The Road To Toontown by Wolf Gary K

Author:Wolf, Gary K. [Wolf, Gary K.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2012-07-31T05:00:00+00:00

A platoon of VC stomped in. They surrounded the kitchenette’s hapless prisoners.

“That about wraps it up, Captain.” The kitchenette addressed the VC officer in charge. “Book `em for me.”

The captain nodded.

The kitchenette smacked a ladle self-debasingly across its counter top. “I can’t tell you how good it’s going to feel to shed this goofy getup and slip into something with a dash more machismo. A mass spectrometer or a molecular chromatograph.” It started off, pulled up short, and turned. “By the way, make sure those clowns at headquarters understand I’m not to be bothered tonight. I’ve got a date with this dynamite vibrachair. Regular fox. Two hundred twenty volts. 60 amp.” It winked the iris on its microwave oven’s tuning light. “AC/DC, if you know what I mean.”

To heighten the impact of its departure, it spread dry ice around to generate a boiling mist into which it cockily swaggered off.

Freddie, watching it leave, felt an involuntary twinge of admiration. “What a machine!”

“Yeah,” Sal said. “Reminds me of a saying I saw written on a station house wall on Tijuana. `Show me a robot detective,’ it said, `and I’ll show you a mechanical dick.’”

“That’s enough loose talk,” the captain instructed. “Everybody outside.

President Chuckmucker was the first to leave, secure in his knowledge that he would be released, probably with a commendation, most assuredly with reams of good press, as soon as everything got straightened out.

Putting his trust in a battery of lawyers, Bull Weevil pulled his head deep inside his cloak, threw his arm across his face to protect himself from newsmen, and followed.

Freddie and Sal brought up the rear, surrounded by a tightly knit circle of VC.

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