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The Big City is full of a million stories... Well, not literally a million, but building up to a million when a new story of this large urban area is shared across the world for everyone to see. One of these stories is about Valentine's day, where people share their love and feelings by gifts, cards, and a honeymoon. Today (depending on your time zone and/or when you read this story) is that day, but it won't be ordinary like the years prior, especially for Sheep and X Agent.
The two sheep, getting tried of going to a fancy restaurant and the large pastures for their yearly special dates, decided to put a twist on the big day and go somewhere more fun, more exciting, more unusual; an amusement park. Not ANY amusement park, but rather a brand new large and colorful park that Oxymoron had just opened. Their previous park, Super Mega Happy Fun Park, was a huge failure because visitors were unable to make their own fun with the sheer disappointment that the actual area was just an empty piece of ground. Reluctantly, especially for Victor, Oxymoron had decided to close that park and replace it with an actual one that does have rides, food, and, of course, a water fountain. That didn't mean the company was happy with the result, far from it as a matter of fact, and to show it they named the park; “Standard Ordinary Boring Cliched Park” with the purpose of telling visitors that they are not able to make their own fun. This park became very popular, despite Oxymoron never promoting it, for obvious reasons.
Sheep and X Agent had a grand time at the park. They spent all day riding on fast roller coasters and competitive bumper cars, eating the cooked well-done food, and showing how happy they were to be together from the souvenirs they bought from the gift shop.
It was now very late, specifically 11:43 PM, and Sheep and X Agent were burnt out from all the fun they had. “What a long day that was...” Sheep sighed. “Indeed, Sheep,” X Agent agreed, “but we had a lot of fun, didn't we?” “Yeah,” Sheep cheered, “it was the most fun that we ever had!” The two sheep started to make their way through the large rows of attractions, which still had a lot of people there despite the time, when X Agent stopped and looked up, something had caught his eye. Sheep noticed that X Agent had stopped following and walked back to him, “X Agent? Are you alright?” “Do you see that?” X Agent asked. “See what?” Sheep questioned, confused on what's happening. X Agent pointed his hoof up at the sky in response. Sheep followed the direction the hoof was going, and understood why X Agent had stopped. There, nearly right in front of them, was a huge Ferris wheel that went up very high in the sky, allowing riders to see the view that laid on top of the park. Sheep gulped when he looked at it, but it wasn't an amazed one, rather a scared one.
Sheep hated heights. While not the worst thing he experienced or feared, he didn't like being so up in the sky. Everything would be beneath him, and he could get seriously hurt by simply falling down. Despite his very caring and strong relationship with X Agent, Sheep never told him this as he didn't want to make a fool out of himself, even if similar had already happened. If someone else had noticed the Ferris wheel and told him about it, Sheep would instantly refuse to go on and wait until the ride had finished. However, since X Agent was the one to notice, Sheep couldn't bleat a 'no' to him, as he wanted his time at the park to be the best and not going on it with him would make him feel disappointed. Instead, Sheep gulped yet again and tried to hide his fear. “Alright... Lets go on this thing,” he sighed, “but is this the last ride we go on?” “Most certainly,” X Agent agreed, “I'm too tired to go on any more...” “Yeah... Me too...” Sheep was a little relieved, knowing that they can go home after the Ferris wheel. He was, however, mostly dreading what's about to come.
When the two sheep were waiting in line for a space in one of the Ferris wheel's carriages, Sheep was getting more and more nervous, knowing that it is inevitable that he will get his turn and go up so high. As the seconds went past, thoughts begin to enter Sheep's paranoid mind; “What would happen if the ride shut down?”, “What if something would go horribly wrong?”, “What if the worst could happen?” Before the thoughts can continue, Sheep was interrupted by X Agent, who noticed him acting strange. “Sheep?Are you alright?” Sheep bleated in shock as a response, but then began to try and quickly hide it, “Uhh... Yeah... I'm fine...” X Agent looked at him, and couldn't help but feel suspicious, “Are you sure?” “Yeah, yeah,” Sheep lied, with sweat running down his forehead, “I'm really fine! Don't worry!”
