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Deane DeCastro [x7628]
Kari Morioka [x7372]
Palani Williams [x7721]

[Story] [Science]

The Battle Of The Two Worlds

 

My crew is Shelby, Kevin, Ka'iu, Tano, Aurora, and myself, Bleys. I am the leader, Tano is the technician, and Kevin is the mechanic. All of the women are there just to assist the men. I am fearless, Kevin is strong, and Tano is a brainiac of the group. All of the girls are dynamic type characters.

My spaceship is a beautiful red Acura NSX. Across there are some modifications. It runs on a thing I like to call N.O.S.F.T.M. and that stands for NitroOxideSpeedFarsterThanMach.

In a galaxy far away my crew and I had just landed on a weird planet called Oobleck. We were floating on some kind of green sticky water with our big balloons. I was exhausted and my crew must have felt the same way, so I thought we should have an hour nap. "Crew we are going to have an hour break to eat, sleep, or listen to music I said."

I saw them all doze off into a deep sleep and then I did to.

When I woke up I felt energized and ready for anything. My crew just started waking up. "Tano lower back balloons." Tano pushed the, deflate back balloon button and the back balloons inflated 'till they were in launch position. "3-2-1, Lift Off!" Tano pushed the launch button. "We have lift off said Tano."

While I was flying the ship I looked through the rear view mirrors to see if the balloons were deflating into the proper places, which is inside of the tires.

I drove around for hours looking for life or at least signs of life. I saw many lands with different kinds of terrain that was similar to Earth's terrain. To me it looked like Earth with green water and no people or any signs of people or so called Oobleckian life forms.

Next I saw a huge city with many people. The people looked like green-human beings to me. I concluded that they were molecules that came out of the ocean. They also probably don't eat and only drink their green putty ocean.

"Get ready to land." "Turn off thrusters, turn on the fans and rotate wheels to land and drive around to inspect the Oobleckians." Tano pressed all the necessary buttons and we landed successfully.

Once we landed the Oobleckians started firing their plasmatic rays out of their hands. The rays were green like them.

"Tano inflate the front balloons and launch." Tano pressed the button to inflate the front balloons and as soon as the front balloons were inflated, Tano launched the spaceship.

Again, after we lifted off Tano pushed the button to deflate the front balloons into the front two tires.

I was flying and thought to myself that they couldn't get us on top of the green ocean or if they did they would be stuck in the ocean.

"Get ready to land on the ocean." "I don't think they can get us there."

"Tano stop thrusters and turn on the fans, so the Balloons can come out." Tano did all of the preparations and everything went as planned and we had successfully landed on the ocean.

"Ah, they are catching up Aurora said." I looked through the rear view mirror and I saw them catching up in speedboats.

"Start launch sequence Tano." Tano pressed the, deflate the back balloon and they were inflated to the right amount. "Launch!" Tano hit the launch button.

I drove trying to avoid the plasman ray guns from hitting the balloons while they were returning to the tires. All of the balloons popped. Luckily I wasn't going to land on the ocean again.

Then the speedboats started flying. I turned around and started shooting at them with the blue solar powered laser guns. The laser guns were, controlled by honking the horn.

I shot at anything and everything. They dissolved into green globs. The spaceship was scratched a little so I landed it for Kevin and Shelby to fix it.

The next moment, the whole entire population came in and started shooting at us. They flew in from all directions. I needed to turn and shoot everywhere.

They hit our main thrusters that were used to lift off so we were stranded there and we cold only drive around in circles. There were green globs everywhere because they kept on dissolving.

Now there were many scratches on the car and I was pissed off. I started to close my eyes and shoot frantically.

Do you know who you are beepn' with. You beeped with my crew and my also my beepn' car. My crew's mouths were open.

After a while, I finally defeated them all. My crew and I were very scared about what had just happened but were relieved that we had defeated them all.

"Kevin and Shelby. Start repairing the ship," I yelled. "Tano and Kaiu start finding the coordinates to get back home."

I put Aurora and myself in charge of watching the sip. Aurora and I relaxed in air-conditioned car and listened to music. That was on of the good parts of being the leader.

While Aurora and I was laying, down and contemplating our current status, the rest of the team was still hard at work.

Finally, Kevin and Shelby finished repairing the launch thrusters, painting the car, and replacing the balloons. Tano and Kaiu finished their report so we knew how to get back home.

"Good job crew. Now it's time to get out of here. Everybody get in the car," I said.

I started the engine.

"Inflate front balloons and blast off," I ordered. Tano hit the launch button and we were on our way.

It wasn't long until we had some altitude and soon we were covered in the darkness of space.

There was a loud crash on the front of our spaceship followed by repeated thumps on the outside of the ship.

I found out that we were in the middle of a meteor shower that had turned our ship into a bass drum at a parade. Fortunately it didn't last long as we steered clear of the flying meteors.

"Kevin, damage report." "No major damages but I think we're going to need to touch up that paint a little..."

Before Kevin could finish his sentence, a couple of small meteorites smashed through the hull of the ship just behind my chair instantly killing my entire crew and destroying the entire middle cabin area of my ship.

A thin layer of silicon paper dropped over the whole in the rear portion of my compartment to completely seal me in, and saving what little oxygen I had left.

I used the maximum thrusters to maneuver the ship but could not stop the ship from falling into a black hole that was created by the falling meteor shower.

As I was sucked into the hole I lost all concept of time and space. Everything was in slow motion and it was so silent that I could here the beating of my own heart echoing through my head.

Just as I was about to lose consciousness, I was through the black hole and somehow I found myself sitting in my spaceship amongst my crew.

"Are you all right Bleys?" asked Kevin. "We're all here and are ready to take off when you are."

I studied the faces of my crew still wondering about what had just occurred or if it really happened at all. As I thought about whether I should tell them what happened.

Shelby yelled out, "Wow. Look at that falling star."

As I looked up at the sky through the front window, I saw an amazing display of lights dancing toward the ground as the meteor shower came through the atmosphere.

"Why don't we just wait a while and enjoy the view."

We sat there for about two hours and watched the brilliant display of lights.

That was all I had ever said about the meteor shower to my crew making no mention of the black hole, or the explosion to the spaceship, and decided that some things are better left unsaid.

We took off to home and I told my story to my children and fought them that in the darkest of times the light.

 

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