Darkness Between Worlds 4th Edition by Matt Thompson

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THE DARKNESS BETWEEN WORLDS

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WRITTEN BY Angela Qi Erica Jin Jayden Sun Kevin Ji Kylie Chen Victor Pang Vanessa Chen

thank you, To all of my wonderful students, whose incredible imagination and beautiful enthusiasm enabled the success of this class. And to Linkedkey, for taking a chance on such a bold and bizarre program

- Matthew thompson

TABLE OF CONTENTS The Beginning

Ch 1

Encounter in the Violet Nebula

Ch 2

Battle with the Cocoon

Ch 3

Fool's End

Ch 4

FE: Get a Job!

Ch 5

FE: The Fighting Pits

Ch 6

Roman's Dock

Ch 7

RD: The Hunt

Ch 8

Gleebo's Lair

Ch 9

Πθζζλεσ ανδ Σεψρετσ

Ch 10

ΠΣ: Breaking In

Ch 11

ΠΣ: In the Cocoon

Ch 12

Back to the Bridge

Ch 13

The Final Βαττλε

Ch 14

What you are about to read is a living, breathing story that was written by actual students. I provided a setting, they provided the characters. We embarked on a dangerous voyage into unknown space to face a mysterious threat. This is our story.

CHAPTER ONE The Begining

Before the Mission By Kevin Ji “You're on a mission. You mustn't tell anyone,” said a serious voice. * * * * * * Kevin woke up to a beautiful sunny morning. He was not sure whether he should be nervous or excited about his new mission. He has messy brown hair, beautiful wonder-filled blue eyes, and he is very slim. He usually wears a velvet sweater and leathery pants. He dressed in a casual sweater and went downstairs to eat breakfast. After he finished eating, Kevin pushed himself to tell his family about the mission. However, he remembered that he was advised to keep it a secret. With success, Kevin managed not to speak about his mission. Kevin sat at his wooden desk for hours, wondering what he would do on his last day before his secret mission. He finally decided to go to the forest and admire the magnificent wildlife that lived there. He pondered about what he would see in the mysterious forest. Arriving at the forest with his new camera, Kevin began scanning the gargantuan trees for magnificent canaries. Kevin soon he found a beautiful, clear lake where he sat on a stump and studied the extraordinary ducks. He identified these ducks as Eurasian Wigeon ducks. The ducks were a gorgeous wood-brown colour with white underbellies, and short white beaks. Surprisingly, there were large schools of small fish swimming in the lake. Somehow, they managed to find shelter from the ducks. They reminded Kevin of his neon tetra fish. Kevin was happy to be in the forest full of wildlife. However, it was getting late, so he decided to go home. When he got home, it was getting dark. Kevin went inside his cozy house, turning on his fireplace. Suddenly, as he sat on his comfy chair, his fireplace erupted with flames. At this time, the sun fully set, and stars started to become visible.The beautiful, shiny night sky appeared before him.

Laurel

By Vanessa This is Laurel McAllistair, a human and my character. Laurel is non-binary, which means that their preferred pronouns are they/them. They like storms and classical music. They dislike silence and fear surprises. Laurel is 12 and is 149 cm tall (4’11 in feet). They have short, wavy caramel hair, bright green eyes, a knowing smile, and they are quite strong. They don't like to fit in, but they also don't want to stand out. They live with their mom and younger sister.Their father died in a fire two years ago. Laurel’s favourite colour is navy blue, and their favourite food is peaches. Day 1: Today was a day like no other,except for the fact that I was going on a spaceship into the unknown with a whole lot of people that I have never met. Weird, right? You’d think that I would decline, but the letter said that it was top secret. My curiosity chose to accept it and go on this probable life-changing mission. I closed my suitcase, ready to zip it up and head downstairs. I felt a tap on my shoulder. “Hey, you forgot this,” signed my eight-year-old sister, Luna. It was a picture of our family, including my dad, before he died in the fire. My father was a brave firefighter, and he gave his life to save all those people from that giant fire. But he couldn’t save himself. I smiled sadly, took the picture from her, and packed it up with all my other stuff. “Thanks,” I signed back to Luna. She was born deaf, but we love her regardless. She’s very mature for her age, and also quite small. She signed her reply: “You’re welcome.” Her hands flew gracefully, delivering the message and then she skipped downstairs. I sighed, took a deep breath, and took one last look around my room. It was ocean blue, with a hint of turquoise. My eyes moved from one thing to the next. My blanket remained a light minty green. My bookshelf, packed with my most cherished books. I packed a few of those. The pictures that decorate my walls, with my friends Eris, Freya, Artemis, and Apollo. My Hufflepuff tie, hanging from the doorknob, and my Camp Half-blood t-shirt too. I closed the door and went downstairs. There, my mom was waiting for me. “C’mon, Laur, let’s go,”she said as Luna hugged me for the last time. We exited the apartment and got into her car. “Are you excited about this trip?” she asked, turning on the radio. Chasing Cars by Snow Patrol began to play. “Sure, I guess. I don’t really know.” “Well, I think that this will be a great learning opportunity for you, right?” “Yeah,” I said as I closed my eyes and fell asleep. I was soon awoken by her voice: “Laurel, Laurel, it’s time to go.” “Ah, ok.” I sat up, rubbed my eyes, and got out of the car. As I lugged my suitcase towards the building, I wondered what would happen.

The beginning My character looks like a 30-year-old man with a small beard, black eyes, and black hair. He likes to wear dark blue pants, a white hat, and a white shirt. He once joined a mafia gang and was a U.S. Navy SEAL. On my last day, I am both nervous and sad because I am going to space and donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know what will happen. In the morning, I trained and had a workout. In the afternoon, I bid farewell to all of my family and friends. I packed my clothes, food, and weapons. I met my teammates and inspected the spaceship. The ship was impressive. At night, I couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t sleep because I was extremely nervous. However, I did eventually go to sleep.

Suzan Chen Suzan Chen is a scientist and human. She loves inventing things and loves to go on adventures. She hates to stay home and does not like viruses. Suzan is very good at math. She is afraid of height sometimes, but she still likes having a treehouse and climbing ladders. Suzanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s grandparents live in China, but they came to see her the day before she went into space. She lives in a big house in Aurora, and has three ginormous labs and places where she invents things. She also has a backyard as big as a golf course! Suzanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mom and dad live in Toronto in a house near lake Ontario. She has no children and no husband. Suzan is very excited for the adventure in space.

The last day on earth; the day before the amazing and mysterious adventure in space

I woke up at 7:00 in the morning, I got up and realized today was my last day on earth! I was kind of sad and kind of happy. I was happy because I am excited for the adventure in space. I am sad because I am leaving earth and I will miss my friends and family, so I called all my friends and family for a party starting at 11:00 and we would stay there for lunch, and the party would end around 6:00. After I had finished all the phone calls, it was already 9:45! But then I remembered that I forgot to tell them where! So I texted all my friends and family to come to my house for the party, ( and hopefully they saw the message). I cleaned up my house and got all the games ready. I took the most time on buying materials for a robot who was going to drive the spaceship! And that was what I wanted to get done the most. After I finished getting ready, it was time to start the party! At 11:04 everyone had come to the party. At 11:30 the adults and I started cooking lunch. All the kids were playing with a small robot. When it was noon, the food was ready and everyone started eating. We were eating lasonia, burgers, pasta, beef, and cauliflower with mushrooms. Our lunch was delicious ( and smelled good too)! After lunch it was 1:29. We all started building the robot. All the kids got the pieces we needed and all the adults put the pieces together and made the robot ( including me). I made the head with a brain and I told everyone that we were going to make the robot just like a person. After 4 hours of making the robot, we were done. This amazing robot could do anything! ( not exactly anything but even more than people.) Everyone was proud of each other! It was already 5:30. The kids started playing the small robot again and the adults and I played a game of poker.( game of cards.) We played until it was 6:00, my friends and family started leaving. I was very happy with the robot. I named it Blinky the robot. Hopefully Blinky the robot would be the spaceship driver! At 6:30, I invited my neighbors for a BBQ party. I had Blinky to cook the food. ( Blinky is Blinky the robotâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nickname.) My neighbors and I ate beef, lamb skewers and more! At last when it was 10:30, I went to bed and went to sleep. And that was my last day on earth! My brain was already thinking about the next day!

The End!

On Fri, Sep 18, 2020, 6:30 PM KC - 04 897228 Oscar Peterson PS, <897228@pdsb.net> wrote: Suzan Chen Suzan Chen is a scientist and human. She loves inventing things and loves to go on adventures. She hates to stay home and does not like viruses. Suzan is very good at math. She is afraid of height sometimes, but she still likes having a treehouse and climbing ladders. Suzanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s grandparents live in China, but they came to see her the day before she went into space. She lives in a big house in Aurora, and has three ginormous labs and places where she invents things. She also has a backyard as big as a golf course! Suzanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mom and dad live in Toronto in a house near lake Ontario. She has no children and no husband. Suzan is very excited for the adventure in space.

The last day on earth; the day before the amazing and mysterious adventure in space

robot. Hopefully Blinky the robot would be the spaceship driver! At 6:30, I invited my neighbors for a BBQ party. I had Blinky to cook the food. ( Blinky is Blinky the robotâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nickname.) My neighbors and I ate beef, lamb skewers and more! At last when it was 10:30, I went to bed and went to sleep. And that was my last day on earth! My brain was already thinking about the next day!

The End!

My character summary is that he is cool, he is an engineer, and he is a human. His name is Justin, and he is named after a guy in a movie that his parents love. He wears a cap wherever he goes. For example, he wears it inside the house, at night, while he is sleeping, and also when he is studying. He loves to build with lego. He is proud to have built a technic Porsche all by himself. Mostly, he plays with his friends at the park. Justin loves attending events in the evening because he feels like an agent. Gnome is the planet that Justin wants to visit one day. He may get the chance to because he will quickly run out of food on this trip. Before he left, he packed some fidget spinners. To keep company, he also packed some photos. Obviously, he packed caps! After packing, he drove to the NASA space center to launch a rocket to the alien planet Gnome. After 8 hours, he landed. The planet smelled like poo, so he wore a face mask. He also had a special gun meant to shoot aliens. It is a threatening planet. It also looks like a bouncy castle because the ground is pink and bouncy, and you can jump up 100 metres! Justin took a rest. Suddenly, his rocket was destroyed by an alien, so he took out his special gun, shot it, and the alien disappeared into thin air. However, Justin was now stuck on Gnome for the rest of his life. He yelled:â&#x20AC;?No!â&#x20AC;? Luckily, a backup rocket, driven by his crew member Steve, came to pick him up. Justin left Gnome, and that was the end of the journey. He came back home and had a long nap.

This is Issy. She is a scientist and likes to learn new things. She is fourteen and doesn’t like to be in the spotlight,though she wants to be famous. She’s also not good at persuading others as they simply agree with her because she is a scientist. She also sometimes tries dangerous experiments, but it’s for knowledge. DAY 1: It’s the first day of Issy’s experiment to explore space. She’s not excited, but she is ready. She’s always wanted to see outer space. Issy has friends, but only two, so many people won’t come to wish her good luck. But that doesn’t stop her. Before she leaves earth, she boards her spaceship and explores it . She sees tons of buttons and levers at the control center. She then went to see a picture of the other astronauts that have visited outer space. Finally, she thought of some other things and then went to get her gear for the cold temperature. When she finished dressing, she thought it was a bit heavy and warm. Either way, she went to the spaceship. Soon after, she was gone, almost out of sight, close to space.

CHAPTER TWO Encounter in the Violet Nebula

Encounter in the Violet Nebula By Kevin Ji Kevin woke up immediately when the alarm clock rang . He hurried out of bed, pulled on a random leather sweater and jeans and raced his black car to the Central Command as fast as he could. Though tired and out of breath, luckily, Kevin arrived on time and happily saw some of his friends were also there, with some more strange faces. All of a sudden, Captain Keyes arrived. Everyone fell into silence. Captain Keyes spoke solemnly, “You might be wondering why you are here”. Absolutely true! Kevin said in his heart, just as the others did. Captain Keyes brought out a silver cube and pressed a button on it. It was no ordinary cube, it was a hologram projector of the universe. He then said: “We have found some signals which kept repeating,” he announced, “the signal was some kind of vibrations from Violet Nebula”. “We have translated this signal into English,” he said, pointing at the hologram which said “help us please”. “We will set off to Violet Nebula to figure out what we can do, right now. That’s our mission. You were selected because we believe you are the right people for this mission.” Captain Keyes looked around at all the anxious faces. “Let’s get on our spaceships and head for Violet Nebula right now! ” Following his teams into his spaceship, Kevin was both excited and nervous. “It could all be a trap.” He thought. “No matter what, I will do my best!” The ship was taking off and the pilot spun the ship around frequently and unexpectedly. Just when Kevin thought everything was over and tried getting a drink, the ship rolled over again. Splash, splosh! Water poured directly onto his whole face and his mug slammed itself on the ground and bounced up. The same story repeated when he opened his Doritos bag. Imagine all the pieces of Doritos flying all over the rooms of the spaceship as Kevin spun in mid air like a bowling ball. What a mess! Before he knew it, he was in space. After the spinning was over, Kevin heard a “Buzz Buzz” sound. Moments later, he heard Kylie, his teammate, who said, “The radiation

broke the signal and we lost connection with each other.” Then he saw Kylie rushing to the exit of the ship with black walkie-talkies in her hand. “Captain's orders, get inside,” barked Victor. However, Kylie insisted on throwing the walkie-talkie to the other ship. Surprisingly, she succeeded. “Hello,” said Kylie anxiously into the walkie-talkie, but once again only an awful buzzing sound was heard. They still couldn’t connect to other ships. Kevin peered out the window and saw a very bizarre sight. It looked like a green silk cocoon with yellow smoke around it. Kevin had never seen one of these in person before, but he could identify them. It was a spaceship. Suddenly, their spaceship picked up a signal: “help us please”. Kevin immediately got into a drop ship with his friends and blasted off towards the bizarre ship. As they approached the ship, the membrane opened. It was dark and silent inside. He and his friends opened their flashlights as they entered the cave-like ship. The ship looked like it was grown from a plant and had three rooms in it. Kevin felt unsafe so he announced, “Do you guys think we should build a drone?” “Brilliant!’’ exclaimed his friends. Minutes later, the drone was complete. Kevin peered at the drone’s camera for a minute or two. Suddenly, the screen went dark and Kevin was very worried. What if there were giant spiders? What if the drone was attacked? Captain Keyes, Miranda, and their pilot arrived earlier than Kevin’s team. They were slowly approaching the middle room of the ship. Kylie followed behind. Kevin was quite worried. He heard screaming and gunfire . He quickly got a sample of the wall to investigate but the wall burned through the glass jar. Kevin whipped out a special jar and collected the substance. Without a warning, the door of the middle room burst open right in front of him. Kevin and Kylie flew backwards and landed on the mushy ground. As they stared up, they saw red dots. Then he realized those weren't actually red dots but eyes. Suddenly more and more creatures appeared and became attached to them. “Fire!” Screamed Captain Keyes, as he fired his rifle at the creatures. “Over here!” Vanessa yelled as she threw glow sticks down a hallway. “Nice work,” shouted Kevin. Kevin looked over his shoulder and saw the exit. “Move your butts,” cried Gideon the pilot. They rushed to board the drop ship. However,

