Happy Birthday Pops!
by Odeena Sabnach
A/N: This fic is dedicated to Irine, who gave me the idea for this, and to my daddy, who's birthday was last Sunday. Happy birthday pops! :) Also, I'll think of another fic with Quan-Chi the president... lol. Midway owns MK and I own my PC and my Mountain Dew.
[Around 8 AM, MK evil guys boarding house]
[The guys are in the process of changing from mindless sleepwalkers to their normal selves. With Reiko gone to work and a bunch of sleepy heads ready to go ballistic every five seconds, the only one left to keep a lid on things - and cook at the same time - is Jarek.]
Scorpion: Must... drink... coffee...
Subbie: No... way... me... first...
Scorpion: In... your... dreams... mortal...
Goro: Outta my way! [pushes the two aside, then gulps down the entire content of the coffee filter] Bwah!
Scorpion: That... was not a good thing.
Subbie: Yup.
Jarek: 'Sokay, there's some more coffee over there.
Scorpion & Subbie: [blankly] Yay.
[Finally, after everyone is settled at the table...
Tanya: [suddenly slaps her forehead] Guys, do you know what today is?
Reptile: The Monster Movie Marathon day?
Jade: Like, shopping day?
Sid: Thursday?
Goro: Mmmphmphmhp?
Jarek: Don't talk with your mouth full
Goro: Sowee.
Tanya: [rolls eyes] Anyway... today is Reiko's b-day!
Mileena: B-day?
Tanya: Birthday, girl, birthday!
[The news have a terrible impact on the group. Noob Saibot chokes, and Goro has to pat him hard on the back; as for the others, they loose their jaws]
Jade: Oh my gosh, I, like, totally forgot about it!
Mileena: Me too!
Reptile: We gotta do something!
Goro: Mmpbh!
Jarek: Goro...
Goro: Sowee again.
Jarek: Everyone, listen up. We'll split our tasks here. Sid and I will do the cooking. The girls are in charge of the decorations. Goro, Reptile and Shinnok, you're on cleaning duty. And I don't want to hear anything about a certain boogie-man.
Shinnok: Aww.
Jarek: Scorpion, Subbie, you two will go and buy Reiko a present. A good one.
Subbie: Whoa, whoa, WAIT a minute. Who died and made you leader?
Jarek: Geez, I don't know, but I can tell you who's gonna die in the next five minutes if he doesn't do what I say.
Subbie: Right... Shopping for presents it is. C'mon Scorpion.
Jarek: You guys better get to work, Reiko comes home early today.
[Later...]
Sid: Jarek...
Jarek: Yeah?
Sid: How old is Pops turning?
Jarek: Hold on a second... Seven thousand five hundred thirty one.
Sid: We don't have so many candles!
Jarek: Well, we'll just put a few ones and write 'Happy 7531th Birthday'
Sid: Do we add 'Pops'?
Jarek: Mmm... no. After all, he hates it when we call him that.
Sid: Right.
[Meanwhile...]
Goro: Okay. I lift the couch, you guys get under it, clean it, get out, and then I drop it. Got it?
Reptile: Just don't drop it on us, 'kay?
Goro: Right.
[Goro lifts the couch, and Shinnok and Reptile sweep under it. Until...]
Tanya: Goro, could you give me a hand out here?
Goro: [drops couch] Sure!
Shinnok & Reptile: Oww...
[Finally...]
Jarek: There. All done. Now all we have to do is wait for Pops.
All: Yay!
[MK evil guys boarding house, 6 PM]
Reiko: [drives his new car into the garage, then prepares to go inside] And again I enter the Realm of Multiple Madness... [takes in a deep breath] Okay, here goes. [Enters]
Everyone: Surprise!!
Reiko: What?! Aww, guys... you remember... [teardrop begins to form] I love you guys...
[And after a wild round of dancing...]
Everyone: Cake! Cake! Cake! Cake!
Jarek: [comes out of the kitchen with a humongous cake] Happy Birthday!
Reiko: [eyes the cake] Is it...
Jarek: Poison? No. Not this time.
Jade: Blow the candles, pop - err, Reiko!
Reiko: Okay... but I gotta make a wish first. Here goes... [makes a wish, then blows the candles] Yay!
Tanya: Now all we need is the b-day present!
Jarek: Speaking of which... Scorpion? Sub-Zero?
[Silence]
Jarek: Where are those two...?
[Elsewhere...]
[Scorpion and Subbie are playing MK: DA on a brand new PlayStation II.]
Scorpion: You're going down, galactic scum!
Subbie: I wouldn't bet on that! Bwah!
-THE END-