After a short while, the school's principal walked onto the stage along with a young student that April has never seen before. The two stepped up to the microphone together as the principal tapped the mic for frequency.
"Good morning students," he greeted, "It's wonderful to see all of you here today. Now, I gathered you all here for a special event for today."
The principal ushered the young boy to the microphone next to him.
"I have brought a student over who is from a neighboring school and he has brought over a special scientific experiment to show all of you," continued the principal, who then lowered the microphone to the student's level.
The student in question, Irwin Berkowitz, is a young genius from an elementary school a few miles away from this school. His IQ rivals that of college students and college professors. With his immense knowledge, he has made numerous inventions that could benefit the world. And with all of the tools and mechanics placed all around the stage, it was obvious he was going to make something interesting.
"Good day," he greeted, "My name is Irwin Berkowitz and I will be here to invent anything and everything. I always believed that creativity and construction are limitless when you have a good mindset like mine."
April groaned at the boy's lecture. To her, it was just nerd talk. And all that was on her mind was food. She was too hungry to care about any boring science experiment.
"And today, I will be working on something that could benefit all those in need; the world's largest food item!"
And that's what caught April's attention.
"Yes, today, I will take an ordinary piece of food and triple or even quadruple it in size. I have created a machine that will do just that and hopefully if it turns out as well as it should, it could solve world hunger!"
The auditorium began to erupt with applause, as students and faculty members applauded over Irwin's idea. Even April clapped enthusiastically.
"Now, all I need is a piece of food to help with my experiment. Any volunteers?"
Students began to clamor around their pockets and backpacks to find pieces of food to use. Some only had tiny pieces of candy, others just useless junk. A boy sitting next to April pulled out a Twinkie from his backpack, only to have it being stolen by April in an instant.
"Here, pick me," yelled April as she swung the Twinkie around like a flashlight.
"Well, nice to see an eager face in the audience," said Irwin, "Alright, come on up here."
April jumped out of her seat and walked up to the stage with the Twinkie in her pudgy hand. She walked up to Irwin, who was standing near a machine and a small table.
"Hello there, what's your name," asked Irwin.
"My name is April Jones," she replied as she took the mic off the stand, "and I'm the richest girl in the school. Don't any of you forget it!"
A few of the students groaned at her lack of tact and modesty as she flaunted her fat figure and Twinkie snack cake.
"Very humble young girl," replied Irwin as he cleared his throat, "Now April, are you ready?"
"Just one question before we start," she replied, "Will I get to be able to eat it afterward?"
"W-well, if my calculations are correct and if all goes well, I'd say it would still be edible after it goes through. I'm sure you're friends would like to have some as well..."
"A ha ha ha, ohhh no. You certainly are new here so let me give you a little reminder about who you're talking to; Miss Jones does NOT share anything with anybody, especially when it comes to food..."
A short moment of silence hangs in the auditorium after April gives notice. Irwin is taken back from the young student who opposes his remark about sharing. But not wanting to lose face, he continues the assembly.
"Uhh right, why don't we just get started?"
Irwin reaches out for the Twinkie but is stopped when April pulls it back.
"One bite for the road first."
April takes a small bite before handing it over to Irwin, who is perplexed at the chubby bully. Disregarding that setback, he then places the snack cake on the small table, then escorts April over to the machine. He types on his keyboard and checks the monitors to make sure everything is stable. Soon, the machine begins to whir and a piece moves from above the table. A large laser beam moves around until it focuses its laser barrel on the Twinkie itself.
"Alright now, we're almost ready," said Irwin as he made a few extra notches on the machine, "Just one more thing... April, you see that big switch over there?"
April looks over to see a large yellow switch by her right side. She points at it while looking back at Irwin and raises an eyebrow in response.
"That's the one... When I say now, you throw the switch."
A short moment of silence occurs within the auditorium, aside from the loud whirring of the machine. April places her hand on the switch, waiting for his signal.
"NOW!"
April flung the switch downward, as the laser began to emit a large light blue light onto the Twinkie, as a strange sound was quivering from the laser. The Twinkie began to glow from the laser's energy. The room was beginning to shine from the laser's light, as the whole auditorium looked on this experiment with great anticipation.
"Alright, turn it off now!"
April flipped the switch off, as the machine turned down for a while and powered off, as the beam shrunk back into the laser barrel. Irwin and April moved over to the small table and looked at the Twinkie with caution. The Twinkie had a strange afterglow from the laser's effect. Then suddenly, it happened; the Twinkie began to expand. The spongey cake began to grow larger, looking less like a snack cake and more like a deli sandwich. The growth slowed down for a while until the Twinkie looked like a footlong sandwich and was as wide as a video game console. In fact, it was so large that it overlapped the table.
Irwin brought out a large scanning device and scanned the entirety of the Twinkie, which oozed a bit of frosting from the section April bit off earlier. After about a minute or so, Irwin went to the microphone.
"Ladies and gentlemen," he began, "after some conclusive research into the pastry, I declare this Twinkie safe to eat!"
The auditorium erupted into applause from the declaration and the successful experiment. The principal walked up to Irwin and patted him on the back.
"ALRIGHT!"
The applause ceased as everyone looked at April, who was in front of the bitten off end of the Twinkie, scooping large handfuls of the cream into her mouth.
"This is the best thing I ever had," she yelled with her mouth full, "It's even better than it was originally!"
"Uhh April," stuttered Irwin, "Perhaps you could share some of that with the rest of the students?"
April finished gobbling down some of the cream that oozed onto the stage and stopped eating to walk over to Irwin, wiping excess cream off of her face and licking her lips.
"You certainly are a pushover, so let me remind you again," replied April in a snarky tone, "Miss Jones NEVER SHARES HER FOOD WITH ANYONE."
Irwin felt a little more intimidated by this young girl, who was bound to eat the large pastry by herself. She walked back and picked up the Twinkie with ease. Even enlarged, it was still decently light to her. She made her way out of the auditorium while munching on more of the pastry, while students groused and grumbled over April's greed and gluttony.
Before Irwin could say anything, he received an alarm from his scanning device. He looked at it and saw a piece of information regarding the scan.
"Oh my," he said with great fear, "It seems I had missed a crucial piece of information regarding the scan. After enlarging the Twinkie not only did it increase in size, it also increased in bulk with the calorie and cholesterol intake. In other words, it will make the person very fat after ingesting it."
The auditorium was full of mumbles of conversations and questions regarding the result. Could this be serious? How bad would it affect other people if more than one person had eaten the Twinkie? And more importantly, how would this affect April?
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