Its always fun when my readers get engaged with one of my stories and their imagination keeps going on what more could happen in the story. It may also cause one to …”smack their head”… at times, but… that’s a whole other story.
Jason, from http://jasonfrels.com/2020/07/12/because-they-dont-know-the-words/ was talking about different scenarios that could happen to Sonya from my https://joyroses13.wordpress.com/2020/07/13/the-power-of-aqua-velva/ story. I challenged him to write an ending, since according to him I had left things hanging and he rose to the challenge. I knew I couldn’t let you guys miss out on reading his story, so be prepared to smile, and laugh at Jason’s wit, as you read the rest of Sonya’s story. You may gasp in the story too, as it can be surprising. I would love to know your thoughts on it. I am sure Jason would too. ENJOY! And thanks Jason for giving an ending to Sonya’s story. 🙂
The Deep Space Rescue
Nick walked into the coffee shop and there she was: Sonya in her sunflower yellow dress sipping a latte. He had made his reports to high command back in the Alpha Centauri system that he planned to drug her coffee drink and bring her back to Alpha Centauri. At last, he could complete this mission and the sooner they were back aboard his space ship heading for home, the sooner he could get the latest software updates for his robot brain.
He walked up to Sonya and caressed her hair and neck as his programming indicated that this would lull her into a false sense of security. He sat down and ordered a butterscotch raspberry salted apricot latte with extra marshmallows, but he had no intention of drinking it of course. He then began to tell Sonya how beautiful her eyes are and how they sparkle in the morning sunlight (he read this nonsense in a book once). And as she blushed and turned away, he drugged her latte. Earth women: always a sucker for cheap complements and candied coffee drinks.
As Sonya swilled her drink and became disoriented, robot Nick lead her back to his car and she took the passenger’s seat and soon passed out. Robot Nick headed out of town and headed toward his hidden spaceship in the forest. Robot Nick was relieved that his plan had finally come to fruition. It was a complicated plan because the only knock-out drug he had available had to be consumed with extremely sweet coffee drinks.
In deep space, in route to the Alpha Centauri system, Sonya began to awaken in the space craft.
“Where am I?” she asked. Then she saw Nick at the control panel.
“Nick! What is going on?” she gasped.
“I’m not Nick. I am the robot that replaced Nick. You are being taken the Alpha Centauri system for testing because it has been determined that your DNA is ideal for our experiments.” Robot Nick said.
Sonya struggled against the restraint field but could not escape. “What have you done to Nick?” she screamed.
“I abducted him last year and have spent this time reading his brain and scanning his body so that I could use his likeness to lure you into my trap. But, don’t worry, he’s back in his cell and quite alive until high command decides what to do with him. I am just a robot completing my mission.” robot Nick said.
While robot Nick was chatting with Sonya he failed to notice another ship on his space radar. This ship was steadily gaining and would soon overtake him.
There was a sudden jolt in the ship as red warning lights began blinking and alerts blared. Robot Nick returned to his control panel. ‘We’re under attack!’ he thought ‘but by whom?’.
He began to maneuver and powered up weapons in an attempt rid himself of this foe as another bolt of energy shook the ship and killed the main engines. Another jolt and the weapons were dead. Robot nick was powerless to defend the ship against this superior foe. He saw that the enemy ship was preparing to dock so he armed himself to prepare for the boarders.
The ship shuddered as the enemy clamped on and connected with its air lock. Loud hisses ensued and then the door clanged open. A bolt of energy hit robot Nick and he fell to the floor smoking with his robot brain shorted out. An imposing, almost alien figure entered the ship in a massive space suit. Sonya was caught between terror and confusion. The alien removed its helmet revealing a, what?
Sonya couldn’t believe her eyes; there on the deck standing quite erect was a cow with a bell around its neck. She must still be feeling the effects of the drugs robot Nick had used.
“Helloooo, Sonya.” said the cow “My name is Betsy and I am from the secret Joint Space Defense Force of Earth. We observed your abduction and are here to bring you back hoooome. We constantly battle abductions from those robot-loving squid aliens at Alpha Centauri, but we’ll soon deal with them.”
Sonya was at a loss for words and she passed out.
When Sonya came to, she was lying on a beach chair. ‘Weird dream’ she thought, but looking next to her she saw Nick lying on a beach chair with his thick, lush, wavy brown hair blowing in the gentle breeze. “Nick!” she exclaimed “Is that you?”
Nick’s eyes opened and he groggily said “Sonya? How did you get here? Where are we? Do you remember a talking cow in a space suit?”
“I thought that was a latte induced dream!” Sonya nearly shouted “You mean we really were saved from being abducted by aliens by a talking cow?”
