'Dimension Dilemmas: Australia' (part three)

Martine was floating on something brown. She took a sip. Mmmm, chocolate milk. Chocolate milk? Had she died and gone to chocolaty heaven? But then she realized she was in a well. A well filled with chocolate milk instead of water, for some reason. She noticed Julia dragging Harold across the well towards her. He had fainted at the sight of sharks. Luckily, Coffee was safe. And it was also very lucky that the pocket Coffee was in was zipped up, so he didn't get wet, or drown, for that matter. Martine and Julia clambered out, and Harold had finally woken up. They walked around, and took in the landscape. There were gummy trees, and marshmallow houses, and candyfloss for grass. But the weirdest thing was the people. There was gummy bear and jelly baby people, all running about in a panic. 

Martine stopped one and asked: 'Where are we?' The gummy bear replied, 'You're in Candyland, the world of candy and marshmallows.' 
'How did we get here?' asked Julia, suspiciously. 
'Probably the portal in the well. You got here by jumping in the sea, am I correct?' questioned the gummy bear. 'Oh, and by the way, my name's Gerald,' said the gummy bear.
'Hi Gerald, and yes, we did accidentally jump into the sea. But there's one more question I need to ask you, and that's why is everyone running about in a panic?' said Harold, wonderingly. 
'Mr Marshmallow. He's evil and he's trying to take over Candyland with his evil minions to turn it into a pink unicorn balloon making factory! I know, evil, right!?' said Gerald, speaking quieter after every word. 
'Eerrr, yeah, maybe?' said Martine, uncertainly. She didn't know why someone evil wanted to turn Candyland into that. She was expecting an evil secret lab, or something like that. 
'Oh, and one last thing,' said Gerald. 'Do not, under any circumstances, eat the candy. It hypnotises you into being one of Mr Marshmallow's evil minions where he can control whatever you do. Simples,' he added. And with that, he walked off.

'Ok, I have a plan,' said Martine, seriously. 'To save the town, of course,' added Martine. 'Ok, back to business, you see that marching group of evil minions over there?' She pointed, and J and H nodded. 'We blend in with them, into MM's (Mr Marshmallow) secret base. There, we get our hands on his machine that controls the minions. We tell them to bit MM's head off (I know, pretty gruesome, but he's only a marshmallow, so what harm will that do?) then we break the machine, freeing the minions, then we get home through the well! Great plan, right, guys!' said Martine, pleased with herself. 'Great!' smiled Julia.
'Sounds awesome!!' followed Harold. So off they went towards the marching minions...

They managed to blend in just fine, apart from the fact that they weren't candy. The minions led down into a side alley, right in between two big toffee towers. Then they went down a slope and underground. There was no trespassers in the base because there was a big sign saying 'Danger of death' and 'Keep out'. And for good measure, a skull and crossbones picture. Anyway, they walked into the dark tunnel below...

There was metal machines everywhere that do things like make pink unicorn balloons. Learning how to make beef stew (that wasn't a machine, it was just one of the recipes in MM's recipe book). Minion Multiplier (it makes clone minions). And, last of all, the one Martine needed for her plan. The computer controlling the minions. 

Suddenly, they saw the Mr Evil Marshmallow walk out of... walk out of... the toilet. Hee hee hee! You readers are probably giggling now. But that was it. Everyone heard a flush and then MM walked out with a piece of tissue paper stuck to his foot. LOL. While everyone was laughing, Martine snuck over to the computer, and typed in 'EAT MM'. Commotion! That was the only word for it. The minions ran at MM like ravenous sharks (remember the sharks?). Harold secretly envied MM's handiwork with his computer he'd built designed to control. But then, sadly, Martine got a jack hammer out of the 'machine that gives you anything' (quite handy, really) and smashed the computer to pieces, freeing the minions. After, of course, the minions had eaten MM. Then all was happy. There was hugging jelly babies and gummy bears cheering. Everyone ran out of the base and spread the news. 

Now all we need to do is get home, thought Martine to herself, as the three friends (four, including Coffee) walked out of the base. 'Well done, Mart,' said Harold. 'That was epic,' added Julia, impressed.

'Great, but we need to get home now,' answered Marine, in serious mode again. So they went to the well, and hurriedly jumped in....

Next time: the final installment. Will Martine 

get home safely?