Marshmallow Massacre

By Andrew Hockenberry, Guest Writer

The smell of beer and fried foods filled the air with the aroma of what a bar would smell like, but this wasn’t just any bar it was a kind of run down bar. The crackle of the floor echoed through the emptied bar beneath the feet of a hard working owner named Ralph. Just another ordinary day at the Drunkin Clam with the smoked bleached walls and the peanut shelled bar top. He lived his live day to day busting his tail and making bank to support himself because it is just him. He is the only one that works in his bar because he cannot trust anyone else with his life’s work. As he walks through the bar the night sky and the moon light shines through the hole in the roof that was left scared from a drunken scuffle a couple of months ago. He could have fixed but he feels that it would replace the memory that he has of that incident and he doesn’t want to for get about that night. One dark night Ralph ejects himself from his bar and heads on his way home. As Ralph walks down the barren street of the inner city all alone just him and the darkness lye between him and his home. At least that is what he thought…..

The screeching of burnt tires turns the corner and halt right in front of Ralph. He stops to observe what is happening and all of a sudden three big men in masks jump out and incapacitate Ralph. They drag his limp body into the van and drive off down the road.

In the darkness of the base among the most well kept secrets sit a chair in which Ralph was conjoined to and he is still unconscious. With the flash of a light Ralph awakes from his slumber and in a flourish of flails Ralph screams out “Where the hell am I and who the hell are you people”. With no answer tears fill his eyes and streams down his face because he knows this might be the end of his life. Then all of a sudden and man streaks from the shadows and says, “What do you mean you people”.

Ralph replies in a flash saying, “Who are you and what do you want”

With a grimes smile the man says in a delighted tone, “We are nobody, we are just friends” The man the rips the blind fold of Ralph revealing a big empty room with nothing but a steel table and hooked to it look like some big machine with knives and needles.

Ralph says in a horrified tone, “What are you going to do to me”

With the modest of tones the man says “Let’s just say you might feel a little pinch”. The man then fiercely ripped Ralph form the wooden chair and had two armed men escort him to the metal table. Ralph was then strapped down with metal restraints that can from the table, but one of the restraints caught his arm and broke it in half letting out a yelp as if from an injured dog.

The man then started to chuckle and said “You won’t even feel that little pain once we begin our experiment”. As Ralph lay on this metal table all most unconscious all he could think about is how he could get out of here to go back to his bar and that if he wouldn’t have push every one away he might not be in this situation right now.

The man then said “Now the fun is about to begin so get ready because your life as you know it will change forever”.

Ralph pleads to the man “Please sir you do not have to do this I promise if you let me go I won’t tell anyone of what happened here”.

The man then laughs so loud that it echoes through the whole room “Even after we are done with you you’re not going to go anywhere”. The man then goes behind a big blast wall and pushes the buttons on a big machine. Then all of sudden the machine begins to lower and the needle like instruments fill with blue liquid and the Ralph looks down to see his body covered in red laser points to show where he would be injected with this concoction. Ralph just tries to not look at the needles as they approach his body at the low pace, but then the machine speeds up and jams the needles into his skin. The pain of a thousand paper cuts drenched in lemonade filled his entire body Ralph let out a scream that could have shook the whole world. The blue fluid filled his veins and he froze as if he was paralyzed then his skin started to bubble and turn a light color of white. His skin began to ooze as if it was liquefied and ran off on to the floor and splattered all of the man.

The man then left the room saying “well that did not go as expected” then he began to laugh and said “Well good luck with that”. The guards then rolled the table into a cell and locked the white oozy body of which now was Ralph up. Ralph woke up from the shock that he was put in by the metamorphosis of hit body. Ralph tried to get off the table and he fell of and bounced right of the floor. He then noticed that he was shorter than normal and he hoped over to the broken mirror in the cell by the sink. He left out a yell at the sight of his own appearance. For Ralph was no longer a human man he was a mutated looking marshmallow with arms, hands, eyes, and a mouth full of razor sharp teeth. He then coughed and shot some goo out of his mouth and melted the bed with is acid like spit. In a sick way he was delighted by his new found super power and he then turned toward the cell bar and spit the acid on them and melted the bars. He then left his cell and explored the buildi ng and on his way to try to find the exit he was confronted by a guard that was freaked out and shot at Ralph. The bullet simply went straight through him and the hole closed up. Then all of a sudden Ralph jumped up and consumed the man in a sea of razor teeth. After Ralph was done with his human cabob a growth formed on his side and a couple minutes it fell off and turned into another Ralph just a different color. This one was not the same it was blue and a little smaller the Ralph but look almost exactly like him. They proceeded to try to find an exit and then they came a crossed a door that lead outside and they hoped in the back of an army Humvee. The Humvee took them of base and stopped at the gate to drop off supplies to the guard shed. Ralph and the little blue one jumped out and followed him into the shack. As they entered they jumped on the back of the guards and made quick use of them and then two more little marshmallows popped of this time one was red and a lot c hunkier. The other one was green and seemed a little meaner than everyone else. Then they all left the shack and proceeded down the dirt road and saw a sign that said Area 51. They then found a parked car down the road at a gas station that was full of luggage. After they hid they waited for someone to get in to take them somewhere else. After a couple minutes a well-dressed man entered the car and started the car and drove off down the road. They then noticed that they were at the Homely airport. Then the car was parked and the man got his luggage out of the trunk then went to get the ones from the back, but Ralph jumped out from the back seat and ate the man. A tall purple marshmallow was born and they snuck into the airport runway through a hole in the fence. They then went to a plane that was going to Washington D.C. Ralph knew which one was going to the Washington because the man he ate ticket fell out and said the planes number. They marshmallow then snuck into the pac ked luggage area. After the plane ascended they waited in the back by some dogs until the plane landed. They then decided to take out the baggage crew and two more were born one was black and the other was orange, but the orange on seemed a little dumb and the black one seemed like he was a little crazy and would do anything.

As the whole crew went through the middle of the city they drew a lot of attention and a lot of people were actually not scared at all they thought they were cool. Sooner the later the local police showed up and tried to stop the progress of the gang, but to no avail they police men were consumed by the little squishy people. As they went to the gates of the capital building they were confronted by multiple army vehicles and armed officers. When the marshmallow did not stop they opened fire on them which did nothing because they were immune to any type of pain or weapon. They made quick work of the men and melted the gates with their acid spew. Then they went across the courtyard of the capital building and right into the white house in search for the president. When they reached the oval office the small army of marshmallows grew to about 200 now and they were of all different color, size, and shape. When they torched down the door the president did not know what to do at th e moment.

In awe and astonishment he said “How may I help you guys”

Ralph answered in a muffled tone due to that he is a marshmallow monster and he doesn’t quite speak fluent English he said “We Wsh to tak ovr the wrld”.

The president just sat in his chair and laughed saying “Yeah you and what army”.

Ralph quickly said “Lok out the widow”. The president quickly look out his window to see that the whole yard was cascaded in colorful blobs and he knew that he could not do anything to stop Ralph and his army of gooey goons.

The president picked up his red phone and called the government and said “We have a problem at the capital so I need you blow this place to kingdom chum”. A few minutes later a nuke was viewed in the sky and then all of a sudden Ralph ran out in to the yard and they all formed together to form a giant marshmallow monster and they swallowed the nuke whole. Then the nuke exploded but did nothing to the monster all he did was burped and then he laughed.

The president in disbelief he said “Fine the world is yours”

A few months after Ralph took over the world the whole population of the world was turned into marshmallows and the world went back to the way it was. Everyone was the same and they became the most dominate species to ever be created.