Young Readers & Writers

Mrs. Murdo had come back, and the guards had looked at the gurgling river. She read it and decided to trust Lina and Doon. She told people about it, but nobody believed Lina and Doon. They thought that they were “spreading vicious rumors.” 

Only Clary knew. “They probably figured out these complicated instructions and found the way out,” she remarked. 

They were thought to have been spreading vicious rumors about the mayor being selfish, but it was the truth. Even with that, they had the time to figure out and go the way out. They’re smart children. Meanwhile, the guards had looked at the river and didn’t find anything. They didn’t want to go to the river in the Pipeworks. That was because they were too lazy.  

Meanwhile, Lina, Doon, and Poppy had found a city, with booming lights and little transportation vehicles that didn’t move. They went to take a look. They found many houses and buildings that stretched up to the sky. They thought that it was magnificent. 

But soon they figured out the dark secret of the city: it was abandoned from a giant dangerous oil spill that had been cleaned up. Meanwhile, Mrs. Murdo had just gone with Clary to show the mayor where the exit was. He thought it was hogwash, but decided to go to make sure. Clary decided to tell the mayor, as much as he didn’t deserve to get out, simply because he was the only person who could alert everybody to get out. The mayor decided to tell everyone the exit after he found out that it is true after an adventure through the Pipeworks. So, everyone got out. 

They were amazed by the world. They searched and searched for a city and found Lina and Doon. They explained everything, even the mayor’s lies. Everyone was angry and the mayor and his guards were put in the prison that they found. Everyone else got a house that was abandoned and lived happily for the rest of their life.

I could go to my room because I remember I hid my Nintendo switch under all my clothes in my closet. That was a brilliant idea. I was so happy that I said, “Mom, I’ll clean up my room!” I was being so bad and staying on the electronics so much. So of course my mom said yes. I slammed the door and took out the nintendo. My mom was so happy that I actually learned to clean my room without her telling me to. So I felt really bad. I felt so bad that I actually cleaned my room. Luckily, when I was cleaning my room she came in. I was lucky because if I had been playing video games she would’ve caught me.

Now comes the fun part: I finished cleaning my room, and everything was done. I was on the Nintendo playing Super Smash Bros. The game glitched because (I mean it said that because I won every single game I played I think they wanted to see if I had those skills in real life). So, sadly I got kicked in the game. Don’t ask me how I got in. I don’t know how. I got hurt and jostled around a lot when I heard the most terrifying noise ever.

“Carter I’m going to check on you ok. CARTER, CARTER, CARTER!!!!!” 

I had to get out of the game before she came into the room. Now the real fun parts happen. She uses me as a character and plays with me when I’m in the game. :D. I mean she must have known the whole time that I would play Nintendo but I didn’t think she’d expect me to be the character. Anyway the story ends soon my mom took me to the doctor’s office and fixed my bones then I fainted. (>_<) ($_$) (^_^) (‘_’) :D. 

Chapter Two: John Cena

On the same night of Bill Nye’s evil plan, John Cena brainstormed a different plan to kill Bill for what Bill did to him in the previous year:punched him in the face.

He settled with a booby trap filled with gooey lava, but he didn’t remember how fat Bill Nye was and made it way too narrow.

After 48 hours of hard work, John Cena left to sleep, but when he approached his house, he found a bed, a pile of ashes, and a note, (which included that he would be launching at the New Amsterdam Theatre).

This will not be good for the culprit, he thought.

John Cena read the note and knew he had to act quick before his enemy ended the world, so he  radioactive material to make his poisoned spiked boxer gloves. These gloves were special because they were lethal and had range to prevent the death of Earth. He also called all of his friends to help him beat up Bill.

They gathered up and each equipped themselves with the boxer gloves with poisonous spikes and rocket boosters. To beat him, they knew they would require a clever plan, so they brainstormed an idea together...

After the little group agreed on a plan, they destroyed The Science Guy’s house for good measure.

Chapter Three: The Beginning of the Fight

One happy evening, at the New Amsterdam Theatre in New York, Bill Nye was merrily and hastily setting up the heavy missile silo. He placed a hole onto the roof so there would be enough space for the bomb shell to shoot upwards. In the background, John Cena silently climbed up onto the stage.

Just as Billy put the finishing touch, John Cena punched the kind-of-villain away into the rough brick wall.

Disastrously, Bill Nye’s furious buddies threw scrap metal at him, but the tough pro boxer army deflected the rusty junk away.

As usual, Bill gave a signal to the the other lab technicians. The flashing led light warned the peoples something. Obviously, they put on the gas masks as Bill threw a enormous vial filled with nerve gases. Although all of the brave boxers died (except John Cena), there was also a large death toll for the nerds because they didn’t wear the life saving suits (except for Nye, of course).

Afterwards, they held a brutal fisticuff, which in John Cena carried a great advantage. John Cena had more experience in fist fighting.

John Cena launched a series of jabs, but Bill Nye parried every shot with instinct.

Unexpectedly, Bill won and luckily for the whole world, he forgot about the deadly missiles in his pride. Afterwards, John Cena rushed to dismantle the hideous piece of mechanism.