Captain Keyes stayed out of the ship and guarded the door. “Set off the ship right now,” shouted Captain Keyes. “Be brave, my boys and girls!” He then kept firing his rifle at the creatures which tried to get into the ship. “No, we need to go together.” Kevin and all the teammates shouted. Gideon the pilot pressed the button to set off the ship and then looked out at space, totally lost. Moments later, when he realized something was wrong, the drop ship was out of control and was about to crash. Then he saw a humongous stinger moving toward another ship, the Pillar of Autumn. Clink, that ship was now split into two. ‘’What if that happens to our drop ship,’’ Kevin said to himself. ‘’There goes my ride home,’’ muttered Captain Keyes as he shot furiously. All of a sudden, something exploded behind him, knocking him down. Kevin looked shocked at Captain Keyes’ motionless body. Then they felt the vibration again. Length: 2/2 Detail: 1.5/2 Effort: 1/1 Total: 90/100

Day 2: Encounter on the Violet Nebula After Mom dropped me off at the building, I went inside and greeted my captain Miranda who told me that Captain James Keyes would be telling us why we were here in the first place. I made some small talk with the rest of my team before Captain Keyes arrived. He was dressed in regular soldier attire, walked up onto the platform and pulled out a clicker. He pressed the button and a 3-d map appeared, showing the grey/neutral zone. “Ladies and gentlemen,” he began. I snorted. I wasn’t either of those genders. “You all probably wonder why you are here. Well, turns out that we have discovered a signal in the grey zone between the Drakarian and the Asari/Turian planets.” I heard a buzzing noise and glanced at Miranda. Her face looked really uncomfortable. I looked around the room, and all of the other Asari looked uncomfortable, too. I just felt these weird vibrations. Then this eerie voice said, “Help us…….. Help us.” I shuddered. It was creepy. Then Keyes spoke again. “We believe that this is a message from the Drakarians and that they have been roaming the neutral area and now need help. Of course, this could be a trap, but just look at the opportunity for us! If we manage to save the Drakarians before their own people do, then maybe we can have more peace between us. All of you know that no one can beat the Drakarians in a war.” He was right. The Asari tried and failed. “Even us?” Muttered a Turian. Maybe. I was not sure. When I looked back up, everyone was heading towards the ship. I asked Miranda what was happening. “You didn’t hear? Well, we’re going to save the supposed Drakarians.” I was pretty sure that this was a trick, as , well, the Drakarians are not the nicest beings to the humans. I boarded the ship, anyways, went into my room, and ate a peach. Over the next few days, everything was calm and steady. I mostly just listened to music and read some books. Suddenly, the speaker crackled to life as Gideon the Obsidian spoke. “We are currently in the Neutral Zone, and approaching a violet nebula.” Yes, I do call him Gideon the Obsidian because he is as stupid and as dumb as a rock. Though of course that offends rocks. He spoke again. “The scientists have discovered that the place is highly rich with silicon.” I went out of my room and into the navigator area where Gideon was. Someone was talking, Kylie probably. Obviously, the Obsidian was not listening. He did a loop de loop with the controls; the ship did a loop de loop, too . I rolled my eyes. It was clear that he was not listening at all. Then we kind of found out what the purple thing was, though I’m still not really sure. Suddenly, Angela was able to talk to Gertrude. She asked, “Why is it so purple?” When Gertrude replied, it sounded like she didn’t hear what she said. “It’s just all purple and super radioactive, dearie.” We discovered that the radiation from the sand made it hard for the radios to communicate, but somehow Kylie managed to create twin radios that could communicate through the radiation. She tried to throw one of the radios to Gertrude, and then got caught by Miranda. I don’t know what happened to her after that. After a few minutes of smooth sailing, I spotted a cocoon-like thing that I’m guessing was a

ship. We headed onto our space shuttles and zoomed towards the I’m-guessing-Drakarian ship. As we boarded the ship, Angela’s radio picked up another “Help us please…” As we walked through the ship, it felt like everything was organic, tacky, and rough. I looked up, and the ceiling looked pretty much untouched. Angela didn’t pick up anything else. Kevin’s thing picked up a shuddering sound as we entered a giant room. I felt a pulse in the room as Keyes said, “We don’t have much of a choice.” Then he, Miranda, and that other captain whose name I forgot, walked towards the three doors. They opened, and they all went in. We were now alone. I scouted with Victor, but we couldn’t see the roof, though Kevin successfully managed to get a sample of the wall. All I heard was this hive crawling sound. Then Kylie approached towards the middle door that Keyes had gone into. Suddenly, Keyes burst through the door, firing gunshots as all the other captains did the exact same thing. I noticed that he had this giant dinner-plate sized insectoid creature on him. There were a bunch. One of them flew over us and covered the entrance door. I groaned. There went our chance to escape. Expect, maybe we could escape. I told my plan to Kevin and then grabbed some glow sticks and threw them, hoping that the creature would fall for my trap. It worked, but as the tail whipped back and forth, it somehow managed to hit both me and Kevin. I winced as it hit me. It hurt, but nothing too bad that the scientists couldn’t heal. Then, Arsalaan opened the door. Thank the Lord. We escaped the ship, and I saw Gideon vaping at the door. Really? Wow. Suddenly, an arm-looking thing grabbed his vaping stick, and then disappeared. I smiled at the ground. He deserved that. But somehow, when I was smiling really hard, the ship got wrecked. My smile disappeared. Turns out, the whole thing was a trap. Angela managed to get a message to Gertrude. “They’re attacking!” Then I realized that the cocoon was trying to kidnap us as we tried to escape in the shuttles. We were being sucked into the cocoon. But Keyes decided that he would sacrifice himself and his crew. He intercepted the magnetic pull and told us, “Be brave!” Then he and his crew were gone. We zoomed towards our ship but as I looked back, a giant cannon rose from the transformed ship, and it was aimed right at us.

Encounter in the Violet Nebula When we just entered the Violet Nebula, I felt both excited and strange because it was such a strange space that I have not experienced. Soon we saw a ship that looked like a cocoon, so we decided to investigate. When we got to the ship, it peeled open with a disgusting sound. We went inside the ship which was all gooey, but we still walked deeper. When the leaders went into the back chambers and just left us there, we started scouting the place. I felt kind of lonely. After a while, Captain Keyes bursted out of one of the back chambers and told everyone to go to the ships. I ran as fast as my legs could take me. I ran through the hallway and I saw lots of red dots on the roof. We finally got to the ship's bridge and we prepared to fight. We wished that we never saw or went on the ship.

The First Day In Space Early in the morning, I received a strange message from my captain that I was to report to Central Command at 12:00 o’clock tomorrow. Then I had my last day on earth before the takeoff to outer space. The next morning, I woke up at 9:00 and got prepared. I headed out of the house and got ready to go by 11:00. It took me 30 minutes to get to the central command place. When I arrived, it was 11:30. I wandered around a little, then was ready to do the real stuff! The place was very big. I could not even see the roof! When the crew and I were all there, we saw a person who I thought looked familiar but couldn't remember who he was. He took a silver clicker out of his pocket and it looked like a holographic 3D map. He said “ Ladies, gentleman, I’m sure you all wonder why you’ve been called here today, away from your friends, your family and your mysterious vacation trip. I wouldn't even tell you if it wasn’t important. We have an opportunity the likes of which has never been presented in our lives before.” He clicked a button and I saw the milky way and galaxy. I saw a thick red line on the 3D map, and it said Dracarion empire. We received a message. He clicked a button and I expected to hear a sound but I didn’t. Instead, I felt something else, a deep vibration. A sort of thrumming began to occur. All I felt was voom-voom, voom-voom… I did not like that sound. He translated it and then I heard a sound. Then I heard a bunch of clicking, and then “help-us-please”-------and then a bunch of clicking, help-us-please… I heard Garus go “ herher!!” I just ignored him. I got on the ship, and we blasted off. It took a few days and I had lots of fun. The ship approached a beautiful violet-coloured nebula. We lost connection with Gertrude ( the communicator on the other side). I went to my room and started to tinker with some devices. Then I was able to find that I was able to create a pair of radios that seemed to work pretty well, despite all the interference. I put on my space suit, and was ready to get out of the spaceship but I was found by the captain. I managed to get out just before he caught me, but the security Victor got my hand. I was very good at throwing, so I threw the walky-talky and heard Victor say” Captain's orders, time to get inside!” I answered “Ok?! I was just trying to get us to communicate with Gertrude. After a while I saw the Dracarion ship. It looked like a cocoon. It looked like it was all organic. It looked like it was grown, not built. We went into the ship, and it was very dark in the organic ship. I took out a flashlight and saw that the ceiling was extremely uneven. Then I saw Victor make a drone-like camera (but it couldn’t fly) and he controlled it. I asked Miranda If we could have the camera to do all the work, but of course she answered “no.” I saw a big chair that looked like a throne. Then I saw Miranda go to a side and open up a door at the right of me, Garas went and made a door to the left of me and Gees made a door towards the throne and they all left. I decided to follow Gees, and so I approached the throne, opened the door and went in. When I went in, I heard gunshots. As I heard the gunshots, two bullets burst from behind me.

Then I heard captain Gees say “ Go, go, go, go!” After that we found out that the whole thing was a trap! And then on the radio I heard one of the captains say” I’ve got a move, be brave.”

There was an event at the central command and Justin decided to go. Once he got there, he started looking at everything. A professor came and saw Justin looking at everything, the professor said “do you need anything” and Justin nodded his head. “Wait” said Justin, looking at something interesting. “What is this rocket powered by?” “You are a very curious boy,” said the professor, “it is powered by an element called uranium. “Wow” said Justin. “Exactly, isn’t it magnificent,” said the professor. “Does that mean I can travel on your space ship?” Said Justin, begging the professor, “No! It's too dangerous! Ugh, Fine, whatever it will take for you to get off my leg, but before you travel on my spaceship you have to take the test,” said the professor. “Ohhhhhh, thank you so much professor,” said Justin as he hugged him as hard as he could. “Please get off of me” said the professor, “anyway he won’t pass the test” whispered the professor. After the test, Justin did pass! The professor was shocked and opened his mouth wide. “Time to travel,” said Justin happily. When the rocket was getting prepared, Justin was putting on the space clothes. When he was done the rocket was finished preparing and was ready to launch to space, he also brought more than 40 oxygen tanks to go far into space. Justin was going into the spaceship. 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1, Blastoff! After 8 hours in an uncomfortable position, he was at the central command space craft. He felt a little bit nervous and mostly excited, and he loved to see the galaxy through the glass window!

As I entered central command, it felt like home. I said “hi” to everyone and then Captain Keyes came and told everyone “thank you for coming.” After that, he pressed a weird clicker-looking thing. We felt and heard a vibration like “voom voom” and then heard “help us please” after that. Captain keyes said we should help them to prove how serious we are about helping people. He then said that it might be a trap, but it's a really big opportunity and he does not want us to miss it, so we decided to take it. We got on the ship knowing the journey would take 3 days. After we boarded the ship, we entered the milky way and soon everything went purple. The place is called the violet Nebula. I found a weak signal to the boat we were going to. I then asked Gideon (piolet) why everything is purple. He said I have to speak up. We entered the Drakarian ship and no one was home. The ship was gooey and the ceiling was high. It felt like the ship was organic and it was grown rather than built. We entered this weird throne room and our leaders told us to stay here while they went out. When they left we felt a pulse and realized there were red dots on the ceiling moving slowly. Kevin decided to collect a sample but after he did, hundreds of red dots were now on the walls and they were moving fast. Soon we heard gunshots and then captain Keyes came back with a creature on his arms yelling “run run run.” We started running but then a big bug blocked our way so Vanesa distracted it with glow sticks. We got out of a sticky and slimy hole. Then Gideon damaged our ship while reversing. Our ship was not ready to battle but then the Drakarian ship pulled up with but soon freed us.

