Choose Your Own Drug-Fueled Misadventure: Flight of Terror
Fuckin' everything explodes in that movie: Cars, heads, kid's asses...
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With one sharp, determined kick, the little plastic sheet rattles off its hinge and swings open. You find Ron hugging his knees, rocking back and forth on the toilet. He has wildly applied lipstick all over his face, and is singing something about ‘feeling pretty’ quietly to himself. You shove a finger down your throat, and painfully bring up a series of small rubber orbs. You grab two in your fists, and begin advancing upon Ron. “If you had any gag reflex left,” you warn him, “this would be terrible for you.” His eyes cloud over; a dim, unfocused stare overtaking them. In a flash he is on you, slamming you with an leaping spin-kick. You’re not even sure how he managed that in an airplane bathroom so small you'd have to lift the lid just to get your dick out, but manage it he has. “CHO!” Ron shouts, his blur of a fist embedding itself into your stomach. You puke two condoms full of heroin onto his shoes in retaliation, but he seems unphased by your attack. He crouches down quickly, then leaps upward, bringing with him a soaring uppercut that sends you backflipping into oblivion. You die choking on your foot, and nobody mourns you, because you make terrible, terrible decisions. Remember that one time you ate a penguin? That was messed up, dude.The End.
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You kick at the surprisingly hearty plastic door again and again, only to rebound uselessly off of it.Karate is way harder than it looks on Power Rangers.
Ron mistakes your pathetic blows for polite knocking, and informs you in a choking voice that it is ‘occupado.’ After several minutes of begging, pleading, apologizing, and ultimately dropping to your knees and singing two verses of Journey’s “Open Arms” for him while the rest of the cabin laughs at you, he relents. He emerges from the bathroom oddly composed, pats you on the head, and seamlessly trots off to offer drinks to the other passengers. With no time to spare, you shove a finger down your throat and bring the drug bags up. You frantically rip into each bag, downing their contents as fast you can. After a foul feast of prophylactic-and-vomit flavored mystery drugs, you once again take your seat next to the ratty conspirator. “Did you flush it all?” He asks. The hatred you feel for yourself at this moment actually borders on the hilarious. You stifle a giggle. A giggle which is impossible to stifle, because the shaking of your own ribs tickles you, which makes you giggle more, and this ridiculous situation is pretty funny, which makes you giggle more, which makes your ribs tickle again, and all of this is irrelevant now because the time vortex has opened up, and the entire front half of the plane is being swallowed by the pastel swirling of the Underverse. If you embrace these sudden, unexplainable cosmic events with the simple-minded fervor of a child, turn to page 5.Page 4
Well, that wasn’t a good idea.The End.
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You rise from your seat, hurriedly remove your pants (you are supremely confident that they will have evolved out of the need for pants in the future) and do what all onlookers will later agree was an objectively bitchin’ cannonball right through the space-time continuum."Sweet! Now do a bellyflop into a parallel universe!
You were expecting some clocks and shit to be swirling about, but the time vortex is actually a series of large, Cyclopean archways guarded by inscrutable, mystical beings – kind of like the Southern Oracle from the Neverending Story. Except one of them said he was named Steven and that he didn’t have time for this shit. Also like the Southern Oracle, at one point you had to face a mirror image of yourself that was reflective of all your hidden fears and weaknesses. You got the feeling that part was supposed to be hard, but you’re pretty much nothing butPage 6
You prepare yourself for their approach, knowing - with that peculiar, undefined certainty that only an all-you-can-eat buffet of mysterious narcotics can bring - that they are here to put you on trial for all of mankind’s crimes against them.FOR HERE PRESIDES THE SNAKE-JUDGE. AND ALSO LIKE...THE...THE BIRD-STENOGRAPHER.
The End.
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You take a step for the raft, and at the first hint of motion, a screeching cacophony of feral cries and rampaging beasts sounds behind you. You break for the boat, leaping the last few feet at full speed. You hit the boards of the raft on your side, and your momentum pushes the boat outward, down the river. The entire jungle is screaming for your blood. The beasts of the air assail and peck at you; the beasts of the water slam into the underside of your boat and nip; the beasts of the land stand futilely at the shore, alternately roaring and calling you names. One lion is simply repeating the word “aaaassshoooole” over and over again. It’s really starting to hurt your feelings.
