We return to the campaign of Kermit the Frog and Undead!Fred Rogers, who is now starting to look a bit…ripe. This leads up to a live debate where bits of Mr. Rogers visibly start falling off, ending in a total structural collapse during his concluding speech.
Even with one member a rapidly putrefying puddle of flesh, the Frog/Rogers ticket is still far in the lead.
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[AN: I want to go on the record that I find this idea really disrespectful to Mr Rogers, everything he stood for, everything he lived for, and his surviving friends and family. Thanks, you have left me in a place between my collected morals]
“Mercy…”
The interview jinked to a sudden halt. Rogers was holding his right arm. Moving it back into his shoulder socket with his left hand. “It’s running out,” he said, looking horrified. “I didn’t mean to alarm anyone. This is… this is what happens to the human body once it’s dead. I’m sorry.”
Those were the last words he spoke through a fleshy mouth. Kermit explained it, while a team of aides hustled Rogers out. First, behind a curtain, and then, into a prepared facility.
“You see, kids, in order to come back from the-from the-from the other side, Fred Rogers had a choice. He could inhabit a living host, which would steal their life from them, or he could re-animate his own, dead body… which -uh- which would… you know… have its drawbacks. We did everything to keep him together, but…” Kermit sighed. “None of that was enough.”
“Are you going to continue your campaign now that your running-mate is out of the picture?”
“Who-who-who said he’s out of the picture. We’ve had a plan for this since we started.”
*
They put his bones back together with artificial joints. Clothed them with the additive foam process. Used the best science to reconstruct his face. His eyes, though artificial, still needed glasses.
The best of puppet science made him something of a macabre puppet, himself. Opposition rallied with the phrase ‘puppet government’, but the kindness and caring evident in the remains of Rogers, as well as in Kermit, convinced millions to vote for them anyway.
The republicans were livid.
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