by Lisa Pike It was a sunny day, and the sky was very, very blue. The birds were singing, the lawn men were mowing the lawn, and the garbage had been picked up the day before. It was perfect. Too perfect. The birdsong, was so in tune it almost seemed as though they were little feathered robots, singing for a humanoid metal master, whose sole desire was to take over the world, overthrow the restaurant system, and make Taco Bell the only surviving franchise, like in the movie Demolition Man. Which wouldn't be so bad, because Susan like Taco Bell. As Susan walked down the street, listen to the bird droids and thinking deep thoughts about professor Halfwitstein and his plan to bring the world to a spicy end, she came accross a pebble lying in the middle of the side walk. It wasn't really that unusual to find a pebble in the side walk, but Susan wasn't exactly a normal girl who happened to be walking down the side walk. In fact, she was a lot like her uncle, Herman, who reminded her a lot of Pee Wee Herman. Because of this odd coincidence, she found joy in small things, like pebbles, mail men, and talking tv's that play connect the dots, la la la la with you. It was a special pebble, and as she carried the little gray sphere Susan noticed that it was far more spherical than any pebble she had ever seen. And even stranger, there was a little door knob, door, and windows on the pebble, which she found rather curious, as pebbles are not supposed to have such attributes. So, seeing as she had nothing else to do, Susan opened the little door, and, lo and behold, a six foot man fell out! Not six feet tall, mind you. He was only 5 foot nine, but he had 6 feet! "Professor Halfwitstein! You bad, bad man! Hiding in a pebble like that!" Halfwitstein looked at her ashamedly. "The Hotel was full, you realize, and all my equipment was in the pebble. . ." "That's no excuse, planning to take over the world from inside a pebble. Why, what if some Taco Bell employee accidentally kicked your pebble into traffic? What then?" "Well, I, uh. . ." he spluttered. "Wait just a moment. I'M the bad guy here. Take that!" A flash of purple smoke. "AH! I'm a Burger King Employee! Turn me back!" "Ha ha ha! Never!" The evil professor climbed back into his pebble, locked the door, and picked up where he'd left of, trying to change pepper into salt. On the outside, "Well, now you must pay for this! I HATE Burger King!" And with that, Susan kicked with all her might, and the little pebble zoomed out onto the New Jersey Turn Pike, where it became the victimn of New Jersey drivers who undersood how to make U-Turns from the rignt, and out of state drivers who didn't, and so made illegal U-Turns in their attempt to get to the Ramada inn. And so it was that Susan, the daughter of a halfwit, saved the world, and got sued by Taco Bell. |