For lunch it was slightly different. I had gotten my hot dogs. Susan had gotten instead of oatmeal, a salad. Insecto had gotten what to her would be cotton candy, the top of a redwood forest tree! Link got salmon instead of trout. Bob had a tube go right above him and then out of it, a long submarine sandwich fell right on him and he started absorbing it. Dr. Cockroach got instead of just garbage and trash, a pile of trash that was consisting of fruits and vegetables.
Hey Susan, I ask.
Yeah Paul? She asks.
Can I see what it look like from the top of your table? I ask.
Sure Paul, she says smiling. She puts her hand down so I can walk onto it and then lifts me up and I hop off her hand and onto the table. I am so high up.
Whoa! This is high up! I exclaim in shock and awe.
Yeah but it is a big view of the room, Link adds.
I look up at Insecto who is leaning in closer to see me fully now and is sniffing me. I chuckle at this as the wind tickles. Soon Susan is giggling at this and then Link joins in and then Dr. Cockroach gets into it with is maniacal laugh, even Insecto is some what grunt laughing and then Bob just yells out, What is so funny?
We all stare at him and then everyone starts laughing including Bob.
Heh, that was good, I say catching my breath.
Hehehe yeah, Susan says still in that big smile.
I felt right there and then we had all became pals because a real group of friends can just go into a laughing fit with you for no apparent reason.
Lunch ends and then we all go into the elevator to go up to Link s room. But first we say bye to Insecto and then we have to wait because he has to drain it out because we can t breathe water.
We get up to the room and it looks brighter than mine. There are a few weights in the corner. Also there is a water proof radio. And then Link tells us to pardon the green stuff. I wonder if the stuff is what I think it is. But he says that it is just the water plants and they float normally in the water. Plus there are a few waterproof books but mostly about action movies. On the wall he had one poster and it was of course a poster of Chuck Norris.
I asked Link, Hey Link, how did you get here?
Link responds, Well one day way back in the dino period, I was just minding my business in the process evolving from being a fish to being an ape. Well I was just standing there when, BAM! The Ice Age kicked in and I was frozen in ice but I didn t die because I had evolved warm blood and so I didn t die from the cold. I came to about 50 years ago when some scientists found me and thawed me out. I escaped from them and then felt I had to go back to my turf which now had become Coco Beach. I was very territorial and so I fought off all of the males while keeping the females. I then was attacked by the National Guard, the Coast Guard and the life guard but still wasn t captured. Then the men from the facility came in and tranquilized me and brought me here.
Wow, I say in awe, so you really are from the genus that carried the chromosomes from fish to humans?
Yup, Link stated looking rather full of himself.
We then went back into the elevator, went back down to the main room and then we got into the elevator for Insecto s room, which of course was enormous!
The room was fairly empty except for the huge picture of the Redwood Forest. Plus there were a few big balls of light that were really remote controlled blimps that someone would fly around and Insecto would follow.
Link tells me that Insecto got here by being affected by nuclear radiation. She became a 350 ft tall monster grub and then went and attacked Tokyo because of all the bright light attracted her. That was where the facility got her. Later on, she got hit by a phaziod cannon owned by Gallaxhar when he tried to take Susan. She cocooned herself and metamorphosized into a butterfly.
We all but Insecto go into the elevator and go back down to the main room.
Next, we go up to Bob s room.
Bob s room was fairly empty just like Insecto, but still had a few things. As soon as we got in there, Bob went up to a white box that was a mini-fridge and takes out a plate of Jell-O. He calls her Janet. I wonder what is going on and he tells me that he is dating her. The monsters later tell me about the whole jell-o love story situation. He shows me then the rest of his stuff. He has a red dodge ball that he throws against a wall and catches it on his body and then absorbs it and spits it out and then throws it again. He also has a mirror that he goes in front of and tries to make different shapes. He has one book and that is See Spot Run .
I ask Bob how he got here and after he had tried to say he got here both like Insecto and Link, he finally told me his origin.
Well, He starts, I was born in a snack food factory, Old Man Carl s Snack Food. They were trying a new combination of a genetically altered tomato and some chemically altered ranch flavored dessert topping. I formed from that and gained consciousness. I became an indestructible, gelatinous mass. They all ran even though I was just a kid being just made. I started eating all of the stuff in the factory. Soon the cops came and shot me but it just was absorbed and so they failed. They ran away and then I ate their squad car. Then the men from the facility came and used my one weakness cold to stop me and captured me. When I got here Link and Dr. Cockroach already were here and then after me, Insecto came in. Dr. Cockroach had taught me how to speak as I wasn t taught how to speak by the facility or by the snack food factory.
