The Big Insect Catastrophic Fight by Ms. Padgen-Soucy's 5th Grade Class

A CHOICE-FILLED ADVENTURE STORY

THE BIG INSECT CATASTROPHIC FIGHT Written by Students of MS. PADGEN-SOUCY’S 5TH GRADE CLASS at MITCHELL ELEMENTARY

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You are sitting in a dog park at sunset. You yell at the rain for ruining the perfect sunset. You hear crickets, and then a scream! You can run, or you can investigate to find out what happened.

If you decide to run, turn to page 2.

If you decide to investigate, turn to page 3.

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When you hear the scream, you run. You are running to a bomb shelter away from the scream.

Inside the shelter, there is a vault. There are fire ants in the vault. When you go into the shelter, you see it has beans, meat, and a bunch of chips! There’s also money in the shelter. In the shelter, you can still hear the scream. The scream sounds like it is following you and is right outside your door.

In the shelter, you are trying to look for your family. It is silent now. You eat all of the beans and meat in only 2.1 seconds! You’re stress eating. The screaming is back, and is coming from the same door it was coming from earlier. Luckily, you have a baseball bat in the shelter to go out and investigate!

You step outside and see a gigantic spider climbing on top of a couple of fangirls! The spider is HUGE! It is 5 feet tall! The spider is with a centipede.

It is a big centipede that is 10 feet wide! You have to make a choice: do you get rid of the spider and centipede to save the fangirls? Or do you run away?

If you decide to save the fangirls, turn to page 4.

If you decide to run away, turn to page 5.

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When you investigate, you discover a cricketsized Godzilla terrorizing a city of crickets. The mini Godzilla is also fighting cricket-sized bobble-headed, flying beluga whales, Shrek, Mr. Krabs, and Elon Musk.

After they fight, they begin to sing and dance.

They have a singing and dancing battle. They are wearing hot pink sparkly dresses. The song goes: “Slay what you wanna slay and let the slay shout!

Slay soul sisters, slay sister mister!”

You decide to sing with them. Your voice is loud and squeaky. When you sing, glass breaks. You can help Godzilla or Elon Musk and the others.

If you decide to help Godzilla, turn to page 6.

If you decide to help Elon Musk and the others, turn to page 7.

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First, you give the spider a quick hug. One at a time, you and the fangirls whack the spider and the centipede like a pinata. The spider and the centipede become paralyzed. You and the four fangirls run back to the bunker. On the way to the bunker, you hear a loud screech. The spider is upset! A giant frog has snuck into the bunker! The frog shoots his tongue at the centipede, narrowly avoiding our head.

The spider hides because it has become frightened of the frog. You soon find out that the frog is one of the fangirls’s pet when she says “good boy” to the frog. You befriend the frog and take it as your own pet or take home the giant spider as a pet.

The End

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You run away from the spider and centipede.

You throw the bat at them to make sure they don’t come after you. You run to a bus stop and hope the buses are still running. The bus can take you to see the President so you can make this a national emergency!

You get to the bus stop and have to wait 26 minutes for the next bus to come. Instead, you take a cab. You are in Boston so it’s easy to find a cab and you don’t have to wait very long. You choose to get in the cab.

Then, one of the small spider babies that’s 5 feet wide gets on top of the cab! It makes the drive very difficult. The spider baby throws you a pickle and you eat the pickle, but it makes you feel really sick!

The spider baby gets knocked off the cab and we can finally get to our destination! You go to the airport so you can take a plane to D.C. You get on the plane and it starts to fly, but suddenly it can’t fly anymore because there’s a centipede! Your plane has to land in New York City.

In New York, you get on a train to go to D.C. On the train, you’re almost to your destination but then you run into the fire ants again! The train driver gets scared and runs away so the train doesn’t work. You are in Baltimore.

You have to walk to Washington D.C. When you get there, you meet the President. The President doesn’t believe the story. But, the spiders and centipedes show up and the President gets scared!

You take a plane to Paris.

There are spiders on the plane! You have to go in the sea and swim to safety. Finally, you are all safe!

The End! 5

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The floating bobble-headed beluga whales are mad at you because you don’t help them. The whales follow you. You run away from the whales really fast.

Godzilla runs with you, and he runs like a T-Rex. When you get to a cafe, Mr. Krabs comes out of nowhere! Sophia the First also shows up and starts singing. She is singing “Slay What You Want to Slay” and “Let It Go.” Mr. Krabs and Sophia come running at you. Ariana Grande is a barista at the cafe, and Sophia wants Ariana to sing. Ariana sings “Seven Rings” and then “A Whole New World.”

Olivia Rodrigo is back from her world tour and comes into the cafe. She announces that she got her driver’s license. Olivia is riding a giant worm.

She starts fighting the beluga whales and Godzilla.

Olivia wins the war against the beluga whales but not Godzilla. Olivia decides to leave. She wants to know if Godzilla still wants to fight. The beluga whales come back to life and side with Olivia’s worm.

If you team up with Olivia, write your own ending.

If you team up with Godzilla, write your own ending.

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You decide to help the beluga whales, Elon Musk, Shrek, and Mr. Krabs. Elon Musk, Mr. Krabs, and Shrek gain super saiyan mode. They create a super crab, swamp, and money bomb. This bomb is a giant orb made of crabs, the mud from Shrek’s swamp, and Elon Musk’s money. They throw it at Godzilla.

His scales light up as he shoots a beam out of his mouth in retaliation. When he shoots the laser beam, he grows 50 times bigger. The laser beam cuts through the earth.

You go ultra-instinct. This is like super saiyan mode times three million! After this happens, Godzilla’s laser beam hits the super bomb, creating a massive explosion. The explosion turns all the leaves into chocolate. Majin Buu arrives and eats the chocolate.

He accidentally runs into Godzilla on his way, so you end up winning the battle!

The End

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