Egger's Dilemma

Featuring Dr. Axel, Dr. Ubermann, Dr. Flow and Egger Righteous! All Characters © their respective copyright owners.

Written by Egger Righteous.

 

"Zzzzzzzzooooooooooooooooom!"

Egger rollerblades over a hill and down the other side, grinding the edges of his skate wheels to a stop at the bottom of the hill. The righteous chipmunk morph, standing five and a half feet tall, with his long fluffy tail swishing in the breeze, looks around and realizes he's skated to the edge of a forest. He normally didn't come skating around here, but Egger felt like exploring and figured he could find some new rollerblading ground to skate on. He started walking slowly on his skate wheels as quietly as he could, checking out the tall dark trees and bushes that seemed to surround the area, making it look really sinister. Egger felt a feeling of foreboding, but the chipmunk's curiosity got the best of him.

Egger moved some low tree branches aside and moved into the dense foliage. It was like another world, like walking into a dark jungle. The trees grew very close to each other; it was hard just to make it between the trees.

"Wait a second," Egger thought, "This is really creepy. I'm not going to find any places to rollerblade in here. I…s-should just…go home." Egger turned around, looking for the way he came in, but the trees all looked alike. Egger started to get scared. He started to feel disoriented. He started to lose his balance on his rollerblades. He tried to start skating, but he fell down fast, the wet leaves covering the ground made skating impossible. Egger looked around and started to hear footsteps. Egger gasped and looked around, seeing tree branches sway slightly, as if someone (or something) had just passed by! Egger crawled backwards on his palms and roller blades back up to a tree trunk and started to pant heavily, getting very scared.

Suddenly, something came at him from behind the tree trunk. He felt something cover his face and nose forcibly. A cloth. Or was it a gag? Egger noticed the trees all getting fuzzy until he couldn't see any more. Egger struggled pathetically against this cloth being held against his face tightly. It smelled really strange. Egger eventually went limp and fell over, unconscious.

"It was obvious that his feet were the most ticklish, Doctor, not his sides," exclaimed Dr. Ubermann.

"That's your opinion, not mine," Dr. Axel responded, still writing some notes in his journal about the last tickle torture victim he "examined" thoroughly.

Egger was just starting to come around, realizing what had happened. He could make out three wolf morphs about the same height as Egger was, but they were free to walk around and take notes. Egger was sitting against a tree trunk and had his hands tied behind his back. Egger also noticed his rollerblades were gone. Egger looked down at his feet, wiggling his toes in the cool breeze. Egger's tail started to twitch. Egger knew he should try to escape, but a cloth gag was stuffed in his muzzle and tied around the tree trunk making movement very limited. The three wolves seemed distracted with something on a large tree stump out of Egger's view.

"You see?" Dr. Flow remarked, "They do respond to sugar water." Something small was moving on the tree stump, but Egger couldn't tell what it was.

"Shouldn't we test the theory on someone?" Dr. Axel said.

All three wolves turned to look at Egger. Egger played dead, his eyes closed and his body was limp.

The three wolf doctors then turned their backs on Egger, examining the tree stump and the thing that was moving on it more closely.

"Now's my chance," Egger thought to himself. Egger started to shift around on the ground, trying to squirm his way out of the gag. His wrists were tied together tightly, but luckily his ankles weren't bound at all. Egger squirmed down to the ground until his muzzle came free of the gag. Egger planted his bare feet on the wet ground and started squirming around the tree trunk until he was out of the wolf doctors' view.

Egger panted quietly, trying not to make any noise but also not wasting any time. Egger slowly started moving away from the tree trunk using his soles, toes and fingers to push himself up the tree trunk to stand upright. Egger got a shiver from his bare soles, feeling the crumbly leaves and wet ground on them. Egger looked around the tree trunk to spy on the doctors, but they weren't looking in his direction. Egger took one step and walked into something strange. It was a pool of thick liquid with a slight gold tint to it. Although it felt nice and squishy, it didn't stop him. In fact, he started to run. Running and constantly looking over his shoulder, hoping the doctors wouldn't notice his escape.

Egger started to hear hissing noises as he ran. Egger couldn't tell where they were coming from. The sounds only made Egger want to run faster and escape as fast as his feet could take him. Egger ran into another one of those pools of thick liquid, but he didn't stop or slow down. Egger's heart raced, wishing he had never stumbled into this forest. Egger ran as fast as he could, his wrists still tied together and behind his back. He glanced over his shoulder and suddenly felt his feet getting tripped up by something. Egger gasped loudly as he glanced forward, to see a deep pit right in front of him, and he was falling right into it. Shadowy green snakes, hissing down at the bottom, seeing their meal coming right at them.

