Hi! My name is Phil and I live in Springfield, Illinois. Today was my birthday - a sunny April Saturday. Today was my 10th birthday - I had hit the double digits! I was looking forward to the dinner out at Rogeson's, the local steakhouse, and the party afterwards. But here I sat on the grass outside my brown house on Morrow Drive, bored with nothing to do.
I decided to head back into my room to read a book I had just got, The Ultimate Guide to the Animals of the Earth. I walked up the stairs, opened the door, and spotted a strange package on my bed. On it was a label. I leaned closer to read the label. DANGEROUS, it read, Keep out of reach of children under 10. From: THE ALIENS OF MARS
I kept reading: To: 2nd Bedroom Upstairs, 206th Ave., Springfield, IL.
"Wow!" I exclaimed. I immediately ripped open the package. What?! I thought. It was only a watch! I put it on and set the hands to the correct time.
"Wow!" I exclaimed. I immediately ripped open the package. What?! I thought. It was only a watch! I put it on and set the hands to the correct time.
"What time would you like to go to?" asked a strangely robotic voice. I realized it was coming from the watch.
"Um, what about 1392 in Rome?" I suggested timidly.
"Transporting..." beeped the voice again.
There was a sudden flash of light and I saw the Colosseum nearby and a bunch of people wearing white togas running around. I trotted around, and realized that I was wearing a toga, too! The watch had transformed itself into a golden armband. I started talking, and I realized I was speaking Roman too! I explored the place, admiring statues and watching shows. I saw the Statue di Roma, the Antiquarium del Palatino, the Musei Capitolini, and the Palazzo Massimo alle Terme. I stayed in the Colosseum for a while. There was a very interesting show going on in there. Two people were fighting each other with weapons I had never seen before. After I watched a few rounds, I got bored, tired, and hungry.
Suddenly a man walked up to me. He looked very different from the others. He was dressed in a T-shirt and flip-flops, and he trotted over to me. It seemed like none of the locals noticed him. He scooted over, tied me up, gagged me, and then everything went black. The last thing I noticed was a large black object dangling from his wrist. I awoke a few hours later (or so I thought) in a damp underground cave. The person I had seen earlier was next to me, except he looked different. I saw lots of shiny, sharp knives hanging from the ceiling.
"Where am I?" I meant to ask, but with my gag, it sounded like "WHAAARFF UMM O?" The man, or should I say creature, who had transformed into a slimy green mass of oozing material with huge eyes, replied, "UPI EPM'Y :OBR :PMH YP LMPE, RSYJ:OMH!" Before I knew it, everything went black again. The next time I woke up, I was suspended over a pit of green slime by an iron chain. I couldn't see the creature anymore. I swung on the chain, swinging and swinging, and before I knew it, I had swung fast enough to crash my chain into the rocky ceiling and break it. I fell onto the red ground next to the pit.
Next thing I knew, six green blobs cornered me. I scuttled through a small hole in the wall, reaching the surface, and I was really surprised! I was on Mars! I looked around for a means of escape. My wristwatch had been taken, and I wasn't wearing a toga anymore, I was in my normal clothes. I ran off on the rocky ground, many green blobs chasing me. Ahead of me, I made out a faint glow in the foggy weather, and saw my escape - a space shuttle that had been stolen from the humans. I leapt into the cockpit, and found I didn't know how to control the shuttle. I pressed a red button, and found it must have been an adapted shuttle, because missiles flew out and hit the green blobs, instantly vaporizing them.
I suddenly found interest in the shuttle. I ran about, pulling cords, turning dials, activating switches, flipping levers, and pressing buttons. The ground around the shuttle exploded, turned color, made weird noises, and caught fire.
Suddenly, I found that the shuttle had lifted off. I was headed towards Earth. I enjoyed the view, and then my stomach rumbled. I looked for a sandwich, and instead found the Martian equivalent of a peanut butter and jelly sandwich - two pieces of rock squishing a squirming orange tentacle and a few of what looked suspiciously liked space slugs. I tossed it out the window and decided to wait until I got home.
After I landed, with much noise making from the space shuttle (I had decided to try a few remaining buttons), people crowded around for a better look. I was interviewed, and even starred on a few TV shows. I even realized that I had time-traveled back to present time during the blacked-out period, and I had rode that stolen space shuttle to Mars.
What a great birthday!
Suddenly a man walked up to me. He looked very different from the others. He was dressed in a T-shirt and flip-flops, and he trotted over to me. It seemed like none of the locals noticed him. He scooted over, tied me up, gagged me, and then everything went black. The last thing I noticed was a large black object dangling from his wrist. I awoke a few hours later (or so I thought) in a damp underground cave. The person I had seen earlier was next to me, except he looked different. I saw lots of shiny, sharp knives hanging from the ceiling.
"Where am I?" I meant to ask, but with my gag, it sounded like "WHAAARFF UMM O?" The man, or should I say creature, who had transformed into a slimy green mass of oozing material with huge eyes, replied, "UPI EPM'Y :OBR :PMH YP LMPE, RSYJ:OMH!" Before I knew it, everything went black again. The next time I woke up, I was suspended over a pit of green slime by an iron chain. I couldn't see the creature anymore. I swung on the chain, swinging and swinging, and before I knew it, I had swung fast enough to crash my chain into the rocky ceiling and break it. I fell onto the red ground next to the pit.
Next thing I knew, six green blobs cornered me. I scuttled through a small hole in the wall, reaching the surface, and I was really surprised! I was on Mars! I looked around for a means of escape. My wristwatch had been taken, and I wasn't wearing a toga anymore, I was in my normal clothes. I ran off on the rocky ground, many green blobs chasing me. Ahead of me, I made out a faint glow in the foggy weather, and saw my escape - a space shuttle that had been stolen from the humans. I leapt into the cockpit, and found I didn't know how to control the shuttle. I pressed a red button, and found it must have been an adapted shuttle, because missiles flew out and hit the green blobs, instantly vaporizing them.
I suddenly found interest in the shuttle. I ran about, pulling cords, turning dials, activating switches, flipping levers, and pressing buttons. The ground around the shuttle exploded, turned color, made weird noises, and caught fire.
Suddenly, I found that the shuttle had lifted off. I was headed towards Earth. I enjoyed the view, and then my stomach rumbled. I looked for a sandwich, and instead found the Martian equivalent of a peanut butter and jelly sandwich - two pieces of rock squishing a squirming orange tentacle and a few of what looked suspiciously liked space slugs. I tossed it out the window and decided to wait until I got home.
After I landed, with much noise making from the space shuttle (I had decided to try a few remaining buttons), people crowded around for a better look. I was interviewed, and even starred on a few TV shows. I even realized that I had time-traveled back to present time during the blacked-out period, and I had rode that stolen space shuttle to Mars.
What a great birthday!
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