The Aliens from The Asteroid

One day, we were busy working on The Asteroid. Fred was taking care of the plants, George was planning how to make his teleportation device, and Micheal, as always, was playing with matchsticks. Mr. Hebrew was the head of The Asteroid, and Mrs. Henderson was his assistant. The other aliens were engaged in doing their own secret tasks.

Now, let me introduce myself. My name is Joseph and I am a scientist (I love to dream and dream a lot….). Recently I’ve been looking at this blue and green ball through a really cool telescope that can see super far away. Were there other aliens living there? What did they look like? My aster-mates (friends) thought that I was making it up, so they didn’t believe me. But I was sure that the gigantic ball was there.

I had a great urge to go visit it because all of a sudden, I felt that someone was waiting for us there. So I talked to George. He said that his teleportation device couldn’t travel that far, but that he could make another invention.

I waited for a pretty long time, but finally he finished making the Astro-Fly, as he called it. I was very excited, and the others were very impressed by it too, so we all ended up going on it.

George said, “All aboard!” and then we took off into the dark.

Well, it didn’t take that long to get to the ball, which I now realized was a planet. It turns out that there aren’t that many people living on this planet, even though it’s huge. After a while, we fell asleep on a rock.

The next morning, we saw something white that was very bright and hurt our eyes. We also saw some weird creatures that were jumping out of the water. They seemed very playful. We really wanted to meet some new aliens, so we explored a bit. When we strained our eyes enough, we actually saw a place as big as the Bing (a huge building on The Asteroid).

As we got closer, they got bigger. It didn’t take too long to walk through the water. When we arrived, we saw a gigantic swarm of aliens. The only difference was that we didn’t look identical. We couldn’t introduce ourselves either because we were so small compared to them. So we decided to explore the buildings. We went into a building that had a picture of what seemed a lot like where we came from. It said NASA on it. When we went inside, we saw a lot of people working on what seemed like a space vehicle.

We didn’t know yet how to let them know of our appearance, so we just tried to understand what they were doing. Some people were trying out some big, white suits. Others were looking at a screen that had a weird language written on it.

Suddenly, for some reason, George yelled out, “Hi.”

Everyone was so startled, one even accidentally crashed into his computer. Then they were very happy. We couldn’t understand why.

But then someone said, “Are you aliens?”

“Yes, of course we are!” we said.

“Hallelujah! We have found aliens!”

They explained why they were so happy. It turned out that they were fascinated by us and how we were so much more advanced than they were at technology. They said we came at the perfect time and that they needed help making their spaceship. They thought our skills at math and science could help them.

Their first problem, as they said, was having the computers up and running again. They had been crashing a lot lately. Well, it turned out that George was a good computer specialist. He figured out the problem was that the computer was taking on too much of a load, so he tinkered with it for a bit and the computer was fixed!

Their second problem was that the suits (they called them spacesuits) were not able to work in low pressure. Since I’m a scientist, I quickly saw that the pipe that air goes through had a hole as small as a needle. So I used the sticky material and stuck the pipe together.

Their last problem was very big. They wanted to create a spaceship that went all the way to where Allurahi used to be, and we knew that place was very far from this planet. So that’s where all of us needed to help. Mr. Hebrew directed us on what to do, George made the spaceship faster, I made the spacesuits able to handle the force, and Micheal made a special fuel that let the spaceship go fast without blowing up. Even when we were working so hard, it still took a really long time to complete the spaceship. According to my sense of time, it took 28 days, 14 hours, 13 minutes, and 54 seconds to complete it.

The people were impressed by the fast progress we made. There was one more job left to do. The astronauts, as they called the people that would go out to explore space, needed to adjust themselves to staying in the spaceship all day long. So we created a room that was like a fake spaceship. They went inside and said it actually felt just the same as this planet (which we learned later was called Earth).

Well, now it’s time for takeoff of the magnificent spaceship. As we said goodbye to the astronauts, we watched them soar up into the sky. It was actually very fun to use my scientific knowledge to build the spaceship. My aster-mates agreed with me and felt equally proud.

Now I’m wondering how to get back to The Asteroid. I was thinking of building a new spacecraft, but later I rejected that idea. These people on Earth were caring for us, and I was scheduled to get an award for building the spaceship. I didn’t know what it would be, but I could tell it would be good. My aster-mates were happy on Earth too, so we decided to happily stay here. The End.