyes wearing a reddish button up shirt, white pants, and white shoes. Her name is Sandra Tennyson, Ben's mother.
The other one at the table is a tall and overwight man, with white hair and grey eyes, small round nose, and wore an open lab coat, green t-shirt with blue collar, tan pants and black shoes. He is known as Grandpa Max Tennyson, Ben's grandfather and a retired member of the Plumbers (some sort of secret police).
The gang ate their food though Ben toy with his food in sadness. Since there aren't any real trees or grass around, no one can grow anything around here. Instead, the nutrients are in the jello that the family is having.
During this time, the family was watching a show on TV. Buttercup is on, whispering to Lilo and Stitch, "Lilo, are you and Stitch asleep yet?"
Lilo answers, "No. I'm too excited to fall asleep easily."
Stitch ask Buttercup curiously, "Are YOUGA asleep yet?"
"Stitch, if she were asleep, she couldn't be asking US if we were asleep."
"Oh, right. Silly me."
Lilo shrugs as she turns to Buttercup, asking, "Anyway, what do you want to talk about?"
Buttercup glances to the direction of where Bloomberg the tree is at, speaking, "When we get to this town where Kim's cousin supposedly lives, do you think I'll have to carry that big tree all the way from the train station to the orchid? I mean, I don't really mind because I AM strong enough to easily lift that tree. As a matter of fact, I could have flown that tree from Townsville to this orchid of Kim's cousin in five seconds flat if I wasn't worried about destroying that tree with the friction heat. Still, I can't help but be curious."
Stitch blinks while asking in confusion, "What tree? Bloomberg?"
Buttercup sarcastically answers, "No. Bubbles."
"Bubbles isn't a tree, stupidhead."
"I think Buttercup was being sarcastic, Stitch." Lilo points out to Stitch with a giggle.
Blossom, having trouble sleeping due to the conversion, joins in as she whispers, "Hey, come on. Please be quiet. I AM trying to sleep, after all. Still, as long as you woke me up, what were you talking about?"
Stitch smirks mischievously as he explains to Blossom, "Buttercup thinks Bubbles is a tree."
"I do not." Buttercup protests to Stitch in annoyance.
"Yeah." Lilo said with a nod. "Like I told Stitch, Buttercup was being sarcastic."
Blossom agrees, saying, "Quite right, Stitch."
Bubbles, joining in, smile while adding, "But I wouldn't mind being a tree, even if just for a few hours."
"Oh, for crying out loud." Furrball said in annoyance. All this whispering is keeping him up and the cat won't have it. "I'll have a much easier time getting some sleep with Kim and Bloomberg."
With that, Furrball took his pillow and blanket, heading to the caboose where the tree's at, slamming the door on his way out. Blossom blinks as she comments, "Well, you can't really blame Furrball for being a bit huffy. We ARE making too much noise, after all. So let's quiet down and get some sleep."
Buttercup jokes, "Huffy the Magic Dragon Cat."
Bubbles frowns at her sister while saying, "Now, Buttercup, that was a simply rude comment."
Stitch, confused, ask his friends, "Err, wasn't the 'Huffy the Magic Dragon Cat' line supposed to be said by the one in the Fluttershy role?"
Lilo explains to her friend, "Yeah, but a crack that snarky is more in-character for Rainbow Dash than Fluttershy."
"Once again, please be quiet." Blossom whispers to her friends sternly.
Fifi, having enough of the conversion, enters the conversion, cucumbers and face stuff is on her face as she said, "I quite agree. I DO need my beauty sleep, after all."
"Beauty sleep?" Buttercup scoffs in amusement at what Fifi look like. "Wouldn't you have to, you know, sleep for a thousand years?"
Blossom/Fifi, having enough, yells angrily, "JUST SHUT UP AND GO TO SLEEP!" Buttercup yelps as she blows the candle out. That is enough talking for one night.
Ben wasn't thinking about the show but rather what Jazz wanted. He wants to impress her so the boy is going to find her a tree that she wanted. But where to find one?
"Ben, don't play with your food, same goes for you two, Bloo and Eduardo." Sandra said, frowning at Bloo and Eduardo playing with their food. "You too, Grandpa."
Grandpa Max was bouncing his jello onto his plate then send it into the air, catching it in his mouth. Eduardo remarks, "Senor Max got right idea, I think."
"Hey mom...quick question. Any idea where there's any place where I can get, I don't know...a real tree?" Ben ask his mother hopefully. This made Sandra and Grandpa Max's eyes widen in surprise. A real tree? Is that boy serious?
Bloo ask dryly, "Looking out for a tree? Who do you think you are, Charlie Brown in Christmas?"
"Anyway, we already got a tree, it's the latest model." Sandra explains to her son with a chuckle.
"I know...but I mean a real one that grows out of the ground like the ones where we used to live at." Ben explains clearly to Sandra. "You know, a real tree?"
"You mean those kinds? What, you would want some dirty messy lump of wood that sticks out of the ground and all that? I have been here for a while and even I don't recall what it does. I mean, what is its true purpose? I mean look at what we got!" Sandra, in hopes to prove her point, points to an artifical tree outside before taking a remote out. "It's the Oak-amatic, the only tree that has its own remote."
Sandra press a button that made the 'leaves' change color then said, "Summer, autumn, winter and the biggest craze..." The woman press a buton to make a disco ball appear. "Disco!"
Sandra grooves to the music though Eduardo cringes, "Carumba, that's loud and hurts and my ears, Senorita Sandra!"
"Mom, it hurts, mom, please stop!" Ben exclaims to his mother, causing the disco craze to come a stop. "Honestly, let's say that my pals and I need a tree."
"Okay, my pals and I need a tree." Bloo said repeating what Ben said literally. "Wow, that was easy."
"Not like that, Bloo! I mean, where do we go to get a tree, what do we do?"
"Oh that's the easy part. You got to find Gru." Grandpa Max explains as he tries his best to cut his jello meal on his plate. "Blasted jello..."
"Que? Who's Gru?" Eduardo ask surprised. Even Ben and Bloo is dumbstruck by what the old man just explained.
"Grandpa, come on. This isn't the time for one of your old stories." Sandra said with an annoyed sigh to her father-in-law. The woman believes that this 'Gru' person is nothing more than a story.
"Oh yeah, I forgot about that." Grandpa Max said as if embarrassed or annoyed by what Sandra just said. "I'm so old that I've forgotten to take my pills."
"Relax, Grandpa. That isn't what I meant."
"No seriously, I've forgotten my pills. I need them, can you be a dear and fetch them for me?"
"Right, sure grandpa." Sandra said with a shrug. She got up from the table and leaves the room to go get the pills for Grandpa Max.
"Well, that's weird! You've never forgotten your pills and..." Bloo turns with Ben and Eduardo and saw Grandpa Max smirking as he take out a bottle of pills. Turns out that the old man has pretended to have forgotten them to get Sandra out of the room for a while. "Oh, you sneaky old man!"
"Now listen carefully, here's the deal. You want to know what happened to the trees, Gru is the man you want to find. He knows what happened to them." Grandpa Max explains with a smirk to the trio.
"What, really? Gru exist?" Eduardo ask Grandpa Max in confusion.
"Gru, Grandpa? Is this for real?" Ben ask Grandpa Max in concern and in a skeptic way. So this Gru person does exist, really?
"Oh, he's real all right." Grandpa Max said with a sight chuckle.
"So where do we find this guy anyway?" Bloo ask bored, not really caring, the robot just want to be amused. he felt a tap on his shoulder and yelp in alarm.
Ben and Eduardo laughs as they saw that it was Grandpa Max who somehow got behind Bloo to spook him out. The old man then claps his hands, turning the lights out. Then the trio got spooked as Grandpa Max begins to sing, closing the curtains to sing some sort of song.

Grandpa Max: At the far end of town,
Where the Grickle-Grass grows
and the wind smells slow and sour blows


Grandpa Max pulls Ben close his face while making a ghostly wail, making Eduardo yelps while Bloo gets nervous. The old man came down from his seat as he continues.

and no birds ever sing, excepting old crows...
Is the Street of the lifted Shrek-lax


Ben, Bloo and Eduardo looks confused then Grandpa Max appears behind them, acting like a crow and scaring them. The trio scream and fell backwards, the old man caught them in time while Eduardo caught both Ben and Bloo.
"Quit doing that!" Ben exclaims to Grandpa Max, a bit scared.

Grickle-Grass, Grickle-Grass,
Street of the Lifted Shrek-lax
Grickle-Grass, Grickle-Grass,
Somebody lifted the Shrek-lax away


"What in the world is a Shrek-lax?" Bloo ask Grandpa Max confused.
"Only Gru knows and it's on that street that is outside of town where he lives." Grandpa Max explains seriously to Bloo.
"Wait, you want us to go outside of town?" Ben ask his grandfather in concern. Cartman has forbidden the folks of Theedville from going outside of town but no one knows why this is the case. The old man dropps the trio as he explains what the group must do.

"And according to folks, if you bring him 15 cents, a nail and the shell of a great-great-great grandfather snail..." Grandpa Max is heard as Ben takes out 3 nickels from a jar for payment.
Ben opens a drawer and took out a nail from it. Eduardo inds a jackbot toy saying, "I've been looking for this."
Bloo looks around the grass area with a flashlight until he found a really old snail, grabbing the guy and giving him to his pals. Grandpa Max is heard finishing, "...he will tell you everything you need to know."
Ben smiles in determination. If he and his pals has to leave town to find a tree for Jazz, then that will work.
"Guys come on, we are leaving town." Ben whispers to his friends as they head out on their way to leave Thneedville.

The trio heads to Ben's waiting monocycle and got on it. Before Ben and his friends can go anywhere they hear a voice.
"Going somewhere?" A Voice asked. Everyone turned and saw a red cat. This is JJ. Ben sighed.
"JJ, what are you doing here?" Bloo asked.
"Just wanted to see what you were up to and I want in." JJ said. Ben smiled.
"Well come on." Ben said.
JJ got into the sidecar with Bloo and Eduardo before driving all the way across the road, heading past the town hall. Soon they came to a part of the road where a wall, looking up to see a pipe that has the word 'Vent Out' on it. So there's a way out of Thneedville.
The trio follows the trio until they look up to see a door way above them, Ben took his goggles off while looking shocked. Eduardo exclaims, "Caraumba! How will we get up there?"
"Guys, look." JJ said as he points to a small door nearby which is for personal associates only.
Ben goes over to the door and opens it, pushing a button nearby. Suddenly a grey car came out of the wall, scaring the four until more bars goes up to the doors. Must be stairs.
"Do we have to go up there?" Bloo ask Ben nervously, making the boy nods. "Aww, crud. I was afraid you would say that."
Ben rides his monocycle with his friends in it up to the door, which was really bumpy. The boy stops his vehicle at the edge of the landing to look at the door. With Eduardo's help, Ben was able to pull the wheel to open the door.
Unknown to the group though, a red alarm light above the door begins to go off.

In Cartman's blimp, Cartman is having a meeting with two unicorns named Flim and Flam about what to do next in the air product...and the fat man isn't impressed of course.
"Mayor Cartman, what we got for you can take Cartman Air to the next level for sure!" Flim exclaims to the mayor eagerly.
Flam push his brother aside while continuing, "Now Mayor, I know you're thinking this. First off, 'I've gotten so rich selling folks air that is much fresher than that trash outside.' And Second, the most important one ever, 'How can I ever make more money?' Well, we will tell you that sir for sure, yes!"
"Just check out this commercial we have made. Be amazed!"
Flim uses his magic to push a button on a remote, starring a commercial on TV that the unicorn brothers has prepared. A dog named Dukey and a boy named Johnny Test are seen lying on benches onto the top of he roof, the day is both hot and smoggy.
"Man, here comes another lame Saturday." Dukey said with a groan of despair.
"Oh, I don't think so." Johnny said with a smirk as he took out a bottle of air from a cooler.
"Huh, why?"
Johnny gave him the bottle. Dukey opens a crack of the thing, causing a bit of color to appear onto him. Soom everyone came onto their pad for a house party as if in one of those drink commercials. The two looks excited, they aren't going to get bored now!
Two beavers named Norbert and Daggett open their bottles, causing air to go into their mouths, a woman named Rapunzel opens up one, her hair blows into the wind.
Rapunzel smiles and winks to Johnny and Dukey, the two smiles and toast eagerly. A commercial announcer spoke as a bottle of air appeared, "Cartman Purified Air. Freshness to Go Always. Please breathe responsibility."
Once the commercial is over, the unicorns smile to Cartman, wanting his opinion. The mayor groans in annoyance, "Oh crap, you got to be kidding me! You actualy think those hippies are dumb enough to buy this?"
"That's the idea, our research shows if you put something in a plastic bottle, folks will buy," Flim explains to Cartman eagerly.
"Right and..." Flam said with a nod.
"What's more better is that once we get build a new factory to make those plastic bottles, the air quality will end up getting worst."
"Yes, that will make the folks out there want our air even more and drive the sales right through the roof."
"Wait, in other words...the more smog in the sky...the more people will buy!" Cartman exclaims evilly, getting the idea. He will get more rich this way!
The trio laughs heartily as Flim comments, "You see brother? This is why he's the genius. It even rhymes!"
"I’m aware that it rhymes; it’s a Seuss fanmake, duh!" Suddenly the meeting was interrupted as the doors of the room flew open, Wreck It Ralph and the guards came into the room, causing the Flim-Flam brothers to scream and rush out with the plans. Cartman in annoyance snaps, "Ay! What the heck do you knuckleheads want?! I'm in the middle of a meeting here!"
"Okay, first off, just because I'm the minion, doesn't mean you can treat me like an idiot, okay?" Wreck It Ralph snaps to Cartman in annoyance. "Even I got standards and dignity. Second, I thought you may want to look at this."
Wreck It Ralph took out an Ipad with the word 'Alarm' flashing on it. The thing shows a security camera video of Ben pushing the monocycle with his friends in the sidecar still quietly through the car.
"Hmm. Where are Ben and his so-called hippie 'Imaginary Friends' going?" Cartman ask with a frown of suspicion. No one ever leaves Thneedville until now.
"Shall I go after them, sir?" Wreck it Ralph ask Cartman curiously.
"No...let them go. For now. If they continue to leave Thneedville, you know what to do. Still, find out what they're up to just in case."
Cartman wants to know what Ben and his friends are up to. If their plans has any threat to his own of making money, he wants them stopped before the whole thing goes too far.

Ben manages to get his monocycle through the door. The inside of the wall is one big sewage. The trio rode down the path, looking at the disgusting water below. As they rode on, neither of them saw a security camera watching their every move.
Soon Ben's group reach the exit and made it to the outside. Ben gasps as he lifts up his goggles. The trio saw a horrible sight before them.
Outside Thneedville with only gray smokes, there is smoke almost everywhere. There is no tree, grasss, animal life, nothing all over. Eduardo gasps, "Carumba!"
"Ugh, no wonder Cartman doesn't want folks out here, this place looks like a wasteland." Bloo remarks with a frown.
Ben has to agreed with Bloo but he and his pals rode off to find that tree for Jazz no matter what.

Author's note
The group are on their way with Cartman wanting to know what they're up. In the next chapter, the four meets Gru who reveals his story of how he left home to make his new invention the Thneed and we meet Shrek who wants the man to leave. We also meet the animal friends of land, air and sea known as the Muppets. Read, review and suggest.

The scene at the beginning is from the My Little Heroines series which still hasn't been made yet.

Bloo's wise remark of looking for a tree is from A Charlie Brown Christmas.

The part Grickle-grass grows is from the original book, the song is from the original 1972 special.

The jackbot toy is a reference to JusSonic's Despicable Me.

The Flim-Flam brothers are from My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.

Johnny Test and Dukey is from the TV series with the former's name in it.

The Rapunzel in this fic is the Tangled version.
Edited by JusSonic, Nov 16 2012, 10:10 PM.
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Chapter 4: The Story of Gru

Ben and his pals rode away from town, they look concerned and disbelief. It's no wonder why Cartman forbid the townfolk from leaving town: this whole place is polluted and wasted but how did it get to be this way? What happened?
Regardless, Jazz wants a real tree and not those ugly manufactured ones so if Ben must survive this place to get one, so be it.
Eduardo whines a bit, "I no like this place. Who knows what could be lurking out here in the smoggy darkness, like demons, or vampires, and I mean the real ones, not those Twilight wannabes, oh, I hate those movies so much! Or worst of all," The imaginary friend gulps, "…wolves. I have a phobia of wolves."
Bloo rolls his eyes while asking ,"is there anything you DON’T have a phobia of?"
JJ comments, "Well, secretly, I too have a wolf phobia, being a cat and all."
While Ben and his friends were looking for Gru, the boy looked at JJ.
"So JJ why did you want to join?" Ben asked. JJ smiled.
"Well it would be nice to have trees again and I hear that this Gru guy knows so why not?" JJ asked.
While the gang keep moveing to find the Gru, someone was watching looking at them.
"I do not know what this group is doing but they're heading to the Gru. Maybe this gang could help me when the time is right." The figure said as she then holds a picture of her and a alicorn with a gold heart as his cutie mark. "I hope you are ok big brother. I will get some help to save you from that evil man in Thneedville who has you trapped."
With that the figure then puts the picture away and follows the gang without being seen in hopes that after they do what they themselves need to do, they can help her.
Meanwhile, Ben and his pals cough from the smog from the air while riding on. They glance up and saw a torn up sign of some sort of man holding a pink cloth of some kind. The group wonders who that guy is.
Eduardo looks ahead and scream in terror. His friends turn and saw that they're about to run into na axe. The four duck from it, but saw more axes nearby. They dodge each one without getting scratched or worst. Once the four are safe, they look and saw that the axes are connected to some sort of weird looking machine.
"Geez, that was a close one! We were almost killed!" Bloo complains a bit. Even Ben has to agree with what the robot just said. What kind of crazy person would leave a machine with axes out in the open where someone could hurt or kill themselves?
The group rode on as thunder and lighting struck, stopping at a cliff that has a trench leading to the other side.
"Well, any ideas?" JJ ask Ben curiously though Eduardo whimpers a bit.
"Listen, we must get across to move on." Ben said. The boy would've used his machine but saw something nearby: a wooden board.
"Ay carumba, Ben, are you...?" Eduardo begins to ask in worry. The boy turns his monocycle around and turns back to the board. The imaginary friend got a better feeling. "No, wait!"
Too late as Ben rode towards the wooden board to be used as a ramp, heading towards it. The whole idea appears to be a good one...but the board actually made the four ride down the trench, causing them all to scream like mad.
Fortunately, the four rode up the trench and made it to the other side, the bump almost knocked them out but they hold on, getting back into their relief. Once on the other side, Ben, Bloo, Eduardo and JJ sighs in relief.

"That was close, guys." Ben said with a relief.
"This is crazy, can we turn back now?" Bloo ask Ben getting a bit scared.
"No, we must find Gru."
The four rude through the egiest cliffs, going past a few signs that said, 'Beware! Danger! No entry! Come on, stay out, I mean it!' Apparently, Gru probably doesn't want any trespassers or more.
Soon the gang arrives at their destinaiton as Ben took off his helmet. They appears to be some sort of street that looks abandoned, a few crows are on a sign that said 'The Street of the Lifted Shrek-lax'. This must be the place.
The crowd cawed before flying off. The gang got out of the monocycle and came up to an old gate. The mist uncovers what appears to be a spooky looking house.
"This must Gru's place all right." JJ comments. The group goes past a rock that said 'Unless' on it over a circle of rocks. "Hmm, 'Unless'? I wonder what that means."
Ben took out the snail, 15 cents and the nail out of his rocket, should he do this? The grandfather snail shook his head 'no' but the four went up the stairs. Eduardo felt the rail which is dusty and disgusting.
"AHHHH!" Eduardo screams as the rail broke upon the four reaching the last step, making the imaginary friend back away a bit.
"Calm down, Ed, calm down." Ben assures Eduardo. Slowly and carefully, the boy walks up to the door and saw a sign that said 'Gru'. After looking at it, Ben saw a doorbell nearby.
Ben press the doorbell, causing it to ring. Suddenly the door flips over, revealing a mallet that is tied with a string as well as a pair of scissors about to cut it. It didn't take long for the gang to realize what's going to happen.
"Okay, shoot." Ben said with a yelp of alarm.
The scissors cut the rope, causing the mellet to hit the spot where the group is at, sending them flying into the air screaming. As the four are about to fall down, some sort of claw thing appear, grabbing them all. They yelps while Ben looks up and pant.
Bloo and Eduardo screams as the claw pulls the four to the barred windows of the house that shows a few slits that allows air to go through. Someone is of course here because they then heard a voice.
"Who are you?" A voice demands in annoyance. The four, to their surprise, saw a pair of blue eyes looking through the barred window. "Who are you, what are you all doing here?!"
The figure tries reaching the four, making Ben scream, "Wait, I am Ben Tennyson, these are my friends Bloo, Eduardo and JJ!" The claw moves them around, with Eduardo panting some getting freaked out.
"You're Gru, right?" JJ ask Gru curiously. It has to be be since no one else would live in a wasteland like this.
"None of your business! Didn't you even read the signs?! Now get lost and leave me alone!" The figure obviously known as Gru snaps as he made the claw put the four back onto the ground safely. "And don't let the boot hit you on the way out."
"The boot?" Bloo ask confused. Suddenly a boot came and literally kicked the blue robot's can.
"I think he doesn't want us here." Eduardo said frightened. "Let's leave now while we is still alive."
Of course, while Bloo agrees with Eduardo's train of though, Ben and JJ aren't giving up so easily. The boy turns around while exclaiming to Gru, "Listen! Folks say that if someone give you this stuff..." He takes out 15 cents, the nail and the snail out of his pocket. "...that you would tell them about trees!"
Without warning, the claw grabs Ben again, the boy scream as he drop the stuff with JJ grabs to make sure they won't get away. As the others watch, Ben is pulled up to Gru's unseen face, the figure looks a bit surprised upon hearing what the boy just said.
"Wait...did you say 'trees'?" Gru ask Ben in surprise.
"Yeah, you know the real ones, the ones that come out of the ground?" Ben points out to Gru. The boy pauses and glances at the man who appears to look thoughtful...and saddened. "Uh, hello?"
"Hey, are you listening?" Bloo calls out to Gru who snaps to attention.
"Oh, sorry, it's just...after so many years, I thought no one would still cared about trees." Gru explains to Ben and his pals in amazement.
"Well, that's us, yeah, the guys who still cares. We're here." Ben said to Gru with a smile. Of course, the boy is fibbing to avoid explaining the real reason why he wanted a tree in the first place. Gru took the claw and push the boy back down. "Wait."
The claw put Ben back onto the ground. JJ nods as he gave the stuff back to his friend, saying, "Make sure you paid Gru for him giving us the information."
"So you want to know about trees, right?" Gru ask the group, getting their attention. "As in knowing what happened to them? They are all gone now...because of me."
"Err, what?" Bloo ask a bit confused. Gru sighs in annoyance as he send down a long megaphone down from his window, close to the gang. The robot peer down to hear what the man has to say...and was almost blown back from the noise that came out, along with birds and bugs (probably due to not being used for so long). The group coughs a bit.
"BECAUSE OF ME! Ahem...as well as my invention...the Thneed. An amazing product that could do job of thousands."
Gru pulls out a familiar pink cloth, showing it to the group. They recognize it from the billboard and realize that Gru must be the same guy from the same billboard. Amazing, why does this 'Thneed' has the first part of the town that the gang are living in.
"Si, looks...interesting." Eduardo said to Gru with a nod.
"Right, sounds ridiculous but I got to admit, that's cool." Ben said with a chuckle as JJ and Bloo nods in agreement.
"Darn right, it was cool. It all started a long time ago..." Gru was about to tell his story when Ben interrupts him.
"Wait, can we start not so long ago? Because..."
"Look, kid, do you want a tree or not?"
"Yes, yes, I do. Sorry." Ben apologizes to Gru sheepishly. Eduardo and JJ can tell that now is not a good time to interrupt the man's story.
"All right. It started a long, long time ago..." Gru said as his story begins.