“I guess so.” said Nick brushing back the bit of soft luxurious hair that had fallen in front of his face “I was captured quite some time ago and have been held in a cell by a robot. I remember being rescued by a large talking cow in a space suit and the next thing I knew I was here on the beach next to you. I guess next we’ll find out that Santa and his elves are real too.”
Sonya and Nick talked into the evening about their adventure and then began to wander down the beach, hand in hand, and admiring the sunset.
After a deep and longed for kiss, Nick said “You really must tell me your middle name.”
“Sonya is my middle name.” said Sonya in a love-struck daze “My first name is Cynthia, but I prefer Sonya as it was my favorite aunt’s name.”
And they continued to fall madly and disgustingly in love and lived happily ever after and never got to thank Betsy for saving them. And they had learned their lesson and never ever drank lattes again.
I was told that it had to have a happy ending and involve Betsy.
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Yes, I do remember telling you about a happy ending, but hmmmm….I think Betsy told you the other part!
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It’s hard to say. I get very confused sometimes. That is, until I have had my black coffee.
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Yeah, I will try to remember about your “confusion” problem next time I give you specific instructions. LOL!
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You’d be hard-pressed to write a happier ending that that. The couple fall madly in love and walk off into the sunset. The evil robot was destroyed. Humanity will be saved from alien squids by a talking cow and her crew.
Nope, doesn’t get any happier.
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Oooh yes so sweet being “disgustingly in love!” Surprisingly I have never read that phrase in any romance story before. 🙂
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That is because I don’t write romances.
I meant disgusting from the perspective of the outside viewer. They weren’t disgusted with each other. Everyone else is disgusted with them and their romance. Or maybe it’s just me.
Is this why all my hollywood scripts keep getting rejected?
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Haha!! 😄
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So … was it Cynthia, Sonya, or Betsy who was masquerading as Annie (aka Anna) in an earlier story during which she mysteriously disappeared?
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Oh gosh! Umm…let me think. 🤚😶
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Oh well … I guess that’s a lost cause! 🙂
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“Very funny!”
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Who can keep all these names straight? I think Jason or Carolyn should come up with a chart, so the rest of us can keep up.
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Brilliant idea TG. I shall await such chart, but it will be quite a while because JR is currently “thinking”. Who knows how long that will take! 🙂
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Oh no, she’s not thinking again? Gads. Yeah, this could take awhile. Maybe I’ll just go take a nap.
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…mmm…!
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Wait, which one is Jason and which one in Carolyn. And then there is this Tippy character, where’d he come from?
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With so many different names recurring in all these stories, I think you have a good question. I’m starting to wonder who anybody is.
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Who said that!?!?!?
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I don’t know.
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Who said what? Didn’t hear a thing.
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Me either.
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Maybe it was just JR thinking?
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You mean she still isn’t finished thinking?
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Did she start? I have no idea.
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She’d better come up with something very impressive, for all the work she’s supposedly putting into it.
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Right!
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Oh gosh! Soo what exactly am I supposed to come up with again. I forgot!
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What? Well, I guess you’d better go back to thinking again.
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What work??
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Oh, maybe that explains it.
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You all are “hilarious”
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We are, aren’t we? 🤣
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No, you can’t hear me thinking , I don’t have marbles that clink together like you do!
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Carolyn is the one who has the smartz. 🙂
Tippy just told me that I shouldn’t use middle names on the chart, like you creatively came up with. He said it was confusing. LOL! 😂
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Who ever heard of a gnu with a middle name anyway.
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LOL!
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You guys have never heard of Geoffrey Claude Gnu? Where are you living to be so out of touch with Gnu folklore?
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Sorry, but his name does not ring a bell! So are you going to tell us about him, enlighten us about Gnu folklore? 🙂
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Why are you apologizing? With your grasp of the language, I did not expect you to know about him.
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Wellll…..you may not be surprised by me not knowing ,but I am rather certain that Jason doesn’t know either, and probably not even Tippy!
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I need more details about this supposed “brilliant idea” ? How many names are supposed to be on the chart exactly?
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All the names that you use. For instance, I think I know who Alabaster is (Jason). I think I’m Snowball. But I’m not sure about the rest. I keep forgetting. And then there’s the whole deal about Anna and Annie. And then other names come up. We need a name guide on this blog.
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Will see what I can do, but hey at least I don’t make things as complex as Jason, he threw in a middle name! I have never used middle names. 🙂
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Yeah, that is confusing. No middle names!
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Ding! You are right about Alabaster and Snowball. Pretty confident you know who Jinx is too, but I will spell it out for you. C-o-l-i-n! Jangle is Brad, my husband. That’s why I tend to be the nicest to him in the stories.. .at times. 🙂 And the new elf who is still nameless I think you have a pretty good guess about who that is.
