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Hopscotch

 

Hopscotch is a light-hearted science fiction/fantasy adventure about a team of scientists who use magical assets to travel to various worlds in the universe. Together, they study scientific, technological, and magical achievements throughout the known galaxies. However well intentioned they may be, they tend to fight problems with bigger problems.

 

Of thieves and vacuum cleaners: Mary inadvertently creates a portal into Dr. Fritzenhopper’s world when she uses a wielding kit against a talking sculpture that has eaten her cat. The portal is reduced to a pile of slime on the floor which Mary falls through and into another dimension. Mary’s mom vacuums the slime up off of the floor, and when a thief robs their house, he steals the vacuum cleaner. The thief discovers the slime inside the cleaner and uses it in clever ways that will allow him to steal more efficiently.

 

Making a deal with the devil: Dr. Fritzenhopper needs the blood of a vampire for his computer system. Things go very wrong threatening the Doctor’s entire operations. They trick the vampire, making a deal to obtain what they need.

 

The problem with trees: Mary is able to regain some of the things that were stolen by entering into the thief’s home (through the Doctor’s side of the portal) however he spots her and follows her back into Dr. Fritz’s world. Doctor Fritz writes the thief a check for fifteen dollars to buy their safety. Laughing the thief rips the check up, unwittingly activating a teleportation device and ending up in a forest world. When he realizes what has happened he is angry and begins to uproot small trees from the ground to vent his frustration. Unfortunately these trees are sacred trees that help keep the balance between good and evil at a manageable level in this woodland pixie world.

 

Fooling mom: The fairy guardians of the sacred trees change Mary into a feral-type creature until she is able to re-establish balance in the forest world that the thief (who has been changed into a large centipede) is in. Mary cannot go home with fur all over her body so they develop an elaborate disguise for Barry to wear to make sure Mary’s mom doesn’t worry.

 

Into the woods: Mary meets various creatures, including a forest god who puts his bloody mark of protection on her while she is sleeping. Later, The balance of the trees of good and evil is restored and Mary is returned to normal, however the evil creatures obtain a gun, a bargaining tool that the thief has stolen from Mary, enabling the evil creatures to kill the forest god.

 

Mom joins the team: Mom is unable to be fooled for very long before she learns what has been going on. Instead of forbidding Mary to continue in the adventure she joins the group to ensure the safety of her daughter.

 

The “safe room”: The first change that mom suggests is to make leaping from one world to another safer. There is a concept of a “safe room” that the Doctor has been working on, however he has never had the funds to create it. The safe room is a room in which the occupant can walk around the world he is about to leap into without really being there.

 

Boy bands: Mary’s mom starts managing intergalactic boy bands passing off the greatest songs ever written as their own material (jurisdiction of copyright law is limited). This income enables Dr. Fritz to create the safe room.

 

Stealing the “Snook Book”: With the use of the safe room the team steals a library of books from a snobby elitist society of scientists who have operations similar yet more advanced than the Doctor’s. (One of the books was written by the devil.)

 

A serial killer ghost has been living in your lab: The magical gloves (created to steal the books from the elitist society of scientists) were stolen by a ghost. When the ghost goes on a killing spree; all evidence points to the doctor, making him a wanted man. The gang must stop the murderer and prove Fritz’s innocence.

 

Extraction of a Goblin Queen: Mary helps a girl who has been trapped inside a broken mirror. Mary extracts multiples of the “girl” from each slice of mirror only to find that the girl is an evil goblin queen. Now that her powers have been multiplied she plans to expand her rule to all ends of the universe. (Two of the extracted girls join the team.)

 

The end goal: There are other stories that I have planned but my end goal is for Mary’s character to progress to a place where people (in the story) will someday celebrate the day that she died – not because they love her, but because they hate her. If I can do that while keeping her a character that is well intentioned in her actions then I will be satisfied.