Ness was sitting in his basement reading comic books one day, when suddenly he noticed that the comic book characters looked a lot more realistic than usual. He looked at his hand, and was shocked to discover that he had become a stick figure!

He called his Dad on a badly-rendered telephone. "Hi Ness, it's your dad. I guess you've noticed that reality is on the blink, so I have to go have a chat with a certain someone who's been messing with the balance of the universe. Talk to you later." Curiouser and curiouser...

Ness teleported to Twoson. The Polestar Preschool looked like it had been doodled on the back of a high school announcement sheet. In fact, the words "Tryouts for football team" were clearly seen on the front lawn. Ness went inside, and found that Paula was in the same state he was: all stuck up.

"Ness! What's going on? We're both stick figures! Waaaahhh!!!" Paula began to cry, and little stick-figure tears flew from her nonexistant eyes.

Ness took the still-weeping Paula outside and teleported with her to Winters. They found Jeff inside the Boarding School.

"I see you guys have been turned into stick figures too. C'mon, let's go find Poo." They all went to Dalaam.

Poo came out of his palace (which was looking more like a big box with little boxes on it at this point,) and Jeff explained what was going on.

"Sounds like a sticky situation," commented Poo. "What should we do?"

"I think we should stick together," replied Jeff.

"It figures you guys would just make jokes at a time like this!" cried Paula. Then she realized what she said, and the little tears were replaced with one big honkin' sweat drop on her forehead.

Ness got a call on his receiver phone. "Hi ho! Found evil bad man, boing! Come to Saturn Valley, we fix you aaaaaall up! Ding ding!" Ness and the gang teleported to Saturn Valley.

Apple Kid (who looked like a huge apple) and Dr. Andonuts (who appeared round, with a big hole in the middle) pointed to a normal-looking person who was tied to a chair. "This is the person who's been messing with reality," yelled out Dr. Andonuts. "His name is Yourmamasmama, and he ordered his minions to draw us all really crudely! Because of the volume of submissions he got for his little contest, our world is all screwed up!" Everyone started beating up YMM, who was weakly protesting.

Ness suddenly realized that stick-figure bodies and weapons didn't do much damage to real people, so he told everyone to shut up and listen to YMM.

"Thank you!" said YMM, with more than a trace of sarcasm. "I've been trying to tell you, pictures can't change you, but words can! And there's only one person stupid enough to try to submit something other than art during Bad Art Week!"

Everyone jumped in line behind either Ness or Poo as they teleported away.

Anthadd came outside, saw who it was, and yelled out, "He means SimonBob, you morons!"

"My bad," said Poo. They all teleported to SimonBob's house. Anthadd watched them go, saying "..." to himself.

At SimonBob's house, they all found SimonBob writing in his basement. They demanded the use of their bodies back, and SimonBob relented, typing in "Ness and his friends returned to normal."

Ness and his friends returned to normal.

Satisfied, everyone left. Then Clarence the wolf showed up and asked SimonBob why he had written the story.

"Just to bug YMM. He'd been complaining that all he was getting was art, and now it's all he wants.

"Why would you want to bug YMM?"

"I dunno. It seemed like a good idea at the time."

"And what was the time?"

"Two in the morning. Hey, I've got another good idea! I'll end the story with a commercial line for Union!"

"Maybe you should throw in a brief plot device that allows for a sequel in case you want to make one," Clarence tossed in with hopes that SimonBob wasn't too dense to take a hint.

"Great idea, Clarence!" A mental image of SimonBob turning into a black hole entered Clarence's mind.

With an exasperated sigh, Clarence returned to his place in the epic story "Union," created by Anthadd and written in places by SimonBob. It's a gripping tale of how a group of friends overcome the assualts of the evil Pokey, who steals the evil out of Giygas's mind. Go read it, and tell all your friends.

After a refreshing nine-hour nap, SimonBob woke up and hit his alarm clock rather hard. He looked at his arm.

It looked like a stick.

THE END...?

Actually, yes. SimonBob was merely having a delusion from having just woken up. A few hours later, everything was fine. Sorry about that horrible dot-dot-dot-question mark cliche, it was just too much fun to resist.