A Cartoon Adventure

Story 8: How to become a professional monster

The next door I am about to enter looks exactly like Boo's door in Monsters Inc, so when I opened it; I found myself on the scare floor. "2319!" I heard someone yell. "We have a 2319!" They couldn't have referred to me because I was turned into a monster myself with a dog like face, pink fur, with purple spots. I looked around and saw that George was once again getting tackled because there was a sock stuck to his back. Wait, I'm on a mission to help save Boo! I realized, looking around. Then as the child detection team began to destroy the sock and George said, "Hey, thanks, guys. That was a close one."

I went over to George and told the team, "Alright, guys  I've got it under control from here. I'm a professional child germ extinguisher. I know the perfect trick you need to use in order to get rid of a child's germs permanently. It's called Tomato juice." I told George to follow me as the team looked at each other, speechless. "What was that all about?" George asked me. "Does this thing called tomato juice actually work?" "Have no idea, but they were about to shave your fur until there was nothing left, so consider it a big break." I answered. "Children aren't toxic at all, actually. So, they wouldn't know the difference when you get back on the scare floor. Tomato Juice is actually a common remedy used to get rid of skunk stench." "How do you know all this?" He asked. "Let's just say I have connections." I answered. "Just keep hidden long enough for them to think I am getting the germs off of you. Plus this also prevents you from getting stuck with a cone around your head, so that's good news for you." "Thank you." George said. A few minutes later, we went back to the scare floor. "Squeaky clean." I told the team, as I somehow had gotten George's fur shiny enough to make them believe the remedy worked. "Looking good!" Charlie told him.

"Alright, everyone continue what you're doing." I told everyone who was watching. "It's safe, nothing to see here." "Who in the world are you?" Mr. Waternoose asked me. "My name is Christy." I answered, cautiously knowing I couldn't trust him one bit. "How are you on the scare floor?" Mr. Waternoose asked. "Me? I don't scare." I answered. "Sure you do!" Mr. Waternoose answered. "Just because you don't look like a scarer, doesn't mean you couldn't be one. Add Christy's name to the scare board and start over!" "But, but..." I started to say. I was beginning to think he was trying to distract me from my main mission, to reveal to everyone what a fraud he really was. "But I don't have an assistant." This was the first excuse I could come up with to get out of it, but it ended up failing. "Nonsense, Celia will be your assistant." Waternoose said. "I'm on it!" Mike told Mr. Waternoose. Soon enough, Mike came back with Celia. "What is this about, Mr. Waternoose?" Celia asked. "I don't know anything about being a scarer's assistant." "It's simple." Mr. Waternoose explained to her. "First, you take the card out of the file. Then you slide it through, right there. Once you get ready to start, press this button to turn the light on. Once the scream canister is full; you pull up the lever that is holding it down. Press this button to turn the light off. Stack away the canisters. And continue on." "Ok, Mr. Waternoose." Celia said. "I believe I got it." "Let the scaring begin!" Mr. Waternoose said, pushing me over to a door.

"What am I going to do, Celia?" I asked her. "I have never scared anyone on purpose before in my entire life." "Think scary thoughts and use them in your scares." Celia told me. "Do you have any special abilities?" "I don't know." I answered, trying to think. "Try giving me a fear." "Clowns." "It's time to begin!" Mr. Waternoose told everyone. "Wait!" I exclaimed. "I haven't even prepared yet!" "Not my problem." Waternoose said. All the new doors came down. "Fear of tigers." Celia told me the fear on the file. "Good luck!" "Thanks." I said, going in. Tigers, I thought. I'm sorry about this, kids. I changed myself into a tiger and creeped up on the sleeping kid. Then I roared so loud that the kid woke up, and was screaming terrified. I ran out of the door, changing into my original form. "Wow! That was great." Celia told me. "How did you do that?" "No, time to talk." I said. "Let's go to the next door." Celia had done everything she was told to do and started bringing in a new door. "Fear of heights?" Celia asked. "How is that even possible?" I hurried back into the new door and levitated the bed making ghostly noises. The kid screamed once again. I dropped the bed back down and hurried out the door.