TUMAH
starring Arnold as himself
--THE NEXT DAY--
“Ah’ll be back,” said Arnold, stepping outside.
“When?”
“Latah.”
“Bye honey,” she said, kissing his cheek.
“Hasta la vista, Baby.” He kissed her neck in response
and worked his way upward to the side of her head, where he stopped suddenly.
“You haf somting growing out da side of your head!” He said, quite concerned.
“That’s my ear, dear.”
“Oh. Ees very cute.” He kissed it and walked out
the door to the waiting taxi.
--LATER, AT THE HOSPITAL--
“Mister Arnold Schwa--Scwaaaaa--Schwarzen-something...you get
the idea...”
“Dat’s me, baby.”
“Well Mr. Schw--Arnold, walk this way.”
“Ah valk how I vant.
“Whatever.”
--LATER STILL, IN THE DOCTOR’S OFFICE--
“Well, Mr. S, I believe you have a very large tumor.”
“It’s nahta tumah.”
“Yes. It is.”
“NO!”
“YES!”
“IT’S NAHTA TUMAH!”
“IT IS A TUMOR!”
“TUMAH!!!”
“Exactly.”
BLAM!!! Arnold had taken a shiny silver handgun from the
doctor’s pocket and blown the doctor’s brains out. A nurse ran in.
“What was that?!” She screamed. “What happened to him??”
She pointed at what was left of the doctor.
“He gaht a tumah.”
“A tumor??”
“TUMAH!!!”
“Did that?!?”
BLAM!!! The nurse’s brain tissue spattered the walls.
Arnold bolted out of the hospital and hailed a taxi.
“Hi,” said the plastic taxi driver happily, “I’m your local JohnnyCab!”
“Naht you again” said Arnold
“Have we met?” said JohnnyCab
“It vas another movie.”
“Oh. Where to?”
“TUMAH!!!” BLAM!!!
“...zzzzt!....pLeaSE r-R-r-ePeaT thAt-t-T-tHe ADreSssss...zzzzzt?!...”
“TUMAH!!!” BLAM!!! Arnold tore the JohnnyCab from
his socket and bashed it repeatedly with the butt of his gun.
***
When he reached home, his wife ran up to him and gave him a big
hug. “Oh! You’re home! What was wrong?”
“Nahthing.”
“Are you sure?”
“TUMAH!!!”
“It was? Oh no! How long do you have?”
BLAM!!! He blew a hole through her shoulder.
“Not long, huh?”
“TUMAH!!!”
“You said that already.”
BLAM!!! Blood spurted out of one of her eye sockets.
“TUMAH!!!” BLAM!!! He shot her again, point blank.
Her nose was torn off. “TUMAH TUMAH TUMAH!!!” BLAM BLAM
BLAM!!! Her ears were wrenched off.
“You wanna talk about it?” She asked, strangely still living.
Just then, their son walked in.
“Daddy! Didja bring me anything?”
“TUMAH!”
“I don’t want one of those!”
BLAM!!! Arnold’s son’s head exploded, blood flew all over
the room. His skull, or what was left of it, fell on the cat. “Meow!”
said the cat.
“TUMAH TUMAH TUMAH TUMAH TUMAH!!!!!!!” BLAM BLAM BLAM BLAM BLAM!!!!
The cat was gone, except for a nasty stain.
“Oh no! I’ll never get that out of the carpet!” Arnold’s
wife said.
“TUMAH!!!” BLAM!!! Arnold managed to finish off his
wife.
He bolted out of the house and into the hands of three burly
cops.
“You’re under arrest!”
“NO!!!” Screamed Arnold.
“Um, we’ll let you loose if you buy us donuts.”
“NO!!!”
“Fine. Come with us.”
“NO!!!” Screamed Arnold again.
“YES!!!” Screamed the cops.
“TUMAH!!!” Screamed Arnold.
“What?”
BLAM!!! The shot tore through one of the cops’ temples,
and out the other side. Blood splattered into the faces of the other
cops, temporarily blinding them.
“TUMAH!!! TUMAH!!!” BLAM!!! BLAM!!!
The cops were all dead. Arnold took their weapons, ammunition,
and car, and drove away.
He drove around aimlessly for awhile until he got hungry.
He pulled into a McDonald’s drivethru.
“Hello. Welcome to McDonald’s. May I take your order?”
Arnold was busy loading one of the guns.
“Sir? What would you like?”
Arnold still did not hear.
“WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO EAT?”
“TUMAH!!!”
“We don’t serve those.”
RATTATATATTTATATATATATATA!!! The barrel of Arnold’s new
automatic smoked. The intercom fizzled.
