Dreams Come True

Movie Lot Mischief

I awoke with a start when I heard crazed, manic laughter. Blinking the tiredness out of my eyes, I sat up on from Ralph's chest and looked over to the TV screens, and saw Majima nearly falling out of his chair as he roared with laughter. I gave off a tired groan as everyone else sounded off. Ralph sat up and brushed a hand through his messy mop of hair, Vanellope and my sitting on his lap.

He had been like this all of yesterday. Due to our situation, we had all chosen to remain in the base while Zomboss and Alfur went, the Zombie overlord still under the guise of an intern. While Majima was enjoying the break, sitting in the office chair as he watched the teenagers fail horrendously during yesterday's challenge, me, Star, Marco and Steve all watched with curiosity and intrigue. Doing this, I had learned all the contestant's names, and got a grip on how they felt to each other. However, the one I was most interested in was Izzy, or as she was calling herself, Escope. She kept giving Zomboss weird looks whenever he would enter her field of view, which made me think she was going to pounce on him eventually.

I brushed off the feeling quickly, however, and just continued on with the day. But now Majima was still glued to those screens, and I was about to lose it if he kept up with his mind numbing laughter.

"Majima..." Ralph growled, shaking his head. I was snapped out of flashing back, and hopped off his lap with Vanellope in tow as he began to stand, Maria, Manolo and Jenny already grumpily stomping up to him.

"Majima, you better have a good excuse for you laughing like a hyena", Jenny threatened, "Otherwise you're in for a world of hurt."

The one-eyed yakuza just gave of a light-hearted scoff, spinning around in the office chair to face the others, who were all angrily glaring at him with their tired eyes.

"Well, sunshine", Majima said in a mock tone, "Since you so nicely asked, I'm watching our undead egghead trip over his own two feet." He let out a chuckle. "And boy, it's happening a lot."

"Oh, is that my name now?" Zomboss voice said through the speakers. The group of four all looked at the centre screen, and was met with a fierce scowl from the Zombie Overlord. Majima looked down and realised he had his hand on the microphone button.

"Shit..." Majima cursed.

"'Shit' is right, you one-eyed ignorant insect", Zomboss quietly spat, "If I wasn't doing this sociopath's dirty work I'd scream."

Majima just scoffed, only to be lifted out of the chair by the teenage robot. Maria quickly took his place.

"What the heck is Chris making you do?" She asked, pressing a finger on the microphone's stand. Majima was silently cursing up a storm as this happened, still held airborne like a cat.

Me and Vanellope just watched the whole ordeal from afar, eventually joined by a still very tired Gladius, Star, Marco, Hilda and Twig. Steve walked past all of us to join up with Ralph, who had finally made his way to the screens. I shot a glance over to my right, and made eye contact with Galacta Knight. He had his wings wrapped around him, a sleeping Maple resting on his head, his magenta eyes giving a dim glow. He looked at me and made a slight shrug, a motion I returned before focusing on the group crowded around the screens again.

"Look, Zomboss, I get you have a disguise to keep up", Ralph said in a scratchy voice, "But can't you wait till we're all at least up?"

"Wish I could, but Chris is a fickle man", Zomboss growled, "Oh, how I wish he was in my world. His brain would be too rotten, even for Zombies, but the thrill of hearing his terror filled screams would be so luxurious..." His eyes began to simply drift to the sky, which made us all share uncomfortable looks. Alfur, who was visible on his shoulder, cleared his throat, snapping the Zombie out of his trance