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Jim?
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Ding! Right again! So think you can keep them straight now? Oh and then there is Candy Cane, the sweet one, so obviously you know who she is! 😉
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CP?
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Well she is sweet but no, its not her. Think again!
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I’m thinking. I’m thinking so hard a blood vessel is about to burst . . . ahhhhhh!!!!!
Sorry, I got nothing.
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Oh gosh, don’t hurt yourself! Shaking my head, I guess you will just have to wonder! 😛
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I like all the space action in this story. It was exciting when Betsy the Cow settled her beef with that robot, probably after a long steak-out. And I like that Nick had the good sense not to drink that latte, and that in the end, they both swore off lattes.
I’m also glad that Betsy the Cow is still alive. Apparently, she’s acquired herd immunity, and does not have to stay at home. This tale takes the story of the cow who jumped over the moon, to new levels. I hope there will be a sequel on space cows, exploring the universe and finding greener pastures on new planets.
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I would say that Betsy got vaccinated. You see the word vaccine comes from the latin word for cow “vacca” because the small pox vaccine was made from cow pox and it was the first vaccine. So, that was a deep pun.
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That pun has a lot of mooving parts.
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It was cowpocalyptic.
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And quite a revelation.
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You all just couldn’t resist could you!
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He started it.
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…mmm..!!
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Nick and Sonya don’t know what they are missing by swearing off lattes! I feel sorry for them!
Did you say sequel?? There just will never be an end to Betsy’s adventures will there!
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No, she’s traveling down a long, long trail.
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Thank you for letting me add my silliness to your story.
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My tastebuds are still trying to recover from the thought of a butterscotch, raspberry, apricot salted latte! But you are very welcome, and now I think I need to get myaelf a salted caramel latte. It will help get your unique latte out of my mind! 😜
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Dang! I was hoping Starbucks would pay me for that idea.
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LOL! Hate to burst your bubble, but….
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Well, for what it’s worth, I like both raspberry and apricot enough that I might drink it. Not often, though, because I agree with this story’s moo-ral about the evils of too much sugar. 🙂 A very fun ending!
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Thanks. I try to be silly whenever I can.
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You do a good job at it and I think I give you many opportunities! LOL!
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I like raspberry and apricot, but together? Raspberry peach maybe, without the salted part and no marshmallows! 🙂
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Just remember that now my salted caramel latte sounds very mild, thanks to your super sweet, crazy latte! So you can’t say anything about my latte now! 😛
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Is that a challenge? I had nothing sweet today. Been trying to diet a bit.
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LOL, I didn’t say a challenge, just thought I would point out a fact. 🙂
Good for you in not having anything sweet for the day, now that would be a challenge for me!
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Did you have anything sweet today?
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No, I had thick work all day beginning with an 8:30AM conference call to accommodate Asia and actually just got off of my second of two evening conference calls with Asia. We really should move the continents closer together.
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Oh gosh! Yes, you deserve sugar today. In fact you deserve a latte! 🙂
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Jason has quite the imagination! 🙂
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Indeed he does!
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And to think, most of my young adult life my imagination was wasted thinking about girls.
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LOL!
“No comment!” 🙂
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This is why it’s never a good idea to have sweetener in a four-shot latte.
Reminded me of a challenge several years back to come up with a piece of music to play in the background as I blast open the airlock door and charge through. The visage of Betsy emerging from the slowly clearing smoke, however, has me reconsidering something from perhaps Pink Floyd’s, Atom Heart Mother.
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Hi! Thanks for reading and for your comment.
I do like my lattes but not quite the kind in the story.
Haha about the vision of Betsy inspiring you to think of music. Betsy has become a special cow. 🙂
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Great album, but I can visualize Betsy coming out of the smoke and steam to “Welcome to the Machine” from their “Wish You Were Here” album! 🙂
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“butterscotch raspberry salted apricot latte”??? Seriously??? 🤢
I was hoping for Betsy to appear somewhere, and I wasn’t disappointed! Great fun … thanks, both Carolyn and Jason, for a chuckle tonight!
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It does turn the stomach a little doesn’t it! And I haven’t had a salted caramel latte since he wrote that for this combo just keeps coming to my mind! LOL!
Betsy has managed to show up at surprising places. I greatly underestimated that cow!
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I love salted caramel latte, but combined with all the rest, it … blech. Hmmmm … I’m picturing a series of children’s books about “Betsy the Cow: World Traveler”. Just never know where she’s gonna show up next!
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They are delish, aren’t they!
LOL! That would be a cute idea, wouldn’t it …. Hmmm…. ! 😊
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Yes, they are! I hear the wheels turning …
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