Chapter Four: The Kind-Of-Happy Ending

Back in the wrecked movie theater, both rose up from the floor and tried to pummel each other to death..

They felt dizzy and attempted to hit each other, but failed. They called more reinforcements to fight for them. Their reinforcements kill each other and they are alone. Bill Nye throw bottles filled with deadly substances. John Cena shoots explosive rocket fists filled with poison. The nukes get hit and the vile threats explode. Everything within 5,000 mile radius die.

Chapter Five: The Happy Ending

Finally, both of them realized that the breaking of the houses was a simple mistake. First, they gave up. They said sorry to each other and bought each other cookies. 

Chapter 2: Jeff’s Hectic Cottage

Across the street, a 10-year-old boy named Jeff fell out of bed. Jeff was very short with shaggy, red hair and pure black eyes.

“Oh my goodness,” Jeff hollered as he tripped over his rock-solid pillow and looked at the dusty clock. It read 7:30 A.M He was late to school! Quickly, Jeff got dressed, scarfed down a slice of hardened bread, and packed his school bag.

Downstairs, Jeff’s grandparents were sound asleep after reading the boring newspaper.

“Good-,” Jeff started to say but then remembered how his grandparents did not take any part in his life. He did not like his grandparents, for they did not care what Jeff did.

One time, they went to an ice-cream parlour and his grandparents let Jeff have whatever he wanted. Jeff got a sugar rush and all of the customers shouted bad things to his parents for letting him do that.

Outside the house, the same school bus Steve was on sat in the left lane. Jeff bolted towards it. Though Jeff was as smart as Steve, born in the same hospital, shared the same birthday, teacher, and grade, the major difference between these two was their thinking. He was born with a mind that wandered a lot.

Chapter 3: At the Boring School

On the school bus, Jeff met Steve for the first time. It was very crammed and dirty inside the school bus . Steve sat two rows behind Jeff. Suddenly, two noisy children kicked Jeff out of the row, so “Hi,” said Steve. “My name is Steve.”

“Hello! I’m Jeff,” exclaimed Jeff. At that mention, many rude kids started to laugh at his name.

“What’s so funny?” asked Jeff, frowning. Jeff felt devastated when laughter directed at him.

“It is one of the funniest names ever,” said an ignorant kid on the cramped bus. He had orange hair and dark brown eyes that looked black..

“Oh,” replied Steve. “What is your name?”

The kid hesitated. “Uhh,” muttered the kid. “None of your business.”

The school bus arrived at school, everyone (except the driver) sprinted off the bus. Jeff and Steve quickly unloaded their items in their small lockers then ran to class because they were so late!

In their large classroom, Steve thought of what to prank Jeff because he wanted Jeff to know him better. Today, they had been taught a long lesson of algebra ahead them. Ten minutes into class, Jeff fell asleep because he hated algebra and thought it was the most boring subject ever. Steve on the other hand, deeply focused on the lesson and paid close attention to detail.

At break, Steve had two things in his mind . He thought of a way to prank Jeff, but his mind got sidetracked with his iphone. He did not know that Jeff already found a way to annoy him. Because it was a short break, Steve didn’t have much time to do anything aside from strolling around the big school. On the other hand, Jeff kept busy playing with disgusting bugs and petting fat rats.

Back in class, Steve sat at his desk. Somehow, the flat desk lid started to move. The lid flapped up and down. “What?” muttered Steve. “How is this possible?”

When Steve slightly opened his desk, a thin snout came out. Steve swiftly opened the rest of the long lid, and one of those fat rats that Jeff played with pounced at him.

“WHOA” screamed Steve.

“Steven!” angrily exclaimed the teacher. “Can I have an explanation for your disruptiveness?”

“Uh, there is a rat in my desk, and I think Jeff placed it in there.”

The teacher turned to Jeff, who looked stern. “Jeffrey, did you place that rat in his desk?”

Promptly, Jeff turned to Steve.

“No I did not. I saw him place it in there himself.”

Then, the strict teacher glared at Steve.

“Steven, you should not make up things that are not true,” stated the teacher. “Now, go throw that rat away and come back to class. Hurry!”

Afterwards, Steve knew what he was accused for was not true, but he did what the teacher had told him. He felt vengeful. When he came back to class, it was the second break, and everyone was either tossing balls or doing jumping jacks outside, jumping jacks, etc.]. Steve walked outside to join his classmates and joined a game of soccer.

Just then, he got an idea to troll Jeff. When the teacher was not looking, he sprinted inside with a handful of bugs and shoved them in Jeff’s desk. He walked back outside with a smirk on his pale face. Only ten minutes left, Steve played for a little more.

After break, Steve returned to the classroom where Jeff was freaking out. He had a crazy look on his face. “WHAT,” shouted Jeff. “WHAT IS GOING ON HERE!”

The teacher marched over to Jeff.

“Are you okay Jeffrey?”

“Yes, although I’m sure Steve put all of these insects into my desk.”

“Steven! What is going on with you on your first day?

