This story is what I call a WHAT HAPPENED NEXT. I take an episode and add what I think
would be the next logical sequence of events to occur after the credits have been shown. In this
case the one during the Second Series where there are two Dagwood's.
I have changed Wendy Smith to Kristen Westphalen and have taken it back to just before
Commander Ford and Jim Brody arrive at the abandoned laboratory looking for the escaped
Dagwood. I have changed the beginning so that it is actually Commander Ford and Brody who
find out that their are two Dagwoods instead of it being Lucas from the show (all will be
explained as I go hopefully).
Lucas does not know that there are two Dagwoods and still thinks that it was his friend that
forced him onto the motorcycle and then crashed it through the fence and left him bruised and
battered on the ground. Commander Ford and Brody are unaware of the injured Lucas laying
towards the back of the facility after being beaten up by the evil twin. (I changed where the
motorcycle was seen from the episode).
Hope you enjoy my interpretation.. and so the story continues...........................
Dagwood had been walking along the road, being drawn to a place he didn't recognize, but
something inside told him that he had been here before none the less.
The building looked as though it had been deserted for a long time. There was long grass
growing around the grounds and the whole place was now surrounded by a wire mesh fence.
Dagwood reached the front door and saw the it was heavily padlocked and secured. He
walked back down the front steps looking for an alternative entrance point. His head was
telling him that the information he sought was somehow inside.
Dagwood started walking along the side of the building looking for a rear entry. It was only
upon going round the corner that he stumbled across Captain Bridger's motorcycle laying
on the ground with smoke pouring out of the engine.
He did not know about Lucas going and taking the Captain's motorcycle without permission
hoping to get his friend to surrender himself to the authorities before something really bad
happened.
He walked towards a clump of long dying grass and spotted a figure lying on the ground.
It took him less than a second to realize that it was his friend Lucas laying injured on the ground.
Lucas had been knocked from the motorcycle when the evil twin Dagwood had recklessly
driven it through the mesh fence. He had been knocked unconscious from the evil twin's
assault on his body. Lucas tried to defend as many of the blows to his upper body as much
as possible, but he was just not big enough or strong enough to ward off the powerful punches
from the G.E.L.F.
Lucas couldn't understand why his friend had turned on him so suddenly. He had thought that
Dagwood was his friend. He had seen the confused man walking along the road and wanted him
to give himself up before the police could find him. He had gotten off the motorcycle and tried
to reason with the child-like man. But Dagwood had turned on him and literally lifted him off his
feet and demanded that he take him home. Lucas didn't exactly know which home Dagwood was
talking about and had tried again in vain to talk his friend around. This had only seemed to
incense the big man even more and the helpless teenager found himself being painfully and
unceremoniously dumped onto the seat of the motorcycle and told again in an angry voice to take
him home.
Now upon waking up with every muscle in his body hurting somewhere, he looked up at the
shadow that fell over him and gasped out aloud in fright again. He thought it was Dagwood
coming back to finish him off.
He tried to get up, but the bike had landed on his foot when it fell and the ankle was now
very swollen, possibly sprained. He couldn't stand, but every ounce of adrenaline in his body
was working telling him to get away from this man before he hurt him again. He started to
edge along the ground while still laying down, desperate to get away from his assailant.
"LUCAS?" Dagwood now said worried that his friend was somehow injured and needed to
be helped. He started to bend down as if to help the injured teenager.
"NO...... NO STAY AWAY FROM ME" Lucas said as he still tried to get away. He was on the
verge of tears at the thought of being hurt again by his so called friend.
"LUCAS, SOMEBODY HURT LUCAS" Dagwood now asked wanting to right the wrong
that had been done to his friend. If somebody had hurt his friend Lucas then they would answer
to him. He didn't have any family or loyalties that normal people held dear, but when it came
to Lucas, he was determined to protect his young friend, no matter what.
"YOU HURT ME DAGWOOD, YOU ALMOST KILLED ME" Lucas said trying to stand on
his injured ankle, only to have it collapse on him again and send shooting pains up his whole leg.
"NO DAGWOOD NOT HURT LUCAS, LUCAS DAGWOOD FRIEND" the big man said
but refrained from trying to help as he saw the frightened look on the boy's face.
"JUST LEAVE ME ALONE DAGWOOD, LEAVE ME ALONE" the teenager cried turning
himself on his stomach and trying to slither away from the threat into the long grass.
"I HAVE TO GO BACK TO THE BEGINNING PLACE" Dagwood said as he started to
head towards the rear of the building again. This comment made Lucas stop his movements
of escape as he tried to understand what Dagwood was talking about. One minute the man
literally pounds him to a mashed potato, the next he sounds like the lost child that had first
drawn Lucas to him. It was that same look of vulnerability on Dagwood's face that had
Lucas thinking that the two of them had much more in common than first thought. That's
why he had been able to openly accept the strange looking man more readily than most people.
