ZooStuck

Originally posted on MSPA by Dragon Fogel.

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> Throw watermelons at them.

That's right. You decided that perhaps watermelons might satiate their hunger and cause them to call off their attack - that was what the first one ordered, after all. And failing that, they might serve as effective weaponry.

Unfortunately, as you grabbed the first one, you dropped it on your foot. After the pain dies down, you concluded that lighter weapons were the way to go.

> You got the gun that shoots potatoes.

After your initial plan failed, you grabbed the potato gun and began firing upon the mass of pumpkinmen. It seemed, however, that they were immune to the effects of your potato barrage.

Their advance continued unabated; was it their common heritage as food that protected them? Or perhaps the fact that both begin with P? At the time, you could only speculate.

Except you didn't have time to do that, because seriously, angry pumpkinmen.

Throw cheeseburgers that shoot guns at them.

In a bizarre fit of what passed for inspiration at the time, you decided that if a gun that shot food wouldn't work, perhaps food that shot guns would!

The end result of this experiment - you still aren't sure how you actually got this to work - was that rather than being attacked by dozens of angry pumpkinmen, you were being attacked by dozens of angry pumpkinmen with guns, while you were left holding a cheeseburger. The very object which had so offended the customer in the first place.

As one drew near, and pointed his firearm at you - the one which he wouldn't have if you hadn't tried to shoot it at him from a cheeseburger - he also pulled something out of his coat. A large, ripe, tomato. Soon, his fellow pumpkinkin retrieved similar tomatoes from their own pockets.

"You'll discover in just a few short minutes the nutritional value of tomatoes," he said in a calm, yet menacing tone of voice.

You remember that this fate seemed terrifying at the time, although now you have no idea why. Regardless, you know that somehow you managed to avoid it.

But what exactly did you do?