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[Story] [Science]
The Oobleckian
Monster
"Cap'n! Did ya hear the news?! I heard that
someone has discovered a new planet! They say that
it's located only 10,000 miles away from our space
station, orbiting one of Gildor's 3 moons!" said a
young man.
"Well that is very interesting news young chap.
But unfortunately I have already heard about this
new planet. As a matter of fact, I'm actually
planned to go explore it next week Tuesday."
With this being heard, Captain Stu Harding's
witty and loyal companion, Jenkins, sauntered
across the room and sat down.
"The bad news is that one of our most prized and
expensive satellites crash landed on the planet.
And you and I have been ordered to retrieve
it!"
"Is that so... Well in that case we'll have to
gather a fellowship to go and get this
satellite."
The captain of the party, Stu Harding is a wise
yet slow person who is a great leader. His second
hand man, or assistant; Jenkins is very quick and
witty. Now let me introduce to you his partners on
his journey. Captain Stu's best friend from 7th
grade, Mike Nujin is the all-around worker guy. He
can do everything from piloting a spaceship to
taking out the rubbish. And he can do it all in the
blink of an eye. Together they set out on a journey
to an unknown planet. The horrible, GREEN planet,
OOBLECK!!!
The ship's engines roared.
"9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, BLAST OFF!"
"VROOM!!!"
They were off. The spaceship launched into the
air. The engines were roaring! The spaceship was
sailing through the air. Then, 'poof' it
vanished!
"Oh my gosh! The spaceship just vanished, just
like...THAT!" said an onlooker named Nike
Mujin.
"Man what happened?" asked Stu. "I just woke up
and I found us up here in space. And what's that?!
LOOK! It's the giant green planet! Oobleck!"
"Calm down sir, don't get too stressed out.
While you were knocked out, Mike and I have located
the vacinity of the satellite. It's right there."
Jenkins pointed to a small part of the map.
"Jenkins, isn't that where we picked up those
unidentifiable phesis samples?" captain Stu
asked.
"Why, as a matter of fact it is! Sir while we're
there we can save the satellite and we can find a
new species of animal! Or whatever you call these,
things out here in space."
"BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!"
"Sir! We're entering the atmosphere! We have to
decrease our speed or we'll burn up!"
Mike suddenly appeared.
"Don't worry guys I got it all covered. I
installed an automatic pilot so we're being guided
by experts' back at the space station."
With the engines roaring the spaceship broke
through the thick yellow clouds. The engines
abruptly cut their power and went off. The top of
the spaceship popped off and a large red white and
blue parachute opened up. Surprisingly the ship
gently settled onto the oobleck.
Captain Stu sighed with relief; "Well at least
we had a great landing."
Within seconds of saying that, they heard a
rapping on the outside hull of the spaceship.
Someone, or something was trying to get in!
"Captain! There's something trying to get in! We
better check what it is. It sounds like it's
screwing with our engines!"
With that they opened the safety hatch. Hunched
over one of the engines was a large green animal
with skinny arms and legs. Its figure resembled one
of a human. It slowly turned around. It had big
bubbly green eyes. Once it caught a glimpse of the
3 space men, it snatched a piece of the engine and
scrambled away off the ship.
"Look that thing took a part of spaceship! We'll
never be able to get off this planet until we get
that piece! Hurry lets follow him. Hopefully we'll
catch him by surprise. We gotta be careful because
we have no idea about what lives on this
planet."
Carefully watching the alien's every move, they
slowly moved farther from their ship. The alien
moved very slowly but it was sure footed. Captain
Stu, Jenkins and Mike all kept stepping in puddles
of oobleck. They were just about to give up and
turn back when they stood face to face with a huge
cave. The mouth of the cave was huge and shaped
like a mouth with huge fangs and it even had a
tongue!
"Men, it looks like we're going to have to
venture into this dreadful cave. But, I want you to
know that I'll try my best to get us out of here,
even if it means risking my own life to do it."
Without making a second thought, they jogged
into the cave. A beep came out of the darkest
deepest part of the cave.
"Did you guys here that? I think that was the
satellite! That alien must have somehow got our
satellite! All we need to do now is get our engine
piece back and the satellite is right here!" yelled
Jenkins.
With that being said, a creature jumped out from
behind a rock and hissed. It had a small dagger in
its hand. The alien lunged at captain Stu but
missed by a fraction of an inch. Captain Stu
screamed, "JUDO CHOP!" and knocked the alien flat
on its back.
It hissed, "If you want this piece back, you'll
have to answer these 2 riddles correctly. First,
what at dawn walks on 4 legs, at noon walks on 2
legs and at dusk hobbles on 3 legs?"
"Well of course we all know that one. I read The
Hobbit! It's a human, because in the beginning of
its life it crawls on it's hands and knees. When
it's a man, it walks upright on its two legs and
when it gets older, it uses a cane to help itself
walk upright."
"Hmmm. Well it seems you got that one right, but
the next one won't be as easy. How many grams are
in a kilo gram?"
"Uh, was that your 2nd question? Because this
seems was too easy... Anyways my answer is that
there are 1,000 grams in a kilo gram." Said captain
Stu.
"AHHH! How did you know that?! I thought that
you humans didn't know your metric system!"
Screamed the monster.
"Actually no, that's only the Americans." Stu
said slyly.
"As I promised you can have your engine piece
back. Can I ask you guys a question? Do you know
where this huge piece of junk came from? It just
fell out of the sky and landed in my yard! I'll
gladly give it to you guys if you want it because I
have no use for it at all! It fell on my beautiful
rose bushes…"
"Hey man thanks! I mean this is the reason why
we came to this planet! We were sent here to come
and retrieve this satellite. We were sent on a
mission to come retrieve it."
"Well, thanks for all you help. We really
appreciate it. Maybe one day you can come down to
visit our space station. Its address is 45-604
Milky Way Drive."
The alien typed in some numbers on a gigantic
machine. The machine opened up a warp and the alien
calmly motioned for Stu, Jenkins and Mike to step
through it. Nervously they marched. Step by step
they inched towards the warp. Stepping through,
they were instantly teleported back to their space
station. They were in the arrival hangar and their
spaceship and the satellite were right next to
them!
They one by one looked out of the window. They
gazed at the green planet now a speck in the
distance and left. But, while they were looking out
the window, they didn't hear the faint knocking
coming from the inside door of their
spaceship…
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