CHAPTER THREE Battle with the Cocoon

Battle with the Cocoon By Kevin Ji Kevin and his crewmates stared out the window in panic. Their ship (the Pulse Fighter) was being aimed at by a gigantic death laser. All of a sudden the terrifying cannon began to charge. Vroom, It shot a purple laser beam towards them. Kevin was in shock as the laser approached them. All of a sudden, the laser disappeared in midair, leaving a lot of blue smoke. “Fire,” they shouted as several fireballs shot from the spaceship. “Battle stations,” shouted Miranda as loud as she possibly could. More fireballs shot at the Drakarian’s ship. Over all the panic, Kevin shouted, “We are under a laser, turn right!” The ship blasted its engines and turned right in a hurry. Suddenly two smaller ships came out of the Drakarian’s ship and they were behind Kevin and his crewmates. Kevin rushed to the control center of his ship and pressed the little bright green button. Poof! The engines of the Pulse Fighter erupted with flames, creating smoke out of the engine and making the little Drakarian’s shuttle lose its vision. Vroom! The laser was charging for a full blast at the Pulse Fighter. Without a warning, the ship shot itself backwards, knocking everyone to their feet. Now there was a little Drakarian’s ship in front of them. Boom! The crewmates repeatedly fired, tearing the armor off of the little ship. Kylie jumped to the little Drakarian’s ship, crashing through the window. Oh no! Thought Kevin. “Open fire!” Shouted everyone on the crew except Kevin. “No! Don’t fire!” Cried Kevin. “Why not?” Said Gideon. “Kylie is aboard that ship,” replied Kevin. Thus, instead of firing at the ship, they turned left, then right, wobbling the ship. An alien ship approached them slowly, shooting at their left wing with lasers. The Pulse Fighter took severe damage. Kevin saw Kylie jump back to the Pulse Fighter. “I found the weakness.” She said. “There is a tube plugged in the ship.” “If one of them has a big tube and the others have smaller tubes, the big tubed one is special in some way, right?” questioned Kevin. The Drakarian’s ship approached closer from the back of the Pulse Fighter and shot intensely at the back engine. Kevin turned around and saw the engine steaming with fire. Another ship showed up in the distance. The ship had flashing red lines on it and KARMA written in huge letters on the side. At that time, everyone knew that this ship was called Karma. The ship shot light blue lasers at the Drakarian’s ship, burning off its hard armor to distract it from firing at the Pulse Fighter while Vanessa and Miranda were repairing the ship. Soon the karma was broken and burning with its armor ripped off. Gideon shot the small Drakarian’s ship at the tube. To everyone's amazement, it exploded. Kevin rushed to a shuttle and asked “Who wants to go with me for a dangerous mission?” “Me!” He heard Jayden, Victor, Angela and Kylie. “One

second!” said Kylie as she grabbed for a needle to heal herself with. Moments later, Kylie fell fast asleep as a side effect of the needle. Kevin drove the small drop ship very slowly in the middle of the apocalypse, dodging deadly lasers, fireballs and flashes of green light, explosions and high-tech bombs. Finally, he and his friends made it to the ship named Karma. Kevin told Garus, “We found the weakness of the small ships. It is the tube in the middle!” “Nice work!” Replied Garus proudly. “Open fire on the middle tube.” He announced to his team. Boom! With an epic red explosion, the big tube burst into lights and turned into dust. Losing control, the ship exploded into a thousand pieces and launched the Drakarian’s ship to outer space. “He-e-e-llo!” Said a stuttering voice. It was Gertrude. “Help us escape, we are in drop ships.” All Kevin saw was a group of drop ships. Another drone approached and aimed weapons at the drop ships. The first and third drop ships were burning. The Karma turned and separated the drop ship from the little Drakarian drone, as the Pulse Fighter shot lasers at the cocoon, leaving explosions on the giant ship. Angela rushed to the main quarters of the Karma and pressed a series of buttons. ‘’Disengage and help the lifeboats’’ said Garus to the Pulse Fighter, fully worried. Immediately, the Pulse Fighter stopped exploding the cocoon and assisted the lifeboats. All of a sudden, the engines of the Pillar of Autumn roared to life and moved forward, smashing right through the drone and crashed to the front of the cocoon and made a huge explosion. “Wow!” exclaimed Miranda as she picked up a radio and called Garus. “Garus, did you see what just happened?” “Yeah, they must have left auto pilot on before they got off.’’ Replied Garus. “Listen, all of you,” shouted Miranda. “I am not leaving my captain on the cocoon.” As the Pulse Fighter and the Karma backed away from the cocoon, they turned to a defensive mode and left the battlefield. Length: 2/2 Detail: 1.5/2 Effort: 1/1 Total Grade: 90/100

Battle with the Cocoon: The Cocoon launched at us, but just as we waited for the ship to be blown up, its shields saved us; nevertheless, I was still shaken to core. Wow, I forgot about those shields, even though I was one of the people who built them. We fired back at the cocoon, but when the bullet hit, it didn’t look like much damage was done. I sighed. Our bullets were usually really good, but somehow, the cocoon wasn’t damaged a lot. I wasn’t a violent person, in fact, I’m usually a pacifist and the first to break up a fight, so I averted my eyes from the window and tried to concentrate on a new book I was reading, Gracefully Grayson. The ship just kept turning and firing, but I put on my headphones and ignored the sudden shifts. Suddenly, Gideon threw the ship backwards in such a big lurch that I went flying out of my seat and onto the floor. Erica started to giggle, and soon, I did too. But in the midst of our giggle fest, Gideon tossed and turned the ship like it was a rag doll. Me and everyone else literally went flying and managed to land in the weirdest places. After I managed to stand up properly and not be knocked down, Kylie somehow jumped from our ship to one of the UFOs. She is really brave. I couldn’t do that for the love of my life. Gideon jerked left and right, and we just landed in the same spot. Does he even have a sense of direction? Oh wait, he’s the navigator, so he must have one. My train of thought was broken when Kylie landed back onto our ship. By then, our ship was dying, so me, Jayden and some other engineers went to fix it. Even Miranda had to come down and help us. After boosting the ship’s health, I went back upstairs and asked Erica to help heal the scrape from the encounter with the insectoid. She fixed me up, and I watched as Kylie injected herself with medicine and passed out. I guess she must’ve been really tired. After that, Kevin, Angela, Victor and Jayden decided that they would go help the Karma. Well, Miranda wasn’t here to stop them. All of a sudden, a Drakarian with some claw thing was breaking the door and trying to get in. I quickly rushed to Miranda’s place and started to look through it. I grabbed the nearest weapon. It was a four inch Asari dagger. Weird. Then I heard a whimper. It was Erica, and she looked terrified of the Drakarian and its claw. Gideon, thank lord for once, shook the ship and the Drakarian let go. Then out of nowhere, the emergency ships for the Autumn Pillar flew out of it and started to fly away from the battle. The ship turned, disengaging from the fight and headed to save the emergency ships with the Karma. I heard a giant crash and rushed towards the nearest window. The Autumn Pillar had smashed into the cocoon and both ships exploded. Miranda emerged, furious and shocked at the same time. She spoke sternly at us, telling us that that move was quoteunquote “absurdly ridiculous” for them to do with Keyes on board. I nodded, not really taking in what she was saying. I left her reflecting on Keyes, went to my room, tossed onto the bed face first, and fell asleep.

Battle with the Cocoon When we went into the Pulse Fighter and prepared for battle, I/Victor was not sure if we were going to survive or not, and if it was going to be our last battle. When the Cocoon fired, it first started making a big humming sound that sounded like an engine starting, and it shot forward like a bullet and was very hard to avoid. When the Cocoon was damaged, a hatch opened and smaller spaceships came out. One person in our group decided to go into one of the small ships. When she was ready, she used her jetpacks and blasted into the smaller ship. The people in the ship did not seem to notice. When the person from our group went into the enemy ship, I felt extremely nervous that she would die. When the person from our group went into the enemy ship, she told us that there were tubes on them and on the ship. When she came back, some of the group members and I went to the ship that was on our side, the ship was there for backup. When the escape pods left the Pillar of Autumn, I/Victor felt extremely happy that the people inside the ship lived! After the escape pod left I saw that they set the ship to autopilot, and it was moving straight forward to the Cocoon! It hit the Cocoon with an explosion and inflicted great damage to the Cocoon! When the escape pods left, I/Victor knew that we had to protect them to get them to earth and to safety, and that is how the battle ended.

Space Battle! We left the cocoon in time , but we were about to get shot by a death lazer from the cocoon. We shot two bullets at the dracarion cocoon spaceship. It did not do a lot of damage. We turned back and were ready to go farther away. Two alien ships came out of the cocoon. Kevin made the engines of our spaceship Pulse Fighter bigger and we got a carbon cloud in between one alien ship and us. Gideon moved the ship backwards and slightly dodged the alien ship. Gideon realized his mistake and moved forward. But then the lazer from the cocoon scraped the back of Pulse Fighter. I remembered the message Captain Keyes gave us. He said that his move was to be brave. So I decided to go onto the alien ship to block their window. I wore my space suit and flung myself out of the airlock. I crashed into the alien ship. The dracarions did not notice me. The dracarions had weird tubes from their heads. I was going to pull a tube when suddenly, I heard Kevin say “ don’t be dumb and kill yourself!” And so I did not. Then on my radio I heard Angela say “ do you want to come back to our ship or stay in the alien ship?” I replied “ I have something to tell you, there are I think six or seven dracarions with tubes attached to them. And I will come back to the ship. Once I come back, I will tell you all about it.” Then Kevin said “Ok.” I leaped out of the ship and I was in the middle of the alien ship and our Pulse Fighter. Gideon caught me and I got on the ship. I said “ I think all we have to do to beat the dracarion’s spacecraft is to hit the tubes in the ship. Can we try it?” Gideon turned left and we fired at the cocoon. Three alien ships came out of the cocoon. I had some medicine and fainted. After a long time, I woke up to Gertrude’s voice. The Lifeboats were out (the life boats are spaceships.) We slammed the ship backwards and we fired towards the cocoon. We got a message to protect the lifeboats. When we did that, the cocoon’s engines were ready to shoot. At that moment, the Pillar of Autumn’s engines roared to life and it moved towards the cocoon. It smashed into the front of the cocoon. As that happened, the Pillar of Autumn exploded, as well as the front of the cocoon. At that moment, Miranda ran to the front deck and looked scared. She said ”what-da? What? What was that? Did you? No, of course not” and then she got on this radio and said “ Garus did you see what just happened?” Then Garus responded and also looked rather stunned by what just happened. “ Yeah I saw it, it’s um, they must have set the auto pilot before they set off!” Miranda said “So no one authorised that? It did it by itself? With the captain on board the cocoon, he just did that.” Then Miranda told us “ I don’t know about the rest of you but I am not willing to abandon my captain. As long as he might still be alive. Now we are going to escort his crew, we are going to lick our wounds, and we’re going to find out how to get him back!’”

Justin and his crew mates were in a ship battling the cocoon. Justin did not do anything but watched a bit and went into a live ship and did nothing because Justin didn’t get a chance to do anything. Justin was watching until a cocoon shot out alien ships at us and then the ship got hit on the engine so the spaceship didn’t move, Justin had to fix the engine in order to move the spaceship. Before he went to fix the spaceship he told his crewmates to set the guns on their ship to aim at the alien ship. He got 8 in total, mixed success, and then he went outside to fix the ship until there were alien ships everywhere so he had to stay inside. Their guns were upgraded to machine guns for the ship if Justin got hit. They shot each alien ship but got damage on their own ship, so they had to repair. There was 1 more ship they took out. The super weapon called the Drakarien was powerful, they had to be careful when they destroyed the cocoon. All the alien ships were defeated and now they had to destroy the cocoon. Justin was worried and excited and said “I have a bad feeling about this” but all of the others were pumped to defeat the cocoon. Justin came up with a plan. Justin said “I have an idea, maybe we can investigate where the weak spot is on the cocoon and some of us can jump from our ship to the cocoon.” Most of his crewmates were shocked and said “no way.” So Justin said “fine, does anybody have another plan?!” His crewmates agreed. A few members went on to the live ship and went close to the cocoon but they did so precociously. Once the members went close to the cocoon they had to jump and they did awesomely. The members searched for parts that would be good to shoot but they also brought a sword just in case an alien came and trapped the members. One member got found and sent to prison but the other members found a good place to shoot, so now it’s all about saving one of the members. Justin brought a jetpack but one of his members said “why would you need a jetpack for saving our member?” Justin said “I don’t know, it looks like a weapon whatever I won’t bring it then.” Justin lied and brought it for the rescue of the other member. When they went to rescue the member, 4 people had to stay in the ship because our ship would be exploded by the cocoon. Justin and 3 other members went. They saw the member, he was guarded by 2 aliens so Justin pulled out his jetpack and one of his crew members said “I thought you said you're not going to bring that jetpack!” Anyway he turned on one of the jetpacks and blew the air at the aliens and then threw a sword at one of the aliens. The other ran away but they caught it and threw it overboard. They found a button that destroyed the ship and said “press it if emergency.” The crew pressed it and that was the end!

