Far into the future, where Auntie Yoko babysits Enid and Wednesday’s six year old at the Addams family manor.
Shelley: *from the next room* Auntie Yoko! Come play with me!
Yoko: Here I come, you little gremlin! *dashes into the next room*
Yoko: Hah! I found— *looks around the empty room* —you?
Yoko: Shelley? Where’d you go?
*CLUNK*
Yoko: *spins around to find a heavy metal door blocking the way she came*
Yoko: What the heck?
*CLACK* *CLACK* *CLACK* *CLUNK*
Yoko: *slowly turns to take in every barred window and sealed doorway*
Yoko: Uh. Shelley? What’s going on?
A burst of static hisses from a speaker in the ceiling.
Distorted voice: Would you like to play a game?
Yoko: 😐
– Moments later at a fancy restaurant in town. –
Enid: Huh. Yoko just texted.
Wednesday: Oh?
Enid: Yeah, she’s asking if we’ve shown Shelley the movie Saw.
Wednesday: Hmn.
Enid: I wonder why she’s asking. I mean Shelley’s like way too young for that movie, right?
Wednesday:
Enid: Right?
Wednesday:
Enid: *scowls* Wednesday Friday Addams, please tell me you did NOT show the movie Saw to our highly impressionable six-year-old genius of a daughter—
Enid: —who we left in the care of our close friend, a friend who is doing us a humongo favor, in a mansion full of weapons and torture devices.
Wednesday:
Wednesday: I’ll get the check.
Enid: WEDNESDAY!
Wednesday: *defensively* The fault is not entirely mine. Need I remind you who taught her to do Puppy Eyes?
Wednesday: Besides, there’s no reason to panic. Tanaka should be fine as long as Shelley hasn’t discovered Great Uncle Helsing Addams’ hidden armory—
Wednesday: —entry into which is nigh impossible without the family key. Even then, we would be alerted of any such trespass by this enchanted ring. *holds up her hand*
Enid: *icily* You mean the one that’s glowing?
Wednesday: Pardon? *glances at the brightly glowing ring*
Enid/Wednesday: 😡😒
Wednesday:
Wednesday: Oh.
Enid: Oh? OH?!
Wednesday: Please, my dear. We can discuss our mutual responsibility for this oversight after we’ve rescued Tanaka.
