Pilot Hugh & Co.

Chapter 5: Nightrider

Suddenly, the plane transformed into a rocket!

"MELVYN WHAT DID YOU DO???" Hugh asked, exasperated.

"HUGH I DO NOT KNOW!!!" Melvyn screamed back.

"DID YOU ACCIDENTALLY HIT SOME BUTTON OR SOMETHING MATE???"

"UHHH I COULD HAVE SWORN I PUSHED ONE WITH THE SIDE OF MY RIGHT LEG WHEN I JUMPED INTO THE COCKPIT!!!"

"GREAT!!! JUST GREAT!!!" Hugh barked.

"IT WAS AN ACCIDENT. *huff* AN ACCIDEEEEEEENT!!!"

"WELL I DON'T CARE!!!" Hugh yelled back, incredibly furious.

"PLEASE!!! I DIDN'T DO ANYTHING WRONG!!!" Melvyn pleaded.

Hugh ignored Melvyn's cries and tried searching for the button that was pushed.

"Oh no!!! I see now! This button, near the bottom of the cockpit on the right, was pushed! Look! It's glowing purple! It used to be gray since there was no light, because when I got into the cockpit for the first time, I did notice it! It wasn't in a group of buttons like all the others—it was all by itself! And now I know why!!! Because it turns the plane into a rocket when pushed...?" Hugh said, his sentences running together because he was so scared and confused.

"WHAT??? I AM AFRAID THAT I CANNOT UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU'RE SAYING HUUUUGH!!!" Melvyn cried, not understanding his wavering dialogue well because it sounded almost incoherent.

"I SAID: THIS BUTTON BY ITSELF IS GLOWING PURPLE BECAUSE YOU PUSHED IT!!! IT WAS ORIGINALLY GRAY WHEN TURNED OFF AND IT WAS NOT GROUPED WITH ALL THE OTHER BUTTONS IN FRONT OF THE COCKPIT!!! AND THEREFORE IT TURNED THE PLANE INTO A ROCKET!!!" Hugh hollered.

"OHHH... SHOW ME IT!!!"

"GLADLY!!!"

Hugh took Melvyn and smushed his face against the button.

"Oh... it says: 'warning: this is a rocket converter. Do not press unless it is an extreme emergency should one absolutely need to go to space'," Melvyn said, repeating the words above the button.

"Oh no! We're doomed!" Hugh cried, putting his face in his hands.

Melvyn got up and put his hand on the younger cellists's shoulder.

"Hey Hugh—it's okay, I'm sure we'll figure out something..." Melvyn said. Hugh raised his head up.

"You've got to be kidding me... you can't reverse this... because it's for emergencies only..." Hugh replied, almost in tears.

"Oh..." Melvyn replied, suddenly realizing the implications of all of this.

"Oh no... OH NO!!! OHHHHH NOOOOO!!!" Melvyn cried in devastation.

Off screen, as if it was a movie, the Electric Light Orchestra song Nightrider began to play, but the characters didn't notice as it was outside of their consciousness's.

Meanwhile, Shrek, Mik, Farquaad, Monsieur Hood, and the merry men stopped wrestling and got up.

"Wait... what's going on... I thought we were in a plane... and now we're in a rocket?!?!!!?" Shrek asked, disoriented.

"I... I guess so..." Mik replied, shocked and scared.

"No matter! We can still fight you all!" Hood cried, still angry and wanting to fight them.

"Look over there! Those two got their instruments back! We have to stop them! So get out of our way!" cried Farquaad.

"NEVER!!!" Shrek yelled.