The Cocoon throws a laser beam at us and Gideon just manages to go forward and dodge it. Two alien UFO things come out of the enemy aircraft: one going towards our ship. We blast gas out of the ship and then Gideon goes in reverse and we go through the gas, barely touching the other alien ship. Kylie decides to get off of our ship to block the alien ships view lens but hurts herself We try to get Kylie back to the ship but Gideon turns left and then right so we basically do not move. the other alien ship comes up to us and fires. I get in contact with Kylie and ask if she wants to come back on the ship. Kylie tells us there are 6 or 7 Decarians and that they are attacking with tubes and will tell us more when she comes back. We ask where's the weakness and she says I don't know. Kylie lands and her oxygen is going away so we quickly make her come in. We repair our ship to be at 7 health and then fire while Kylie tries to talk. We then blast the alien ship into two pieces and it burns. The other ship shoots the Karma and it receives damage but does not break. The laser warms up again and points at us. Gideon turns to the cocoon and fires at it. The other alien ship breaks as well. Three doors open from the cocoon and drones come out. We fire at the drone and Gideon slams the accelerator. The laser slams into the front of the decarian ship and it is wrecked. We receive one damage, so now we have 6 health. One alien ship hits the Karma. Kevin gets on a shuttle to go to the cocoon and I go as well with him, as well as Victor and Jaden. We go back and turn right. Gideon fires at the cocoon and the first drone is destroyed. Gertrude tells us to protect the escape aircraft. We go and then the cocoon aims at us but the pillar of autumn roars to life and heads straight to the cocoon and they both explode. Miranda comes back and says â&#x20AC;&#x153;what have you doneâ&#x20AC;? and then we think about captain Keyes and how he sacrificed himself to save us. We go back through the Violet Nebula in the escape missiles .

CHAPTER FOUR Fool's End

Fool’s End by Kevin Ji The Karma and the Pulse Fighter assisted the lifeboats to a planet made out of metal, which looked like a gigantic broken-down ship. Kevin and Jayden repaired the half-broken Karma and fought off the fires. “Excellent work out there.” Said Garus. Kevin replied with ‘’thanks.’’ Then, there was a short pause. “Garus, do you think we can disguise a drop ship as a Drakarian drone, and fly it to the Cocoon to save Captain Keyes?” Garus answered: “Brilliant idea. But I am not sure we would use a drop ship for it.” As it slowly turned 8 PM , everyone was expected to go into their dorms and rest. However, Kevin sat in his dorm reading a book named The Beetle and The Bard. After finishing three chapters in the book, he jumped in his soft bed and fell fast asleep. ************* The following morning came and Kevin woke up with a start. He was so cozy that he didn’t even feel like waking up. He got dressed and walked to the main area of the Karma and saw Gideon stepping on the smooth planet. Whack, Gideon’s fell face-first on the hard ground. “Be careful!’’ He announced to the crew. “It's a bit slippery.” Kevin stepped out of the spaceship and walked slowly on the slippery surface. When he realized the surface was made out of metal, He immediately grabbed a sharp tool and started cutting off a piece. Kylie also decided to cut the metal but as she was starting to cut the first one, Miranda shouted “All right, free time over!” Kevin finished cutting out four rods of medal. As he saw that Kylie didn’t get any metal, he handed her a rod. Suddenly, a dark figure approached the crew. Kevin and Kylie backed off slowly, knowing that they could slip if they ran very fast. “Hello!” Said the figure cheerfully. “My name is Algar and I am king of this planet. Do you want to have a tour of my palace?” “Sure!” Replied half of the crew. Kevin, Kylie, Gideon and others followed Algar for an hour. Then there was a large sign that said Fool’s end. Kevin could see two Turians guards. They moved aside as they walked closer to the bar and sat down on fancy chairs that were around a table. There were a lot of different creatures. Kevin scanned the bar but he couldn’t spy a human. Kevin waited for Algar to leave and whispered to his friends “Act dumb, for all we know he could be working with the Drakarians.” “Amazing idea!” Whispered his crew mates. Algar came over and asked “What do you think about my planet?” “It is a beautiful planet.” Replied Kevin. “Thank you!” Algar cheered up as he walked away.

A waiter walked up to them and stared at Miranda. Miranda stared back. “Very well.” Said the waiter. Kevin thought they must have sent mind messages. Seconds later, the waiter came back with a live fish. Unexpectedly, Miranda jabbed the fish and stuffed it in her mouth. “Miranda,” said Romain the waiter happily, “you remember me!” “Of course,” said Miranda. “I am your cousin, Romain.” Miranda smiled. Kevin and his friends couldn't help but realize that there was a smoking liquid at the center of the table. Angela sniffed it and heard Kevin saying “Maybe it is a laughing medicine.” She could hear Kevin's voice but to her surprise, his lips were not moving. Kevin collected a sample of the gas and studied it while Kylie examined the liquid. Romain peered over Kylie's shoulder and said “Am I right?” Kevin found out that the gas could let people read minds. “I can fix your damaged ship.” Said Algar. “But it will cost you cheboo.” “How do I get cheboo?” said Victor. “You can get cheboo by gambling with Gleebo the shady man, fighting with Karnak the unkillable or cooking with Iron chef Tadechi or by playing music.” Kevin thought for a moment what musical instrument they used on this wacky planet, but all he had in mind was a gigantic rubber band.

Fool’s End: When I woke up again, I found out that we were coasting through the violet nebula. Somehow the people on the Autumn Pillar found a planet that would host their escape pods. There was little communicating between us and them. I checked my watch. My 8 hour break was over, and Miranda was calling a meeting. As we sat down in our chairs, she reported that our repairs were doing good, but we needed ideas. Keyes would want interstellar peace and have everything be calm. Kylie suddenly piped up. “Ok Miranda, when I tell you this, please don’t get angry.” “I don’t make these promises. Continue,” Miranda replied, motioning for her to continue. “Well, I-uh think that Keyes may be a Drakarian.” “That is ridiculous. I’ve trained with him for years, and he was my teacher.” Miranda finished strictly. The next morning, Erica found out where the escape pods were heading. As Gideon prepared for landing, it felt like we were flying through sand. We all lined up, one by one. Gideon was first. He walked onto the ground, slipped and fell. I was laughing so hard that my laughs were silent. Miranda told us to turn on the magnetic things on our shoes. I cranked mine up and stepped outside. I spoke with Gertrude, and Kevin, taking samples as he always does, took a sample of this planet. Meanwhile, Kylie was struggling and couldn’t manage to get anything. We all scouted this weird planet, and Kevin gave one of his pieces to Kylie. Turns out, our information was pretty good, and our ship was getting better at fighting. The closer we got to the cocoon, the better our hits were, and if we moved, it was harder for the cannon to hit us. Erica wondered how we would get home. I suddenly spotted a figure standing and staring at us. We all stopped talking and stared back. Kevin and Kylie ran away, while Victor went towards the figure. We could only hear the guy through Kylie’s, well, now Angela’s radio. He really thought that we are stupid and dumb? Yeah, well some of us were , like Gideon. Others, well, basically everyone else, were smart. Victor and the guy started to come back towards us. I panicked and quickly hid inside the ship. Then, we had to decide who would go and who would stay. Garus, Erica, Gertrude, me and some other people were staying. Everyone else, they decided that they would go. I was knitting with Gertrude when I heard something, quietly scouted the ship, and found 7 Turian-looking people. They looked like they were scanning our ship, and then one brought a plasma torch, and sliced through the ship.

Session 4 - Fool's End

By: Victor

When we got off the ship and started exploring, we heard a radio sound. It was coming from outside the ship, so I walked closer to see who was there. Then he started walking to me, when we met he said his name was Algar The Amazing. He told us to come to his palace so some of us came. When we arrived at Fool's End, we were really amazed at how big it was and how many people and Asari there were. Algar told us to sit at a table and talk. When we sat down and started talking, our commander said that she knows Gleebo, because he is her relative. Gleebo also said that he has spare parts for our ship and the parts can repair it. But, the parts are not for free and they cost money, and you could earn it by getting a job. Gleebo said that there are multiple ways to earn money and some were to fight in an arena, get a job, or ask a specific person for the money. Meanwhile, at the Pulse Fighter, some Asari gathered around the ship carrying weapons and tried to break into the ship.

On The Planet Of Slippery Iron After all of the mess, Miranda called us to the breaking room. Erica later found the planet that we sought after. Gideon successfully landed peacefully on the planet. We then went outside. The planet was quite slippery, and Gideon slipped and fell on his back. After this, Gideon warned us that the ground was slippery. I tried to cut some of the iron from the planet, but I failed. Kevin gave me some iron. Suddenly, I saw a dark figure standing in the distance. We shined a flashlight at it, and Kevin and I ran away. After a while, Kevin and I walked backtowards our ship. The figure was a turian called Algard. I yelled: “ Hello!” He replied :“ Hi!” We walked with Algard, and he took us to his palace. I asked Algard if he could give us some iron. He said that we could just take it from the ground. Later on, I took a sample of the liquid that the turians were drinking. I heard Roman explain that cheebos are what they use for money. Victor asked ,“ How do we get cheebos?” On a table next to an asari, we saw a single person.

On the way back, Kylie says and tells Miranda that maybe Captain Keyes is a decarian and this is after he sacrificed himself. But Miranda does not believe it. We decide to see what we need to make the ship better so we can be better in the next battle to save the captain Keyes. We’re going to a planet very high in iron and someone detects a weird ship about 1/8th the size of the moon. Gideon goes out to the planet and slips. Miranda says to activate the magnets on the bottom of your boots so you don’t slip like Gideon. Kevin tries to get some metal from the planet. He gets four iron rods that are both rough and smooth. Kylie tries to make armour with the iron but Miranda says no but then says: “alright, check if this planet is only iron.” We meet Elgar, who is the owner of the planet. Victor asks Elgar the amazing and asks “why are you here.” Elgar says “I just want to welcome you.” We then realize that he might be a turian, but he is not that tall and he is also not a kid. Elgar wants us to go to the palace with him. Kylie runs to Elgar and says “Hello!” Elgar responds with another hello. Vanesa and Erica stay behind while we go to the palace. I hear a cracking noise. No matter which way we are going, we feel like we are going downhill. We go to this weird bar-ish thing. Elgar says that this is his palace where anything is possible. I try this weird thing that the decarian called Doritos. I hear voices but their lips don’t move. Kevin takes a sample of the gas and Kylie takes a sample of the liquid. Miranda and the Asari both know that I can hear them, but they can’t read my mind. -

The ship landed on a weird planet called planetoid. The ground was made out of metal. When they landed there was a shady guy who said “welcome to my world.” Justin got creeped and said “who the heck are you,” and the shady guy said “I am an alien”. Two thirds of his crewmates ran away, so they could avoid the shady guy. But for some reason the shady guy said “Would you want to come over to my palace?” Justin secretly chatted with his crewmates about whether the shady guy was up to something. They were thinking that maybe the aliens had a plan to bring most of their crewmates to the palace and then sneak over to their spaceship. When they were walking to the shady guy’s palace, Justin saw a metal animal that could move. Justin asked the shady guy if everything was made out of medal, the shady guy told Justin that most of it was made out of medal, with a creepy laugh. Once they got there a big door opened so they could go into the palace. The shady guy introduced them to the palace, Justin thought that it might be a trap and told his crew to look out for anything suspicious. There was a cafe called the “fool’s end” where aliens would come and talk. The shady guy got an alien snack called the “big boom.” Big boom is weird, like laughing gas that you can eat.

CHAPTER FIVE Fool's End: Get a Job!

Get a job By Kevin Ji

“We need a wise way to earn Cheebo to repair the ship.” Said Miranda. Kevin was not listening. Instead he stared at the instruments on the stage. He examined them carefully and recognized some of them. There was a gigantic rubber band and a banjo. Kevin ran up to the stage and grabbed the rubber band and a banjo and handed the banjo to Jayden. Suddenly, the crowd went wild. Kevin started playing, focusing on the sheet. As soon as the song was over, someone handed Kevin 500 Cheebo. Kevin was happy with the money he earned, but it was not enough. The goal was 45,000 Cheebo. Kevin, Kylie and Jayden decided to cook for the iron chef Tadechi. “Can we work here?” Asked Kevin. “Yes, we don't have a lot of chefs. They come and go very fast.” Said the cash register. They walked into the kitchen to work. “Can I get three green bowls and a fish platter?” Announced a customer. “CUISINER!” Shouted the iron chef. Immediately, Jayden started to make a salad. Kevin had no idea what a fish platter was, but he started to recall the memories of fish dishes. Finally, he succeeded in making a yummy fish platter and then put it on a plate. Minutes later, iron chef Tadechi walked into the kitchen. Kylie presented him with two perfect salads (the green bowls). Jayden held up the ashes of a salad that was burning while Kevin brought a pile of the yummy fish platter he tested earlier. After taking a quick look at all the food they made, without saying a word, Tadechi suddenly threw Jayden across the room and then threw a sharp knife which ended up landing in front of Jayden’s eyes. Kevin gulped. It seemed the food didn’t live up to Tadechi’s expectation. “You are fired!” Tadechi said seriously at Jayden and turned around to Kevin and Kylie. “You two have a second chance.” Kevin then quickly got back to cooking again. Right next to him, he heard unusual screams. He looked and saw screaming noodles. Kevin grabbed some macaroni and something that looked like cheese and poured them in a pan. Stomp, stomp, stomp. Tadechi walked into the kitchen to examine the food again. He took a spoon and scooped up some mac and cheese and said to Kevin “This time make some Turian food.” Then he walked over to Kylie. Kevin looked at the bar and stared. BOOM! Kylie crashed on the floor as a kitchen knife landed before her. “You are fired, too.” Said Tadechi. Luckily later, Kevin cooked up very perfect Turian food. After he was done, Iron chef Tadechi tasted it, smiled and handed him 750 Cheebo for his good work.

“Finally, I earned some money!” Kevin said to himself. He then walked to see Kylie gambling 1,000 dollars with Gleebo. He couldn’t help but realize that someone had a four up his sleeve. “He is cheating, call him out,” whispered Kevin in Kylie’s ear. Then, Kevin felt so tired that he sat on a table and started eating crispy Doritos.

