Vacation to the Past
It was an early morning in Cybertown Sector 5. Mr. Whinston picked up the newspaper, it read Cybertown News Today, Date: 23/7/42. The paper was black and Mr. Whinston picked up his glasses which helped him see the white writing on the black paper. He was slurping his Fru coffee like a camel.
When he heard. “Dad, dad, dad!”
And he saw his son who was wearing orange pajamas which made him look like a shimmering goldfish.
He asked, “Dad please, let’s go to Egypt, please! Please! Please!”
Mr. Whinston said, “Jack, no, we can’t, where will we get the money?”
Jack said, “Please, I saw a ticket in the Kwiky Mart for a 1001 Kunuts and 0.501Jinxes”.
“A hundred Kunuts!” yodeled Mr. Whinston.
“Frank”, sighed Mrs. Whinston.
“Just let them go!” Mrs. Whinston exclaimed.
“Them? You mean Anna too!” sighed Mr. Whinston.
“Yes, you and I are going as well”, insisted Mrs. Whinston.
“Fine”, Muttered Mr. Whinston.
So, Mr. Whinston went to the Kwiky Mart. Though not knowing what he is doing, he got into the store and a bell rang somewhere. He walked up to the dirty brown counter that had grease stains on it and asked for four tickets to Egypt.
The cashier said, “Ah! Yes, I have just what you need.”
Five minutes later Mr. Whinston walked out of the store with four golden tickets with a weeping face and no money in his pockets. The tickets read ‘Area 51 tickets to Egypt 13/50 [876543456] you will have a blast!’
After Anna and Jack got home from school, they got into their family car and drove to Area 51. Once they reached, they got out of their car.
Area 51 looked as if it was abandoned. They finally found an elevator which said ‘Egypt’ on it. It had a red button which said ‘press to start’. The machine was the color of the Egyptian sand.
Mr. Whinston said, “No, No, no this is to weird”. Mrs. Whinston said,” Kids I don’t think this is right”.
“This is not fair” screamed Jack. He kicked a rock that hit the red button! And suddenly they got transported into a time warp which the elevator was inside. It said ‘time machine’. There were buttons, one read ‘Egypt’ and the others were under a label that said ‘out of order’.
The machine rattled and roared and Anna accidentally smashed a button which was in the out of order area. There was a little window that started displaying pictures that went from present to past. There were years displayed also. ‘2042, 2010, 2001, 1981, 1811, 1711, 1600, 1500, and so on till the year 1’.
“No, no, no...“ screamed Mr. Whinston.
The doors opened, there was a breeze of the humid Mediterranean air and a hint of blood. They saw some desert trees and pale sand. They walked out of the machine. Suddenly a flying beast, that was grey and huge, pulled the machine up and far, far away up on top of a steamy bloodthirsty volcano.
“We are doomed,”said Jack.
“This is going to be as hard as completing 99th level of the game”, exclaimed Anna. They traveled far and wide seeing many new exquisite plants and animals. At 3.45 pm, when Jack was recording a footage of a little dinosaur called Coelophysis on his cheap Snapple phone, there was a loud, horrifying, horrendous roar. It darted towards them destroying every last tree in its path. It was a Tyrannosaurus-Rex feasting on a carcass of an old Parasaurolophus when they stumbled upon it. As soon as the beast saw them, they ran like the wind to escape the bloodthirsty beast. It chased them up to the steaming volcano. They got cornered at the edge of the roaring volcano.
Jack said, “Jump, jump.”
“No, No, No” screamed Whinston.
The T-Rex nudged them off the ledge and they flew right into the machine luckily, but sadly for the T-rex it fell into the volcano. After the Whinston’s got into the machine they immediately activated the button that read ‘present’. The machine roared and whizzed. It started again from 1, 1981, 2001, 2010, 2032, 2042, 2043. In a flash of a second, Mr. Whinston was sipping his Fru coffee with his newspaper again.
By: Viraat Ramireddy, 5B.