Chapter 7: Striker Caterpillar
Blitz continues to walk for a long time and is starting to get tired. He continues to walk through the large world until he finds large mushrooms. He walks under one of the large mushrooms and sits down as he leans his back against the mushroom's stem. Then lets out a tired sigh as he relaxes on the stem. Suddenly, Blitz ends up hearing a rattling and hissing sound. He sits up straight and looks for the source of the sound.
Then he hears a familiar voice, "Well well, look who decided to come into my small domain."
Blitz and recognizes the voice, and has an uneasy feeling about it. Yet, curiosity gets the better of him and he walks out from under the mushroom to find the source of the voice. Unknown to Blitz, a tail fork with a black stripe appears from behind. Blitz senses something off and looks behind, the tail moves away from his sight before having a look. Then the tail fork taps on his shoulder, causing him to turn around, but sees nothing.
"What the fuck is going…" Blitz quickly says, but is cut off to feel something around his waist.
Then is suddenly lifted into the air with force. Blitz quickly looks down to see he's been coiled up by a pale red tail with black stripes, and it's very familiar. He looks to see the tail lift him up to a taller mushroom that is around the entire foot off the ground. Then place him on the cap of the mushroom.
"Howdy little dude," The voice says.
Blitz quickly turns his head to see the owner of the tail is a being that resembles Striker, but his legs are actually an odd looking tail, almost like a snake. He has the same pale red skin with bright yellow eyes with green rings, black mustache, ivory white hair with black and white striped horns, and sharp teeth smile with a large gold tooth. He wears the same gray sun hat, light red scarf around his neck, a black turtleneck shirt under a black grey vest, and wears a gray jacket with black gray cuffs with black tassels below, and black fingerless gloves. The only difference is that he doesn't have legs, but a long tail like a caterpillar or something. A little bit of it is white, and the rest is pale red with black stripes with eight spikes lined up. The Imp has a wheat in his mouth and has a white cigarette in his hand.
Seeing the Imp's face, has Blitz feeling rather insecure, especially after the last time he has met with that face at the Harvest Moon Festival. Blitz tries to remain calm about the situation. Of course, he can't help but feel insecure and bitter.
The Imp smirks and questions, "So, what brings a little fella like you in this neck of the woods?"
He drags his cigarette and blows three rings of smoke at Blitz.
"Well if you must know. I'm fuckin lost in whatever this place is, I think it's called Wonderland. Not to mention meeting with some insane characters and have been changing sizes. I feel that I have no clue what is going on," Blitz says, annoyed and the smoke rings phase through him.
The smoke cause him to cough a little.
"Hmm," The long tailed Striker replies, arching an eyebrow.
Then blows some more rings of smoke, "Sounds like you have a problem."
"No kidding. This place is confusing, and is fuckin insane," Blitz says, frustrated.
"More like mad is the most appropriate word," The Striker Caterpillar says.
"Mad huh? Well, I don't feel like myself either. I can't find my colleges and find myself in this insane place, and I just want to find a way out of this place. Or at least find a way to get back to my normal size," Blitz says, frustrated.
Striker Caterpillar chuckles and says, "Well, who do you think you are then?" Then blows a ring of smoke at Blitz.
"Well, maybe you can tell me…" Blitz says, but the smoke rings end up at his face.
That causes Blitz to cough out of the smoke that ends up in his mouth.
"Who you are first," Blitz adds as he coughs out the smoke.
"Why?" Striker Caterpillar questions.
Blitz groans as he lays back on the mushroom.
Then mutters to himself, "This isn't getting me anywhere."
Then sits up with a sigh and softly says to himself, "I don't think I'm going to get anywhere by being here all day. I gotta find Moxxie and Millie and get out this place."
Striker Caterpillar chuckles and says, "You sure are one strange fella." and tosses the wheat away.
Then questions glancing at Blitz, "So what do these two mean to you? Can't handle being here alone."
Confused and feeling a bit uneasy about the tone the cowboy is giving him.
"Wha-what do you mean by that?" Blitz asks, and soon stands up.