“zzzzt. S-ir? Pl-se pull u- to -he win-owzzzzzz…”
Arnold did so.
“Do you have the money to pay for that intercom?” asked one of
the McDonald’s employees.
“NO!!!”
“Well, I’m calling the cops.”
“I vill KILL de cops!!!”
“Not this one,” said the employee as Robocop approached Arnold’s
stolen car.
Arnold reached behind the counter and pulled out a compact rocket
launcher.
“Dude! Where’d that come from?”
“Ah keep a stash, Baby,” said Arnold as he got out of the car.
Robocop said, “Stop, Criminal! You are under arrest!”
“NO!!!”
“Come peacefully and you will not be harmed!”
“Peace sucks!”
“No, Criminal. Peace does not suck. Come with me.”
“TUMAH!!!”
“That is no excuse for your actions.”
BLAM!!!
“That is not the sound a rocket launcher makes, Criminal.”
“Oh. Sorry.”
“Quite alright. Now, if you would please…”
“TUMAH!!!”
“Why do you keep saying that?”
FWISSSH! KABOOM!
“That’s better,” said Robocop. “And, ‘ouch!’”
“TUMAH TUMAH TUMAH!!!” FWIIISH! KABOOM! RATTATATATATA!
BLAM!
“Stop!”
“NO!”
“Yes.”
TUMAH!!!
“God. Not again.”
BLAM!!!
Arnold got really mad. He totaled about 53 rockets, more
than four hundred full clips of ammo from the automatic, and plugged Robocop
with somewhere around five hundred rounds with the original handgun.
Robocop was not even fazed. He simply stood there.
“Are you finished?”
Arnold, now extremely angry, simply punched Robocop in the face.
The cyborg immediately collapsed, spewing sparks and fizzling a bit.
He did not move again.
“Tumah, Baby.” He shot Robocop once more, just to be cool.
“Hey mister!” Said a nasally voice behind him “You
better be able to pay for that cyborg!”
“Oh, shaht up, vimp!”
“Well, do you have the money?”
“NO!!!”
“Um, do you at least have a socket wrench?”
“NO!!!”
“I’m calling the cops.”
“Cop dis, Baby!”
“Cop what?”
“TUMAH!!!!”
“ ‘Cop a tumor?” Now, that doesn’t make any sense at all…”
BLAM!!!
“Vimpy little nerd.”
The wimpy little nerd had a Porsche. Arnold jumped into
it and drove away. Soon, he arrived at his summer home on the beach.
As he got out of his new car, he saw a strange little old lady coming toward
him.
“Hey mister! Would you like to hear me play my tuba?”
“IT’S NOT A TUBA!!!” Wailed Arnold.
“It is too!”
“NO!!!”
“YES!!!”
“TUBA!!! Er, Ah mean: TUMAH!!!” BLAM!!!
“TOOT!”
“TUMAH!!!” FWIIIIIISSSSH!! KABOOM! The tuba exploded,
partially melting from the heat and splattering all over the poor woman’s
face.
“AAAAAIIIIIIIEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!” She said.
“Wuss.”
“AAAAAIIIIIIIEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!” She said again.
“TUMAH!!!” Arnold shouted, and literally blasted the poor old
woman to pieces. Her limbs flew in all directions in a cloud of blood,
splattering the beach with red. Little bits of her vital organs sizzled
on the sand, and the seagulls who were waiting for Arnold to leave so they
could devour the Tuba Woman’s reamains were pelted with bone fragments.
Arnold wiped sweat from his brow and went inside the beach house.
He took a shower and settled in to watch the news.
“Reporting live from a truly grotesque scene, I’m Bobby Jinkletorque
with a developing story. I am standing in the living room of Arnold
Scwarzesomethingorother, amidst the scene of six grisly murders committed
earlier today. Mrs. Scwarzesomethingorother, their son, and family
cat appear to have been shot to death by an unidentified assailant.
Outside are the bodies of three police officers, also shot brutally to
death by the assailant. I have no words to describe how truly disgusting
are the bodies’ conditions. The murderer evidently drove away in
the squad car the police arrived in moments before they were gunned down.
This just in…the squad car has been found abandoned at the nearby McDonald’s
fast food restaurant, near the remains of Robocop and one unidentified
nerd. The search is continuing for the perpetrator of these crimes.
And now back to you, Earl…”
Arnold was worried about being caught, so, thinking quickly,
he cut two holes in a paper sack and placed it over his head. “Now
dey vill nevah recognize me,” he said to himself, smugly. He sat
back and opened a beer. “Ahhh, sveet alcohol! How I adore you!”
He sipped it slowly and watched the television.
