Dream Busters

Arabella's POV

"Hey, Bella, Schwoz, look!" Charlotte announced as she exits the elevator. "I made onion dip."

"There's no time for onion dip!" I frantically tell her, as Schwoz sets up the huge machine for Henry.

Henry got blasted with the dream beam and he's in a deep sleep. My dad and Henry were off trying to capture Dr. Minyak, when he blasted Henry and now he's in a deep sleep. Now, Schwoz and I were trying our best to set up everything before my dad returns with Henry.

"Aw, did Gooch fall in the toilet again?" Charlotte groaned.

"No, Gooch did not fall into the toilet again." Schwoz denied from the the compute to monitor Henry's brainwaves.

"Then what is-"

Charlotte got cut off by the alarm beeping and both tubes appeared. My dad got shot down and the tube disappeared.

"Hey! Do you like onion dip?" Charlotte asked him, lifting up her onion dip.

"Wait a minute." My dad says and Henry got shot down, but he was fast asleep.

I used the remote to make the tube disappear and my dad caught Henry.

"How's Henry?" I asked my dad with worry and he picks up his sidekick.

"He's sound asleep!"

"Bring him! We have to hook him up to the thingy!" Schwoz rushes them over and we helped my dad lay Henry down on the platform and closed the orange lid on his face.

"What's wrong with Henry?" Charlotte asked.

"We were trying to capture Dr. Minyak!" My dad exclaimed.

"Dr. Minyak broke out of prison?" She questioned with shock.

"Yeah. And just as we were about to grab him, he blasted Henry with a dream beam!" My dad continued with panic.

"Dream beam?" Charlotte questioned. "What is-"

"There's no time for you to finish that question!" I snap at her and she moved back.

"Schwoz, can you show us Henry's brain activity?" My dad asked Schwoz as he moved over to us.

"Yeah, hang on." Schwoz nods. "I got to change the input. HDMI one. No.

Wrong input. That was 'That's A Drag.'

"HDMI two."

"Seriously?" I asked as he switched the input and it was a blue screen.

"Oh my god." My dad said and he finally got to the right input.

"There." We see Henry's brain activity on the screen. "That is Henry's brain."

"I will give anyone two dollars to tell me what's going on." Charlotte offered and Schwoz turns to her.

"Henry got blasted with a dream beam." He simply told her and took the two dollars from her hand.

"And it put him into a deep sleep." I added on.

"Very deep." Schwoz chimed in.

"Well, then let's wake him up." Charlotte suggested.

"It's almost impossible to wake someone who's been dream beamed." My dad explained.

"Why?"

"Show her, Schwoz." I tell Schwoz as my dad lifts up the lid and Schwoz goes up to Henry.

"Wake up!" He slaps his face and he did at this multiple times until Charlotte understood. "You see?"

"Oh my god." Charlotte said.

"As long as he's in this type of deep sleep, he'll have dreams." My dad explained to Charlotte.

"Dreams?"

"Disturbing dreams." I say.

"Crazy dreams." Schwoz whispered in her ear and she flinched.

"Oh, man." Charlotte said and Henry's body began to move and wiggle around. "I wonder what he's dreaming about."

"Watch the screen and you will see." Schwoz told us and we all looked at the screen.

——

"Look at his brain waves." Schwoz pointed to Henry brainwaves and they were out of control.

"He must be having an insane dream." I mention and grab Henry's arm in worry.

"Man, I sure picked the wrong day to make onion dip." Charlotte commented, looking at her onion dip.

I stared at Henry and sighed. I hope he's okay.

——

My dad changed back into his normal clothes and we managed to change Henry back into his.

Don't ask how.

My dad had an idea on how to wake Henry up and it seemed dangerous. Using extreme coffee to wake Henry up, could be fatal to him, but we don't have many other options.

"Now that we put Henry back into his normal clothes, we're gonna try something drastic." My dad informed us.

"Oh, what?" Charlotte asked.

"Waking Henry up by giving him a massive dose of extreme coffee!" I finished for him and look over at Schwoz who was getting the coffee ready.

"But I thought extreme coffee was illegal in America?" Charlotte objected.

"It is." Schwoz nods.

"And for good reason, it has over three hundred times the caffeine of normal coffee." My dad informed

"Okay. We're ready to pump the extreme coffee into Henry." Schwoz tells us.

"Do it." My dad an I both say.

"Let's hope this works." I say crossing my fingers.

Schwoz turns in the machine and the coffee begins to get injected into Henry's feet.

"Hey, why are we injecting the coffee into his feet?" Charlotte asked.

