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[Story] [Science]
A Night in Oobleckia
In another galaxy far away, there were two
worlds, Humanica and Oobleckia. The two worlds
were isolated from each other and neither the
humans nor the Oobleckians stepped in each other's
territory. But that will change because now the
first human will actually set foot in
Oobleckia.
"I don't know why we have to patrol the
outer-airspace, nothing's going to invade us."
Major Chamberlain grumbled to himself. Major
Chamberlain Gettis was an Intergalactic Defense
Force (IDF) pilot who always wanted to explore the
outer limits. "One day, I'm going to go to that
planet." He said staring at the neighboring planet
Oobleckia.
"Patrol time's up Gettis." ordered Commander
Wendall Ericsson, commander of all IDF air units.
"Get the ship back to Humanica and rest it on the
airfield."
"Yes sir, on my way down." he took his last
glance at the green planet and pulled the control
stick in the direction of Humanica reluctantly.
"HIDF base, requesting permission for landing."
"P-5 grant permission for landing." The radio
answered back. P-5 was Chamberlains code name. He
flew in the airport airspace and hovered over the
landing target as he slowly lowered his jet
vertically.
"Touchdown base." he said over the radio.
That meant that the ship was safely on the ground.
He turned off the power to the ship and pulled
himself out of the jet. He stepped out into the
blazing sun as the swarms of mechanics encircled
the off-duty ship to give its end of mission
inspection.
Chamberlain walked into the commander's
office and stood at attention in front of him.
"Sir! Request permission to speak freely."
"Permission granted." he mumbled while
signing some documents.
"Sir, may I ask that we go into Oobleckia and
explore the area?"
"No!" the commander yelled as he abruptly
stopped writing. "Absolutely not!"
"Why not?" Chamberlain asked startled by the
fury of his leader.
"Because it's too dangerous. I've been there
before and the natives are fierce, show no mercy,
they're racist against others so no!" he said with
a big heave of breath. His face was as red as a
tomato.
"But-" Chamberlain started to say, but
Wendall cut him off.
"No buts about it. The final word is no! Oh
yeah, by the way you're on duty again in about five
minutes, Captain Greg couldn't make his patrol and
don't even think about going to Oobleckia.
Dismissed!"
Chamberlain turned quickly and started out
the door. His jet was ready for his second patrol
today. He said to himself "He's lying to me, no
one has ever gone to Oobleckia. He's just holding
me back from being the first. I'm going to
Oobleckia." He jumped in his jet and strapped
in.
"All clear." The radio said. Chamberlain
gave the two thumbs up sign and he was given
permission for liftoff. He pulled back on his
control stick as the jet lifted off the ground.
Then he pushed on the lever and his jet warped off
into outer space. When he got into outer space he
saw Oobleckia, he turned in its direction and said,
"Here I go!!"
"P-5, P-5! You're heading out of the patrol
airspace! Turn back down to base P-5!"
Chamberlain turned off the radio ignoring the
command. Then on the screen of his navigational
system it read, "Warning! No manual control,
gravitational pull too great."
"This is weird, I'm in the atmosphere and as
I get closer to the planet, the pull force gets
weaker and weaker. The top of the atmosphere has
the strongest pull in the whole planet."
Chamberlain marveled at his discovery.
Then after being controlled by the pull, the
jet reached 5,000 ft above sea level and the
gravitational pull was like earth's.
"Manual control enabled." the screen said.
Chamberlain grabbed the control stick, but couldn't
get the jet back in control.
"Dang the atmosphere pull sent the jet in a
dive." The jet was vertically facing into a dive.
It raced to the green blob of the Oobleck Ocean at
an accelerating speed. Chamberlain put his life
vest on knowing what was going to happen. He held
on to his seat as the jet dove into the ocean. A
big splash shot up. The jet sank for awhile and
then spurted up to the shore and floated there.
Chamberlain was unconscious and just lay there in
his seat like a worn out doll.
Meanwhile at the Oobleckian Army Base, the
army caught a signal of a crash land 1,000 miles
off of the closest shoreline. They immediately
sent out a group to go and investigate the
scene.
"Ow!" Chamberlain said as he rubbed his head
and regained consciousness.
"P-5, P-5 come in." the radio said.
"This is P-5." Chamberlain replied.
"Thank God you're alive. Look, we need your
position to get you out of there. Oobleckians are
on their way over to your position. Use your GPS
for your position reading.
Chamberlain looked all around the jet and
found the GPS floating in the calm green water.
"I'm afraid not, the GPS is filled with Oobleck and
it's broken down. I'll radio you back when I find
a relative position. Over and out."
Chamberlain felt lost and lonely. Not
knowing where he was felt like he was never going
to get out of the planet.
