The Alligator Smugglers' Adventures with Moneymakers and Green Elephant

TRAPPED!

The alligator smugglers are two alligators named Pete and Sam. They love to steal blue alligators. Right now they are thinking about going into space and stealing another one. They are taking a vote on it. Sam votes 1 and Pete votes 1 so they must be going. But guess what? They don't have to go into space the hard way as they did before. They can take their time machine! And that's what they are going to do.

"Let's go to QB," suggested Sam. "I think we found lots of blue alligators there before." So they pressed a lot of buttons and found themselves on planet QB! So they got out of the time machine and they....

"Wait a minute!" said Pete. "This doesn't look like QB."

"So it doesn't!" exclaimed Sam. "Oh, well, we'll explore it and see if they have any blue alligators in stock."

Pete and Sam walked a little ways and saw something way off in the distance. No, it wasn't a tree. It was just a little black dot. Pete and Sam hurried toward it. Little did they know they were plunging into the worst adventure of their lives!
Green Elephant laughed smugly to himself. "Heh heh, alligator smugglers, I've got you now! I have a sure scheme here, and it couldn't work better! Heh heh heh!"
Moneymakers laughed smugly to himself. "Green Elephant may be smart, but I'm even smarter. I've whipped up a film that will shine on the side of Green Elephant's house! They'll see it, think it's a blue alligator, and head right toward it. Little do they know that I'll be there with my knife! Good job, Moneymakers, you finally got them good!"
Of course we know that Moneymakers' scheme will be better, because he is indeed the smarter of the two fiends. However, the alligator smugglers are more clever than we may think. They see the film of the alligator, but they don't smell any alligator, they smell a rat. So they get out their squirt guns and advance toward the trap. Stealthily they sneak up on the alligator and then POUNCE! They pounce upon the supposed blue alligator. Instead they hit Green Elephant's house and knock themselves unconscious!
Later, the alligator smugglers awake to see Moneymakers leering down at them. They also see, behind Moneymakers, a room with stone walls, ceiling, and floor. The only way to get out of the room would be through the steel door in one corner, and anyway I don't think the alligators have any plans of escaping yet. In fact, they still feel quite groggy from the bump on the side of the house.

Now back to Moneymakers. As I said, he was leering down at the smugglers. He looked mad, very mad. "I have waited a long time for this moment," he said between clenched teeth. "At first all I wanted you for was to be my slaves and help me with my vehicles. But now it's different. Now I want you to help me with my housework!"

Pete and Sam said they would not like to do that.

"Oh?" questioned Moneymakers. "Then would you like this down your throats?" He pointed to some spaghetti soup, which alligator smugglers do not like. "I'm dishing you up some."

Suddenly there came a knock on the door.

ARGUING AND ESCAPING

Moneymakers opened the door and saw Green Elephant. "Would you like a V-2 Bomber, sir?" Moneymakers asked in his business-like voice, because he is the manager of a vehicle outfit. "Or would a Yamaha YZ suit you?"

"Stop jabbering and listen!" ordered Green Elephant. "What I came to tell you is, those alligators hit my house when you got 'em, so I think I should either get half the profit for their capture or you pay for the hole bashed in my house."

"Let's sit over here at this table and talk this over," suggested Moneymakers. "Now you're saying, etc. etc. etc."

"Etc. etc. etc."

"ETC.* ETC.!" (* getting angry)

"ETC. ETC**!" (** losing temper)

"Let's get out of here," whispered Pete to Sam. "I don't really like this sort of anguing."

So while Green Elephant and Moneymakers continued arguing about what to do with the smugglers

(ETC***!)

(*** undefinable) the issue about which they were arguing escaped!

Well, not quite escaped. Moneymakers' room was only one of thousands of other rooms and passageways which held other mean, crafty creatures. The smugglers passed rooms that had signs like "Davey Jones will get your bones" or "If you dare to go into this lair, beware" and many others. In a lot of the rooms there were silhouettes of people and creatures, and they looked mean. "Boy, am I gald all these guys aren't our enemies," said Sam.

The alligators will still trying to find a way out, though! And from the look of things it was going to be difficult.
Meanwhile the arguing fiends had just discovered that their captives had escaped! "After them, quick!" yelled Green Elephant, and he got his net. Moneymakers got his knives.

