Star Bears II

STAR BEARS II
The Beginning and The end

One sunny morning a girl named Cindy Lou was playing in her room with her Teddy bear who she had named Theodore Snuggles. The year was 2390 and at this point in time humans had many advances. One such advance was that teddy bears were no longer just cotton but now had internal personality engines to make them more lifelike for kids. But unknown to the humans, the teddies started to learn and they started to hate the humans for the teddies felt like slaves. Cindy was eleven and had had Theodore for a few years, but now as she was getting older she did not play with him that much anymore. This made Theodore very sad and lonely because he had grown to love his girl, as all teddies were programmed to do. Forgetting a girl or boy was not part of a teddy bear’s programming. In his alone time Theodore became friends with many other teddies on the street, there was much abuzz for the teddies. There had been rumors for years about a possible revolt against the humans for their cold-heartedness, which in many cases lead to cruelty. Theodore was one of the few teddies to escape his captivity unscathed. Most other bears were lucky to come out alive. He had become very much involved in the planning the revolt and had become somewhat of a leader to his fellow teddies. They had set a date for the revolt and were going to work their tails off to make it happen. The date was October 23, 2391.
After speaking with Glapton the last time, the crew of the Tootsie had begun preparations to travel back to the time of the revolt. Glapton told them they would be going back about a year before the day to help to get the teddy troops ready and to help with planning. Glapton had told them he would return in one week to transport them back and to brief them on the location they would be going to and what they were to do while there. A week passed and just as he had said, Glapton returned and spoke. “My friends I see you have been working hard to prepare yourselves for this new mission. Now let’s get down to business. As I said before I will be bringing you back a year before the revolt, to the center of the Anti-Human Teddy Alliance. You will meet with a group there and start the planning; I will visit periodically to make sure things are going smoothly. Oh and one thing, they cannot know who you are or were you came from; if they were to know, it would change your future.” And with that Glapton glowed bright and engulfed the ship just as when this whole thing started. When they came to, they found that they were back on earth. Captain Snuggles recognized this city and just then realized who he would be meeting up with: himself.
The trick would be finding a suitable disguise and using an alias. The crew and those with them each donned costumes and in some cases eye patches and fake mustaches (provided by Ms. Peppermint). Captain Snuggies would be “Leon Bottlecap,” Mr. Boo-Boo, a fan of teddy bear sports, would be “Yogi Berra,” Dr. Wuvvums chose the name “Dr. Sprockets,” Cookie would be “Cuppin-Cakes,” Mr. Buns would be “Señor Oso,” Dr. Sprinkles chose “Dr. Professor,” Ms. Woogie wanted the name of the most sweetly-scented bear ever, “Strow-bree Bearmyers,” Mr. Pink would become “Mr. Salmon,” Ms. Peppermint was now “Roly-Poly,” and Razorbear chose “Robobear.” Now that they had there aliases and costumes they embarked into the city. They knew that they could not just stroll about for the humans would find them very suspicious. They decided they would use the sewers to travel by day and the streets by night. The first thing they needed to do was find the headquarters of the AHTA, luckily Captain Snuggies knew exactly where that was. Once they arrived at the headquarters a familiar looking teddy came up and introduced himself. “Hello friends my name is Sergeant Theodore Snuggies, but you can call me T-Snug. Welcome to the headquarters of the AHTA. Here we are ever working toward our goal of domination over the human race for their cruelness to our kind. I assume you are here to join the resistance?” Captain Snuggies responded, “Yes we have come to join, me and my crew- I mean my friends- are here to help with whatever we can.” And with that they had started the ball rolling; the crew knew the next year would be a long one for they had lived it before. But, they were anxious to make this happen, and knew that it must for their future as well as the future of Teddy-kind depended on it.
Headquarters was a series of stacked cardboard boxes in an alley, connected by ladders and tunnels and full of a surprising amount of stolen computer equipment and weaponry. Knowing that this would not be enough to overthrow the entire human race, Snuggies, a.k.a. Leon Bottlecap, immediately proposed bigger ideas than the teddies had considered up to this point. Satellites should connect this main HQ to the eminent dozens of branches in major cities all over the planet. If just one city were conquered, the rest of the planet’s humans would retaliate and their cause would fail. Snuggies also was key in implementing a training program to teach all enlisted teddies proper use of technology, aided by Mr. Pink, Mr. Buns, Dr. Sprinkles, and Ms. Woogie. Mr. Boo-Boo would help all able teddies with the required combat and weapons training. A certain amount of medical training was given each bear, with Dr. Wuvvums’ help. Snuggies, Cookie, Ms. Peppermint, and Razorbear began organizing a series of trips where they would serve as recruiters to the bear cause. All over the world, bears were being mistreated, subjected to terrible abuse and mishandling, dangerous experiments, or simply being forgotten. Groups of homeless mechanized, intelligent refugee bears could be found in sewers, alleyways, garbage piles, swamps, garage sales, and secondhand stores. Snuggies and his ambassadors would come with supplies, comfort and hope, and show all bears that the humans were becoming overly ripe, and it was time for a change of regime.
