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Start Of Part Three
Poopface sat in his evil rocking chair, reading Evil Person's Monthly magazine and considering what evil thing he should do next. Evilly, of course. Some people just thought that he was putting it all on, pretending to be evil in public, and going home to his wife and three children, and going to church every Sunday. But in reality, Poopface was truly evil. Not just evil, but Evil, with a capital E. The only time he ever went to church was to burn it down, or steal from the collection plate (only truly Evil people consider doing that; those who put it on think it's below them. For more information on the intricacies of Evilness, buy the Handbook to Evil by B. L. Zebub, or subscribe to Evil Person's Monthly). His Evilness was probably down to his childhood, from being picked on by everyone for his two disabilities; his silly name, and the fact that he was the only kid in his school to speak with a line underneath his voice. A lot of evil is directly attributable to childhood insecurity, you know. Hitler was picked on for his silly hair and moustache in school.
Poopface never stopped marvelling at the fact that the spectacularly stupid and bovine Mr Beef the cow-man allowed Poopface to execute his Evil machinations from his living room-cum-barn. He turned to the classified ads section of Evil Person's Monthly and looked to see if anyone was selling off a hi-tech crime headquarters at a knock-down price, when there was a knock at the door. Pulling on his evil slippers, he got up and answered it.
"Hello, Poopface," said Primrose. "We're onto your evil and dastardly plan!"
"Which one?"
"Um, the missing people" Primrose replied, slightly thrown off track "How many evil and dastardly plans do you have?"
"I lose count, but I think it's about forty five, maybe fifty." Poopface stepped back and opened the door further. "Won't you come on in, young people?"
Primrose and pals stepped inside, and made themselves comfortable.
"Excuse me for a minute or two, but I have some pressing engagements, I'll be right back." said Poopface, conveniently allowing Primrose and her pals some time to talk, and possibly escape.
"He seems quite a cordial host, for such an evil man." said Kirsty.
"I expect he's up to something..."
"Quite a nice man, I thought" said Mr Furry quietly, making himself comfortable on top of Poopface's copy of Evil Person's Monthly.
"When he gets back, you hold him and I'll beat his brains out with his own wicker table." said Charlie, getting into position behind the door.
"No, no, no," Primrose said in a kind and humanitarian way, "If we do that, we'll be as evil as him! We have to use our wits and intelligence to overcome him."
"That's us done for, then." Charlie said, dejected.
"It isn't as if he's holding us here against our will." Kirsty pointed out, "I mean, we came here on our own, and he's left the front door unlocked, so why are we plotting how to escape?"
"We're not, Charlie is. I'm plotting, er, thinking, of how to talk him out of his ever descending and self-destructive spiral of evil, which will eventually and inevitably lead to his own downfall and cause him to become more upset and disillusioned with society." said Primrose, and paused for breath. "It's for his own good!"
"Oh, okay."
"Well, I say he's still a git, and we should finish him now!"
"Pleasant place, this pit of evil"
"Mixed feelings in the little band of do-gooders?" Poopface made a dramatic return to the scene. "So, what is it to be? Talking me round to the ways of good, beating me senseless, or me watching you all suffer? It's your decision..."
"Suffering"
"I prefer the beating you senseless option, myself." said Charlie, and picked up Poopface's own wicker table.
"Sit down, Mr Poopface, and we can talk."
"Not bleedin' likely" said Poopface, and promptly tied Primrose and her pals up in chains.
Too soon for an End Of Part Three
Part Three hasn't ended yet, so there's no Start Of Part Four
"What do you want with us, Poopface?" Kirsty asked.
"Pardon?" Poopface looked confused, "I didn't understand that, it may have something to do with the peculiar typeface."
"She said 'What do you want with us, Poopface?', and I would like to add to that my own question," Primrose paused dramatically again, and tried to get another bit of liquorice out of her pocket using just her mouth (don't forget they've been tied up), "I would like to know, why are you performing these Evil deeds?"
"Why not?" Poopface stuck a finger in his ear and mumbled something underneath his breath, and then said, "It isn't actually me who's responsible for these Mysterious disappearances, but if you'd like to think that you've progressed in your search, I'll be willing to pretend that it is me."
"Oh, I don't think that'll be necessary." said Primrose, "Thanks all the same."
"While death and bloodshed continue to exist, I shall live on" Mr Furry whispered.
"Are you being Controlled by a more powerful force, a force that is so very Evil that it makes your Evilness seem pale in comparison, Mr Poopface?"
"Er, no."
"Then why did you stick your finger in your ear?" Primrose shifted position, and at the same time managed to surreptitiously slip out of the chains that were holding her in the chair. Meanwhile, Poopface stuck his finger in his ear again, and nodded.
"Excuse me, I have another pressing engagement elsewhere."
"Oh damn," said Charlie, "I can't struggle out of my chains."
"Not to worry," Primrose said, standing up, "I already have." She then proceeded to untie her pals, and they escaped from Poopface's Evil lair in Mr Beef the cow-man's living room.

Across town, Mr Cabbage the greengrocer arrived home.
"Hi honey, I'm home!" he called out, hanging his hat and coat on the hatstand. He walked into the kitchen, where a pot was on the stove, bubbling away to itself happily. His wife, the adorable Mrs Cabbage, was standing in the corner, looking shorter than usual.
"What's for dinner?" Mr Cabbage asked. Mrs Cabbage stepped forward, and lifted the lid off of the pot on the stove with her three-fingered hand.
"Boiled intestines of Krrrrrrrrrrrrrrshmmmkk." she said.
"What's Krrrrrrrrrrrrrrshmmmkk?"
"A snail-like animal on my homeworld of Shmahahahahaha."
Mr Cabbage looked down at his shorter-than-usual wife, and noticed that her skin seemed slightly different.
"Your skin would appear to be grey, my dear." he observed. "And your eyes, they're much larger, and almond shaped. And your head is more bulbous and much much greyer than it was last night."

In a fancy-looking high tech room on their mothership, a crowd of short grey men with bulbous heads and large eyes were watching Mr Cabbage on a big screen.
"One of the humans has noticed a difference between our people and his own." said one of them.
"We have been detected, we must proceed immediately to the second phase of our plan!" said a second short grey man. A third grey man ran quickly to a big bank of computers with flashing lights and tape reels, and pushed the buttons, which made funny bleep-bloop noises. Down below in the still-nameless mediaeval city, several dozen more people vanished, to be replaced by the grey people. One of the people who vanished was Kirsty.
"Thank god for that" said Charlie, "I thought she'd never go away."

End Of Part Three

Part Four!!!


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