It wasn't before long that Sheep and X Agent's turn arrived, with one of the employees of the park opening the door of their carriage for them. “Your ride, sir...” Realizing this, Sheep slowly walked behind X Agent, wanting to delay his entry as much as he could. “A-after you...” Sheep offered, still nervous. X Agent said nothing in response as he walked inside the carriage and sat down on one of it's red seats; starting to feel more worried. Sheep, with very little option left, closed his eyes and ran into the carriage as fast as he could, before sitting down on the seat next to X Agent. Once they were inside, the door next to them suddenly closed and locked. Sheep gave a bleat of panic as a result, but covered his mouth with his shaking hoofs shortly after. X Agent grew more suspicious of Sheep after seeing that, “Sheep... You're acting really weird...” “Weird?! I'm fine, X Agent,” Sheep dismissed, “nothing to worry about. I'm just... Excited for this ride!” X Agent was about to respond back but decided to stay quiet, thinking his husband was telling the truth and his behavior was simply because it's his first time on a Ferris wheel.
As the carriage got higher while turning anti-clockwise, Sheep was pretending to enjoy the ride and point out the various sights around in an attempt to distract X Agent away from his fear of heights, while also covering his eyes most of the time. X Agent was starting to see Sheep acting bizzare and couldn't keep quiet any longer. “Sheep... Something is definitely wrong with you...” He called. “X Agent! I told you before, I'm just excited-” Sheep was about to finish when X Agent interrupted. “You're not excited at all... You're clearly bothered by something!” “Bothered by what?” Sheep pretended. “Don't lie to me, Sheep... I know what it is; you didn't want to go on this ride.” Sheep almost gasped after X Agent had figured it out, and was unsure on what to say or do. Looking for an idea, Sheep looked left and right through the windows for any type of distraction, while trying to avoid looking down. Once the carriage was on the very, very top, Sheep saw something that he never thought he would be so happy to see; The Secret Military Base, with its bright shiny lights going through its windows. It was the perfect distraction. “Hey look! It's General Specific's base!” Sheep called, pointing at the military base that lied beyond. X Agent took a close look, recognized it, and just realized something. “Wait a minute! I hadn't seen General Specific nor his henchmen at all today! How did they not notice us in this huge obvious park?!” Sheep too realized this and laughed a little, “Maybe they don't like amusement parks...” “Or they couldn't find us,” X Agent suggested, “but I'm glad that we didn't have to deal with him.” Just as X Agent had said that, the Ferris wheel had suddenly stopped moving with a jolt, right when he and Sheep were on the very, very, very top. If you know what that means. “Wait... Did the wheel just... Stopped?” X Agent questioned. “IT STOPPED?!” Sheep panicked, before hiding it after X Agent looked at him, feeling upset by his distressing state. “I mean... Hopefully someone would explain the sudden ending...” Sheep quietly added. To their luck, an answer will soon come as a voice began to form and echo through the many speakers placed around the park in every corner. However, it wasn't good luck at all.
“Ahem! Is this on? Is this microphone on?” The voice that was coming out was General Specific, who was having trouble trying to use the microphone in the Ferris wheel's control room. “Private Public! You know about speakers; is this thing even working?” “It is working, sir,” Private Public informed as his voice also came through the speakers, “you just can't hear your voice become louder.” “Right, good to know, I guess.” General Specific sighed before trying to continue his speech. “Attention all people of... What is this park's name?” “Standard Ordinary Boring Cliched Park, sir.” Private Public answered. “What?! Who calls their park that?!” General Specific questioned. “I think you should get back on track, sir.” Private Public suggested. “Alright...” General Specific reluctantly agreed. “Attention all people of... Whatever's this park called. It is I, General Specific! I'm a leader of a secret military organization destined to capture a sheep for a sheep-powered ray-gun! No, I'm not telling you which organization we are! It's a secret! Anyway, the reason we had stopped this Ferris wheel is because the sheep that we need for our ray-gun as well as his husband who keeps preventing us from capturing him is in it, and we can't let them get away!”
X Agent gasped after he found out about what's happening, “Oh no! How did General Specific know we were in this ride at this exact time?!”
