The Hugo Prosperio Holiday Special: Part Two

"Now, I am friends with a very strange man with a very strange store. Unlike myself, his guests transform for the rest of their lives, but to be honest, you won't hear any complaints because they are having so much fun. Chuckles told me a tale of a recent customer of the store, and I just had to share…"

CLOWNTOPIA: STOCKING STUFFERS

The loud horn to the joke shop sounded as Frank Bobbins walked in and looked around. He was looking for some stocking stuffers for his wife's stocking. He placed his hand on the bell on the desk, but instead of a ring, he got a sharp shock.

"OUCH!" he felt compelled to say, almost in a childish manner.

"Hello there!" came a sweet voice. Out stepped a very rotund girl, done up like a clown. Her hair was purple, curled into ringlets, with a red and green bow tied in her hair.

"I'm Bubbles T. Clown, welcome to Chuckles Joke Shop! How can I be of service?"

"Oh,uh…" Frank began. He was not expecting a clown girl to appear out of nowhere, nor was he expecting someone that big. To him, she smelled of Cotton Candy and…weed? He shook his head and smiled."

"Just looking for some jokey stuff to put in my wife's stocking for Christmas. We always get each other silly things. "

"Oh my! We have just the stuff! We are always fully stocked on silly things!"  Bubbles said as she waddled her way over to one of the
shelves. She took out a small box and pulled out what looked like a plastic ray gun that a kid in the 50s might have played with.

"Well, I think that's a little too childish.." he began to say.

"Nonsense! It's the perfect gift. It brings out the silly in someone if you fire it at them. Just watch!" she said as she aimed at his belly and fired. A neon burst of colors came out of it and hit him with a strong force. He then felt his belly tingle, and in a single burst of movement, it pushed out into a large fat paunch, pushing his shirt up and his pants down, exposing his belly button, now a deep hole in a blob of doughy flesh.

"What the hell?!" he gasped

"Your Inner Silly is a fat one!" Bubbles giggled as she fired again, hitting him in the chest. This time his whole body shrank down to just a little over four foot tall.

"A shorty! I am one of those…sometimes." She giggled as she aimed the gun again.

"No! Please don't!" he shouted as the beam hit his face. It was warm, like soft sunlight. His head then began to morph and change. His the hair on the top of his head fell out, except for a ring around the base. The dome of his head pushed up into a cone shape, giving him the look of those odd aliens from that SNL sketch. He began to feel light headed at this point and a doofy grin appeared on his face.
"And that was just the silly setting! Wait til you see the clown setting!" Bubbles mused as she flicked a switch on the gun and aimed again. A blast of cotton candy colored lights hit him, causing him to let out a small giggle.

His skin then began to turn snow white from head to toe, as his ears doubled size, and his lips turned bright red and formed into a  wide grin. Blue circles formed around his eyes and green diamonds dotted his cheeks. His remaining hair turned red, including a tiny bit of hair that had grown at the top of his pointy dome.

His feet burst forward, blowing out of his shoes with huge speed, leaving wide toes wiggling as they felt the slightly chilly air of the store. His butt wiggled and grew out, growing to mach his belly,  and then suddenly his clothing began to change to match. Suspenders tied his pants to his shirt, which was now red with white polka dots. (His belly button still stuck out, though) and new shoes, red converse sneakers formed on his large feet, clown sized of course.

"There we go. See, it works just like I told ya." She giggled. He smiled. "That was, hyuck, funny feelin' and stuff. I bet my wife would love that!" he said.

"Well, it's on the house. Just take it home and surprise her with it." Bubbles said. "And afterwords, use this…" she added as she held up a small wooden door, like that to a doll-house "…to take a permanent vacation to a world as silly and fun as you!"

She handed him the ray gun, and the wooden door. He giggled and waddled out of the store, the horn above the door honking as he made his way to the snow streets, people giving him strange looks as he waddled towards his home.

"Merry Christmas!" Bubbles yelled out.

"And a Silly New Year!"


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"Wonderful. I am sure him and his wife had a very fun Christmas, and their new year will be filled with silliness. Not a bad thing, really."