Once upon a time, there was a cucumber named Gerald in a land called the Vegiland. In the Vegiland, he went to the Slimy Swamp and met Penny the Pickle.
But then a mysterious villain called The Blender entered Vegiland. He got a bounty for Penny the Pickle and Gerald the Cucumber and he puts up wanted posters to act like they are missing, but secretly he was tracking them.
Gerald found out that The Blender was tracking him. He fell into the radioactive swamp and got superpowers. His superpowers were that he can shoot pickles and spit out pickle acid. Gerald’s best friend Penny the Pickle was on the cutting board and he tried to save her. He saved her and they went to Lettuce Land to track down The Blender.
The most romantic thing happened: Penny the Pickle got married to Gerald the Cucumber. The Blender showed up to the wedding and Gerald the Cucumber and the Blender had a big fight.
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So Penny the Pickle didn’t know she had powers because they were married. Her power was that she got to spit out boiling hot acid tomato soup.
When Gerald the Cucumber and The Blender were fighting, Penny the Pickle stepped in and poured tomato soup into the Blender, so it didn’t work any more. He malfunctioned and exploded!
Then his nephew, a vegetable knife, came to Vegiland to carry on his uncle’s legacy. But the Blender had one more trick up his sleeve. He used his clone to fight so his real body was in his lair.
The vegetable knife tried to find Penny the Pickle and Gerald the Cucumber, but they had a safe house on an island off the coast of Madagascar.
The vegetable knife got a plane ticket to the island and brought his uncle’s remains to have one last showdown…
This story was published in The Irish Times Fighting Words magazine, a collection of stories, poems and essays by young and international writers
