Atomic Galaxy: Solar System VIII
Planet 64: Door to Door Sales
The camera zoomed in taking a close up of a light purple alien man with bright orange hair. He carried a large black suitcase and was dressed in a black suit and tie. The alien approached his target, Maximus' lair, and rung the door bell. Minimus opened the door and looked at the alien suspiciously. He eyed his suitcase wondering what could be in it.
"Allow me to introduce myself!" The alien spoke in an overly cheerful voice, a little too loud. "I represent BARK the best encyclopedia in the known universe!" He opened his suitcase to reveal many small disks. "Everything known in the universe is recorded right here!" The alien ranted for a while about the benefits of the encyclopedia, just as he was trained to do, before he noticed Minimus waving his arms around. "Do you have a question?"
"Finally, I thought you'd never shut up!" Minimus' angry face growled. He changed back to his normal face and asked his question. "What does BARK stand for?"
The encyclopedia salesman opened his mouth as if to speak, but no sound came out. He assumed the classic thinking position with a hand on his chin, then he scratched the top of his head and finally answered. "I have no idea. I've been working for this company all my life and I still don't know." There was a moment of silence while each of them tried to find what to say next. Then the alien asked what he had come to ask. "Are you going to buy it?"
"I can't," Minimus replied. "His evilness told me to stop buying junk because there's no room for my junk in his lair." He changed to his evil face. "But there's plenty of room for his junk!" Once again Minimus changed to normal. "I'll ask him if he wants to buy it." Being his sidekick for so long, Minimus should have predicted Maximus' reaction, but he didn't.
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Minimus returned to the door with Maximus. "BARK? I'll tell you what that stands for, Boring annoying random kollection! That's what that collection of CDs are!" Today Maximus wasn't in the mood to deal with door to door space sales people.
"But your evilness, collection starts with a c," Minimus pointed out.
"My point exactly, they can't even spell it right!" Maximus yelled. "Besides, I'm a super genius I already know everything there is to know and I bet you don't have ways to destroy Atomic Betty in there anyway!"
"Actually, we have an entire chapter dedicated to Atomic Betty," the bark salesman proudly declared. "What she likes to do in her free time, her favorite color, everything!"
"Her home planet? How to destroy her?" Maximus asked.
"No, I think we're missing that part, but we have all the other information and with the online update you can continue receiving the latest information! You'll know things about Atomic Betty that very few know," the orange haired alien cheered.
"Atomic Betty's secrets, maybe not her home planet or how to destroy her, but her secrets that can be used against her. What kind of information is in there?" Maximus asked.
"Everything," the alien hoped that maybe he would finally sell something, then again even when he thought he had a client, they always turned him down when he told them the price, but maybe this time it would be different. Maybe Maximus IQ would be the first to buy this product and save BARK from bankruptcy. "For example do you know what color Betty painted her nails?"
"No," Maximus was trying to figure out why would that be relevant at all.
"If you buy the encyclopedia then you will know!" The alien cheerfully laughed, but then his laugh turned into an insane maniac laughter. "Sorry about that," he coughed. "I'm getting over a little cold. So will you buy it?"