Flashback

We see two men preparing their car for departure. One of them is a forty-year-old haired man with blue eyes and a pointy nose wearing a scarf, a coat, a gray turtleneck sweater, brown pants, and brown shoes. This is Gru when he was years younger.
The other is a old short balding man wearing black goggles, black rubber gloves with yellow Gs on each side, white labcoat, yellow shirt, red trousers and black boots. His name is Dr. Nefaro, Gru's partner.

Gru is narrating, "I was a young man, leaving home with my partner Dr. Nefario, I have left my adopted kids with my Minions so that we can set out on our important secret mission, the first one since I stopped being a villain."

Gru smiles as he finish packing his stuff home. The former villain has a plan for fortune that doesn't involve ransoms or thefts. Dr. Nefario was starting the car up as Gru is saying goodbye to his family who is house sitting for a while.
One of them is an old woman with big white curly hair with pointy nose, she wears glasses, purple dress and matching shoes. Her name is Marlena, Gru's mother.
The next family members are fat boys, wearing matching red-white beanie hats, red/white sriped shirts, white trousers, black shoes and the bigger one was hunchbacked. Their names are Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum, Gru's brothers.
This fourth family member is a very old lady with yellow eyes and black pupils. She wore a purple hat with feathers and sandals. Her name is Yzma, Gru's aunt.
The last figure is a white haired old man wearing blue button up shirt, yellow trousers and violet loafers. His name is Conan McNulty, Gru's uncle.
"Well, mom, time I go out to change the word with my Thneed!" Gru announces as he toss his last item into the pack before getting into the car. "My girls are being watched by my Minions. Yes, I am actually doing it."
"Yes, of course. But do not forget, son, if for some reason your invention didn't work...well, it wouldn't be a surprise at all!" Marlena laughs madly, laughing with the rest of the family. Gru looks down in sadness by the mockery towards him.
It's no surprise that Gru is the outcast of the family, feeling not wanted or made fun of especially since of his failures as a villain. He was hoping that his invention's success will change that but his own family gives him no confidence whatsoever. The only one who is truly his friend is Dr. Nefario who does his best to comfort his partner.
"Hey Gru, nice car, dummy!" Tweedle Dee laughs as he hits Gru in the arm.
Dr. Nefario frowns as he press a button, causing a boxing glove to hit Tweedle Dee, sending the dumb brother packing hard into a wall. The old man remarks, "I am glad I don't have him as a brother."
"Right, 'dummy'...but you will see, okay?" Gru snaps to his disbelief family in determination. "Oh, I will prove you all wrong. Dr. Nefario, let us go."
"Right!"
Gru and Dr. Nefario begins to drive away from the area, the family watch on in amusement. That Gru's invention a success? That will be the day!

And so, the journy begins, going through places while Gru plays his guitar to some catchy tune. Dr. Nefario looks a bit annoyed by the song (due to his friend's practicing) but does his best to keep on driving.

"So there I was, at the very bottom with nothing but a car, my partner Dr. Nefario and a completely irration sense in optisim...and maybe some practicing too."

We see the gang driving through the desert.

"We have searched the globe, obsessed with finding the right material for my Thneed. We have no success...until one day, I found it: paradise."

Just then, Dr. Nefario came to a stop while calling out, "Gru, I believe found something." Of course, he saw that Gru is sleeping, making the old man sigh and take a horn out. "Why must I do everything?"
Dr. Nefario blows into the horn, causing a loud voice to be heard. Gru wakes up in alarm while saying, "We will be there, I'm sure."
Gru looks and finally saw where the two are at...much to his amazement. In front of the car is a wonderful breath-taking forest full of trees like the ones in Jazz's painting in the present. This is the place!
There is clear grass, trees blowing in the window, Muppet fish in the water and Muppet birds in the sky flyin all over. Gru and Dr. Nefario got out of the car, with smiles on their faces.
"Ha ha! Yes! This is the most beautiful place...yes, I have ever seen..." Gru said as he almost broke into tears for a moment. Plus, the trees here...the perfect material for the Thneed!
The duo saw three Muppet fishes walking by then they saw them, doing a pose as if saying 'Welcome to Paradise'. Then they jump into the river, swimming across the grass.
Gru and Dr. Nefario saw a couple of Muppet animal creatures like bears, bunnies, etc. eating fruit from the trees. A bird flew out of his net, flying with its stock. The fish from before appears on a rock beofre going into the water to finish the song up.
"Well, for Muppets, they are good singers!" Dr. Nefario exclaims, impressed as he applauds for the fishes.
"My Minions would've done better, but yes, Dr. Nefario, this is the place!" Gru laughs as he grabs his guitar. The forest folks looks confused by ther new noise being made. The man begins to sing as Dr. Nefario does his best not to cringe or complain.

Gru: This is it!
This is the place!
These Truffula Trees are just what I need
Gonna chop one down and make my Thneed


One bear named Fozzie was about to touch the guitar, but Gru rush off, knocking him out by accident.

But first...

Gru jumps off rock, humming his tune then drops his guitar, almost hurting Bean Bunny. The former villain turns to the Muppets while saying, "All right, all of you!"
The Muppets, getting caught up, begins to dance and sing to the tune, Emmett Otter got caught up while dancing a bit. As the animals follow, Gru begin to unpack his car trunk. He unpacked his boxers which landed on Fozzie.

So now our friendship can begin
Hand in hand
And wing and fin
There's nothing you and I can't do
So let's all make my dreams come true


Gru begins to yodel, sending his stuff flying, unaware that doing so is confusing or hurting the Muppets. A saw almost sliced Rizzo the Rat with a shovel almost cutting Yolanda. A hedge clippers almost hit a baby bird but luckily misses its head though the mother got freaked out by the impact.
A shovel hits the ground, startling and shocking a fish while a razor accidentially shaves off the fur on a bear's belly. A toothpaste cap went by Bean Bunny who looks confused but hten a mallet hit the toothpaste, sending the stuff right onto his face.
Gru continues on but stops as he saw that the Muppets look angry at him. His accidents made them want the newcomer to leave now. Emmett came by, still glancing but stop upon seeing the expressions towards Gru. Not good.
"Err, guys, come on? Where's my backup singers?" Gru ask the Muppets nervously. Needless to say, they got more angry as they prepared to attack him with everything in that trunk. The bears growl as Gru yelps upon seeing that Robin the Frog is using a mixer. "Nefario, the weapon!"
Dr. Nefario pass a gun to Gru who quickly activates the thing to test it. Of course, weird gas came out of the gun, sending it onto the Muppet, some of which yelps and faints from the smell. But the rest kept on coming.
Gru comment, "How many times do I have to tell you, Nefario? It's DART gun!" The former villain quickly took out two bags of marshmallow from the trunk and smirks...but realize what was he thinking. Those food won't work.
Fozzie growls and jumps onto a bag, ripping it open by accident. As a result, the marshmallows are send flying into the air...much to the awe and amazement of the Muppets who saw this snack.
Gru smiles as the Muppets, every one of them, were beginning to eat the marshmallows as they fell. Those guys want them so badly that they ate while swimming or them (or prending to). Gru saw Emmett smiling to him with marshmallows in his teeth, looks like the snacks has won these guys over.
"Wait, hang on, hold it!" Bloo's voice interrupts, causing young Gru to look confused then he makes a deadpan fan at the interruption.

End Flashback

"What?" Gru ask with a frown on his face by Bloo's interruption, the robot laughs and stood up with his pals.
"Yeah, very awesome...feeding junk food to a bunch of forest animal, that's great." Bloo remarks in amusement yet boredom. "Listen, is there a musical number where you show how my friend how to get a tree? I don't really care but my friend wants one."
"Oh yes. About the tree. Right after the musical number about the blue robot who kept interrupting the story and were never heard from again."
"Ok, let's hear that."
Gru looks annoyed as he spoke to Ben, "Your friend ain't too bright, isn't he?"
"Sorry." Ben apologizes to Gru as he starts pressing some buttons on Bloo's back.
"Ben, what are you..." Bloo trys to talk but can't.
"I should have tried that years ago." Ben said in satisfaction then turns to Gru. "Please continue."
Satisfied, Gru goes back to the story at hand...

Flashback

With the Muppets no longer being a problem or threat, Gru got to business. He put on his chopping gloves and picks up an axe while saying, "Okay, time to do this. About to make a Thneed...and change the world as we know it."
The Muppets watch on excitedly to see what their friend is going to do, following him. Gru goes to a Truffula Tree and glances to see its magnficient and soft butterfly milk-scented tuff.
Gru picks up the act...and chops at the trees. This causes a few birds to fly off as well as the animals to get so cared that they ran for cover. Soon Gru kept on chopping...and soon the tree hit the ground har.d
"Ha! Everyone, check this out and..." Gru notices that the Muppets are gone. Weird. "Where did you go?"
Gru shurgs as he carries the tree while heading off, unaware of what he's about to set into motion.

End Flashback

As Ben's group sat on a rock and listen in interest, Gru continues the story, "Little did I know that my actions would summon a mystical creature as old as time itself. The legendary, very grumpy, guardian of the forest...Shrek."
"AKA the Shrek-lax, right?" JJ ask Gru who nods to confirm what the cat just suspected. "So that explains what a 'Shrek-lax' is..."

Flashback

Once Gru is gone, the Muppets came out of hiding and look at the stump in sadness as if losing a friend. Robin knocks onto the stump then shrugs to Rizzo. Nothing to make a fuss over, right?
Wrong! Suddenly the stump begins to move as clouds form into darkness, causing the Muppets to run off again. Rizzo in annoyance hits Robin on the head then joisn their pals.
The birds gasps as they buried their heads into the ground. Fozzie tried to do the same thing but hit his head big time. The stump shook until a powerful force came out of it, going into the sky while sending a lot of wind that send Emmett and a few animals flying back.
Soon lightning hit the stump before all is clear up. Soon a familiar ogre came out of the stump: it's Shrek from the story's beginning. The ogre shook his head as the Muppets watch on as if wondering what has happened.
Shrek stood up and gasps upon seeing the stump, mumbling, "Who chop this...it was over...oh crud..."
Shrek sighs as he picks up some rocks and goes over to the stump, making circles over it. Fozzie gave him a rock, making the ogre nod by the kindness while taking it. Soon more of the Muppet bring more rocks as if attending a 'funeral'.
Shrek put all the rocks into a circle then everyone gave the tree a moment of silence, Fozzie and Emmett took the ogre's hands while the latter cries in sadness. What a sad day.
Just then, Shrek heard humming, turning to see Gru removing the tuffs of the tree. The ogre frowns sternly, so that's the culprit who cut down his tree.
Gru, unaware of the new arrival, uses the tuffs like poms-poms before tossing them int oa basket with the others, he pulls one more tuff but yelps as someone grabs it.
Gru gasps and backs away as Shrek arrives, putting his arms on his hips while snapping, "Hey, pointy nose! Did you chop this tree down?"
Gru looks bewildered, what is an ogre doing all the way out here? The man thought those guys are myths! Well, whoever this guy is, he's upset and wants to know who chopped down the tree!
"Err, no." Gru lied while standing up a bit.
"All right, who did, wise guy?" Shrek ask Gru suspiciously.
"Wait, what's that thing?" Gru gasps as he points to nothing in particular. This causes Shrek to look away for a moment, causing the man to drop the axe onto Emmett who yelps in alarm. When the ogre turns back, Gru innocently point to the bear trying to escape the axe handle. "Well, I guess he did it." Of course Shrek growls a bit, he knows better.
"Look, I want you to leave, leave the premises! Take your axe and get off our land!"
"Who...what are you?"
Gru pokes Shrek in the stomach, much to the ogre's annoyance as he snaps, "What do I look like to you?"
Gru looks Shrek up and down while guessing, "Uh...very, very tall?"
"No! I'm an ogre. You know. 'Grab your torch and pitchforks!' Doesn't that bother you?"
"Um...a little, but not too much."
"Really?" Shrek ask in surprise and disbelief. Amazing, this newcomer doesn't seem scared or alarmed by the sight of the ogre. "Aside from Donkey, you're the only one who's not been completely frightened of me the first we met."
"Absolutely." Gru said with a nod. "So, who are you?"
"I'm Shrek, I speak for the trees."
Dr. Nefario, who was watching the conversion while cleaning up the area of the stuff that Gru has thrown earlier, ask, "Who are you; Poison Ivy's ugly cousin?"
Gru growls in annoyance at Dr. Nefario making Gru spoke up, "Don't mind Nefario. Anyway, Shrek? Well, Shrek, is that all you can do?"
"Well, no." Shrek comments, Gru shrugs a bit. The bewildered ogre points to the stump while asking, "What, don't tell me you didn't magically see me appear out of that stump a few seconds ago? Especially with the lightning, thunder, and...what, you actually didn't see all of that?"
"Uh, no, but that sounds amazing to be honest. All right if I see some of that?"
"Well, yeah I could show you...but that isn't how it works."
"Okay...then it didn't really happen." Gru said dumbstruck. If Shrek won't show that stuff that he mentioned, what's the point in believing him? The newcomer smirks as he pokes the ogre in the stomach. "Oh, say, I know what you want! Oh, I've got one of these for the biggest handsomest guy I ever saw!"
Gru took out a marshmallow and spoke the last part in a cute baby tone while holding it to Shrek as if trying to feed him with baby noises. Needless to say, this upset the ogre.
"What gave you the right to treat me like a wild animal?! Give me that!!!" Shrek scowls as he snatch the marshmallow from Gru. He looks at the snack skeptically and sniff it. The marshmallow tasted good. "Well, I will eat this but let me tell you: I am going to be highly offended by it."
Shrek ate the marshmallow then got to work: he goes over to the nail holding the rope to Gru's tent that he put up and kick it, causing the front part to almost fall down. The newcomer gasps in alarm, what is this ogre doing?!
Gru rush over to set the front part back up while yelling, "Hey, what the...hey, ogre guy! Stop that!"
As Gru set up the front, he sat Shrek taking a nail off the back, much to his annoyance. The man begins chasing his pest while trying to keep his tent up which the ogre is trying to topple down at all cost.
"What are you doing? What is your problem?" Gru snaps to Shrek in annoyance.
"Aye, time for you to pack up and go on home, hairy guy!" Shrek snaps as the chase continues on.
"Oh, go ahead! Pull them out, I will do this all day if I have to!"
The chase moves on with Gru putting the nails back in while Shrek kept pulling them out in hopes to knock the whole thing down. Dr. Nefario yawns while saying, "This would've been better if we've brought the Minions with us."
The chase continues on but then Fozzie, who came in to get a closer look of the thing, got stuck onto the rope. Gru caught him, unaware of the bear's presence and is about to hit him, much to Shrek's notice.
"Whoa, stop, what are you doing?!" Shrek snaps as he rush over and save Fozzie int ime. "Oh, so you would hit one of nature's innocent creatures?" The ogre pets the bear onto the head as he head over to the other Muppets who is watching what's going on.
"Come on, I wouldn't hit hte little guy...he reminds me of one of my own." Gru said with a slight chuckle. Then he growls to Shrek while holding the mallet towards him, "But you, big guy, I wouldn't gladly pound you right into the ground!"
"Oh, well, well, will you look at this? You have seen the intruder and his violent ways! Shame on you, for shame!" Shrek scolds Gru. The Muppets nod in agreement, the man has got to go.
"Okay, you know what? I have had enough! You listen, you smelly green freak! I am going to chop down a lot of trees if I need to, got it? Newsflash, I won't be going anywhere anytime soon!" With that, Gru storms into his new home, much to the shock of Shrek and the Muppets. The ogre got mad as the intruder adds, "End of story, see you later!"
Gru blew a raspberry at the Muppets and Shrek and close the door. But upon entering the tent, the man yelps as he saw that the ogre somehow got into the home and is behind the door.
"All right, looks like I got no choice." Shrek said as he scares Gru with his roar. "A warning: if you ain't gone by the time the sun sets on this valley...then the forces of nature will be unleashed upon you...cursing until the end of you. You have been warned!"
Shrek prepares to leave the tent but growls for a good reason: he can't open the door, having trouble with the doorknob. Gru sighs and opens the said door for him.
"Right, thanks." Shrek said sheepishly with a nod.
"Right, whatever." Gru said skeptically.
"Don't forget...you have been warned." Shrek warns as he leaves the place while Gru closes the door skpetically. Shrek comment. "I've fought evil royals, assorted monsters and dark magic users. And my best friend is a Donkey so annoying even Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy couldn't stand him for more than five minutes. I think I can handle an overly greedy jerk."

End Flashback

"Sadly, I didn't listen to his warning...and you wouldn't believe what happened that night." The Gru in the present said to the group sternly.
"What, what happened?" Ben ask in interest.
"Tell us, what happened next?" JJ ask, wanting to know as well.
"Well, if you want to hear more, come back tomorrow." Gru insists as he begins to lift up his horn and prepares to stop the story for the night.
Bloo caught the horn, looking shocked. As he was lifted to Gru's window, the robot, who manages to get his voice back, protest, "Wait, hang on, tomorrow?!" Bloo screams as he was send falling into the bucket below.
"Wait, are you serious?" Ben ask Gru in disbelief. To hear the rest of the story, the four got to escape town and avoid Cartman when he's looking...and it's bad enough that the trip is a long one each time.
"Ah, you live in the middle of nowhere! It super scary out here! Don't make us come back!" Eduardo protests to Gru in worry.
"Oh well...I guess none of you wish to hear the rest of the story then." Gru said with a shrug as he lifts Bloo down, causing the robot to scream. Just before he could hit the ground, the bucket taps the robot...but then the claw came and taps the bucket, sending Bloo to the ground.
As the others help Bloo up, Ben insists, "No, no, no, no! We do, we all really do! We want to hear the story! It's just..."
"Sorry, no way. None of you have what it takes. Goodbye."
"Wait, wait, we do have what it takes!" JJ protests to Gru. The light is turned off, making Ben frowns a bit. The old man thinks that he and his friends don't have what it takes? Then it's time to prove him wrong!
"It's alright, okay, we will come back. No problem...all of us will..." Ben said as he and his friends prepare to walk away. "All right, here w ego, leaving...walking away now...see you tomorrow!"
Eduardo shivers but follows his pals as they head to the monocycle to ride back to Thneedville. Inside the house, Gru watch, smirking while saying, "Maybe...perhaps..."
If Ben and his pals does keep to their word and come back...maybe...

Author's note
Well, that's the first part of the story of Gru's. In the next chapter, Ben and his pals sneak out of the family house the next day to go back to hear the story but meet Cartman who is trying to scare them out of doing so. Will it work?

Bloo: (scoffs) Yeah, right!

Me: Read, review and suggest.

Don’t we all hate the Twilight movies, everybody?

That wolf phobia bit is a reference to Fantastic Mr. Fox.

The mysterious figure of course is Pinkamena Diane Pie, Greenrob's MLP: FIM OC.

Marlena is Gru's mother from his movie Despicable Me and Dr. Nefario is the former villain's partner from the same movie.

I am using the American McGee's Alice game series versions of Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum in this story.

Come on, you know whose Yzma is by now, right?

