16Chula sighed as he crawled through the walls of the mansion. No one wanted him around. He had never realized what a loser he was until someone actually spelled it out for him. Now there was nothing to do but sit and rot.
It was then that he heard something…the sounds of a high-pitched little voice struggling…
"Wuzzat?" Chula muttered to himself.
Rounding a bend, the spider was delighted to find that he'd captured a bug in one of his webs!
Digit.
The little cockroach pulled and squirmed, but it was no use. He was stuck. "Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear," he kept saying to himself.
"Well, well, well…" smiled Chula. "This'll certainly brighten my day."
"M-my day could use some brightening too," squeaked Digit.
"You have NOT had as crappy a day as I have!" snapped Chula.
"Look who's talking," Digit shot back. "I'm about to be devoured by an ugly brute!"
"Well I just lost all my friends!" shouted Chula. "At least, I thought they were my friends…"
"I have never experienced true friendship myself," confessed Digit. "I've been told that it's quite nice. I suppose that's what I get for falling into the company of cats, but can one do when times are so dire?"
"Cats?" repeated Chula. "Disgustin' blokes, the whole lot of 'em! The only thing I hate worse than a cat is a mouse! Like that little Fievel punk!"
"You've encountered him as well?" said Digit, perking up. "Why, he had me shipped off to Hong Kong!"
"He rode me outta town, too," said Chula. "Hey, I remember you! You were in that foist movie, weren't ya? Yeah, good times, good times…NOT."
Digit smiled. "It's nice to know that my predator has a sense of humor, I suppose. Perhaps a sense of humor that's a tad outdated, but still…"
"Ehh, I don't really wanna eat you," sighed Chula. "Fer one thing, I'm not really that hungry. But fer another thing, you're the foist guy around here who I can kinda relate to, ya know? What with everyone else being dead and all. I kinda like you."
"Birds of a feather, I suppose," smiled Digit, trying not to think about Creeper and the gang.
(To the tune of "A Duo" from An American Tail")
Chula: I can tell we've got an awful lot in common
Even though it might not always seem that way
Though a meal some might prefer
I mean, I'm a predator
And you are the epitome of prey
Yet the two of us are really not so different
We both tried our best, but were doomed to fail
We've got something going on
I can sense a kind of bond
All thanks to "An American Tail"
We're a duo
A duo
A pair of lonely ones
Who were meant to be a two, oh
A duo
It's true, oh
Wherever we go
We're going me and you
We've both hit the pavement one time or another
But we're springing back and this time not alone
Unconventional, of course
But I won't beat that dead horse
Digit: I am shocked, I have to say
But I'd be shocked any way
Because of my electric sparks
(Digit suddenly begins to spark and jolt around, overcome by the emotion)
Chula: Uh…with you around, things won't get dark
Both: We're a duo
A duo
A pair of lonely ones
Who were meant to be a two, oh
A duo
It's true, oh
If you're ever in a stew
We know we can make it through
Cause you've got me
And I've…got…you!
Oh yeah!
I love Digit. I don't care that he had, like, four minutes of screentime. Will Ryan is awesome.
I think I had a version of this in mind a while back for a number with the Hitchhiking Ghosts and Brer Rabbit (We're a quartet/A quartet/We used to just have three/But we haven't had a four yet/A quartet/Adore that...etc)