A mysterious man in a mask pushed his cart with a quiet "rumble rumble," scanning the shelves for the perfect item in the grocery store.
"Ah, this seems nice," he muttered to himself, examining a can. His excitement faded quickly, though, as he realized, "Dammit, not gluten-free." With a disappointed sigh, he returned the can to its place and took out what looked like a treasure map.
Meanwhile, in the depths of the end of the aisle, a low growl emanated from an unseen source. But the man was too engrossed in the map to notice. A grotesque creature, as red as a tomato and twice as ugly, slowly slithered from the shadows, its drool hanging menacingly.
The creature's singular beady eye locked onto the man, and without further ado. Tentacles shot out toward him, contorting into bizarre shapes as it lunged.
Undeterred, the man leaped gracefully over the tentacles, still engrossed in the map. With a deafening "SLAM" his shopping cart flew with one of the speeding tentacles.
"HEY NO! Thats mine!" His immersion to the map was disrupted and gives chase to the cart. He slashes the creature's tentacles with his tie sword, but it seemed to never end. "CRASH" The man and the cart sounded as they jumped outside of the store to reveal a bizarre revelation
Vegetables floated in the air, fruits spun like tiny planets, and grocery aisles twisted in impossible ways, forming a labyrinth that defied gravity stretching across all angles with no end in vision. This was not an ordinary world we know. This was the peculiar universe of the grocery store.
The cart smashed into another aisle below alongside the man. "Whish!" One tentacle slides through the shelves sideways unbeknownst to him and propels him across 10 isles, knocking him off course. However, his determination was unwavering, as he clung on to the gondola shelf of an aisle above the aisle he was driven from, grinding against it like a RNA polymerase reading a double helix DNA.
"Daddy! Can we get that?" a little girl in the store called out, her innocent hand reaching for something on the shelf. However, her plea was interrupted by a cataclysmic "CRASH" as the masked man and the tentacles burst through like an unrelenting tempest. The girl's grandpa chastised him, "Watch where you're going, you damn moron!"
The tentacles raged, trying to dislodge him from the cart. With a tremendous effort, they flipped the entire aisle he was on sideways and downwards, causing the man to lose his balance. He slid down the shelves, narrowly evading the relentless tentacle attacks and cascading columns of tomatoes.
Amidst the chaos, "GRAB!", "YES! GLUTEN FREE!" triumphantly said as he held tightly the can he had been searching for all along.
A gaping maw loomed menacingly from the bottom of the slide, ready to swallow him whole with a resounding "CHOMP." Just barely, he dodged the impending doom, realizing that the massive creature's mouth was the source of the thousands of tentacles, the God of the Sauce isle, Vlidhir. If he defeated it, the cart would be his to retrieve.
With a swift "SWISH," he swung his tie-sword, but the creature proved more agile than he had anticipated, jumping away and anchoring its tentacles to other isles above to hang safely in the air. Meanwhile, the cart hurtled toward the creature's ravenous mouth.
Frustrated, the man muttered, "He has eyes everywhere; I cannot catch him off guard."
As the creature inched closer to devour the cart, the man steeled himself. "SLASH!" With a fierce determination, he cut through the tentacles that threatened the cart. However, he was smacked like a helpless ragdoll against the banana container.
The massive creature's mouth neared the cart, "CHOMP" "GULP". Unfortunately, all the man can do was watch, unless…
With a final, thunderous "SLASH," he ripped Vlidhir open from the inside, shattering it into countless pieces.
"HAH! And all I had to do was sneak inside of your tentacles and crawl towards your head!" With a triumphant grin, he looked down at the wreckage below, only to find the gluten-free can he had found amidst the valiant battle scattered on the ground.
His smile dwindled, but his adventure was far from over.