"Because the fastest way to get the coffee into his heart is through intra-feetus injection." My dad explained to Charlotte.

"Where do you learn this stuff?" Charlotte wondered.

"Is Henry waking up?" I asked Schwoz.

"I don't think so." Schwoz shakes his head and I sigh as my dad puts his hands on his head.

"But the coffee does seem to be affecting Henry's dream." Schwoz reasoned.

——

Later, the four of us were eating Charlotte's onion dip and it was delicious. Henry was still asleep, but we needed a snack break.

"I feel bad for Henry." Schwoz mentioned and we looked at the sleeping sidekick.

"Yeah." My dad nodded.

I got up and brought a chip with onion dip on it.

"Henry." I say and put it right to his nose. "Charlotte made her homemade onion dip." I turned to the boys and Charlotte and they shrugged. I looked at Henry and sighed. I pushed the chip into his mouth and it was just getting all over his mouth. "Please wake up..."

My dad came over to me and wrapped his arm around me. "Hey, sweetie...you're just smearing the dip all over his lips."

"I know." I groan and leave the chip on his lips.

"Aah!"

"Aah!"

We jumped at Schwoz's voice and Charlotte jumped from her seat.

"What, Schwoz?" My dad asked.

"Maybe we cannot wake Henry up by doing things to him on the outside..."

"Yeah."

"Yes."

"Okay."

"So, lets try to wake him up from inside his dream."

My dad, Charlotte, and I share a look before saying.

"What?!"

——

"But I don't understand what I'm supposed to do." I tell Schwoz as I lay down on the platform next to Henry. Schwoz got out a similar platform to Henry's and he was saying something about me going into Henry's dream and waking him up.

"We will explain." Schwoz says. "All right, see, Henry is trapped in a dream state."

"Right. I see that." I nod along.

"And according to Schwoz's theory, we might be able to wake Henry up from inside his dream."

"I don't get that." Charlotte mentioned and I agreed.

"I don't either."

"We are going to make you go to sleep." Schwoz informed me.

"And then using that machine we can connect your sleeping brain waves with Henry's." My dad explained.

"And put you inside Henry's dream". Schwoz continued.

"And you guys know for sure this isn't dangerous?" Charlotte wondered with worry and they seemed unsure.

"Yeah."

"Sure, sure."

"Then how come one of you guys don't transport yourselves into Henry's dream?" I reasoned with them.

"Well...I have a peanut allergy." My dad reasoned.

"No you don't." I tell him and he covers my mouth.

"I had some onion dip."

"I want to live." Charlotte added and I gawk at her.

"What?" I say with panic and my dad shushes me.

I grumble to myself as why finish setting up the machine on laying on.

"Now, listen, Bella, when you're inside Henry's dream you can never tell Henry that he's dreaming." My dad informed me.

"Do not tell Henry that." Schwoz repeated seriously.

"Why not?" I asked.

"Because when you're inside someone's dream and you tell them that they're, it can cause the dreamer to go into brain shock!" My dad explained.

"His brain could literally explode!" Schwoz exclaimed and my dad clapped his hands.

"Well, what about Bella?" Charlotte asked.

"Yeah! I don't want my brain exploding!" I objected. "Could that happen?"

They seemed unsure and turned away, denying that possibility.

"Alright, well, what do I when I'm inside his dream?" I asked, changing the subject.

"Well, according to to the internet," My dad begins, looking at his tablet. "When a person is in a dream state, one of the most common ways to wake up is by experiencing pain."

"Pain." Schwoz repeated.

"But I don't want to hurt Henry." I object and my dad goes over to Henry's body.

"You won't be hurting him." Schwoz assured me.

"The real Henry is right here, you'll only be hurting dream Henry." My dad informed me.

"It won't be real." Schwoz added and I glanced at Charlotte.

"Real Henry won't get hurt." She assured me and I exhaled.

"Okay. And how do I talk to you guys?"

"Use your Whiz Watch." My dad tells me and I look at my watch.

"So, if you need to talk to us while you're in Henry's dream, you use the watch." Schwoz explained to me, tapping my pink watch.

"You know, when I took this job, we did not talk about stuff like this." Charlotte mentioned and I grin amusingly.

"You'll be fine, sweetie." My dad assured me and kissed my forehead.

"I feel like I should get a big bowl of ice cream or something..." I muttered and Charlotte grinned.

"Bella, if we don't wake Henry out of the dream state soon, he could be trapped in there forever." My dad seriously informed me.

"Okay, but before I go." I stop them from closing the lid.

"Yeah?"

"What?"

