By 6th Grade Students at Kennedy Middle School, Village F
May 2012
The alien stood by his spaceship. Justin B. watched. He had no idea that aliens existed before now, and he also had no idea why this one was here. This was very surprising.
The alien looked just like a lizard but he was standing on his hind legs. He was puke green with a long lizard tail. He had to be at least ten feet tall. Justin imagined that the alien’s skin would be smooth and slimy to the touch.
The spaceship was triangular with the peak of the triangle on its side. It had a large hamburger-shaped decoration on top, maybe made from plastic. Justin thought the spaceship was about twenty feet tall. The ship was made out of blue metal—very shiny and smooth. The ship was a mess. It looked as if it was a tangled up rag that someone had kicked and beaten up. This spaceship had to have crashed. Dirt was everywhere, especially all over the lizard alien, and he stank just like dirt. The smell was revolting. Justin wondered if this stinky alien was here to invade Earth.
Suddenly, a very short man stormed out of the Stephano’s Burgers that was next to the crash. He began to speak in rapid Italian. Justin didn’t know Italian, but he could tell the man was angry. He was ripping into the alien, speaking loudly and excitedly. Justin realized that the crash had caused damage to Stephano’s. While the very short man yelled, he also took large bites out of a juicy hamburger, talking with his mouth full. Justin was grossed out by all the food that flew as the Italian dude ate, but he thought the hamburger looked really good. Justin was starving; he really wanted one of those Stephano burgers now! He liked all that ketchup oozing out the sides of the burger. It made his mouth water.
The alien went back to his ship and brought out tools and equipment. He went over to the burger joint and started to work on it. He appeared to be trying to fix it.
Wow, thought Justin. That was pretty cool. The alien seemed to understand the problem. The owner of Stephano’s stopped mid bite and mid word and stared in surprise. Justin guessed that he hadn’t expected the alien lizard creature to want to help.
Suddenly, Justin heard roaring. He looked up. Five tiny dinosaurs were plummeting from the sky. As they neared, they spread their wings and soared to the ground. When they landed, they ate hamburgers right and left, including the one on the top of the alien’s spaceship.
The dinosaurs were ridiculously chubby. Justin thought these were not the first hamburgers these dinosaurs had eaten. The dinosaurs lumbered across the street to Burger King and ravaged all of its hamburgers. These were very hungry dinosaurs.
The weird thing about these chubby dinosaurs was that they were actually quite tiny in size. When they finished with the Burger King hamburgers, they all crawled into the Burger King’s play structure.
Justin moved closer to watch. The dinosaurs were sliding and playing with each other. The alien lizard began to laugh. He walked closer to watch too. Just then, the five dinosaurs lifted their heads and stared at Justin. Their dinosaur eyes grew round. They all licked their lips. They ran for Justin, the alien, and Stephano’s owner. Uh-oh Justin thought as he turned and ran. It looked as if he was dessert. Busy watching the careening dinosaurs over his shoulder, Justin didn’t have time to see anything else.
He heard high-pitched screaming. FANS…PSYCHO FANS! He knew their screams all too well. They tackled him, and he ended up at the bottom of a pile of screeching, adoring fans. Then the fans were thrown off him. It was the alien to the rescue.
Justin popped back up to his feet, flicked his hair back and began to sing, “Boyfriend.” The dinosaurs stopped in their tracks and began to break dance.
“Cool,” Justin said.
He suddenly noticed that the dinosaurs were wearing pink tuxedos. How had he missed that? It was so awesome. He continued to sing and the dinosaurs continued to dance. As he sang, Stephano’s owner collapsed into a deep sleep. The rest of them partied all night long, singing and dancing.
The next morning, the Stephano’s owner woke up. He and Burger King’s owner got mad. They clearly didn’t like the 24-hour dance-a-thon.
“What is going on?” a woman yelled. Justin turned bright red. It was his mom and she was mad. He should have called her last night.
The ground shook. A herd of llamas stampeded. They ran over his mom. Oh no! he thought, then he realized he was free. He screamed, “Yippee, I’m free!”
His mom crawled back up. She held her arm in her other hand. It had been ripped out of socket. She began to wack Justin with it. “How could you say that, Sonny?”
Justin, in a fit of rage, asked the dinosaurs to trample his mom. Then a unicorn arrived. It said, “Justin B. you should be ashamed of yourself!”
The unicorn touched the mom and her arm reattached. She was all better. The unicorn created a double rainbow, which touched the spaceship and fixed it all up. The alien ran to his spaceship and lifted off. He waved out his window.
Justin took a closer look at the unicorn. It was bright orange with a human head. He looked a lot like his friend, Andrew Brook. This was all too much.
Justin fainted. When he awoke, he was in a room with padded walls. He thought it was a mental institution. The door opened. A fat pink alien doctor entered.
“Oh nooooo…” He cried.
The “Clffhanger” End.
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