VeggieTales: A New Beginning In A New Era

Chapter 4: Shipbuilding

Stephanie continued sketching out what type of ship she is going to make, using the first finger of her finger after it had transformed into a pencil.

But no matter how many times Stephanie sketched out any ideas for a ship, she gets stuck with each one on the lack of wood or metal to complete it.

To add, she does not know how long it is going to take either.

A groan came to Stephanie as she rubbed her forehead, still trying to think of another idea as the blueprint had some drawings of the halfway drawn ship.

Even though Stephanie is using half of her metal brain to help her with this shipbuilding, it was not calculating the right things or tools for it.

Ever since Stephanie had snapped at the townspeople for refusing to help her on her adventure, Stephanie decided to do everything by herself without their help.

Instead, Stephanie ironically got stuck in an artist's block with what to do next.

Before Stephanie could move onto Plan B, someone appeared next to her, wearing that identical hat.

Glancing over to those who came up to her side, Stephanie noticed it was Junior.

But by his side is a carrot with blonde hair that is braided in two pigtails and has freckles.

Also by her side is a green scallion with brown hair, a pink nose, and wears a pair of glasses along with a shirt and pants.

A small pea with freckles was next to her side, staring up at Stephanie with awe.

"What is it, Junior?" Stephanie asked, turning her body towards him and kneeling at the little girls, and the pea flinched as Stephanie moved down towards Junior.

They hopped away from him slightly, as the carrot hid behind Junior out of fear of her.

"Nothing," Junior sighed. "I came here to apologize for what the townspeople are doing. We are scared of Robert and were just mice compared to him."

Stephanie sighed to herself and glanced to the side, feeling slightly ashamed of roasting them for being cowards.

"But," Junior added, causing Stephanie to glance back at him. "I am surprised you got the guts to stand up to an entire town's worth of people to get them out of their shells."

A soft smile appeared on Stephanie's face, and a soft neon pink blush appeared on her cheeks.

"Thank you, Junior." Stephanie thanked before glancing over at the blank blueprint. "Random question; do you know anything about building ships?"

Junior's smile fell after Stephanie asked as she looked concerned about the expression change on his face.

"Not really," Junior denied as he shook his head no. "I only know how to make model ships from my dad."

"And," added the little girl, looking a little shy in front of her, still hiding from Stephanie. "I know nothing about it, either."

The other two nodded in agreement, glancing at each other before back over at Stephanie.

Stephanie gently facepalmed to herself, smacking her forehead with her metal hand, feeling like a sitting duck now that she does not have anyone helping besides Junior.

A sheepish blush appeared on Junior's cheeks as he glanced away from Stephanie, which was not red, but a deep green color.

It was unusual for that color of blush, but Stephanie did not mind it since her blush is in neon pink.

Then Junior noticed something in the distance from behind Stephanie's back.

"Stephanie!" He 'grabbed' Stephanie's sleeve of her sweater and gently 'tugged' on it, snapping Stephanie out of facepalming herself and looking at him. "Look!"