“Uh,” hesitated Steve. “I will do better tomorrow. He had an angry face and squinting eyes.His face turned bright red from embarrassment.

“You better!” exclaimed the teacher.

Steve walked home and thought about the horrible first day.

Chapter 4: The Explosion

One foggy day after school, Clara Jobs invited Jeff over to their house because Steve wanted to play with someone. “Don’t touch anything” said Steve.

“You can trust me you know,” murmured Jeff.  At the sight of the iphone, Jeff’s mind figured out how to prank  Steve. It was a small device with many wires attached to it. “Hey, what is this?”

“It’s going to be the first iPhone,” Steve replied.

“Nice...”

“What do you want to do?”

“Anything you have.” Jeff shrugged his shoulders. Steve raced downstairs. “I will see what we can do,” shouted Steve. Jeff took a look at the iPhone. “Hehehehehe,” Jeff laughed deviously. “I got the ultimate prank.”

Slowly, Jeff slowly took out a microscopic explosive from his pocket.  He quickly placed it on the screen of the iPhone. At the same time, Steve walked into the tiny room with his arms full of building blocks.

“NOOOO!” shouted Steve when he saw what Jeff had done.

A few seconds later, the  was a huge explosion de-coated the paint off the walls. The iPhone was burst into a million of pieces, and Steve burst into tears. Before Steve’s parents could see, Jeff ran out of the house.

Inside, Steve’s parents ran upstairs to where the loud sound happened.

“Oh my goodness!” exclaimed his parents. “What happened?”

“Nothing...” Steve said as he, wiping his eyes.

This had become the most horrible day of his life.

Chapter 5: The Workplace

One week after the explosion, Steve thought if he would ever be able to work on the very first iPhone again. He felt annoyed to do it all over again when he was so close, but it was better than nothing. After a while, he was determined to do it because he did not want to give up on it. “Dad?” asked Steve.

“Yes?”

“Do you remember the incident with the iphone?”

“Yes,”

“Can you find me a place to work on it again?”

“Okay. It is a good thing you are still determined to work on it, even though that it exploded,” his dad responded.

The conversation broke up when Steve started to walk back to his room. Suddenly, Steve Stopped.

“I need to tell you something.”

“What is it?”

“Jeff blew up the iphone,”

“What… That can’t be,” his confused dad murmured. It was hard to believe it was true because his parents thought he left already. “It’s True. The reason that you did not notice is because Jeff ran out straight after he placed it,” Steve sadly said.

“Thank you for telling me. We will tell his grandparents.”

Paul Jobs found a another place for Steve to work on his iPhone. It was an old workshop that no one had ever used before. His parents looked very stressed out and kind of angry. They had a rough voice when they called 911.

Chapter 6: Moving Away

When his parents discovered what he did, Jeff got in very deep trouble! His angry grandparents grounded him for two whole years. Steve’s mom said that that Jeff will be moving all the way to Washington, and some very nice people will move into the village.

At school, before Jeff moved away, Jeff told Steve that he was not his friend at all and detested him. Jeff moved away on a Sunday evening.

Finally Steve got to work on the very first iphone.

Epilogue: Forty-Two Years Later...

Chapter 2: Isaac

Four hours ago in his scientific house, Sir Isaac Newton tried to find a task to do because he felt bored. He sat at his automatic lift-up table, eating ramen noodles.

Then, he suddenly saw a bright ray shoot out from the peaceful night sky. As a well-known scientist for discovering gravity, his instinct was to measure the speed of the comet. He looked out the clear window and felt excited to figure out what it was.

Isaac believed that he would earn money for discovering the speed of the comet.

Chapter 3: Edmond

At the same time in his own special science lab, Edmond Halley peered through a microscope, then drew a graph also calculating the speed of the comet.

In his lab, there were onions to keep the bugs away, and he had a lot of fuzzy acids, science goggles, solutions, and research for the comet. Who knew that Edmond could be measuring the speed of the comet, too?

Edmond prayed that nobody would steal his idea to measure the comet. Unfortunately, he was wrong.

Just then, Edmond notice Isaac riding in his horse carriage. Edmond had a really bad feeling that the other famous scientist possessed the research too... but he did not feel absolutely sure that Isaac would have the research, so he thought it wouldn’t hurt if he checked out where Isaac was going and what he was doing.

Chapter 4: The Lab

Meanwhile outside, Isaac relaxingly rode his horse. Edmond quickly galloped on his horse as fast as he could to reach Isaac Newton at the farm. Edmond muttered, “What do you have there, mate?”  

“Oh, it’s just a copy of the speed of a random comet,” he replied. 

When Edmond heard that, he felt stunned. He stood there like he had failed the test.

Chapter 5: Resolution

Back to the scene of the fight: Isaac finally gave up when he saw Edmond with a black eye and bruises everywhere from Isaac’s powerful punches. 

Isaac sighed, “I give up. You can have the money and the fame.”

Then, Edmond’s black and swollen eyes opened. “Really?! I can have the money? Thank you so much Isaac! Thank you!”