Hard Ride To Nowhere (Chapter 36)

The scene: A beach on the Jungle Island of Professor Po. Doktor Zymm’s yuuuuge RV drives up onto the sand out of the ocean.

[DOOR FLIES OPEN]

Doktor Zymm (stepping out of the RV): Vell, zis vas a bit of zerendipity.

Otto’s Brain (bouncing down the steps after Zymm): Sure was! Finding a deserted island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean…there’s no chance anything weird will happen to us here!

Pirate Sloth (following Otto’s Brain out onto the beach): Arr, ye be too pessimistic, Otto. ‘Tis just a brief respite we be taking to get our bearings afore headin’ back out to sea.

Otto’s Brain (landing in the sand with a thud): Sure, sure…that’s how it starts. Then we find the tribe of cannibals, or the hidden valley full of dinosaurs, or the army of ninjas…

Moosemas Gorilla emerges from the RV, Horatio Cornblower on his shoulder. He steps on Otto, pushing him deeper into the sand.

Otto’s Brain (annoyed and half-buried in the sand): Oh, real mature! Horatio, tell your fuzzy life-partner to behave himself.

Moosemas Gorilla: Ook?

Horatio Cornblower: Ignore him. The rest of us do.

Pirate Sloth: So what be the plan, Zymm?

Doktor Zymm: Ve should gather a few zupplies…ze chef requested fresh coconut…und a vild pig if ve happen across vone. He thought a luau might be fun.

Otto’s Brain (rocking back and forth in the sand, trying to get free): For you guys, maybe, but not so much for the pig.

Suddenly a trio of ninjas burst through the bushes, swords at the ready.

Otto’s Brain: Called it!

Ninja #1: You are to come with us!

Moosemas Gorilla: Ook!

Moosemas Gorilla, Horatio held firmly in one paw, jumps over the ninjas, catches a vine and swings away into the jungle.

Pirate Sloth (peering off into the jungle): Arr, I don’t suppose he’ll be comin’ back for us…?

Otto’s Brain: Not likely. He only has eyes for Horatio.

Ninja #2 (to Ninja #1): Oh, nice going. You couldn’t catch a cold.

Ninja #1: Shut up. The rest of you…come with us! We’ll deal with your friends later!

Doktor Zymm: Und vere exactly are ve going?

Ninja #1: You are now prisoners…of the dreaded Professor Po!

Doktor Zymm: Po? Percy Po?

Ninja #1: Umm…I think he prefers Percival

Ninja #2: Percy? Really?

Ninja #3: Wow. I mean…just wow.

Ninja #1: Shut up, you guys! Look, it’s his name. It’s not like he picked it out himself.

Ninja #2: Well, now I see where the need for world domination comes from.

Ninja #3: Seriously. If he wasn’t the kid everyone picked on in high school, I’ll eat my mask.

Ninja #1: Will you two cut it out? Look, he’s our boss, he signs the paychecks. And he’s the one with the volcano base and big frickin’ laser.

Ninja #2: Oh yeah, he’s not overcompensating for anything…

Ninja #1: Oh, knock it off. One semester as a psych major and you think you’re Sigmund Freud.

Ninja #3: Guys, guys…can we not argue in front of the prisoners?

Ninja #1: Oh! Right, good call. All right, then…the three of you…

Ninja #2 (looking over at Doktor Zymm, who is standing by herself): I count one.

Ninja #1: Oh, for…okay, where did your friends go?

Doktor Zymm: Back in ze RV.

Ninja #1 (frustrated): Well, get them back out here, or else we’re going to…

Doktor Zymm: Ze RV ist equipped mit a titanium frame, bullet-proof glazz und a flamethrower.

Ninja #1 (confused): A flamethrower…?

Doktor Zymm: Ja. For barbecues.

Ninja #3: Cool!

Ninja #2: Do we have one of those?

Ninja #1 (shaking his head wearily): OK, fine. Have it your way.

Doktor Zymm: I vill go mit you, however. I vant to zee vat Percy has been up to zince college.

Doktor Zymm walks past the confused ninjas.

Doktor Zymm (impatiently): Vell, vat are you vaiting for? Kommen sie!

The ninjas rush to catch up with Zymm as she heads into the jungle. Inside the RV, Pirate Sloth is looking out the front window, with Otto’s Brain sitting up on the dash.

Pirate Sloth: Arr, d’ye think we should be following them?

Otto’s Brain: Nah. Zymm can take care of herself. I do think we should be checking out the movie library, though.

Pirate Sloth (uncertain): Arr…

Otto’s Brain: I saw a Cutthroat Island blu-ray in there…

Pirate Sloth: Arr, damn ye, Otto, ye know me one weakness…

Cut to: Professor Po’s laboratory, a short time later. Po is reading his copy of Mad Science Monthly when Steve the Ninja opens the door.

Professor Po (still reading): Steve, do we have room for a tank full of hammerhead sharks?

Steve the Ninja: I’m certain we do, oh most splendiferous one…

Professor Po (tearing a coupon out of the magazine): Here, if we order it from the magazine, we get a 10% discount and a free shark.