"One more chip and dip." I smile and Charlotte offers me the tray. I take a chip and dip it in the dip, before eating it and I felt satisfied. "Okay. Let's get this going."

They shut the lid and everything was orange, but I could still hear everything.

"You really think it's going to work?"

"I hope so."

"It better."

"I heard that!" I call to them.

"Sweet dreams, Bella! And remember, hurt Henry." My dad reminded me and I groaned.

"It could be our only chance to wake him up." Schwoz added and I suddenly fell into a deep sleep.

——

"AHHHHH!"

I screamed as I fell from the sky and landed in Henry's house. I stood up and saw Henry standing. I approached him and dusted off my skirt.

"Hey!"

Henry turned and was shocked to see me. "Bella? How'd you get here?"

"Uh..." I trailed off.

"I don't care!" Henry embraces me and I hug back. "I'm just glad to see you!"

We pulled away and I was relieved to see Henry okay, even if it's just a dream.

"Why?" I asked. "Anything strange going on?"

"Everything!" Henry expresses. "I had the weirdest day at school and then I come home and it's even weirder here."

"Weird, how?" I asked him.

"Well, for one thing, my parents, for some reason, they look and sound different." Henry begins and gestures to the kitchen. "Like Kim and Kanye."

We look and see Kim Kardashian and Kanye West in the kitchen. Kim sees me as she pours coffee into a cup and smiles.

"Hi, Bella."

"I'm a genius!" Kanye exclaimed.

"Fun." I grin with uncertainty.

"Why do my parents look and sound like Kim and Kanye?!" Henry frantically asked as he shakes my shoulders.

"Do they? I didn't notice." I shrugged.

"Well, maybe you'll notice that Piper has a beard, and she's playing the lute."

We turn and see Piper sitting on the chair with a big beard and a lute on her lap.

'I gave my love a chicken that had no face'

Henry grabs my shoulders and turns me around. "Why is she singing that?"

"I really-"

"All chickens have faces!"

"So, maybe-"

"Oh, and did you see Jasper?!" Henry asked me, cutting me off and I turned to see Jasper's body and next to him was his head.

"Henry, will you please help me get back on my body?" Jasper asked and his body ran off, making Jasper's head follow.

"Hey, come back! I thought we were a team!"

"Have you seen Charlotte?!" Henry asked and the door opened only for Charlotte to walk in but on her hands. She was wearing a gymnastics leotard and waved at us as she walked by.

"Hello!"

"Did you see that?!" Henry exclaimed and sighed. "I feel like I'm in some weird, freaky dream."

"You're not!" I snap and grab his shirt.

"Huh?"

"You're not having a dream." I tell him, lying through my teeth. "Just go upstairs and try to put Jaspers head back on his body."

"Okay, that makes sense." Henry nods and runs upstairs. "Jasper! I don't know what you think you're doing, but it's not natural."

I look at Charlotte again, but she was doing some weird contortion stuff on the kitchen island and she waved at me, before I left the house.

I called my dad on my watch and he appeared. "Dad!"

"Bella! Did you find Henry?" He asked.

"Yeah. I'm inside of his dream." I tell him.

"Ooh, what's it like?" He asked.

"Weird."

"Well, how weird?" He asked.

"You really need a number?" I asked him.

"Yes. From one to ten."

"One sec." I tell him and go back inside to investigate.

First, I see Kim and Kanye dancing in the kitchen with Charlotte trying to eat a banana with her feet. I see Piper brushing her beard.

"Who's a good beard? You are! Yes, you are!"

I heard laughter and see Jasper's head floating down the stairs and Henry was chasing it.

"Jasper! Gets back on your body!"

Henry tried to catch the head, but Jasper was too quick and retreated up the stairs.

"I'm over here! Oh, oh, can't catch me." Jasper taunted Henry.

"Jasper!" Henry calls chasing him up the stairs again. "Can somebody stop Jasper's head!?"

I shut the door and returned  to my dad.

"Fifty-two."

—-

"Dad, just tell me what to do so you and Schwoz can wake me up and bring me back home." I tell my dad.

"Okay, first, you got to remember the world you're in with Henry is not real." My dad reminded me. "You're both just in a crazy weird dream state."

I saw Jasper's head next to me and wrinkled my nose.

"Yeah, no kidding."

"Hey, who you talking to?" Jasper's head asked and I swatted him away.

"Get out of here, Jasper's head!" I snap and he floats away, whistling.

"Bella!"

I return to my dad. "Yeah, I'm back. What?"

"You've got to go hurt, Henry!"

I was reluctant to do that and shook my head. "But, I-

"It's okay." He assured me "You're in a dream. Nothing is real. There's nothing to get hung about. Now, go hurt Henry and hopefully that'll wake him up."