Conan McNulty is the rival of Grandpa Lou Pickles from Rugrats.

Gru's meeting with Shrek has a reference to the first of the Shrek films.
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Hey, back to work on this fanmake. Nobodiez, while your idea has merit (the stock one), the problem is is where to put it since Gru's company would go out of business after the last tree is cut down. I will try to use it but I am not promising anything...

Chapter 5: Cartman's Threat

In a mansion, we see the folks singing the 'Happy Birthday' song to Jazz who is wearing a beautiful green dress. Once they're done, the girl blew the candles on the cake right out.
A girl named Blythe Baxter ask her friends curiously, "Any idea what you wish for?"
"I could tell you...but according to universal wish laws, I can't." Jazz explains to sadness to her friend, knowing that her wish won't come true if she were to tell anything what it is.
"Oh...I think I know what you want." A familiar voice spoke slyly. Jazz look surprised, could it be?
Everyone look to the upper floor. There's Ben in a tuxedo while playing a song on a piano. Once he's done, the boy and his pals who are nearby, ran to the stairs, Ben slid down the railing while the rest just run down the stairs.
The group ran as Ben slid past a butler named Wadsworth who was holding an ice cream float on a tray. The boy took the float as he goes over to something that appears to be covered by a cloth.
"Perhaps it is...this?" Ben ask with a smile as he sips the float and remove the cloth. To Jazz's amazement, it's a live Truffula tree, not those boring fake ones from the ground.
The guests applaud as Jazz smile big, going closer to the tree, touching its soft tuffs in awe. The girl said with tears of joy, "Ben...you didn't..."
"Oh, I did." Ben said as he got rid of the float and took Jazz's hands. "Happy Birthday, jazz."
Jazz blush as the crowd chants on wildly, "Kiss him, kiss him, kiss him!" She and Ben look to saw their friends, even Bloo surprisingly, giving a thumbs up (so to speak with those without thumbs) of approval.
Ben shrugs a bit then took his top hat with Jazz look away, then she pucker her lips up. Ben did the same time, this is it...
But before the lips could touch, a familiar voice spoke up, "Ben!"

Ben blinks a bit, turns out he was having a daydream at the table while having breakfast with his family and friends (JJ is waiting for them to leave to see Gru again). The boy was kissing a box of cereal, thinking it was Jazz.
"Ben!" Sandra calls out to Ben who snaps out of it and stop kissing the box, much to his embarrassment. "Ben, you're kissing the cereal box again."
"Huh, what?!" Ben ask in alarm and embarrassment. The boy doesn't want his family to know about his crush on Jazz...yet. "Sorry, it's because...err, I like this cereal. Which one is this?"
"Bran-Os." Eduardo said, reading the box. "Fill with bran and filters."
"Oh yes, love it."
Ben begins eating the cereal to cover up what he idd. Sandra smiles while saying, "Glad to see that you like it. I will make sure to buy extra next time for you."
"Oh brother." Bloo remarks with a frown as he watches the TV, which shows another scene from 'My Little Heroines: Friendship is Magic'.
Blossom and her friends find a lot of Lilos, Ryan ask in shock, "hat the hey? There's hundreds of Lilos. Where did they all come from? And which one is the real Lilo?"
"How should I know?" Jesse responds to Ryan frantically. How will they know which one is Lilo and which one isn't?
"Oh, man. Well, at least I know the real one's not that much of a tumor."

Cutaway Gag

We see some sort of tumor that looks like Lilo that is singing on someone's brain.

Lilo-Tumor: I'm a tumor, I'm a tumor
I'm a tumor, I'm a tumor, I'm a tumor
I'm a tumor, I'm a tumor, I'm a tumor
Oh, oh, oh
I'm a tumor!


End Cutaway Gag

"Still we've got to stop all the Lilos from wrecking havoc." Jesse said to Ryan seriously and worried.
"Even if we have to stop the real one." Ryan said in concern, but which one is the real Lilo? No one knows for sure.
"Let's just hope we have good luck on this adventure, Ry."
"Me, too, Jess."
"Well, cool, all right, well time to get going. We got a lot to do today, see you later." Ben said as he push aside his table, preparing to leave. Of course, the boy is lying. He and his pals are planning on leaivng town again to hear the rest of Gru's story.
"Hold it right there, you and your pals aren't going anywhere!" Sandra snaps as she pulls Ben back, making him and his pals groan in annoyance. "It's Sunday, know what that means?"
"Uh, we got church?" Eduardo ask Sandra puzzled.
"Well, yes, that...but it's family time. We're all playing board games and that includes your friends."
"Awww, no!" Bloo exclaims with a groan of annoyance. "I am not even a part of this dumb family."
"We build you...so you're playing, Bloo." Sandra snaps sternly to Bloo who groans in defeat as he goes back to watching the show.
"I'll handle the extra Lilos." Ryan said in determination, having an idea on how to deal with the extra Lilos while they eliminate who the fake ones are.
"How?" Blossom ask Ryan puzzled.
Ryan, smirking, whispers, "Shh...Hey, Lilos." The man then put on that certain mask that Eustace Bagg used and called out. "Booga-booga-booga!"
Then some of the Lilos turned and screamed, causing Blossom to us send them back into the pond.
"Bet you can't make a face crazier than...this!" A Lilo clone remarks while she made a face that could freak anyone out.
"Want to bet?" Ryan ask with a smirk. He covers his face and then shows a wart and boil covered face as Ryan scares some more Lilos. "Boo!"
Once more of the Lilos are gone, Buttercup exclaims in disgust, "Yuck! Ryan, that's sick!"
Ryan, reverting back to his handsome self, admits, "I know. I do that a lot to my enemies. Kinda scares them."

Ben normally would've loved Family Day as is Eduardo (Bloo doesn't because the robot find those days boring). But not today. The group has to get back to Gru in hopes to hear the rest of the tree to help find a tree. For now, they had to deal with the problem.
At the family game scene, they are playing a Scrabble-like game, and Bloo placed a tile to make a word called, "Schmoodled".
"There, that's schmoodled, for 370 points!" Bloo remarks with a grin.
Eduardo frowns as he exclaims,"That's no real world, Azul! Use it in a sentence!"
Bloo then squirted Eduardo with a water gun, causing the monster to scream and run away.
"There, I schmoodled Eduardo." Bloo said in satisfaction. Ben slap his head in annoyance.
Ben and Bloo soon looks bored as Grandpa Max is trying to make his move...but each time, he couldn't decide. Sandra ask in annoyance, "Honestly, Grandpa? Every turn!" His father-in-law is always doing this!
"Hey back off, Sandra! I need concentration!" Grandpa Max snaps to Sandra. The old man picks up a letter...but put it back. The woman finally has had enough of this nonsense as she stood up.
"Okay, okay, family time is now over! It is now personal time. If any of you need me, which I hope that won't be the case, I will be in my room."
"Okay, Sandra, have fun." Grandpa Max said to Sandra who head upstairs to her room to be alone. The boys watch her leave and turn, they scream as the the old man staring at him with a smirk. "I knew I could break her."
Ben and his pals smile a bit, they told Grandpa Max in secret after their return and what Gru wanted them to do. Obviously the old man was stalling and pretending to mess up to get Sandra to end family time early.
"Thanks Grandpa." Ben said to Grandpa Max with a snile.
"Don't worry. It's the least I could do when you made yourself sick so your mom would take to you the doctor so I could get the alien tech I hid in her closet." Grandpa said with a chuckle. Then he whispers, "Now get going."
"Going?" Eduardo ask in confusion.
"You know, get going, see Gru, hurry."
"Right, you rule!" Ben exclaims as he and his pals head out the door, teh boy took his hat. "Thanks again, Grandpa!"

After picking up JJ, the group are now in the monocycle, preparing to take their leave of town again. But upon reaching a tunnel, they yelp as they bumped into Wreck It Ralph and the guards, causing them to fly off the vehicle.
"What the...?!" JJ demands in annoyance. He looks up and yelps as the minions approach the group, Wreck It Ralph sips a can of air and crush it, making Bloo jumps into Eduardo's arms while Ben gulps a bit. "Hey Ralph! How are you?"
"Yeah doing fine...but the mayor wants a word with you four." Wreck It Ralph said sternly.
Sure enough the limo arrives and Cartman came out of it, writing something on a checklist. He saw the heroes and smiles saying, "Hey...Ben right? And his imaginary friends?"
"Oh...Mayor Cartman?" Ben ask in concern as Bloo and Eduardo looks a bit worried.
"Que...err, how can we help you, Senor Mayor?" Eduardo ask Cartman in worry. Does the mayor knew what the four has been doing?
"So...I have heard all over that you and your pals has become interested in trees?" Cartman ask Ben with a smile as he put an arm on his shoulder. "What the heck is that about?"
"Oh err.." Ben said nervously but yelps as Wreck It Ralph and the guards block the path. "Where did you hear that?" The boy didn't see the angry look on Cartman's face as he made a fake laugh.
"Oh come on, there isn't much that goes around town that I don't know about. Anyway, listen up. I make a living selling fresh air to folks. But trees? They make that stuff for free. And when folks goes around talking about trees, let's say, and not literally, that I consider it a threat to my business."
Of course, the fat boy found out what's going on somehow and doesn't like what he heard one bit. If the folks get any ideas to replant trees, it would allow them to get air for tree again, something that will ruin the mayor's chances of getting rich as well as his mayor services. Cartman doesn't care about the people, he just want to get rich and prove that he's better than trees at giving air anyway.
"To be honest, I thought the whole tree thing was stupid anyway." Bloo remarks with a shrug.
"Cartman!" JJ scolds Bloo for his insensity as usual.
"Look, we don't know what you're talking." Ben insists to Cartman, trying to pretend to be innocent. Needless to say, it isn't working as the mayor tugs the boy by his collar, causing Eduardo to scream in worry.
"You and your freaky pals listen to me...if I were you, and you are glad that I'm not, don't go poking around in things you don't get!" Cartman snaps while poking Ben right in the chest. "You do...and I will be your worst nightmare. I AM LIKE FRANKENSTEIN'S HEAD ON A SPIDER'S BODY!"
"Or a huge bowling ball." Bloo jokes to Eduardo and JJ, making them laugh a bit but the trio stops as the mayor glares a Death Glare at them. Not good.
As Cartman turns around, Ben said, while doing his best to make up a story to get away from the mayor, "Right, sure...err, mom is expecting me and my pals are getting hungry. So we're going to..."
"Sure, no problem." Cartman laughs a bit. "Go back to your family game time, Ben. Your Grandpa just finished his turn anyway."
"What?"
"How did you know?" Eduardo ask Cartman nervously as he and his pals look shocked. How did the fat man knew what was going on at the Tennyson household?
"That's easy...I got eyes all over!" Cartman laughs a bit as he motions to two security cameras behind himself...the heroes yelps as they saw another camera hiddein in a baby billboard and one in a cat in the garbage.
The four gasps in worry, not good! There are surveillance cameras all over town, so Cartman is practically spying on the citizens and will know what's going on. This will make getting to Gru and getting a tree for Jazz more difficult.
"Oh...well, this is nice." Bloo said sarcastically.
"Ben, pals, you got one beautiful town here, a lot of stuff to occupy your short attention span." Cartman insists before glaring at the group. "I can think of any unlikely reason why you and your hippie friends want to leave town...again...ever."
JJ hisses as he prepares to attack Cartman, but Wreck It Ralph grabs the cat while saying, "Whoa, let's not get into that, kitty." With that, the minion turns the monocycle around, gave JJ to one of the guards who put him into the vehicle before putting Ben and the rest into the monocycle as well.
"Well...I guess we could just forget the idea. Yeah." Eduardo said nervously as Ben drove away as if being intimidated and being pressued along with his pals to stay in town.
"Glad to hear you listen to my POV, Ben! Really good talk!" Cartman calls out, then he signals Wreck it Ralph and the guards to take him to the limo.
Once inside the vehicle, the fat boy snap his fingers. Wreck It Ralph close the windows and got into the limo with the car drove off. It looks like Cartman has got his message across for sure and his business, mayor and otherwise, is saved.
Unknown to Cartman and his guards, once they are gone, JJ peeks out from behind a wall and looks around before calling out, "Okay, they're gone."
Ben, Bloo and Eduardo came out of hiding, they were pretending to be scared off by Cartman's threat (well, okay only Ben and JJ is) to get him away so they can sneak out of town. Once they're sure that the mayor is gone, the group got back into the monocycle and drove off to leave Thneedville.
Bloo, disbelief and concerned, spoke to Ben, "So let me get this straight. You wanna make Cartman mad, by going out into the scary waste land, to see some crazy old nutjob, to get some dumb tree, so you can get some bossy annoying girl to like you?"
"Yes." Ben said with a nod.
"Another question. Are you crazy?"
Even Eduardo has to agree as he warn, "Don't mess with Cartman. You get on his bad side - well, WORSE side - he can come up with some VERY nasty tricks in payback. Admittedly, they usually come back to bite him in the rear in SOME way, but all the same, very bad things happen to those who cross him."
"I don't care what Cartman does to me or what threats he make." Ben said in determination as the group heads back to the tunnel. "I must do this to win Jazz over."

After cartman, unaware that he had fail to scare the group, look back at the group but the limo bumps into something.
Cartman peeks out a window while yelling, "Hey move out of the way, you..." He stops and it was because a big ogre that was staring at him. The mayor looked at it, he thought those guys are myths.
Cartman and his minions goes, "AHHHH", then runs as fast as they could after escaping the limo.
After the guy left, the ogre then pulled a zipper and reveals to be the figure from before.
"Ha that will teach you to not mess with their quest. I need to thank Shrek for letting me use this life like costume. Better keep watching the group. I still need them to help save my big brother." The figure said. With that she keep following the group.

Author's note
Looks like Cartman failed to scare Ben and his pals from leaving town. In the next chapter, they meet up with Gru again who resumes the story to where Shrek and the Muppets try to get rid of him but ends up putting one of their own in danger. Then after making a promise to not to chop down another tree, Gru explains his Thneed to the skeptic Shrek. Read, review and suggest.

Blythe Baxter is the main character of the newest show on the Hib The Littlest Pet Shop.

Wadsworth is the Tim Curry butler in the movie Clue.

The scenes from 'My Little Heroines: Friendship is Magic' is inspired by the new episode of the actual show and has references to Family Guy, Courage the Cowardl Dog and The Sword in the Stone.

The bit with the word 'Schmoodled' is a reference to a Tuff Puppy episode.
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Uh no, VISION-KING. Sorry, but Donkey isn't needed for this fic. This is Shrek, Gru and Ben's story, not Donkey's. Plus, I wouldn't know how to make a scene with Shrek and Donkey anyway.

Here is the chapter where Megamind makes a promise to Phil.

To Nobodiez, I saw the cast ideas. While some of them are good, I want to see the 'Rise of the Guardians' before making any decisions.

Chapter 6: The Promise

After a while, the group returns to Gru's home, rushing over to the door. They must hear the rest of the doory.
Ben rang the doorbell then saw the mallet about to come again, making him groan, "Oh no." The thing lowers but Eduardo grabs his friends and move out of the way in time, causing them to trip to the ground.
Once everyyone got back off while dusting themselves off, Bloo snaps, "Hey, pal! You oughta change that doorbell sometime!"
Gru pokes out from the barred windows, remarking in amusement, "Awww, you missed me." Of course, the former villain was worried that Ben and his pals won't keep to their promise of returning but is relieved to see that he himself is wrong.
"What?" Ben ask in confusion as the others look puzzled.
"Well, you are already back. You must missed me a little, right?"
"No...well, maybe a little. We're just...we're just here to hear the end of the story, right, guys?"
"Right, right." JJ said with a nod as Bloo and Eduardo gave nods of their own. The four are eager to listen to the story at this time, despite risking getting in trouble with Cartman and the guards again. Anything to get a tree for Jazz!
"Why are you so interested in trees anyways?" Gru ask the newcomers skeptically. No one else would be interested in trees, so what makes these four any different? "Why aren't you like other kids? You know, with the break dancing, flashdancing, rap music and wearing bell bottoms and playing the The Skylanders as well as other video games like Donkey Kong, Kingdom Hearts or Wreck-it Ralph?"
Eduardo said in amazement, "What a co-ink-i-dink, we know in someone in town named Wreck-It Ralph. Of course, he works for Senior Cartman."
Ben and his pals laugh in amusement, the main boy explains, "Well my grandpa talks about trees alot. So I thought it be cool to have one."
"I see." Gru said then got a look of amusement on his face. The villain is no fool, he knows what's going on here. "There's a girl involve."
"What are you talking about? I'm not doing this for a girl."
"Really. When a guy does something stupid once that's because he's a guy, but if he does that same stupid thing twice, that's usually to impress some girl." JJ sigh.
"Ok he is good." JJ said. "Kind of like how I was a judge in the X Factor."

Cutaway Gag

We see a singer performing 'Holding out for a Hero' and the four judges are shocked.
Demi Lovato comments, "That was cool."
Britney nods while saying, "That was ok."
Simon shrugs while commentating, "You got talent."
"You stink." JJ snaps in disgust. "Not your singing but you literally stink like garbage." The singer is shocked.
'I am a skunk you know." He said. JJ is shocked.
"Ok well I better get to Sofia the first, she is next." Demi sighed.
"Wait for me." She said.

End Cutaway Gag

Bloo smirks a bit while explaining, "You're right. Ben just wants a tree to get a girl."
"She is not 'some girl'! She's a woman! In high school!" Ben snaps to Gru and the others while crossing his arms with a pouty look.
"A very bossy and annoying woman."
"And she dreams of having a tree. And I'm gonna do everything in my power to get her one."
"Awww, how nice that folks like you are so undeterred by the obvious like reality?" Gru teases Ben a bit, wanting to risk a lot to get what Jazz wants.
"Uhhhh....sure, right." Eduardo said puzzled, not catching what Gru wants.
"Yeah, so where did we leave off?"
"Us getting bored." Bloo comments then Ben kicks him. "Ouch! Oh, and where you ignore Shrek's warning."
"Right, thank you." Gru said, clearing his throat as he resumes the story of where he left off: the night that he ignored Shrek's warning.