“Oh! In case you're wondering how do we know that these two sheep are in this Ferris wheel at this time, we used the Plot Device!” General Specific somehow answered, before the Plot Device came in and said “Hello.” as usual.
“Of course...” X Agent sighed, before looking at Sheep, who was panicking even more. “OH IT JUST HAD TO END LIKE THIS AND WE HAD TO BE ON THE VERY, VERY, VERY TOP OF THIS GOD FORESAKEN RIDE!” “Sheep, please calm down...” X Agent soothed. “I CAN'T CALM DOWN, X AGENT! GENERAL SPECIFIC JUST HAD TO MAKE THINGS WORSE!” Sheep argued, trying not to cry. X Agent couldn't do much as he held Sheep in his hoofs to help him relax. “I know how you feel, Sheep... I really do.”
“With that... Emotional scene that was somewhat important to the plot, as told by the Plot Device who just left to recharge herself and told me to say 'Hello.' to all of you, out of the way,” General Specific continued, “the reason we had stopped them on the very, very, very top of the ride is because it is part of our plan; Get-The-Two-Sheep-Stuck-On-The-Ferris-Wheel-So-They-Can't-Get-Out-Of-Their-Seats-Since-The-Ride-Demands-That-Passengers-Must-Stay-In-Their-Seats-At-All-Times-So-We-Can-Easily-Capture-Them-Storm! Or you can use the acronym; GTTSSOTFWSTCGOOTSSTRDTPMSITSAATSWCECTS! The best part? I didn't need the Mad Scientist's help to make this plan! Though I need him to make the device as it is part of the plan!” Just as General Specific said that, the Angry Scientist slowly made his way to the microphone and began to speak. “For the love-ness of god-ness... General Specific is right for once! I didn't making the plan to capture Sheep and X Agent, and I get to be a part of it!” General Specific gave a sigh of relief that the Angry Scientist didn't yell at him for calling him something that he despised. “Also,” The Angry Scientist added, “I'M AN ANGRY SCIENTIST! I'M NOT MAD!!!” General Specific groaned, that sigh of relief was too soon. “...Yeah... So Ma-Angry Scientist, what is your part in my plan?” “Oh yes.” The Angry Scientist pointed out before clearing his throat. “You see, General Specific needs a device that can carry the carriage that the two sheep-ness are in. That's why I creating a new device that can carry said carriage; The Gravity-Ness Device!” He then showed off the device as he held it proudly in his hands. It was a large metallic box with a big black button on top, a crank on the side of its left, and a stand forming at the bottom with two wheels added. “This device allows the gravity-ness of an object to be moved by simply pushing this large button to activate it and turning the crank to make it move towards us!” The Angry Scientist added. “Very good, Angry Scientist. Lets see how the Gravity Device works!” “GRAVITY-NESS!” The Angry Scientist corrected, “The 'Ness' part is in the name!” “Man, I wish most of the mad scientists hadn't moved to the Private Sector in this country...” General Specific thought to himself, before snatching the device from the Angry Scientist and going to find the right position to get the carriage, that Sheep and X Agent are in, to move.
Thinking he was in the right spot, General Specific placed the Gravity-Ness Device a few meters away from the horizontal side of the Ferris wheel, pointed it to Sheep and X Agent's carriage and pressed the obvious button, excited to see what it would do. Nothing happened. General Specific was slightly annoyed and pushed the button again, thinking it will work this time. Nothing happened. General Specific was getting frustrated as he pressed the button multiple times, getting the darn thing to work. Nothing happened. General Specific was now on the verge of yelling, in fact, he already was. “Mad Scientist, your Gravity-Ness Device didn't work!” He complained. “One, I'M ANGRY! Two, one very tiny-ness-ness-ness... Ness thing I forgot-ness to tell you is that the Gravity-Ness Device won't work on objects that are too far away from it...” The Angry Scientist explained, trying to hide his embarrassment. “Man, it would be nice of you if you told that beforehand!” General Specific commented. “I just forgot-ness, alright?” The Angry Scientist replied. General Specific rolled his eyes before looking at Private Public, who was still in the control room. “Private Public, turn that wheel around so we can use the Angry Scientist's Gravity Device!” “GRAVITY-NESS!” The Angry Scientist corrected, feeling irritated by the incorrect name.
