Chapter 9 The Magic of The SHHHH!

(Beatles POV)

The people of Pepperland, once happy and full of colors of the rainbow were now dull and empty of life. While some have become frozen like statues, others were abused, frightened and tortured by the creatures of the blue meanies.

Ringo was horrified when he saw some of the blue meanies munching on rose bushes instantly reminded of Nemo's own rose filled hair.

As if the boys weren't worried enough!

"Hey he reminds me of my old English teacher." Paul commented looking at John's cut out.

"Look if you must shout." John hissed at Paul. "Shout quietly."

"What do we do?" George asks looking around warily.

"Coagulate with the crowd." John says. "Cur-outs at the ready? Then let's cut out."

Carefully and quietly the boys ran through the crowds of people dodging as many of the blue meanies as they could before reaching a tall hill that was surrounded by dead bushes like a wall around the band stand.

The boys pop their head out of the bushes looking around themselves before looking at the building on top of the hill.

"What a grand bandstand." Paul says pointing over to it.

"That's where the gear's kept!" George replies excitedly. "Come on."

George would have jumped right out of the bushes were it not for Paul pulling him back in.

"Cavey, cavey." Paul warns nodding the four headed dog and the blue meanie coming around the corner.

The dogs of course could smell the boys and began barking at the bushes tugging at their leash.

Thankfully the blue meanie was an idiot and didn't think anything strange about the people in the bushes. So he dragged the dog away to carry on the roundabout.

The Beatles waited until the fall of night before moving any closer to the stand.

Paul is the first to look out of their hiding spot to see if there was anyone else around.

"All right, the coast is clear." Paul told the others.

"Now's our chance." George whispers.

Ringo moves one of the cut outs by mistakenly squishing John and Paul on the other side of it. "But how do we get over.."

Paul and John interrupt him by pushing the cut out back to him catching his nose on it. "Ow."

George ignored his friends' silliness as he picks up his cut out and made his way out of the bushes. "Easy, follow me."

The boys followed suit after George walking as silent as they could to the bush walls where they placed their cut outs against it and used it to jump over the wall.

The noise however caught the attention of a blue meanie, but thankfully the boys were out of sight once the meanie set its eye light beams on the cut outs.

"Ah ha! You fools!" the meanie cackled before shooting the cut outs into oblivion.

The boys hurried up the hill dodging all the light beams and the few Meanies that were awake, Ringo tripped a couple of times but they all made it into the building.

(Nemo's POV)

I had woken up for what feels like hours to find myself tied at the wrist and ankles and gagged. What shocked and horrified me was that I was no longer in my pink dress and leggings but now in a blue mini dress and flats that were also blue, dear god who dressed me?!

I looked around my surroundings trying to keep the horrid question away from my mind. I was in the grand band stand I would recognize this pace anywhere and not only that but instruments hundreds upon thousands of them.

The blue meanies must have confiscated them all from Pepperland. I thought seeing my mom and dad's piano... oh god mom and dad! They must be worried sick about me not to mention the boys!.

I tried moving my body about but only wound up looking like a worm crawling on the ground. After a couple of moments later after finally giving up to at least un-gag myself when a heard a commotion outside, someone must have tried to get here to at least have something to fight against the meanies.

I hope that everyone is not too hurt. I thought sadly looking out of the windows into the night sky. The boys will come soon I know it.

Just as I finished that thought Paul bursts through the opening.

My eyes widen in surprise just as Paul's did, he smiled and was about to say something when John and George came rushing in, smacking into Paul and come tumbling down on me. Never before have I felt so happy to be underneath this heavy weight of the boys.

"Nemo!" John cries out once he spotted me under Paul.

"Nemo?" George says looking over John's shoulder.

"Nemo!" Paul exclaims with a nod.

"Fhhut uhh!" I tried to shush them through the gag.

"What was that love?" Paul asks. "Here Nemo let me get that rag out of your mouth."

Once he did I immediately spat the taste of whatever was in my mouth before looking up at the boys. "Glad you guys are alright and all but could you possibly get off me?"

"It is a possibility." John replies. "Alright George get off me, I know you love me and all but we are squishing Nemo with our love."

"Oh shove off John." George grumbled getting up.

"It's not very light in here, is it?" a familiar voice says.

George turned around and shushed Ringo. "Keep the noise down."

"You should be talking." I say as John untied my arms and legs. "You and the boys were yelling my name not a few seconds ago!"

