The Furbus Pretzel: Conclusions

"Where are we now?" asked Norman.
Mr. Burton-the-sequel replied: "We're back in the present--about 24 hours after you saw Mr. Furbus disappear."
"How do you know that?" asked Marcus.
"I know things," he replied.
"That means I know things, too!" replied the original Mr. Burton. And the two Mr. Burtons proceeded to mimic one another. "Copycat!" yelled the first. "Nu-uh! You're the copy-cat!" yelled the other.
"We've got to go get Dr. Pea back," said Marcus, "It seems there's enough Xenon in the time machine for one more trip...hm...I'd better go get some more Xenon for getting back to the present." Marcus ran off.
At that moment, the UFO that Norman had seen carrying Herb away came hovering through the sky, halting a few yards away in the air. Two beams of light shot to the ground, and down them descended A purple alien, a green alien in a pink cape, a young girl (who was the same species as Herb, apparently), and...HERB HIMSELF!!!
"It's Herb!" yelled Norman in delight.
"I knew this was going to happen." said Mr. Burton 2.
Norman eyed him suspiciously, "How did you--"
"I'm quite beside myself!" shouted Mr. Burton 1.
Norman ignored him and turned back to his elderly friend. "Herb, where have you been!?" he asked.
"Heh?" replied the recently returned Herb, "Oh, you mean the OOF-OH?"
"The what? Oh, the U-F-O...uh, yeah!?"
At that moment, the alien in the pink cape jumped forward and said, "Greetings, people of Dot. I am Captain Myghxz [pronounced MIKES], and this is my first mate, Ezz," he motioned to the fascinated looking purple alien, "we apologize for borrowing your friend so suddenly, but it just so happens that he was a part of one of our experiments."
"Experiments!" Norman said, "so you guys are the ones who brought him as a baby!"
"Yes," replied the purple alien, "we wanted to see how he'd do on your planet, but we forgot to give him a mate back then. So we returned to Earth and had Herb pick one out." He pointed to the young girl next to Captain Myghxz. Norman moved to Herb and said, "Isn't she a bit too young for you?"
Herb took Norman by the arm and brought him over to the girl. "Well, she is only 19, but...Norman, I'd like to introduce you to my future wife, Mary Lee!" Norman looked puzzled, "Future wife...?"
Jessie spoke up, "Mary Lee!?" She walked over to her. "I know you have no idea what I'm talking about, but I'd like to thank you for saving my life." Mary looked at her a bit confused, but still smiled. Suddenly, Mr. Burton 2 yelled, "I'm on it, Herb," ran forward, grabbed Mary Lee, jumped into the time machine, and the two of them vanished into a time portal. The original Mr. Burton giggled.
"Herb put his arm around Norman, and said, "See, on my 19th birthday, I met Dr. Pea. Now, you may ask what Dr. Pea was doing in the year 1933, but he told me the whole story about his travels. Seems he was stuck in the past and, in trying to get back to the time he was from, he only made it forward in time 19 years. Well, I was especially lonely that day--everyone in the world was different than me. So I decided who better to confide in than a scientist from the future? I told him that if a human girl my age showed up at that instant, I'd probably marry her. He chuckled and said if that did happen, he could marry us--he'd been ordained a minister in his younger years. Well, if memory serves correctly..."
At that moment, a flash occurred. Norman watched as an elderly version of Mary Lee appeared next to Herb. He finished his sentence, "...that's exactly what happened." ("Oh, so that's how the other me knew all that," said Mr. Burton, thinking...)
Suddenly, another time portal opened, and out came Mr. Burton 2 and Dr. Pea. Dr. Pea was holding a metal canister of Xenon and a piece of paper. "I've got it right here!" he yelled happily, "The marriage certificate!"
"We've been waiting 58 years to get that thing back," said Mrs. Mary Lee Furbus. Herb turned to his wife and kissed her on the cheek. And to everyone else, they remembered Mrs. Mary Lee like she'd always been there because, in fact, she had always been there.
Ezz (who had been trying to make snow angels with Mr. Burton and Mr. Burton, despite the lack of snow) suddenly let out a startled "Oh my!" and ran over to Captain Myghxz. "Captain, I forgot to mention--as we were traveling through the worm hole from Earth to here, the space worm to whom the hole belonged apparently materialized on our ship. I think he's still on board--"
The ship burst apart as a gigantic, sharp-toothed, monster-of-a-worm broke through the hull. "Our spaceship!" yelled Captain Myghxz. Everyone watched as it happened--the original Mr. Burton yelled at the space worm, grabbed the canister out of Dr. Pea's hands, and hopped in the time machine. "There I go to save the day!" yelled Mr. Burton 2 as the original Mr. Burton vanished into July 5, 2009 with the worm close behind him. And all was silent. "Well, it was fun having a time clone while it lasted," said Mr. Burton 2, who was, in fact, Mr. Burton himself. "Time pretzels are so much fun!"
Marcus walked up at this moment. "Norman, your lawn gnome has..." but he trailed off, seeing the time machine gone, the other Mr. Burton absent, and the alien spacecraft lying wrecked on the ground. "What just happened?"
"Well," said Dr. Myghxz looking at his wrecked ship with a sigh, "I suppose we could just remain here and study these Dot-people." He began eyeing Dr. Pea.
"I have a new alien buddy!!" said Mr. Burton and Ezz in unison. Norman turned to Jessie and smiled. Jessie took his hand.
And with that, Mr. and Mrs. Furbus kissed under the half-moon, their friends of variety looking on.
Some might see an elderly kiss as a somewhat gross thing.
I say it's love.