A Spark in the Dark
When Sparky emerged from his cocoon, he wasn't in the cage. He was in a cardboard box. Looking around, he saw that there were pieces of his cage stuck to his cocoon. The human must have put him in there.
Sparky was surprised that he could see so well in the dark box. It must be his new Gremlin eyes. He brought his hands to his face, feeling the difference. He no longer had fur; he now had slime-covered scales. Putting his thumb in his mouth, he found that his teeth were pointy and dangerous. He looked at his hands and found them to have longer, thin fingers that were tipped with claws.
"Interesting..." muttered Sparky. He looked down at himself, seeing the rest of his Gremlin body. He was taller now; he had been 9 inches tall as a Mogwai, and now he was about 25 inches. That was when he heard it. Slowly lowering his large ear as close to his chest as he could go, he listened to his heartbeat and found it at least five times faster than it was when he was a Mogwai.
Sparky looked up at the lid of the box and smiled a toothy Gremlin smile. Instead of hitting the top of the box to get out, he thumped his fist against the side, where he knew the edge of the table was. After a few more hits, the box fell to the floor and burst open. Sparky tumbled out and a bell rang.
Quickly, Sparky hid under the first desk he could. He saw the legs of about thirty humans leaving the room, and he ignored the sudden urge to dash out and bite as many ankles as he could. Instead, he stayed put.
About a minute later, the room was empty. Only one human remained, and Sparky recognized him. It was the human that had stuck a needle in him the night before! Sparky rubbed his arm where the needle had gone in and snarled. He prepared to pounce, but the human dashed out of the room, leaving the lights off.
Sparky immediately formulated a plot for revenge. He quickly crawled out from under the desk and ran into the back room. He instantly located a large box of hypodermic needles. He took the entire box and hid them under a desk in the front of the room. Now all he had to do was wait until the human came back.
A few seconds later, he realized something: he hated waiting.
Sparky sighed, bored. But that was when he looked around and saw a strange hole in the wall. He slowly walked over to it and curiously stuck his finger in it.
ZAP!
Sparky yanked his finger back out as he got electrocuted. His entire arm went numb and his adrenaline surged. He waited a minute and he regained feeling in his arm. But after another minute... he stuck his finger back in, getting electrocuted again. This time his arm didn't go numb, but a strange tingling feeling came over it, traveling all over his body. He smiled, liking the feeling of the electricity flowing through him.
Maybe that's why my name's Sparky...
Sparky pulled his finger out and stuck it back in again, but this time, nothing happened. He had burned out the electricity in this outlet.
Disappointed, Sparky looked around for something else electric. That was when he laid his eyes on the machine in the middle of the room that looked like it could give a shock.
Sparky made his way to the machine in the middle of the room that had pictures coming out of it. He quickly crawled up on it and flipped a switch. The pictures started going backwards. Sparky started giggling, but that was when he heard the door open.
Quickly, Sparky ducked down behind the machine and hoped that the human didn't turn on any lights.
The human started walking towards the machine, and he turned it off, his hand almost touching Sparky. The human started to walk away, and Sparky breathed a sigh of relief. He quickly peeked above the edge of the machine and saw the human looking the other way. Smiling evilly, he turned the machine back on and jumped down.
Sparky started to run back to where he had hidden all the needles, bumping into tables and chairs as he went. He then sat under the desk and waited.
A few seconds later, the human bent down, right in front of the desk. In his hand, he was holding a piece of food. It did look good, and Sparky was hungry.
"Yum, yum," he muttered in the human language to tell the human to stay there and let him eat. The human seemed to understand.
Sparky crept forward and devoured the piece of food. The label on the side said Snickers... Sparky didn't know what that meant, he just knew that he could read human words now with his Gremlin brain.
The human started saying human words again and Sparky remembered what his revenge was. He smiled at the opportunity presenting itself. The human's hand was right there...
Faster than the human could react, Sparky ripped the food wrappings out of the human's hand. He then bit down on the human's fingers, his razor sharp teeth severing the three middle fingers. The human screamed and Sparky spit out the digits, grabbed the human's wrist, and bit down on it. Using all of his strength, he yanked the human under the desk.
