Teetering high above the red circus ring below, I balance on the tight rope, showing off for my fans in attendance.
Not a human face filled the miniscule bleachers which surrounded the red ring below me, in the center of the stadium. As a matter of fact, almost all of the faces were a pale green and a light hum filled the stadium. Almost like a human crowd coming to its feet to cheer a goal, but only this was a higher pitched hum, more like electricity.
Nervous crickets rubbed their legs over each other, humming, annoying the hell out of anything within a one mile radius! Was Dental the Cricket going to make it? Or would he plunge to his death below?
The thin string of floss smiles in at the crowd in a sadistic manner as it bends under the weight of my body.
I step forward slowly. The grasshopper hum increases to high pitched scream as the tenseness of the audience increases. No cricket had ever successfully completed this feat before. To walk across one foot of dental floss was the highest honor of the cricket circus society.
I step again. My leg slips! I teeter on the floss, trying to regain my balance.
A gasp of horror escapes the crowd as I fall.
Is today the day Dental dies? Every cricket asks himself that question as Dental plunges through the air toward certain death.
SPLAT! Was that the sound of death? Surely no cricket could survive a fall like that.
Slowly I climb out of the ring! The tomato pad has saved my life! My body still has all its legs, both antennas are still attached, and best of all; I can still hop ridiculously far!
The crowd hums in awe at the strength of my will as I climb the ladder to the floss rope again. This time, I have a different plan.
Once I reach the platform attached to the mint smelling dental floss, I don’t even take step, I just look it. Instead I haunch back, shaking in fear, and launch my frail, pale green body across the floss.
I land safely on the other sad, slightly spraining my right hopper. It’s all good though. The crowd erupts in cheers! Someone has made it across a foot of dental floss, even though it wasn’t the most conventional way.
Making it across the floss walking was going to be impossible, so I found another solution to it, and that is how I changed the world.
