Once upon a time, in a very very close place lived a little bacteria named Tinchu. Now Tinchu wasn't just little, he was a microorganism - just like the rest of his little brothers and sisters. Tinchu's full name, Tinchuganifus Plaque, came from a large family of plaque bacteria.

Tinchu and his family loved to live in the mouth of homosapians, a name that bacteria enjoyed calling people. Normally, plaque were an enemy to homosapians, causing many problems with teeth and gums. Tinchu, however, was just a curious member of the plaque family who enjoyed peeking out of homosapian's mouths and looking at the gigantic world below.

One day, Tinchu discovered that he was different then the rest of his plaque brothers and sisters, Tinchu could actually understand what homosapians were saying and he even learned how to read! Tinchu would watch the homosapians day after day, listening to their conversations and studying their way of life.

Every morning, Tinchu would wake up earlier then his family and actually explore outside his homosapians mouth! Tinchu was always careful to return before the homosapian woke up, however, otherwise Tinchu might never be able to return home to his family and friends.

The plaque family were mostly a daring, brave group of microorganisms, with only one source of fear - toothpaste. For homosapians to have healthy mouths, the Plaque families couldn't overpopulate in a mouth or damage would be done. Homosapians would brush their teeth with toothpaste usually twice a day to keep their mouths undamaged.

As Tinchu and his family would hide in the crevices and caves of their homosapians mouth to avoid toothpaste, Tinchu discovered that something wasn't going normal with the mouth cleaning process of his homosapian! The toothpaste was actually slowly hurting the homosapian's mouth! Tinchu knew he had to do something about it, or microorganismic life as he knew it could be done forever!

After the tooth brushing was almost done, Tinchu bravely ran out of his warm cave, into the dangerous, toothpaste filled mouth! Jumping over clumps and pools of toothpaste, Tinchu lept aboard a safe spot on the toothbrush, as it was pulled out of the homosapians mouth.

Tinchu, toothbrush, and water collided as the homosapian rinsed his toothbrush, Tinchu barely hanging on as the water swept over him. The homosapian finally put the toothbrush down by the sink, Tinchu still on board.

Now was the hard part! Tinchu had to leave a message to his homosapian that the toothpaste was bad, but how? Scanning the area, Tinchu found a teeny weeny piece of a pencil tip and a small scrap of paper. Using every micro-ounce of strength he had, Tinchu left a message on the toothpaste tube with the scrap of paper saying: Poison!

Now all Tinchu could do was wait for his homosapian to come and read the note and brush his teeth again with a different toothpaste, so Tinchu could return home.

The next morning finally came, Tinchu not getting a micro-wink of sleep that night. The homosapian walked over to the sink to start brushing his teeth when he spotted the tiny note positioned on the toothpaste tube! Also reading the incredients, the homosapian let out a gasp because what he had been brushing his teeth with hadn't been toothpaste at all, but a tube of orange astronaught food, containing unhealthy levels of acid to leave on gums and teeth!

Tinchu had saved the day, or atleast helped his homosapian to have a healthier mouth! Climing on the toothbrush, it was time for Tinchu to return home. Tinchu, a one in a trillion microorganism, finally could live happily ever after.

The End