ALLENTOWN IS NICE: Like birds in a tree

Monday, March 8, 2010

Like birds in a tree

So, you are seeking access to Parallel Time so that you may return to non-Parallel Time, but in another timeline?

Yes. We want to go to Parallel Time and return to non-Alternate non-Parallel Time.

Some might find that phrase insulting, ghost.

Who are you calling a ghost?

You see, though I am somewhat of a time tourist, I am a native of this timeline. What may be Alternate Time for you is non-Alternate Time for me, and for you, I suspect, my lovely new friend.

Oh! Indeed. Hee hee!

Would you like more honey for your tea, Mrs. Egram? I am afraid, however, the purest honey could not hope to be as sweet as your smile.

Oh dear me! No sugar, thank you. Tee hee!

Hmm. Lookit. Ol' Marge a blushin'.

Oh, brother.

In fact, sir, your very terminology -- Alternate Time versus non-Alternate Time -- betrays your egocentricity. Like birds in a tree we are actually surrounded by hundreds of what you call alternate timelines branching out around us.

Hmmm. Like crows?

Let us not speak of the crows.

Mmmm. On my way to the toilet I seen you have yerself a crow in a cage in that room over yonder. Mmm.

Um, he is a pet. I call him Gorgon. ... Corvids are most intelligent creatures. At times, I find their company more pleasant than that of humans. ... Present company excluded, of course, my dear Mrs. Egram.

Tee hee!

Where was I? Ah, yes. The branches of time. ... As I see it, your plan has a fatal flaw. Through the use of the I Ching paddles I can help you to reach the place that you call Parallel Time, but once there, it will be very difficult to return you to the timeline of your choosing. The wrong choice could prove fatal. Many of the branches of time are quite inhospitable to human life. It could be, for instance, that you return to an earth that remains in an Ice Age, or one that is still a molten mass enveloped in poisonous gases. In short, your journey will be fraught with unspeakable dangers. Are you positive you wish to undertake it?

You had me at paddles.

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Meanwhile ...

... A group of Allentonians has traveled into the past in an attempt to kill the demon Marge before she comes to Allentown and destroys the city. However, they have repeatedly failed in those attempts. They have bungled them so badly, in fact, that they have created an Alternate Timeline in which Marge lives quietly in her chalet in Turkey and calls herself Mrs. Egram, in which she never eats her brother Ronan and in which she becomes a significantly less evil demon than the one that is destroying Allentown in the present. The time travelers -- demon hunter extraordinaire Maximillian A. Bear, his son Max Jr. (formerly the polar bear cub spirit Max), Karl, the Green Guy and Truman (the ghost who was transformed into a flying polar bear rug when he escaped from Marge via the Secret Room time portal) -- find themselves trapped in Alternate Time, having run afoul of the Crows (principally through eating several of them) who previously had assisted in their journeys through time. The time travelers have joined with Mrs. Egram in an attempt to travel to non-Alternate Allentown to stop Marge in the present time, where St. Michael the Archangel struggles with steroid detoxification as he continues to be locked in mortal combat with Marge in the streets of downtown Allentown, which has largely been transformed into a smoldering ruin. Meanwhile still-unemployed super agent Jack Bauer and a small band of followers have traveled to Parallel time to battle a new enemy to heaven itself -- the deceased actor Paul Newman, or so they believe. Newman took control of Parallel heaven and initiated the celestial lockdown protocols, blocking travel to and from Parallel Time. However one portal remains open -- that guarded by the mysterious Old Donovan in a forgotten comfort station deep beneath downtown Allentown. It was believed that Newman seized Parallel Heaven after drugging Jesus with tainted tortilla chips; however, a new story seems to be emerging. The Bauer party, however, has been separated, with Bauer traveling to the Parallel Antarctic Vatican; Atown-Liker ending up in the TV Chef Network Studios, where he is reunited with the Countess of Monaco, who has be retransformed from a sea monster back into a woman who sort of looks like a sea monster; and the Player washing up at Parallel Atown Liker's headquarters. Also, Rudolph and Gen. Trexler have been banished to hell for not answering Old Donovan's questions correctly and Bubbles, the little angel, was banished to the Macungies. Their fates will be determined at some point in a flashback. Meanwhile, Bauer has learned that Newman is not his target. The enemy of heaven is actually the Crows, who are attempting to bring about the Apocalypse through the use of an ancient holy artifact being guarded at the South Pole by Parallel Pope Boneyface. Meanwhile, while in Parallel Time, non-Parallel Atown-Liker was nosing around Parallel Atown-Liker's headquarters where he either had a massive hallucination or was transported to Dickensian London via a Secret Armoire. Meanwhile, the Irish warrior Cuchulainn remains dead after being mortally wounded by Trexler; and the Spanish Armada, led by turncoat Archangel Gabriel, remains quiet after being defeated by an underwater assault by Trexler and the frightening firepower of Santa's Battle Sleigh 1. With the help of Little Ronan (a.k.a. Parallel Time-Alternate Timeline Purgatory Ronan) and [[[Spoiler Alert!]]] Rudolph, Santa recovered sufficiently enough from depression, substance abuse and the death of Prancer to deliver the goods on Christmas. Meanwhile, the fate of Ponzi remains unclear. Previously Newman sent his small dog into Parallel Time to ingratiate himself with President Madoff and to steal Madoff's investment fund. Ponzi was forced into hiding after angering Kevin Bacon, the Muppet Bert and some TV chefs who have vowed to cook and eat him.