Finally the next chapter is done as requested by Star Fire and Gwen and a big thanks to inugirl504 for editing it and now we begin
One night, at the farmhouse in the Middle of Nowhere, we find Courage in the living room watching a late night movie while munching on some popcorn and cookies. Gina, in exhaustion after getting the girls to bed, decides to join the dog in watching the late night movie, sitting next to him on the couch.
"Come on boy. Why don't we watch something a little more fun?" Gina says as she places Courage in her lap, picks up the remote, and changes the channel. To Courage's surprise, the channel she turns to presented a very familiar face. One that Courage was hoping he would never see again.
It was a short man with an oblong head, a wide smile and dark eyelids, he also had bright-red hair, thin limbs, wore an olive shirt with checkered vest in purple and pink with a matching bow tie and bright-red pants with black shoes.
"Good evening family and friends." the man spoke, revealing a set of very crooked teeth. "Feeling unsatisfied with the life you live? Feeling like something is missing? Maybe perhaps feeling...empty?" much to Courage's fright, as he quickly looks back at Gina who started getting invested in what this man was saying, for the poor frightened dog this was certainly a bad sign for him.
The man on T.V. starts his introduction "I am the King of Flan. I wish to present to you a new form of entertainment, that will not only entertain you, but also your loved ones, through a very special entertainment platform that will be presenting the finest quality entertainment. It is a network that will be suited to all family, serving your mind with the metaphorical sweetness and delight of flan. I call it...NetFlan" the king says. This interests Gina even more.
The screen changes, showing the logo which consisted of the word NetFlan in golden yellow thin letters, behind the word was a large white tall trapezoid with three little ink droplets on the to left corner of the trapezoid, which is meant to represent a flan much to both Courage and Gina's curiosity.
The King continues "With NetFlan, you have access the best content you can imagine, right at your fingertips." Gina becomes more fascinated, as she then asks "Any program?" Only for the King of Flan to answer "Yes, viewers, ANY program that you can imagine." When he says this, the background shifts to a screenshot of multiple screens all at once playing in all different types of colors that amazes her even more, all the while Courage starts getting more judgmental towards this proposed platform.
Eustace and Gavin walk in from outside after a long day, and notice Gina on the couch with her eyes focused on the T.V. much to their confusion as Eustace asks "What the hecks gotten into ya woman?" Only for Gina to not pay any attention to them, as two of Gina's loved ones decide to investigate what's interesting her on T.V.
Pretty soon, despite Courage's worry or attempts to warn them, they too start to get mesmerized by the Flan King's demonstration of the shows he plans to involve into his project joining Gina on the couch.
Soon enough, Muriel enters the room and asks if everything was okay. She finds the couple and her husband focused on the screen. Curious, she decides to see what they were watching. Before long, she too ended up entranced by what was shown despite Courage trying to stop her.
Back on the screen, the king continues to explain "All these shows and more, act now and we'll throw in a membership deal with the company funding this platform Flantastic Flan, so that every week you will be sent all of the finest flavors of flan you can EVER imagine." The screen once again changes, showing a plate of already made flan in front of a swirling red line which is hypnotizing the family... except Courage strangely enough.
The commercial ends with the King of Flan saying "So please, feel free to join our flantastic family...Join NetFlan." the final image on the screen is the logo.
After only a minute of silence, Gavin breaks the silence saying "We have got to get NetFlan!" Much to Courage's fright and disapproval, as he tries to tell his family, sadly to no avail as they order the NetFlan.
By the next week, the entire Bagge family were now officially subscribed to NetFlan. For a while, the family, aside from Courage, were enjoying the endless entertainment content that NetFlan was chock full of. It was even more enjoyable with a plate of flan that was delivered each week which, as promised by the King of Flan, was a different yet delectable flavor.
But within a month, they became so obsessed with the platform that they started to pay more attention to that and less attention to their daily lives. Despite Courage's attempts to bring them back to reality, it sadly was not enough to break his beloved family from the spell that is NetFlan.
Three months later...
The Farmhouse began to fall apart. The entire living room was completely filled with pre-chewed flan, and the family had become obsessed with flan. However, it was not as bad as their behavior.
Once, when Courage woke up on the couch to be greeted with the mess, he heard loud chewing and moaning coming from the kitchen. When he walks into the kitchen, he's frightened by the horrid sight before him. His family was eating pre-chewed flan off of the floor, the table, the sink, even some that was leftover in the containers. All of them had the crazy look of greed and hunger in their eyes, as if they were wild animals feeding on their prey.
