Maze of the Minotaur

A Story by Abishai100

The A-Team challenges the maniac Leatherface in the proverbial Minotaur-maze in his cornfield backyard in Texas for an American dream!

This is a fun Leatherface-Minotaur labyrinth fable not related to anything political or serious or Coronavirus-relevant. Signing off,

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A team of skilled warriors in America assembled to tackle the most evil and frightening man-beast the world has ever known, Leatherface. Dealing with this real maniac required a serious meditation on what really comprised the human reckoning with presence too scaled to consider normal.

The assembled team of 4 warriors were known as the A-Team and were comprised of Face, Hannibal, Mr. T., and Murdock. Each member had his own skill and contributions to dealing with Leatherface in a proverbial 'maze of the Minotaur' in America. Leatherface, a chainsaw-wielding cannibal was a real fright. The A-Team had members each capable of offering some unique advantage to the assault on this terrible demon.

FACE: This Algerian-American underground ex-operatie of the Provisional Irish Republican Army was a specialist in target-shooting and evasion and explosives and served as provincial general of the North American Irish Republican Army for 5 years before enlisting in the A-Team to deal with Leatherface who was threatening all American values. Face is a dashing young man with resourcefulness who hopes to retire with his beautiful wife and pass down the mantle of his role on the A-Team to a really worthy successor. For now, Face is required to offer his special skills in the cornering of Leatherface in the maze of the Minotaur. Everyone likes Face, for the most part, despite his obvious interests in thievery.

HANNIBAL: Considered the general leader of the A-Team, this axe-wielding American fireman is not afraid to throw his axe into the neck of Leatherface in the hopes of decapitating the man-beast in the maze of the Minotaur. Hannibal believes in careful planning and teamwork and believes if everyone on the A-Team does his part well, there should be no obstacle to dismantling the brutish mystique of Leatherface. People depend on Hannibal's sense of patriotic sanity.

MR. T.: This ex-athlete who loved baseball as well as football is now a consummate costumed super-archer and has tipped some of his specialty arrows with tranquilizer liquid so when he shoots some at Leatherface's body and neck, the brute will become disoriented and lose grip of his terrifying buzzing chainsaw. Mr. T. is considered the most muscular member of the valiant A-Team.

MURDOCK: Everyone finds this member of the A-Team to be humorous, kind-hearted, affable, and sure of himself. This funny guy likes to dress up in cop costumes and seeks to enter Leatherface's maze of the Minotaur with the express interest of leading him in ways that will confuse the man-beast and allow all the members of the A-Team to basically riddle the psychopath. Murdock is the real good-guy of the A-Team.

LEATHERFACE: The Minotaur of the maze and the target of the A-Team. This guy was made famous in horror-cinema before being copied by an American lunatic named Dan Hewitt who believed he was the real-life incarnation of the otherwise fictional chainsaw-wielding human-skin mask wearing American cannibal. Now that Leatherface is on the loose, only the A-Team can stop him.

Leatherface is known to chase and kill anyone who dares to roam around his property late at night and especially during the Coronavirus quarantine.

Leatherface (Dan Hewitt) lives on a large plantation mansion in Texas. He cares about his pet rabbits and despises anyone who wants to challenge him in the cornfield maze (the maze of the Minotaur) in his backyard. However, the A-Team will do just that in the summer of 2020, seeking to contain the man-beast in some kind of annual summer or autumn maze-runner contest that will dissuade the American psycho from ever leaving his property.

As the A-Team (Face, Hannibal, Mr. T., Murdock) prepare to march through the cornfield maze in the backyard of Leatherface's eerie mansion in Texas, they're dressed in ski-masks, fireman outfits, archery costumes, and cop gear (respectively!). The A-Team decides to split up and draws Leatherface into his own cornfield maze, so the man-beast has to choose who to chase when he spots a given member in the maze itself.

This is a careful and tedious process. At first, Leatherface (the Minotaur) spots Face in a ski-mask wielding a hand-gun obviously loaded with some kind of tranquilizer or sedative tipped soft-pellet bullets. Face seeks to draw Leatherface towards the center of the cornfield maze and sedate him so one of the other members of the A-Team can arrive to tie up the man-beast. This will remind Leatherface that every time he enters the maze and is challenged by a team of defiant daredevils or cops, he'll find the intriguing dose of labyrinth fantasy.

Face has to flee, but Leatherface then spots Hannibal with his fireman outfit and handy-dandy axe. Leatherface is wielding his buzzing chainsaw, so Hannibal hurls his axe towards Leatherface and manages to knock his chainsaw out of his hand. He then tackles the man-beast to the ground before running away from him. When Leatherface gets up, he's disoriented and has to decide which way to go in the maze to pursue which of the 4 crafty members of the courageous A-Team.

Is Leatherface really a Scarecrow or a Minotaur? Does he really unnerve our Texan sensibilities regarding environmental frailty and American hospitality? Is he truly a messenger of modern American terrorism? If Leatherface is indeed the Minotaur, how does he shatter our confidence in the fertility of Wall Street or Wal-Mart? Is he an American Satan?

Leatherface then spots Murdock who's ready for him. As Leatherface/Minotaur draws closer to Murdock who has his back turned, Murdock can smell the ugly maniac and turns around to throw a flare towards his eyes, blinding him temporarily. That's when Leatherface realizes the A-Team has managed to create a periodic labyrinth contest of will in his own backyard maze.

Leatherface's backyard labyrinth is really a symbol of modern intelligene and socialization vanities. He's a real Scarecrow who reminds us to remain humble about American fortune, since we may not be so fortunate as to receive a team of maze-runners like the cool A-Team.

The A-Team (Face, Hannibal, Mr. T., Murdock) manage to corner Leatherface/Minotaur in the center of his own backyard cornfield maze. Mr. T. uses his remote-controlled airplane to dazzle and hypnotize the psychopath before Hannibal trips him up and then Face and Murdock tie him up with rope. The A-Team declare this stunning triumph a summertime radio-plane enabled modern exorcism.

Leatherface is humbled and is allowed to stumble home but is promised that more daring maze-runners will appear the following summer and will no doubt be as defiant and thrilling as the outrageous A-Team.

The A-Team appears on the cover of Forbes and TIME and is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Face retires to marry his stewardess girlfriend Margot Robbie. All is well in America once more.

Do you want a Leatherface doll for your home? Are you willing and brave enough to become a member of the awesome A-Team? If you are, you're in for glory, sweat, tears, and of course, Minotaur hayrides. Welcome to the real world, America.