(It is nighttime in Nowhere. A silver car speeds down the road, driven by a pair of literal cat burglars. The feline thieves' car is being followed by a police helicopter.)
Grave Robber 1: Faster! Drive faster! (shakes the driver) If they catch us with it, we are done for!
(Grave Robber 2 slaps away his partner's hand and slams on the brakes. The car screeches to a halt near a wooden water pump on the Bagge Farm.)
Grave Robber 1: What are you doing?!
(The robbers exit the car and open the trunk. The object inside glows.)
Grave Robber 2: You're right. We've got to hide the thing where we can find it later. There! (points to the pump) The water pump.
(The police chopper is closing in. Its searchlight sweeps back and forth across the road, seeking the thieves. The thieves bury their loot: a large stone slab, yellow with age. As they fill the hole in, the chopper draws closer still. The thieves hurry back to their getaway vehicle.)
Grave Robber 2: We'll come back for it when the heats off.
Grave Robber 1: (buckling his seat belt) And we'll be rich!
Grave Robber 2: (looking down the road) Hey! What happened to the road?
(An ominous fog has suddenly rolled in. The thieves' car is approached by a person. We can't see this person, but we can see their shadow on the hood of the car. The thieves look shocked.)
King Ramses: Return the slab or suffer my curse.
Grave Robber 1: Curse?
Grave Robber 2: What curse?
(A buzzing noise is heard as a massive black cloud approaches them. It is a swarm of locusts. The thieves scream as the locusts cover their car. The sounds of buzzing and metal grinding are heard as the camera pans over to show the Bagge Farmhouse. After a few seconds the sounds stop, and the camera pans back over to the road. The locusts are gone, and they have consumed the thieves and their car. Only tire skid marks remain on the street as the police chopper passes by, still searching for the grave robbers. At the farm, Courage is looking out the window.)
Courage: What's going on out there?
(The next day, Courage digs up is outside. He is next to the water pump, standing on the recently disturbed dirt. He starts digging and unearths the stone slab. On the front of the slab are 4 images: King Ramses, water waves, a phonograph, and a locust.)
Courage: Huh?
(Inside the house, Muriel and Eustace are relaxing in their chairs while Kylie brushes one of her plushies, Eustace reads his newspaper. There is a knock at the door and Muriel gets up to answer. She opens the door and it's Courage. He is carrying the slab in his mouth.)
Muriel: Why, what's this now? (She takes the slab from Courage's mouth) Oh, my. This looks very old. Eustace!
Eustace: Heh?
Muriel: Come look what Courage found. (brushes some dust away from the slab)
Kylie: Wow! I didn't think Courage would find something like that! (She looks at the slab)
Muriel: What do you suppose it could be? (presents the slab to Kylie and Eustace)
Kylie: Looks like a big flat rock with some pictures on it, I think a kid in the old boarding house called them Hieroglyphs.
Eustace: (grabs the slab and inspects it) Well, judging by the markings and the obvious age of the relic, I'd have to say it would be... garbage! (throws the slab out the open window)
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The New Adventures of Courage the Cowardly Dog
FanfictionThis is basically like a revival/remake version of Courage the Cowardly Dog, with some new added characters similar to Blue's Clues and You. Also I apologize if some stuff like character introductions etc seem out of order but I fix those later on a...
