The source of the craziness!

[itsjustthebots]

[Guess who’s onscreen now! It’s Crow, looking mighty pleased with himself.]

Hey, everybody! Sure is good to be back in our own universe, isn’t it? Gosh, evil me was such a jerk! Not like the real me!

But there was one thing I remembered that evil me did back in the universe of evil...and I went to check it out in this universe, and whaddaya know, it was in the exact same place!

[Crow holds up something...it’s the Twin-Screw Universal Controller!]

Turns out, this thing was in the back of my closet the entire time! Crazy, huh? I bet if we messed with these little switch things, something neat might happen.

--[All of a sudden, the screen goes staticy. After a moment of fuzz and white noise, a new figure appears on the screen...it’s Joel again! He looks like he’s in the cockpit of some very handmade-looking ship.]

Hey everyone, it’s Joel again! Good to see you back and all. After that blast disabled all my systems and you guys vanished, I had to fly back down to Earth and get started on some major repairs. Now I did a little fenangling with Gizmonic while you were gone, so you shouldn’t have an issue with him trying to blow you or me out of orbit anymore. But these repairs took a real long time and I just don’t have the power to get up there that super quicklike.

But I just wanted to let you know: don’t touch that Twin-Screw Universal Controller! The controller’s malfunctioning, and that’s why it’s been bringing all of you people in and causing all that weird stuff to happen in the first place. I’m gonna try my best to get up there and fix it so you can all go on your way. But until then, just hang tight! Or hang loose. Whichever’s easier for you to do.

[The feed cuts out, and static returns to the screen. After another moment of fuzz and noise, Crow comes back on screen.]--

--Oh cool, Joel’s comin’ back! So anyway! You guys think I should pull the right switch first or the left one?

Comments

[thirteenth_brat]

You've got to be kidding me. He just got done telling us not to play with that thing.

[itsjustthebots]

Ohhh come on, I'm sure it'll work out all right! Maybe it'll zap Joel right to us!

[thirteenth_brat]

Do you have any idea what the odds of that are?

[itsjustthebots]

Nnnnnnope, not a clue!

[thirteenth_brat]

Then why are you playing with that?

[itsjustthebots]

'Cause the odds are probably pretty good!

[thirteenth_brat]

Out of how many thousands of possibilities, you think we have a good chance of getting the one thing we need? What is wrong with you?

[itsjustthebots]

Well, with all the bad luck we've had so far, something good's bound to come up soon enough!

[thirteenth_brat]

Crow, I will end you if you throw that switch.

[itsjustthebots]

Too late! Already did it.

[sailorlaughter]

The right! Nono, wait, the left! No -

Can you pull both of them?

[itsjustthebots]

I SURE CAN!

[sailorlaughter]

DO IT!!!

[itsjustthebots]

OKAY! HERE I GO!

[And he does!]

[sailorlaughter]

BOLDBIG AWESOME WHAT DID IT unbigunbold oh wait! I think I know what it did!

[itsjustthebots]

Did it make you start speaking in some weird pig-latin? Or pony-latin, I guess>

[sailorlaughter]

I dunno! It's not doing it now!

[itsjustthebots]

Well, it kiiinda happened when you started yelling...try yelling again!

[sailorlaughter]

Huh...BOLD OKAY WOW IT WORKED UNBOLD! That's italics weeeeeeeeird unitalics!

[itsjustthebots]

So yelling things make you add extra words! BOLD NOW I'M GONNA DO IT ALL THE TIME! Unbold! Wow that's italicsbold SUPER COOL unitalics unbold!

[halfdarkened]

Crow, did you even listen to what Joel said?

[itsjustthebots]

Yeah! He's comin' up here in his little ship!

That was the important part, right?

[halfdarkened]

And NOT to touch the controller.

I just spent the last, what, week and a half as a horrible human being, and you did too. ...Well, a bot at least. That thing could cause a lot of trouble.

[itsjustthebots]

Yeah, yeah, that guy was pretty lame. But maybe if I use this switch it'll give Joel a big rocket booster or something!

[halfdarkened]

Or it could knock out his engines entirely, you know.

[itsjustthebots]

Won't know until I try, right?

[halfdarkened]

Won't know until we die, right?

[itsjustthebots]

Well when you put it that way, you make it sound not fun at all!

[halfdarkened]

Good. It may not be.