Strawberry Fields Forever....

Unending BE - episode 30200

Sharon was getting more than a bit peckish by now, so she decided to experiment by eating a chili dog of her own. After all, she had been given permission from the managers to do that, although only a couple of times a day. She made up one with lots of the sauce--it did LOOK good, all spicy and red...and grated cheese and a toasted bun, and took a big bite.
It was delicious. And for a moment nothing happened. Ah, thought Sharon in relief. I guess it's not going to affect me. Whatever it is, maybe it doesn't hit reptiles. After all, the people I saw acting weird were all mammals--
And then, all of a sudden, her world turned inside out.
She was falling so fast she almost hit the sky. She was so hot she was burning up. The darkness was so bright it was blinding her. She could SEE what flowers smelled like, taste music, and hear the colour red. Purple unicorns danced all around her in a rainbow field that went on forever...forever....foreveeeerrrrrrr........

"Is she coming to?" came a voice from very very far away.
"Yeah, I think so. Maybe we should splash her with the water again just to make sure."
SPLASH!
Sharon sat bolt upright as the ice-cold water shocked her system--then started making her sleepy. Can't anybody remember that I'm cold-blooded? she thought irritably. She looked up to see that she was laying on a dingy cot in the basement of what appeared to be some kind of factory. Boxes and crates, all covered with dust, were all over the place. The only light came from one, bare light bulb, swinging on a long chain from the wooden plank ceiling. The walls were thick and the windows were high up on them and small. Where AM I? she wondered. What happened? I can't remember a thing! All I know is that I applied for a job at the hot dog stand, and then...it's all a blur...
"Ah, I see you're awake now." said the weasel who had first greeted her when she came to the stand. She recognised him now. The hulking echidna manager was standing off to one side of the room, too. And standing behind both of them wa a new person--a black rabbit with white ears and muzzle, wearing a ridiciulous outfit that made him look like a "Pimp-Daddy" wannabe. An elegant yet trampy young fox woman--a vixen, Sharon corrected herself--sat next to him on the edge of a battered metal desk, filing her claws. With her legs crossed, the thigh-high slit in her skirt clearly showed that she was wearing a garter belt to keep her fishnet stockings up, not normal pantyhose. She swung one spike-heeled shoe, popped her bubblegum, and looked at Sharon with a bored, jaded glance before starting in on her hair. But the person Sharon MOST had her eye on was the HUUUUGEEEE hulking bulldog standing directly behind the rabbit--obviously as a bodyguard--and who was wearing a grey pinstriped suit and spiked brass knuckles.
"Now, I'm Downtown Ebony Hare, and I'm the leader of this whole operation. You might say I own HappyLand. I heard you got very very sick today. Now, I don't want my employees gettin' sick. I'm that kind of a guy. I CARE about people." His voice just dripped insincerity and Sharon had to try very hard not to let her disgust show on her face. "Now, I hear that Marv and Norm here--" he indicated the weasel and echidna "--found you lyin' on the ground unconscious and raving in your sleep. They rushed you to a hospital, and when the doctors got you to wake up, you threw up for about an entire day, off and on. Including the dry-heaves, that is. And now you're finally awake again and hopefully feeling well enough to answer my questions, so I wanna know--did anything...unusual happen to you that day?"
He asked the question in a casual tone of voice but he was looking at her with FAR too much interest and suspense in his eyes.
Sharon immediately knew she couldn't tell the truth. "I, uh...I...it was the heat. I passed out from heatstroke. There's no shade on that stand, you know."
Downtown turned away from her to consult with his cronies. He THOUGHT Sharon couldn't hear them...but she could.
"I think she ate some of the sauce, boss," said Norm, the weasel.
"Of COURSE she ate some of the sauce, you moron!" snapped back Foxie, the vixen moll. "But why did it hit her so hard? There wasn't supposed to be that MUCH of the...special ingredient...in it..."
"Who cares?" whispered Marv, the echidna. "The important thing is--what do we do with her now that she knows there's something fishy about it?"
Downtown didn't even hesistate for one beat.
"Eliminate her."
With that, Sharon LEAPT from the bed and started bounding up the cobwebby stairs two at a time. "AFTER HER!!" yelled Downtown. "Blackjack!" he snapped his fingers and pointed at the HUGE bulldog bodyguard. "FETCH!"
In desperation, Sharon turned invisible, knowing that would give her SOME more time, but she couldn't hide forever. She needed help. And fast.
Only problem was--from who?

  1. Sharon looks for Julie-Su and Constable Remington. And apologises for messing up the HTML AGAIN.
  2. Sharon tries to get help from someone else.
  3. Sharon tries to get out of this on her own.
  4. Sharon decides to do SOMETHING ELSE.
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Mello

Sun Jul 4 16:00:32 1999