Monday, February 24, 2014

Mad Scientist

Yesterday I was invited to the kitchen of a babbling inventor who escaped from a black hole in space.  I walked up to the door and pressed to oversized doorbell.  The inventor opened the door and said "Come in!"  He had a large blue cyborg eyepiece over his left eye.  I stepped in and looked around.  There were all sorts of high-tech equipment lying around. 
    He brought me to his kitchen and told me to sit down.  I sat down on a floating chair with buttons all over it.  I pressed the up arrow and I started floating higher.  I pressed the down arrow and started to lower.  "Have some chips!" said the mad scientist.  He handed me a metal box with flashing buttons all over it.  I pressed the button that said chips.  A speech bubble came out and floated above the top of the box.  It read "What type of chips would you like?"  "Big, Mexican ones."  I said.  Instantly a bowl of big, Mexican chips appeared with a little bowl of guacamole sitting next to them.  I tried the chip and dip.  They were the best chips I ever had.  They tasted like the chips of my dreams.  I gobbled them all down quickly and asked for some more.  He gave me them then put the machine away.  
    
    "I need to use the bathroom." I said.  He pressed a button on the wall and a row of orange flashing lights appeared on the wall.  "Follow the lights and you will reach the bathroom." he said.  I followed the lights down the long hallways until I came to where they stopped.  Then the door next to me opened and I saw a sign that said bathroom.  I walked into the room and sat on the toilet.  Zoom!  Something whizzed by my face.  That's weird I thought.  I'm sure there used to be mirror sitting on the wall.  Again something whizzed by my face.  "I'll catch it next time it does that." I said to myself.  Zoom!  I caught it.  I looked in my hands and saw the bathroom mirror with a pair of wings squirming in my grip.  "AHHHH!"  I shouted and dropped the mirror.  I ran out of the bathroom and when I looked back the mirror was perched on the wall directly above the sink just like when I first saw it.

I followed the orange lights back to where the inventor was flying in the kitchen.  "How are you doing that?"  I said.  "I'm using magnets"  He said.
He tossed me a box with straps.  "Tie this to your stomach and press the blue button."  He said.  I tied it around my stomach and pressed the blue button.  Nothing happened.  "It doesn't work." I said.  "Press the blue button." said the inventor.  I pressed it again and it didn't work.  "The one floating above your head." he said.  I looked up and sure enough there was a big blue button floating above my head.

I pressed it and started floating up until I hit the ceiling.  "How do I get down?" I asked.  "Press the blue button." said the inventor.  "But it's all the way over there." I said pointing to the corner where the blue button sat staring at me on his green and purple chair.  Wait for him to come back." the inventor said like it was the most obvious thing in the world.  Over 20 minutes later the blue button floated near and I pressed him on the head.  "Finally!" I said.

After both of us were back safe on the floor the inventor asked me if I liked giraffe weevils.  "What are those?" I said.  "They are bugs with long necks" he replied.  Suddenly he gazed past me and said "The cloning machine is malfunctioning."  I turned around and saw a huge bug.  "What is that?" I asked trying to remain calm.  "That is a genetically modified giraffe weevil."  It charged at us and the inventor pressed the blue button again.  Sadly I had already of my magnet pack so I couldn't float above the giraffe weevil like the inventor did.  The weevil charged again destroying the nearest lamp.  I ran into the room where the weevil came from.  Inside there were hundreds of normal sized giraffe weevils milling around.  I looked at the counter and saw broken glass.  Next to the shattered glass was a row of test tubes with purple liquid inside.  A normal giraffe weevil bumped into on of the test tubes knocking it over.  The purple liquid spilled out and surrounded the little giraffe weevil.  It started to grow until it was the size of a small couch.  It looked around, saw me, and charged.  I dodged the weevil and pelted out of the room.  I ran into the kitchen and closed the door before any o the other weevils could get me.  The door started shaking as the giraffe weevils pounded on the other side.  I ran over to my magnet floating pack and strapped it on just as the giraffe weevils broke through the door.  I pressed the blue button and started floating above the scene.  "What do we do?" I asked the inventor.  "Follow me!" he replied.  He started doing freestyle in midair and it made him move forward.  I followed him out of the kitchen and into the basement.  He closed the door behind him and led me towards a large iron cabinet.  He typed in a code and the doors swung open.  Behind them was an extensive range of weapons.  He grabbed a little pistol and tossed it to me.  Then he took out a large rifle like gun with a tank of bright blue liquid attached to the underside.  The giraffe weevils busted through the door and charged.  I aimed my pistol and fired.  A brilliant orange ray of pure energy shot out and disintegrated the nearest giraffe weevil.  "It's a ray gun!" I said.  The inventor shot his weapon at the next weevil to enter.  The weevil was frozen in a solid block of ice.  "A freeze ray!" I exclaimed.


By the time we got back out of the basement all of the giraffe weevils had grown huge.  We blasted through row after row of giraffe weevils freezing and disintegrating right and left.  Soon there were no giraffe weevils to kill.  The inventor put our weapons back in the cabinet in the basement then came back up stairs.  "I think I'm gonna faint." I said.  Then everything went black.

The next morning I woke up in my own bed and not in the inventors house.  Next to me lying on the bed stand was a holo-projector that the mad scientist gave me as a parting gift.

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