Standing by the Monorail

Standing by the Monorail is the sixteenth story in the General Hilarity series.

Plot Synopsis
Valentine's Day is just around the corner, and for once, a scientist wants to do something right. A ghost and a magician rig things. A vampire is involved in a lot of it.

Link to the Story
You can read the story here on Google Docs.

Characters

 * Valterra de Count
 * Allo Cortex
 * Zeldanna
 * Mella Widow

Characters Mentioned

 * Zoltan Chocula (Son of Count Chocula)
 * Penelope Pumpernickel, "The Perky Pink Pie-girl of Porcupine Peak" (Daughter of The Peculiar Purple Pieman of Porcupine Peak)
 * Henry Edward Strangeglove (Son of Doctor Strangeglove)
 * Maximillion Dark (Son of Mister Dark)
 * Three Dead Fast villians: GlassHouse; Pattern Repeat, "Pat Rep"; Squeakers (An anthropomorphic Glasswing Butterfly  / a Grine  / An Ahkiyyini)

Trivia:

 * This story was originally going to be relased on Valentine's Day, but this obviously did not happen.
 * This story, from the title to a few quotes from Allo, has a few refrences to Jonathan Coulton's song The Future Soon. This marks the third stroy in a row to have a title refrencing a song.
 * Originally, this story would have been about Zeldanna and Mella setting up Allo and Valterra on a blind date and everything going horribly wrong, under the title Third-Rate Romance. Additionally, Valterra's talent for badminton was originally going to be the plot of the second story and would have been called Watch the Birdy.
 * The Dead Fast mythos Lissa completely made up wasn't going to be a reoccuring theme--It was supposed to stop after the bit on GlassHouse, but Lissa found making things up about a fictional comic series too much fun, ergo resulting in the creation of Pat Rep and Squeakers. She's fully debating making up more Dead Fast mythos for funsies.
 * This marks the first time Lissa writes about people becoming boyfriend and girlfriend, rather then just kind of mentioning it off to the side.