The Premise for "The Forgotten"

Ok, so this is what I came up with... I had this incomplete idea a long time ago, so I decided to finally make something out of it. Having made some other Flash animations before, I know doing this the way I want, will consume me months, so I'll either sacrifice quality and aesthetic value to get it all done, or just get a nice chunk of the story and animate it.

Having said that, here it is:

“The Forgotten”
By Joz (José G. Landrón) - 09/20/2008

Ted Stem is a little robot that lives inside a light bulb from a nightlight stuck in the wall of a house, which is at the same time, his spaceship.

One night, he unplugs his spaceship from the wall, and flies around. Noticing that one of the humans had the refrigerator open, he decides to go inside, looking for a new adventure.

The human doesn’t notice Ted’s entry to the fridge, and closes it, leaving him trapped inside.

Inside, he gets out of his ship to explore around, thus encountering “The Forgotten”, creatures that developed and mutated from old remnants of food and candy at the back of the refrigerator.

“The Forgotten” trap him, and bring him to their king, King Pop… a lollipop stuck to the surface. King Pop asks him for the purpose of his visit, which looked really suspicious to “The Forgotten”.

Once jailed… Ted tells Pop that he might be able to free him from being stuck, so KingPop accepts and frees him. Ted can produce light and energy with his arms, so he starts to cut through the attached area. While he’s almost done, Ted is about to pass out, running out of energy, and that very same moment, some Forgotten arrive to the scene, misinterpreting everything, thinking Ted is attempting to kill their king. They take Ted away before the king can say a word, and while they’re carrying, Ted finally shuts down. Taking him for dead, the Forgotten decide to throw Ted into “The Pit”, a small gap between the shelves and the back wall of the fridge. When they are about to do so, King Pop shows up (he was able to detach himself after Ted’s effort), and stops them.

After seeing he’s out of battery, he orders The Forgotten to put him inside the bulb, and replace the one from the fridge, with his’. They do so, and after a while, Ted is back to life again. He thanks the king and the Forgotten, who help him put his ship together. Ted opens a hole in the refrigerator’s door, big enough so his spaceship can go through… and after he finishes the hole, the human opens the fridge. Ted says: “Well, that was pointless!”, but still he escapes through the hole. He then returns to the wall and re-attaches his spaceship to it.

THE END.

After the credits, the human closes the refrigerator’s door, sees the hole for the first time and says “What the….”