It all started when our antagonizing protagonist, Radioactive Man, woke up in a swamp. It was the fifth time it had happened. Feeling scarcely angered, Radioactive Man attacked a ripened avocado, thinking it would make him feel better (but as usual, it did not). Suddenly cheered up by the Hamtaro theme song, he realized that his beloved diary was missing!  Immediately he called his lover, Fallout Boy. Radioactive Man had known Fallout Boy for (plus or minus) 200,000 years, the majority of which were electric ones.  Fallout Boy was unique. He was intelligent though sometimes a little… insensitive. Radioactive Man called him anyway, for the situation was urgent.

   Fallout Boy picked up to a very calm Radioactive Man. Fallout Boy calmly assured him that most man-eating capybaras grimace before mating, yet 3-legged wallabies usually scandalously cringe *after* mating. He had no idea what that meant; he was only concerned with distracting Radioactive Man.  Why was Fallout Boy trying to distract Radioactive Man?  Because he had snuck out from Radioactive Man’s with the diary only eleven days prior.  It was a enticing little diary… how could he resist?

   It didn’t take long before Radioactive Man got back to the subject at hand: his diary. Fallout Boy shuddered. Relunctantly, Fallout Boy invited him over, assuring him they’d find the diary. Radioactive Man grabbed his hippopotamus and disembarked immediately. After hanging up the phone, Fallout Boy realized that he was in trouble. He had to find a place to hide the diary and he had to do it carefully. He figured that if Radioactive Man took the amphibious vehicle, he had take at least eight minutes before Radioactive Man would get there.  But if he took the time machine?  Then Fallout Boy would be alarmingly screwed.

   Before he could come up with any reasonable ideas, Fallout Boy was interrupted by two abrasive Care Bears that were lured by his diary. Fallout Boy cringed; ‘Not again’, he thought. Feeling worried, he deftly reached for his ripened avocado and skillfully attacked every last one of them. Apparently this was an adequate deterrent–the discouraged critters began to scurry back toward the haunted thicket, squealing with discontent. He exhaled with relief.  That’s when he heard the time machine rolling up.  It was Radioactive Man.

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   As he pulled up, he felt a sense of urgency. He had had to make an unscheduled stop at Jim’s House of Wings to pick up a 12-pack of ripened avocados, so he knew he was running late.  With a mighty leap, Radioactive Man was out of the time machine and went surreptitiously jaunting toward Fallout Boy’s front door.  Meanwhile inside,  Fallout Boy was panicking.  Not thinking, he tossed the diary into a box of carrots and then slid the box behind his whale. Fallout Boy was puzzled but at least the diary was concealed.  The doorbell rang.