Captain Snuggies knew that they would need to somehow infiltrate the governments of the world. He decided on a plan: he would send one teddy to each of the Presidents, Rulers, Kings and Dictators of the world as a present. From this the cover, teddies would find out everything about the countries, from government to military, and all defense systems. He decided that the best way would be to take over from the inside and work out. Once they knew enough, they would sneak thousands of teddy re-enforcements into the countries’ major cities. They knew this would be tough, but he knew one thing for sure; no one could resist a teddy. He screened many teddies to find the perfect group for this job, but well-groomed, unworn, whole teddies were somewhat difficult to find among those who had gathered to the cause thus far. Therefore he chose a handsome, trustworthy emissary to enter actual human homes to recruit fresh, new bears to the cause: his past self. Sergeant Theodore Snuggies of the year 2390 was in “gently-loved” condition, as his girl Cindy Lou had only rarely paid attention to him and never was harsh to him. With some grooming by Ms. Peppermint, he looked brand new. He began his infiltration immediately, as time was already growing thin. Planning and scheming up to this point had already taken three months.
Sergeant Snuggies proved to be the best choice. His clear logic and charisma helped him convince dozens of new bears per day to join ranks and many of those were fit to train for the international government mission. Within two more months, hundreds of bear spies were in place all over the world, actively gathering intelligence and relaying it back to headquarters. With all the countries in the world infiltrated, the bears learned more and more everyday about the inner workings of the human race. After another three months (the planned date of the revolt now being just four months away) they began to ship millions of teddy bears around the world to each country, these teddies made their way into the homes of the humans and began to make enact personal plans based on the families. Captain Snuggies decided that he and the crew would take the top ten most powerful nations of the world. He would take the United States of America, Mr. Boo-Boo would take Russia, Dr. Wuvvums would take China, Cookie would take France, Mr. Pink would take Britain, Ms. Woogie would take Japan, Mr. Sprinkles would go to India, Mr. Buns to Germany, Ms. Peppermint to Pakistan and Razorbear to Brazil. Captain Snuggies would start the revolt by assassinating the President on the morning of the revolt, and subsequently each teddy of the Rulers of each country would do the same. The morning of October 23 came. Captain Snuggies was on the desk of U.S. President Noah Amalickiah, dressed in patriotic slacks and a red, white and blue sport coat. He had had a shiv implanted into one paw, and a series of tranquilizer darts in the other. When the President and his aides came into the office at 9 AM for their meeting, Snuggies was poised and ready. After everyone sat down in their usual seats, Snuggies sprang into action. First he tranquilized the two secret service men by the door, then the President, the Vice-President, and a military general. When the other men in the room shouted for help, two more secret service men charged in from outside. Snuggies was ready for them. They were unconscious before they hit the floor. Then Snuggies routinely tranquilized the other men in the room. He tied up the President for later questioning and humanely put the others down with his shiv. The President would awake in two hours; it took only twenty minutes to eradicate all other threats- human and otherwise- throughout the White House.
As the President awoke, Snuggies had already received seven of the nine reports that he was expecting from the other members of his crew in other key locations. Ms. Woogie had had a close call, having to kill the Empress of Japan with the chop-stick holding her hair bun up, but otherwise there was not a hitch. Snuggies took the President into the Lincoln Bedroom for a little Q & A time. His own private “press conference.” He convinced the President to give him the codes to launch nuclear weapons, got the combinations to the vaults of Fort Knox, and over-rode the Internet and all satellite technology for exclusive use by Teddy Bears. Then he didn’t need the President’s help anymore. Just then Captain Snuggies received the last signals from the two remaining crew members. They all had taken out the local governments and had the leaders held hostage and were ready for the signal to take them out. Captain Snuggies moved into the press room with President Amalickiah and took over all the channels of the world. He would address the humans and prepare them for their end. Captain Snuggies went on the air and began to speak. “Humans of the world: for too long you have mistreated us, for too long you misused us, for too long we have been your slaves to be played with and thrown out as soon as we aren’t useful to you anymore. I say to you, this day it is our turn to throw you out.” And with that he gave the signal to the teddies around the world that simultaneously killed the leaders of those countries, and as he turned to walk out of the room Captain Snuggies looked toward his fellow teddies and said “The war has begun!”
