I Going Out
I woke up. It was the usual summer day in Barkshire a cloudy blue sky with a hint of rain and the quiet chirping of the birds in harmony with the rustle of the leaves in the trees. It was eleven o’clock not my usual wake up time but since I went to bed at 2 o’clock it figured. It was Saturday; one of my favourite days because I did all of my homework on Friday and that left me completely free to do whatever I want. Another reason why I was feeling good was because after breakfast I would be going out with my friends, Oliver and Joel to go and get the brand new game, “Voyage to Zorpia” at HMV. After a couple of minutes of thinking I heaved myself up and ran downstairs to get my breakfast.
I was greeted by my older sister Jane who stared at me for a long moment looking at me like I was going crazy. I decided not to tell her that she had a strange white scar that looked like writing because she would probably have some smart answer to my question. I figured out what she was staring at soon after. When I finished eating my usual Saturday breakfast, boiled eggs, I ate them ravenously, eager to see what Jane had been staring at.
When I was done I pulled my chair out and ran to the toilet to see what it was my sister was staring at when I looked into the mirror I got a huge shock just above my left eyebrow I had the words scarred “taken”, I tried to wash it off in the antique sink but it stayed, stubbornly. Then I raced back to the breakfast table where I found my parents, David and Glenda, chewing on toast slowly, eying me strangely just like Jane had done. I asked them what they could see and they automatically replied,” Nothing”.
Even though, as you would have guessed, I was pretty scared about the scar that was above my left eye I thought I better leave it at that. I sprinted up the stairs to get dressed trying to think about everything but my newly acquired injury. I pulled on some old jeans and a ragged T- shirt and ran out to meet my friend’s barely saying goodbye to the rest of my family.
I met my friends on the corner of Gypsy Lane by the bus stop. “So are we going or not”, Oliver demanded, “you’ve kept us waiting ages”, Joel added. The bus came a couple of minutes later, number 41; we got on and found some seats even though it was pretty crowded. I got a seat next to a grandma while my two friends sat together at the back. It took around ten minutes to get to the big HMV shop.
When we got to the huge HMV shop we scoured the shelves looking for one of the most popular games of the month. But to our horror there were none left so my friends and I went to the smaller “Game” where we found a whole collection of Voyage to Zorpia’s. When we had all bought our video game, which were quite expensive (£35.00) we went back to the bigger mall, which contained the HMV, and we watched the Red Baron which was pretty rubbish as most films are in my opinion.
II Missing
When I got back home it was 3:33, lunch time. We had beans on toast which had almost become a tradition for weekend meals. The bread was pretty arid and the beans tasted like rubber but I ate it anyway. My sister finished first and she immediately got up to do her ton of high school homework. Suddenly there was a loud banging and a sucking noise and then a silent squeak. I rushed up to see what had happened. “Has something fallen” I thought anxiously. When I got upstairs I found her computer on with my game in the DVD drive. “What was she doing with my game?” I asked myself.
I looked but I couldn’t find any sign of her. A couple of minutes later mum called the police they came and while they were searching and interviewing I was bored so I started playing Voyage to Zorpia. As soon as I pressed the start button there was a fuzzy green, yellow haze, then I blacked out. I was gone, taken to another dimension, the computer dimension.
I woke up. Well it wasn’t exactly waking up it was more like being reborn. I looked around me everything looked pixely and strange but I couldn’t work out the right word, oh there it was it looked like a video game but not just any video game it was Voyage to Zorpia!
There were two people who greeted me when I opened my eyes; an elderly man greeted me along with my anxious sister. I asked so many questions to the elderly man I hardly let him talk but finally I got down to the big where am I? And why am I here? And so the old man who turned out to be named Bryan told me the story of Zorpia.
III the Story
One day about 20 years back computer games as we know them were invented, the creator of Zorpia, Patrick Jones came up with a new way of creating and storing video game characters he would take people into his virtual storage space, Zorpia, using a vortex manipulator that he and his group of scientists invented at “Jones Factories”. He did this for a while and using another wormhole that we nicknamed “the Flash drive” he would transport them to the video game that he was creating thus the people would be slaves of the video game players and be trapped in that game forever more.
“We Zorpians are starting to try and plan a rebellion we just don’t know where to start we have already tried to infiltrate the vortex manipulator when one of the taken ones comes through but the trip can only be done one way and we have lost many lives trying. So that night when I was lying in bed (everyone had a house in Zorpia) I tried to come up with some way of destroying the evil flash drive I looked at it from what seemed to be millions of different perspectives but my theories never added up or they always had some kind of flaw so I gave up after a hour of trying to come up with plans and I started to think about other things such as my parents who would definitely be extremely worried that my sister and I just disappeared into another dimension
IV Meeting
I woke up, it was morning and thankfully I was still alive. It was hard to take in the fact that I was lying in a bed which was in another dimension but today was all about planning how to defeat the flash drive and there was no time for thinking about how I could be where I was. In Zorpia you can’t get dressed and your image stays the same so I simply shuffled out of the door to go to the council meeting, which I was already late for. I found my row, H and took a seat at seat 36. By the looks I thought I was sitting next to some engineer but it was hard to tell. Suddenly here was a loud clearing of the throat from the presenter and we all turned silent. “Hello” the man said. “My name is Jacob Blake and I am the head of Zorpians military department and I am here to ask you all, what do we do”, “Thousands of people disappear every year and none of even the cleverest military bosses know what to do, but as all of are gathered here today I thought that maybe one of our three thousand might have some idea of what we should do”.
A small man with a moustache suddenly blurted out, “We should and will all join in if we are to defeat the flash drive but I don’t think any of us have a clue about how we can destroy it”. Suddenly I had a brain wave! It will be just like in the cheap stupid cartoons when they always have a simple answer. I remembered that time when I was at my cousins house and he was watching one of those new Warner Bros Scooby Doo episodes and the evil clown was eating people but then Velma came up with a great plan to make the clown eat lots of people and then it spat all of them back out again and obviously they all lived happily ever after.
I know what to do! I shouted. Jacob Blake and everyone else swivelled their heads around and stared at me. “If we all go provoke the flash drive and he takes us all then it might be too much and he would spit everything out including previous taken ones and then he would explode and we would never need to deal with him again,” I said. And the explosion of the flash drive would cause the Vortex to reopen allowing us to pass freely through as much as we like. And so the plan began.
V Mario??
Everyone got together in the Zorpia square. Because three people disappear we only needed to wait twenty minutes until the flash drive came and took one of us. After fifteen minutes of waiting a bright blue light appeared and grew bigger and bigger… Suddenly a man was sucked in then another and then another then one by one we all disappeared into the vortex PHOOSH! Then everything was black white and then nothing. Suddenly a bright flash of green and… We were all in a Mario game, and we were all minis Mario’s, Peaches, And Bowsers and other Mario game characters. After a few minutes we started to get anxious.
Did the plan fail…? And then a small explosion happened in the void we had come through then it closed taking us with it. Then my memory ends. Now I am 68 I am in a medical asylum. I am writing this book to try and prove to you that you are all wrong. This is not a story this is reality. But as you can see this book was written by Alfie a humble 6th grader. Or was it? And you can also see that this is obviously a fiction story written in school and at home or was it???????