Lucas found himself dizzy again and unconsciousness soon threatened his senses again after
the battering he had received. With Dagwood seemingly no longer a threat at the moment, he
stopped trying to get away and resigned himself to the fact that he would have to wait for
somebody to come and find him and help him before he could go too far from his current position.
Lieutenant Tim O'Neill had just given Commander Jonathan Ford and his search party the
co-ordinates to a weak signal that he was getting that indicated where Dagwood might be
actually headed for.
They raced along the road and then pulled up suddenly in front of an old abandoned
laboratory and quickly got out to survey the area. Ford, Jim and Ortiz all had their
weapons drawn and ready to fire, but they were set to stun as had been instructed by
Captain Bridger. The other comment that Bridger had made was to use whatever
force necessary to bring Dagwood back into custody.
Ortiz grabbed a jimmy bar from the back of the U.E.O. transport and Ford and Brody
made their way to the front of the building. Ortiz and Lonnie Anderson stayed with the
vehicle and kept a look out. The search party had been told about Lucas's disappearance
on the Captain's motorcycle and so were told to keep an eye out for the missing teenager
as well.
Inside the laboratory, Dagwood was making his way through the debris and the wrecked
tables and desks in the building. He came across one room that seemed mostly to be still
in tact. The tables and lab equipment was not broken and there seemed to be some ongoing
experiments of some kind recently.
Along the wall of this room, something very strange and interesting caught Dagwood's attention
as he drew closer. Secured to the wall were about 10 Cryonically sealed chambers. There was
no outside windows on the front of the capsules to see what was inside. Dagwood's curiosity
got the better of him and he pushed the button on the first chamber that released the door with
the expulsion of a gas and a hiss of the door ready to open.
Dagwood cautiously opened the lid to the capsule and then stood back and look at what was
inside. He continued to look at what was inside, confused at what he was seeing. It was a baby
version of himself. The infant inside was just like him in every way except at a different level
of development. Somehow somebody had made a clone of him. He moved to the second
chamber and released it's door and looked inside. There he found another version of himself
not a baby, but maybe a few years older.
Dagwood was now astounded at what was before him. He moved from chamber to chamber
and looked inside to see clones of himself at varying stages of development. He got to the last
one and opened the door and now gazed in amazement to see that this version was an exact
duplicate of himself, in development and age. It was as though he was looking in the mirror
at himself.
Before he could think too much more, the eyes of the clone in front of him opened his eyes
and then the facial expression changed to a grimace as the clone came out of the chamber
and took a swing at this alter ego.
This was the same twin that had forced Lucas onto the motorcycle and then beaten him up
outside the laboratory.
The two powerful and equally matched G.E.L.F's started to fight each other. They threw
punches at each other and tried to wrestle each other to the ground. Both of them were
matched equally in size and strength so the battle was one of almost mammoth proportions.
Commander Ford and Jim Brody heard the commotion as soon as they were able to break
through the front door and that's where they headed to. Both of them couldn't believe
their eyes when they saw the titanic tussle between the two Dagwoods.
They watched the fight ensue for a little longer before realising that the evil one was getting
the better of Dagwood.
They both decided that now was a good time to lend a hand to their misjudged friend.
Commander Ford grabbed a nearby fire extinguisher and tried to get the evil Dagwood to
release his grip on their friend by hitting him in the back with the fire extinguisher.
Upon being struck with the red cannister, the evil Dagwood stopped his assault for a brief
second and then picked up and threw the dark skinned Commander across the other side
of the room.
Commander Ford felt himself being lifted but was unable to stop his body being hurled
across the other side of the room and knocking down a large shelving system on one of the
desks on the other side of the room. He had a few bruises, but luckily managed to walk
away with only a few minor scratches.
Brody now took his turn and decided to take over where his commanding officer had left
off. He too now tried raining assaults on the larger man in order for him to leave Dagwood
alone.
The evil Dagwood stopped yet again and turned to face his adversary. He picked the light
weight of Jim Brody up but instead of throwing him across the room like Ford, he started
to tighten his grip around Jim's exposed neck.
Dagwood now stepped in and got his clone to release the struggling Jim Brody. A few
spot fires that had been started with the fight between the two Dagwoods had begun to
get larger. A few of them even intensified with the chemicals that had splashed on them
when Ford knocked them off the shelves onto the laboratory floor.
"Get out of here Commander Ford and Brody" Dagwood now yelled as he and his clone
again began to wrestle each other. "Only Dagwood can help Dagwood. Leave now before
this place gets too dangerous."
Ford and Brody were reluctant to do this, but upon seeing some of the small explosions
that were beginning to occur due to the Cryonic gasses that had escaped, they thought it
wise to get out before the whole place blew up in their faces.