"Shh." Paul shushes me.

"Nemo!" Ringo whispers before running towards me and lifting me into the air. "I was so worried about you love don't you go running off again!"

"It's not like I left on purpose Ringo!" I snapped back getting back down onto my feet and taking a step away from him. "The Blue meanies captured Jeremy and I, what plan they have for me I dare not think."

"Well you are safe now Nemo." Ringo assured me.

"Hey, look what I found." John tells them lifting some clothes before Paul. "It's their uniforms."

"Nice bit of gear, that." George commented.

The rest of the boys went over to John to get the uniforms while Nemo looked about herself before heading to the windows to be on look out for any blue meanies. Once she got to the window however her body froze in horror and fear; a million billion meanies surrounded the entire bungalow.

"Oh my god." Nemo whispered.

Ringo, being nearest to her heard her and looked out as well; his reaction was basically Nemo's reaction.

"Hey, hey it's a bad scene, lads, we're surrounded." He notified the others.

"Oh heck."George curses over Nemo' shoulder.

"A million billion meanies!" Paul says in shock.

"And some are coming this way!" Nemo announced catching sight of a patrol coming right for them.

"Hide!" they all exclaim loudly before Ringo shushed everyone.

The next thing Nemo knew everything went straight to hell as the boys and herself began to panic looking for a place to hide from the blue Meanies. First Ringo stepped on a drum, Paul tripped over a trumpet and made a cymbal fly through the air and landed around George's neck, John somehow got himself tangled up with a tuba and poor Nemo has her hands covering her face, shaking her head praying that the Meanies heard nothing.

Paul covered his eye as well as Ringo tumbled onto a bigger drum, getting rid of the smaller one on his foot.

"Ringo." Nemo whimpered as he crawled over to help him out. "For my sake be quiet!"

"I am being quiet." He whispered... right after his hand landed on the bagpipes making them squeal.

Nemo was close to bursting into tears, seeing this Ringo flung the bagpipes out the door.

(Third Person POV)

One of the meanies woke up to some strange noise of clattering and banging up at the bungalow, he had just started waking up fully when a creature he has never seen before came tumbling out of the place making frightening noises and heading right towards him.

'OHMYFUCKINGGODWHATISITOHMYGODOHMYGODIMGONNADIEORLORDMEANIESAVEMEIAMGONNADIEHELPSOMEONEHELP!' Was all the meanie thought as he fled away from the beast, only to be konked on the head by the beast before he could call for help and passed out at the entrance.

(Back to the boys and Nemo)

Nemo collapsed to the ground in relief as Ringo made his way over.

"It's alright love." He says comforting the frightened girl.

"Shh!" George shushed.

"Do you think they heard us?" John wonders.

"I hope not." Paul murmurs.

"Shh!" Ringo hissed.

"What did you say?" George asks.

"All of you shhh!" Nemo snapped.

"Good plan." George replies hiding away once more.

Ringo looks over to Nemo and nods to the far corner of the Bungalow before crawling over to it. Nemo watches him in confusion, wandering why Ringo the two of them to separated from the others but shrugs and follows suit.

He lucky enough found a bit more costumes and laid them down on the hard floor for Nemo. "Figured you would want at least something comfortable to lie on."

"Thank you Ringo." Nemo says quietly before laying down.

Ringo sat down with his back against the wall before taking off his coat and laying it on top of her. Nemo would have protested but she was only in a dress and it was a little chilly in the Bungalow.

The two were silent, listening to the snoring sounds of not only the meanies outside but the other three boys as well.

Ringo cleared his throat. "I uh I wanted to thank you Nemo."

Nemo raised an eyebrow looking up at Ringo's face. "For what? Dragging you and your mates into danger you didn't want to be a part of."

"Actually yes." Ringo replies. "When you and your old uncle fred asked for help, I was not in the best of minds; I mean I am in the Beatles and we are chased by fans a thousand times a day if we step foot onto the street, but I wanted something, something to do, be a something rather than a nothing."

Nemo had no idea what a 'Beatle' was other than an insect but she kept that quiet. "You are not a nothing, who was it that agreed to help a crazy old man who thinks he is a cheerleader? Who is helping a Nowhere Man go somewhere? Who out ran Indians and didn't get eaten by the monsters? That was you Ringo; if that isn't a something I don't know what is."

Ringo smiles, looking down to Nemo to say something only to stop when he realized she was asleep.

He chuckles quietly. "You Nemo are truly something else."