The Idea Machine

Before this story gets started let me introduce everyone because I think you will want to know them:

Cricket is a rich smart kid, has overalls, red hair and a crazy haircut.

Remy is the class clown, has long hair, and wears uniforms a lot.

Oh, and me the narrator? I narrate everything.

On a Friday evening at 6:45 PM the door burst open which was followed by a loud bang from the door shutting.

“What’s wrong Remy?” asked Remy’s mom, Barbara, in a concerned voice.

“Meh, meh meh,” mocked Remy as he heard the Cocomelon TV Show theme song come on.

“Remember kids, stay happy and be careful while you cross the street. Subscribe or else,” the TV threatened.

“What the heck? I don’t remember Cocomelon getting so scary,” Remy screamed.

“Oh be qui– actually just shut up Remy,” Cricket mumbled. Remy and Cricket sat down as they threw their shoes on the floor.

“I have nothing to write for my book!” Remy shouted.

“And I have nothing to do for my movie!” Cricket added. “Like, how are we supposed to write those things in two weeks?” Cricket shouted.

You might be wondering why they are in school but making books and movies. Here’s why: Remy and Cricket both had an action-filled assignment. Cricket had to make an action movie while Remy had to make an action book.

Cricket’s stomach growled as loud as a lion’s roar because he ate too much Chipotle. “Where is the bathroom? Because I have a megaphone so you better listen to me!” (Remy and Cricket have a microphone they like to use for laughs). Cricket yelled as his overalls fell down because they were not buckled. Remy fell to the floor laughing. After they were done laughing they paused and remembered what they were talking about in the first place.

“We have to figure out what to write!” they said in unison.

Cricket’s stomach growled again and he rushed to find a bathroom.

“Alright, I’m fine now,” Cricket said with relief. Then both of them got up to go figure out what to write. Remy slipped and when he landed, they both laughed. They went upstairs to try and figure out what to do until they had an idea.

The next morning, they made a blueprint of something called the Idea Machine.

“Alright, I just made the blueprint and it’s not as good as I thought,” Cricket said disappointedly.

“Hey Remy, should I redesign this?” asked Cricket.

“Nah, it looks good, in fact it would be better than mine even if I remade it,” Remy said in a cheerful voice.

Cricket started taking parts from the computer and TV. He started sweating because he is not the strongest in his family, that’s for sure.

“Whoa, whoa, whoa, why are you taking apart the TV and computer?” Remy asked.

“I’m making uh, what do you call it again?” asked Cricket.

“The Idea Machine, how did you forget? You’re the one who made it,” Remy said, confused.

“I don’t know but I know now.” Cricket said happily. Then, Cricket finished making it. Surprisingly it turned out good but not perfect and soon you’ll know why.

“Alright I’m done!” Cricket shouted with excitement.

“How do I turn it on?” Remy asked as he pushed a button.

“No, don’t press the self-destruct button!” Cricket yelled. It was too late and it had exploded with Cricket and Remy being electrified with their clothes burned looking as if they were a cooked piece of bacon.

“No, no, no, no! Why would you press a random button, Remy!” Cricket shouted.

“Why would you add a self-destruct button?” Remy asked with his throat filled with dust.

“Y’know what? Let’s make a new one.” Cricket said with a calm voice. And they did except this time Remy messed it up, again.

“Oh gosh I can’t tell Cricket I broke it again,” whispered Remy to his stuffed animal.

“Alright, let’s get this thing started,” Cricket said as he pressed the button.

“Why is this not working? Wait, I know, button mash!” Cricket shouted with excitement as he pushed all the buttons at once.

And then, the machine shot through the roof like a rocket while the PB and J song came on somehow. Remy and Cricket went to the backyard (which is pretty clean with green grass and a shed, except the dog poop). Remy and Cricket tried to reach it by jumping on the trampoline while eating their cold mac and cheese.

Finally, Cricket and Remy slipped and fell down. Meanwhile the Idea Machine fell on them.

“Ooooow,” Cricket and Remy whined. They went to the town’s park to work on it.

“Time to button mash!” Cricket shouted.

The Idea Machine exploded again so for the third time they reworked it. Remy got the right tools and parts to use. While Cricket built it and did the coding Remy double checked the pieces and put them in the right places. Oh, Cricket also got Cheetos.

“Finally we did it!” Cricket exclaimed. “After all that hard work! It works!”

For those of you who don’t know how it works, here’s how: You type in your personal interests or whatever you want the movie, show, book, short film etc. to be in the machine then half of a script will come out and you do the other half while also making small tweaks to the first half. Also, you get to choose the name. You can type in everything with a built-in keyboard that the Idea Machine has. Their plans had the Idea Machine in sizes from 4 feet to 40 feet wide.

“So what are we gonna do?” asked Remy. “Are we going to sell it?”

“We should have to make more copies of it if we wanna sell them, but first we have to test it out,” Remy said. “Let me do mine and your interests and… done!” Remy shouted.

“Does it work?” Cricket asked.

“Yup!” Remy exclaimed. “It works just fine, in fact, it works better than before!”

“Wait, how do you know that?” questioned Cricket.

“Just because I’m not smart doesn’t mean I’m dumb,” Remy said in a cocky way.

“That’s crazy. We actually made an invention!” Cricket shouted. “And in less than a week, which is more crazy! I mean, well, because I’m not that smart.”

“What do you mean you’re not smart? You’re the smartest person in the school!” Remy exclaimed. “Also, we should use this for my book and your movie!” Remy continued.

“Yeah, we should use this Idea Machine for a while then make more and sell those,” Cricket thought.

“Well let’s see if these will be good movies and books,” Remy said nervously.

“Yeah, we need this or we are going to fail the assignment,” Cricket said.

“Wait, wouldn’t this be cheating?” Remy asked. “Because I don’t think we are allowed to do this.”

“True, but we should at least try. And even if we do fail because this may count as cheating at least we have the…what do you call it again?” Cricket asked.

“Um, well I forgot. I guess we have to make up a new name,” Remy said cheerfully.

“Alright then um how about Cricket’s Awesome Invention!” Cricket shouted.

“Nah, how about Remy and Cricket’s Idea Generator,” Remy said proudly.

“Yeah, yeah I like that!” Cricket shouted.

“Alright, let’s do this!” Cricket and Remy shouted.

Remy generated his action project then Cricket generated his. Cricket read his script first. Remy read his after. Remy gave it an 8 out of 10 while Cricket gave it a 9 out of 10. After the scripts were rated, Cricket found the actors for the rest of the movie. Remy wrote the rest of the book while making some changes to the first half. They were both successful: Remy sold 250,000,000 copies of his book and Cricket had 1,500,000 people watch his movie.

They sold all the Remy and Cricket’s Idea Generators that they made. Surprisingly, a lot of people needed them and they made a combined total of $5,000,000,000. And what did they do with it? They spent $1,000,000,000 at the children’s hospital and split the rest.