Private Public looked at the control panel that most likely controlled the Ferris wheel, and was baffled by what he saw. Instead of just being a few large buttons like a normal control panel, there were a bunch of cranks, switches and keypads. There are buttons on the panel, but there were tens of them and all of them didn't have a label, with the exception of a large red button that he along with General Specific had used to stop the Ferris wheel. Private Public was scratching his helmet for an idea on how to start up the Ferris wheel again. It was so easy to stop the ride, so why couldn't the same be said for starting it? Private Public then grabbed a coin from his pocket and flipped it, hoping nature would give him an answer. The coin landed on heads, so Private Public grabbed one of the cranks and turned it to his left. The Ferris wheel began to start up again and turn to Private Public's left. General Specific was pleased by it and tried to use the Gravity-Ness device on the carriage again. It briefly worked, but the wheel was moving too fast and lost connection with the carriage. “Private Public, you can stop that thing now!” General Specific demanded. “I'm not even doing anything, sir; the wheel is now moving by itself!” Private Public informed. “Then do something!” General Specific responded. Private Public looked at the control panel again, scratched his helmet, flipped a coin (this time he got tails), and pushed one of the small buttons in response. The wheel suddenly went faster. “This is not helping!” General Specific told. Private Public repeated his actions and flipped one of the switches, the wheel went even faster. Everyone inside the carriages felt the speed the wheel was going and started to get dizzy. General Specific was annoyed by the private's actions, “You don't even know what you're doing, do you?” “For the first time in my life... I actually don't know what I'm doing...” Private Public frowned. General Specific started to feel bad for the private and wanted to help, “Oh alright... Let me help you.” He then walked up to the controls and now understood why Private Public didn't know what he was doing, by simply looking at them. General Specific took a good look at all, noticing some of the dust and crumbs as a consequence, and had an idea. “I know! How about we push the big red button; the same one we used to stop the ride?” General Specific told. “It might work, sir.” Private Public encouraged. General Specific smiled before pushing the button, expecting the ride to stop. To their utter shock, the wheel went even faster.
“What are you doing-ness in there?!” The Angry Scientist questioned. “What does it look like?” General Specific answered, looking at the controls. “It appears that you are making the Ferris wheel-ness faster-ness-ness! Don't you want to use the Gravity-NESS device?!” The Angry Scientist told, starting to feel impatient. “Of course I want to use the Gravity-Ness Device, Mad Scientist!” General Specific added. “ANGRY! NOT MAD! ANGRY!” The Angry Scientist complained.
General Specific, even after the Angry Scientist's outburst, was still looking at the controls yet again, and had another idea. “How about we push this red button again?” He suggested. “Are you sure it's going to work, sir?” Private Public asked. “At least it's better than nothing! This is nothing!” General Specific replied as he pointed towards an empty piece of ground, where Super Mega Happy Fun Park was once there. “Good point, sir.” Private Public agreed. General Specific looked at the red button again and gave it a good push. To their misfortune, the wheel went even faster. “That didn't help, sir.” Private Public commented. “Hmmm... You're right...” General Specific thought, before having one last idea. “Maybe third time's the charm?” “That's more of an encouraging phrase rather than an answer to our problem, sir,” Private Public told, “But it might work.” General Specific agreed to Private Public's agreement, looked at the red button again and gave it one last push, hoping to finally stop the Ferris wheel...
Then it happened.
The wheel started to get loose from the stand as the bolts and screws connected to keep it in place all jumped off like beans on a plate and, going off with the speed of a very fast train, it rolled away from the stand, only leaving behind a small breeze and a path of dirt. Everyone was shocked to see what had happened and were speechless. Well, almost everyone.
“We're toast, sir...” Private Public sighed. “You weren't kidding-ness when you said third time's the charm.” The Angry Scientist joked. “Enough talk! Let's catch that wheel!” General Specific declared.
“... and those two sheep inside one of the carriages!”