If I Could Invent One Thing
Earth
by Madeline 08-09
"Good-night Mom." I sank down onto my pillows and almost immediately fell asleep. Suddenly everything was changing! I was walking through my back yard, looking for something; I didn't know what it was; thoughts were flooding my head… Suddenly there was darkness, charging towards me, like an ink spill on paper…
The next thing I knew, I was falling head first through darkness. I screamed, but no sound came out. I landed and something very curios happened: I fell on to a platform with people gathered around it. But the funny thing was, nobody noticed that I had just fallen out of the sky. I looked around; I was on Earth, but the air was grey and there were piles of trash everywhere I looked. This must be Earth in a few years, when it's polluted, I thought. Actually, it was the year 2031, as I found out later.
I had no idea what to do, when my mouth started working automatically. It was creepy!
I said, "Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the final take-off of the EF2 space ships. Remember, you cannot bring anything with you! Every thing that you need is on Earth Number Two."
"How do we know that this isn't a trick!" someone in the crowd yelled, "How do we know that you're not a Russian!"
Ah, we're having a war with Russia, too, I thought.
Once again, my mouth did all the work. "Trust me." I said. But my voice had gone all dark and creepy like, so it sounded like "Believe me…or else." That was scarier than having your mouth work by itself.
Everything that was happening seemed like it was supposed to happen. So, I went with the flow and climbed on one of the spaceships.
"Oh-my-gosh." This spaceship was, like, awesome! So cool, that I just barely stifled my scream.
This ship was really high-tech. Like, really high-tech. These weirdo polluters were had the style of cool 16 year olds. The seats were blue velvet and the floor was carpeted. I visited the bathroom, and there were ten full bathrooms to choose from. And the bathtubs had these weird bubble maker things on them, just like in Harry Potter. So people are finally reading books, I thought. As it turned out, people were reading the electronic Kindle books, which in 2009, had just come into style. I climbed on to my seat. I knew that it was my seat because there was a mini television with a sign that was flashing:
Madeline Hunt a.k.a. the maker of the planet will lead us home. Madeline Hunt, please sit here ⇓
I sat down and stared pointlessly out the blank window. Yeah, the windows were covered in this sticky, black stuff that looked like wet paint.
I was just drifting off to sleep, when the people that had been listening to me talk on the platform came in the ship, bringing a lot of noise with them.
This bald dude sat down next to me and started humming "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" under his breath. He then turned to me and asked, "What's a 'rainbow'?"
"You've never seen a rainbow!" I exclaimed.
"No. What's 'Sunshine?' "
"Oh my gosh!! How do you grow fruits and vegetables? !"
"Do you mean those little packets of mush?" He asked.
That's when I realized that the dark clouds outside were permanent! I barely stopped my scream of anger from coming out. What was happening?
Suddenly, the space ship started to move. I heard the countdown loud and clear through the sides of the ship.
"Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one, BLAST OFF!!
And off we went, away into the horrible black clouds that surrounded the Earth like a blanket of pollution.
* * * * *
CLUNK!
"We're here." The bald guy said weekly; his breath had been knocked out of him.
On the very real, but dream-like trip, I had explained about rainbows and sunshine. He had ooed and ahed a lot.
It was wonderful!! Animals roamed the thick, green jungles and munched on dry prairie grass. There were even little cabins with big gardens scattered everywhere! Everyodfg gggggggsvsfdahsxhwerxsne went to have a closer look at the cabins. There were nameplates with the last name of every family above the door. "Hey…what's happening…everything's dissolving- like sugar under water….
I sat up in bed and banged my head against the headboard, "Ouch! Where is every thing? Oh-no…it was a dream!" Just then I remembered the instructions that I had found in my dream. "The shed… under a stack of 2x4s…" I jumped out of bed-and still in my pajamas- ran out of the house, flung open the door and…
Found the Instructions!!!!!!
by Madeline 08-09
"Good-night Mom." I sank down onto my pillows and almost immediately fell asleep. Suddenly everything was changing! I was walking through my back yard, looking for something; I didn't know what it was; thoughts were flooding my head… Suddenly there was darkness, charging towards me, like an ink spill on paper…
The next thing I knew, I was falling head first through darkness. I screamed, but no sound came out. I landed and something very curios happened: I fell on to a platform with people gathered around it. But the funny thing was, nobody noticed that I had just fallen out of the sky. I looked around; I was on Earth, but the air was grey and there were piles of trash everywhere I looked. This must be Earth in a few years, when it's polluted, I thought. Actually, it was the year 2031, as I found out later.
I had no idea what to do, when my mouth started working automatically. It was creepy!
I said, "Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the final take-off of the EF2 space ships. Remember, you cannot bring anything with you! Every thing that you need is on Earth Number Two."
"How do we know that this isn't a trick!" someone in the crowd yelled, "How do we know that you're not a Russian!"
Ah, we're having a war with Russia, too, I thought.
Once again, my mouth did all the work. "Trust me." I said. But my voice had gone all dark and creepy like, so it sounded like "Believe me…or else." That was scarier than having your mouth work by itself.
Everything that was happening seemed like it was supposed to happen. So, I went with the flow and climbed on one of the spaceships.
"Oh-my-gosh." This spaceship was, like, awesome! So cool, that I just barely stifled my scream.
This ship was really high-tech. Like, really high-tech. These weirdo polluters were had the style of cool 16 year olds. The seats were blue velvet and the floor was carpeted. I visited the bathroom, and there were ten full bathrooms to choose from. And the bathtubs had these weird bubble maker things on them, just like in Harry Potter. So people are finally reading books, I thought. As it turned out, people were reading the electronic Kindle books, which in 2009, had just come into style. I climbed on to my seat. I knew that it was my seat because there was a mini television with a sign that was flashing:
Madeline Hunt a.k.a. the maker of the planet will lead us home. Madeline Hunt, please sit here ⇓
I sat down and stared pointlessly out the blank window. Yeah, the windows were covered in this sticky, black stuff that looked like wet paint.
I was just drifting off to sleep, when the people that had been listening to me talk on the platform came in the ship, bringing a lot of noise with them.
This bald dude sat down next to me and started humming "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" under his breath. He then turned to me and asked, "What's a 'rainbow'?"
"You've never seen a rainbow!" I exclaimed.
"No. What's 'Sunshine?' "
"Oh my gosh!! How do you grow fruits and vegetables? !"
"Do you mean those little packets of mush?" He asked.
That's when I realized that the dark clouds outside were permanent! I barely stopped my scream of anger from coming out. What was happening?
Suddenly, the space ship started to move. I heard the countdown loud and clear through the sides of the ship.
"Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one, BLAST OFF!!
And off we went, away into the horrible black clouds that surrounded the Earth like a blanket of pollution.
* * * * *
CLUNK!
"We're here." The bald guy said weekly; his breath had been knocked out of him.
On the very real, but dream-like trip, I had explained about rainbows and sunshine. He had ooed and ahed a lot.
It was wonderful!! Animals roamed the thick, green jungles and munched on dry prairie grass. There were even little cabins with big gardens scattered everywhere! Everyodfg gggggggsvsfdahsxhwerxsne went to have a closer look at the cabins. There were nameplates with the last name of every family above the door. "Hey…what's happening…everything's dissolving- like sugar under water….
I sat up in bed and banged my head against the headboard, "Ouch! Where is every thing? Oh-no…it was a dream!" Just then I remembered the instructions that I had found in my dream. "The shed… under a stack of 2x4s…" I jumped out of bed-and still in my pajamas- ran out of the house, flung open the door and…
Found the Instructions!!!!!!