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<nowiki>*</nowiki>sigh* I
This probably
Me, uh, years passed by and I forgot that the show ever even existed. I was freshening up and preparing for a date before I decided to go get the mail before I headed off to Mickey
I assumed it was from my mom,
A VHS tape. No sticker on it, no title. Nothing in sharpie or anything like that. I
When I pressed play, I expected static and maybe a home video. Perhaps my granddad found some embarrassing moment from years ago and figured
Oh, the realistic lizard mask, standing outside with a choir of children wearing Koopa Troopa hats. Oh my god, it was King
You know, that mask
The kids all looked sad, but that
I waited for someone, anyone, to say anything. A nearly bald boy and a girl with long but thinning hair sat on a step in front of the usual building in a disturbing silence. I considered turning the tape off, until I got up and looked a little closer, and… whoo.
I gotta tell ya, King Koopa was holding a knife. A double-bladed knife. There was no handle. He… he really could really hurt himself with that if he
Finally, a voice. It was King
And walked right into a man-sized cage.
There were holes in the eyes of King
The door slammed shut. It looked so rusty—like touching it could give you tetanus. I felt like vomiting. There were no sound effects either, though what sounded like a strong wind could be heard. King Koopa turned around, back through the alleyway, and inside the building. Once inside, well…
King Koopa, or, rather, this old man, came out the way he came in and, instead of dancing down the sidewalk the way he did in the actual television program, he walked slowly. Without his uniform. With a sad, sad look on his face.
The security guard character
King Koopa walked into the studio. No one was inside. He got up on the stage and sat on it. He waved one leg around coyly this time That was the first sign of anything playful there had been all episode.
A loud boom. An explosion? Oh my god. The building… it rocked. Debris. Dismantled, shattered wood and windows. It was falling right apart! A large fire was spreading. Frank stared into the flames, as if he was meditating on them. As if he was somehow going to become one with the flames.
A camera gave us a pan of the city. Everything was in ruins. Corpses. Burnt corpses. It was as if people had been… mauled and not only that but, mutated. Oh, the torn flesh, the scattered pieces of bones. I threw up on my pants. I remembered my date, and I texted her.
I got up and grabbed the remote. I was going to rewind it, and watch it with Rebecca. She needed to know. I had no idea where this tape even came from, but she needed to know. I was going to do it. I was ready. I was going to rewind, but then… the final scene.
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Oh god. No way. Nintendo? Super Mario? …the Mushroom Men... Was this the… is this how…
I threw up again. On my pants again. I
I grabbed it. I stared. Eye color: Green, Hair: Red... I
First name? Rebecca.
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