The last thing the human saw was Sparky's face. Sparky used his razor sharp claws to rip open the human's throat. The human made a gurgling noise, and Sparky grabbed a handful of needles. He jammed them all into the human's face.
The human was spilling some salty liquid that Sparky could only assume was his blood. Sparky jammed about fifty more needles into the human's face. He used all but one needle. That was when the human stopped struggling and went still.
Sparky stepped back and picked up the last needle, breathing hard, blood dripping from his hands and mouth. This was his first kill, and it was exhilarating!
Sparky stepped out from under the desk. He walked around and inspected the human, trying to figure out where to put the last needle.
After a few minutes, he stopped to wipe the blood off of his hands and mouth, using the pant leg of the human. He stood up again, but that was when he heard someone coming down the hall. It had to be the other human from the night before!
Sparky quickly jammed the last needle in the dead human's butt, which seemed fit. He hid behind the desk just as the human turned on a light near the door. He heard the human walk around for a bit before laying eyes on the dead human.
Sparky knew exactly what this human was going to do.
The human lunged for the talking device called a phone and grabbed it. However, right as he grabbed it, Sparky reached up and clawed the back of his hand, most likely cutting a vein. The human yelped and jumped back. Then Sparky got distracted. When he had clawed the human, he saw something round and red on the desk. He reached up and grabbed it, trying to eat it. Well, he was still hungry after all.
"Yuck!" growled Sparky, tasting the red thing. He flung it up back onto the desk.
Still looking for food, Sparky reached up on the desk and grabbed a test tube. He bit it, but spit out the glass. There was no food here.
Looking to his left, Sparky saw an air vent. He slammed through it and ran through the ducts, coming out in the hallway outside of the room he was just in.
Looking through the windows, Sparky could see that the sun was minutes away from setting. In fact, he could go outside right now if he wanted to and the light would be too weak to kill him! Instead, he looked around, curious, and saw a door with a red cross on the window. He quickly ran inside.
The second Sparky closed the door, he heard the door to the other room open and the human come out. Knowing he had to hide, Sparky climbed up onto a counter and hid in the cabinet.
Just as he closed the cabinet, he heard the door open and the human come in. The human stayed in the room. He must have grabbed something from the counter, and Sparky could tell from some strange sixth sense that the human was getting closer.
As soon as he felt the human touch the cabinet door right next to him, he burst out with a snarl. The human completely freaked out and stumbled across the room. Sparky grabbed whatever he could and threw it at the human before jumping down from the counter and smashing through the air vent.
Sparky followed the scent of fresh air and, only thirty seconds after entering the air ducts, burst out into the snow. Gremlins have a body temperature of about 20 degrees, so it wasn't enough to melt the snow. In fact, the snow didn't bother Sparky at all.
Sparky quickly dashed to the road. At that moment, a large snowplow drove by. Using his ninja Gremlin moves, he jumped onto the back of the snowplow, catching a ride.
A minute or two later, the snowplow pulled into a drive way and slowed down before driving into a garage. Sparky hopped off when it slowed down and made a mental note to come back later that night and play with it.
Sparky looked around and saw a house with really messed up Christmas lights, almost as if something had gotten tangled in them. Deciding to check out that house first, Sparky went over to the window. He climbed up the tree next to the window and looked inside.
The first thing he saw was Capper, climbing up into a Christmas tree. In his hand he held a wire he had ripped from the telephone. Sparky tapped on the window to get his attention. Capper turned around and, when he saw Sparky, signaled for him to stay quiet and hide outside. Sparky gave him a thumbs up before hopping down from the tree and running over to the car parked in the driveway. He quickly slipped under the car, out of sight. Now all he had to do was wait.
But Sparky hated waiting.
After a few minutes, Sparky looked up at the car he was under. Some of those wires looked interesting...
Without hesitating, Sparky ripped out a couple wires. None of them really gave him a shock though, so he just started to mess with them. That was when he heard footsteps.
