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The Pudding Scientist by Bertie T.

In a deep underground base in the middle of England under a mountain, there were three very mad scientists. They were called Professor Puddingpants, Dr Custardbrain and Sir Crumblebottom.One day, Professor Puddingpants said, "mad scientist friends, people have been mean to us for too long saying we make rubbish puddings. No one respects us. But soon, they will bow down to our pudding power!"Dr Custardbrain adjusted his custard-yellow safety specs and said, "Yes! We shall take over the world! Starting with the English Channel.Sir Crumblebottom gasped and raised an eyebrow. "But that's water!""Not for long!" said Professor Puddingpants. "We shall turn it into custard!"So they built a custard bomb. It was the size of a double-decker bus about 25ft and full of thick, wobbly custard. The next day they travelled down to Bognor Regis in their pudding powered car towing the bomb in a giant mixing bowl. They then pushed it as fast as they could down a hill towards the sea, shouting come on puddingheads faster! And then it went splash right into the English Channel.At first, nothing happened. Then the sea started bubbling, the ground rumbled like an earthquake, then BOOM it all turned yellow, squishy and lumpy."YESSSSS!" shouted Dr Custardbrain, punching the air "We've made the world's biggest bowl of custard!"But Professor Puddingpants wasn't quite finished. "The world doesn't know about our delicious fruit crumble and custard," he said. "We must share, because sharing is caring!"So they hacked into every TV channel in the world. People were sat watching the weather when suddenly three mad scientists popped onto their screens."Hello people!" bellowed Sir Crumblebottom. "We are your new leaders! Every farmer will get £1 million if they bring all of their fruit to Bognor Regis power station by midday tomorrow."All the farmers were very happy and started driving their tractors full of apples, rhubarb and blackberries to the power station and loading up the ovens.Whilst everyone was busy loading up the ovens Ferries and cruise ships were getting stuck in the channel, the captains were on their radios "HELP HELP we're stuck in gloopy custard!" Two hours later helicopters came to the rescue and started to pull them free.

People on the beaches couldn't believe their eyes, the sea was CUSTARD! They got their spoons and rushed to the sea and started eating.The three mad scientists then asked the farmers to bring in the oats to make the crumble topping. When everything was ready they got the helicopters to pour on the fruit and then the crumble top.The scientists were so happy that they had made the worlds biggest fruit crumble, and they even got the Guinness World Record certificate.The three mad scientists jumped up in the air and then started running to their homemade fruit crumble and started to eat, everyone joined in with the party and started eating.

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