“Hey, what’s that?” Taylor asked.
There was the oddest buzzing noise and... something else... what was it? It all sounded familiar to the guys. Where had they heard it before?
It got louder, as if whatever it was, was getting closer. Then Isaac, Taylor and Zac groaned and a small smile appeared on Fred’s face as they finally were able to make out what the sound was.
Isaac pointed, noticing the underbrush move, and through it came a girl playing the kazoo, badly, and behind her three other girls singing:
“This is the song that doesn’t end. It just goes on and on my friend. Some people started singing it not knowing what it was, and they’ll continue singing it forever just because it is the song that doesn’t end. It just goes on and on my friend. Some people started singing it not knowing what it was, and they’ll...”
Isaac, Taylor and Zac stared at Fred as the voices faded out again.
“What?” he asked.
They just shook their heads in disgust and made a few degrading comments inaudible to Fred’s ears.
**********
“I’ve been thinking -”
“Don’t hurt yourself, Zac,” Taylor grinned.
“Shut up. Ok, see in this show with the rings, they combined their powers right? Like, one said ‘let our powers combine’ and they all said their powers and... I forget what happened next.”
“Zac, just because it worked on a show, doesn’t mean it’ll work for us,” Isaac pointed out.
“But let’s try it anyway,” Taylor grinned. “Let our powers combine. Taylor power.”
“Isaac power.”
“Zac power.”
And from his place a few paces back, Fred whispered “Fred power”.
Suddenly, a fifth person appeared, floating above them.
“By your powers combined, I am Captain Hanson!” he said triumphantly.
“Oh I remember what happened next now!” Zac said.
“Wasn’t the show called... Admiral Planet?” Isaac asked.
“No, don’t be stupid. It was Commando Planet.”
“Nope,” Taylor disagreed. “It was Save the Planet.”
“No it wasn’t!” Isaac and Zac said together.
“Well, they did! Save the planet, I mean. Or tried to anyway.”