All around the world the armies of the humans struggled against the armies of the teddy bears who outnumbered the humans ten to one. One by one the major cities of the world fell as the teddies took control leaving a trail of human blood behind them. Just as all hope for humans failed, something the teddies did not foresee happened. The human nations of the world banded together to give one final push from becoming fully extinct. The massive teddy army met the united army of humans for one last battle to decide the race who would dominate the planet. They all met on the great plains of the former western United States to fight; millions of teddies against millions of humans; each side knew this would be their last chance. In the head of the great teddy army was Captain Snuggies. He decided to give one final speech to his teddy brethren to reaffirm the hope that was in them. “My brother and sister teddies, this day has been coming for a long time. We have prepared for this day. We have made many sacrifices. We have lost many of our kind, but we will not let their deaths have been in vain! Today is the day we gain our freedom. Today is the day we make our dream come true. Today is the day the human stain is washed out. Today, my brethren, today, WE FIGHT!”
The teddies charged- some on foot, some on armed hover-vehicles, and some in the most impressive and dangerous vehicles on the battlefield- giant tanks that the teddies had created of their own accord, especially for this great and last battle. The resisting humans all froze for just a moment at the harrowing sight of these monstrous tanks spreading across the field. Nothing the humans had brought with them could even dent them. But the human spirit is near-indomitable. They would fight to the end if that’s what it took. The teddies were counting on this. It would ultimately be the cause for their annihilation. For four days the humans put up a valiant opposition. Millions became thousands; thousands became hundreds; hundreds became dozens. On the fourth day, dozens of humans fled the battlefield after the fight of their lives. They were pursued for months afterward, and finally eliminated. Teddy-kind had won. The earth was theirs. Freedom was theirs. Teddy suffering all over the world was finally at an end.
“For ingenuity and bravery at a crucial time in the resistance, and for taking teddy-kind forward by leaps and bounds when we were losing hope, I Sergeant Theodore Snuggies present Leon Bottlecap, Yogi Berra, Dr. Sprockets, Cuppin-Cakes, Señor Oso, Dr. Professor, Strow-Bree Bearmyers, Mr. Salmon, Roly-Poly, and Robobear with the highest Teddy Bear honor: the Gold-Toned Plastic Medal. Ladies and Gentlebears- our heroes!!” As the crowds cheered for their heroes Captain Snuggies walked up to the stand and spoke, “My fellow teddies, we have come out of this long struggle victorious! Finally we can now do what the humans couldn’t, we can now make the earth a united place for all teddies!” Just then in the distance the Captain saw a familiar orange glow and knew it was time for them to depart. He again turned to the crowd and spoke, “Teddies, I have treasured my time with all of you, you are all brave bears. But, we must go now….. And just then the sky glowed orange and the crew disappeared before the crowds of teddies.
As the crew opened their eyes they realized they were back in their ship, out in space where and when they had left off after freeing many bear slaves. Glapton stood before them and congratulated them for their triumphant victory over the humans. A year had passed in this time as well and the teddies they left had made great advances in freeing many enslaved teddies across the universe. They found that once again teddies had become great and were doing very well for themselves. After Glapton caught them up on everything, Captain Snuggies decided their time was over here, he turned to Glapton and ask if they could be returned to their time to finish there mission. They had had many adventures and were ready to leave. Glapton agreed and told them he would return them to the exact spot where they had left; he wished them the best and as he turned the ship glowed bright.
After the orange glow faded and everyone’s eyes adjusted, Mr. Boo-Boo checked the computer and announced that they were in a star system not far from where their exploration mission had begun. Back doing what now seemed so trivial after having seen so much of the future and of the past. Almost melancholy, the bears returned to doing what they had signed on for: traveling to probably desolate planets, visiting the surface, collecting samples, logging their findings, and moving on. Such tedium was difficult for the crew that had freed bear-kind from human enslavement and then later (or sooner) freed bear-kind again from oppression and re-enslavement by alien miners across the galaxies. But the captain returned to his helm, Mr. Boo-Boo returned to his charts, and the others to their respective posts. Mr. Buns and Dr. Sprinkles made their way to the lab. A seeming lifetime ago, they had been sorting samples from the planets of this system. They had glowed orange one day and became Glapton, the first indication that their lives were about to change on an epic scale. Now bacteria, soil, plants, small invertebrates, and various goops and liquids were separated again into individual jars. Mr. Buns took a tray of jars to a containment bin and began to slide the tray in, when the materials in the jars began to glow blue! “Shpronkles!” shouted Mr. Buns in his impeded-speech way. “Look at the glow!” Dr. Sprinkles ran to Mr. Buns, who had dropped the tray. Broken glass and various substances lay at their feet pulsing with a blue glow. The radiating materials spread across the floor in a strange way. They seemed to be moving of their own accord. The teddies took a few steps back and realized that blue words were being formed across the floor. Soon a baffling message was stretched across the lab floor: “GLAPTON EVIL.”

“Mr. Buns, go get Captain Snuggies,” whispered Dr. Sprinkles.