Creative Writing Club: STB #12 || "The unnecessary assistant "

Once upon a time there was a boy who dreamed of being a great scientist recognized for having created the cure against great evils where medicine was something edible (easy to ingest) and very delicious, a very clear example was coffee...because...who doesn't like coffee?

The particularity is that this boy, who was fond of being a great scientist, loved coffee, he thought it was the most interesting material to study in depth since he said that it contained great hidden healing properties.

Many years went by... (and many sleepless nights too 😅), the boy scientist, after spending hours locked up in his laboratory, in front of his testing table, endlessly performing several attempts testing new formulas, had inadvertently created a reputation in town...the opposite of the one he wanted to achieve, since he was known as "the mad scientist of coffee".

Until one night he discovered him...EUREKA!!!!.

Jumping and dancing with happiness, after testing himself a formula he had taken based on a bean of a rare kind of coffee, where in a few minutes he had healed a recent wound that was hurting him. But despite the great discovery, he was so tired from having spent several sleepless nights that this was already taking its toll, so confident with the satisfaction of having succeeded, he left everything as it was, closed his laboratory and went to sleep.

The next day...

Breaking news!

The scientist they thought was "crazy" had created a new cure against diseases and serious illnesses. What at first seemed to be a bout of madness, in the end was a real discovery, the reporter exclaimed.

Everyone in the town began to be more empathetic with the scientist, since, as he indicated, all those who had some mild or serious ailment would gradually begin to be cured....

But the joy would not last long for our dear scientist, because suddenly something was wrong.

All the citizens who had ingested the formula and satisfactorily improved their ailments, began to notice changes as a kind of side effects, they were not so serious but they were still annoying at a physical level.

Breaking news!

Apparently the miracle formula has side effects...yes! How do you hear it, it makes them smaller. exclaimed the reporter.

Seeing concerned and somewhat puzzled by people's side reactions to his formula, a protest by diminutive citizens formed in front of his laboratory.

"This can't stay like this, I have to solve this, there must be a mistake!" said the scientist. So he went back to his laboratory to see what had happened, and noticed that there was a security camera recording in the direction of the place where he conducted the experiment. He checked them, and found that the night before he went to sleep a strange little creature climbed onto the experiment table and began to mix and manipulate what had already been done.

Who is that who sabotaged my masterpiece?...and a few minutes after the recording was focused, a small mouse with apparently "great skills" for science was seen...(although not so many since it was the cause of spoiling the experiment).

I knew I could not have made the mistake, but now the question is: How do I solve all this? or rather, where do I get that mouse?

First to change people's opinion, I must prove in front of them that my coffee bean formula does work, and not a scam as they now think.

I quickly created another formula (this was the effective one), I went outside and in front of their eyes I took the old formula to become like them in a tiny being, then I took the other one (improved) and as if by magic, little by little the effects were disappearing and I took my original size... Great! I can now offer you as an apology this cure to the misunderstanding that I still need to solve...the unnecessary helper 😤.

While the people of the village were slowly returning to normal, I went back to the lab and to my surprise I found a little mouse on the bench wearing a small white coat, goggles and gloves with some test tubes around him ready to work on a new experiment...a true replica of me 😅 ...Wow, how can I react to this?

...Wow, how can I react to this," said the scientist. Now they will think I'm crazy with a mouse as my assistant, instead of experimenting with him, he will be my assistant... definitely the world upside down. Although looking on the bright side, it reminds me a bit of my early days when I also dreamed of being a great scientist.

I know what we are going to do," said the scientist pretending to have a conversation with the mouse, "I am going to invent an animal translator machine to understand you and meanwhile, I will give you the opportunity to be a great scientist like me, since seeing your outfit, the accident you caused and all the trouble you got me involved in, is what you want...who knows if you will get it?