He sat and sat and waited looking for
something to give his position. Then as he looked
into the ocean, he saw the water churning. Then a
blue fish sprung up from the water splashing
Oobleck on Chamberlain.
"Hello. I'm sorry, did I frighten you." the
fish spoke.
"Um, hi." Chamberlain said frightened for he
had never seen such a talking fish.
"I'm a helping fish. I show up when people
are feeling like they have no hope. So let's begin
by telling what your problem is." So Chamberlain
told the fish of how he had crash landed and how
the GPS broke and he needed a relative location for
his rescue.
"Wow, that's a pretty big problem you've got
there. Let me think of a solution." Then the fish
went under the water for a few hours. The sky was
turning dark and it was close to night time. Far,
far off in the distance he could hear the buzzing
jet skis of the Oobleckians.
The fish finally reappeared and said, "I've
got a plan. Tell your rescuers to put red flares
on their aircraft. I'll be glowing blue under the
waters of the Oobleckian Ocean. They can follow me
and I'll lead them straight to you."
"That's great, I'll radio in the IDF of our
plan. IDF base come in this is P-5."
"This is base P-5." came the reply.
"I've got a plan. Put the aircraft in the
Oobleckian airspace. Make them visible in the
night by putting red flares on them. There will
be a glowing fish in the water who will find your
position and he will lead the crew to me." he
explained.
"That's a great plan. The aircraft was
already sent out and they're on their way. Over
and out."
"Thanks helping fish. They're already on
their way into the airspace so you better go and
start hunting for them." With those words, the
fish sped off and went to do his mission.
Chamberlain sat down on top of his floating ship
and waited and listened to the sound of the ever
enclosing sound of the jet skis buzzing.
Chamberlain started to get worried after a
while for it was well in the night time and the
buzzing was getting louder. "Where the heck are
they!" Chamberlain slumped back on top of his
craft and stared into the night sky. "I'm never
going to get out of here." He saw a red star and
then another one coming closer to the crash site,
"Could it be?"
"P-5. Come in P-5." a voice said over the
radio.
"This is P-5." Chamberlain replied excited.
"Your rescue team is due east of your
position coming in fast. I say again, coming in
fast. Hold on, boy you're coming home."
"YES!" Chamberlain shouted happily. He
jumped for joy and almost lost his balance in doing
so.
Not long after those words were spoken, the
glowing fish sped by and turned back to
Chamberlain's position. "Your squad is right
behind me. Come by one day and pay me a visit.
See ya!" and the fish submerged into the depths of
the water. Chamberlain didn't have a chance to
even thank the fish.
Then the calmness of the water was broken as
the waters began to lap and ripple. A loud,
powerful noise pounded at Chamberlain's ears. Just
then, the powerful Nightstalkers flew over his
position. A whole fleet of them flew in every
direction securing a perimeter so that no enemy
hair could touch Chamberlain. A light was shone
down on Chamberlain from one of the Nightstalkers
hovering above him and a rope with a metal basket
at the base was lowered from it. Chamberlain
climbed into the basket and then was slowly lifted
into the Nightstalker.
When he got into the aircraft, he came eye
to eye with Commander Wendall Ericsson. "We're
going to have a long talk about following orders
soldier." Chamberlain shuddered at those words not
wanting any consequence.
BOOM! Down below in the water was the
enemy who had opened fire at one of the
Nightstalkers. "Open fire. All units open fire!"
Wendall ordered. The Nightstalkers obeyed the
order and unleashed a night mare beyond night
mares. They used the powerful missiles and the
drum rolling sound of the gattling guns.
Jet skis exploded like fire works in the
night as the Oobleckians fell to their doom in the
green sea. "Pull out! All units pull out!"
Wendall read over the radio. The Nightstalkers
turned in the opposite direction of the battle and
sped away. The atmosphere showed no resistance to
the Nightstalkers for the aircraft was very
powerful.
As the fleet entered outer space the
commander said over the radio, "All units report
damage status."
"This is N-12, my crafts tail has been hit
and I'm shot in the leg, but I think that I can
hold it out in till we get home."
"Okay, we're almost there." the commander
said assuringly.
The Nightstalkers reached the base and
Chamberlain followed his commander into his office
scared so bad that he wanted to cry for his mom.
"Sit!" the commander said sternly. I don't
know what the heck you were thinking, but you are
lucky that we found you. Yeah, I know I haven't
been there, but I had satellite intel. When I give
an order, you follow it whether you like it or not!
From now on you follow orders not curiosity! Your
consequence is grounding for a month!" the
commander finished with fury.
"No flying for a mo-" Chamberlain said
shocked.
"Dismissed!" Wendall said. The grounding did
shape Chamberlain up because he always followed his
orders and never again his curiosity.
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