Yellow Banana Heist

By Carsten Clark, Leif Fraunkron and Sean Meier

Once upon a time there was a presidential candidate named Fisher Monkton. He was a monkey who loved eating cheese. He told all the monkeys that they should vote for Fisher Monkton! Fisher’s speech stated that “a monkey is a monkey no matter how fat you may be.” The fat monkeys saw this as sarcasm and were offended! Fisher Monkton also said, “I will build a wall of attack to defend against the Red Banana Tribe.” Fisher Monkton was then elected president of the Yellow Bananas, which was both the clan tribe’s name and currency. Some fat monkeys were mad that they were being discriminated against FOR THEIR SIZE, but really they just had poor communication. You see, they have bad Wi-Fi. Therefore, they can’t reply to the mean comments that they thought Fisher Monkton made.

What poor communication, you ask? Well, there was never an official rubric IN PRINT explaining the required criteria to become a presidential monkey. Every monkey in the nation SHOULD have been surveyed regarding what makes a quality presidential monkey. Does the monkey need to be intelligent? Kind? Caring? Hard working? Considerate? Where was the OFFICIAL rubric explaining what makes a good presidential monkey, and why were the monkeys not surveyed?

The fat monkeys started a riot because of how they were discriminated against due to their size. They thought the president made fun of them. Then they got mad because other monkeys were making fun of them. In addition, they couldn’t tell the president to stop because their internet was cutting in and out. They didn’t have a good router for the internet, and they couldn’t get a job because of their size.

They planned a heist so they could have money for food and a shiny new router to improve their internet. THEN, they could reply to the mean comment Fisher Monkton made. So they threatened to heist all the yellow bananas. The monkey president didn’t think it was serious since they were fat and unable to maneuver.

Five days later, they were attempting the heist. When they showed up to the underground personal bank of Fisher Monkton, they opened the bank. The bank had bad security, but the fat monkeys had good expert locksmithing. They found out that Fisher Monkton and his henchmen swapped all the yellow bananas with…GREEN BANANAS! The fat monkeys were mad… like REALLY MAD. So they searched around. In a freezer filled with frozen banana smoothies, they found a secret button to a secret door to a secret room.

In the secret room they found tons of workout equipment. The reason the gym is there is because Fisher Monkton wanted a private monkey gym. The president then trapped them in the vault… which WAS the secret workout gym! They decided to work out because they were trapped and bored. This was time very well spent!

After they got regular-sized, the door opened and they were scared that they would suffer repercussions for their actions. The president greeted them and gave them a job of creating more bananas and making smoothies out of them. They got to help the chef make smoothies and desserts for their president.

They got all of this because of their AWESOME transformation. The president then saw them and started clapping. “You guys didn’t need to do all that! I was joking! I never hated you guys! You were perfect as you were!”

“We thought you were making fun of us! We exercised down to a normal size so you couldn’t taunt us anymore,” the former fat monkeys responded.

“I never wanted you guys to change. I will make peace with all the banana tribes. It may take a while, but I shall bring peace to this world,” the president promised. Fisher Monkton then spent his life bringing peace between all seven banana tribes to the end of time.

After the heist, all monkeys in the nation were surveyed on how to create a rubric clearly, explaining the necessary criteria for becoming presidential monkey. They all agreed that Fischer Monkton SHOULD be monkey president after all! There was never another riot or banana heist again.

Clear communication is the key to presidential monkey success!

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