"Fine." I sigh. "But, you, Schwoz, and Charlotte, better not be eating the onion dip without me!"

"We're not! Now, you know what to do!" My dad waves me off and I close my watch, before running back inside.

I see Piper playing her lute and smile. "Hi, Piper."

"There's a river of glue and apple juice, too." She softly tells me and I gave her weird look before replying.

"Okay."

I see Charlotte and wave. "Hey, Char!"

She smiles and waves with her foot to me. I gave her an uncomfortable smile before grabbing a banana and running up the stairs. I peeled the banana and placed the peel at the top of the stairs before running down. I didn't know what to do with the banana so I tossed it into the bush.

"Henry!" I called to him.

"What?!"

"Help me!" I cried to him. "Henry! Hurry!"

"Bella, here I come!" I heard him call and I saw him race toward the stairs. "What's wro- Whoa!" He slips on the banana peel and tumbled down the stairs. I watched in shock as he rolled and tumble down to my feet and I gently helped him up.

"Hi." He greeted. "What just happened?!"

"You fell down the stairs." I informed him.

"Oh."

"Did it hurt?" I asked him.

"Yeah, a lot."

"Cool!" I beam and drop him. "Wait here!"

I race outside and contact my dad.

"Dad!" I call and he appears on my watch.

"Hi. Did you hurt Henry?" He asked.

"Oh, yeah!" I nod with a grin. "Is he waking up?"

My dad turned away for a few moments before groaning. "Dang it!"

"What?" I asked.

"Stand by. We're going to bring you back to reality." My dad tells me.

"Okay." I close my watch and wait patiently.

The door opened but I didn't move. "Bella! I can't get Jasper's-"

I couldn't hear what came after that because I was transported back into reality.

——

"Bella? Bella, sweetie?"

I woke up from the dream and cleared my throat and blinked a few times.

"What?" I asked. "What happened?"

"Bad news." My dad tells me. "Henry's still trapped in a dream state."

I sigh. "Aw, man!"

"And more bad news." Schwoz added.

"What?" I asked.

"We ate all the onion dip." Schwoz shows us the empty bowl and I groan. Charlotte shrugs with a sheepish grin.

"Sorry."

"Aw, no!"

——

Later, we were all trying to figure out ways to wake Henry up. I was really worried, if we can't wake Henry up, then we'll loose him. I don't want to loose Henry. He's my best friend.

"Hey, hey!" Charlotte exclaims and we turn our attention to her. "Here's something that might wake Henry up!"

"What you got?" Schwoz asked her.

"What, tell us." My dad says.

"Okay, this website says 'Sometimes when a person is stuck in a deep, sleep, dream state, you can stop the dreams by submerging the person under water for between thirty and forty-five minutes!'" Charlotte reads to us and we gave her a look of uncertainty.

That will result in death.

"Did it mention any side effects?" I asked her with a small grin.

"Let me check." Charlotte says and scrolls down the page. "Scrolling down...okay. Here we go. Side effects!" She clicks on the side effects link. "Number one: Death."

Charlotte immediately regretted her suggestion.

"Okay, lets not try that."

"Let's not." I agreed.

"Yeah." Schwoz nodded.

"Guys..." My dad says and approached Henry. "What are we gonna do? What if we can never wake Henry up and he's stuck in a dream state forever?!"

I looked down and wanted to cry, but I held back my tears.

"Dad, don't be so negative." I encourage him and rub his back. "We'll find some way to bring him back and-"

"Ahoy!"

We all look at Schwoz who just screamed.

"What?" I asked him.

"Why'd you say ahoy?" My dad asked.

"Listen to what I just find on an ancient Hindu website." Schwoz informs us and we surrounded him.

"What?" Charlotte and I asked.

"What does it say?" My dad asked.

"The most effective method of shocking a sleeping person out of a deep dream state is..fright!" Schwoz read and this confused us.

"Flight?" I asked

"Okay, so we just need to book Henry a flight somewhere." My dad declared.

"Guys-"

"He's always wanted to go to Florida." Charlotte mentioned.

"Perfect! Henry, you're going to Florida!" I tell Henry with a smile.

"I not say 'Flight.'" Schwoz objected. "I say 'Fright.' Fright! Like Ooga, booga! Ooga, Booga!"

"Oh, fright." I say with realization.

"Ah, fright." Charlotte said.

"Fright." My dad said.

"Yes." Schwoz said. "We must put Bella back in Henry's dream."

"And she needs to scare him?" My dad asked.

