By 6th Grade Students at Kennedy Middle School, Village G
May 2012
The alien stood by its spaceship. Fred, the cyclops, watched. Fred ran the way station on the planet Axel. The alien had just landed and was waiting for its ride to another galaxy.
The alien was small with a tiny body and a very large head. It was maybe half Fred’s height. The very large head was bright hot pink. It had five eyes and ridiculously long lashes. They looked like sharp spikes. Fred wouldn’t want to touch them. The alien was bald but its skin was spiky, sharp and jagged.
The spaceship was a perfect square. It was about as big as an elephant, big enough for the alien but a squeeze for Fred. The ship looked as if it was made from a substance like Jell-O. In fact, the whole ship was constantly jiggling. He thought it looked squishy.
The wonderful aroma of poopy diapers wafted toward him. Boy, did that alien smell good. Fred loved the smell of poopy diapers. His favorite activity was scaring little kids. When he scared little kids, they invariably ended up smelling like poopy diapers.
As usual, the planet Axel was making a growling noise. Fred knew that Axel’s stomach always growled because the planet was always hungry. Fred didn’t know exactly what the planet ate and he wasn’t sure he wanted to know.
Suddenly, ten large cupcake sandwich spaceships exploded onto the planet. Monsters streamed out, five to each cupcake ship. All of the monsters were screeching at the top of their lungs. The monsters were big and hairy, black all over with rainbow spots.
Axel, the planet, opened its planet mouth and swallowed all ten of the cupcake sandwich ships. It made a loud gulping noise and Fred could hear gurgling coming from its core. Yummy, Fred thought. Those cupcake sandwich ships looked as if they tasted just like zebras—gooey and sweet.
As Fred watched, the monsters attacked the way station building with duct tape swords. Fred felt fear in his belly. He hid behind one of the ships and snuck a peek.
The alien ran, screaming like a little girl. The monsters broke down the door of the building and ran inside. Fred whipped out his unocular. He watched the monsters from afar. All fifty monsters pulled out there ipods and put them on. Despite them wearing headphones, Fred could still hear faintly Nicki singing “Starships.”
Ohh, Fred thought. Not that song. That reminded him of his ex-girlfriend Megan Fox. That was their song. His eye welled with tears. He felt desperately sad.
One of the monsters came out of the building. It yelled, “We know you are out there, Fred. We came to torment you. Our supreme emperor is now dating Megan Fox and she told it all about you!! It is jealous and wants to cause you pain. We hope this song tortures you as nothing else could do.”
Fred’s heart pounded with fury. He stepped out from behind the spaceship. The alien was still running around like a crazy alien, screaming at the top of its lungs. It wasn’t looking where it was going. It crashed into the monster. The monster fainted. Still screaming, the alien ran off again.
Three more monsters stomped out of the building. Fury driving his every move, Fred stormed to his stash of weapons. He pulled out a rocket propelled grenade launcher. He shot a grenade at the three monsters. His shot went wild. It missed the monsters and the building completely. Instead, it blew up the alien’s spaceship. Because the ship was made of a Jell-O substance the explosion was not that loud but gooey Jell-O-ey stuff splattered everywhere, covering everyone.
All of a sudden, the ground shook.
Oh no, Fred thought. The planet was not happy. He felt bad because he had a feeling it was his fault.
Everything heaved and rolled and shook. It was as if the planet shivered. Now the monsters began to scream. They rushed out of the building and ran. Some fell as the ground moved, but they quickly got up and kept running.
The alien yelled, “I’ve had enough!”
It ran to the planet’s mouth and dived in. The planet made a loud gulping noise. Fred thought there was still a chance that the alien was alive. Fred ran to the planet’s mouth. He saw the alien as it fell down the planet’s esophagus. The alien disappeared. Oh no! Was it dead?…
The “Cliffhanger” End.
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