"Once upon a time, a harried mother was trying to entertain her two young children on a road trip across Montana. This mother had already been in the car with her children for hours and was running out of patience until finally she resorted to telling stories to try and stop the bickering. She started her story by telling the two unruly children that if they listened quietly, they could have a treat in the next town. The mother then launched into her story with....
"Once upon a time, there was a Momma platypus with many many children living in a far away land called New Zealand. Now this Momma platypus worked hard to make her baby platypus happy. She cooked, cleaned their platypus house, and kept away the scary Dingoes. But a day eventually came when the evil Dingoes tricked her and kidnapped one of her babies. Now Momma platypus didn't know what to do. She was so scared for her poor little baby. But then she remembered hearing about these two kids in Montana who had magic powers that let them be able to defeat evil Dingoes. So Momma Platypus sent a message in a bottle to the two children. Now these children's names were Jennifer and J.E. Do these names sound familiar to you??
"Those are our names!!!"
"That's right they are. Now Jennifer and J.E. found Momma Platypus' note down at the creek one afternoon. As soon as they found the note, they both raced to their Big Shed to get into their Supersonic Helicopter. They flew across the Pacific Ocean, then the Indian Ocean, and then across Australia. Finally after a long long journey, the two heroes arrived at Momma Platypus' house. Our hero and heroine quickly came up with a way to save the baby and keep the Evil Dingoes away for forever! They would make a trench that the Dingoes wouldn't be able to cross, EVER. But how would they rescue the baby first? Luckily, Jennifer had remembered to pack their super-sonic Bazooka guns that shot hot dogs as far as the eye could see. Both J.E. and Jennifer grabbed their guns and ran towards the Dingoes Fortress of Evil. Just as our heroes were about to be attacked, they fired the hot dogs away from themselves and the Platypus family. And as everyone knows as soon as a Dingo sees a hot dog, they have to chase it and eat it one tiny tiny tiny bite at a time. While the Dingoes were slowly eating their hot dogs, Jennifer ran inside the fortress to get Momma's baby.
While Jennifer was rescuing the baby, J.E. went and go their shrunken trencher and made it normal sized again. Once it was normal sized, he started to build a trench around Momma Platypus' house. This trench would be deep enough that the evil Dingoes would never be able to cross it. Finally the trench was done and all of the babies were back safe and sound with Momma Platypus. As soon as their job was done, Jennifer and J.E. jumped back into their amazing helicopter to fly home. They flew as fast as they could towards home as they couldn't be late for supper. Their mom's one rule was that saving the world couldn't interfere with supper time. The children arrived at home just as their mom started calling them into dinner. The end!"
Just as the mother said the end, the car came into view of the next town. But now instead of excitement about getting candy, the entranced children begged to keep going so they could hear another story. They wanted to know about the other Quests of Jennifer and J.E."
Siobhan was amazed at this story. After finishing telling my tale, she got up, turned off "Once Upon A Time", and asked to hear the next story in the Quests of Jennifer and J.E.
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