Steve the Ninja: Of course, oh master of men. But first, you have a visitor.

Professor Po: I do? Why, who could that be…

Steve the Ninja: She calls herself Doktor Zymm, oh great lord. She was on that RV that our men spotted…

Professor Po (getting up in a hurry): Zymm? Zymm is here?

Steve the Ninja: Yes, oh righteous ruler of…

Professor Po (impatient): There’s no time for that, Steve! Omigosh…how’s my hair? Does it look all right?

Steve the Ninja: Of course, oh grand one. Not a follicle out of place.

Professor Po (breathing in Steve’s face): And my breath?

Steve the Ninja (wincing and grimacing): Well…

Professor Po: That bad, eh? I knew I shouldn’t have had the garlic chicken for lunch. Look, Steve, stall her, give me some time to clean this place up, brush my teeth…

Steve the Ninja (confused): I could just put her in with the other prisoners…

Professor Po (shocked): Steve! I’m just going to forget you said that! We’re not talking about some miscreant off the street, here…this is Zymm!

Steve the Ninja: Okay…

Professor Po (cleaning the lab): First in our class at Miskatonic, president of C.L.A.M…

Steve the Ninja: Clam…?

Professor Po: Collegiate League of Associated Mads, Steve. As a sophomore! Go stall her, Steve…keep her entertained for fifteen minutes…twenty, tops. I’m going to grab a quick shower and shave…

Steve the Ninja (still kind of confused): As you say, oh gregarious one, it shall be done.

Professor Po (retreating through a secret door in his lab): You’re a peach, Steve!

The door shuts. Steve the Ninja stands alone in the laboratory.

Steve the Ninja (sighing): I should have listened to my mother and gone into carpentry, but nooo…I had to take that ninja correspondence course…

Cut to: High up in the jungle trees, where Moosemas Gorilla and Horatio Cornblower are surveilling the exterior of Professor Po’s volcano base.

Moosemas Gorilla: Ook?

Horatio Cornblower: Sure, but we’ve gotten into worse places.

Moosemas Gorilla: Ook-ook! Ook!

Horatio Cornblower: Yeah, that was a tough one. But this is going to be tougher.

Moosemas Gorilla: Ook.

Horatio Cornblower (getting a tiny red bandanna out of his pocket): We’re doing it because we have to, pal. Because they came after us, and when you take on one DFOer, you take us all on. And also because…

Moosemas Gorilla: Ook?

Horatio Cornblower (putting the tiny red bandanna around his little head): This time…it’s personal.

Cue exit theme (NSFW lyrics):

To be continued…

 

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A frequent guest-star on the award-winning seventeenth season of Here Come the Brides as well as Petticoat Junction: The Outlaw Years, Vic Darlington was arrested in Miami for poodle smuggling in 1986. Fleeing to the United States to avoid prosecution, he worked as a delivery boy for Señor Pizza until finding a steady gig as the bassist for the Johnny Zed Power Trio. He currently lives in North Hollywood with his trophy wife, two meerkats and the world's largest collection of second-hand bowling trophies.
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aceg

Been a hot minute, but damn it’s good to read something this pointlessly delightful again.

JerBear50

I completely forgot how goddamn hot Geena Davis was.
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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

I picture Pirate Sloth when the real pirating goes down; immediately drops sword and gun “Hey! I t’ought yous ‘ould yust give up straight away! No ‘ard feelin’s, awright?”

Low Commander of the Super Soldiers

The second one was imperative in helping to finally weed down the abundant mime population. The world is now a better place.

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jjfozz

My boss is talking about his cats getting along. Can you do heroin once without getting hooked? Cause bourbon ain’t gonna help.

King Hippo

No way to know FOAR SURE until you try!

– Your friendly neighbourhood quack

ballsofsteelandfury

Where is JustStopDude when you need him?!?

aceg

…or Terry Tate.

Horatio Cornblower

A guy I worked with at a gas station claimed he did it once and never again, even though it was awesome.

He also had a significant cocaine problem so probably not the best source.

King Hippo

That was my cocaine experience – once, it was AWESOME, but NEVAR again because I liked it too much (and the day after was torture).

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Thinks back about the 80s and 90s…….. hummmmmmmmmmm.

blaxabbath

You all got action figures?

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ballsofsteelandfury

COCK ROCKET!!!

Teddy's Bridge Over Troubled Water

If Zymm and Po’s meeting is gonna go how I think it’s gonna go, that song isn’t gonna be the only thing that’s NSFW.

Senor Weaselo

I don’t know, is there a riding crop in the–oh wait, that’s exactly how you think isn’t it.

montythisseemsstrangetome

“I should have listened to my mother and gone into carpentry, but nooo…”

-Jesus Christ

King Hippo

JerBear50

How is that show not still running in syndication?

Horatio Cornblower

“fuzzy life-partner”?

Look, my wife might not like to shave every day but that’s no rea…

Oh, the GORILLA, and the story. Right, of course. I was joking too.

Anyhoo…

/sprints to florist.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Her facial stubble was a little off-putting last time.