"She needs to terrify him." Schwoz exclaimed and turned to me. "You need to scare the poof out of him!"

"Poof?" Charlotte and I asked.

"When you say 'poof,' you're talking about-"

"You know what I mean!" Schwoz screams at him in irritation.

"Wait. I'm not very good at scaring people." I object.

"Then I help you." Schwoz smirked and I felt uncomfortable.

Oh boy.

——

"You see this?" Schwoz asked us, holding a green, glowing blob.

"Yeah." Charlotte said. "It looks like something my uncle Roscoe coughed up.

"It does, doesn't it?" I smile at Charlotte and grinned.

"You hear what they say about my bloob?" Schwoz asked my dad with disbelief.

"It does look like a loogie." My dad agreed and I chuckle.

"Just... How does that thing help me scare Henry?" I asked Schwoz.

"All right, here's the plan." My dad tells me and I lay back down on the platform. "We're going to send you back into Henry's dream."

"Okay." I say and completely lay back down.

"And when you get there, you find a refrigerator and you put this bloob inside." Schwoz explained, handing me the weird, green blob.

"Then after ten seconds, you get Henry to open the fridge." My dad continued.

"I don't think Henry's gonna be that scared when he sees this blob." I reason with them.

"Bloob!"

"Bloob!" I quickly correct.

"Just trust us." My dad says and I sigh.

"What's gonna happen when Henry opens the door to the fridge?" Charlotte asked, curious of the blob in my hands.

"Bella needs to look away." Schwoz tells me.

"Look away." My dad seriously tells me. "Please."

I nod and they close the lid on my head. Seconds later, I was fast asleep.

——

"AHHHHHH!"

I screamed as I fell from the sky and landed back in Henry's house.

"Wait." I say as I got up. "Where's the blob?"

I looked up and it landed right on my fade. I freaked out and threw it off me. "EW!" I whipped my face off and picked up the blob and ran toward the refrigerator. "Put the bloob in the fridge and wait 10 seconds." I placed the blob in the fridge and closed the door.

I ran to the stairs and called for Henry.

"Henry! Hey, Henry, where are you?! Henry!"

"Bella?!" I heard him call and saw him rush toward me, but he checked for a banana peel before running down the stairs. "Bella!"

"Hey." I greeted.

"What's happening?" He asked me. "Everything's been so crazy, and I don't get why!"

"Can I have some juice?" I randomly ask him.

"Juice?" He asked with confusion.

"Yeah, I need some cold juice." I remarked with a smile. "You know, refrigerated."

"Okay, that's a pretty specific request." Henry objected.

"Just get me some juice." I snap.

"Alright!" He agreed and went over to the refrigerator. "I'm having a mental breakdown and all she cares about is juice! All right, what do you want. Apple, Orange, grape, cranber-" Right as he opened the fridge, I immediately looked away from the scene. All I heard was yelling and terrified shrieking.

I turned back and saw Henry passed out on the floor.

"Henry!" I gasp and run over to him. "Henry?"

I reached for him, but his body vanished and I smirked with satisfied.

I woke Henry up. Hopefully.

After that, I immediately contacted my dad and he wasn't answering.

"Hello?" I called. "Dad!" My dad finally appeared and I sigh.

"Bella!" My dad answers.

"Hi. Did Henry wake up?" I asked him.

"Yeah, he's here and he's okay!" My dad smiles, giving me a thumbs up.

"Yay!" I beam. "Now bring me back."

"Right. One sec."

He left the call and I waited patiently. It took a while and I got impatient.

"Hey, what's happening?"

My dad came back. "Uh, listen. We're not going to be able to bring you back to reality for about four hours."

"Four hours!" I exclaim with shock. "Well, what am I supposed to do, stuck here in Henry's bizarro dream for four hours?!"

"Do you know how to play mahjong?"

——

"Six bam." I say as I place my piece down on the table. I gathered all the weird people in the dream to play mahjong until I can go back to reality.

"Two crack." Kanye says.

"Three dot." Charlotte said, playing the piece with her feet.

"Soap!" Piper, who has a blue beard now, says.

"Five dot." Dancing green lady said.

"Go fish!" Jasper's head beamed and we all groaned.

"Jasper's head, I told you, we're playing Mahjong." I explained to Jasper's head.

"Sorry, I forgot." He apologized and starts to sniffle. "Hey, Kanye, will you scratch my nose?"

Kanye leaned back. "No, man! I'm a genius!"

"He is!" Kim agreed and rubbed his bald head.

I placed my elbow on the arm of the couch and placed my head on my hand.

"This is gonna be a long four hours."

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