“Today in health news: The number of reported brain tumors
is on the upswing this week in the country-”
“TUMAH!!!” Arnold threw his beer can at the television.
He ran downstairs and pulled out his personal Acme Box-O-Explosives and
tucked it into the Porsche outside. He tucked all of the guns he
could carry into the trunk, and kept a couple handy in the front seat.
He peeled out down the beach, cutting through people’s lawn and smashing
through fences.
“Hey, asshole, this is private property!” yelled a tall man with
a beard, surrounded by dozens of scantily clad bimbos who were rubbing
and kissing his body. Arnold decided he was a movie star.
“Vhy don’t you jahst go jerk off somevhere? You know, like
you did een my yard last veek.”
“Hey, man, don’t NEED to jerk off!”
“Baht you do, I got eet on film!”
“Eeeew,” said the women, backing away.
“Hey, asshole, get outta that car and we’ll see who’s a real man!
The one who is, or you.”
“Ah am da real man.”
“Uh-huh. Sure you are. Get outta the car and
we’ll see.”
“Fine. Ah vill ge out of ze car.” Arnold reached
into the backseat and pulled out some plastic explosive. Then he
got out of the car.
“Good. Now. First things first. Put ‘em up.”
“Put vhat up?”
“Your fists, you nimrod,” said the man.
“Vhy don’t Ah just kill you ahn get it ovah vith?
“I’d like to see you try,” the man sneered.
“Fine. Have a nice eternity een hell, baby.” Arnold
threw a punch that crushed the man’s face inward. He fell back into
the sand. His face, now more like a bowl, filled with blood, overflowed,
and began spreading out on the sand. Most of the sexy women passed
out. Arnold covered the man in pastic explosive and rigged a radio
detonator. He moved the car to safety and pulled out the remote with
a single red button.
“TUMAH!!!” He pressed the button. A humongous BOOM!!!
Rolled across the beach. Charred pieces of the man zoomed outward,
the house caught fire, and a shower of debris and sand and blood rained
on Arnold, who stood smiling with his arms crossed.
“Oh God! What happened?” Screamed a young lady, running
up to Arnold.
“Ah crashed his pahty.”
“Who are you?”
“Ah am da pahty poopah,” Arnold said.
“Oh.” The woman stood silent a moment. “What’s that?”
“Dat is he’s arm.”
“Oh well. He was a sexist jerk anyway. Thanks for
blowing him up! B’bye!”
“Goodbye. Have a nice day,” said Arnold, watching her as
she jogged away.
Arnold climbed into the car and drove off the beach. He
decided he should get out of the state before he was caught. He hadn’t
gone far when he was stopped by a four-car pileup. He got out of
the car.
“Get deez cars out of my vay.”
“Shut up, Bub,” said a man, who’s limo had just been converted
into a compact.
“Shaht ahp yourself, you vimpy lowlife scum,” Arnold said.
The man hit him. Calmly, Arnold reached over to a woman standing
near him.
“Excuse me,” he said, and reached into her purse. He pulled out
a shotgun and some ammo.
“I didn’t put that in there!” She said, startled. “How’d
you do that?”
“Magic, baby.”
“I’m not stupid. There’s no such thing as magic!”
“You are correct. Dere is no such ting as magic.”
“Then where’d that gun come from?”
“I keep a stash, baby.”
“Oh.”
“Ahnd now back to you, mistah,” Arnold said to the man who had
hit him. He loaded the shotgun and snapped it closed. He raised
it right up to the man’s face and stopped an inch away from it.
“TUMAH!” BANG! The man’s cranium exploded in a shimmering
cascade of blood. The small group that gathered threw their arms
up to their faces to protect themselves from the bone fragments flying
everywhere.
“My GOD, man! Have you any idea what you’ve done??” screamed
a nearby woman. “You’ve stained my $150 silk blouse! You MONSTER!”
“TUMAH!”
“What did you say, young man?”
BLAM! Blood gushed out of the new hole in the woman’s chest,
spreading out across the expensive garment.
Arnold drove to the airport, wanting to get out of the state,
and sneaked into the cargo bay of a plane headed for LA. He emptied
out six suitcases and put his miscellaneous gins into them. Then
he took a nice nap.
LATER, IN LOS ANGELES
Arnold sneaked out of the plane with his guns and made his way
to a parking garage where he stole a nice red convertible. He put
his handguns in the glove compartment and stored the rest under the seats.
He hotwired the car, backed up to the opposite wall, and floored the gas.
The car tore through the wall in front of him, and sailed gracefully into
open air. Pedestrians on the street looked up in surprise as a red
convertible sailed theough the air from the third story of the garage.
