Operation Deep Fat Fryer Time! *maniacal laughter*
That night, Storm Shadow and Snake Eyes stood at the entrance to their small shop looking down the street in separate directions. After standing there for a couple seconds, they were gone. Storm Shadow had come up with an elaborate plan to destroy every deep fat fryer in the city by morning. Snake Eyes had fully agreed (somewhat.)
That afternoon. . .
"And after that, we leave the elephant at the nuclear reactor and no one will be any the wiser!" Storm looked fired up and ready for action. His face was bright and his eyes shone with the fervor of his fat fryer-busting plan.
And why do we need to drag an elephant, two pairs of skis, a baseball glove, a fireplace, gay purple badgers, and a nuclear reactor into this? Couldn't we just slice the deep fat fryers to pieces?
"You take the fun out of everything. Practical people. . ."
Inside the eighty-fifth house Storm Shadow visited, a little girl who was asleep on the couch with the T.V. on had woken up and noticed him. Young children could really be perceptive at times. . .
"Are you the tooth fairy?"
"Am I WHAT?"
"The tooth fairy. My mommy said that the tooth fairy wears white pajamas and comes at night to take teeth that fell out and replace them with a nickel. And my tooth came out, too!"
"Why are you awake, then?" Storm decided to ignore the comment about pajamas. He realized that it would be best to play along in the hopes that the girl would not wake up her parents. Although he could easily leave through the air ducts, the less people awake the better. "You're not supposed to see me."
"That's Santa, silly. Where are your wings?" Storm could see that the girl was getting tired, and as he watched, she fell asleep again. Storm walked across the room and turned off the T.V. for her. He felt guilty because he did not carry money with him, and therefore did not have a nickel.
"At least I'll save her teeth and arteries. . ." He muttered to himself while slashing apart the deep fat fryer that almost every house had. Although he did not have a nickel, he had something that he was sure would be just as good. He gently placed it on the sofa next to the girl and left the house quietly.
The next morning, both Storm and Snake had destroyed every deep fat fryer in the city. They made it back to the shop by sunrise and turned on the radio to listen to the news. They were sure that people would notice that their deep fat fryers had been reduced to piles of metal, plastic, and grease.
". . . have been coming in from all over Huntington about deep fat fryers being slashed to bits. At first, I would have blamed the newcomer, Tommy Arashikage, but he couldn't have done it. I mean, he'd have to be a ninja or something."
Storm was rolling around on the ground, fist in mouth, shaking with silent laughter. Snake Eyes had facepalmed and now was barely controlling his own reaction. Radio Announcer Rod Willis had hit the nail on the head, albeit unknowingly.
Miles away, a little girl's dad had just woken up. He groaned because he had fallen asleep and forgotten to leave a nickel for his daughter. As he had this thought, the girl in question came charging into his bedroom yelling.
"Dad! Dad! Look what the tooth fairy left me!"
He stared in shock. The little girl was holding up an unsharpened shuriken. "Where. . ."
"Mommy was right! The tooth fairy does wear white pajamas!"
She WHAT? Snake Eyes signed. He was on the verge of laughing so hard it would be an ab workout.
"Apparently, she thought I was the tooth fairy. I left her one of my unsharpened shuriken. I hadn't gotten around to fixing the thing, so I decided that she could have it."
Snake Eyes nodded. A shuriken was a reasonable thing that the 'tooth fairy' could give a little girl.
Storm: Karama9, I like the idea.
Snake: No, you are NOT force-feeding people tofu.
Kage: *groan* You just HAD to give him the idea, didn't you? He read your review. . .
Storm: I wonder where I can even get tofu in this town.
