Easter Mannequins On Mars

by

Paul G Jutras

 

"The next clue will bring you to a chocolate bunny in a place that deals with time." John's clue came over loud and clear in the plastic spies' heads.

"I know where that is!" The girls all squealed as they took off. Samantha, Tina, Kim and Christine went together into a lab while the others had gone elsewhere. Inside the lab, Professor Arthur Willis was working on a possible time machine.

"We'll win the company Easter hunt this year." Tina said as they climbed inside the prototype time machine the government was working on.

"I don't see anything." Christine said as her elbow knocked a lever while Tina bumped a couple of buttons. Prof. Willis watched as the time machine vanished and then reappeared.

"You alright girls?" Professor asked as he opened it and found it empty. "Guess I better recommend abandoning the project."

Meanwhile; decades in the future, the four girls appeared in a space station with a confused look on their sculpted plastic faces. "Alright, what happened?" Samantha asked. "Where are we."

"Think we'd better ask "When" are we." Tina said as she reminded her team mates that they stepped into a time machine. "Let's go find our future selves."

As a wall slid open, they found themselves in the hanger with giant robots waiting for launch. "What's going on? " Christine asked. "When did we go so high tech?"

"This is the future." Tina sighed as a figure walked from the shadows with a look of shock of its face. "Girls?" John asked as he stood so still that one would think he was a real mannequin in a window display. "I can't believe my plastic eyes. When you and the others vanished on that Easter egg hunt a thousand years ago, we gave up all hope of see you again."

"You mean we never came back?" Christine asked in both a worried and confused tone voice. "Since being made a mannequin by those Martians, we became immortal right. Live forever unless killed is how it suppose to go."

"That is why I'm here." John said with his new plastic female figure fitted again the latex cat suit he wore. "The rest of Team Mannequin when after you after you never showed up at the end of the hunt. When none of you came back we abandoned the time project all together. Now I guess.. it worked."

"That still doesn't answer why our past selves or future selves aren't here now." Christine said still confused.

"Obviously we don't come back since there is no time project here." Samantha said. "I just hope the other girls are okay whenever they are."

As Samantha touched one of the robots, her body merged with it. She took it over and became a 30 story living mannequin. "My god!" She said as she looked herself over and then down at her friends. "You all look like ants from up here."

Concentrating, she and the robot went from one to two beings again. "Yes," John said. "Up until now only I could merge and lead the attacks of the pilot driven robots against the Martians. With Team Mannequin gone, they took over Earth and forced us to live in space stations and star ships as the war continues. Now that you girls are back there is hope for the universe again."

 

To Be Continued If I Get Time…

 

 

 

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