Contest Of The Week 13 27/03/23 - 02/04/23

Jim, Keith, and DJ Astronaut were on a mission to perform at the Intergalactic Music Festival when their spaceship crashed.
As they stepped out of the ship they found themselves surrounded by all sorts of plants they had never seen before.
It was The Planet of the Plants.
Keith, who had always been a plant enthusiast, but had a bit of a black thumb and tended to kill most of the plants in his home,
admired the beauty of the flora around them.
As they explored the planet, he even picked up a flower and said, "Wow, these plants are amazing, too bad they're not roses."

To his horror, every plant on the planet seemed to hear his words, and they turned against him!
This planet was in a war against his neighbour The Planet of the Roses for generations.
So the plants were not pleased to hear Keith`s slanderous comment and teamed up against him.

They began to release a toxic pollen that Keith was allergic to. He started to feel dizzy and his throat began to close up.
Soon, he was struggling to breathe, his body was covered in a rash. Keith was in serious danger.

Jim and DJ Astronaut were quick to react, but they didn't know how to help their friend.
They realized that Keith's comment might have triggered the plants' aggression towards him.
Soon the plants started to attack Keith with their poisonous thorns and his friends tried to protect him.

Just when things were looking bleak, Jim had an idea.
He remembered that their spaceship was equipped with a subwoofer that could emit low-frequency sound waves.
He quickly ran back to the ship and retrieved it. Using his musical skills, DJ Astronaut created a sonic frequency that
would neutralize the plants' poison:
The low-frequency sound waves disrupted their cellular structure, causing them to lose their toxic abilities.
After that Jim connected the subwoofer to the sound system and played "We Will Rock You" at full volume.
The plants stopped attacking Keith and began to sway to the rhythm of the music!
The trio escaped back to their ship, and Keith quickly recovered from his allergic reaction.
They were able to start the spaceship and leave the planet.

The subwoofer became a constant companion on all their space voyages from now on.
Years later the friends wanted to participate at the biggest music festival on the planet named earth:
The Eurovision Song Contest. They needed a band name in an earthlings language, so Jim choose Subwoolfer
to honor their best friend: the little trusty subwoofer who saved Keith´s life!

He even wrote a song called "Like a Plant," which became an intergalactic hit.

It might have happened, that through time and space in his dreams this song inspired a young chap named
Ben a boyband member from A1 to write his most successful song "Like a Rose" …

++++BREAKING NEWS++++
A record tornado has hit Southern Norway early this afternoon. According to the Meteorologisk Institutt wind gusts have reached 380 km/h and the tornado can therfore be classified of grade IF4 on the Fujita scale. Such an intense tornado has never been observed in Norway before. While experts and meteorologists are investigating the origins of this rare and unexpected phenomenon, which apparently has not developed, as usual, from the base of a thunderstorm cloud as the day was sunny and the sky clear, our reporter could briefly speak with the only witness, a local resident, before he was taken to hospital in a deep state of shock. Clearly raving, he kept on saying that the last thing he saw was two yellow wolves in a black suit with sunglasses and an astronaut. The taller wolf and the astronaut were sitting outside a cabin, the wolf trying to convince his friend to take his helmet off to feel the warmth of the sun. The second wolf was jumping and rolling in the grass like crazy, screaming „Jim, DJ, look, it’s spring! No more of that boring white! Just look at all these flowers, how colourful they are! And they must also have a wonderful perfume!“ The taller, quiter, wolf and the astronaut turned just in time to see that the excited wolf had collected a huge bunch of flowers and was putting his snout into it, taking a deep breath…They cried “NO, KEITH! DON’T….“ Too late….AAAAAAATCHOOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUU and everything disappeared in a monster whirl of air.

'Seasoning? I like seasoning. In my soup, that is. Not all around me.' Keith glared at DJ in surprise. But DJ shook his head. 'No, 'seasons'. Four of them. That's how earthlings divide the year. Summer, fall, winter, and now we have spring.'
'Spring?' Jim ventured. 'I don't see a spring. Water seems to be coming from the sky here, not the ground.' He pointed to the sky, where dark clouds played hide and seek with the sun.
DJ sighed deep, then grumbled: 'Never mind.'

'And those?' Keith pointed at a group of yellow things that sprouted from the soil.
'Flowers,' DJ said with an emphasis you only use for children. 'Daffodils, to be precise.'
'Dil-whatnow?' Keith said wide-eyed, and behind him, Jim chuckled.
'Moons, you are insufferable today!' With a weary gesture, DJ rubbed his face and marched off to anywhere the wolves weren't.
'Uhm, DJ? What do you call this?' Jim shouted after him.
'It's called 'Leavemealones',' he shouted back. 'Or maybe it's an 'Igiveup'.'
But the panic in Jim's voice when he shouted: 'DJ!' made him stop in his tracks. Swivelling around, he was just in time to see Keith drop the daffodil he just picked. The wolf was now green instead of his usual yellow.
'Is that supposed to happen?' Jim ventured, probing Keith's skin with a finger.
'Don't do that,' Keith yelped. 'That itches.'
'No, it is not supposed to happen,' DJ said. 'That is called an allergy.'
'Well, I don't like allergies,' Keith concluded, scratching the spot Jim just touched. 'And why are you staring at me? Doesn't green suit me?'
Both DJ and Jim gazed at Keith open-mouthed while the wolf slowly turned back to yellow, then to a deep yellow, before entering the stage where his skin started showing black spots. Keith saw his hands, pulled one of his pant legs up, then touched his face. 'Get it off, get it off!' he squeaked.
'You look like an overripe banana,' Jim snickered, while DJ tried to hide his thoughts about the whole situation behind a smug grin. He cleared his throat, then said: 'Can you still breathe?'
'Well, obviously,' replied the now almost completely black wolf.
'Does it itch?'
'Without a doubt,' Keith said. 'Even the touch of clothes on skin is driving me crazy.'
'Then may I suggest two options? Either you undress here and now or you stand stock still for a while.'
Keith, considering the last option would give the least laughs, froze mid-motion. 'How long do I have to stand still?' he whispered, as if even sound would make him more itchy all over.
'Hmm, it will wear off in a while.'
'Maybe we should tell him that he is already turning…' Jim tried, but DJ cut him short. 'No, we do not.' And to Keith: 'We will call you when you can move again.'
Keith answered by blinking once, but only with one eye, just to be sure he did not make an unnecessary movement.
Jim followed DJ as he marched off. He looked over his shoulder at his brother, who was his usual yellow again.
'Don't worry,' DJ patted Jim on his arm. 'He will find out soon enough that he's alright.'
'Yes, that is what I fear,' Jim muttered, contemplating the ways Keith would make them pay. Now that his brother couldn't move, he had plenty of time to think of at least fives ways to take revenge. Jim picked a daffodil and put it in his pocket, just in case.