Courage screamed in terror. His open mouthed skull began to fly out of his head, and his eyes began to fly out from their sockets and through the skull, all the while his tongue stretches to an impossible length.
Katy, hearing his scream while licking an empty container, notices the pink dog, aggressively approaches the poor animal, grabbing him by his back, bringing him up to her eye level, and asks "Alright you, WHERE is it?! I know you have it on you! I know this weeks flan of the day came in." Katy says aggressively, as the entire family, after hearing her say the word flan, zips toward her direction in the hopes her hostage is able to surrender flan to them, only for Courage to simply shake his head no.
Katy gets closer to his face glaring at him, saying "If I find out that your holding out on me, I will make your life a living..." Before finishing her threat, the family stopped what they are doing, when they heard something important come on the T.V. about Flan. They quickly ran to the living room with Courage following behind out of curiosity. The entire family crowded around the T.V. as the King of Flan greeted his viewers.
"Yes, the time has come, my fellow Flan lovers." he said with the same wicked grin on his face.
"The time has come for everyone to gather around and honor the Flan King, who has come back to Nowhere for his big public debut tomorrow." he announces and the family grows more fascinated as he continues. "To those who wish to meet me, I shall be at the town square to await you by the next morning, on this joyous day for you to witness and say ALL HAIL THE FLAN KING!" This gets the entire family in an uproar.
Hearing this announcement, Courage knew that something had to be done to put an end to this Flan nightmare, and fast otherwise the way he sees it, his family as well as everyone around the globe who is engorged in flan, would lead to the earth plummeting infinitely or worse...until the earth breaks.
After some thinking, Courage says to himself "This is going to end bad I know it is. I gotta stop him I just gotta." After some more pacing around the floor, he adds "But there's no way I can do it after what happened last time, especially when he has a whole hypnotism act at his disposal." This is when he begins to stop and think, before saying "But what if it wasn't just me?" looking back at the family again, Courage begins to come up with an idea.
Later that night, when everyone is asleep, Courage seizes this chance to put his plan into motion. After getting up, he climbs onto Katy's bed and takes out a yo-yo from his pocket. But not just any yo-yo. A yo-yo with a wrapper wrapped around it with a picture of flan inside a red circle and a red diagonal line through it. Courage wakes up Katy by setting off an alarm clock conveniently placed by her bed.
When she begins to slowly rise from her bed and turn it off, Courage waits for Katy to open her eyes then begins to wave the yo-yo side to side in front of her face until she was hypnotized, that's when Courage presents to her a tub of flan he pulled out from his pocket before swatting her hand away from it, which surprisingly snaps her out of her obsession as well as out of the Kings control.
Once Katy was completely out of the trance the first thing she sees is Courage. "Courage what are you doing on my bed?"
At this point Courage begins to babble on about what has happened involving the King of Flan. Unfortunately, despite not understanding what he is saying Katy does realize that her bed as well as her room are completely filled with pre-chewed flan and empty containers much to her disgust.
Then looking back at her little sister in bed holding a flan container as if it were a stuffed toy, Katy started to understand why her room was in such a state. 'So this is what that NetFlan thing is doing to us. It's making us into crazed flan addicts.' Then she notices the yo-yo Courage was using as a hypnotist watch thus taking it before approaching her sister with it and performing the same trick onto her.
Once the young child was snapped out of the Kings control, Madeline looks at the two people looking concernedly at her asking groggily "Katy are we having a slumber party?"
"No, but I think we need to make the people who have that new platform stop watching NetFlan. Look what its done to us." Katy says referring to the state of their room, as well as the state of their clothing in which Madeline asks "But daddy just bought a new T.V for grandpa and grandma. How do we stop NetFlan?"
In which Courage steps in and conveniently takes out a set of keys to the pickup truck as well as a map of Nowhere with the marked location of where they need to go and without even questioning him they go with Courage to the said location.
When they reach the town of Nowhere in Eustace's truck, the trio soon find at the center of town a large stage being set up with speakers on top pointing from the left and right sides of the stage as well as two more in the middle.
"Talk about an ego." comments Katy as she Madeline and Courage carefully look around the supposed stage for anything suspicious for at least an hour, only to come across the sound of wicked cackling which leaves the trio suspicious, before they quietly sneak close to the source which just so happens to have come from a trailer behind the stage.