Flashback

It was nighttime in the forest, the fish was sleeping as a firefly flew by, buzzing. One of the frogs saw it and jumps, catching the bug and eating, although waking up the other fish.
The frog came back, his eyes shining like a flashlight and he points right at Bean Bunny and his siblings, causing them to scream and run off with the frog in hot pursuit.
Gru, the young version, is in his tent sewing up the cloth that is made from the Truffula Tree that he has chopped down. Once the man is done, he put is onto a chair, smiling eagerly. This will be a masterpiece that will change the world once and for all!
"Oh yes, that's a Thneed." Gru said proudly. "Nothing unmanly about knitting, after all, Gromit does it a lot."
Gru yawns a bit, time for him to get to bed. He has a big day planned tomorrow. The man got into bed and tucks himself in. He turns the light above him off before falling asleep.
As Gru was sleeping, he fails to realize that his bed begins to be lifted up, being carried to the door. The culprits responsible was Emmett, Bobo the Bear, Fozzie and a creature named Animal. Shrek was getting their help (after the first attempt to scare off Gru has failed) in an attempt to get the intruder out of the forest once and for all.
As the Muppets reach the door, they kept bumping the bed right into the door. Shrek, who was outside, looks annoyed as he snaps, "Argh! You! Who taught you lads to steal a bed?! Even Donkey wouldn't be this clueless."
The Muppets eventually push Gru and his bed out the window. Shrek chuckles a bit then saw Dr. Nefario waking up, yawning, "Hey, what's going on out here?" The ogre quickly gives a teddy bear to the old man, making him yawn and hug the thing. "Oh, cute. Good night."
Dr. Nefario goes back to sleep, making Shrek sigh in relief. Time for the plan of 'Getting Rid of the Stranger' to continue. As the ogre heads off to make sure that the coast is clear, the fish are shrinking the theme song from 'Missioon Impossible'.
When all is safe, Shrek and the Muppets rush down the hill with Gru and his bed. Emmett does his best to catch up but stops to catch his breath then follows him. That otter get out of breath easily.
"Okay, easy, easy..." Shrek instructs the bunnies who gently put Gru's bed into the water. The current carries the man away as Shrek dust his hands off, smiling at the Muppets' success. This won't kill the man but take him out of the valley nice and safely. "Aye, nice work, lads. I couldn't have done it without ye..."
Of course, something unexpected happen: Fozzie pops up from hiding on the bed and waves to the ogre. Shrek exclaims in shock and annoyance, "Oh, for the love of..." They went through all that trouble to put Gru's bed into the water...and now they have to save Fozzie or get swept away with the intruder?! Turning to Bobo, he exclaims, "Please tell me that dumb bear can swim!"
Bobo shook his head meaning 'no'. Shrek slaps himself in annoyance while yelling, "Argh, of course, he can't swim! Why...Fozzie, hang on! I'm coming to get you!"
The group rush off to get to the bed, in hopes to save Fozzie before something bad happens to him. Emmett chose that time to arrive but saw that his friends has rush off, making the otter groans as he follows them. This isn't his night!
"Fishes, stop that bed!" Shrek orders the fishes quickly.
The fish grabs the bed but pull off only the covers. Gru, shivering and not realizing what's going on, grabs Fozzie, using him as a teddy bear. Bobo, Animal and the other Mupps climb up the tree as per Shrek's commands...but the trees cannot reach the bed quickly and long enough to get to Fozzie.
"Oh now what?" Shrek ask in annoyance. The ogre glances at Emmetty who is eating the fruit and the marshmallows. The otter, noticing his friend's look, shook his head in worry.
Shrek didn't waste any time, he push Emmett right onto top, his weight was good enough to lower the tree...much to Fozzie's delight for some reason. Shrek smiles eagerly, he will save his bear friend now.
"Oh right, Fozzie, come to Uncle Shrek, come on!" Shrek insists as Animal and Bobo held the ogre to keep him still. Fozzie held his paws up as if to reach for Shrek's, whose plan on pulling him to safely. But however, the bear just went by him. "What the...?"
Shrek looks and saw that Fozzie was actually grabbing the fruit hanging from the tree. He smacks his head while groaning, "Ugh, Muppet bears."
Gru was still sleeping as he stuck his leg out of his bed. This causes his bed to be turns to a small water fall. Shrek's eyes widen in horror and for a good reason: that waterfall and its currenty leads to a bigger waterfall.
"Oh, not good." Shrek gulps a bit. Fozzie and Gru will fell over the larger waterfall unless they are saved!
Fozzie is getting scared stiff onto the pillow. The bear can't swim back and he saw the fish swimming by humming the 'Funeral' march.
Shrek's group rush alongside the river, the ogre calls out to Gru in hopes to wake him up, "Hey, pointy nose! Wake up! Wake up!" Fozzie yelps as he rush to the bed's other side, but ends up tipping it and causing Gru himself to be flipped over.
That's enough to wake Gru up as he and the bed are flipped over again, the man coughs up water while being covered with fish. As he recovers, Gru saw Fozzie smiling and chuckling nervously to him, with the fish falling off the bed.
"What's happening and where am I?" Gru ask in confusion as he wonders what's happening. The man should be in his bed, not outside!
"Hey, we got trouble and it's coming up fast!" Shrek calls out to Gru, making him and Fozzie turn to see that they are coming to a waterfall very fast.
"Oh crud monkeys! We're in a river!"
Gru and Fozzie screams as the rocks bump into the bed as if they are in a wild water park. They continue bumping and thumping into stuff until it stops. The two laughs and smile, looks like the danger is over...until Gru and Fozzie saw the waterfall up ahead. Now they remember!
"Oh no." Gru groans as he grabs a pillow, trying to use it as an oar to escape the waterfall. "Someone do something!"
"Hang on, help is on the way!" Shrek calls out, looking around for an idea. The ogre saw a heavy rock on a mountain near the river and found it. He heard Gru screaming and praying for help, making run to the top of the mountain faster. "Hang on, you whiny baby!"
Shrek grabs a stick and put it under the rock, stepping on it a lot of times before the rock itself broke off, rolling down the hill. Gru saw the rock coming and screaming, fearing for his life.
Fortunately, the rock ends up landing on the bed, sending both Gru and Fozzie into the sky. The man held the bear for safely and fell to the ground unconscious while his bed fell down the waterfall with no one in it, thankfully.
As Fozzie got off of Gru, the others gasps in alarm, worried for the newcomer's safely. They didn't want him dead, just out of the forest and away from their trees!
"Oh no!" Shrek yelps as he rush over to Gru to check up on him. The ogre moves the man's arm but it was limp right now. Shrek taps his face cheek. "Wake up, wake up!"
Shrek slaps Gru like mad then tries to do CPR...spitting out the taste in disgust. Why do some doctors do this?! The ogre tries a new idea: he grabs Fozzie and Bobo, rubbing the two bears together and causing electric to come out of their fur.
"All right, clear!" Shrek yells out, using the bears as a defibulator. The electric jolt Gru hard, waking him up. The man check himself and smiles happily. He's alive!
"Whoa...I was heading into that light thing...then you pull me back, here I am!" Gru exclaims with a smile. He hugs Shrek, the same ogre who wanted him out of the forest. "You saved me!"
"Oh yeah, I know." Shrek said awkwardly, feeling guilty since it's the ogre's fault for Gru almost getting killed in the first place. "Not that big a deal, really."
"Oh, it is a big deal! I almost went over that water fall...and...wait, on my bed. Say, how did I end up in that river in the first place?"
"Oh yeah, about that, lad." Err, well, fine, I kinda put your bed into the water." Shrek said awkwardly as he confess to what he himself did, scratching his head.
Gru's confused face turns to anger as he lets go of the ogre, storming off. The newcomer can't believe it, his savior almost killed him! Shrek continues trying to explain to Gru, "Look, lad, I meant no harm, okay? I just wanted to float you away calmly and without any fuss." Gru stops upon hearing that. "I know you want to live here...but the folks need those trees, you're chopping them down. This is a big problem you're causing folks here!"
Gru hesitates then notices Fozzie going to his pajama leg, giving him a smile with big puppy eyes look. The man sighs a bit, now he understands. The trees are the Muppets' homes and he wants to chop them down to make his Thneed. Gru wants to make his family proud...but would it be worth it to break the hearts of those who live in this parasite but cutting down trees to do so?
"Right, look." Gru said as he kneels down. "I promise, Pinkie Promise ,that I will never chop down another tree while I live here." The man put his hand to his heart and held his other hand up to assure of his promise. "That I promise."
"Glad to hear." Shrek said with a nod. At least he appreciates Gru promising to not cut down another tree. "But just to be safe, I am going to keep an eye on you."
Gru comment, "I made a pinky promise to Agnes and, the last time I broke a pinky promise, I had a scary talking pony chasing after me screaming like a demonically-possessed maniac until I apologized."
"I see...but out of precaution though, I will still keep my eye on you."
"Right. Now I got a big day tomorrow so I need to get some sleep." Gru rubs Shrek's head and heads off...then goes back the other way. "Right after I get my bed back."

It was the next morning as the Muppet roosteras crow a bit. Gru is back in his bed inside his tent sleeping...then he slowly wakes up...and saw Shrek in his bed, snoring.
This causes Gru to wake up screaming. Shrek woke up and scream as he accidentially hit the man in the face. Gru yelps while rubbing his jaw, "What the..." The man looks around and saw a shocking sight: the Muppets are in his tent in certain places. "Err, two questions: what are they doing in here...and a follow up: what are you doing in here?!"
"Oh yes, that." Shrek said with a slight chuckle. "Well, after that incident last night, we found one of your socks and came back to return it. But upon arrival, you were sleeping."
Shrek picks up a sock, making Gru frowns. He isn't buying that excuse at all. The man saw a leak, looking up to see a monster named Sweetums sleeping on his lamp, causing drool to fall onto Gru's face.
"Right...and sleeping is how the body tell people to go away." Gru said to Shrek sternly. Doesn't the ogre get it by now?
"Aye, but you look so cozy...and the tent look so cozy. Anyway, we fell asleep." Shrek explains to Gru, rubbing the book that Fozzie is sleeping in. "So there isn't any harm done."
"No harm, done...NO HARM DONE?!" Gru groans in annoyance, he has to promise not to chop down a tree to put up with this? The man wants them now out! Gru looks up and gasps upon seeing Pepe the King Prawn taking a bath in his tea glass. "Hey, I put my lips on t...well, used to anyway!"
Gru saw a bird trying to lay an egg in a bowl, making him say, "Wait. Did you just...in my bowl?!" To the newcomer's further disgust, the bird protests in laying an egg into the bowl, smiling and high-fiving his pals.
Shrek glances at Gru's toothbrush, taking it and walk by Gru, brushing his teeth while remarking, "Glad to see that you got one of these, lads. Your teeth of course needs more brushing."
Shrek drops the toothbrush before walking off. Gru takes the thing and cringes in disgust, there's bugs and grease on this toothbrush.
"Okay, enough is enough!" Gru exclaims in annoyance.
"Huh? Hey, we made a deal last night!" Shrek snaps to Gru sternly, reminding the man of his promise. "You want that pink pony after you again?"
"Look, I promised that I wouldn't cut down anymore trees!"
"Aye, and I said that I will be keeping an eye on you out of precaution! Now then, I'm hungry. What's for breakfast?" Shrek chuckles as he goes over to the fridge and open it. A lot of the Muppets are in there sleeping with Emmett eating sticks of butlers, much to Gru's shock. "Eh, breakfast is overrated anyway."
Gru looks like he's about to lose his cool...but calm down. The man then spoke up, "Listen, never mind breakfast. I got some work to do anyway, no time." He took his PJs off in privacy. "I have to go into town anyway to sell off my Thneed."
Once Gru put his regular clothes on, he came back and show off the pink cloth that he himself has made. Shrek of course laughs a bit, "Oh come no! You mean to tell me that you chopped down one of my trees to make that piece of garbage?"
Gru looks shocked as if offended by the remark. He frowns while asking, "Garbage?! This thing is not garbage! This thing is a Thneed. A Thneed is a fine-something that all people need." He then flaps and folds the thneed, changing its shape into a shirt. "It's a shirt."
Gru then changes it into a big stocking while continuing, "It's a sock, especially good for holiday stocking stuffers." He turns it into a big glove similar to a certain mouse's. "It's a glove."
Gru then imitates the Mickey laugh, though does it poorly and chuckles normally/sheepishly before changing it into a big hat similar to one worn by a cat whose been written by the same author who wrote the book this story is based upon.
"It's a hat!" Gru explains. He then placed it on Shrek's head hardly though, but not on purpose, while the ogre only looked annoyed. "But it has other uses, yes, far beyond that."
The ogre took off the hat in frustration before Gru refolded it into yet another shape of some other object; a carpet, to be exact. He rolls it out before Shrek jumps out of the way to avoid it.
"You can use it for carpets..." Gru said. Then a piece of the thneed he used was folded up into the shape of a pillow before throwing onto Shrek, pushing him down. "or pillows, or sheets..."
Gru then yanks part of the thneed-carpet and throws it over Shrek, covering the ogre. The man continues, "or curtains, or covers for bicycle seats."
Shrek appears to be moving around under the carpet, struggling to get out, before he finally succeeded.
"This is a revolutionary product which will change the world as we know it!" Gru explains as he push a couple of Muppets aside to continue showing off this stuff. "It got more uses! It can be a swimsuit!"
Gru shows Emmett wearing the Thneed as a sumo's outfit despite it being a swimsuit. The bear chuckles before the man removes the Thneed off of him.
"You got mud tracks all over the floor from uninvited guests? The Thenedd can fix that!" Gru exclaims as he wipes the tracks off with the Thneed to clean it. "Hang on, there's more! With all its natural micro-fibers, the Thneed is also super absorbant!"
Gru puts the Thneed into a glass to make it suck up all the water while adding, "Did I mention that it also works as a hat?" The man puts the Thneed back onto the frowning Shrek. "Of course, you may wanna wring it out first."
Shrek groans as he throws the Thneed back to Gru. The ogre says, "Gotta say, Gru, you are crazy with greed. There's no one on earth who would buy that fool thneed."
Gru opens the door, grabbing his guitar while snapping, "FYI, ogre, you aren't the target market so I won't have to worry."
"Wait, you're bringing a guitar?"
"Yes, I got a little jingle that will blow some minds. Gotta sell some Thneeds."
Gru then leaves the tent, closing the door in satisfacation and confidence that he will sell off that Thneed. But will eh?

Author's note
After promising not to cut down any more trees, Gru is off to sell off the Thneed. In the next chapter, at first no one is interested...until a surprise happens. Read, review and suggest.

The Skylanders is a video game series that is a part of the Spyro the Dragon series.

Yeah, Gromit knits it a lot, and he doesn't mind. Guys can knit too, a lot of them do it.

The end of the chapter has references to the original 1972 Lorax TV Special, with the rhyme being from the original book as well. Some parts are obvious references to Mickey Mouse and the Cat in the Hat.

What Shrek said at the end is also a rhyme from the book.
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Chapter 7: Success At Last!

In a town near the valley, Gru plays his guitar while Dr. Nefario watches on. Folks gather around the town square to watch on. As Gru kept on playing his rock tune, he starts to sing.

Gru: Everybody needs a Thneed
A fine thing that all people-


Gru was cut off when a tomato hits him in the face, making the folks laugh at the guy. What a joke!

End Flashback

"Okay, granted I didn't sell it the first day." The present Gru admits to Ben's group in the present.

Flashback

The young Gru kept on singing as a girl named Suzy Johnson came up to him.

The Thneed is good
The Thneed is great-


However Suzy grabs Gru's guitar, making the man yelp as they play an intense game of tug of war over it. The girl won and slams the guitar onto a pillar, causing it to break. The audience cheers at this.

The present Gru narrates, "As well as the second day..."

Gru yelps as a tomato hits him in the face, causing him to wipe it off and yell out, "Hey!"
Another tomato was thrown at Gru who dodges it, the fruit hit Dr. Nefario who exclaims in annoyance, "Who did that?!"

"Or the third, fourth or fifth day, you get the idea."

The folks buy tomatoes to throw at Gru and Dr. Nefario, waiting in line to hit them. They are obviously thought that what Gru himself is selling is a joke and it appears that Shrek would be proven right. The former villain is getting so mad and ticked off.

"Soon..."

"Ugh, you know what?! No more, I am done with this thing!!" Gru exclaims furiously as he storms off from the square, obviously giving up. The crowd groans in disappointment. They wanted to throw tomatoes at him more.
Gru storms off as Dr. Nefario following, protesting, "Gru! We can't give up now!"
"No, no, my family was right, Dr. Nefario! What was I even thinking?! This Thneed is a joke! I quit!" Gru scowls as he throws the Thneed right into the garbage.
"But you can't quit now!"
Of course, Gru thought that his Thneed is a joke, that Shrek is right while no one would ever buy it. But what he doesn't know is that fate decided to interfere that day: a cat named Furrball climbs across the bench and into the can, deciding to take a nap under the Thneed.
While Furrball sleeps, a garbageman named Strong Mad took the can and throws everything, cat, Thneed and all out of it into the back of the truck. He climbs on as the truck itself drove away.
As the truck drove, a motorcyclist named Bill Straitman was riding behind it. Furrball woke up and looks worried, then meows in alarm as the Thneed begins flying off with him in it. Bill's eyes widen in alarm as both of them lands onto the man.
Bill screams as he drives out of control on his motorcycle due to Furrball and the Thneed covering his view, making him ride up a ramp of a nearby car dealership thing then flying through the air through a donut of a local donut shop.
The folks watch in amazement as they saw Bill riding his motorcycle while wearing the Thneed over a bunch of buses. That is an amazing stunt, especially with that same thing that Gru was trying to sell before!
Furball held on for dear life and meows in alarm as Bill lands his motorcycle in front of the crowd, the two did a spin around and stops in front of some cars, coming to a complete stop.
Bill looks confused as the frightened Furrball jumps off right him, the crowd cheers for what they just saw involving the Thneed. The man looks around then smiles as he stood up on his motorcycle, laughing then spinning the Thneed around while shouting, "Yes!"
The Thneed then lands right onto a girl named Cadance Flynn who was reading a book. The girl yelps as she tries to get the Thneed off of herself, only for it to get struck. Soon the girl smiles, the thing is getting cool, especially when she move her head back and forth while loosening it.
A boy named Jackson Jekyll came up, commentating, "Whoa, cool hat." This mad Cadance blush a bit.
Cadance saw the attention that she's getting as Stacy Hirano comments, "Whoa! I got to get one of those!"
"Yeah, that thing makes me like you more." Jenny said, makin Cadance chuckle a bit.
Gru's invention is a big success after all! But where's the man that made it? The folks has to meet him and demands some more!

Back in the forest, Shrek is playing cards with Fozzie, Robin, Rizzo, Bean and a baby bird. The rat glares at the bunny as he say, "I swear, if you start singing that Kenny Rogers song, you are going to be needing another lucky rabbit's foot!
Bean say, "Harsh, dude."
Shrek chuckles as he put his five diamonds down but the baby bird pick it up, making him groans in annoyance. The group saw Gru and Dr. Nefario returning home with sad looks. Looks like another sad failure.
"Hey lads! Where's your Thneed? You sold it?" Shrek ask Gru with a smile on his face.
"Hey Shrek...and no, I didn't sell it." Gru said with a sad smile before looking down in defeat. "Looks like it was ahead of its time after all."
"Ah, well you gave it your best shot, no one blames you for not trying, right? What more can you do? Anyway, take a seat and we will deal you in."
"Well, I guess there's nothing more to do today anyway. So what are we playing?"
"Who knows? I'm playing Poker, Robin's playing Go Fish and I think the bird's hungry." Shrek explains as the baby bird ate one of Robin's cards, making the frog frown a bit.

Since Gru's day has been a bust (like the other days), the man decides to hang out with his...'new friends'. The man begin making pancakes and is kinda enjoying himself.Gru finish a batch and toss them into the air. Fozzie eagerly held his plate and caught the pancakes with it. Gru took the food from him while turning to the other Muppets calling out, "Who want ninths?"
Of course most of the Muppets groans a bit. They have ate a lot of Gru's batches and can't have any more. Regardless, Emmett raise his hand, wanting more though he ate a lot. Amazing, ain't it?
Shrek got out of the bed, sighing, "All right, pass them over, Gru."
"Yeah, see?" Gru ask with a smile. Looks like things are turning better. Suddenly without warning, a rumble is heard, making the man yelpd as he held onto the pancakes. "What's going on?!" Is there an earthquake?
The vigration begins to get bigget, causing everyone to run out of the tent. Gru's eyes widen in shock as he saw something that made him exclaims, "Whoa, Toledo! That's a lot of folks!"
Sure enough, a lot of folks came into the forest, the same ones from town. At first, Gru was scared that they are angry with him for the 'disturbances' he has caused and want payback.
In reality, the folks loved the Thneed that became an instant success after what happened with Bill and Cadance. They track down Gru, wanting some more of the Thneed itself.
As Dr. Nefario and the Muppets rush off, Gru and Shrek's jaws stopped in worried...but then the folks in town begins to sing the same song that Gru himself was trying to sing before.

Townspeople: Everybody needs a Thneed
A fine thing that all people need!


Shrek, getting freaked out, held onto Gru in alarm. The man looks annoyed but as the crowd came closer, they huddled for protection...but soon it became clear that thefolks love the Thneed, wanting more of it.

The Thneed is good, the Thneed is great
Let's hope we're not too late!


Cadance: It's a super-trendy hat

A rooster named Foghorn Leghorn takes the Thneed from Cadance then eagerly uses it as a tightrope while his own assistant Carol did one impressive acrobat trick on it.

Foghorn: A tightrope for an acrobat

Foghorn tosses the Thneed to a boy named Norman Babcock who uses it as a net.

Norman: A net for catching butterflies

A fat man named Owen took it, smirking as he uses as a thing for exercise, accidentially rubbing Norman against him while doing so.

Owen: Daily use for EXERCIIIIIIIIIISE!

Townspeople: Everybody need a Thneed
(A THNEED)
A fine thing that all people need
(WE NEED)
Everybody needs a Thneed
(ahhhhhhhhhhh)
We want the Thneed
(ahhhhhhhhhhh)


Gru couldn't believe what he's seeing, the folks are paying him, wanting more. The man smiles excitedly, his Thneed was a success after all!
"Oh yeah, we're in the business now!" Gru laughs as the folks pay him. Shrek watch on in worry as the man then brags to the shrek that he was wrong about the Thneed not being bought, "Looks like I was right, you poor stupid guy. You never can tell what the public will buy."

We need a thneed
(Ahhhhhhhhhhh)


Gru got his phone out and uses it to call his mother Marlena, "Mom, it's me, Gru! Ha ha! It was a success, I knew it, I told you so! Here's a wonderful chance for the whole family to get filthy rich, get over here fast! Take the road to North Nitch, turn left at Weehawken, sharp right at South Stitch. WE'RE GOING TO BE RICH!"

We need a Thneeeeeeeeeeeeeed!

Shrek looks to Gru in concern, bad enough that he got success and folks wanting more Thneed from him...but now the newcomer is bringing his whole family into it!
"What?" Gru ask, seeing the look on Shrek's face. "Look, I'm going to need all the help that I can get, okay? No worries!"
Shrek of course got a bad feeling about this.

End Flashback

Gru stops his story again and told his audience to come back tomorrow, promising to finish the whole thing up. And of course, Ben and, surprisingly, his friends definitely want to hear the rest.
After the gang leaves after hearing more of the Gru's story the figure was watching.
"It will not be long now before they know why there are no trees and the true evil that is behind it all." The figure said with a sigh. She then remembers the security cameras. "Those security cameras will give the group a hard time to come to the Gru. I think the evil man may not mind if I tamper with a camera or a few. It might give the gang a better chance in getting to the Gru with not much to worry."
With that she follows the group and readiess for a bit of sabotage. After all Cartman is to thick headed to notice a few cameras not working that well.

Author's note
Gru's Thneed is a success in his story. In the next chapter, Cartman pulls more stuff to keep Ben and his pals from leaving but they did so anyway in time to hear the last part of Gru's story, whose reveal how his family arrives and talks him into chopping more trees down, making him break his promise to Shrek.

Shrek: And then, the next song sequence which can scare a few kiddies reading this.

Me: Right. Read, review and suggest.

Suzy Johnson, her brother Jeremy, Cadance Flynn, Stacy Hirano and Jenny are from Phineas and Ferb.

Bits of the scene with the Thneed becoming of a success is extended with a deleted scene from the actual movie.

You know what Kenny Rogers song that I mean, right folks?

Strong Mad is from Homestar Runner which hasn't have a new cartoon in a long time.

Bill Straitman is one of the cast members and straight man of Histeria!.

I am using the Looney Tunes Show version of Foghorn Leghorn, along with his assistant Carol for this fic.

Norman Babcock is the main hero of ParaNorman, about a boy who can see and talk to the dead.

Some stuff at the end of this story references to original book.
Edited by JusSonic, Nov 21 2012, 03:13 AM.
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Back, folks. I am extending this chapter with stuff from the special. Here we go.