Get A Job!: My mouth fell open. I thought that we were safe, and all this time there were these Turians here trying to get into our ship. I headed towards the armory to get some weapons, Erica trailing behind me. Unfortunately, to get into the armory, you needed to have a security pass. I rolled my eyes. Stupid armory and the people who made it. I stomped off, in search of a security officer who could let me in. Things weren’t going so well, until I heard a laugh coming from inside a storage closet. I stopped, hoping that it would be someone who could finally let me in. I took a deep breath, and walked inside. There, 2 Turians, 1 Asari, and 1 human were all there, playing cards and talking. One of the Turians spotted me, and said, “Can I help you?” “Can you help me?” “I’m sorry, what?” I rolled my eyes for the second time today. “Can YOU,” I pointed to him, “Help ME,” I pointed to myself. “Oh ok,” was his response and he proceeded to give each of the other people a card, and then one to himself. They all flipped they’re cards over. Then one of the Turians groaned. “Fine,” he said, and walked over to me and Erica. “I’m Brutus, and here to help you,” he said to us. I snorted. His name was Brutus? Like who’s parents would name their child that! It’s like naming your child Benedict Arnold, for the sake of the universe. And if you don’t know, Brutus, the original one, was the most famous out of all of Julius Caesar’s assassins. His last dying words were, “Et tu, Brutus?” which translates to, “And you, Brutus?” I only know this because I learned Latin alongside Greek too, just for fun. Yeah, I know, I’m a weird child. Back on track. I led Brutus to the armory, showing him that he needed to let me in. He swiped the card, and Erica and I walked inside. Inside, there was a racket of stun batons, which Erica grabbed one, playing safe. I knew, because if you touched the ship, it would be fine. Next racket, which contained air rifles, and Brutus grabbed one. And the last thing was a giant silver sword. I don’t know what made me do it, but I took it. Yes, I took the most probable dangerous thing. Then, I went up to the speakers, and said, “Turians are breaking into our ship. Please evacuate now.” Then I hopped down onto the ground of the planet, Brutus and Erica behind me. Brutus let me decide what I should do. Attack or go back onto the ship. I cowered in fear, and jumped back onto the ship. Suddenly, I heard a loud bang. The landing pit had been broken into, and the Turians were coming inside.

Get a Job!

By Victor

In the beginning, my teammates and I come up with ways to get Cheebo. Kylie wants to make machines and sell them for Cheebo. Jayden and Kevin go to play in the band and earn money that way. Jayden does not do too well in the band because he does not know the instrument, but Kevin does very well and gets us a lot of Cheebo. Angelaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s idea is to ask for Cheebo, so she starts asking random people for some. My idea is to steal Cheebo, so I wait for the right person and I steal some, but not a lot. While back on the Pulse Fighter, Vannessa grabs a weapon and prepares for the battle. We need more Cheebo, so Kevin and Kylie try to earn Cheebo by cooking. I decide to go fight in the pit, and earn some Cheebo that way. In the pit, when the fight begins , itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tough but I win the fight, and earn some Cheebo.

Justin and his crew needed to get some cheebo because they needed to repair the ship. Justin was at the fool’s end and attended a concert with one of his other crewmates. His crewmate played the violin and people started cheering and started to throw cheebo. It was Justin’s turn to play along with his crewmate and he also played a violin but ended up making screeching noises that were really annoying. His crewmate handed Justin a piccolo and he started to make high screeching noises. So Justin couldn’t play in the band for cheebo. Instead, Justin worked as a chef for cheebo. He was ordered to make salad, and he made a fire salad by sprinkling on this weird thing that looked like salt. The master chef fired Justin because he was a bad cook. Now, Justin couldn't find any jobs.

Jayden and Kevin become part of a band to see if they can get some geebo (money) to repair our ship and they see about 300 people and many instruments. Jayden does not know any but Kevin decides to play the rubberband and the crowd loves it. Jayden tries to figure out how to play the instrument and he fails, making a laser beam shoot at the crowd. Kevin plays louder and the crowd forgets. After about 15 minutes they come back to the group. I go to a group of asari and ask “do you know what ice cream is?'' They ask if it is a dance or a game and I say no. They then say if they get it wrong, I get food and if they get it right they have to get me food. I then run away. Kevin gets 500 cheebo (money) Vanessa goes to the weaponry and gets a sword. I become part of the band. Kevin and Jayden become chefs and go to the kitchen. They see the biggest asari and glare at them. He asks are you here to cook and yells cook in french. They hear green bowls and Kylie understands that it is salad and so Kylie starts to chop lettuce with Jayden. Kevin tries to make the fishy platter. He tries the first ingredient and the rest for about 15 minutes. Kylie holds up two salads and Kevin holds up a fishy platter. Jayden holds up a salad on fire. Jayden gets fired from being a cook by the iron chef. He hands Kylie and Kevin 500 cheebo each. Kylie makes noodles, thinking “what can make them better” but then sees the noodles crawling up her arm. She looks around for scissors and finds them and the noodles start to squeal as she pours them out. Kevin makes mac and cheese but can’t find cheese so gets something like cheese. The Iron Chef tries Kevin’s mac and cheese and says you can stay, handing him 250 cheebos. Kylie says that she will make green bowls. He looks at her ingredients and looks at Kylie. Saying “Kylie, you cooked my expensive ingredient.” He picks up a very large knife and Kylie runs away. Iron throws the knife at Kylie but misses. Iron chef teaches Kevin a hard dish and it goes okay. Kevin succeeds and the iron chef is really happy handing Kevin 1000 cheebo. I walk up on stage and everyone looks at me. I sing, and as I sing the machines on stage begins to play. Everyone runs to the dance floor. I get 1000 cheebo from Gideon. The turians try to break into our ship. However, Vanessa manages to get into our ship. They went to the fighting pit and we lose our first bet. Kylie decides to try a 2nd round but we do not want to. We get 6000 cheebos. Kylie tries to go but a shady man does not want to and wants to play again. Kylie agrees to go once more. Victor goes to the pit of death. It takes 2000 cheebos to enter. I meet a turian and he says that I am his lucky charm and let’s bet if your friends will win. She will give us 1% of what she wins. In the first match, Victor wins. The birthday turian tells me “yasss.” While Kylie is playing cards, Kylie sees a shady man is cheating and Kylie says that he is cheating. The shady man holds out a gun and says “unfortunate.” When Vanessa is in her ship it tumbles and an alarm screeches . I am with the birthday turian.

Earning Cheebo We have landed on a planet and have been invited by Algar. They do not use “ Money “ as money. They call their money cheebo, so we had to earn cheebo. Our goal is to earn 45,000 cheebo. I first wanted to sell inventions for money. But all the asari and turians were absolutely confused about what I had done and why they needed it. So, I failed. Next I decided to cook for money with Kevin and Jayden. We worked for a chef. The first bowl to be called for was green bowls and also a fish-like thing . I knew what green bowls were. Green bowls were salad, so I went to work. Kevin made the fish like thing. Jayden made a salad, too. I had two beautiful salad bowls, Kevin had the fish-like thing ready and Jayden had a salad on fire! Because Jayden had a salad on fire, He got fired by the chef. The chef then gave me 500 cheebo. After, we had to make something for the chef. Kevin decided to make mac and cheese and I decided to make noodles. I took something that looked similar to noodles and started mixing. The noodles went up my arm!? Then I found scissors and cut them off. When it was time to give him the meal, I had nothing to give. Then I found out that I used up one of the chef’s expensive ingredients! The chef threw a knife at me but, thank goodness he missed and threw it at the door! Then I ran away. Then I decided to go gambling. Gambling fits me more. First I decided to bet 1 cheebo, but then the other players said that the minimum was 1,000 so I bet 1,000. In the first round, I lost. But in the second round, I won! I got 10,250 cheebo! In the third round I lost to a shady guy who gave me lots of cheebo. Then I found out he was cheating! He had a card in his sleeve! Then I declared that he cheated and had a 4 in his sleeve. The shady man took out a gun.

CHAPTER SIX Fool's End: The Fighting Pits

The Fighting Pits By Kevin Ji Kevin walked to a table calmly and pulled out some crispy Doritos from his pocket. Suddenly, he heard gunfire. Miranda asked “Is that shooting?” “No.” Replied Kevin, dipping his Doritos in ranch sauce. He felt the soft sauce on his dry lip. Kevin quickly sat down at a table and pulled more Doritos out of his pocket. Crack! The chip split in half between his hard teeth. He dipped the Doritos again and again into the ranch sauce until the Doritos were flooded with sauce. The ranch sauce spilled on his gray federation uniform and his badge. Now his badge was dyed yellow from the ranch sauce. What a mess! He just cleaned his badge and uniform before the mission! The nacho cheese spread around his lips. He tasted the strong flavor of nacho cheese on his tongue and he enjoyed every moment. The flavor tasted very strong and delicious. “We should check out the firing, to make sure none of our teammates get hurt.” Said Kevin with his mouth full of Doritos. “OK, let's go!” Said Miranda. Kevin ran into the confused crowd towards the gun firing, as he pulled more Doritos from his jean’s pocket. Kevin stuffed multiple chips into his mouth and he dipped the chips into sweet and sour sauce he had packed. He couldn’t stop himself, he kept eating the yummy chips. All he could see was a federation uniform on the floor getting kicked by a group of Turians. He rushed closer but he couldn’t see far enough so instead, he pulled out a bottle of orange crush. He was very thirsty so he chugged it very fast. He didn’t mind the acid-like drink. It felt good on his unprotected throat. The security looked at the chaotic people. “Alright,” shouted the security, “the federation people here and the Turians are arrested.” Kevin woke up in a cell next to Jayden. He looked around and saw the rest of his team in cells. Luckily for him, he still had an orange soda. He sat at the corner of the cell, eating BBQ chips. Suddenly, Kevin was shoved into the fighting pit of doom. He looked at the other side of the ring and saw a giant Turian stepping into the ring. Victor looked worried and threw an old gun into the ring. Kevin jumped up to catch the gun but missed. The Turian grabbed it in midair and pointed it at him. All Kevin thought of were the fire safety rules and how to dodge bullets tutorial so he stopped eating Doritos and dropped to roll in a zigzag. Surprisingly, the crowd went wild and cheered as Kevin dodged the bullets. Kevin kicked the Turian in the face, running to the Turian to get another shot on the Turian. The Turian hit Kevin in the ribs and pulled the trigger of the gun. However, the gun was a very old model and it was unstable so it exploded in his face.

That meant Kevin won! So he went back to chomp on his crispy snack, his delicious chips.

The Fighting Pits: I felt the Pulse Fighter wobble, then fall over. Ugh, I hate when these things happen, but hey, when you live in a supernatural world, you’ve just got to live with it. I still hate it, though. I ran up to security and checked the cameras. I spotted the Turians through the ship. Brutus and his gang quickly hid in the room and aimed their weapons towards the tiny hole the Turians had made. Unluckily, these absurd people threw these metal balls into the room, and the security people fell asleep due to the sleeping gas that the balls had released. I drew my sword, and asked an Asari how it worked. “That’s-That’s McKyle’s! And he would be furious if it broke because it was passed down through his family!” I sighed, and quickly hid it where the Turians wouldn’t find it. Then I spoke to the Turians through the speaker system. He said that we would either fight to the death or surrender. I asked the Asari to tell Miranda about our situation, and we had a little conversation, but soon she cut us off due to whatever was happening at the other end. Erica and I decided to surrender, and after we were reunited with the others at this bar called Fool’s End. Apparently, we were in a pit and had to fight the other team and then whoever won would be released. Ack. I hate fighting, but I don’t mind violence. Kevin went first, and got released. Afterwards was Erica, she passed out and nearly died, but won. Then Angela, but then Miranda saved her and fought for her instead. After that, it was me. I sighed, and took my dagger out. Everything was rolling smoothly and I won. Then Jayden. Apparently, poor Jayden has really bad luck and things haven’t gone so well for him. But, thank the lord of the universe he remembered his fighting lessons and got out. We were all injured in some way, but still alive. I was probably doing the best out of all of us who had fought, then Kevin and Jayden, and then Erica, who was still unconscious.

The fighting pits

by Victor

In the beginning, The High Roller caught The Shady Man cheating, so The Shady Man shot The High Roller. While at the pit, I won the fight and headed back up to the bar to my crewmates. The birthday girlâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s group grabbed Angela and Gideon to see why there was a shooting. Kevin saw some Doritos, so he went to them and started eating the Doritos. Jayden took the shooting as an opportunity, so he stole the money and started running, but some Asari caught him and started kicking him. I saw Jayden getting kicked, so I tried to rescue him, but I failed. Suddenly, Drakarians came into the bar and arrested everybody, including my crewmates. The only people who were safe were me, Kevin, Kylie, Gideon, and Miranda. Meanwhile, on the ship, Brutus sharpened his knife, but then a bomb came into the ship and put him to sleep.

Jayden steals all the cheebo while the shady man and wealthy man fight. They get their weapons and shoot everywhere. The birthday turian and its group drag me towards the sound of the gunfire. Kylie runs into me and joins my group. I manage to get away from the birthday group and run away from the shooting back to the crowd. I hear a horrifying noise from inside my head and I pass out. A voice says something about capturing and I get captured because I am unconscious from the noise. Kevin also gets captured. Vanessa ends up in a group of turians and Vanessa says “I will surrender.” Vanessa hides one weapon. They are going to get sales in the bar. I wait up and I find myself in a cell. I pick myself up off the cold concrete and Kevin and Jayden are in a cell together. I am alone but then Vanessa, Erica and Brudess come and get locked into my cell as well. Kevin and Jayden say they have been arrested for nothing and will get freed. They hired a lawyer for some cheedo, doritos and expensive gear. I am the last to go in the fighting pit and fight with someone. The rules are that there are no rules. Kevin is first to fight. Victor throws him a weapon but the asari catches it and points it at kevin. Kevin drops and rolls and explodes in his hand. Kevin runs but the asari kicks him. In the third round, they tie. They continue to fight and at last Kevin wins and is free to go. Erica is next to come out and Victor throws a sunbotan at Erica and she picks it up. Erica wins the first round as well as the second. Her arm is really hurt so she kicks but gets punched by a female asari. Erica wins and is free to go but passes out. I enter the pit and the birthday turian cheers. I hear Miranda's voice of rescue or fight. I say rescue and my opponent pulls out a gun and aims at me. I hear “I confess it was me” and Miranda walks up and gets shot. Miranda cracks his face and it lands on the ground. She stomps on the asari until he stops making a sound. Miranda and I are free to go. Vanessa goes to the pit. Vanessa takes out her weapon she hid and Vanessa is free to go and wins. Jayden goes into the pit and he wins and is also free to go.

