Fic: New Plan (L'Engle/Muppets)

[graycardinal]

Amazingly, I have now actually made a bit of progress on completing old projects - in this case, the first of a whole slew of "Into A Bar" prompts that I asked for and then didn't get done during their initial windows. This one dates from 2018, and turned out to be a sequel - if rather an odd one - to a prior story of mine. So now I have yet another series in my bibliography, and one that is both very strange and evidently a long way from being fully resolved. (It's possible, I think, to read this one without having to look at the first, but I won't mind at all if you start with the earlier entry...)

Anyway....

Title: New Plan
Author: graycardinal / graycardinal
Prompt: Kali Cutter goes into a bar visits a high-tech research laboratory and meets…Dr. Bunsen Honeydew!
Fandoms: Austin/Murry/O’Keefe stories (Madeleine L’Engle); Muppets
Words: ~2500
Rating: Suitable for all ages
Warnings: none

In plain language, he was a Muppet. Except, of course, where there are Muppets one usually expects Muppeteers, and the Dr. Honeydew who’d just hopped off a stool behind a cluttered laboratory table to greet us landed on two perfectly ordinary feet (if you can use “ordinary” to describe plush feet wearing black rubber-soled sneakers) with no sticks, strings, or other Muppet manipulators in sight.

“I should advise you,” the scientist said in a mild, apologetic voice, “that this is a secure area, and anyone attempting to enter secure areas here at Q-36 is subject to potential shrinking, rabbitizing, multiplication, spectrographic diffusion, gravitational flux…”