DADDY: Don't you want to watch the Bills game with me?
M: I do not. Can we finish my story?
D: I think the world is ready for that, yes.
[Daddy's note: the first part of Maeve's epic yarn is here.]
M: okay, here's what happens next...
TIME TRAVELING SISTER AND BROTHER (Concluded)
by Maeve Garvey
The bad guys were named Boovi, Noovi and Shoovi. They all have different powers. Boovi had the power to make it rain. Noovi could pull your pants down without you seeing so you’d get embarrassed and run away. Shoovi could make the Bills lose if you’re being really really really really mean to him.
And they stole all of the time machines and destroyed them.
And one day a grown up boy stepped up to the three bad guys. But Magenta and Mike did not know who the grown up boy was. So they almost went down to ask. But they were too scared to go ask the grown up boy who he was. They just didn’t want to get fighting too by those three big bullies.
This guy looked like a farmer. And he had a horse. And then they realized cowboys look like farmers kinda! And since they realized that, they just started laughing and laughing with their eyes closed.
When they stopped laughing, nobody was there anymore. Not the cowboy or the three bad guys, Boovi, Noovi and Shoovi. And they didn’t even know what the cowboy’s name was!
M: Daddy, where do cowboys live? Like what do they live in?
D: Um, usually they sleep outside. With the cows.
M: If they go and stay somewhere, where is that?
D: A ranch, I guess?
M: Right.
So they went outside to see where the cowboy went. But they still could not find him. Then they remembered cowboys like to stay at ranches so they ran to one of the ranches nearby their house and there was the cowboy!
Mike and Magenta walked up to the cowboy and asked, “What’s your name?”
They did not know what his name was because they didn’t even ask before. And the cowboy responded, “My name is Dino, y’all!” And that was his name.
D: "Dino"? Why Dino?
M: Because I like it, Daddy.
The cowboy responded again. “Yes, y’all. But they’re not dead. They just ran away. I was going to chase them, but they scared my horse and my horse ran away and I need to find him.”
Now Dino didn’t know where Boovi, Noovi and Shoovi were. But Zoonth can fly so she can fly over the land and find them.
And then Dino asked, “Are y’all a cowboy?”
Mike and Magenta responded, “No.”
And Dino said, “Well, ya’ll don’t look like one anyway. What are you then?”
Magenta responded, “I’m a nurse and my brother, Mike, is a lawyer.”
Then Dino said, “What is a lawyer? I know what is a nurse, but I don’t know about lawyers.”
“Well, lawyers are people who help people who need help,” said Mike.
And then Magenta said, “Well, bye, we have to go back to our home, I mean house.”
M: [Looking over my shoulder.] No, dad, I said "back to our home, I mean house" but you just wrote "back to our house". You need to fix it.
D: Oh, I thought you were just correcting yourself.
M: No, it was Magenta correcting herself.
“And I’ll give you a gem that I find on the moon. Well, I’m not going to give you a gem right away because I have to show my boss, then I get to take it home and THEN I’ll give it to you. My lawyer buddies are going to the moon with me. They’re coming over to my house and they’ll go back in time and we’ll all go to the moon together.
M: Daddy, when is this going to be done?
D: Are you getting tired of it?
M: I want to do something else. But I want to finish it.
D: I'm not an expert or anything, but I'm pretty sure every writer ever has said exactly that at least once.
D: Lawyers love wearing suitings.
M: No, I mean like astronauts, not like lawyers.
And they finally found Zoonth.And when they got back to Earth (still back in time) Zoonth looked all over and found Shoovi, Boovi and Noovi AND THEY WERE KIDS because they were back in time! So Zoonth brought them to their home and told their mother “Mike and Magenta came back in time and to the moon and they told me I should fly over your land and find these boys. Because they came back in time, Boovi, Shoovi and Noovi are grown-ups where they came from and THEY’RE BAD GUYS APPARENTLY.”
So their mother said to her children “Never be bad guys because if you’re bad guys you can be killed or put in jail.”
And the kids said, “Yes, mom.”
And then Zoonth said, “I have to go back to the moon now. Bye and thank you for cooperating.”
Then Zoonth went back to the moon. But before Zoonth went to the moon, she told Mike and Magenta that Boovi, Noovi and Shoovi would never be bad guys again.
Mike and Magenta and the lawyer buddies went back to the time machine. Mike had the gem he got from the moon. When they got back to their time, Mike ran to his office and showed his lawyer boss and his lawyer buddies. They needed the gem for a case they were working on.
When he was running back home from work, he saw Boovi, Noovi and Shoovi and said “Are you guys bad guys now?”
Boovi, Noovi and Shoovi said, “No! Our mother told us not to when we were just kids! So we’re good guys not bad guys! Anyway, we have a job like you. Now we make books!”
When Mike got home, he gave the gem to his sister and everyone was happy again. Everyone had time machines again because Boovi, Noovi and Shoovi never stoled them.
And Dino had his horse. And Dino was very happy.
And everyone lived happily ever after.
The end.
D: Maeve, I absolutely love this.
M: I love you.
D: I love you too.
M: I love you.
D: I love you too.
