By 7th Grade Students at Bulldog Tech
March 2015
My name is Sally. I’m thirteen years old. My parents died last week. I’m desperately sad. I need to save them. I need to bring them back to life.
I’ve heard that there may be a way. But it means I must travel to Australia 420 years into the future to find their salvation. I’ve heard from other time travelers that there is a computer there that stores special recipes. One is for a cake that can be placed on a corpse. When you say the right words it melts into the body and the person comes back to life.
This quest will be perilous. Not the time travel itself, but Australia’s future is filled with danger. Still I must go. I can only take one item with me. I’ve chosen the talking potato. It is extremely valuable. Not only will it protect me during my time travel, but it will also provide sustenance. I can turn it into talking French Fries which I will eat on my journey.
The first thing I must do is hotwire a motorcycle that I’ve identified as a time travel machine. This is dangerous because an elite biker gang owns the motorcycle.
I sprint to the cycle. It has a large logo that says: Time-Travel Here. I lunge past the biker dudes and jump onto the bike. I put it in motion and they follow. But I crank up the speed and zoom into the future. Right at the moment I leap forward in time, I dial in +420.
There’s a loud popping in my ears and crazy vibration. Then I see a jumble of black, yellow and blue lines shooting me forward. I land with a loud screech. The first thing I see is a huge, green ogre who looks strangely like Shrek. How could that be?
When he sees me, he screams and then he charges, yelling, “Wow!”
I panic. I grab my talking French fries and throw them at the Shrek monster.
They yell, “Get out of my swamp, mate.”
The Shrek stomps on the fries and keeps charging, but while he was distracted, I climb a tree. It is prickly and cuts my hands. I crawl out onto a branch. All I can smell is the stench of Shrek. With a loud clap, my branch breaks and I fall.
I land in a pool and am quickly submerged. The liquid gets into my mouth. Strangely, it tastes like Mountain Dew, but it makes me dizzy. It’s very weird.
I drag myself out of the water. Shrek continues to approach.
I see a bow and arrows and a pile of fried chicken. I grab chicken and pelt Shrek with it. But that doesn’t stop him. I grab the bow and arrow and aim at him.
“Don’t come any closer!” I say.
Shrek keeps coming.
“Where is the computer that can bring people back to life,” I ask.
Shrek doesn’t answer. He keeps coming closer. Suddenly, a car races toward us. It slams into Shrek. Oh no! Now I have to find someone else to tell me where the computer is.
To Be Continued.
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