Lyle's Big Summer Blockbuster

Shrieking in Seattle:  PigeonQuest 2008--in 3D!!

Part 2:  Journey to the Center of the City

Got your Goobers?  Your Raisinets?  Good.  Because Part 2 is going to knock your claws off.

Do you have your 3D goggles ready?  I will tell you what to do when it is time.

We last saw our hero Lyle on his way to the Emerald City with his pack.  As they arrive in the city they are awed at the sights and smells.  The sidewalk cafes!  The markets!  The Three Dog Bakery!  They want to stop to look at everything but are inexorably drawn to the City Center. 

Is it the Space Needle that draws them?  Zeek's awesome pizza?  Funnel cakes?  They can't be sure.  They just know they have to go.

Our hero arrives.  Somehow he senses the danger.  Perhaps he really is the Chosen One.

 But others in the pack are not as aware.  Heedless of the danger, Spring stops for a cool drink of Fiji (TM) water.  (All the movies have product placement these days, you know.)

In the distance a group of children scream.  Spring thinks they are excited to be riding the Ferris Wheel, but our hero knows better.  With his exquisite powers of hearing, he detects the flapping of wings and instantly knows the source of the children's terror. 

"There are pigeons pestering those patrons!" he purports.  "Let's go!"

It's time!  Put your 3D goggles on. 

Ready?  Good!

Now here's what you do.  Your goggles are on, right?  Sit very close to the monitor.  Look at the next picture.

Okay.

Now pull the monitor closer to you and look at the next picture.

Isn't that cool?  It looks just like she is coming at you.

It made me jump too.

I did the special effects myself.

Back to the story.

Lyle and Maebe arrive at the Ferris Wheel.  Pigeons are flapping everywhere.  Children are screaming.  Babies are crying.  Men and women are frantically flapping their hands at the pigeons.

Lyle instantly knows what to do.

"Citizens of the Emerald City!  I can help you!" he announces.  But they cannot be distracted from flapping at the flapping.  Undaunted, our hero moves in.

"Okey dokey, Maebe, this is what we need to do.  You run in from that side and I will run in from over here."

Maebe:  "Let's save the city!"

Suddenly the crying, screaming and flapping is interrupted by an earth shattering shrieking.  Lyle is on the move.  He barks and screams at the pigeons.  They flutter away to Tacoma.  Ferris Wheel riders sit agape for a moment, then stand up to cheer, only to find that their seats rock unsteadily and they quickly sit back down, still cheering.  Lyle takes a bow.  Maebe rushes to his side, feathers in her mouth, smiling.

A park patron is heard to say:  "They say that fools rush in where angels fear to tread, but today these two dogs are the angels who rushed in and saved our city."

Lyle:  "Can I have a funnel cake?"

Everyone bursts into laughter, someone pats Lyle on the head.

Lyle:  "No, really, can I have a funnel cake?"

The End

Over the closing credits, (Directed by Lyle, Starring Lyle, Written by Lyle, Special Effects by Lyle) we hear the boss man say "But what about Tacoma?"

Lyle:  "Save it for the sequel, boss man."