Pon Pon and the Humans
By: Ken Battaglia
Pon Pon was living peacefully in Popcorn Land after a mere escape from 2 polar bears. He was watching his favorite T.V. show, “Pom and Perry”, when a news flash appeared! The news reporter for “The Daily Pop”, Chop Dagger cried “Cannibals! Cannibals! They have made a building that makes popcorn! But the worst thing is, they eat popcorn! Aaaaahhh!” Pon Pon thought about the cannibals for a while. “I would like to help our citizens by defeating the cannibals, but I don’t know if I have the courage. I’ll think about it.” So he went to bed and drifted off to sleep.
The next morning, Pon Pon was in his lab, making the suit he would wear when facing the cannibals. 10 hours later, his tinkering sound became silent. When he came out, he was wearing a R3-92 suit, just the right size for a popcorn. It had a metal, transparent head cover, a steel body case (bullet proof), and an extra powerful glass foot that could knock anything down. He also made a mini-gun, filled with popcorn seeds. He was now ready to fight the big cannibals!
“Here I go!” he said as he rode his bicycle to the mysterious popcorn-making building. When he got there, he saw the cannibal’s leader munching and crunching on his fellow citizens. As he saw the governor, Spinach Corn get swallowed by the cannibal, he got extremely angry.
So he ran to the cannibal as fast as he could, which wasn’t easy to do in the suit he was wearing. He kicked him with his glass foot, and the cannibal screamed in pain. The cannibal looked down and reached for Pon Pon. But Pon Pon was ready. He dodged the cannibal’s hand, got out his mini-gun, and fired. All the still-living popcorns watched in awe as the popcorn seeds sailed into the cannibal’s nostrils, making him unable to see.
Then Pon Pon used his metal head case and head butted the cannibal. The cannibal got knocked out for 5 minutes, which seemed like 2 years for the popcorns. They all cheered and threw a party for Pon Pon! Now Pon Pon was the hero, he was finally famous.
So in honor of Pon Pon, the citizens of Popcorn Land made a monument for him. The so-called cannibals were forced to be servants for Pon Pon. Do you know why? The answer to that is because Pon Pon got elected to be governor because sadly, the former governor got eaten.
Days later, Pon Pon made his first speech as the governor. “These cannibals are going back to their homelands, and they will never come back. If they do, I will use my teeth to freeze them, and they will suffer from us, the great citizens of Popcorn Land!” A great cheer arose from the citizens of Popcorn land.
Pon Pon walked back to his house as his fellow citizens chanted, “Pon Pon, Pon Pon, Pon Pon!” Pon Pon was very proud of himself because he made such a great speech. Strangely, he was sad that the cannibals were leaving. They did such a great job serving him.
As he watched the cannibals leave on the news, he felt a gush of guilt that he made them leave. He thought about it, and guess what, he ran up to the cannibals and presented a gift to them. He gave them a golden medal, a bit too small for the cannibals, but a great gift of honor. The cannibals accepted Pon Pon’s gift, and they left on their ships, back to a place called America.
Pon Pon wished them a final good luck and set home again. He got his very own encyclopedia out, and searched for creatures. He found definitions of a lot of things he already knew about, like birds, dogs, cats, insects, but one word caught his eye. A word he had never heard of before. That word was “human”. As he read the definition, he started wondering if the cannibals were humans. He looked at the picture, and it looked just like the cannibals. “Oh, those cannibals were a type of humans!” he thought out loud. So he found out that cannibals were humans. He had a fight with humans, and he defeated them. Although he had some conflicts with the popcorn-eating humans, he found them very interesting. Pon Pon, for the first time, wanted the humans to come back.
Maybe his “good luck wish” to the humans wasn’t the last one after all.