Truffula Tales
Based upon the toilet paper fight in Despicable Me. Hehe! Also, shout out to GeorgyannWayson for being an inspirado for idea! Thanks and sorry I didn't give u kudos earlier!
The Big Mess
One beautiful morning in the Truffula forest, Once-ler woke up, feeling hungry. He grabbed all the needed cups, bowls and ingredients to make pancakes...only to find out he was out of butter...AGAIN!
"Damn bar-ba-loot!" he grumbled, knowing Lou, the fat bar-ba-loot sneaked in and ate it again.
With an eye roll and exasperated sigh, he pulled off his bunny pajamas and dressed, hitching up Melvin to his cart and rode into town to go shopping.
Pipsqueak saw that that the human was leaving. Wagging his cute little cotton ball tail, he wandered away from the humming Fiora as she picked flowers and towards the human's cottage to find more of those marshmallows that the human had. Fiora saw the little bar-ba-loot going towards Once-ler's cottage and began to climb onto the window. She followed him.
"Now, Pips," she said in a motherly tone. "We're not supposed to go into Once-ler's house when he's not here. He said it was rude."
Pipsqueak had a look of defiance, holding his foot towards the inside.
"Don't you dare!" she warned with a scolding finger.
He just hopped down inside the cottage, making Fiora follow after the mischievous bar-ba-loot, joined the other animals of the Truffula forest.
"You know we shouldn't be in here, Pips," she said worried. "Why did you go in here anyway?"
Pipsqueak made a squishing gesture with his paw in hopes Fiora would understand.
"Oh! You want a marshmallow? Surely Once-ler may have some around here somewhere...oh, but I don't know. Once-ler doesn't want anyone in here. He might get angry." When she saw those big eyes of the small bar-ba-loot in a pleading way. "Well...alright. But we should try not to leave any indication we were here."
Pipsqueak nodded. The animals followed Fiora and came inside as well. She wasn't sure they all should be in here since she was afraid Once-ler would get mad. He said he didn't want anyone inside while he was gone. Oh yes. She remembered the first time...how unpleasant he looked when he found her there, looking at his books. Still, just this once...get Pipsqueak his marshmallow and get out. Not to mention, he looked VERY unhappy when he found all the animals of the forest sleeping in his house as well. No...she didn't want to make her new friend that way.
She looked around...wondering where to start. Hm...she had seen him cooking in one part of the room...called a kitchen. Surely this is where he kept the food. She found some objects in the kitchen: things she hadn't seen before! Though she was still learning more about Once-ler's world, there were things he hadn't shown her yet. Everything about the human and his world was fascinating!
The first thing she spied was a huge open bag made of cloth, but it looked like small ropes with words on the bag. She couldn't understand what it said. Inside was a giant pile of some kind of white dust that looked like snow.
"What do you suppose is it?" she said to her friends. They all shrugged.
She poked the white dust and it left an imprint of her finger. She poked harder and it left a hole, crumbling beneath her touch! This white stuff was really interesting!
She looked at the dust on her green finger and was surprised to find it stayed there! Huh, strange. Why did it do that? She wiped it on her dress...only to find it left a white trail there. She picked up a handful, studying it.
"Ooh! It's so soft!" she exclaimed, feeling the texture.
This dust was the same color as a marshmallow. She smelled and tasted it...only to find it had no odor or flavor at all. She frowned. Why would humans use this stuff? She had no idea. She put it back in the bag, wiping her hands together to remove the leftover. It wasn't easy to get it off. With an annoyed frown, she wiped it on her dress, leaving hand prints. She dusted off her dress a bit and it dispersed all over in fine particles.
"This stuff is..." she began, then thought for a moment about the word Once-ler taught her. Oh yes! "This stuff is...annoying."
Curious Pipsqueak looked in the bag...only to fall inside.
Next she found a very strange box, which she opened it to find eggs.
"Ooh! Look!" she said to the swomee-swans, who stared curiously at them. They weren't like the eggs the swomee-swans laid: these were white and brown! Ooh! The brown ones had some speckles...just like Once-ler's cheeks!
"Where do you suppose these came from?" she commented to the swomee-swans. "Do you suppose there's a baby chick inside?"