Justin was in the fool’s end when a shady man cheated in a gamble. A Tarien lifted up the shady man's arm to show everybody, and that Tarien was serious and took out a gun that he used to shoot at the shady man. Then the shady man started to pull out a gun and also started to shoot. It was a battle between the Tarien and the shady man. Justin needed cheebo so he tried to steal a lot of cheebo. There were two big drunk Tariens who were talking to a servant and asking the servant to bring more and more alcohol, the Tarien who made the alcohol said that it’s not good to drink more. The two drunk Tariens asked for more and the Tarien who made it said, “I’m not your mom so don’t blame me”. The two drunk Tariens took out their big stack of cheebo and paid for more. They put the cheebo back in their big pockets. And this was a perfect chance for Justin to steal the cheebo from the two big drunk Tariens. Justin scooped a big pile of cheebo out of the two drunk Tarien’s pockets. A Tarien said this palace is mine now and said “crew, go get’em! Some of you will escape but not most of you!” Justin tripped when he ran away and the two drunk men showed up and beat up Justin but luckily only one Tarien hit him. A tooth came out from Justin when Tarien was hitting him. Justin tried to run away but went slow because he didn’t want to lose the cheebo. The two drunk Tariens caught up with Justin and continued to kick Justin. Justin decided to drop the cheebo and run away, he ran away into the crowd but was captured by Tarien’s crew who said “this palace is mine now”. Justin was in jail with the rest of the group and the one of the Tarien’s crew members who captured Justin and his crew said “each of you will be fighting in a fighting pit and whoever wins is free to go!” It was so stressful for Justin to watch his teammates fight in the fighting pit. When it was Justin’s turn to enter the fighting pit, he was lucky and only took a little bit of damage and beat the Tarien he was against 3-1! Justin was free to go and so were his crewmates!

Fighting Pits I made some money and I started to go gambling. Jayden was watching me. I told everyone that the shady man was cheating and had a 4-card in his sleeve. The shady man drew his weapon and shot. The other asari also drew his weapon and fired through the table, just before the shady man’s bullet hit the asari’s stomach. I jumped up on the table and rushed into the crowd. Jayden lunged up the table and took away all their cheebo. I moved out of the crowd and went to Angela. I banged into Gideon and they talked a little. As I moved into the crowd, I saw some turians kicking someone. I felt a gun pressing on my ribs and a hand touching my face. Then, I was pulled back. A turian came and said he can arrest whoever I want. Then he wanted to arrest everyone. I managed to slip out and not get arrested. I went to the party place. Miranda came too. Everyone who was caught was going to go into the fighting pit.

CHAPTER SEVEN Roman's Dock

Roman's Dock

By Kevin

As soon as Erica left the Ring of Doom, Kevin rushed towards her and tried to heal her but unfortunately her bruises were not healing. Kevin’s medicine was not working. So Kevin started to continue working on finishing his delicious chips. The chips were now crushed because they were in his gray pocket for a long time. Kevin wanted to make more Cheboo so he went to Gleebo’s office to speak with the guard. “Hello!” He thought about digging in his pocket for stuff to sell. Suddenly he pulled out several golden watches. Awesome! He successfully got 500 cheboo from selling beautiful golden watches. Later, Kevin returned to this table to his team. Suddenly, the shady man came over to the table and fired very close to Victor’s head. Kevin ducked under the table, trying his best to avoid the bullets. Luckily, the bullet hit no one and everyone was fine. The crew were getting chased by angry Turians with guns. The shady man followed the crew, shooting at the Turians. Then Kevin remembered he had metal bars on him. He started throwing metal bars at the angry Turians. Finally, they made it back to the Pulse Fighter. Kevin rushed to the armoury section to grab a black revolver and stuffed it in his cool holster just in case the Turians came back and tried to hurt them. Kevin stared at the Shady man that was now on their ship. The shady man looked familiar like someone he had seen before. Kevin went back to dig in his pocket for tools such as delicious chips and watches and weapons. A few hours later, the crew arrived at Roman’s ship repair yard. Kevin immediately got to work to repair the broken jump drive on his cool red spaceship called the Pulse Fighter. Kevin started hammering some nails into the hard red iron of the spaceship. The engines of the spaceship were very hard to fix, the jump drive had large clouds of smoke coming out. It took so long to repair. It was like trying to find a needle in a stack of hay. The tools were rusty and old with moss growing on the metal part. Eventually , the jump drive was perfect. The spaceship was slowly coming together. After several hours of hard work, the Pulse Fighter was now together. The iron of the slick new ship glittered like the stars. Kevin sat at a giant table with his crew. There were delicious foods on the table to eat. Kevin could recognize some things on the table: there was a fish platter, noodles, potatoes and chips. Boom! Roman was shot by Keyes. Roman shot back at Keyes. Roman’s blood was odd. It was a light blue color. The room lit up with light as the two shot speeding bullets at each other. Roman dropped to the ground. Keyes came out clutching his chest and said “That was a Drakarian. He can transform into anyone.”

Victor - Session 7 - Roman's Dock At the beginning of the story, we got chased back to the ship, and we flew away just in time before they got on. We flew all the way to Roman’s dock and started to repair the ship. We suspectedgot suspicious that Roman had no crew and was all alone, but we had to repair as quickly as possible. We split into different groups and started to repair and upgrade the ship. I sat with Roman and we started eating some food to wait for the others.

Kylie We were in a dark place. We found out that Roman was fake and he was wearing a cloaking device to make him look like Roman. Several of us tried the cloaking device but there were a few malfunctions. Then, finally, we decided to have Jayden to be the fake Roman. There was a security camera room where the security cameras connected. Then there was a timer for when the giant worms would come and they would be released from the worm pit. There was also a panel we had to unlock. We spelled in Gleebosux and it glowed green and our ship was freed from giant arms and fled .

Jayden Justin and his crew mates went to fly their broken ship to repair the ship at Romans’s shipyard. Right when they turned back, the shady man appeared inside their ship. Justin was alarmed but did not have a weapon to defend himself. However the shady man revealed himself and was the legendary pilot Jacob Keyes. Everyone was shocked but happy at the same time because Jacob Keyes was legendary! When they arrived at Roman’s shipyard, Roman showed up and Justin and his crew arrived. Roman was Miranda’s brother and Miranda is a tarien. Miranda said “pay the man,” and Justin paid Roman around 10,000 cheebo for fixing their ship. Roman didn’t fix it but split them into groups to fix their ship. Justin was working on fixing the ship’s engine. While Justin was fixing the engine, Roman was inviting some of Justin’s crewmates to a high telescope to see out of it. There was a big crate but no one could see anything else so they headed back to repair the ship. After repairing the ship, Roman invited them all to dinner. However Jacob shot Roman for some reason and made a lot of white air in the room. Roman was bleeding and his blood was blue: that meant he was a dukarian spy! Miranda was shocked! Jacob was bleeding. They ran out of the room as fast as possible and searched the place for other dukarian spies .

Roman’s Dock: We collected Erica, but as Kevin tried to heal her, it didn’t look like it was going very well. I winced and looked away. Miranda and Victor met up with us and we talked for a bit. We rested up in the prison cells for some time, and headed towards our table for when everyone arrived at Fool’s End. Kevin headed to talk to Algar, while Kylie headed to talk to the shady man, and Angela went to get Gideon. Afterwards, she somehow got a card with loads of cheebo. Well, then, we don’t need to make more money. Kevin then went to talk to Gleebo, which I strongly objected to. He was a loan shark, and I’ve had a friend who had to deal with those types of people. Suddenly, out of nowhere, I saw someone trying to shoot their gun. Me and Jayden, unfortunately, got grazed by the bullet. My jaw was tightly clenched . I’m pretty tough, despite the fact that I’m a pacifist. Then Miranda got us to leave, and told someone to get Gideon, and Angela volunteered. I, on the other hand, followed Miranda and so did everyone else. I rushed Kylie along, and we sprinted across the building. “Why are they chasing us?” Was the first question that came to my head as we ran and ran. I realized that maybe this asteroid could have less gravity. Testing my theory, I jumped. I soared like 35 feet into the air, and the bullets flew underneath my feet. We then reached the ship, and Kevin threw a metal rod towards one of the guards and it hit right on target. He groaned, and I giggled a bit. As we headed onto the ship, I looked up, and saw the Karma saving us and scaring the Turians away. Gideon, having drank too much (I’m guessing alcohol), passed out on the floor. I sighed and moved him beside a toilet, you know, in case he threw up. Kylie, being the risk taker she is, decided to fly the ship. Then I heard slow clapping. We all turned and stared at the shady man, who was sitting in the other pilot’s seat, leaving quite an awkward silence between us. Gertrude gave a sign that she was heading to bed, and Angela picked up Roman’s message. We rested up, and Jayden healed up. I walked up to the shady man, and asked: “Why did you shoot Victor?” He responded, but I wasn’t really paying attention. The shady man had blue eyes, and blond hair. I then realized that he kind of looked like Captain James Keyws. Then it hit me: This guy must be related to him. “Who are you?” I asked him. “Why, I’m Jacob Keyes, James’ brother.” Ok, so that was it. He then proceeds to land, all calm and smooth, unlike a certain person named Gideon. We headed to upgrade our ship, and as it turned out, we were the people who had to do the work. Great! No, that was not sarcasm, because as an engineer, I love to build. Jayden and I started on the major repairs, and we gathered some information about the Drakarian weapons. After we were all done, we all sat around Roman. I was sitting to his right, and as he said his speech, or whatever, I spotted Jacob Keyes, slowly creeping through the door, and raising his gun towards Roman. I froze. I was the only one who saw this, and I muttered a small “Hello” to him but everyone, including Roman, heard it. Then, Keyes (Jacob) fired at him, and caused a lot of smoke. We all coughed and hacked

our way out to the hallway. When the smoke cleared, Keyes rushed out. “What were you thinking?!” was his response to my “Hello.” He had a blue gash on his chest, and added on, “That was not Roman, that was a Drakarian imposter!” “So that wasn’t my cousin?” Said Miranda. “Yes.”

CHAPTER EIGHT Roman's Dock: The Hunt

The Hunt for Roman

By Kevin Ji

“There is a Drakarian in this building and we need to find it.” Announced Jacob Keyes. “Let’s split up.” Before that, Kevin told everyone to claim a unique verification code so they could confirm their identities from Drakarians easily. Keyes walked to the right and Kevin followed him. Angela slowly approached the group, also going right. Kevin carried a rifle and was running after Keys and Angela. The rifle was very heavy to carry so Kevin lagged behind. Suddenly the group came to a dead end. There was a gigantic hole where something was moving. There was definitely a large creature down there. First, Kevin looked around for cameras. Suddenly he spotted some small cameras in the corner spying on them. BRUMP! BRUMP! Kevin shot at the camera several times until one camera lit on fire and exploded. Slowly, Kevin turned to the other camera and destroyed it as well. After that, He threw a glow stick down into the giant pit of doom. The creature approached the glow stick and split until it didn’t light up. Kevin still scanned the room for cameras. Keyes, Angela and Kevin ran to meet with the rest of the team. There was a dark shadowy figure standing at the other side of the room. Kevin thought that this could be his teammate or an impostor so he shot at the ground in front of the figure to scare it off. The figure turned around and ran into Kevin with half of a broken broom. As the figure approached he saw it was Miranda. S he charged at Kevin with the broom and jabbed it next to Kevin's head. Thankfully, he dodged it. Kevin pulled out a Dorito from his pocket and showed Miranda as a verification code. “Yep, that's Kevin” said Miranda and stopped her actions. After a few minutes the crew came together. A large red slimy tentacle grabbed Vanessa. Later, she appeared again. There were two of her, and that meant one of them was an impostor. One Vanessa had a very deep voice. When the crew asked her for the verification code, she answered it totally wrong. Kevin knew straight away that she was the fake one so he yelled “LIGHT HIM UP.” BRUMP! The Drakarian spy got shot several times in the stomach until he laid down motionless. Blue blood splattered on the floor. The Drakarian body fell on the cold ground, the yellow lights were flickering on and off. Kevin studied the dead body and found out that they could only transform with a special, shiny bracelet that lit up. Instead of trying on the device, Kevin stared at his tablet. Suddenly there was a loud sound. Gideon was attempting to transform but it did not work. He started puking on the ground.

The device transformed people into other things or people. The crew decided to go search for Roman’s Cheebo. After an hour they found a large office that was likely to be claimed by Roman. A lot of things stood out. They were interesting. Kevin looked at the monitor and saw gigantic white worms that were breaking through the ground. “Nice horror movie.” said Kevin. “I don’t think that is a TV show,” declared Miranda. Suddenly the ground shook, and that made the heavy door move and block the exit. Then a password came up on the computer screen. It was a 9 digit code. Kevin remembered that neon tetra fish eat white worms. But Kevin wondered where Roman was. The room shook and the earthquake grew worse. Kevin pulled out a metal detector and scanned the room for a metal credit card. Then the detector rang loud. The credit card was in a safe. BOOM! The fire raged inside the building. The door burst open and fell on the floor with a loud bang. The safe automatically opened with the password ‘Gleebosux.’ Kevin grabbed the card and followed the team running to the exit while the building was getting destroyed. An enormous white worm was bursting out of the ground which made the floor collapse. Bruce the guard fired his rifle at the white worm. Surprisingly, it did no damage to the creature. The pipes exploded in big flames . The crew ran as fast as they could. The building was exploding violently and the fire was raging rapidly everywhere. Even worse, another white worm burst out of the cold concrete floor. Luckily, the crew scattered out of the building which was totally burned down.

