Super Gummy Bear Girls!
What do you get when you mix a mad scientist, nanotechnology, and five gummy bears? Pandemonium!
Super Gummy Bear Girls!
Part I: Ooey Gooey, KABLOOEY!
In the skies above Sweeton, lightning crackled.
In a tiny, dingy little basement, lit by a single bare bulb (mad scientists are notoriously bad at home décor, not to mention housekeeping), a lab-coated figure in heavy rubber gloves hunched over some bubbling, bleeping, high-tech contraption.
Suddenly, the figure threw back his head and laughed. "BWAHAHAHAHAAA!! Finally, it's ready!"
"What? A really big batch of fruit punch?"
"Wha--? No, of course not!" Turning around, the mad scientist whacked his head against said single bulb. "Ow! Stupid goggles...." Pulling off the somewhat oversized black eyegear, the mad scientist was revealed to be a brown-eyed, geeky, slightly caffeinated young man in his early twenties.
"Um, Ted? I think those were actually meant for arc-welding. Trying to do lab work with them on, at one in the morning, in a badly-lit basement lab, may not be such a smart idea." The female voice emanated from something that might have been a PC at some point, but which had since sprouted a dozen external hard drives, antennae of various kinds and lengths, and enough gizmos and doodads to stock a Best Buy. The blue cartoon face on her monitor looked decidedly unimpressed.
Ted sighed. "Yeah, well, at least they look cool. Anyhow, I'm done with my Nanimators™."
"Nanny what?"
"Nanimators™. Nanomechanical material-permeating animators. Little robots that bring stuff to life. Didn't I tell you that's what I was making tonight, Blue?"
"Probably, but I might have just tucked it away in the Harebrained Ideas file. Didn't you say you had a Chemistry final in three days? Weren't you supposed to be working on that tonight?"
"Well, that's what the Nanimators™ are for. I figure, if I can show Doctor Fredericks something really awesome, she'll have to give me an A."
"Even though you didn't study for the first exam?"
"Well, yeah. I was working on a shrink ray that week...."
"And even though you missed a whole week of lectures when you gave yourself Smallpox?"
"I was working on an omni-vaccine. Fighting human disease kind of fills your schedule, you know?"
The souped-up computer sighed. How is it that I have more common sense than the geek who programmed me? Blue wondered for the umpteenth time. "Ted, instead of trying to whip up a tub of these nanomite things, don't you think you'd be better off actually studying for your chemistry exam?"
"Nope. Too busy," the nerd replied, taking a hearty swig from his can of cola. With his other hand, he reached for an open, jumbo-sized tub of gummy bears, absently grabbing a few and sending them down after the cola.
This won't end well, Blue thought forlornly. Caffeine and sugar are a bad, bad combination. "All right. So, just what are you planning to bring to life with these nano-whatevers?"
"Ah, of course! Let me grab the test subject." So saying, Ted ran back upstairs into the house. A few seconds later, he returned with a little stuffed animal in his hands. "Isn't that the wolf plushie you got for Abby?" Blue enquired.
"Yeah, she gave it back after the whole Photosynthesis Incident."
"Ouch. Guess nothing scares off a girl like turning her skin green."
"Hey, it's not my fault she mistook a pitcher of mutagen and plant DNA for green Kool-Aid."
"Do I even want to know why you had a whole pitcher of that in your fridge?"
"I was trying to give myself the ability to synthesize sugar from water, soil and sunlight. My grocery bills are killing me." Setting the plushie aside on a lab table, Ted hit a button. The big metal lid slid off of the big, bubbling vat of amber goo in the center of his basement. Little electronic gadgets beeped as the Nanimator™-rich fluid bubbled and frothed.
"And now," Ted declared, "for the moment of truth! Once I've immersed Mr. Snuggles in the heated fluid, the Nanimators™ will soak into every fiber of his body, providing movement and forming a neural network. If my calculations are correct, Mr. Snuggles will become the first living plushie in history! And I'll ace Chemisrty with flying colors! Take that, Dr. Fredericks!" Grabbing a handful of gummy bears, he tossed one in the air, opening his mouth wide to catch it.
By now, it should come as a surprise to nobody that something went really, really wrong.
The little red bear hit Ted's lip, bouncing off and into the vat of nano-goo. One of the little gizmos attached to the machine began beeping loudly.
"What the-No! Stop!" the geek exclaimed, instinctively reaching toward the vat. As he stretched out his hand, the other four gummy bears in his fist fell into the tub, too.
"Oh well," Blue said tiredly. "At least it's just five little living gummy bears. How dangerous could they be?"
"You don't understand! I programmed the Nanimators™ to animate one object! Now there are five different ones in the tank! The machine is malfunctioning!"
"Oh. Yeah, that could be bad...."
"Blue, quick! Remote access! Override the control software and get the charging tub under control before it blows up!"
"'Blows up'?!?! You mean this thing could explode at any second?"
"Yes!" Ted shouted, grabbing a loose connector from Blue and plugging it into a port on the charging tub. "Now, hurry!"
"Eep!" cried the mini-supercomputer. "All right, I'm in. Connecting to control software ... Ted, this system has more bugs than a bait store!"
"It was a rush job! Now hurry and shut it down!"
By now, the tub was shaking, the amber fluid frothing and foaming like a beer stein with way too much head. Angry electrical buzzes sounded from it, and arcs of electricity flashed.
"Trying ... no good! It's not responding! It's gonna blow!!!"
"Yipe!" said the mad science geek.
"Eek!" said the computer.
KABLOOEY!!! said the tub of experimental Nanimator™ goo.
Mr. Snuggles, of course, didn't say anything.
Slowly, Ted came to. Not too surprisingly, the lab was a mess. A large crater marked the place where the Nanimator™ tub had been. His work table and chair had been knocked over, and his collection of test tubes, beakers, flasks, and assorted electronics lay strewn about, much of the glassware smashed.
And there was something moving around on top of him.
"Hey, hey! Over here! I think he's waking up!" a female voice called out.
"B-Blue? Is that you?"
"Daisy, Daaaisy, give me your answer, dooooo...." replied the tipsy supercomputer from somewhere else.
"Is he okay?" another strange voice called out.
"Can he move?"
"Is he all scarred and freaky-looking?"
"Is he cute?"
"Oog," Ted moaned, opening his eyes. Lying on top of him was something with a translucent red body, big anime eyes, short red hair and a cute little muzzle.
She also had a very impressive pair of breasts.
And she was completely, gloriously naked.
"Wh-who ... what ...?"
"Ooh, he talks! Can I keep him? Pretty, pretty please?" Looking over, Ted saw more of the see-through girls, each a different color: green, orange, yellow, and a sort of pale golden color that almost looked white. The semi-clear one was hopping up and down excitedly, her considerable bust jiggling as she moved.
Gummy bears. I've created five human-sized, anthropomorphic, walking, talking gummy bears.
The mad science geek began giggling, first quietly, then building to a loud, demented-sounding cackle. The assorted gummy-bear girls just looked on, puzzled, as the sooty, disheveled college student laughed uncontrollably on the floor.
"It worked! It worked!! After twenty-one years, I finally invented something that WORKS!!! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAA!!!!"