Chapter 8: From Kindness to Greed

The next day in Thneedville, Ben is riding on his monocycle to take Grandpa Max shopping. The group has told the old man the rest of the story once they got back yesterday. But Ben still has to get a tree for Jazz.
"So did Gru told you how to get a tree yet?" Grandpa Max ask Gru curiously.
"Not really, no. I think he will get to that part soon." Ben said. Soon the two stop at the entrance of the store. "Right, here we are."
"What?" Grandpa Max ask, making Ben sigh in annoyance. The old man laughs, knowing that it's a joke before he got out of the sidecar. "I shouldn't take too long."
Grandpa Max goes into the store as Benson and Gobber are talking, the former complaints, "How did Cartman become mayor? I mean he's got to be ten or something."
Gobber agrees while remarking, "I didn't vote for him."
Ben sighs a bit then saw a familiar girl nearby that made his eyes widen. The boy exclaims, "Jazz!"
Jazz was carrying two buckets of paint for her mural when she saw Ben, responding, "Hey, Ben. What's happening?"
"Oh, you know...I am just cruising...just putting out the vibe. Me and my thoughts after all."
Of course, Grandpa Max chose this time to leave the store with a bag load of groceries. Upon spotting Jazz, the man smirks while asking, "Hey Ben? Is this the girl you always talk about, the one from Cartoonville?"
Ben screams in alarm, his grandpa is embarrassing the boy in front of Jazz like that! As the old man got into the sidecar, Ben groans, "Grandpa! Come on, don't make stuff up!"
"Well, what do you know? She's even prettier than..." Grandpa Max saw that Ben is putting his goggles on, wanting to leave. "Well, must go, bye!"
Grandpa Max and Ben drove off quickly, making Jazz smile while sighing a bit. Is she falling for this boy? Who knows?
"Come on, Grandpa, let's get you home." Ben said to Grandpa Max with a nod. The boy wants to drop his grandfather home before he, Bloo, Eduardo and JJ will head off to Gru's once more.

Jazz came home and head around back...to see a shocking sight: his mural has been washed away, ripped off and taken with a sign that said 'Property of Mayor Cartman'.
Apparently Cartman saw on his cameras that Jazz likes trees and has a hand in what's Ben doing indirectly. So the fat man got rid of the mural in hopes to discourage any more attempts of his business being ruined.

Once Ben dropped off Grandpa Max and got a bag of marshmallows, he picked up his friends and head to the spot where the button is to activate the door. But upon arrival, there is a door there, being locked.
"What the heck?" Bloo groans as he tries to open the door but it wouldn't budge. "What's the deal with this stupid door?!"
"Carumba, I think Cartman found out what we're doing and locked the door!" Eduardo exclaims in concern. "What now?"
Ben frowns as did JJ, this is frustrating, but they can't let Cartman discourage them from leaving. They have to try another way. Ben remarks, "Hang on, guys, we're taking the hard way out!"
The gang goes back around but none of them saw a figure climbing to the security camera. She was working on it till a spark came out. the figure smiles.
"Good that is one. Now to deal with the rest that go in this path." The figure said. She then does the same with the rest of the cameras in this path.
Bloo and Eduardo screams like maniacs as the group rode across one person's house...then goes into another by mistake, belonging to Flam. The unicorn was taking a shower where the four intrudes, causing him to scream.
"Sorry about that!" Ben exclaims sheepishly as Flim throw a rubber ducky at the group before they rush out. "Didn't want to see that."
"Tell me about it." JJ shudders in agreement.
The group rode up some stairs and out a window, riding onto the penthouse of another roof then onto another roof. Soon the four goes around a spiral roof before reaching the top of the wall of Thneedville.
Ben's group scream as they slid down the wall screaming...but lands onto the the ground safely. Bloo exclaims, "Man, that was nuts!"
"Si! I rather not do that again!" Eduardo exclaims with a gulp as usual.

Ben and his friends return to Gru's house. They chose not to bother with the doorbell since they recall what happens the last two times.
"Hey, we're back!" Ben calls out to Gru as he held out a bag. The man peeks through the window, amazed that the boy has returned as promised again.
"What is that...is that what I think it is?" Gru ask hopefully upon seeing the bag, his favorite snack.
"Yep! Give us the horn and here you go!" JJ calls out as Ben held the bag. Gru got out his long horn and held his down. The boy smiles as he pour some marshmallows into the said horn, allowing Gru to suck them up through a straw while eating them. The man sighs happily, it's been a long time since he has had a marshmallow.
"Thank you. Ahem...picture this if you can."

Flashback

We see Robin on a Truffula Tree trying to get a fruit with Emmett watching.

"A sun shining in the sky which is blue...a perfect day."

Robin grabs the fruit but tries his best to held onto it while Emmett laughs. We see some Muppets doing whatever it is they are doing.

"Of course, it all went downhill from there."

Suddenly a big rumbling noise is heard, much to the confusion of the Muppets. It became bigger until Dr. Nefaro notice while yelling, "Gru! Your family's here!"
Sure enough, there's Gru's family driving over in a big truck driven by Marlena. She drove so fast that the old woman didn't even to notice or care that Bean Bunny is stuck to her grill. The family begins to sing.

When Gru’s family arrives, they could sing this song on their way.

Gru’s Family: Don’t stand around gawkin’
Turn left at Weehawken
To our pal Gru’s house we go


Don’t waste your time talkin’
Turn left at Weehawken
To the house of the glorious Gru man we go


Opportunity’s knockin’
There’ll be no more squawkin’
We’re gonna get rich –
Filthy rich


No more holes in our stockings
Turn left at Weehawken
To the house of the glorious Gru man we go


Finally, Marlena came to a stop upon reaching Gru's home, Bean groans as he fell right off the grip. Shre kand the Muppetas came over to see the big truck. Inside a flash of light like radium hit the vehicle, making the truck bright.
Shrek and the Muppets look confused until the door opens up to show a silhouette. It came out of the trailer revealing to Yzma who looks around the area while snapping, "Ugh, this place is a dump!"
"Aunt Yzma!" Gru exclaims, waving to Yzma with a smile.
The Tweedles came out of the trailer then saw Bobo. Tweedle Dee exclaims, "Hey look, Dum, a furry football!" The brother picks up the bear. "Go long!"
"Err, Tweedle Dee, that isn't a...okay." Gru said, giving up as his brother throw Bobo like a football. May as well since the dope wouldn't listen to him anyway.
"Go long, go long!"
"Got it, I got it!" Tweedle Dum exclaims as he run while trying to catch Bobo. But the brother hit a tree without looking. The bear lands safely onto the Truffula tree before letting go, felling right onto Tweedle Dum's face. "Got it!"
"Ha ha ha! Dum Dum ran into that tree!" Tweedle Dee laughs madly as he high-fived Gru so hard, causing him to cringe in pain.
Conan now came out of the vehicle and lean down like a footstool, letting Marlena step on him while wearing a minx scarf to come on out. As she climb off the old man, the woman gasps, "Gru! Is that you, son?"
"Mom!" Gru laughs a bit. His mother is here, everyone is here, this is great!
"There he is, my big all of the sudden successful son!" Marlena laughs while hugging, kissing her son on the cheek. During this, Shrek glances at the minx scarf, touching it before getting a shocked look on his face. "I knew you would make it, well did. Isn't that right, Conan?"
Conan smiles and hugs his nephew while exclaiming, "Oh, I love this guy! Hee hee hee!"
"Odd. You always said that I wouldn't amount to anything." Gru said in concern. It's true, his family told him that and taunt the man before he left home that day.
"Son, hush your mouth. You know that I was trying to motivate you." Marlena said with a slight chuckle to Gru. Of course, that isn't really true, the old woman didn't really have confidence in her son at first, but now...
"Yeah, yeah, I'm really glad that you clarified that. Kinda hurt my feelings for a really long time. Is everyone here?"
"We brought the Minions." Yzma remarks as some of Gru's Minions came in, laughing and waving 'hello' to their boss. "Well, not all of them, some stay to watch your daughters."
"Good, good!" Gru exclaims as he put Conan down. "Everyone is now here, you all work for me, that's good. Time to get to work!"
"Dee, Dum, set up the RV!" Marelna calls over to Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum who are messing around wiht Bobo. "Stop throwing that bear and get to work!"
Bobo yelps as the two boys dropped him and got to work, Tweedle Dum run over the bear very hard. Tweedle Dee push a button on the RV and soon it transforms into a giant state of the art home that hits a Muppet bird by accident, much to Shrek's shock.
Gru's family has moved into the forest...and he got a bad feeling that they won't be convinced like Gru is of the matter at hand should they live here. The ogre fears that the family would convince the man to go back on his promise and begin cutting down the trees!
"Hey, hey, time out, hold it!" Shrek exclaims as he comes up, blocking the family. "Stop, no one move an inch, in fact don't bother moving in here! All of you, go, now! Bye bye! See you later."
Yzma scoffs as she mocks Shrek, "So who invited the Unjolly Green Giant?"
"Oh, Unjolly Green Giant. Never heard that one before. Here's my joke. What's looks like rock covered in old rhino skin and about to get a orge knuckle sandwich? Your Face. How's about I go up that ancient old crooked thing you call a nose?"
Yzma give her purse to Conan as Shrek prepares to fight her. But a concerned Gru interrupts the fight as he said, "Oh you wouldn't hit a woman."
"Wooh!" Shrek responded surprise and turns to Gru before pointing at Yzma to question this. "You're actually telling me, that this old, no scratch that, this ancient skinny person who's scary beyond all reason...is a woman. I thought it was a T-Rex. Well there goes the neighborhood." The men steps in between the two before things get ugly.
"Okay, everyone, cool it. We can't get off on the wrong foot, okay? Family, this is my friend..."
"Acquaintance and it will stay that way until they're gone!"
"Acquiatance, right very good acquaitance, Shrek." Gru said with a sigh, knowing that Shrek is now getting more difficult since his family is here. "He speaks for the trees."
Tweedle Dee remarks, "Who are you, Bushroot's uglier brother?"
"I am an ogre, fatso! And on the behalf of the tree...GET OUT!" Shrek yells at the family making them gasp in shock. Is this ogre telling these people to leave just when there's money to be made here?!
"Shrek, come on, be nice!" Gru excalims to Shrek, a bit upset by the ogre's rudeness. "This is my family! If my company is going to get bigger, I will need their help, okay?"
"Bigger, really?"
"Well, yes. This isn't a rinky-dink operation anymore after all. I got plans, big ones. It involves a vision of a world of Thneeds. It's going to be huge."
Shrek sighs in sadness, he was hoping that it wouldn't come to this...but apparently his 'acquaitance' isn't the same man form before but a money-sucking typhoon, or turning into one. The ogre then ask, "Gru, which way does a tree fall?"
"Uh, down?" Gru ask Shrek puzzled, not sure why the sad ogre would asked that.
"Yeah, a tree falls the way it leans. Try to be careful which way you do lean."
With that, Shrek heads off, leaving Gru confused and say. What does the ogre meant?

It was sometime later as Gru was drawing his plans for the factory to make more Thneeds. The progress is a bit slow due to the man's promise to Shrek to not cut down another tree. Gru decides on having his family harvest the tuff which is easy and axe-free. Simple, right?
Gru kept on drawing hte plans while saying, "Look at this. It's amazing, I'm so proud of myself right now."
Just then, Marlena appears at the window, looking concerned as she said, "Gru, son. I hate to bug your imagination, but we seem to have a little problem here."
"Problem? What kind?"
"Well, you see...we're not making Thneeds fast enough."
"Yeah, harvesting these tuffs are taking too long!" Conan calls out from outside, he and the Minions are pushing a huge cartload ot tuffs.
The whole progress is taking too long due to the Tweedles plucking off the tuffs like petals, putting them into the cart. Marlena shook her head in annoyance, unless there's an easier way to get the Thneeds done, they won't get rich anytime soon.
"Well, what else can we do?" Gru ask Marlena, seeing the 'problem'. What other way is there to make the Thneeds?
Marlena gave a greedy smirk while saying, "I got an idea that just came to me. We could...start chopping down the trees."
"What?!"
"Yes, now you're thinking! That oughta speed things up!" Conan calls as he push the heavy cart with the Minions' help.
Gru looks shocked and alarmed. He can't chop down the trees! He will end up breaking up promise to Shrek, making the 'acquaintance' upset if that were to happen again. Not to mention that crazy pink pony.
"But...but mom...I made a promise and if I break it that pink pony would appear..." Gru begins to say.
"Now, now, you're running a business now." Marlena explains to her son calmly. "You got to do what's best for your new company and your mother. And as far as that pink pony is concerned, that's what bodyguards are for, son. To keep pests like those away!"
Gru hesitates a bit. He didn't want to break his promise to Shrek by cutting down trees. But the man has just gained the support and approval of his family, it would be a shame to lose it for just one lousy promise...right?
"Well, it couldn't hurt to chop down a few trees, I guess." Gru said with a nervous smile of guilt.
"Yes, you made so proud, son. Come here!" Marlena laughs, smiling as she hugs Gru for his 'right' decision.
"Yes, I love this guy!" Conan laughs some more. So the decision is made. Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum grabs some axes and head off into the forest.

Shrek was in the progress of teaching Fozzie, a baby bird and Robin how to balance on themselves when a famliar noise is heard, a chopping noise. They all fell down. The ogre turns and saw a horrifying sight: Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum are chopping down trees like mad.
"Wait, no, no, stop it, please stop!" Shrek exclaims in alarm. Of course the brothers ignore as they kept on chopping down like mad.
"Stupid tree, take that!" Tweedle Dee laughs evilly while he kept on chopping.
Shrek couldn't believe it. Gru promised that no more trees will be cut down! What's going on? The ogre rush over to the tent to have a word with the man...but a pitchfork blocks his way, being held by none other than the woman that Shrek made the 'pleasure' of making enemies with the other day: Yzma.
"And where do you think you're going, big guy?" Yzma sneers to Shrek in amusement as she block his path.
"Out of my way, prehistoric woman! I want to talk with your boss now!" Shrek demands to Yzma. Gru, who witnessed it, closed the curtains on his window.
"Sorry,but 's not seeing anyone right now."
"He'll see me whether he wants to or not."
Yzma smirks evilly as she remarks, "I'm afraid I can't let you do that."
"Oh yea? You and what army?" Shrek challenges to Yzma in amusement. She is only one old woman, how can Yzma try to stop him from seeing Gru?
"I'm glad you ask. Aleksei. Flint. Get rid of this freak." Yzma orders. Two thugs, Sandman and The Rhino, appear and grabbed Shrek by the shoulders. "I like you to meet our first employees. They're part of super criminal work release program. They get out of jail as long as they stay of trouble and work for Gru."
"Hey release me! Gru!" Shrek yells to Gru who opens his curtain for a moment. "You broke your promise, come on! You are better than this, lad! You got to stop, this is bad!"
"Have a nice day!"
"Please, I object, in the name of the trees!"
Yzma nail a box to a tree and say to the ogre, "All complaints will be filed in this box, if you please." With that, the thugs drag the protesting Shrek away from the scene and the tent.
"Bad? Come on, I am not bad, well, not anymore! I'm the good guy now. Doesn't he get it? I mean, do you think I'm bad?" Gru ask a baby Muppet bird on his guitar who squawks as if saying 'Yes'. Too bad the man misunderstood. "Yes, thank you. Come on, something good has happened to me finally...and Shrek has some nerve to come and rain on my parade? What is his problem?"
The Muppet bird squawks again. Gru nods while responding, "There, see?" The man plays a few tunes on his guitar. "Bad, give me a break!"
Gru leaves his desk and opens the door, seeing the forest again. The man then begins to play his guitar as the Muppets dance to the tune a bit. Gru begins to sing as his family follows, with axes to chop down the trees.

Gru: How ba-a-a-ad can I be?
I'm just doing what comes naturally
How ba-a-a-a-d can I be?
I'm just following my destiny
How ba-a-a-ad can I be?
I'm just doing what comes naturally
How ba-a-a-a-ad can I be?
How bad can I possibly be?


Soon Gru is in a black business suit, blue gloves and a cape, as well as a black top hat. The man is still holding his guitar.
As a spotlight shine on Shrek, the ogre, mad, protest to Gru and his family, "Wait, everyone! I must warn you all, here are some facts to cogitate and ruminate. It takes ten months for a seed to germinate. It takes ten long years before the seed grows into a sapling; it takes ten more years to…"
Shrek was cut off as he fell through a trap door.

Well there's a principle of nature

Chorus: [b](Principle of Nature)[/b]

Gru: That almost every creature knows
Called survival of the fittest


Chorus: (Survival of the fittest)

Gru: And check it this is how it goes
The animal that eats has got to scratch and fight
And claw and bite and punch
And the animal that doesn't well
The animal that doesn't
Winds up someone else's
L-l-l-l-l-lunch


Shrek lands into a pot where Gru put pepper onto him. The ogre screams as he fell out of the said pot.

Marlena, Tweedles, Yzma and Conan: Munch, munch, munch, munch munch

Gru got into the audience's face while saying, "Just saying!" The man back up with his family marching behind him with axes.

Gru and Chorus: How ba-a-a-a-ad can I be?

Gru: I'm just doing what comes naturally

Gru and Chorus: How ba-a-a-a-ad can I be?

Now the family flip their axes into the air, chopping the trees down. Shrek and the Muppets scream while running for their lives. They then run off upon seeing the axe machine, the same one that Ben and his pals dodged in the present, that chopped down the trees down.
The factory is soon built. We see Yzma riding an arrow which turns out to be on a graph that Gru is pointing at.

Gru: I'm just following my destiny

Gru and Chorus: How ba-a-a-a-ad can I be?

Gru: I'm just doing what comes naturally

Gru and Chorus: How ba-a-a-a-ad can I be?

Gru: How bad can I possibly be?
Well, there's a principle in business


Chorus: (Principle in business)

Gru: That everybody knows is sound

Chorus: (People with the money)

Gru: Makes this ever-loving world go round

Things are beginning to get worst. The factory became so big, it made it even bigger and bigger, with the family becoming richer as folks buy more Thneeds. Shrek held onto the bar that Gru was on, only to fall off. The greedy and once again bad mad caught the ogre, multiplying right in front of Shrek's eyes.

So I'm biggering my company
I'm biggering my factory
I'm biggering my corporate sign
Everybody out there can take care of yours
And me?
I'll take care of mine, mine, mine, mine mine!


Yzma dance with a dollar sign right on the back of her her dress.

Chorus: (Shake the bottom line)

Gru: Let me hear you say, "Smogedy Smoke!"

Smoke appears, causing most of the birds to lose their feathers, causing them to stop flying.

Chorus: Smogedy Smoke!

Gru: Schlopadee Scholop!

Soon toxic waste ends up in the clean waters, covering the fish in it, much to their disgust and shock.

Chorus: Schlopadee Schlop!

Gru: Complain all you want
It's never ever ever gonna stop


Gru took a fruit from the Muppet bears and ate it. His family sang so loudly that the Muppets got blown away.

Come on now!
How bad can I possibly be
?


In the factory full of dough, the family did a rock pose while going down the long stairs. Gru pets Fozzie, making him smile.

Gru and Chorus: How ba-a-a-a-ad can I be?

Gru: I'm just building the economy

Gru and Chorus: How ba-a-a-a-ad can I be?

Reporters surround Gru who gave a coin to a homeless man, which turns out to be Conan in disguise.

Gru: A portion of proceeds goes to charity

Gru and Chorus: How ba-a-a-a-ad can I be?

Gru: How bad can I possibly be?

Gru throws Shrek into the truck of his car which drives off. The mad man makes a face as if saying 'oops'.

Let's see
All the customers are buying
And the money is multiplying
And the PR people are lying


Gru in horror try to get Shrek to see reason, motioning to the Muppets who are getting sadder, sicker and homeless by the moment. But his former friend ignores him and heads off. Shrek tries to grab him by the cape, only to fell.
A Thneed land into Shrek's hands with the reporters appearing to take pictures of him. A billboard appears that said 'Ogre Approved' for the product.
Now we see Gru blasting his sound system, making it look like the trees are being cut down.

And the lawyers are denying
Who cares if a few trees are dying
This is all so gratifying


Shrek got upset, this is too much! The ogre and his pals saw more trees being cut down. To think, Gru was a kind wimpy dreamer and now...he's a cruel rich jerk! Shrek ran off as the man finish his song up, towering over his former friends like a giant.

How bad
How bad can this possibly be?


Shrek gasp in horror, this is too much! Most of the trees are gone by now!
"Now everyone, listen! I am Shrek, I speak for the trees! Let 'em grow! Let 'em grow!"Shrek demands to everyone. Of course, some vehicles came his way, shaving off some tree stumps. The ogre sigh, "But nobody listens too much, don't you know? I speak for the trees, and I'll yell and I'll shout for the fine things on earth that are on the way out."
Shrek saw a huge town being built were some Truffula Trees were at. The ogre remarks, "They say I'm old fashioned and live in the past. But sometimes I think progress progresses too fast!" The ogre walks around and saw folks, littering. He stood next to a Truffula Tree. They say I'm a fool to oppose things like these, but I'm going to continue to speak for the trees!"
A forklift picks up Shrek and the tree, the ogre yells out, "I'm going to continue to speak for the trees!"
As Shrek and the trees are being put into a tree that heads into the factory, the ogre saw some trash being dumped right into a lake where the fish were once huming.

Chorus: It's always fair weather,
When everyone gets together!