"Nooo-ooooo-ooooooooooo!"

Egger started falling forward into the pit. He fell right onto a rope strung tightly across the pit. Although the rope broke his fall, he started to slide forward into the pit. Egger cried out, grabbing with his fingers and toes… trying to grab onto anything.

And he did.

Egger started to cry as he stopped falling. Somehow, he managed to catch the tight rope with his toes. Egger swayed back and forth over the writhing pit of snakes by his ticklish toes. Egger gripped the rope tightly with his toes, trying to think of a way out of this predicament.

Just then, Egger heard footsteps coming up to the pit. Egger couldn't stop looking down at the snakes, he really was scared of snakes. The three wolves got down on their knees and leaned over the pit. First, Dr. Axel took hold of the rope and tested how tightly strung it was by pulling on it.

Egger screamed out loud, mostly out of fear, feeling the tight rope starting to get a tiny bit looser.

Then, Dr. Flow leaned over to Egger's soles and ran his fingertip down each one very slowly. Egger's soles reacted wildly, the toes clenched the rope tightly as the helpless chipmunk started to writhe and giggle, despite his predicament.

"Noooo-hhhhh-hhhhh-Eeeeeeheeeheeeee!"

The three wolves huddled up and went out of view. After a few seconds, Egger looked up as the wolves came back. One of the doctors took a stick and drizzled more of that thick liquid onto Egger's soles and toes. Then, Dr. Ubermann dropped a few green snakes on the rope. The snakes instantly coiled around the rope, grabbing hold and regaining their balance. Each of the doctors nodded to each other and smiled. One of the doctors tossed a large black constrictor at Egger's knees! Egger cried out in terror as the constrictor took a firm grip on Egger's legs, holding them fast at the ankles.

"Oh no!! No no no nooooo!" Egger cried out in complete fear. "Please!! Help me!!"

Dr Axel smiled at the frightened chipmunk, "Tell you what. You hang in there until we get back and if you're still here, we might let you up." The wolf smiled at Egger, then back at his colleagues. All three doctors walked away and out of view.

Egger tried to scare the snakes away waving his tail at them, but it wasn't long enough to make any difference. Suddenly, he felt a shock of ticklishness over his left sole as one of the snakes was darting its tongue over the helpless chipmunk sole. Egger coughed out a giggle. Then, another snakey tongue darted over the toes on his right sole. Egger giggled, closing his eyes and trying desperately to hold onto the rope with his tender ticklish toes. The black constrictor seemed terribly devious, tightening its grip around Egger's ankles, keeping them together and slowly licking his arches.

"Nrrrrrrr!!! Eeeeeehaaaaahahaahaaaaaaaaa!! Heeeeeeeeheeeheheeheheheeeeeelp me!"

After several minutes of this, Egger felt the rope get looser. The snakes in the pit were getting closer. They all seemed like they wanted a taste of Egger's sweet soles. Egger's tail wagged around madly as his toes started to loosen up, a single toe came free from the rope. A snakey tongue licked at the escaped toe and Egger shrieked in ticklish agony!

"Aaaaaaaahaaaahaaaaaaaaheeeeheee heeeeeeeeeeeeee!! Staaaahaahaaahaaaaaaap!!"

Egger started to cry with laughter, tears dribbling down his face and onto the snakes below. The poor chipmunk couldn't use his arms to help balance himself. This was especially tough on Egger's toes. Without balancing, he had to hold on as tight as he could. The snake tongues made that very tough, licking and teasing his tender, sweet-tasting soles.

The snakes didn't stop. They didn't even slow down. These snakes were hungry and the sweet liquid covering Egger's soles would feed them for days. Egger panted as sweat dripped off of his cute chipmunk face. He still felt the evil little snake tongues darting all over his poor helpless soles and toes.

Egger happened to look over at the wall in the pit and there was something shiny, like glass, in the wall of the pit. Suddenly, a bright flash of white light bathed the helpless chipmunk as he heard a camera take his picture.

 

The rope was really starting to get loose now and the snakes in the bottom of the pit were getting closer. Close enough to nearly lick the chipmunk's nose. Egger cried, hoping the wolves would come back and help him out before the snakes drove him crazy.

Egger just hung in there. Giggling. Laughing. Bound and helpless. Wishing his curiosity wouldn't get the better of him next time.