Corey and Oats in..
The Best Retro Adventure Ever
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Corey and Oats went on many adventures together and they often planned on going on different ones with their friends but some adventures got scrapped…the original adventure plan for this particular tale was that the duo was to go to Armageddon but another one came alone that was even better.

It was a local expo themed around retro pop culture and they just had to go and see it,  and luckily they would get that chance. One morning, specifically the morning of Sunday November 24th, 2024 - they all got up and got ready for the day.  After having breakfast they got dressed and all got ready, it was a bit rushed but it was totally worth it. 

They all hopped in the floating car which took them all the way to Wairau, and when the floating car stopped - they arrived at the stadium and got in line, they had some cute little donuts for morning tea as they waited in line.

Corey and Oats smiled as did Piff and Aiyido, they all got excited as they entered the stadium and got special bracelets to wear when they walked in, they made their way through the doors and began their exploration. They saw all sorts of comics and magazines on the ‘Iron Age’ comics booth and they saw a table with Care Bear collectibles next to it.

“Wow, this is fantastic.”

“Yeah, let’s look around.”

All of them walked around and they saw another table, this time it was a table of children’s books from a vendor known as Double Rainbow and they looked at the books and they saw one that reminded them of Belinda, after that they all came to a table of sorts that had all sorts of toys.  Mel saw a table which had statues and masks including one that looked like the one from the comic and movie ‘The Mask’, she posed with the mask and put it on, as she did she spun around and transformed - but unlike how the Mask is in the Vyond universe she was not evil or scary.

That is where Piff saw the most beautiful fish he had ever seen, this fish had green and orange skin and kissable lips and she was making the cutest sounds,  and Mel bought the new fish - adopting her in the process. ‘Hello new fish. I am Piff, tell me..are you a single fishy? Do you need a fish to do affairs with?’  ‘Oh, Piff.’  ‘What?’ ‘She is new, you cannot just rush her into having an affair with her.’

‘Oh oops, sorry.’  Piff chuckled to himself as he blushed, they all looked around and saw all sorts of toys and Mel lit up when she saw a figure of Dan Aykroyd as Ray Stantz. ‘It’s Dan! Ooooh yes, Eukie will love this.’  

Mel thought to herself she would have loved to have him..if he didn’t cost so much, and she explained how she wanted to have all sorts of Aykroyd related things and how she had been searching for every Dan Aykroyd video interview ever. ‘If only that Johnny Carson Tonight Show episode was not so hard to find.’ ‘Or that Jay Leno interview.’ ‘Yeah, Gettyimages has proof all these episodes were made and taped. So why doesn’t someone on Youtube or Internet Archive just post them all?’

They all looked around and Oats smiled as he saw some MLP plushes and lots of books, games, cards and home video releases. He also saw a table with plush toys including an adorable plush mogwai. ‘Look, mommy. A mogwai.’  ‘Like in the movie.’

Mel picked up the mogwai, it looked like Gizmo only his fur was black and white…’Oh I know that one, that is Stripe.’ ‘Isn’t he the bad guy in the first movie?’ ‘Yes. He is.’

She picked him up and bought him, adding him to her findings as they walked around, she saw a ton of WWE wrestler figures and she recognized all of them. Including some of the older ones. ‘I didn’t know you knew so much about wrestling.’  Belinda exclaimed. ‘I watched WWE back in England.’ Mel responded.

They smiled and they spotted some Star Wars cosplayers, Corey and Oats floated over to them and posed for a photo as R2D2 rolled in, beeping and communicating with the duo. Astro the alien jumped out and greeted him. ‘Greetings, droid friend. I am an alien from another planet but I have come here to make friends.’

Aiyido and Astro posed with R2D2 and then posed with a Boba Fett cosplayer and they all saw some Doctor Who toys including a plush dalek, Mel giggled when she saw that. They looked around and they saw a Jack Sparrow cosplayer, he squatted down and posed with Mel and the duo.

They were all super happy and an hour later they all headed out, Piff flirted with the new fish who looked at him and giggled…’Ooh, she likes me.’ ‘Oh Piff, you playboy.’  ‘You know it.’ They all had some paninis for lunch and Mel even shared a dish that was some eggs and chips with Belinda.

When they were finished they hopped back into the floating car and headed home, when they all arrived back at Nile Road they all relaxed and had afternoon tea as the new fish swam around and played with the others.  Anglo had been taking good care of Mel’s clown-fish hat Clovis and he handed the fish-hat over to Mel who put it on as she sat down. ‘So new fishy, do you have a name yet?’ The fish thought and thought about her name and finally she came up with one she liked…’Tangie, Tanji. Yes, I would like to be called Tangie.’

‘Welcome to the family, Tangie. I see you have met Piff.’ ‘Yes, Piff is quite the pufferfish, are all pufferfish of his species this flirty or is it just him?’  ‘I think you will find all male pufferfish are very expressive when it comes to flirting, but Piff is a real playboy when it comes to his own style of doing it.’  ‘Oh.’

‘Oh yes, and I cannot wait for us to have bathtub affairs together.’  Piff quipped.  ‘Hang on there, Piffy. Tangie is new, please be gentle with her.’  ‘I will, don’t you worry.’ ‘And you better behave, Piff.’ 

‘You can count on me to behave.’  They all waited for dinner and had some delicious food for dinner and after dinner Piff treated Tangie and the others to a fishing trip, after their fishing trip was over they all relaxed and emailed Jill about their adventure (which they had fun doing).

They had a karaoke session and when it was over they walked into the bedroom to get ready,  Corey put on his bat pajamas as Oats put on his pink night-gown. Piff put on a red sleeping kimono while Tangie put on a green nightdress with a coral print on it.

In the bathroom they brushed their teeth and afterwards they all hurried back into the bedroom, they picked out friends to snuggle up with and even Stripe cuddled up to them as they all thanked Mel for their adventure.

They all said their goodnights before Piff turned off the lights and they drifted off to sleep, having sweet dreams as they did so. As they had sweet dreams they thought all about the things they had seen on their adventure and their new friends.

Piff dreamed a romantic dream about dating Tangie and they even were sharing seaweed chips and dancing together, and they sat in a bathtub together and had quite the affair,  ‘Of course this is a dream but still…a fish can dream. Can’t he?’ Piff commented.

And thus their adventure for the day had come to an end but more are coming up so stay tuned.