BY SOLO
EPISODE 11
Written by Solo
* Four heroes -
(Well, Tim had already been separated from our trio.)
* Three tunnels
* A choice - A
decision made
* Each hero was
now alone...alone down a dark corridor. Three boys
from the future and a girl from
the present.
* Their prize -
A time machine that seems as illusive as a size 10
waistline.
* Who shall we
follow first...
- The tall, vain one?
- The short, aggressive one?
- The guitarist?
- Or Solo?
{Reader vote - Tim
8, Paul 22, Solo 14, Richard 2. Richard has it.
Well I never said which way
I was counting! <G>}
We join Richard,
who chose the right corridor...No not the right
corridor but the right hand
corridor. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!
Anyway we find
him huddled against the wall.
"I'm not scared,
I'm not scared." he muttered over and over again.
Suddenly a flash of white caught
his eye.
"Smuffy?" he whispered...no
it couldn't be - Smuffy was dead. Tim
cooked him for dinner one night.
The flash of white caught his eye
again. "Smuffy?
Smuffy?" Quickly Richard stood up and followed the
small white shape down the dark
rock-lined corridor.
*****
"This man is eighteen
years old.... So we can't show you his - brains
(well, he does have brains it's
just that at that age they are situated
in his...)"
Tim walked along
a corridor not dissimilar to the ones Paul, Solo and
Richard were wandering up at
this very moment. He too, was searching
for the time machine.
"This man is Christopher
Skase...So we can't his - passport. Hmmmm
that was a good one. This
man is Christopher Skase...So we can't show
you his - medical certificate."
Tim paused, chuckled
to himself and walked on. "This man is the
President of the United States...So
we can't show you his - monogamy."
Tim wandered further
up the corridor. Suddenly something caught his
eye. It was a very good-looking
man. After a few minutes he realised
he was looking into a mirror.
The corridor around him suddenly lit up.
The corridor was lined with
mirrors... "Yes!"
*****
"Pretty ballerina,
Pretty ballerina." Paul sang as he skipped up the
long corridor. He stopped
as he came upon a large roadsign.
It read 'No Skipping
for 20 Meters'
Paul stared in
horror at the sign. He then stepped around it and
skipped on... A few meters later
he stopped again. In front of him was
a dead end. There appeared
to be no way through.
Huh? Paul thought,
then he turned to the left. There was what
appeared to be a black cylinder
poking out of the wall. It looked for
all the world like the nose
of a camera.
A camera?
Suddenly, a spotlight
glared down on him from somewhere above. He
looked down and discovered that
he was standing in the middle of a very
big, yellow spot.
Something about
this very big, yellow spot felt familiar somehow.
Suddenly the wall
in front of him faded and he found himself standing
before a large, mostly female
audience. Glancing behind, he realised
that the other wall had also
disappeared and now three desks were
positioned behind him.
Next to the camera,
was a large-print teleprompter. Paul stared
down the lens of the camera
and grinned cheekily. His eyes twinkled.
In his hands was a pile of newspaper
clippings.
The crowd roared
and Paul found himself starting to speak.
*****
Solo wandered up
the corridor. She had been walking for only five
minutes when she came to a large
solid wood door. There were no door
handles. Solo shrugged
and knocked loudly on the door.
A small flap at
her feet swung open and Flacco stuck his balding head
out.
"Yip! Oh,
it's about time you got here.... I've been waiting for
AGES! I just got upto
twenty-one years of AGE when you knocked."
The flap swung
closed and a few seconds later, the large door split
down the middle and then slowly
swung open.
Solo entered the
small room beyond.
Against one wall
was a small computer screen, below it were three
largish CD-Rom drives.
In front of the screen was a coloured keyboard.
Next to the keyboard was a large
BLUE button. A large digital clock sat
beside the screen.
A sign above the
computer screen read 'Time Machine - DO NOT TOUCH'
Well, Solo has found
the Time machine...But
Can she fix it?
Will Richard find
the Smuffy look alike?
Will Tim ever leave
the corridor of Mirrors?
Will Paul stay
with the GNW audience or will
He throw it all in to help Solo?
And why didn't
Flacco take Solo to where the
Time Machine was in the first place
And save the rest of us from 8
episodes that have gotten us
absolutely nowhere???
STAY TUNED...