"Well, you seem rather confused, lost, and without anyone to back you up," The Caterpillar says as he comes closer to Blitz.
Striker Caterpillar continues, "You seem to have somewhat of a good potential, but you decide to look for that little vermin along with his little pepper loving wife of his. You seem to want to know where that little vermin is going. But let's not worry about that little rabbit anymore."
The caterpillar continues to walk and slither as he circles around Blitz with a sinister smile on his face. Blitz begins to feel more uneasy and concerned about the caterpillar's attitude towards him.
"So why struggle having to find those two and find your way out of this world," Striker Caterpillar says.
Blitz continues to feel concerned and uncertain about what he is saying. Suddenly, the caterpillar's long tail coils around Blitz's waist and pins his arms together, name with his ankles, then coils around his neck, but not enough to choke him and to put a little pressure on him. Then Striker Caterpillar walks to Blitz with an evil smirk on his face.
"I find it really pathetic that you waste your time on them. I can tell you have a lot of potential. You can stay here a little while longer," Striker Caterpillar says, and cuffs his hand under Blitz' chin.
Then says, "I'm sure you wouldn't mind."
"I… I suppose, but I… I really would like to be a little larger," Blitz says, sounding skeptical.
Striker leans his face towards his face, "And why would you want that?" then blows rings of smoke at Blitz.
Blitz coughs a little to have the smoke blown at him.
"Well, I… uh…" Blitz nervously says.
Then remains calm and says, "After all, being small kind of sucks for those who aren't used to it. It's still annoying that I keep changing sizes all the time."
"Hmm," Striker Caterpillar says, interested.
He then uncoils his tail away from Blitz much to his relief.
Before he takes his leave Blitz answers, "If you really want to get big, there is a way for you to get big."
"Really? How?" Blitz asks, curious.
"Right. One side of the mushroom will make you taller and the other side will make you shorter," Striker Caterpillar says.
Blitz looks at the mushroom and asks, "How am I supposed to tell which is which?"
"That's for you to find out," Striker Caterpillar says.
Then climbs down the mushroom and takes his leave. Once the Cowboy dressed caterpillar is gone, Blitz looks at the mushroom he is standing on.
Blitz grits his teeth and mutter, "Fuckin creep."
He calms down and says, "I just need to figure out how to find out which side of the mushroom can help me get big."
Then Blitz has an idea, "I wonder."
He kneels down and takes a piece from the top of the mushroom. Then looks over the edge and takes a piece from under the mushroom cap. He then looks at the two pieces.
"Hmm, one of these is supposed to make me taller, while the other is supposed to make me smaller, but which is which…" Blitz says to himself.
He looks at the two different pieces of mushroom, but isn't sure which will make him grow tall and which will grow smaller.
"Guess I'll just try one and see how it goes," Blitz says to himself.
He first eats the mushroom from the top of the cap. As soon as he eats it, Blitz feels something strange in his body. Then he begins to grow very big and his body stretches tall, even his neck stretches high above the trees. By the time Blitz stops growing, he hits his head on a branch.
Blitz shouts in pain, "Fuckin dammit!"
Then looks down to see how tall he has gotten and how long his body stretches.
"Well, looks like that side of the mushroom made me taller, then the other one might help make me smaller," Blitz says to himself.
Blitz then lowers his head as he moves away from the branches of the trees. It's very difficult because his horns keep getting caught by the branches like hooks. Finally he reaches to the rest of his body and eats the mushroom from his other hand. He then shrinks rapidly until he is back to being a few inches tall.
"At least I got myself out of that mess. Let's see…" Blitz says and looks at the mushroom that makes him tall.
He is skeptical about trying it again. He then has an idea. Blitz licks a bit of the mushroom and grows back to his normal size.
Blitz sighs in relief, "Phew. That's a lot better."
He then looks at the remaining mushrooms.
"Better save these. They'll come in handy," Blitz says to himself, and puts the mushrooms in his pockets.
He then continues walking down a path to continue his search for Moxxie Rabbit, and see if he can find someone to ask for directions.