"Craig Shaw Gardner - Cineverse 3 - Revenge of the Fluffy Bunnies" - читать интересную книгу автора (Gardner Craig Shaw)

There was a small explosion. Had there been any light here at all, Delores was sure
she would have seen blue smoke.

"Roger!" she called out to the void.

***

"Delores!" Roger whispered as he stared at the sand.

" So, " Zabana, Prince of the Jungle, asked over his shoulder. "What we do now?"

"Uh — " Roger replied. It was a good question, what with all that had happened, first
with his mother, and then with Delores. But Roger had no answers.

"Uh— " he added.

"But we must act!" Zabana insisted. "Fate of Cineverse at stake!"

"Arf arf!" the police dog at Zabana's side added. "Arf bark!"

"Dwight the Wonder Dog agrees," the rather short Big Louie translated. "The jungle
prince has a point. Now that the insidious Doctor Dread has made it clear that he and
his minions are working to once more bring about the Change—"

Roger couldn't help himself. "Dwight said all that?" he asked.

"Zabana lose whole family to Change," the jungle prince agreed morosely. "Wife
Shirley go into real estate, son Son start own movie series. Even my faithful
orangutang companion, Oogie — " Zabana choked, unable to continue.
Yes, Roger remembered the Change, too—fifteen or twenty years ago, now—a time
when movies lost their heroes, when the bad guys won, the good guys died, and boy
didn't even get to meet girl. At the time, Roger thought movies might simply be
mirroring the social unrest of the late sixties and early seventies. Now, though, he
knew it was all because of the fiendish plans of Doctor Dread!

"Yes, the Change," Big Louie continued, "which, if it is allowed to again take control
will mean the triumph of Doctor Dread, and the end of the Cineverse as we know it.
Only Captain Crusader stands in the way of this awful catastrophe, our own Captain
Crusader, Roger Gordon, lately of Earth, appointed by the Plotmaster to lead the
forces of good in a last-ditch effort to rid the many cinematic worlds of Dread's evil!"

“That putsh it all together niceshly,'' the reformed drunkard Doc—still suffering from
a slight case of sunstroke-slurred.

"I'll say, boyo," Officer O'Clanrahan agreed. "That's one of the most professional
summaries I've ever heard. By all the saints, we could have used you on the force!"

"I'm a sidekick," Louie replied matter-of-factly. "Plot summaries are part of my job.
You know, whatever moves the plot along."