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

[Story] [Science]

Alien Encounter

In the year 2020 there was a new planet named Planet Oobleck, which was named after its water source. It is like a green substance. Planet Oobleck was discovered about 100,000 miles away from Earth’s moon. Everyone wanted to find out more about this new planet.

Tiffany and a crew of astronauts were the lucky few who got to go to Planet Oobleck. It took some time to get all the tools and supplies ready for this trip, but on March 26 the spaceship was ready and blasted off into space.

 

An hour later after takeoff the spaceship landed on the Planet Oobleck with a rough drop. After five minutes of making sure that everyone was all right Tiffany looked at the fuel meter, and saw that someone miscalculated the amount of fuel needed for this trip. Now they couldn’t get home!

The crew started to argue with each other more and more. About who miscalculated the fuel needed and saving enough food and water to last for a while. One argument was about the lack of fuel. Someone was telling Tiffany it was all her fault that they got stuck on the Planet Oobleck. And that she wasn’t a true scientist just a little pest. This fight lasted for two whole weeks.

On February 27th of being on Planet Oobleck Tiffany couldn’t stand being around her fellow crew members bickering. So she decided to explore her surroundings. When she came to the liquid oobleck, she saw footprints that looked like dog footprints only five times that size. She followed the footprints that led her to an open field filled with a big group of about 30 blue gorillas. Or seemed like gorillas. All the alien’s fur were messy and they all had saliva running down their mouths. I t wasn’t a pretty sight to see. Disgusted with how they looked, Tiffany ran away as fast as she could. Then when she was running back to tell her crew members of her discovery, a monstrous thing jumped out from behind a boulder. Tiffany was so frightened that her face went white as snow.

 

The monstrous thing turned out to be one of the aliens. After the alien was apologizing over and over again, the alien introduced herself. Her name was Tammy. Tammy was trying to explain to Tiffany that scaring Tiffany was an accident, but Tiffany was so mad from being taken off guard that she stomped back to the spaceship.

When Tiffany arrived back at the spaceship, she told the crew how rude and messy these aliens were. “Their fur is all messy and drool hangs off of their mouths”, said Tiffany. She even suggested getting rid of the aliens. The crew strongly agreed with Tiffany’s plan. From Tiff’s descriptions of the beasts and her encounter with one of them, the crew felt that their lives were at risk. So they felt that they must destroy their so-called enemies. However, Tiffany left out the part about the alien, Tammy, being friendly afterwards and saying that scaring Tiff was an accident. Unfortunately Tiff left that part out because she was so mad with Tammy still yet. This made Tiffany strongly dislike Tammy and her other alien people.

 

The next morning Tiffany went exploring again. When she got to the field where she first saw the aliens, she saw Tammy. Still mad with her, Tiffany tried to leave before Tammy could saw her. Tiffany was too late. Tammy already spotted her and was trying to catch up with Tiff. When Tiff turned around to see if Tammy saw her, Tammy was right behind her with a wide smile on her face. Tammy said, ,"Hello, do you want to play with me?" Tiffany automatically refused and started walking away faster. Tammy was known for being very persuasive and wouldn’t take no for an answer, so she kept persuading Tiff until she agreed to come with her into the plains to play. Curious with what Tammy had planned Tiff agreed to come along. They started playing hide and seek. Tiffany and Tammy were having so much fun that they were playing all day long. Soon enough Tiffany and Tammy were best of friends. Tammy took Tiff to meet her alien family and friends. Tiff realized that the aliens weren’t bad after all. The aliens were really friendly and gentle creatures. Tiff ran back to the spaceship with a skip in her step. She couldn’t wait to tell her crewmembers how sweet the aliens were and that they shouldn’t be killed.

Back at the spaceship, Tiffany couldn't convince the crew that the aliens were gentle and not dangerous. Tiff decided to have the crew meet the aliens in person. At first they were against it, but soon enough their curiosity overcame them. And they went.

At first the crew was hesitant to go any where near the aliens. Until one alien, Tammy, came up to them and introduced herself and her other alien family and friends. The crew and the aliens began to mingle with each other and all of a sudden they were all chatting away. They started talking about all kinds of stuff. Like how they got to the planet and about how it was hard to work as a team instead of as individuals.

When Tiffany told Tammy about her spaceship's problem, Tammy let her in on a big secret. It turns out that the oobleck could be used as fuel. Thankful for this information Tiffany and her crew told the aliens they could come to Earth whenever they wanted. With a little help from the aliens they filled the fuel tank with oobleck. The crew said their farewells to the aliens. And then the crew got onto the spaceship and blasted off. Soon enough they were back on Earth telling everyone about their encounter with their new alien friends.

When the crew was al going back to their own homes Tiffany realized that if it weren't for Tammy being so nice to her and her crewmembers they would have never came back home. Tiff decided that she would never judge a person before getting to know them first. Now Tiffany goes up to Planet Oobleck on a regular bases and visits Tammy and her aliens. Tiffany and Tammy stayed friends for the rest of their lives.

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