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Acme Labs
Pinky sat staring at the screen. When one of the characters on the screen started lighting up like a newborn sun, he drooled at the sight of it. So much so, he didn't notice when the shadow behind him started to have a life of its own. It crawled up into the air, until it at last towered over Pinky. It raised its arm, making itself ready to strike down, but got interrupted when the TV-screen started short-circuiting. A crackling noise sounded from the set, which Pinky didn't notice until it caused the static on the screen.
"Wow!" he said, "I didn't know Edmund could do that!"
Not too long after this, the TV-set exploded, blowing Pinky and his shadow completely to the back of the room.
"Pinky! Are you alright?" the other mouse, Brain asked him, seemingly concerned about his partner in crime.
He heard a high-pitched laughter, followed by: "So that's what they mean with "Twin-Light is intense."."
Brain hunched his shoulders: "Yes. They mean they're on your level."
Pinky's response was more high-pitched laughter, followed by the word: "Narf."
"But it looks like my experiment was a success." Brain stated.
"What experiment, Brain?"
"Simple." Brain explained, "The world has been invaded by strange creatures, that they call Heartless."
"Yegot, Brain." Pinky responded, "That sounds dangerous! Oh, wait, no. I don't even know what a Heartless is."
"You do surprise me." Brain stated.
"I do?" Pinky neither caught or understood the sarcasm in Brain's tone.
"A Heartless..." Brain started to explain, but was interrupted when something started flapping before his eyes. He swatted it away, then continued: "A Heartless is a creature that can suck out all the darkness that resides in you. All your anger, your grieve..."
"My lunch too?" Pinky wondered, scared.
Brain grabbed Pinky's snout and pulled him down: "If they sucked out intelligence, they'd starve on you."
Just when Brain was about to let go, that thing that flapped before his eyes returned. With this, he grabbed Pinky's snout even tighter, then used him as a baseball-bat, and splattered the thing, not caring about whether or not Pinky might have broken one or two bones.
"I'll have to see if I can solve our little bug-problem later." Brain said, "As I was saying, if I could create my own Heartless, have it follow my every whim, they'll not only save us all from the other Heartless, but if it were to turn everyone into Heartless too, the whole world would be under my control, and I... I'd finally achieved world domination!"
"Zort!" Pinky replied, "Brilliant Brain!"
"It would have been." Brain sounded less jubilant this time, "Unfortunately, that explosion destroyed my first Heartless. So it looks like I'll have to resuscitate it. Now where could it be..."
"What, Brain?" Pinky asked, "Where could what be?"
"Its heart, Pinky." Brain replied, "When a Heartless dies, it always leaves a heart-shaped object flying about. It should be here, but I can't see it."
"Oh, is that what it was?" Pinky said.
Brain looked relieved, as he suddenly picked Pinky up: "You've seen it? Where?"
"Yeah." Pinky replied, "I saw something flying right before I got up. Now that I think about it, that bug you just killed looked quite like it."
"Bug?" Brain suddenly looked horrified.
He turned Pinky around. And sure enough, there he found the remains of what he dismissed as a bug before, but it turned out they were the remains of the Heartless' heart. In a panic, Brain scraped together what little he could salvage of that heart.
"Quick, Pinky!" Brain exclaimed, "We must find a way to revive this heart."
Brain ran as quick as he could.
"Poit." Pinky said, "Why don't you just make a new one?"
"I could." Brain said, "But I had only one machine made to produce these. And that just blew up."
Pinky needed to think this over. What Brain meant was that the TV itself was what had created the Heartless, but Pinky was too slow to understand as much. As he was pondering this over, Brain had put the remains of the heart near a defibrillator. Brain knew the machine wouldn't be able to jump-start the heart, but after he made a few altercations to it, he believed it could. Once the alterations were made, he placed its paddles atop the remains of the heart. He charged the machine, upon which he shouted: "Clear!"
What followed happened too fast for either Brain or Pinky to register. All either of them knew was that once it happened, they were out cold for a time. When they finally woke up, they felt the cold wind surrounding them, they smelled the ashes of something that burned not too long ago, and felt something they could only describe as dirt covering them. When they looked up, they realized the building they once inhabited wasn't there anymore. All that remained were loose bricks, broken glass, burned wood and torched equipment.
"Pinky." Brain mumbled, "Are you pondering what I'm pondering?"
"I think so Brain." Pinky replied, "But why would we need to wear red pants with yellow buttons?"
"No, Pinky!" Brain said, "In using the defib, I just blew up our home base for my world domination plans, and our last line of defense against the whole world!"
"That's quite alright." Pinky tried to consul him, "We could always join the "Twin-Light" crew."
Brain picked up a piece of glass, and smacked it onto Pinky's head.
"Come, Pinky." he said, "We better find ourselves a new lab, and prepare for tomorrow-night."
"Why Brain?" Pinky wondered, "What are we going to do tomorrow-night?"
"The same thing we do every night, Pinky." he answered, "Try... to take over the world!"
THE END