Miraculously, it made a safe landing a block or so from the damaged parking
garage and peeled off down the street. Arnold was making his way
to the suburbs to visit a psychologist he knew when he saw a black car
behind him. He could see the driver well. The driver looked
very, very familiar.
The driver of the other car was a cop, or at least dressed like
one. He had a blond crew cut, a thin smile, and big ears. He
turned on the lights and the siren and motioned for Arnold to pull over.
He did, for some reason he would never understand.
Vhy ahm I stopping? He thought to himself.
The cop got out of the car and walked up to Arnold, who rolled
down the window and smiled politely.
“Have you seen this boy?” The cop asked, showing a small snapshot
of a young brown-haired boy. Arnold’s eyes widened in recognition
and he screamed girlishly. He now remembered this man. Arnold
pressed the gas and tore off down the street. The cop was soon in
hot pursuit.
Arnold drove into a ;large open building. It was
hot. Very hot. Arnold could see molten lead being poured into
a huge vat. He jumped out of his car and ran. The cop did likewise.
Arnold ran out onto a catwalk over the bubbling vat of molten
lead. He could hear the cop behind him, feel the heat rising from
below. Then he felt the catwalk end. Just as his foot was losing
contact with the walk, he shoved off with all his strength, and managed
to catch hold of a chain with a hook on the end. The cop followed,
winding up on a similar chain just out of arm’s reach of Arnold.
Silently, they swung back and forth.
“Go avay!” Shouted Arnold. “Leave me ahlone!”
“You remember me. I’m touched.,” said the cop. “Sure
brings back memories, huh?” The cop morphed into Sarah Connor.
“Geez. Again vis da liquid metal thing. Vhy don’t
you stahp showing ahff?”
Sarah morphed into her son, John Connor.
“Oh no! Leetle John Connor! Vhy did da movie have to end?
Vhy did I have to go ahnd kill mahself? I vanted to be vis you alvays!
Vhy? VHY????” Arnold screamed, face contorted. “TUMAH!”
BLAM! *blip!* John Connor splurted a little bit of
liquid metal. The wound healed itself.
“Where did that gun come from?” He asked. “You didn’t come
in here with a gun!”
Arnold was bawling like a baby. “I just have dem, okay?
I don’t know vhere dey come from!” Arnold blubbered a bit more.
“Ah vant my daddy.”
John Connor morphed into Darth Vader. “Arnold! I
am your father!”
“…no! NO! Eet’s impahssible! nnnnNNNNOOOOOooooo!”
“Search your feelings, Arnold! You know it to be true!”
“NOOOOOOOOO!”
“Arnold! Together we can destroy the mayor of this city,
and rule LA as father and son!”
“Vhould you just qvit already? Vhy do you toy vis my mind?”
“Well, because…Because it’s easy.”
“Vhat? Now you insult me? Vhy don’t you stahp toying
vis me? Eef you are going to kill me, vhy dohn’t you get eet ovah
vis?”
Darth Vader morphed back into the cop. “Just remember,
you’re the one who wanted me to do this…” As the two chains swung
close to one another, the cop spit in Arnold’s eyes.
“Oh my GAHD!!!! You zpit een my eyes!!! Vhy? Vhy?!
VHY!?!?!?” He clawed at his eyes with his hands, forgetting his hands
were the only things hodling him to the chain.
“Toodles!! Hehehe!” Giggled the cop, wiggling
his fingers and grinning. Arnolds movements slowed to slow-motion
as he fell.
“TUUUUUUUUUMAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!” As he fell, Arnold
emptied a clip of ammo into the cop, who, also in slow motion, splattered
into many little blobs of liquid metal. The blobs sailed through
the air, oozing little geometric shapes, and reflecting the dim light and
glow from the molten ore into which the little blobs of cop and one screaming
Arnold were very, very slowly falling.
Arnold fell feet-first into the ore, and because he was moving
so slowly, began to scream even louder as he sank. He had enough
left in him to extend his arm above his head so it was the last thing to
sink below the surface. As it sank, he extended his middle finger
in that universally famous gesture of vulgarity in the general direction
of the blob that still resembled the cop’s head, which was also still
screaming loudly. The middle finger sank slowly into the liquid ore
and-
* * *
Arnold Schwarzenegger sat bolt upright in his bed, body rigid
and drenched in sweat. His head hurt, so he got up to get some cookies
and tylenol.
Awhile later, his wife came downstairs, too, the morining sun
streaming through her hair. She looked at Arnold.
“Is anything wrong?” She asked.
“Nahthing much.”
“What, then?”
Well, Ah gaht a headache.”
THE END, BABY…
…or is it?
Will there be a TUMAH 2?…
…God, I hope not.