"I'm going to continue to speak for the trees!" Shrek protests as the truck now dumps him and the Truffula tufts into a conveyor belt. The ogre hit his head, following unconscous.
Shrek smiles as he listens to the commercial jingle of his factory.

Off the old assembly line,
Comes another Thneed!
Answering humanity's
Each and every need!
Everybody do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do need a Thneed!
It isn't just a tanning vest,
Use it for a hammock when you need rest
It's a toothbrush holder for your weekend guest
Your canary will love it, it's a lovely nest!
Try it in soup, it adds great zest!
It's cure those backache pains in your chest!
Everybody do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do need a Thneed!
You'll be an ace,
You'll be nonplussed
It tastes like bread
Without the crust,
Grooms your hair
When it gets mussed
Rids your home
Of dismal dust
It's a natural
It's a must!
Eliminates carburetor rush!
Everybody do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do need a Thneed!
It's super, duper, hooper, hyper,
Makes a perfect windshield wiper,
It's trap to catch the viper,
We don't need so many vipers,
Papa smokes 'em in his piper!
Baby says, "Boy, what a diaper!
"


Shrek woke up and saw that he's abotu to go right into the part of the factory where Thneeds get boxed.

Everybody do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do
Everybody do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do
Everybody do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do need a Thneed!


Shrek in his attempt to escape, got boxed before he could protest some more.

The factory workers cheer for the Thneed's one day anniversary. With the product's success, Gru also hire many other random people in town, looking for jobs. The man smiles to the crowd that cheer for him, "Yes, thank you, thank you so much."
Shrek smiles as he sat into his chair, driving right into his office. The man glances at his files and mumble, "Files...too much. Some boring papers to sign...hmmm..." He sign the papers, faxing them to the government. "All right, now what's next?>"
Shrek took out some pencil and paper as he begins to think while saying, "Perhaps I should write to my daughters, let them know of my success...let's see..."

Gru: Take a letter, Mr. Gru,
To my special girls, Margo, Agnes and Edith!
Thneeds Incorporated
Stolkholms, USA!
Dear girls,
I'm overjoyed to hear how my business
Is soaring overhead, by leaps and bounds speedin',
The entire international picture
is most exuberantly rosy and...


Suddenly Gru heard a door being slammed, he turns and saw Shrek, who escaped his box prison, looking upset and march up to him. The man sighs, "Oh, welcome back."
"Aye, I am!" Shrek snaps to Gru angrily. "You made a promise! You said that you wouldn't cut down another tree!"
"Look, what else am I supposed to do? My family practically convinced me to do what's best! I am not the man I used to be."
"The man you used to be? Let me show you what’s going on here! I am the one who speaks for the trees which you seem to be choppin' as fast as you please! But I'm also in charge of the Muppet land animals, who played in the shade in their Land Muppet suits and happily lived, eating Truffula Fruits!"
Gru comment, "I know this is a Seuss fanmake, but must we always talk in rhyme throughout this story? I for one don't want to turn into that weirdo Nowhere Man character from that senseless Beatles cartoon film."
"Oh shut up and look!" Shrek scowls as he led his former friend to a window. The man look and saw a shocking sight: the Muppet land animals are indeed getting sick and half of them are elaving.
"What's going on?" Gru ask Shrek in concern.
"Oh, like you don't know! Your tree chopping and promise promise has led to this! Now...thanks to your hacking my trees to the ground, there's not enough Truffula Fruit to 'go round."
"I see your point, yes, I do see your point."
Shrek continues, "Only half of them wanted to stay in hopes that a miracle can happen...but that doesn't appear to be happening. The other half, they loved living here. But I can't let them stay. They'll have to find food. And I hope that they may." Shrek turns to the first half to the Muppet land animal leaving and waves goodbye. "Goodbye my friends and good luck."
As the two watch the land animals leaving, we hear a depressing song.

Chorus: Land Muppet suits,
Land Muppet suits suits,
Hikin' off to somewhere in our Land Muppet suits.


Gru looks down in guilt, he didn't want half of the Land Muppet animals to leave. The man was doing what he thought was the best, right?
Gru prepares to leave as he goes to the door, saying, "Gru, for the sake of our past...think about what you're doing, please."
As Shrek leaves, Gru looks down in concern as he sat down near the window. Is this what the man is turning into? A greedy, cruel version like his villain days? As Gru sang another song, another version of himself appears.

Gru: Every once in a while I sit down with myself asking,

Gru hologram: 'Gru, why are you a Gru?'
Gru: And I cringe, I don't smile as I sit there on trial asking,

Gru hologram: 'Aren't you ashamed, you old Once-ler? You ought to be locked in a hoosegow, you should! The things that you do are completely un-good.

Gru: Yeah? But if I didn't do them, then someone else WOULD!

Gru hologram: (smiles) That's a very good point, Mr. Gru.

The two then shook each other's hands before the hologram disappears. Gru then pulls down the drapes, saying, "Progress is progress, and progress must grow!"
Gru laughs as he moves his chair, going back to work. What does Shrek know anyway? He's the guardian, how about he fix things?
Gru has no idea of the worst that is to come.

Author's note
Oh man, Gru broke his promise and is ruining the forest like mad. And even when he felt remorse, his greed and return to villainy has overtaken him. In the next chapter, after some more of from the 1972 special, the last tree is cut down and Gru came to his senses too late. And thus, he loses everything.

Bloo: His fault!

Me: Also, Gru gave the last hope to fix things to Ben and his pals. Also, the figure reveals herself. Read, review and suggest.

There's a bit of reference to The Emperor's New Groove.

The Rhino and the Sandman are two of Spider-Man's enemies.

This chapter has references to the original book and the 1972 special, thus the extra stuff at the end.

For the rhyming thing, Gru was referring to Jeremy Hillary Boob, the whimsical nowhere man from the animated Beatles film, Yellow Submarine, who always talks in rhyme throughout the movie.
Edited by JusSonic, Nov 22 2012, 06:08 PM.
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All right, three more chapters left and this fic will finally be done. Would've been done sooner if this story wasn't removed temporarily but I will get to it, folks.

Chapter 9: Too Late

Things have been going terrible as usual. Gru's factory is running and making more Thneeds than ever. Almost every tree is gone, the animals are hungry, and sick and homeless thanks to the pollution in the water and the air. And to make matters worst, the only one who could stop it, Gru himself, wouldn't listen.
Gru is also so busy with business and courrpted with Greed that he hasn't any times for his kids.
Gru walks down the hallways to his office, checking his pocket watch and heading into to his office. Tweedle Dee and Dum, acting like doormen, open and close the door for him.
Gru sat in the chair, still not charing what's going on. He looks at a model of a city that the man's building: Thneedville, Ben and his friends' home. Once it's built, it's going to be the biggest glory in the Gru Empire.

"Things were going just fine all the way down the line. Thneeds were selling like hotcakes from Timbucktoo to Texas. I was feeling quite relaxed in my good ol' solar office of a plexus. When he came back like a snipe. He was back with another gripe."

"Hey, lad...how are things?" A familiar voice spoke up, making Gru turns and saw, to his annoyance, Shrek sitting on the balcony rails.
"Oh, what do you want now? Haven't you bugged me enough?" Gru demands to Shrek in frustration.
"Tell me, are you happy lady? Did you got that hole filled inside of you yet? Or are ye so filled with greed that you are losing more friends by the day?"
"What are you talking about now?"
"Gru, you're making such smogulous smoke! My poor Air Muppets...why, they can't sing a note! No one can sing who has smog in his throat." Shrek sighs. Gru looks outside and looks shocked upon seeing half of the Air Muppets flying past. The ogre coughs some more. "And so...k-hu, k-hu...please pardon my cough...they cannot live here. I am sending them off. Well, half of them anyway. Just like the Land Muppets, the remaining Air ones wait for a hope that may never come."
"Where will they go?" Gru ask in worry and concerned.
"Where will they go? I don't hopefully know."
Shrek waves goodbye to half of the Air Muppets leaving as another depressing song is heard.

Chorus: Will there be another dawn,
A sunrise for the Muppet Birds...
Exit, exit Muppet Birds...
Going...
going...
going...
gone...


Gru looks a bit guilty to his friend, half of him is regretting what he's going. Still the man then ask Shrek, "What do you want to do...I should shut down my factory? Fire 100,000 workers? Is that good economics? Is it sound for the country?"
Shrek sighs, even Gru has a point. It wouldn't be right for the man to fire his workers like this. The ogre spoke, "I see your point, but I wouldn't know the answer.:"
"Tell you what I'll do--I'll think it over."
Shrek frowns as he grabs Gru before the man would get away then drags him to a part of the balcony that shows where pipes are spilling some brown stuff.
"No! You've run out of time for thinking over. Sorry to yell, but my dander is up. Let me say a few words about Gluppity Glupp. Your machinery chugs on, day and night without stop, making Gluppity-Gupp and also Schloppity-Schlopp." Shrek snaps. As the two looks downward, the pipes begin to sing a little song.

Pipes: Schlop-schlop, glyl-glyl
Schlop-schlop, glyl-glyl
Dunkl-Dunkl, gn-wah
glon-ha glyl!
Dunkl-Dunkl, gn-wah
Glong, glyl,
Schlop-schlop, glyl-glyl
Schlop-schlop, glyl-glyl
Dunkl-Dunkl, gn-wah
glon-ha glyl!


The stuff spill onto a few fish right out of the pipes. Gru groans, "Okay, so maybe I should get those pipes fixed."
"Fixed nothing!" Shrek snaps to Gru in concern and frustration. "You're glumping the pond where the Water Muppets hummed! No more can they hum, for their gills are all gummed. So I'm sending them off. Oh, their future is dreary."
The Water Muppets leave the pond in sadness while one comments, "I hear things are just as bad up in Lake Erie." As the fishes leave, another sad song begins to play.

Just fish out of water,
On hard, dry land,
People ain't fish,
So they can't understand
What happens when
Simple things get out of hand
And the fish and family's
On hard, dry land


"Well, Gru? You see what you're doing, what your family and greed is doing to ye." Shrek said to Gru. For the first time in days, the man is feeling remorse what he's doing. Most of his Muppet friends, or what used to be his friends, are gone: homeless, sick and sad...and all because of his factory.
"All the Muppets are gone..half of them anyway. Shrek...you are right, I understand again." Gru said in remorse and sadness. The man begins to frown as if reforming. "What I was thinking?! This blasted factory of mine! I understand, why..."
Before Gru can finish what he's saying, the familiar voice of Yzma is heard, "Hey Gru! Gru!"
"Eh? Oh yes, what is it, Aunt Yzma?"
"Just the heads up: the stock market's just closed and Thneeds Incorporated stock is up...up 27 and 5/8 points!"
"Wow! Wow! Rowdy-Dow!" Gru exclaims, getting excited. Shrek looks worried, his friend was close to realizing the evils of his ways fully...but now it looks like that was temporarily. The man turns to the ogre while snapping angrily, "Listen, Shrek, If you got a problem with what I'm doing, how come you aren't using your so-called powers to stop me sooner or now?!"
Shrek sighs in sadness as he explain, "As I told you when we first met, that isn't how it works."
"Oh yeah, I forgot. You are a fake! Well, I just have enough of you, Shrek! I want you out of here, now, or I will called my men to throw you out!"
"Oh what, why? Do I make ye comforotable? Remind me of your promises that you made before...of the man you used to be?"
Gru's black part of his heart was remended upon hearing him, but the man angrily snaps, "You know what? Shut your smelly mouth! My conscisence is clear!" Shrek backs away as his former friend advances on him. "I didn't do anything wrong this time! I have my rights! Now, you listen to me, pop, while I blow my top. Trees--ha! You speak for the trees. Well, I speak for men, and human opportunities. For your information, you Shrek, I'm figgering on biggering, and biggering and biggering, and BIGGERING--turning more Truffula Trees into Thneeds which everyone, EVERYONE, EVERYONE needs!" The ogre trips and fell to the ground, hurt by what Gru has said. "And no one is going to stop me, you hear me?! No one!!"

And at that very moment, we heard a loud whack.

The two heard a grim noise, turning just in time to see the axe machine chopping down a Truffula Tree.

From the outside in the fields came the sickening smack of an axe on a tree. Then we saw the tree fall.

"Well, that's it, that's the last Truffula Tree...maybe that will stop ye." Shrek said in sadness. His acquaitance has turned evil again, as well as greedy. The man has broken his promise and destroy the homes of every Muppet in this area.

"The very last Truffula Tree of them all."

Gru's eyes widened in shock with his heart grewing big, but this time in horror and realization. For the first time in days, the man fully saw what his newfound cruelty and greed has found: destroying what Shrek has loved.
Worst yet, Gru finally understood what Shrek has mean by a tree falling the way it means: the man himself has leaned over to evil once more.
Gru saw the whole land, destroyed, wasted and toxic all over. The man's heart is filled with his sadness. What has he done?

No more trees, no more thneeds, no more work to be done.

The Thneed is truly gone, no more...

Soon word spread that the Thneed cannot be sold anymore, the popularity of it fell big time. In a city, two workers are working up on billboard posters as one of them, a worker named Flash Thompson glances at what used to be popular.
"Man, some guy sure made a bundle on that thing. Makesone wonder what the next rich invention's going to be." Flash said then he begins to cough a bit. The toxic air is hurting his lungs.
The other worker turns around: it is none other than a younger Cartman who looks at the Thneed, then noticing how Flash is coughing from the bad air. The fat man smirks evilly.
"Hmmm, yeah, I wonder." Cartman said, getting an idea that will change the future...or at least make some rich money for him.

With no more Thneeds to be made, the factory was shut down, all the workers lost their jobs and has to go home. Gru doesn't seem to care: he is still remorseful about what he himself has done.
Gur's family has already packed up their things and deciding to leave as well, not bothering about the fact that the former successful inventor is leaving.
As the RV drives off, Marlena stops the truck and closes the window to speak to her no longer favorite son, "Gru, you let me down." She turns to the Tweedles while sayng, "Tweedle Dee, good news, you are now my favorite."
With that, Gru's family drove off, most likely to never see him again. The man looks hurtful. Not by the fact that his family hates him again, but the fact that he now sees the truth. They only like him as long as he's successful and rich. Oh, why did Gru didn't see it before? Why did he bother listening to them in the first place?
Gru saw Shrek in some sort of stone circle...then saw the Muppets, what's left of them, arriving. The man, worried that they're going to get payback for what he did, said, "Look, I'm sorry. I don't want any trouble..."
Gru shook his head while saying, "You won't get any...at least not from them." The two saw the remaining Muppets leaving sadly. "Thanks to you, along with your hacking, smogging and glupping, even those who remain cannot live here again. And thus, I'm sending them off as well. Maybe they will find a better place out there somewhere."
"Well, Nefario, looks like it’s just you and me."
Bur to Gru's surprise and sadness, Dr. Nefario is leaving as well, saying, "Actually, Gru, I’m leaving too."
"But you work for me, remember?" Gru begins to protest to Dr. Nefario in worry. "We can find another way to let the world hear of me. Huh, how does that grab you? Ha-ha-ha!"
"Listen, you can’t just always laugh at the end of every sentence, and expect it to make everything alright." Dr. Nefario sighs as he leaves with the Muppets. Seeing his friend walk off as well hurts Gru's heart. He saw Fozzie joining the crowd.
"Fozzie, hey, bear."
Fozzie turns to see Gru holding out a marshmallow, in hopes that he will prove to the bear that he's still the same guy from before. Fozzie pauses then ignores him while walking away. Gru felt more remorseful as before.

"Now all that was left under that bad-smelling sky was my big empty, Shrek and I."

Gru turns to Shrek who looks at his former friend with sad eyes, the man took off his head. The ogre shook his head while saying, "I try to warn yew, lad...I did, but you didn't listen."

"Shrek said not another word just gave me a glance, and just gave me a sad, sad backward glance, as he heisted himself by the seat of his pants."

Gru watch as a glowing light appears with Shrek taking the seat of his pants, floating up to the little hole in the sky. The man watch in sadness while sayig as he shed tears, "Goodbye, Shrek. I will miss you."

"I’ll never forget the grim look on his face, when he heisted himself and took leave of this place, through the hole in the smog, without leaving a trace."

Gru sighs then saw a rock that Shrek has left behind: a rock that has the word 'Unless' in a sad tone...

End Flashback

The group looks at the circled stone in sadness, even Bloo felt sad. The tree isn't just a way to impress Jazz. No, it was a symbol of love, nature and beauty...all which were destroyed by Gru's temporarily return to evil.
"Wow...this was your fault." Ben said in concern. "You destroyed everything."
"You are a bad, bad man, Gru! Bad!" Bloo scolds to Gru in disgust.
"Bloo! Come on, Gru was pressured into the whole thing by his family." JJ said to Bloo in concern. "It isn't his fault that..."
"No...no, Bloo has the right to be angry. It was all my fault and I am indeed a bad man." Gru explains in remorse. "After that day, even my own kids don't even want to see me anymore. I've sat her, regretting all I've done, staring at the word 'unless', wondering what it could mean."
"What about that word 'Unless'?" Eduardo ask Gru who sighs as he begins to sing.

Gru: It’s just a far away word
Just a far away thought


"A thought, about what? About something we ought?" Ben ask Gru in concern.
"Well…" Gru begins to say then sings once more.

a thought about something that somebody ought
A thought about something that somebody ought


Gru glances at the group, then said, "But now I am thinking. Of course. You all are the reason that Shrek has left the message."
"Us? Why would he leave that message for us?" JJ ask Gru, puzzled liek the rest.
"Because unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing's going to get better. It's not. Hang on. I got something that could help."
Gru turns around to get something, leaving his audience puzzled. Then the man drop something from the window which Ben caught: it looks like a brown seed that he stares at.
"Is this...?" Ben begins to ask Gru curiously.
"Yes, the last Truffula seed. I found it, alive after all these years, sometime ago." Gru explains to the group. "You need to plant it. Treat it with care. Give it clean water. And feed it fresh air. Grow a forest. Protect it from axes that hack. Then Shrek and all of his friends may...come back.""
"Whoa, whoa! Time out! No one cares about trees anymore!" Bloo exclaims in concern. He's right, Cartman and the citizens haven't seen a real tree. Plus, it's likely that the fat mayor would try to stop them at all cost.
"Then you got to make them care. Plant the seed in the middle of the town, where everyone can see. You must change the way things are. Yes, it may seem small and not important...but it isn't not about what it is. Rather what it can become. That's not just a seed, any more than you are just a boy with a robot, a big minotaur and a cat."
Ben pauses to think. At first, he and his pals came to find a real living tree to impress Jazz. But that isn't the case anymore: it is also for the town and what must be done. If the lack of trees with the smog, bad water and such causes the Muppets to leave, but how long before Cartman's factory run out of clean air for the people of Thneedville to have? Will they suffer the bad air or be forced to live elsewhere like the Muppets?
Thneedville must be reminded of the importance of nature. With that, the group goes over to the monocycle and got int. Ben calls out to Gru, "We won't let you down."
"Yes...I know." Gru said quietly as Ben's group took their leave. With any hope, they will plant the seed...and redeem the former villain of his mistakes.
Ben and his pals didn't go too far. In fact, when they go a bit away from the home, the mysterious figure jumps in front of them, causing them all to scream and came to a complete stop.
"Gah! Who are you?!" Bloo demands to the figure as the others stare at the one who stopped them.

Author's note
So we found out all of Gru's story and now Ben has the last hope of restoring the trees. But who is this mysterious figure?

Pinkamena: Why not tell them now?

Me: I would but unfortunately most of Greenrob's review got erased when this story was removed (UNFAIRLY) the first time. Hopefully he will submit it again. Anyway, after we learn about Pinkamena and learn her story, the group returns home. And when Cartman finds out about the seed, it's a major race against time. Read, review and suggest.

This chapter has references to the original book and the 1972 special, along with the last song.

Flash Thompson is one of Spider-Man's supporters and characters.

Nefario’s quote is referencing Aardman’s latest feature, 'the Pirates: Band of Misfits' aka 'The Pirates: In an Adventure with Scientists'.
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Folks, do to the fact that 'The Shreklax' kept getting removed from a certain website, it will be submitted on deviantART only from now on until it's completed. So here it is, the fic itself.

Chapter 10: Chase of the Seed

The group saw who their mysterious person is: a pink pony with a flattened mane and tail, three balloons as a cutie mark and a creepy look on her face.
"Hi there, I am Pinkamena Diane Pie." The pony said with a creepy smile.
"AHHHHHHHHHH! THE WASTELAND HAS MUTATED THIS PONY!" Eduardo screams as he is about to faint out of the sidecar.
"No, silly. I always look this way. Long story."
"Oh, sorry."
"Have you been following us?" Ben ask Pinkamena curiously and amazed.
"Yeah, ever since you left to meet the Gru and back. Need some help from you."
"Why?" JJ ask Pinkamena puzzled.
"That fat fake fake mayor Cartman kidnapped my brother Golden Heart in a facotry in Thneedville. I want some help in taking the place down but I need help."
"Why did Cartman kidnapped your brother?" Bloo ask Pinkamena puzzled.
"Can you tell us of your brother?" Ben ask Pinkamena curiously.
"Why tell you when i can sing?" Pinkamena ask the group. She thens looks at the Author. "This song is called 'BBBFF', you know that song. but it is being sung by my actor you know soo you know what to do."
"Wait, are we going into more of those flashback things like in Gru's stories?" Bloo ask Pinkamena in annoyance. "I don't want to go through anymore."
"Relax, blue bot. This won't take long."
Pinkamena then begins to sing as we go into a flashback again.

Flashback

We go into some flashbacks of Pinkamena hanging with her brother, an alicorn named Golden Heart. As this happens, we can hear the pink pony sing.