Vanessa Chen The Hunt for Roman: I looked down the hallway. There was a smear of blue blood, the exact same colour as the blue gash on Keyes’ chest. I guessed that it was Drakarian blood, since Asari blood is green and human blood is red/blue. “What happened to the real Roman?” Kevin asked, but no one responded. Miranda was in shock. “I guess that Drakarians are really good actors, since I couldn’t tell the difference.” We either have to cut through the gate, or find the release to escape, but Keyes told us, “I’m not leaving until we find that Drakarian!” We all were wearing the watches that Kevin made, and decided that if there was an imposter that they wouldn’t be wearing a watch. There were 3 hallways, so we all split up. Jayden, Erica, Gideon and Brutus were going to the left while me, Victor, Kylie and Miranda went to the middle and Kevin, Angela, and Keyes went right. Miranda immediately set off, but we quickly caught up with her. She wasn’t armed, but she was still in the lead. Kylie, still very suspicious of Miranda, wanted to spy on her. Obviously, that was useless, because Miranda already knew that we were following her. Kylie went up to Miranda and had a little talk with her, while Victor and I quietly followed behind, not making a single sound. We suddenly heard a scuttling sound through the roof, and it sounds like it’s crawling through the vents. Then, gunshots echoed through the building, and the thing quickly moved in the opposite direction. I sighed, knowing that it sounded like Kevin doing it, but again, you could never be sure. We pursued the thing underneath the vents, and Kylie wanted to see what it was. So Victor boosted her up, and a few seconds later her hand motions ‘down, down!’ and he let her down. Turns out, the thing was a full grown Drakarian. Looking behind me, I saw Miranda running towards something, then a bright blue gunshot towards her. I looked closer. The thing looked ridiculously like Kevin, but Miranda was still suspicious, threw one of her wooden pieces of a broken mop at him. It barely missed, and I froze, staring at him as he pointed his rifle towards himself, like he was commiting suicide. “Don’t do it!” I shouted, thinking that he was going to kill himself. He didn’t, thank the galaxies. We reunited with the people who went to the right and middle. Then, I felt something grab me and pull me into the engine room, but I couldn’t see. When everything cleared, there was a mirror in front of me. I pushed it, and it kind of wobbled. Then it struck me: This was not an actual mirror, this was some sort of creature, copying my every move. Anger pulsed through my veins, and I violently tried to throw the other “Laurel” towards the wall. “Maybe we should shoot the violent Laurel,” I heard my crewmates whisper. I rolled my eyes. Just because I was usually calm did not mean that I was always calm. After my temper tantrum, Kylie asked, “What is my biggest fear?” I immediately knew the answer, it was heights, but I knew that the other Laurel wouldn’t know since they were the imposter. So I said, “Let’s have the

other Laurel go first,” and oh boy, did they falter. So my dear crewmates mercilessly took out all their anger onto “Laurel” and they died. I smiled. Before, I thought that I was a pacifist and didn’t like violence, but now I loved it.

Angela Qi Jacob is panting and hurt. Kevin has a rifle. Keyes says he is not leaving until we find roman and says to split up. Kevin does not want to. Gideon has woken up. We split up and I'm with Kevin and Jacob going right because Keyes has - 2 charms and I have +2. Vanessa and Kylie go to the center. Jayden goes left with Erica and Victor goes to the center. Jayden and Erica go with Brudess and Gideon. As Kevin and Keyes go right, the corridor gets lighter. I get total success for sharp check. I know where this comes out. I hold Jacob back and this door opens up to the crater of where our ship is. Kevin drops a glow stick and it illuminates something large and it moves and the glow stick stops emitting light. We make our way back but we see a glass of a camera and Kevin shoots the camera. The lights go out, we head back. We take our flashlights and continue then we hear hurried footsteps. We turn off our lights and wait. An Asari comes to us and Kevin shoots in front of the asari to scare it away.

Kylie Chen

Mysterious Roman bled blue. He was a dracarion! Where did the real one go? Fake dracarion Roman got away. Vanessa, Victor and I decided to go left. We walked for a while and found Miranda. She was holding a broken mop and was upset that she did not know that Roman was the fake. I talked her out of being miserable and she started to feel better. Then she went with us. When we walked further, we heard voom… voom… voom… sounds. It sounded like something above us was moving forward. And it sounded like it was in a pipe! Suddenly, we heard a gunshot and the “Voom” sound started moving faster.I looked around and saw a wire that looked like a security camera wire. Then I caught up with Vanessa, Victor and Miranda. Then, Victor ripped off a piece of ceiling and lifted me up to see what was there. I saw the dracarion! The fake Roman! Then I told them that it was the fake Roman! Vanessa and Miranda kept on chasing the sound and I told Victor to use his rifle and shoot down the wire. When we were done, we caught up with Miranda and Vanessa. Then we ran into Kevin and Angela. Vanessa said “ Oh hi Kevin!“ Then Miranda said ”hold on, Vanessa, stay back. He is not Kevin!” Then Vanessa, Victor and I said that he is! Then Miranda had Kevin to say something only Kevin would know. Kevin said “ Uhhh…. I love doritos!” And Miranda said ”Oh, it is really you, Kevin!” Then we heard a bunch of gunshots again. Then we found a door. Victor opened the latch on the door and fog came out. Vanessa got dragged through the door! When the fog cleared out, there was a Vanessa standing by another Vanessa! We asked them questions. One Vanessa was super suspicious so we shot it. That Vanessa looked totally dead!

Jessica Cheng Justin’s crew made a plan to search the place where the dukarian spies hid, they were split up into 3 groups. One of the groups contained one extra person, Justin was in a group of 2. Justin and his partner searched the left side of the place while the other 2 groups searched the right and the middle of the place. Justin went into the large building, trying to defend himself with no armor . Justin heard a creepy sound that sounded like a generator. There were stairs that led to the basement that Justin and his partner were going down. His partner followed his trail and found a door that said keep out! Justin and his partner went in as slowly as they could, and once they went in they heard a strange noise coming out of a hole in the middle of the room. Justin was looking around and found a generator that was broken. Justin was curious what was inside the hole so he wanted to go down, but luckily his partner said stop and took out a glowstick, snapped it in half to make it glow and dropped it down the hole. It took a whole 20 minutes until we heard a thud from the glowstick falling to the ground at a terrific speed. Since the generator was broken, Justin tried to fix it and he did . Then it was time to meet up with the crew. Miranda was shooting at one of Justin’s crewmates because she thought it was a dukarien who dressed up as one of Justin’s crewmates, and did not hesitate to shoot. One of Justin’s crewmates said “tell us something only we would know about you” and he passed. He was the real one. However, there was a problem. There were 2 of Justin’s crewmates, one was real and one was fake which meant that one of them was a dukarien spy! When the first one spoke it sounded normal. The voice of the second one was weird and one of Justin’s crewmates said “tell us something only we know.” As a result, they found the fake one and shot the dukarien spy. When he was flat on the ground, Justin and his crew mates found a device on the dukarien’s arm. Justin inspected it and said that it was a transforming device. Justin’s crewmates said it would be perfect to disguise ourselves as dukariens and figure them out. They had a choice: to go to the real dukariens or go back to the fool's end and figure out how to make their disguises better.

CHAPTER NINE Gleebo's Lair

Gleebo’s Lair By Kevin Ji Kevin sat on the soft seat of the Pulse Fighter, staring out of the window looking for something exciting. Walking towards the meeting room, everyone gathered to discuss a plan. “Either we go to the Cocoon or we go to the Fool’s End. Those were the two options.” As the team discussed it, Kevin grabbed some scrap metal from his pocket and started to work on them. After making a shiny smoke bomb, Kevin looked out of the window and realized that they were heading to Fool’s End. Just in case, he snuck his smoke bomb into his pocket. BOOF! The Pulse Fighter landed on the hard metal ground. The crew walked out of the spaceship and straight into Fool’s End. To his surprise, the guards didn’t care at all. They were as slow as a sloth at realizing that. Jayden quickly put on the bracelet and turned into Roman. Kylie quickly took the bracelet from him and attempted to turn invisible but she still remained visible. As Kylie snuck across the dance floor thinking she was invisible, people began to follow her. Kevin raised an eyebrow at the strange action. Kylie was getting followed by a lot of people who thought that she was starting a conga line. Kevin watched as she got followed by more and more people. As Kylie distracted many people, Kevin saw Vanessa distract the person at the bar. Soon Jayden turned to face Gleebo’s office. “Hey Roman!” Said a voice. Kevin and Jayden quickly turned to see another Turian greet Roman or Jayden (disguised as Roman). Kevin wandered to another side of the hallway as Jayden continued the awkward conversation with that Turian. After waiting for a while for the conversation to end, Kevin finally walked past Jayden and went into Gleebo’s office. Miranda and the rest of the crew followed. As Kevin stumbled back, the crew approached a throne in the middle of the room. The chair spun around as Kevin saw a Drakarian. “I think we should free Algar.” Kevin whispered. “I agree.” Answered most of the crew. “When we get Algar, we will give you a couple thousand Cheebos.” Said Kevin to the Gleebo. “That's not enough,” laughed Gleebo. “How about ten thousand Cheebos?” Kevin raised his voice and looked directly into Gleebo’s eyes. “That’s the most we can offer or we will go away.”

Gleebo was silent, lost in thinking. “Let’s go.” Just as Kevin and his crew pretended to leave, Gleebo shouted out: “Done.” He took the ten thousand Cheebos and then tossed a remote to Roman. “Here, claim your friend.” Said Gleebo.

Gleebo’s Lair: We formed a group huddle, trying to make a plan, but it just ended up with us giggling and always getting off task. I sighed. All we managed to decide in our 15 minutes together was: 1) Jayden would attempt to turn into Roman to get some more Cheebo 2) We would try to clone the bracelet 3) Somehow, Kevin wanted to make a smoke bomb That was it, but we tried. We watched as Jayden put the bracelet on his wrist. Suddenly, it was Roman in front of us instead of him. He touched the key card, and we transferred the Cheebo to Angela’s card. Kevin worked on his smoke bomb, and after we, with Jayden as Roman, went back to Fool’s End to get some information off of Gleebo. Surprisingly, the guards let us in. I thought that we would have to break in, after the incident last time. Instead , they just opened the door, and we entered. A few minutes later, Kylie somehow had a conga line behind her. I went to the bar, to talk with the bartender. He gave me some info: - His name is Denton - He is Asari - It turned out we both crochet - He really liked ducks Afterwards, he and Miranda talked. Kylie’s conga line followed her as she walked up to the bar. I left to meet Jayden, still pretending to be Roman, to meet Gleebo. Miranda helped Jayden, and Gleebo was not impressed. I , trying to help, asked how his day was. That did not really help. Everything else wasn’t really helping either. We left, with Gleebo’s death threat still in our minds.

Session 9 - Gleebo's Lair

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In the beginning, we make plans to change into a Drakarian, and Jayden turns into Roman. Kevin thinks that he should make a smoke bomb in case something happens, so he makes one. Vanessa talks to a bartender named Denton, to gain more information. Meanwhile, Jayden pretends to be Roman and all of us go to find Gleebo. We talk to Gleebo because we want to know more about Drakarians, and we try to buy time for Jayden. We ended up buying Algar because we want to stay with Gleebo longer.

The odd day… I tried to be invisible but failed. I thought I was invisible and I was walking very sneakily. A bunch of people thought that I was dancing, so I ended up having many asari and turians following me. I had everyone follow me everywhere. At one point, one asari told another “ This dance is fun!” The other asari asked “but why do we keep on repeating the same movement?” I walked over to the party people and Angela was there. As well, all the asari and turians behind me came also. Then I just settled in with them.

Jayden Justin has made a device that can turn you into someone else as a disguise but not many of Justin’s crewmates successfully turned into someone. Most of Justin's crewmates barfed and took it right off and weren't qualified. At fool’s end, Justin and his crew were trying to talk with Gleebo. Justin had the transforming thing that can transform you into anyone you want. Justin was disguised as roman. On the way into the fool's end, ⅓ of Justin’s crewmates were distractingly dancing like there was a concert. While ⅔ of Justin’s crewmates were following Justin, one of Justin's crewmates wanted to be sneaky so Justin’s crewmate walked like a mummy . Justin’s crewmate did not know that she was being followed by a bunch of terians. They followed Justin's crewmate because they thought it was a good dance move! Justin, disguised as Roman, asked a barman who serves food and drinks. Miranda was with Justin. Justin asked the barman “where can I find Gleebo?”. The barman said “you have to have a little test before i tell you that.” The barman first took out a tablet that scans your fingerprint. Justin first answered “I got a concussion so I may not remember all the things.” Justin put his finger onto the tablet which went “ding,” that meant it was correct. Barman said “it will be fine, you'll remember.” Justin’s crewmate, the one that wanted to be sneaky still did not know that everybody was following her and leading them to Justin. Next the barman handed Justin a password processor. Justin knew the code when he and his crewmates were at Roman’s place. Justin typed “gleebosux” and that was correct. The next question was “when did you two (me and miranda) know each other?” Miranda passed Justin and BOOM, Justin ate it with no hesitation and miranda told him in his mind and got the question correct. The final question was “when is my b-day”. Justin said “I told you about my concussion, so I don’t think I remember.” Justin just guessed and got it wrong and thebar man said that it was on July 7th and Justin said “oh yeah, now I remember!” He just passed the test and was ready to meet Gleebo. When Justin entered the room there was a voice that said “WELCOME WELCOME” it was Gleebo! Gleebo said “sit down please” amd they all sat down. It was an awkward talk and at the end Gleebo said “if I meet you again I will kill you!” Justin and his crew left and went back to their ship. Justin and his crew were deciding whether to go to the cocoon or not.

