A story

Just a little quick story that caught my eye.

Won't take long to read!

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Astinus loved his dreams. It was the place where magical things happened, a break from the less amusing real world. A place where he could watch Nidoking have play-battles with Digimon (which was quite possibly the greatest entertainment imaginable). It made for great source material for writing, after all. And if anything popped up that wasn’t to his liking, he only needed to through some fruit at it until it left (a power reserved for only the more awesome workers at stores).

But one night, Astinus made the fateful mistake of consuming some mango that had gone slightly off – just a bit too soggy and with a black spot in one corner. Cursing that mod that kept talking about the fruit so much, he retired to bed and decided that maybe a trip to Dreamland would make him feel better.

But when he eventually fell asleep, something didn’t seem right. Rather than the wide open plains that was the usual setting, a smelly room greeted him. Instead of a buffet table, there was a bowl of dusty crackers. And instead of the Nidoking and Digimon, there was merely a pile of sleeping orange and red people.

“Arrgh!” Astinus said at them, which was a perfectly reasonable reaction given the circumstances. He quickly conjured up a piece of fruit to throw at them, but was startled when an egg appeared instead of the usual choice of projectile.

“Alas, I like eggs on toast,” one of the people muttered before shuffling off.

“Where am I?” Astinus demanded at length. “And who are you?”

“Oh, you’re in the headquarters,” one answered, waving an arm around the place. “Sorry it’s a bit messy. And we’re the higher ups.”

“The who?” Astinus took a slow step back.

“Oh, you’ll know us rather well. After all, you’re one of us now.”

Astinus looked at himself and noticed that indeed he had gone bright orange. He let out another understandable “Arrgh!” and ran out of the room.

“He’ll be back,” one of the higher ups said at length.


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