Chapter 25 - 3rd Mall from the Sun

A dozen orange armored buses bearing advertisements for the Abrahamic Alliance, arrive on the east side of the mall.

A large public transit bus pulls up to the west side of the mall.

Nuns in Orange & White single file off of the buses, with Grand-Arch Inquisitor Esteban Ramirez leading the tour.

Clowns file off of the public transit bus. One of them in the front has a giant radio, blasting The Choice is Yours by Black Sheep.

"Let all those who wish to confess their sins, and to accept and embrace the true church, convert now, or forever burn in hell?" Ramirez preached, stepping into the Mall. Behind him walk a legion of Nuns.

"What are you people doing in this hall of consumerism? It's a beautiful day outside, you should be out planting flowers or at a festival dancing in the sun!" Shouts Funfetti through his megaphone.

"Come now people, really? What would Jesus BUY?" Ramirez shouts as his nuns unholster & ready their dart guns.

"Let all those who do not know how to have a good time; grow, dance & sing with us now?" He asks an old lady, & offers her an arm & she smiles, takes it & wiggles around with him, to the music.

*THUNK**THUNK**THUNK* into customer after customer, the nuns fire into the crowds, in front of & through store after store. Ramirez led the charge injecting most of the people in the mall areas.

All around, clowns are giving people what seem to be potted plants, but then they notice that there are no pots & it's just dirt with the flowered plants in them. Those who took care, the dirt held its shape. However, some people's Sunday best got rather dirty.

Guards pull their weapons on the Nuns & Ramirez gets them from behind, using his quick moving mechanical tentacles, tipped with needles of the same serum as is in the darts. One of the guards was a Transhuman-minimalist. His nanites went crazy, and they ripped him apart from the DNA level.

While dancing near the guards, who yell "Freeze" & point their guns at them. Clowns use breakdancing moves to disarm the guards & pull down their pants. Using handstand kicks, the clowns push the guards into the water fountain with a splash.

Nuns are ushering darted people out of the east side of the mall and telling them to get on the buses outside. One couple, both transhuman minimalists, die agonizing deaths as other customers shuffle by their carcases in a state of chemically induced, nothing.

Some male clowns dance through the Victoria's Secret putting on Lingerie & peeking into dressing rooms. A woman screams as she moves to put on underwear, & bumps a cactus the clown was holding under her dressing room door.

The mall manager asks Ramirez "Stop? What are you doing? I thought this was just going to be a tour through the mall with a few church goers?" Ramirez jabs one of his metal tentacles into him, injecting the mind control serum, directly into his brain. "It is." Ramirez smiles & moves on.

Clowns head toward the bookstore & Funfetti stop's them & says, "Not this one guys, OK?" the clowns reply in unison resignation, "OK" Funfetti adds through the megaphone "Disturb the Comfortable!"

Some nuns launch darts into nerds at the Pomegranate (apple) Store.

Clowns with sledge-hammers, smash the Watch Pagoda, as Funfetti talks about them over his megaphone "Here we have some fun folk exorcising their time control abilities on a slave bracelet stand!"

Nuns continue ushering people out of the east side of the mall on to the buses.

Female clowns spray with fluorescent paint the letters S & H in-front of the store called "it", giggling at their handy work, they walk on talking about getting some food.

Nearing the food court from the east, the nuns reload among the dazed & drooling customers.

Nearing the food court from the west, the clowns run out of plants & ready their silly weapons. Ranging from glitter guns & confetti cannons to feather pillows & bags of useless old Euros.

Ready to unleash a fury of darts on the crowd, Ramirez & the nuns step into the food court & see Funfetti & the Clown Army ready to unleash a barrage of silly.

Funfetti raises his megaphone & yells "Comfort the disturbed!" The Clown at the lead, with the GhettoBlaster, throws it at Ramirez as he says "Now!" from the other side. The large stereo gets stuck with many darts. Crashing into the ground it burst into hundreds of pieces tripping a couple of nuns.

The firing begins into the crowd from both sides as the carousel in front of the food court begins to spin & play circus music, bringing a whole new level of absurdity to the situation.

The people in the food court drop their jaws, snarf soda through their nose & spill food on the floor, in shock.

Glitter guns & confetti cannons bang out their distractions. Nuns fire wildly into the crowds, missing many targets. Darts landing in empty seats & into walls. One of the darts bounces & slides across the ground, harmlessly sticking into the front of Funfetti's sneaker. Looking down, his eyes widened. People run through the cloud of sparkles, feathers, & paper, throwing their food & tray tables up with it. All, heading west towards the protection of the clowns. Ramirez stands in the center of the chaos, making eye contact with Funfetti for just a second. Ramirez smiles at the madness about him. Funfetti gives him a, "we'll meet again" wink & begins walking backwards. Ramirez widens his smile & moves towards him.

Parents are hoping on the moving carousel to get their children off. The Female clowns with their paint filled water guns cover the parents & children by spraying into the faces of the nuns. Ramirez walks towards Funfetti & pushes one clown aside into another, both standing there drooling with darts in them. Millions in old Euros swirl about with feathers as Funfetti continues to walk backwards shouting crowd control commands he knew from his parents taking him to #Occupy, as a child. It was working. Most of the average customers from the food court & all of the children on the Merry-go-round were spared from being darted with mind control serum.

Ramirez moves within the stabbing distance of his mechanical tentacles, targeting Funfetti. As the 4 tentacle needles reach out for him, Funfetti does a few back flips to get himself back out of Ramirez range.

Funfetti shouts through the megaphone to the last of the customers to leave the mall with him. The few who are foolish enough to not pay attention end up on the buses of the Abrahamic Alliance, once were mere consumers mindlessly obeying advertising. Now, they are chemically mind controlled into the new age of Catholicism & obedience.

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