VIOLIN SONG:illustrations and story by natalia swank

Inside Darnel's outhouse Nictor opened the window, ate noxious tea tang and died instantly.

Well the movie ended and all the potatoes went home; forgetting their fear of being gleaned by farmers. But forgetting didn't mean the harvest wouldn't come. Morning broke bright and early and Welsdon complained his daughter never came home.

Patrol potatoes went on search and came back with a cheap super-sized McDonalds coffin, wich seemed to have Helgas remains at the bottom of it; curly and fried to a crisp.

"I want to do something to make a difference, so nothing happens to the rest of us potatoes like what happened to Helga. There really isn't anything, is there?, You would know, wouldn't you?" Welsdon asked Cobler, lead police chief. Those words came bleeding out of Welsdon drowning him.

He stood looked straight ahead and said "I'm a big potato, a big potato with a gun, and I have a big gun.I've lived so many lives, I care, I'll extend my hand to those who suffer to those who know what it really feels like...to those who've had a taste of loosing someone. Peelers puncturing skin two feet below the surface. If the taters could have reached our hands they wouldn't have made it to that awful place. I've stayed inside my bed hoping I'd never make it to McDonalds. Now I want to do something that matters."

Welsdon introduced "Victory Movement." Most potatoes didn't think it would work, but Welsdon convinced them. "It'll work! We're as hard as steel, we have the power, we're every inch potato and somehow we'll show them; us with our big guns, nothing can stop us now...! A life time of messing things up, now we can fix them in a flash. Oh how easy it seemed and it was easy. Next day victory movement. Millions of potatoes chanting, "Spell V for Victory it's V for Victory...." as they marched. One hour later they reached their destination Golden Arches "1 million served everyday." The sky was blue, a deep mushroom blue and the clouds so fuzzy spilling over the blueness of the sky.We surrounded Mickidees. The plan was to push the building and knock it over. We marched right up to the wall; some of us on our hands and knees others' backs against the wall, and other's faced forward and pushed and pushed and pushed some more and after we got done pushing, well we pushed somemore; but it wouldn't budge. So they stood sweaty drenched in their own sweat.

We'll have to attack from the inside!! They crept inside McDonalds, hoping not to get caught. But there were people in there, customers. "Even better!" Cackled Welsdon,"We need prisoners!"

All the potatoes lined up facing the humans. Guns pointed calmly yet brutally at the humans. Some humans didn't know what to do, but one said.

"Take their skin peel it back! Shove it up inside, bite, chew or suck the tender parts, pick at them, don't be afraid of them what can they do?"

The potatoes shot their guns. Funny how a tiny hole can bleed so much! We had to give them all a sign, to let them know we weren't kidding. A potatoe told a surviving human.

"There will come a day when those you keep blind will realize you made potatoes go to place where they hoped they would never go, and now you see the tables have turned, and now you are our prisoner."

"You can't win!" He shouted."Don't you see, are you blind? There are McDonalds across the oceans, you cannot conquer them all!!" I said, "Now did it make you feel better to say that ? The potatoes have won. Tonight we can sleep peacefully and soundly and everything is allright. Torch the place!"

The potatoes have won, and one by one they'll conquer and win all their battles; fot they are as strong as steel they have thepower and nothing can stop them. They'll keep on fighting and make sure none of their offspring become value-meals again.