Pinkamena: When I was just a filly, I found it rather silly
To see how many other ponies I could meet
I had my books to read, didn't know that I would ever need
Other ponies to make my life complete


But there was one colt that I cared for
I knew he would be there for me


My big brother, best friend forever!
Like two peas in a pod, we did everything together


He taught me how to fly a kite (Best friend forever!)
We never had a single fight (We did everything together!)
We shared our hopes, we shared our dreams
I miss him more than I realized
It seems...


Ben's group: Your big brother, best friend forever
Like two peas in a pod, you did everything together


Pinkamena: And though he's, oh, so far away
I hoped that he would stay
My big brother best friend
Forever...
Forever...


End Flashback

Once the song and flashback is done, Ben's group looks speechless, even Bloo is for the first time ever (or whatever counts). Eduardo sobs, "Baaaaaah! Poor pony. Losing your brother like that."
"Yeah, your brother must be that important to you huh?" JJ ask Pinkamena who nods a bit. "Well, in that case, we got to rescue Golden Heart."
"But what about our mission?" Ben ask his friends in concern. "We promised Gru to plant the seed for him."
"The plant will not grow well while your town is in the grip of the smoke that hovers over Thneedville." Pinkamena explains to Ben. "We must stop the factory that breaths out the somg. My brother is forced to feed the fire in that place. Please help me free him and we can stop the smoke and your plant will be able to grow strong."
"Okay, we will figure out a plan once we get back to town. Come on."

Ben and his friends knew that it won't be easy to sneak back into Thneedville. Either Cartman has found out that they gotten out somehow or his cameras are on the lookout for them.
To sneak in, Ben's group uses the sewers to go under it, peeking out a manhole. They are in Thneedville but one of Cartman's cat surveillance camers is on guards. It's about to spot them but goes on the alert but Pinkamena throws her knife at the robot, knocking it right off the trash.
The robotic cat kept on meowing but Ben and his pals uses the monocycle to ram the thing over, destroying it. Ben puts his helmet and sighs in relief, "Okay, that was a close one."
"So what's the game plan?" JJ ask Ben curiously.
"JJ, you, Eduardo and Pinkamena break into the factory to get Golden Heart back. Bloo and I will find a way to plant the seed."
"Okie dokie lokie! Come on!" Pinkamena exclaims in determination as she, Eduardo and JJ heads off to save Golden Heart. Ben took the seed out to look at it.
Unknown to Ben, the cat head isn't destroyed completely. In fact, as he drove off, it turn around and examine the seed...

Upon reaching the neighborhood, Ben spin his bike to stop near Jazz's place. Bloo ask in alarm, "What are you doing?!"
"I got to make a stop first." Ben said as he turns to Jazz's house. "Jazz, Jazz!"
Jazz opens the door and looks surpirsed upon seeign Ben spinning around on his monocycle, with Bloo doing his best not to throw up. The girl ask, "Ben? What are you doing?"
"Meet us at our house!"
"What?"
"Our house, okay? Come on!" Ben exclaims as he and Bloo drove off to the house.

Upon arriving at the house, the two climbs up into Ben's room via the outside. The boy, getting into his own room, mumbles, "Okay, gotta plant the seed, got to plant it. We also need water."
"Would this work?" Bloo ask as he got out a water bottle. "I didn't lick it."
"Good, good, now something to dig with." Ben said as Bloo gives a shovel to him. "Nice, thanks, Bloo."
"Ben!" Sandra's voice calls from downstairs, making Ben and Bloo groan in concern. Great, what now?
"Not now, mom! I'm busy...with Bloo for reasons I cannot..."
"Benjamin Tennyson, get down here right now, I am not kidding with you!"
Ben and Bloo groans a bit, they go out the door to see what Sandra wants. While the blue robot slams the door, he fails to notice that the water bottle lands onto the seed, sending out drops of water onto it. Then as if a miracle has happened, the seed begins to bloom a little.
Ben and Bloo run downstairs to see an alarming sight: there's Sandra in the living room...with Cartman, Wreck-It-Ralph and the other guards. This doesn't look good.
"Oh, Ben. I'd like you to meet Eric Cartman, the most powerful boy in town."
The two looks alarmed, how did Cartman find their house? Ben and Blook looks worried as the mayor exclaims as if pleased, "Hey there they are, my new friends! Hey Ben, Bloo!"
"How did you find our house and what do you want, fatso?!" Bloo snaps to Cartman angrily.
"Bloo, Bloo, calm down!" Ben said nervously before turning to Cartman. "Err, hi?"
"Clever boy, very clever, Eric Cartman. Ben knows his own name and everything. Sorry about Bloo's rudeness, he isn't programmed for polite conversion." Sandra said nervously. She push Ben to Cartman in hopes that her son will shake his hand in greetings. Of course, the fat boy pulled Ben over and shook his hand from there.
"Hmmm, you know what I want right now, Mrs. Tennysoin? A delicious cookie." Cartman said to Sandra. The woman was about to speak but he stops her. "Wonderful, eh? Benny, his robot pal and I will stay here for a little chat."
"Sure, no problem. Why not go ahead and adopted them? Ha ha! Just kidding, that was a joke, I was joking, yeah...I will get your cookie."
Sandra leaves the room, leaving Cartman alone with Ben and Bloo. The blue robot roll his eyes while snapping, "I may be stupid but I ain't that stupid! I know you aren't here to be nice..."
"Darn right I am not here to be nice, you blue dumbbot! I know you two, that cowardly Minotaur, that cat and whatever that pink pony is have it! So how about we end this nonsense before we get nasty?" Cartman snaps to Ben and Bloo who glares at him. So, the mayor did find out about the seed. But does he know about where Pinkamena, Eduardo and JJ are heading? "Give it to me now!"
"Sorry, I don't know what you're talking about." Ben remarks to Cartman sternly, lying to him of course.
"Oh, is that so? Well, maybe you won't mind if we checked your room. Ralph, guards, find that blasted seed!"
"Hey, stay out of Ben's room!" Bloo exclaims as Cartman heads to the stairs.
"No, you can't go in there!" Ben exclaims as he and Bloo tries to block the bad guys' ways but both yelps as they are being pushed up from behind by Cartman. "Hey, you can't go into my room! Stay out!"
Of course, Cartman and his goons ignore them as they barge right into Ben's room. The mayor yells out madly, "Find it, search the whole room if you have to!"
Ben looks around in worry but to his surprise, the seed is nowhere in sight. That didn't stop Cartman and his goons from searching the whole room, looking for it and dumping almost everything as possible.
Sandra chose that time to come in with a plate of cookies and gasp upon seeing what's going on, "Hey, what's going on here?!"
"Fatso and his goon squad is tearing Ben's room apart. I wanted to do that!" Bloo pouts a bit then yelps as one of the goons kick him to the ground. "Hey!"
"Shut up, blue bot!" Cartman snaps as he grabs Ben by the collar. Turning to Sandra, the fat boy snaps, "As for you, lady, this doesn't involve you, now get your ugly butt downstairs!"
Sandra of course looks upset. Bad enough that Cartman and his goons show up unannounced and begin going through Ben's room, but when he threatens her son and insult her, enough is enough!
"Listen, down there! I don't care who you are, you fat crazy little jerk!" Sandra exclaims angrily to Cartman. "Get out of my house now! This is ridiculous!"
Bloo frowns as he got out a hockey stick to use as a weapon, Ben frowns as he prepares to use the Omnitrix at any given moment. The mayor looks shocked and worry, these folks are standing up (down?) to him and he doubts even his own guards can save him.
Cartman, hiding his shocked face, release Ben and said, "Fine, sorry. Probably a misunderstanding or something, yeah. We will go now, sorry, Ben." The fat man and his guards leave but Cartman came back and swipe the plate of cookies from Sandra. He remarks to Ben menacingly, "Be safe."
Cartman leaves. Bloo frowns as he snaps, "Cartman is an even worse mayor than that Shellbourne character from Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs! I don’t even know why that jerk even ate so much, what; did he want to be obese? I don’t understand."
Sandra saw that Ben is looking around for the seed, it has to be in here somewhere! The motehr demands in confusion, "Ben, mind telling me what's going on here?"
"The seed, where is it?" Ben ask worried and concerned. What happened to the seed?
"Seed, what seed?"
"Oh, we got a seed from Gru from outside of town and..." Bloo begins to say making Sandra gasp in shock while Ben hit his head on the desk while grabbing a shovel. "Oops."
Ben grabs a shovel then thought of something. He ask, "Wait, where's grandpa?"
The group head downstairs. There's Grandpa Max, holding the seed and smile. They look surprised as they saw that the seed itself had bloomed a leaf.
"It's alive. Yes, I remember you." Grandpa Max said with a smile on his face.
"Ben, what..." Sandra begins to ask but look amazed as she and the others stare at the seed. It has been a long time since a tree has grown around here. For the first time ever, the mother saw the beauty and innocence of trees and nature.
As everyone, even Bloo, stare at the seed in awe and amazement, Grandpa Max gave the seed to Ben. Just then the doorbell rang, making the blue robot yelps, "Awww, man! If that's the fat lard asking for trouble..."
Of course Ben goes over to the door. It isn't Cartman but Jazz outside, making the boy exclaims, "Jazz!" He and Bloo look outside and saw something: it's Cartman's truck for his air business. Apparently it hasn't left yet because the mayor knows that Ben and Bloo has the seed, plus Cartman won't rest until the only hope to save trees is destroyed.
"Hey, what did you want to..." Jazz didn't have time to finish as Ben pulls her into the room. "Whoa, okay!"
"Lock the door, Bloo, quickly!" Ben exclaims to Bloo who close the door and locks it. The boy closes the curtain to keep Cartman and his minions from peeking in. Hopefully that would be enough.
"Ben, what's going on? What is this about?"
"Simple, it's about...this."
Ben took out the Truffula seed, showing it to Jazz. The girl look amazed and surprised as she exclaims, "Whoa, wait! Is that...?"
"The last Truffula seed." Ben explains with a smile while giving the seed to Jazz. "Listen, you gotta help us plant it right into the middle of town, that way, everyone can see it."
"Amazing...but where's Eduardo...as well as JJ?"
"Oh, they went with some crazy pink pony to rescue her brother from the factory that is shooting out the smog." Bloo explains to Jazz, much to her surprise as is Sandra's and Grandpa Max's. "No, I am not joking! There is a pony being forced to make smog in that place."
"And we got to rescue him, but Pinkamena's group will deal with it." Ben explains to Jazz in determination. "Our task is to plant the seed."
"Ben...you want to plant a tree to...and rescue a...I could kiss you right now!" Jazz exclaims happily. She and Ben smile to each other as if wanting to do that moment right now.
Of course, Sandra appears, blocking the chance while pointing out, "Wait, we don't have time for that!"
"Oh come on!" Bloo exclaims in annoyance. He and his pals has to go through a whole lot of trouble for some stupid tree (even if the blue robot was amazed and awe by it). The least Ben could do is kiss Jazz right now!
"Oh, I don't know, we got a little time." Ben said with a shrug. Of course, while Jazz made a 'okay' look, his mother gave him a glare that means otherwise. "Okay, you know what? Never mind, forget it. Come on, Bloo. Hopefully our pals can get Golden Heart out of the factory."
"But how will we get by Cartman's goon outside?"
"Let that to me." Sandra said with a smirk as she has an idea on dealing with Cartman's goon Wreck-It-Ralph outside.

The Tennysons' garage door opens up. Sandra is in her car, seeing Wreck-It-Ralph waiting for any movement. She nods and begin her car, driving right off.
Ralph looks up to see Sandra in the car...with what appears to be Ben and Bloo in the back! They are making a run for it! The big guy drove the truck to begin chasing after the Tennyson and Bloo as well as get that seed.
Sandra saw Ralph coming, making her smirk as the chase continues onward. The woman pull a lever, causing her vehicle to go faster. But Wreck-It-Ralph pulls a lever of his own, causing the bottle decoy on the truck to spark up like a rock, speeding the whole thing faster. And it doesn't help that the big guy is hitting every other car, he has got to get that seed!
Sandra looks in her mirror and saw Ralph coming, making her gasp, "Hoo boy, here comes Ralphie." The woman cringes as the big guy bumps into her car. She got to lose him. Just then Sandra spot a road still under construction nearby. "I'm going for it!"
Sandra quickly rode right onto the construction road, riding over the cone with Ralph in hot pursuit. The woman however saw a sign that said 'Bridge Out' up ahead, causing ehr to scream in alarm as she hit the brakes, stopping the vehicle in time while dropping all the signs around her.
Ralph stops the truck came out of his vehicle to go to the door, opening it up. Sandra smiles nervously while saying, "Hey there big guy."
"Don't get that way with me, miss! Now give..." Wreck-It-Ralph was cut off as he look into the back. To his surprise and anger, instead of Ben and Bloo, there is a decoy of the boy along with a garage can. Sandra laughs nervously, "What is this?!"
Sandra wasn't bringing Ben and Bloo with her to escape at all. It was a trick!

Sandra's trick has worked. With Wreck-It-Ralph distracted by chasing her and the decoys, this allows Ben and Bloo to escape in the monocycle with Jazz and Grandpa Max riding behind the two. They drove past cars in hopes to get to the middle of town and plant the seed. The four also hope that Pinkamena's group is able to escape Golden Heart and that the tasks can be done before Cartman caught up to what's going on.
Of course, Jazz looks up and saw Cartman's blimp approaching, making her exclaims, "Ben! We got a blimp in a big scary one coming right at us!"
Ben, noticing, speeds off on his monocycle. Inside the blimp, Cartman laughs evilly as he straps himself to one of the guards before both glide down from the blimp to go after the heroes. No seed is going to ruin his business!
"You and that dumb robot won't get away this time!" Cartman yells out to Ben in a megaphone. He made a signal to the guard, "Bam it!"
The guard press a button on his rocket helmet, causing it to ignite as they continue the chase by going faster. Bloo, noticing, yells out, "You'll never take us alive fat-boy."
Ben speeds off with Cartman and the guard in hot pursuit of him and his group. During the chase scene, when our heroes ride a high road, the vilalin and his thugs are following them on a road lower, Cartman's grinning evilly and singing a little diddy.

Cartman: You take the high road,
And I’ll take low road
And I’ll get the Truffula seed before ya


He chuckles sinisterly before catching up to them somehow. But before Cartman and his guard could so, they end up getting trapped behind a boy named Mitch Freeman listening to his headphones while riding on his bikes, unaware of what's going on.
"Ay, dang it! Hey moron, go faster!" Cartman scowls at the guard, who nods and push Mitch off the road while the fat villain got rid of the megaphone. No one is getting in his way now!
"Step on it, Ben!" Grandpa Max exclaims to Ben as the boy speeds things up.
"Wreck-It-Ralph, Wreck-It-Ralph, Ralph!" Bloo screams in alarm. The blue robot said this because Wreck-It-Ralph is coming right to him now in his truck, causing the others to scream as well.
Luckily, the good guys drove around Ralph in time by driving up the tunnel and back onto the road to get by him. The big guy was so distracted that he didn't notice that he himself was about to crash into Cartman and the guard holding him.
That is untl Cartman and the guard hits the window, causing Ralph to yelp and hit the brakes. As the two slid down the window, Cartman scowls angrily to the big guy, "Idiot. You're fired."
"So does this mean I can stop being the bad guy now?" Wreck-It-Ralph ask Cartman hopefully making the fat boy scowls at him. "Okay, maybe now."
The group moves on, figuring that the worst is over. That is until Grandpa Man looks up ahead, yelling out, "Whoa, Ben, look out for the elevator!"
Sure enough, there's the elevator up ahead, making the group slid in hopes to turn around. Unfortunately, they end up sliding right into the elevator. To make matters worst, the group saw Cartman and his guards appearing, preparing to get them.
"No alien hippie and his pals beats Eric Cartman!" Cartman shouts angrily to the good guys.
"Ben." Jazz said as she shook Ben's shoulder in worry...just then the elevator's door closes right on Cartman in time, lifting up with the passengers to the top floor.
"Well, apparently fatty got beaten." Bloo jokes a bit. He and his pals wait on the elevator, listening to the boring music. It doesn't help that the other passengers gave them awkward looks. A girl named Penny (The Rescuers) smiles as she waves to the good guys. "What are you looking at?"
"Bloo!"
Just then the elevator opens, allowing the group to ride into the penthouse of the apartment. Looks like they're in the clear so Ben hit the brakes to ask Jazz, "How the seed doing?"
Jazz took the seed out to see if it's doing okay. Unknown to her and the others, Cartman was looking through the binoculars that is being held by Wreck-It-Ralph, the big guy was about to take it back but the mayor stops him, wanting to see more.
Cartman scowls as he got rid of the binocular, taking out a spy grab gun. That seed is a menace to his business and his rich hood. It must be destroyed! The villain open fire to shot right at the group.
Ben's group saw the shot in time, gasping as they dodge causing it to hit a fan nearby. Grandpa Max laughs while doing the 'loser' sign at the mayor, remarking, "Loser!"
"Yeah, I like to see you win now, big fat loser!" Bloo taunts Cartman in amusement.
"Loser, am I?" Cartman remarks evilly. He pulls the gun, causing the fan to be knocked into the group. Jazz gasps as the impact cause the seed to fly right out of her hands.
"Oh no, the seed!" Jazz exclaims in horror as the seed flies into the air.
"Get that seed!"
Wreck-It-Ralph and the rest of the guards rode the truck, one of them got into his cycle and put Cartman in a side car, though only his bottom end up being shown. The annoyed mayor fix himself as the chase continues. They will get that seed.
The seed flew overheard to the ski resort, Ben exclaims, "Hang on, guys, here we go!"
"Ugh! Not again!" Bloo exclaims as the group drove over the roof and went flying, landing right at the ski resort. But the impact was so rough that Grandpa Max fell right off.
"Grandma!"
Of course, Grandpa Max then push a boy named Toast off his snowboard and begins snowboarding right down the hill, much to the amazement of Ben, Bloo and Jazz. The old man didn't become a member of the Plumbers for nothing! He got skills and is very extreme!
"Your grandpa’s just as cool as Granny Puckett." Jazz comments to Ben who grins while he rode the monocycle downward to give a pursuit.
As Grandpa Max slid down on the skis, he waves to a man, startling enough that he wasn't watching where he himself was going until the guy crash right into the ground. The heroes are getting close to the seed but to their shock, it starts to float downward to the ground.
"No!" Ben exclaims in alarm as the group kept riding downward until they came to a point where Grandpa Max can get off his snowboard to rejoin the ones on the monocycle. "Come on!"
Grandpa Max got back onto the monocycle as Bloo groans, "Oh man, I hate these kind of chase scenes!"
The seed continues floating down, much to Cartman's attention. The fat man exclaims, "There it is!" The little thing kept on floating downward until it lands right into a empty Cartman Air bottle.
Harry Moleman chose that time to pick up the bottle and replacing it, unaware of what's going on. That is, after putting the said bottle into his truck, until he saw his boss and the guards driving right towards them. Ralph wasn't watching what he's doing because he was busy looking through the binocaulars.
"Ay! Watch the road, you stupid lunkhead!" Cartman snaps to Ralph angrily.
"Hey, I told you, watch..." Ralph of course saw Harry Moleman then screams as he turns around like mad. The mole man screams like a girl as he run off as the big guy's truck hits into Harry's, causing all the bottles from it to fall right out, along with the one with the seed in it. Cartman can't tell which bottle has what he's looking for it.
The bottles meanwhile roll down like mad, hitting Cartman repeatedly, causing him to yell out, "Oh for the love of..." The fat boy yelps as another bottle hits him, causing him to go into a daze temporarily.
Cartman and the guard with him turning to see Ben's group right on their tail, but the two manages to grab the right bottle with the seed in it. Cartman laughs evilly as he prepares to grab the seed to crush it. One problem: the mayor can't reach it causing his hand to stuck in the progress.
"What the heck?!" Cartman exclaims as he tries to get his hand unstuck but to no prevail. Turning to Ralph, he scowls, "Ralph, get it unstuck now! Come on!"
Ralph sighs but he begins to pull hard to help Cartman get his unstuck. Just then the two saw Ben's group arriving, Bloo frowns as he snaps, "All right, fatty, it's you and us now!"
"All right, Ben Tennyson, bring it on!" Cartman snaps angrily as Ben drives his monocycle right at him as he and the guards are coming from the other direction. "Come on, hippie, you don't have the guts to get the seed from me!"
"Ben!" Jazz exclaims in alarm, wondering what Ben is doing. Of course, just then the boy swerved his monocycle and in slow motion, sliding right under the bad guys.
"Grandpa, Bloo, now!" Ben shouts to Grandpa Max and Bloo in determination.
The mentioned did didn't waste any time. Grandpa Max pull out a device and uses it to grab the bottle while Bloo quickly kick Cartman right in the face, causing him to scream in pain and for his hand to unfinally get unstuck.
"Ha ha ha!" Bloo laughs as the good guys drove off in the monocycle, cheering eagerly. They got the seed back! Cartman growls angrily and in annoyance. What else can go wrong?
Cartman turns just in time to see that he and the guards are about to crash right into a small stand owned by the Flim-Flam brothers. The mayor screams in terror, "Wait, stop, stop!"
"Hey, it's Eric Cart..." The Flim-Flam brothers begins to say upon seeing Cartman coming. The unicorns got caught off as the mayor and the guards crash right into the stand itself.
"Ha ha! Take that, Fatso!" Grandpa Max laughs in triumph. He, Ben, Bloo and Jazz rode off further into town. Hopefully they will find the right place to plant the seed...and hopefully Pinkamena's group can rescue Golden Heart before they do so.