And you're pretty sure that turtle just spit on you.
Also there were cavemen, because there's just not many covers with monkeys AND spaceships on them, okay?
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“Well, hell yes!” You answer, slapping the comforting paws aside and striding towards the man. You seize his raygun, turn on the darkness of the cave, and spray it down with white hot laser."This Friendship has sailed, you empathizing monkey bastards!"
“Jesus,” the man-thing protests, “I mean – yeah, they’re not on our side. But we don’t really….we don't burn the monkeys.” “Listen man, are you seriously gonna go all future-pussy on me here, or are we gonna jump in your ship, fire up the photon machineguns, blast some metal, and light some flea-bitten motherfuckers on fire?” “I…I guess we can go,” He seems very uncertain about you all of a sudden. You make a note to report him as an animal-sympathizer to whatever Orwellian council you assume runs this world as soon as you get back to civilization. Can't have any fur-lovers in your"No, we'll join the planetary war in a second - this fuckin' bird thinks he's better than me!"
You steady yourself to fire, but something is groping at your leg! You look down to find you’ve tangled your foot into some vines. Or rather, the vines have tangled around you – as you see now they’re moving independently, tightening their grip. Another ropy lash seizes your arm, causing you to drop your firearm. Suddenly, you are being engulfed by the plants. If you cry out for help from the man-machine inside the ship, turn to page 9.Page 9
“Help,” you scream, as the leaves swat at your open mouth “help me, Robocop!” “My name’s David,” the man snaps back from the open stairway. “Fucking whatever, Johnny 5, just shoot the god damn plant.” “No,” he answers, his voice quavering, “you’re really mean and I don’t like you and I’m going home.” You inhale deeply, preparing to scream the loudest obscenity possible, cycling through your mental rolodex of robot-based epithets, but the plant has already sealed over your mouth."Suck my dick, Bicentennial Man!"
The End.
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The vines flap frantically about your face and jaw. You rear your head back, open your mouth, and tear a bite out of the leaf nearest you. The whole plant recoils in pain. “My mother always told me,” you say, quietly furious that you can’t reach your sunglasses, “to eat my vegetables.” You seize mouthful after mouthful of the attacking plant, until finally it begins to withdraw."Yeah! Who's the plant now...uh, plant?"
But you ain't having none of that; you pounce on the cowering shrubbery and devour every inch, down to the stump. Then you turn and spitefully vomit the partially digested mess back onto the root system, because vegetables are for hippies and gross foreigners. Across the meadow, a group of stunned human soldiers in full battle gear are watching slack-jawed. You confidently stride over to your fallen weapon, grasp it, and raise it over your head as you face the assembled crowd. “Well come on, you bastards,” you bellow, “do you really want to live forever!?” With a supportive scream they follow your charge, firing wildly into the density of the jungle. A battle is a pure, whole, and simple thing; a battle is something you know how to do. As the animals die wetly beneath your feet, you have a feeling you will like this new future.Turn to page 11.
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“Jesus, what the hell happened here?” Leiutenant Danielson bent down to examine the broken, twisted body, kicking away fluffs of cotton and errant cloth scraps to do so. “Flight attendant says he just went berserk. Cannonballed off the plane onto the runway, broke into the terminal, ran through the security checkpoints, stood screaming in the fountain for a minute, where he reportedly yelled to that frizzy-haired little blonde kid over there that he 'was not an asshole,' then came in here,” Detective Johnson gestured to what remained of the safari-themed giftshop they stood in. “Well, what in God’s name did this to him, then?” “He did. He did it to himself. The cashier, a Mr. David Spencer, says he got into a fist-fight with some pre-packaged salads - mostly Cobb, by the looks of them - and then just started tearing into the stuffed animals like a maniac. Demolished every single one, then just kind of twisted up into a ball and died.” “Wait, what? Then what bent all of his limbs backwards?” The rookie seemed green, stifling a sickness. “Willpower, Danielson. Pure, unrestrained force of will,” Johnson answered. “Hell of an afternoon,” Danielson said, standing and turning away just a bit too quickly. “Afternoon? No, this whole thing took a minute and a half. From plane to man-ball: Ninety seconds.” Danielson resigned from the force the next morning. He currently volunteers full time at the Serene Shores Rehab Center in South Beach. He still suffers from night-terrors and Post Traumatic Impotency.The End.
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