In the trailer, looking out the window, happened to be none other than the King of Flan himself, preparing to present himself to the citizens of Nowhere.
"It won't be long now" The large man says to himself "Soon the whole world will be under my magical Flan spell when they tune in to my arrival to Nowhere on NetFlan. That is when I shall unleash my hypno screen, and when everyone hears my voice, I shall truly be the Flan King of my own Flantasy world!"
Shocked by this Katy whispers to herself "this is demented" all while staring in disbelief.
The King of Flan suddenly notices his guests when Madeline abruptly sneezes, "Ah, I seem to have unexpected company." he says as he approaches the door.
When he opens his door that's when he discovers the trio giving the frightened trio his very sinister grin. "Well this is quite a coincidence. I did not think I would end up running into you again." The King of Flan says referring to Courage before two security guards from out of nowhere, grab both Katy and Madeline, restraining them.
"Why are you doing this!" Katy demands to the large man who then explains in his calm tone of voice "Is it not obvious child? There is only one thing I desire and that is to live in a world that revolves around flan and what better way to do so then to do so on LIVE TELEVISION!"
He pauses for a brief second before continuing, "and I believe you beloved children and your dog will get a sneak preview of what is to come."
With that said he has the guards escort them into his studio before having the girls tied up into their own individual chairs while Courage is put into a pet carrier before the guards were told to leave. The King of Flan then presents them with a plate of flan saying "I hope you girls are fond of Salted Cajeta Chocolate Flan?" In which Katy asks "And what if I'm not?"
The King of Flan gives her a menacing glare as he replies "Oh, you will, I assure you I will see to it." he then pushes a hidden button on his dresser, activating a device on her chair that pinches her nose straps her arms and stomach down on the chair and holds her head in place, which frightens Madeline and Courage, to which the King notices and says "Fear not little ones, you'll have your turn."
Suddenly from out of one of the walls a compartment opens up to reveal a large drain pipe like tube that The King of Flan introduces as the Flan Feeder saying "this will make a Flan eater out of all picky eaters such as yourself. Bon appetit."
That is when the machine begins to start up as we see the tube shoot out a perfect flan like a cannonball as it flies straight at the teenager its in front of but instead of hitting her when it approaches Katy suddenly starts to feel the machine force her to open her mouth so that the flan may enter before closing it up again until the next Flan comes through.
Courage not willing to let this happen coincidentally slips out from the pet carrier and carefully sneaks behind the King of Flan to try and put a stop to the machine. But just as he was about to The King of Flan stops him by grabbing him by his neck and says in a calm tone "You will not stop flan this time dog, I'll make sure it!" taking out from behind him another container of Flan.
"COURAGE!" Madeline screams as The King of Flan then pushes Courage toward a wall and pins him to it as he begins to attempt and force feed him the flan no matter how much Courage struggled, all while the King of Flan gives a soft yet menacing cackle.
And just as he was about to stuff it down his throat, he abruptly stops, his eyes bulge, and the grin on his face starts to become a frightened frown before he passes out to the ground, revealing that Katy was the one who knocked him out with a broken chair arm.
Afterwards she kneels on the ground in pain as she caresses her stomach moaning out "So much flan." in which Courage, after being let go, sets her gently on the ground. "Will she be OK?" Madeline asks.
He doesn't answer. What he does instead is free Madeline and have her keep an eye on her sister while he went back out onto the stage to perform his hypnosis trick once more on camera and get everyone back to normal and quit NetFlan.
By the next morning, since her family had broken out of NetFlan's spell, things started to go back to normal for not only the Bagge family, but also for the people of Nowhere.
That morning, in Katy and Madeline's room, Katy was still lying in bed, in pain from eating flan.
Muriel walks in with a tray of tea for her, asking "How are we feeling, Katy dear?" In which Katy still in pain responds "Ugh, Grandma, I don't feel too good."
"Well don't ya worry dear" Muriel says assuringly "a nice hot cup of soothing tea should fix ya right up" placing the tray on her nightstand before pouring her a cup.
Courage who was asleep by her side was then approached by his elderly owner, who pats him on the head afterwards. Courage simply smiles in admiration and exhaustion knowing well that hopefully it was the last he heard from the King of Flan.
And it is done thank you all for baring with me I hope you enjoyed the chapter if so please let me know in your reviews and I can assure you the next chapter will be done possibly by this christmas