Past?  Present?  Future

By:  Aidan O’Conner
Grade 5
IDDS

            One day I was really bored so I called Will.

            “Hey Will wanna come over and play ball?  I’m bored,” I said.

            “Sure.  Can Alex and Andrew come too?” he said.

            “Yeah, okay.  You can come over now,” I replied.

            Will came over with Alex and Andrew.

            When we were playing ball, Will hit a pop fly and it smashed through a window.

            “Oh man!” I said.  “Uncle Wes is going to kill me!”

            So we ran up the stairs into my room.

            There was a tall machine standing in the room about 7 feet tall.

            “I think the ball went in there,” Alex said.

            There was an opening about the size of a door.

            We went in it and then a window closed after us.  We heard a hum and a mechanical voice said, “Year 3000 selected.”

            “Uh Oh,” said Andrew.

            Then lights flashed of colors that we didn’t know existed.  An indescribable sound echoed in our ears, something like a sonic boom.  Then all of us fell down to the ground screaming because of HUGE migraines.  And then it stopped.  The window opened.

            We got out and saw very tall buildings and a long tube on tall supporters.  The buildings were white and windowless.  Something spherical passed my head.

            “Whoa!” I said.  “It looks somewhat like a car.”

            Then something rolled by in the tube.

            “I think it’s a transportation device,” said Alex.

            “Where are we?” asked Will.

            “My god,” Andrew said.  “I think we’re in the future.”

            “Of course,” Alex said.  “It is possible if we supply a hundred thousand volts into a radio-active neutron and the-.”  Just then a blast slammed us against the wall of a building.

            “That hurt,” I said.  “Is every one okay?”

            I heard replies of ‘yeah.’

            Then Andrew said, “It is a war going on.”

            Just then robot shapes came in and said in a metallic voice, “Get down on the ground.”

            We all obeyed except Will.

            He said, “You can’t tell me what to do.”

            Then one of them took out a gun and fired.

            A laser came out and hit Will.  He gave a groan and fell down.

            “Will!!!!” I yelled in agony.

            Then some people in green camouflage came in and shot down the other robots.

            One of them said, “You should get home.”

            Then Alex said, “But the time machine only has one use.”

            Then I said, “How do you know that?”

            “I calculated it,” he said.

            Then Andrew said, “Can you bring Will back with some high-tech future gadget thingy?”

            Then the soldier said, “He’s not dead.  He’s just knocked out.  That was a stun-gun.”

            “Oh,” said Alex. 

            “Can you give us a time machine or something?”

            “Sure,” he said.

            And he put wrist bands with screens telling what year it was on them on our hands.

            Then Alex pressed the screen on his and a miniature black hole appeared that was about the size of a human body. 

            Then the soldier said, “Oh I forgot.  I’m Aidan the sixth.”

            I stood there open mouthed.  I was looking at my great great great great great great grandson. 

            Then Alex pushed me in the black hole.  We were home.  No headaches.  No screaming.  No weird colors.  Finally, we were home.