Wow, I say in awe, So when you absorb something, can you choose whether or not to digest it?
Yes I can, Bob says trying to look as smug as Link while saying it.
Then we went back down to the main room again and then went up to Dr. Cockroach room.
It was full of inventions! There were a lot of explosion marks of the wall in smears and he told me that not all of his experiments work but some do. He took out a watch that was made out of a can, a tube of toothpaste and a paperclip, and told me that it couldn t tell time but it can propel people into the air but all it did was pull Dr. Cockroach around while we chuckled and then Susan stopped Dr. Cockroach from hitting the wall. He told me that he was now trying to see if he can make a containment device for when they have to take care of rampaging monsters. There was a whole wall of books! Ones about quantum physics, insect books and a lot of notebooks of notes he has made.
Now Doc, I ask, Now how did you get here?
Well it isn t as amazing as anyone else s but oh well, he starts, Well I was looking into how people can live longer by trying to take traits from a cockroach and give them to humans. Unfortunately there was a side effect, I had gotten the cockroach s ability to survive but I had gotten other parts like the head. I was captured while trying to get food for a meal and was brought here. I had taught Bob and Link how to talk as Bob was never taught and Link came from a time before languages existed.
Dr. Cockroach, that is amazing because you can climb up walls and can build inventions from plain trash, I reply, That is amazing.
Thanks Paul, Dr. Cockroach says happily.
We again go back down to the main room and then up to Susan room.
It is huge! Everything is like my room only on a large scale and has a light tint of pink to it. There is a poster of a kitten hanging from a tree with the saying; Hang in there! There also is a huge desk out of welded metal. Plus a few books, all supersized! I can see; Of Mice and Men , Dante s Inferno and the novel form of The Incredible Shrinking Woman. There also is an enormous bean bag chair that is big enough for 5 elephants to be on it at the same time. She picks everyone up and puts them on the bed and then we start jumping as it is like a moon-bounce to us!
I then ask Susan, So Susan, how did you get here?
Well its kind of long but I ll shorten it for you, She tells me, A little I was about to get married to my boy friend Derek Deetle, one of the top newsman in Modesto, CA. Everything was perfect and then, on the day of the wedding, I was out at the church s gazebo and Derek came out and approached me. He told me we weren t going to Paris for our honeymoon but to Fresno, CA. I was devastated but then he told me that we were going there so he can step up in his career. I then was alone in the gazebo when I noticed a meteor falling towards me and I tried to get away but I still got hit. I m not hurt and then I go into the church and at the alter, I started glowing green and then I grew to the height of 49 ft 11ft 1/2inches. The church was destroyed and then I was captured by the men from the facility. After that an alien probe came to earth looking for the energy substance, Quantonium that was in the meteor that made me huge. We were sent in to destroy it and succeeded and we were granted our freedom. We went back to Modesto and I found out that Derek was a big jerk. I realize my size and strength is better for my life. Then the evil alien Gallaxhar came to earth to try and get it himself. He caught me and in the process hurt Insecto. Then he got the Quantonium and reduced me back to my normal height. He had made his clone army and planned to take the earth for himself. Luckily Link, Bob and Dr. Cockroach came and saved me and helped me stop the takeover. Then they got trapped and so I had to regain the Quantonium and become Ginormica again to save them. I saved them and then when we got out Insecto came and got us. Derek tried to get me to be interviewed by him so he can get a better job and then I dumped him.
Wow that is even more amazing than I thought it would be, I say in awe, That Derek sounds like a jerk.
Thanks Paul, Susan says happily smiling, there s that blushing again.
You re welcome Susan, I say in reply.
We go once again down to the main room.
Dr. Cockroach chimes in, Now that we ve shown you our rooms how about now we see yours?
Sure Dr. Cockroach, I reply, I mean I did agree to the whole deal.
We all go into the elevator and then we start going up to my room.
I hope my room isn t dirty, I think to my self.
When we reach the room, all of the other monsters gasp!
--End Chapter 8--