Author's note
Crazy chase, eh folks? In the next and final chapter, Ben's group attempts to plant the seed while Cartman tries one more tactic by turning the folks against them. Will the good guys convince the townsfolk of the horror that is outside of the town and save the seed? Will Pinkamena's group save Golden Heart and expose the mayor's evil?

Shrek: And will I ever show up again?

Me: Read, review and suggest (at deviantART of course).

The Pinkamena Diane Pie is an OC of greenrob and the song she sang appears in the season 2 finale of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.

The song sang by Cartman during the chase is from Hey Arnold! The Movie.

Mitch Freeman is one of the friends of Robot Jones, the one wearing the headphones from Whatever Happened to Robot Jones?.

The Penny in this story is from The Rescuers. Nice girl, she is.

Toast is one of the Histerians from Histeria!.

Jazz's comment about Grandpa Max being cool involves a reference to the grandma from the Hoodwinked films.
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Here we go, folks, the final chapter of this fanmake that can only be found on DA. After this, I will announce the next fanmake in line. Here we go.

Chapter 11: Everything Gets Better

Within the Factory we can see a Alicorn throwing coal in a fire. (his wings are bind in a vise and a collar that is keeping him from useing his magic) but hears a voise though a intercom that sounds scared, "Intruders in the base, intruders in the......wait what are you doing.......no....n.....o........stay back AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.............."
The scream could be herd untill it was no more. Golden heart thought in his mind, "Maybe working here all his life is getting to him."
Within the control room we can see what happened but not what you thought readers. The man was tied down and tape was on his mouth.
"Sorry I did not want him to warn Cartman." Pinkamena said with a smile. She heads to the terminal and tries looks at it. "Now where is the button that will free my brother?"
Out of nowhere, a sign show the button that frees her brother that's called 'release the alicorn'. Pinkamena blinks as she said, "Well that was easy."
Pinkamena presses the button. Golden Heart look surprised as his collar and vise broke right off himself. He ask, "What the...what happened?"
"Big brother, big brother!" A familiar voice calls out. Golden Heart saw Pinkamena with her new friends Eduardo and JJ coming up to her.
"Pinkamena, it's you. But who are you two?"
"New friends of your sister." JJ explains to Golden Heart as the alicorn nuzzles her sister. "Without you, the smog cannot continue. We also put a bomb in here that is going to go off by any second."
"A bomb?!?" Eduardo gasps in fear and horror upon hearing that.
"Nah, just kidding. Golden Heart's absence will keep this place from going. Come on, some friends of ours are looking for a way to plant a seed."
"'Plant a seed'?" Golden Heart ask surprised as the group make their escape. "Does this mean..."
"Yep! Gru is about to be redeemed!" Pinkamena exclaims to her brother happily. "Of course, we got to hope that the evil meanie Cartman doesn't stop our friends by then."

Ben's group arrives in the middle of town where folks are going about their business. Ben comments, "This is the perfect place for the seed planting."
"Just watch out for the big head." Jazz said in concern all of the sudden.
"Understood, you know arrogants can sneak up on you."
"No that big head!"
They then start to run into the statue of Cartman. Bloo fell off the monocycle, landing onto the ground. He groans while getting up, "Man, that was intense!"
The others got off, with Grandpa Max still holding the bottle. The old man tips the bottle so that the seed can fell into his grandson's hands.
"Okay, we got to get this seed into the ground." Ben said in determination.
"How are we going to do that? There isn't any dirt anywhere." Jazz said in concern. She's right, nothing but plastic grass all over, covering the dirt itself.
"What, we are supposed to knock down something and expect something cool to happen." Bloo remarks sarcastically. Grandpa Max, hearing him, saw something and got an idea.
Grandpa Max heads to a construction machine inside and climbs in. Ben, seeing this, realizes what his grandfather is doing, making him protest, "Wait, Grandpa, no!"
Too late. Grandpa Max quickly drove the bulldozer, knocking over a few construction signs in the progress. He calls out, "Sorry!"
The old man ignores someone yelling at him as he drove on, about to unknowingly hit Jazz until Ben push her out of the way in time. Grandpa Max on the other hand ends up knocking off the head of Cartman's statue, causing it to fall to the ground and cracking it.
Everyone turn and saw what happened as the impact causes a small patch of dirt, the real deal in the ground. Grandpa Ben smiles as he ask, "What did I tell you, Ben? Easy, ain't it?"
The heroes smile. Looks like they can plant the seed in no time. Of course, the other citizens, not realizing the truth, looks upset and angry.
"Hey, those people broke off Eric Cartman's head!" A citizen named Princess Clara exclaims in shock and alarm.
"Hey, what do you think you're doing, pal?!" Another citzen named Verne protests to the heroes angrily. The folks look confused, shock and angry, unaware of the heroes' true intentions.
"Oh sorry...we are looking for a place to plant a tree." Ben explains to the townsfolks gathering.
"Right, as in real one, not those duhs in the ground." Bloo remarks in agreement.
"Why in the word do we need a tree for?" Princess Clara ask dumbstruck. No one in town knew what was going on and they have never saw a real tree.
"You got that right!" A familiar voice spoke up. Everyone turns to see Cartman by the head of the statue which he polished before walking up to everyone.
"Oh great." Ben said with a frown. Once Cartman gets talking, he will get folks on his side in no time!
"Folks, come on! The last thing you want is those dumb trees! I mean they are filthy, spewing out that sticky, nasty sap all over! They also bring poisonous ants and stinging bees!"
Cartman goes up to a little girl named Chihoro and dips his finger into her ice cream cone as if to prove a point, making her snap, "Hey!"
"Ooh, sorry." Cartman remarks to Chihoro before turning to her friend named Lin. "Come on, think about the kids! And I just realize this: trees also make leaves! You know that, right? Those leaves just fall...falling wherever they want!"
The folks gasp upon hearing this. Ben's cousin Gwen Tennyson and her boyfriend Kevin Levin are in the crowd. The girl comments, "Does Cartman think anyone would believe that? I mean most people are smarter then this. And some of them would've been kids when trees were around."
"Hey, fatso we know why you are against trees!" Jazz protest to Cartman as she spoke to him and the crowd. "They produce fresh air!"
"For free!" Ben exclaims in agreement.
"And you just want to make rich...something I wanted to do but at least I do it without being a major jerk than I am already!" Bloo exclaims to Cartman in agreement.
Cartman gasps in pretend shock as he snaps, "Oooh, you wound me, hippies! You are lying!"
"No lie! It's called photosynthasis!" Jazz snaps to Cartman in determination. Bloo looks confused as he looks through a dictionary to see what the word 'photosynthasis' means.
"Hey, she's making that up, that word is made up, folks! Thneedville is perfect as always! We don't need trees! That boy and his robot has a seed! We got to stop them! Who is with me?!"
Unfortunately, to the heroes' worry, most of the townsfolk decided to believe Cartman and want that seed destroyed. Gwen covers her face with both her hands and groans. Why is she not surprised to see this happened?
"All right, Ben, last chance, give it to me!" Cartman snaps to Ben in determination as the folks advance on Ben's group. Of course, the alien hero quickly activates his Ominitrix, changing into a Humungousaur, grabbing Bloo, Jazz and Grandpa Max. "Ay! What are you doing?!"
"Hang on, everyone!" Ben calls out as he then charges forward as if about to make an escape or an attack.
"Stop that alien monster!"
Of course, Cartman screams as he moves out of the way as did the other townsfolk, all of them are shaken to try to stop Ben who pass them like the Red Sea. The Humungousaur moves up a hill with Cartman in hot pursuit.
"Ben, you're going to hit the wall!" Jazz gasps in alarm as she saw where the boy is going: to a wall of Thneedville.
"What did you expect I was doing?" Ben ask Jazz with a smirk. The others held on as the Humungousaur hits the wall and pounds through it repeatedly. Soon the whole wall kept tumbling down at last.
When the dust clears, the townspeople can see the outside for the first time and gasps in horror: there is so much destruction out there, a wasteland to the environment! For some, they have been in the city for so long that they themselves has forgotten what it's like out there, for others, they haven't been out there at all.
"Wow, look at that! I mean, who does this boy and his goon squad think they are?" Cartman ask in pretend shock, trying to keep control of the situaiton. But no one listen as they stare at the destruction. Why didn't their mayor tell them about this? Perhaps it's because he never care about the environment, the destruction he has made or them.
Ben in determination changes back to normal as he quote Shrek's words, "I am Ben Tennyson and I speak for the trees! No dumb joke, Bloo." The boy add the next part to Bloo who was about to make a funny quote like what happened to Shrek in Gru's story, causing the robot to cross his arms in annoyance. "The truth it, things aren't so perfect here in Thneedville at all! They are going to get worst unless something is done about it! We must change our ways by starting to plant...this!"
Ben took out the seed, showing it to everyone, most of them gasp in awe as the bud begins to grow a Truffula tuff.
"He's right!" A voice exclaims as everyone turns to see Golden Heart with Pinkamena, Eduardo and JJ. The alicorn continues speaking, "Your villain of a mayor has kidnapped me, force me to make smog for him in his factory so most likely you will buy more of his so-called clean air! Unless you change something to save your world, it will not be long until you ran out of air and will have to leave just like the Muppets who live here before us!"
"Right, and Cartman just wanted to get rich and leave ya in the dust." Pinkamena exclaims sternly.
Bloo checks out through the book some more and found the word 'photosynthasis'. The blue rboto exclaims, "Wow! So that word is real!"
"Aye, come on! Everything is fine! I say we tell this kid and his dumb horse what we think about the seed, come on!" Cartman exclaims but no one wants to listen to them. Now they saw that he was lying to them all these years. "Come on!"
The townspeople look at Ben as if asking if this is for real. Ben and Bloo nods as if confirming the truth. JJ remarks to Cartman, "Face it, tubby. You are a liar greedy psycho who knew about the truth but kept everyone here in the dark all these years."
"Si! You are an evil meanie, unfit to be mayor!" Eduardo remarks in agreement.
Cartman quickly panic, then he turns to Harry Moleman, snapping, "You, dumb loser! Get out there and get these hippies on my side or I will fire your butt! Ha ha! Come on, tell them what you think!"
Harry sighs while frowning. For the first time ever, the mole man saw how his boss is so cruel to nature and his greedy way. The employee always thought that Cartman was right...but the fat boy was wrong. With a nod, Harry Moleman begins to sing a new song.

Harry: You don’t know me, but my name’s Harry
I’m just the mole of Cartman delivery
But I think it’d be nice to have a tree
So I say let it grow


Ben and his friends smile as Harry laughs. Cartman looks shocked and alarmed, his own employee is agreeing with the good guys?! Soon Sandra came as the rest of the folks join in on the song.

Aladdin: My name is Aladdin

Jasmine (as Aladdin picks up Mowgli who is still glowing): And my name's Jasmine

Aladdin and Jasmine: Our son Mowgli kinda glows
And that's not good
So we suppose we should let it grow


Sandra: Let it grow, let it grow

Sandra and Townspeople: Let it grow
Let it grow
You can reap what you don't sow
Plant a seed inside the Earth
Just one way to know it's worth
Let's celebrate the world's rebirth
We say let it grow


Chihoro smiles as she sang next.

Chihoro: My name's Chihoro and I am nine
I would really like to see a tree


"Awww!" The crowd said with smiles. As Jazz, Ben, Eduardo, JJ, Golden Heart and Pinkamena grins, the girl spins Chihoro

"Awwww" the crowd said. Elsa, Victor, Sparky and Persephone smiled as Elsa spun her around and Persephone licked Lilo's face. Agatha slid down the railings.

La la la la la lee
I'd say "Let it grow"


Max: I'm Max
I'm old and I've got grey hair
But I remember when trees were everywhere
And no one had to pay for air


With a smirk, Grandpa Max hits Cartman on the head making him yelp in pain.

So I'd say "Let it grow!"

With the folks now understaning the truth, Grandpa Max, Ben, Jazz, Bloo, Eduardo, JJ, Golden Heart and Pinkamena led everyone to the hole where they were planting on planting the seed in the first place.

Townspeople: Let it grow, let it grow
Like it did so long ago
It is just one tiny seed
But it's all we really need
It's time to change the life we lead
Time to let it grow


Cartman got onto the statue's head and sang, much to the crowd's attention.

Cartman: My name's Cartman
I'm one one of you
I live here in Thneedville too


Cartman pokes Chihoro on the nose, making her frown at him.

The things you say just might be true
It could be time to start anew
And maybe change my point of view


Some of the folks look surprised, is Cartman actually going to change?
"Nah!" Cartman laughs as if actually messing with the folks. "I'd say let it die!" He tries to sing and get folks to sing along with him.

Let it die, let it die
Let it shrivel up and-


"Come on, who is with me?" Cartman ask the crowd eagerly, but of course, no one wants to sing with him...or want to listen to him ever again.
"Nobody, you fat jerk!" Chihoro snaps angrily.
"You greedy dirtbag!" Harry Moleman remarks as he points to Cartman who looks shocked and alarm. It's official, the villain is now being sacked and turneda gain, even his own goons has turned against him!
Ralph, who has finally had enough of his boss, grabs Cartman and put a flying gadget on his head. Kyle Broflovski runs in and kick Cartman in the right between the legs multiple times.
"That's for all the trouble you caused me and family all these years!" Kyle exclaims. Ralph then turns on the flying gadget and send Cartman flying with him screaming.
JJ comment, "Boy did Cartman get what he deserved. Not only does he have to pay literally billions of dollars worth of fines, but he has to spend forty years in prison at hard labor. Then, to top it off, once he gets out of prison, he'll STILL have to do forty years worth of community service in areas that would make war zones look like Sesame Street. I'd actually feel sorry for him if it weren't for the fact he's such a mega-jerk."
"Wow that seems like a harsh punishment for something like not wanting a seed to be planted." Jazz said upon hearing the punishment for Cartman. "I almost would feel sympathy for him."
"Really?" Ben ask Jazz skeptically.
"Key word; 'almost.' I almost would feel sympathy for him, if he wasn't a rude, immature, disrespectful, spoiled, selfish, manipulative, lazy, foul-mouthed, deluded, mean-spirited, sadistic, racist, sexist, anti-semitic, homophobic, xenophobic, sociopathic, narcissistic, and ill-tempered brat who has committed many more horrible crimes and got away with them."
Everyone continues to sing their song.

Townspeople: Let it grow, let it grow
Let the love inside you show
Plant a seed inside the Earth
Just one way to know it's worth
Let's celebrate the world's rebrith
We say "Let it grow!"
Let it grow, let it grow
You can't reap what you don't sow


Gru, in his house in the wasteland, peeks out through his boarded window, hearing the faint music coming from Thneedville as well as some light. Could it be?

It's just one tiny seed
But it's all we really need


Gru tries to hear but has trouble hearing through his barred window, so the former businessman goes back into his window and grabs the one item on his desk that he hasn't used or vowed to not used again in years: a rusty old axe.
Gru then raised his axe as he's about to chop down the boarded up windows.

It's time to banish all your greed.

Gru then chops through the boards of his window, letting sunlight into his home for the first time in years.

Imagine Thneedville flowered and tree'd

Thus, we see Gru as an old man with a bald head and wrinkled old clothes, leaning out the window to hear the singing.

This could be our solum creed

Gru's eyes widen in happiness and surprise. Everyone is singing, wanting to plant trees. Tears came out of his eyes as he glance at the 'Unless' stones' then turns to Thneedville.
Gru smiles as he said, "Ben...thank you."

In town, Jazz smiles at Ben as the song came to an end.

We say "Let it grow"
(In Thneedville)
We say "Let it grow"
(It's a brand new dawn)
We say "Let it grow"
(In Thneedville)
We say "Let it grow"
(It's a brand new dawn)


Jazz kiss Ben on teh cheek, making him look surprised but he turns to the girl with a smile.
Bloo, however, isn't having it. The blue robot begins holding a baseball bat as he snaps, "Oh no you don't! After all the trouble we went through, you are going kiss him on the lips.:
"Bloo, are you.." Sandra begins to protest but Bloo whack her with a baseball bat, knocking the woman unconscious.
"Bloo! What is wrong with you?!" Ben scolds Bloo in annoyance by what the robot just did.
Bloo turns to Jazz and demands while waving his bat, "Now kiss him the lips and no one gets hurt."
Jazz Kisses Ben on the lips. Golden Heart sighs as he wakes up Sandra, saying, "Bloo, I got a feeling you're going to regret that."
"Bloo! What were you thinking?!" Sandra scolds Bloo angrily for hitting her.
As Bloo begins to argue with Sandra, Ben turns to Jazz while asking her, "So Jazz, you want to go to dinner or something?"
"Uh sure. I guess I could giving this dating thing a try. Plus you are kinda cute." Jazz said with a smile.
"Not as cute as me!" Pinkamena exclaims happily. Most of the folks smile as Grandpa Max begins to water the seed, making it grow.

Weeks has passed since that great day. The folks of Thneedville are planting more gree, starting a better life and allowing the forest to grow again. They vow to not cut down another tree and if need to, the folks will grow another one.
Gru, now leaving his home for the first time in years, begins watering the sprouting trees. The man smiles a bit then saw something flying by in the sky: it's an Air Muppet bird! Thanks to the efforts of Ben and his friends, the Muppets are returning. Could this also mean...
Gru saw a glow over the 'Unless' stones, causing him to look up and saw a sight that made him smile happily. It's Shrek who is hostering himself back to Earth.
Gru laughs as Shrek lands to him, smiling as he said, "You done good, big nose...you done good." The former villain smiles, hugging his friend whose he hasn't seen in so long. After letting go, Shrek laughs at the bald head while remarking, "Nice bald head." Oh, I found out that your new friends of yours has called some old friends and they are about to arrive."
Gru heard laughter and saw a car arriving. To his happines, out came his daughters, grown up, and the Minions. Ben has called the girls and inform them of their father's redemption, enough that they finally decide to see him, forgiving Gru for what he did.
Gru laughs as he hugs his daughters and the Minions, reunited so for long. Shrek smiles as he walks alongside his old friend and the girls, planting on having some great talk and to work on rebuilding the forest.
Pinkamena peeks in while saying happily, "Looks like this calls for one more song."
We now see everyone, minus Cartman, together as they begin to sing.

Ben: Plant a seed inside the Earth
Just one way to know it’s worth
When we celebrate the world
Celebrate the world
Come on and
Celebrate the world
Celebrate the world


Jazz: All you gotta do,
All you gotta do is live your life
Be true, live your life, be true
And never be afraid, never be afraid to grow, grow


Bloo, Eduardo and Jazz: It don’t matter how you got it
It’s yours now, don’t you hide it
Let it grow, let it grow


Golden Heart and Pinkamena: Let the love inside you show it
Just one way to know you’re worth it
Let it grow, let it grow


Gru: Just believe and you’re almost there
Use your heart to show you care
Come on and celebrate the world
Celebrate the world
Come on and
Celebrate the world
Yeah


Shrek: All you gotta do,
All you gotta do is live your life
Be true, live your life, be true
And never be afraid, never be afraid to grow, grow


Muppets: It don’t matter how you got it
It’s yours now, don’t you hide it
Let it grow, let it grow


Sandra and Grandma Max: Let the love inside you show it
Just one way to know you’re worth it
Let it grow, let it grow


Ralph: It’s your turn now
To show your world now
Open up your heart and let it grow


Ben: It’s your turn now
To show your world now
Open up your heart and let it grow


All: It don’t matter how you got it
It’s yours now, don’t you hide it
Let it grow, let it grow


Let the love inside you show it
Just one way to know you’re worth it
Let it grow, let it grow


80 Years Later

Eighty years has passed and the forest is thriving near the folks of Thneedville who respect the land and the Muppets who live there. In giving Ben that seed, Gru also planted a seed in himself (in the spiritual sense) and that act of kindness grew into many more by the time of his death.
Cartman, who has been released from prison after his sentence is up, is a now quite, now nearly flat-broke and MUCH skinnier than he used to be. He usually look out his rest home room window and growl as he sees quite a few trees.
Ben and Jazz has gotten married when they are old enough too, with kids of their home as well as grandson. They are now-elderly as we see them with their great-grandchildren talking about how they, with the help of Gru and Shrek, changed the town for the better.
Up in heaven, Gru is smiling down on Ben and Jazz and commenting, "Thank you for taking heed to my story, Ben, and for avoiding the same mistakes I made."

"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not"-Dr. Seuss.

The End

Author's note
Wow, the story is finally done! Great, ain't it? (Too bad I have to put it on deviantART. No good stupid...) Anyway, I hope you like it along with stuff from the 1972 special and book that I did.

Now then, since it's now Christmas time, it's time for Christmas time fanmakes! First off, it's the final part of the MLP's The Nightmare Before Christmas trilogy which is called 'Discord's Revenge'. Here's some new cast members...

Leprechaun-Lucy the Leprechan
Turkey-Turkey (Muppets)
Cupid-Cupid (Fairly OddParents)
Independence Day Leader-Benjamin Franklin, Abraham Lincoln, Samuel Adams, and George Washington (Time Squad)

And that's it. I hope you all enjoy this fic. Until next time, read, review and suggest.

The group hitting the statue is a reference to the 1999 Live-action film version of Inspector Gadget starring Matthew Broderick.

Princess Clara is from Drawn Together.

Verne is the annoying reporter pest from the 1980s version of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Chihoro and Lin are from Spirited Away.

The song at the end is from the end credits of the movie.
Edited by JusSonic, Nov 30 2012, 05:25 PM.
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