The two of them ran out and gathered with the others in front of the others trying to catch
their breath.
"What happened in there?" Ortiz now asked the two men.
"There's two Dagwoods" Ford answered finally. "One's the real Dagwood, the other must be
the one who we saw kill Doctor Brown on the video".
"Two Dagwoods" Lonnie Anderson now repeated in surprise at the revelation she had just
been told.
Back inside Dagwood had finally started to get the better of his opponent. He had seen
his clone injure his two friends from the SeaQuest. His mind told him that this was the same
person that had hurt Lucas. He know knew why Lucas thought it was he that had beaten
him up and hurt him. The more he thought about his friend getting hurt by the clone, the angier
and stronger he became.
With one mighty shove, Dagwood now drove a staggering blow to the clone who stumbled back
against one of the open Cryonic chambers. It was here were he would remain forever because
when he fell backwards, he had become impaled on a sharp stake that protrude from the back of
the chamber. The clone soon lost all the fight in him and looked back at Dagwood with unseeing
eyes. He had been beaten and was dead.
Dagwood could now hear all sorts of alarms and sirens going off in the building that indicated an
eminent explosion due to the chemical melt downs that had taken place. He started to make
his way towards the front door to escape the inferno that was quickly taking over the entire
building.
Outside, Ford and the rest of his party could also hear the sirens and alarms. Before they could
react to see if Dagwood needed any further assistance, the whole place was engulfed in one
huge explosion that rocked the very ground they all stood on.
"Watch it" Brody yelled as he fought to maintain his balance as the pavement below him trembled
with the effects of the explosion.
As the debris and smoke started to clear they could see one of the Dagwood twins emerge from
the flames and start to walk towards them.
At this stage they had no idea which of the clones had one. Was this the read Dagwood walking
towards them or was it the evil one who had murdered Doctor Brown?
Once again weapons were raised and now aimed at the G.E.L.F. walking towards them all.
"Hold it, which one are you?" Ford asked as he kept two hands on his weapon ready for the
wrong answer.
At first the G.E.L.F. didn't say anything he stopped where he was and looked at the four people
standing in front of him and pointing guns at him.
Then he held out his arm and pointed towards Lonnie before saying "Um, she taught me how
to dance." he said with a smile.
All four them now laughed slightly and lowered their guns and motioned for the big man to
come over to them. They were all very happy that the right Dagwood had won and was
back safe with them. At least they now knew the real story behind Doctor Brown's murder.
Dagwood would be a free man again.
They all prepared to get into the transport vehicle and start heading back towards the SeaQuest
when Dagwood suddenly remembered his friend Lucas who was probably still laying hurt at
the back of the building.
"Have to go and get Lucas" Dagwood said as he started to get out of the vehicle again.
"You know where Lucas is Dagwood?" Brody now asked with surprise.
"Yes" Dagwood said and started to lead them all around to the back of the building.
They all had been behind the G.E. L.F. as they walked around the corner, but they all quickly
rushed forward of him at seeing the damaged and smoking motorcycle laying toppled on its
side.
Lonnie was the first to spot the injured and unconscious teenager laying on the ground
and she rushed forward and knelt down beside him. Commander Ford did the same as he
lightly slapped the boy's cheek to try and rouse him. At first the boy didn't respond and
Ford started to look the injured teenager over to gauge all of the injuries.
They were all shocked at the extent of bruising that they could see on the boy's handsome
face. Lucas started to regain consciousness and groaned out loud as his ribs and torso
protested at the movement. It was then that the crew realised that there were further injuries
hidden underneath the boy's clothing.
Ford turned his attention back to the waking teenager and tried to assess the best way to
get him back to the SeaQuest and medical treatment.
"Who did this to you Lucas?" Ortiz asked as he noted that the extent of injuries that were
evident were not as a result of coming off the motorcycle.
Just as he did this Lucas tried to focus his vision somewhat and look up at who was actually
talking to him. The pain in is ankle had increased tenfold and his face contorted with the
pain as he tried to sit up.
Dagwood had moved into view behind the Cuban Ortiz and it was only upon seeing the
large man come into frame that Lucas forgot all about his injuries and pain and tried to edge
away from Dagwood again.
Commander Ford could see the sudden agitation in the boy's demeanor and his desperate
attempts to get away from their comforting grasp. They needed to try and keep him still to
avoid the boy hurting himself any further.
"Calm down Lucas, nobody here is going to hurt you. We are here to help you" Ford
said trying to reassure the scared teenager and trying to keep a firm but gentle grasp on him
at the same time.
"He's the one that did this" Lucas blurted out and suddenly the efforts of trying to get up in
such a hurry and the dizziness and constant pain became to much again and he fell back against
the Commander in a dead faint again.
HOPE YOU ARE INTRIGUED NOW!!!!!