The birds shrugged at Fiora's question. They hadn't seen anything like this either. She held it in her hand. It felt cool and smooth, yet hard. Soon it slipped from her hand, which she cried out in surprise. Oops! It exploded on the ground at her feet. She was a bit worried if there was a baby chick inside...only to find a sticky mess of clear liquid with a round yellow sun. Now she was both perplexed and fascinated.
"Ooh!" she said, poking at it. "It's squishy and slimy!"
The animals stared at the egg a bit. The swomee-swans were a bit confused. They had never seen something like this before!
Now Fiora was worried. If Once-ler came home to find out they had broken this egg, he'd know they were in his house!
"What shall we do?" she said to her friends. "Once-ler will not like this. We should pick this up before he comes home."
The animals searched around the room. One of the bar-ba-loots found a strange white circle...which looked...like the white stuff in Once-ler's books, only this was more softer. She stared at it curiously.
"I suppose this could work," she said.
She could see this circle was wrapped around a smaller brown circle in the middle. Hmm. What was this? She saw a loose part of the circle and pulled...it got longer!
"Wow!" she said. She pulled again. "It gets longer!"
She didn't want to waste time by playing with this circle since she had to clean up the egg and find the marshmallows for Pipsqueak and get out of Once-ler's house.
Little Pipsqueak emerged from the bag, completely white. Lou, the fat bar-ba-loot started snickering at the little guy. In annoyance, Pipsqueak grabbed a small handful in his paw and threw it at Lou, getting a burst of it in his face, causing him to stumble and knock the bag of white powder off...which got all over Fiora.
Fiora felt the dust fall on her. She was completely white! She looked up to see a white covered Pipsqueak and a white-faced Lou. They pointed at each other to indicate who was at fault.
"Now look what you've done!" she exclaimed sternly, throwing some dust at them in annoyance. "Don't just stand there! Help me!"
While scooping up the spilled dust back into its bag in handfuls, Suddenly, the two bar-ba-loots began to giggle at the sprite: she looked ridiculous!
"Oh, that's how it's going to be, hmm?" she said with an impish smile.
Then, she grabbed an egg and threw it at one of them, smacking Lou square in the face. Soon, the bar-ba-loots picked up handfuls of the dust and threw it at Fiora. Eventually, the fight began to grow as each of the animals were hit with eggs and dust, joining in the playful fight, making a big mess all over Once-ler's cottage, nailing each other with eggs and the white powder with rambunctious laughter.
Soon, one of the bar-ba-loots grabbed the white soft circle and threw it as well, it flew in a stream of white...Fiora laughed as well, amazed that it did this! She grabbed one and threw it! Then, another bar-ba-loots grabbed Once-ler's pillow and began smacking a swomee-swan. The pillow burst and feathers were flying all over the place. All of them started laughing, covered in the white dusty powder and eggs...and now feathers.
Suddenly, Lorax saw the fight and laughed to himself, getting nailed in the face with an egg from somewhere...making him join in. He grabbed a roll of toilet paper and threw it...
Once-ler returned from his trip and heard what sounded like a commotion coming from his cottage.
"What the...?" he said with furrowed brow of confusion.
There was wild playful laughter from inside his cottage. He opened the door...to find his cottage a HUGE disaster, covered in eggs, flour and toilet paper! Fiora and her friends were throwing them all over the place, jumping on his bed, his pillow was completely ripped open with feathers flying all over the place. A bar-ba-loot was tangled up in toilet paper, crawling like a mummy worm. Furniture was tipped over as well.
Pipsqueak threw an egg at Fiora, only for her to dodge it and it sailed right towards Once-ler, smacking him in the face. He closed his eyes, feeling the slimy egg and the shell dribble down his face. The fight and laughter came to an abrupt halt once they saw the sight of Once-ler, standing in the door with a frown, he blinked his eyes slowly, his body stiff as a board, his lips thin, and his speckled cheeks got red.
"Um...it was all his fault," Fiora said innocently, pointing at Pipsqueak.
"Whaaaat?!" he replied in exclamation.
Once-ler glared at the mischievous sprite and her friends in silent anger.
Fiora giggled at the sight of Once-ler, seeing the broken egg oozing down his face. Once-ler's anger disappated when he saw the messy-looking sprite, her green eyes sparkling full of innocence. With an impish smirk, he grabbed an egg out of his shopping bag and threw it at her, which resuming the fight that just occurred earlier with the creatures, which ended with them laughing like two children on the floor, covered in a sticky, powdery, feathery mess.