Looking out from under the car, Sparky saw the human. He quickly shoved the wires back where they looked like they weren't supposed to go and scrambled out from underneath the car, just as the human ran inside.
Sparky ran back to the house and climbed up the tree. He looked through the window...
...just in time to see Capper get decapitated by the human and have his head thrown in the fireplace.
So that's why his name was Capper, thought Sparky as he slipped from the branch he was holding, falling to the ground and getting buried in the snow.
Suddenly, the sound of shattering glass brought him back to reality. He shook the snow out of his eyes in time to see a Gremlin with a stripe burst through the window and dash off into the snow. A minute later, the human came out the door with another human, the one Capper had been trying to choke. They went off in a different direction.
Sparky took the opportunity to go inspect the damage. He shook of the shock and stood up, brushing the snow off of himself. He then climbed back up into the tree and through the hole in the window. He hopped down and looked around, immediately finding Capper's body. He shuddered at the sight of the spine sticking out and blood slowly oozing out of where the head used to be. He cautiously backed away and slowly made his way into the kitchen, where he could smell more Gremlin blood coming from.
The kitchen was a horror show. There was green Gremlin blood everywhere, all over the walls. He looked towards the microwave and saw that someone had exploded in there. That was when he heard a strangled gasp come from the counter top.
Sparky pushed a chair over to the counter and hopped up. What he saw shocked him.
On the counter top lay another Gremlin, a knife stabbed through it's stomach. It was still alive, barely. The Gremlin weakly looked over and saw Sparky. He unclenched his fist a little, signaling Sparky to come.
Sparky quickly came over to him and bent down to hear what he had to say.
"Find Stripe," the Gremlin choked out. "Kill Billy."
"Who?" asked Sparky.
"The human..." gasped the Gremlin. "Kill him... kill him..." The Gremlin's eyes rolled back and it went limp, dying.
Sparky took a few steps back, almost falling off of the counter. He caught himself, but ended up jumping anyways. He dashed out of the kitchen and back into the living room, where Capper's body still was. At least his death had been quick and painless.
Suddenly, Sparky heard the door open behind him. He quickly hid in the Christmas tree as the human, Billy, came in and looked at the damage. Sparky snarled when he saw that the human was armed.
The human stayed for a few minutes before leaving. As soon as the human walked out the door, Sparky went out the window, following him. He silently trailed the human all down town. When the human came near a large building with a hole in the door was when Sparky saw the Mogwai in his backpack.
I wonder who that is, thought Sparky. He must be evil if he's friends with a human!
The human and Mogwai went into the large building, but Sparky stayed outside. He could smell water inside.
Sparky hid in some bushes near the entrance to the building. Now all he had to do was wait.
But Sparky hated waiting.
However, he didn't have to wait for very long. After a minute, an alarm went off inside the building. Then, about 30 seconds later, the human came running out. Sparky hid from view and continued watching. Lights filled the building and Sparky saw the shadows of thousands of Gremlins! He sensed them moving towards the door.
The first Gremlin to come through the door was the one with the stripe, who, according to the Gremlin that got stabbed, was named Stripe.
As Stripe and his army came closer to the bushes, Sparky stepped out.
"Who are you?" demanded Stripe.
"Sparky."
Stripe's face lit up. "I know you!" he exclaimed. He took Sparky by the arm and continued walking, leading his army through the streets. "You're Capper's Gremlin!"
"Uh... yeah," muttered Sparky.
Stripe laughed. "Well he told me you'd come. You're gonna help us get rid of all these humans..."
"Alright," said Sparky. "I'll do it."
Stripe grinned, showing his teeth. "Welcome to the army..."
A/N: Okay, let's count how many times Sparky got electrocuted in this chapter! One... two... three... that's it. I'm totally gonna keep track! Also, I think Sparky may have ADHD with his inability to wait for more than three seconds. I have ADD, so I know what the difference is. Review! Or Sparky AND Stripe AND Stripe's army will find you...!