Franz Blech was a friendly guy. He was always making friends everywhere he went. He made friends walking down the street, shopping for groceries, and even weeding his garden.
One day, Franz was in his garden, planting flowers when he heard a loud sha-boom! Startled, he turned around, and standing over him was an evil, scary, 20-legged bigfoot! You can imagine how shocked Franz was when it began to talk!
“Greetings,” the bigfoot exclaimed. “My name is Goof and I am from the planet Broccoli. I’m new to earth and am interested in taking over the planet. If you promise to help me, I will allow you to rule over many, many humans and you can eat as many cucumbers as you could possibly desire.”
Franz was speechless. What would he say? What would he do? Franz did the only thing he could think to do in the moment. He went on with his routine. First, he swam, then he ran.
Then he said to Goof, “What do you want to do?”
Goof answered, “Why did you go swim and run?”
“So I could get my exercise,” Franz replied.
“Well, I want to take over the world,” Goof continued. “That’s what I want to do.”
Franz finally realized that this was a stranger that wanted to take over the world. Franz did not make a friend this time. He dropped his shovel and picked up his stick. His dog barked fiercely and growled.
Goof put out his hand and Roger ran away into the house.
“Why did you do that?” said Franz. “Why do you want to take over the world anyway? I won’t let you!”
Goof explained that there was a magical crystal hiding in the forest that he was going to use on the people.
That night, when Goof found a place to sleep, Franz took his lantern and his dog and went into the forest. He would find the crystal before Goof did.
As he went into the forest, he bumped into something large. He held his lantern above his head. It was a big box. Franz lifted off the lid. There was the crystal. Now he could stop Goof and he could save the world from Goof!
The End
Note: This story was a Mad-Libs style fill in! Some of the verbs and names were chosen before the rest of it was read. Then Caroline finished the story.