The alligator smugglers raced up one passageway and down another. They had to get out quickly or they would be found! (Little did they know that the crafty creatures had an emergency phone line rigged up, and Moneymakers was calling everyone to be on the alert for two pink alligators. If someone saw them they would call Moneymakers and tell him. Then Moneymakers would notify Green Elephant ona walkie-talkie.) This procedure was just now starting when Davey Jones contacted Moneymakers and reported that two alligators were running past room 503 on hall 662C!

DON'T LET THOSE ALLIGATORS GET AWAY!

Moneymakers quickly contacted Green Elephant to be patrolling that area, but before long he received another call that said they were running by room 403 on hall 592B! Moneymakers sent Green Elephant to patrol that area. Before long there were more calls and more calls, and Green Elephant was getting closer and closer.

Suddenly Pete and Sam spied an empty room. "Quick! In here!" whispered Sam to Pete. They had barely entered when Green Elephant came rushing by with his net.

"Whew! That was a close shave!" said Pete.

"Wait!" exclaimed Sam. "With no one knowing where we are, no one will call in, so everyone will get suspicious."

"I guess we better stop the suspicions," said Pete, picking up the phone with a big smile on his face.

When Moneymakers picked up the phone a minute later, he became strangely suspicious. "It seems I've heard that voice a lot lately," he thought. "And there is no such hall as 18,276Y. I guess I better go over and investigate."

"What room are you in?" he asked.

"Boy, MOneymakers, I don't know," said Pete. "We just got here, and--"

"That does it!" roared Moneymakers, hanging up the phone. "Who would be stupid enough to say that? The alligator smugglers, of course! And who was gone today? Crime Whiz Sheriff, that's who! I'm going over to that room and investigating!"

Meanwhile, Sam was very fed up with Pete because of what he had said. They had to escape. They scurried around looking for a place to hide, when Pete suddenly fell down through the floor! Sam went over to where Pete had been and looked for him. He thought Pete had found a very good hiding place. Then he, too, fell through the floor! He found out that he was wet. He and Pete also found out that they were in a slow moving river of candle was! They grabbed an inner tube floating downstream and enjoyed themselves. But they couldn't enjoy themselves for long because the river was headed underground! They climbed up on some rocks just before they would have been sucked beneath them and drowned. Then they went through a series of underground caverns and caves before they finally reached open air again. They found they were looking at the same scene they had been looking at in the first chapter--a black dot, a fake blue alligator, and Green Elephant's house.

THE BLACK HOLE

"You know," said Sam, "we never did get to see what that black thing was." So they started off toward it. As they got nearer they seemed to be going faster....and faster....until finally they were just being blown through the air! And the black thing got bigger....and bigger....until it looked just like a huge hole! Pretty soon they were going so fast their scales almost came off! And then it got black--real black. They couldn't see a single thing, and they were sure they were going to bump into something. Then visions of their lives began to appear, and it was as if their lives were on a huge tape and the tape was unraveling. Pete and Sam finally realized what they were in: a black hole! So this was Green Elephant's trick!

They met Crime Whiz Sheriff in the black hole, and he didn't seem worried about the circumstances a bit. He gave them a few tips bout crime, but they said no thank you, we already know enough about the stuff we like to steal. The sheriff said oh? And what do you steal? And the alligator smugglers said blue alligators. The sheriff said, "I heard Green Elephant had a couple in his storage shed."

The alligator smugglers immediately tried to get back up the black hole, which was a rather tricky job as they had to fight the 2,820 miles per hour wind with nothing to hang onto that was going the opposite direction they were. In fact, I would pretty much clarify it as impossible. Anyway it didn't matter because the sheriff said, "Why are you trying to get back up?"

"So se can get the blue alligators in Green Elephant's storage shed," explained Sam.

"I think your alligators are already here," said the sheriff, and he pointed to a storage shed puffing down towards them in the black hole.

"YIPPEE!" The alligator smugglers practically tore open the shed to get the blue alligators. When they found them they asked them if they wanted to do their housework. One was mean and said no but the other one agreed without a squabble. It was a very happy moment for the alligator smugglers.

When the alligator smugglers and their new pet got back to the alligator smugglers' hideout, they found out that their time machine was also back at the hideout, and when they read the news, they found out that the place with all the crafty creatures had been swept into the black hole, and only Moneymakers, Green Elephant, and Crime Whiz Sheriff had survived. They were also very glad to see that now they had three blue alligators to do their housework.

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