We decide to go back to the fool’s end and talk to Gleebo. Our plan is to go to the fool's end and have Jayden become Roman and try to get the money from gleebo. We then decide to transfer the money on Roman’s card to my card. We are at the fool's end and Jayden is looking like Roman. We leave Keyes in the ship since he might get recognized . We decide to collect information about decarians while Vanessa decides to talk to the bartender, and Kylie distracts the customers by leading them to dance. Vannesa says “what's your name” to the bartender and he says “Dentin” and that he is an asari. Vannesa says “how's your day” and Dentin says “amazing.” His hobby is crochet and Vanessa says the same. Dentin also loves ducks because they’re so silly and make dumb noises. Dentin’s boss is Gleebo and he lives in a small apartment, but he does not like gleebo and only works for the cheebo. We go to the bank and Jayden/Roman asks the guards where Gleebo is and I notice that my throat is sore . The guards say that they have to ask some security questions before we can enter. Jayden/Roman says “I was in a coma, so I don’t remember well.” Jayden drinks this weird liquid that makes you able to read minds . The first question is about the middle name of someone but Miranda tells Jayden through his mind, saying that Turner is the middle name. There are 2 more questions. After we answer them right, we get to go in.I decide to go into the office as well. Vanessa asks “how was your day” to Gleebo and he says “how was your day?” Vanessa says “good” and then gleebo says “good, until some people snuck into my office.” We tell gleebo that we will pay you 12 thousand cheebo to free Algar but he asks for 20 thousand. After considering, we say fine.

CHAPTER TEN Πθζζλεσ ανδ Σεψρετσ

Infiltrating the Cocoon By Kevin Ji WHIR! The Pulse Fighter made a sharp turn. The crew aboard destroyed the Pulse Fighter. The metal was steaming and the hanger was destroyed where the white worm was. It was very disturbing how there was a huge hole in the ground. While Miranda was explaining the plan Kevin taped a lot of pistols to the side of the ship. All they needed to do was to open the door and press the button. The pistols were cool on the Pulse Fighter. As they approached the Cocoon they saw the ruins of the Karma and the Drakarian Drones. There were asteroids of all sizes. Kevin was surprised when he looked out of the window. There were asteroids that looked like icebergs and some were like small rocks. Flying through space was very dizzy. The space ship was disguised like a Drakariun Drone. The outside was so sticky. The inside was bright and cheerful. It had mini Christmas lights flashing. Jayden, Kylie, Brutus and more were now disguised as Drakarians. Algar, Miranda, Angela were disguised as prisoners and Kevin was pretending to be a prisoner. Kevin slid something shiny into his jacket as they started to enter the cocoon. Drakarians waited at the Hanger Bay as they stared at the ‘fake’ Drakarian Drone. As the ship docked in the massive shuttle, the Drakarians were holding blaster rifles in their hands. The crew was surprised when they lowered their weapons and made them into stun mode. After the disguised Pulse Fighter landed into the Hanger Bay, the room stuck close behind them. The crew (half disguised Drakarian) stumbled down the stairs of the Pulse Fighter. The crew stumbled from the Pulse Fighter and fell. It was so awkward when the disguised crew stumbled and the Drakarians loaded their weapons. As Brutus did something to distract the Drakarians, the crew sneaked past the hallway as Kylie scouted the entrance. There was a camera on the ground. It was ruined, it had ashes on it blue blood. That meant that an enemy of the Drakarians was here. Could it be Captain Keys and his crew? Kevin stared at the broken radio. On the radio were Captain Keys and his friends fighting the Drakarians. They were really badly injured and wounded. A huge bug monster sneaked around them and attacked the crew. Brutus knocked him in the head as the crew mates splattered face first on the ground. The bug hit Jayden and he fell back. Kevin could hear someone get their jaw cracked. There were a lot of rifle fires but the bug appeared to be moving and not wounded at all! They fell on the ground wounded. Brutus got knocked on the floor with a wound. ROOAAARRR! The bug Kevin got flung across the room and landed on the other side. It gave him a little headache. He threw the little silver thing towards the bug. BRINNG! All everyone could see was...nothing. The silver thing was not a dime or something. It was a smoke bomb. The loud ringing sound continued ringing in his ear. He thought he may have gone deaf. Meanwhile, Kylie dragged the motionless body to the end of the hallway, to hide it. Unexpectedly, someone grabbed Jayden and pulled him into a wall, thinking he was a Drakarian. Then Victor looked around looking for Jayden. Suddenly he got vitally hit by the shadowy figure. “Run!” said one figure emerging from the shadows. It was Caption Keys.

Vanessa Chen Infiltrating the Cocoon: We successfully connected the bracelet to the ship. It cloakes the outside of the ship, making it look like the outside was a Drakarian ship, even though the inside was still our old federal ship. I hear Kylie and Keys talk, but as per usual, I don’t really pay attention. I only cut into the talk when Brutus puts this ridiculous plan up. I immediately shut it down. “No, that’s really stupid.” And everyone agreed with me. Miranda proposes another plan, and it’s the one we go with. Either we have to be a prisoner or a Drakarian. I chose to be a prisoner as my acting skills are not the best. I felt the ship move as we parked in formation with the other Drakarian ships. Angela receives a message, and I watch as she responds. I sucked in my breath, waiting for the moment. We got accepted, and I let out my breath that I knew that I was holding in. Everyone got ready for our plan to go into action. Someone, put handcuffs on me, and I sighed. It was really uncomfortable. As we entered the room, lots of things happened. We weren’t pulling off a good act, and more Drakarians started to gather around, some suspicious. Brutus, taking in orders from McKyle, pretends to get angry and starts to “fight” McKyle, and then proceeds to hit all of us except Kylie. I didn’t wince as he hit me, it didn’t really hurt, and besides, his name. Angela found a passage where no one would follow us, so I quickly redirected Jayden and we followed her. After a couple of twists and turns, we arrived at a fork, with a door in front of us. Victor inspects the door, then lifts his knuckle, about to knock, but then hesitated and didn’t. Brutus, then, lifted his k nuckle, but me and Victor managed to convince him not to. We marched in a line, I was fourth in line. Kylie, at the front, decided to leave to scout out something when we heard chattering. She (Kylie) brings back a boot, and we discover a video camera. It shows Keys’ (James) and his crew, saying goodbye to the camera, not really knowing what would happen to them. It showed next, the crew fighting Drakarians and then proceeded to be dragged into the darkness. Then, Angela noticed a giant Drakarian warrior, and it attacked her. Kevin, finally using something for once, threw his smoke bomb, and it bursted; we weren’t able to see the Drakarian and vice versa. I dashed to save Angela, but it noticed me, and we both got hit by it. Bleh, that didn’t feel very nice. Soon, the Drakarian dies, and I wanted to hide the body, so I decided to drag the body towards the left, seeing that we had walked in the right way of the fork. I found a little nook in the path, and stuck the body there. Suddenly, Jayden gets pulled by a Drakarian arm, and gets blasted. He, at that moment, didn’t look well. The arm pointed at Victor and said, “I know you are there!” I narrowed my eyes. I recognize that voice. And out emerged Keys. “Run Angela!” he yelled to her. Angela took off, but I called for her to come back. “Why, Laurel?” “Because that’s

Jayden, and that’s Victor.” I said, pointing at each person as I talked. Keys’ response was what I thought it would be. “What other shit?”

Victor - Session 10 - Infiltrating the Cocoon

In the beginning, we enter the massive and disgusting cocoon ship to rescue Captain Keys. I find a room and start investigating anything that is unknown to me. Kylie starts investigating the weird panel in the room and tries to get information about it. When we are done investigating, we head out and go down the right hallway. We find some Drakarians talking and we send Kylie to scout what they are talking about. When she heads back, we find a video about some Federation members fighting and we see Captain Keys. When we finish we continue walking but then we see a Drakarian in front of us! So we kill the Drakarian and hide the body where no one can see it. When we start walking again Jacob Keys accidentally mistakes Jayden and me for Drakarians and shoots us in the face. Vannessa then told Jacob Keys that it was actually Jayden and me that were the Drakarians.

Jayden Cheng Justin and his crew made a plan to go to the cocoon. On their way Justin somehow froze. Justinâ&#x20AC;?s crew tried to unfreeze him by using a weapon and they successfully unfroze him.They started looking around the cocoon.

Kylie Chen I was a Dracarian and we were heading to save Captain Keys and his crew. On our way we found out that the only one who was not caught was Captain Keys. There was a panel on the roof. Captain Keys tapped it and it glowed red. Then he used his Dracarian hand and tapped it, it glowed green. We unlocked it and found out that Techsupport had changed the Dracarians password. We went in and saved everyone then found out that Miranda was in the jail cell! I checked her blood and it was green, that means the Miranda and Brutus that was with us the whole time was fake!

CHAPTER ELEVEN Πθζζλεσ ανδ Σεψρετσ Breaking In

Breaking In

By Kevin Ji

The crew made a sharp turn then they stopped. There was a huge door with a pass code. Knock! Knock! James Keys knocked on the door. A couple seconds later some sound inside was heard. “Oh, some of our crew must be inside.” said James Keys. “We will try to figure out the code to open the door.” Kevin replied while examining the lock. All the Drakarian letters on the lock looked so weird. And there was also a small sticky note written in Drakarian beside the lock. Keys pulled out an Ipad-like thing with the message written in Drakarian and tried to translate Drakarian into English with his crew Kevin, Vanessa, Kylie and Jayden. While Brutus(a security guard) turned around watching guard, the crew figured out that what was written in the note was “Setting a strong password.” What could the strong password be? They tried different combinations but all failed. The clock was ticking and suddenly a thought struck Kevin and he pressed the “Strong password” on the clock and the door surprisingly opened, which made Kevin question the intelligence of Drakarians. As soon as the door peeled open, the prisoners inside had their hands ready to fight. They lowered them as they saw James Keys. Kevin scanned the room and saw many crew mates. Miranda was there as well...But wasn’t Miranda at the Pulse Fighter. Kevin knew straight away he knew one of them was an imposter. “So who was in charge when I was here?” asked Miranda. There was a pause. “You!” said Vanessa. “Now prove you are not a Drakarian.” said Kevin. Miranda spoke clearly, “When I entered one room in the throne room of Drakarians, all I saw was darkness. Then after a bright light, someone that looked identical to me suddenly appeared. I was then pulled into darkness and woke up here with the rest of the crew.” “So that means…” said Kevin, “that means the other Miranda was fake.”

Vanessa Breaking In: We patched up Victor and Jayden, and Kylie and Kevin tried to convince Keys to believe that there were no Drakarians among us. Keys doesn’t really believe us and Victor had to drop his disguise. After that though, he believed us. He then shows us using that Drakarian hand of his, how he scanned through the big door, and then we see that there’s a code. I sighed. Why are there so many codes to break on our mission? I asked McKyle if he could relay this to Miranda; he did, but we were not 100% sure if she received it. After a very long time, something finally struck in my brain. I realized that with our little hint (a piece of paper Keys somehow manages to translate or guess), that the Drakarian alphabet is the QWERTY keyboard. So with that helping us, we managed to get it, though my team, trying to cheat, managed the screen to flash with a warning sign. Keys, thankfully, chose the right option and we continued. The username was: techsupport, and the password was: strong code. The door clicked open, and we entered the jail cell. We walked around, with multiple people greeting Keys and we did some med support. And then, while we were cruising at the back, two people jumped up. “Hello, Keys,” greeted Commander Miranda Reynolds. My mouth went slightly open when I saw her. Nothing in my brain clicked. I also spotted Garus. Kylie decided to do a blood test on Miranda while Keys talked to Garus. She (Kylie) took out some of Miranda’s blood. Green, like an Asari’s. I also recall the other Miranda (currently on the Pulse Fighter) not agreeing to do a blood test when asked about it. Miranda told us about how after she entered the room in the cocoon, something had kidnapped her and she saw a mirror. I told her about the mirror I saw too, when the Drakarian tried to ‘become me.’ I shuddered, not wanting to relive those horrid memories. Well then, I guess there are imposters. I wanted to run out of this cocoon and jump off into nowhere, and never return. I absolutely hate surprises, and there have been so many plot twists that I’m surprised that I’m not even dead yet.

Victor - Session 11 In the beginning, we got ambushed by some Drakarians in the cocoon, but we managed to kill them. We entered a room where there was a keyboard and some Drakarian words on it. We found out that a door needed a code to get through, so we decided to try and find the code. It took us a very long time, but eventually, we managed to find the code for the Drakarian keyboard. The code for the second was, â&#x20AC;&#x153; qwertyuiop, asdfghjkl, and zxcvbnm. â&#x20AC;&#x153; Right when we entered the code, the door opened and a horrible smell that smelled like sweat came out. When all of the steam was released, we found members of the Federation getting ready to fight us at the door. Captain Keys told them to stand down and not to fight us. We then start to heal them and try to make them better for the next couple of hours. We find out that the people in the front have been here shorter and the people in the back have been here longer. As we walk farther in the back we find Miranda and Garis in bad condition, but they recognize us. After a while, we find out that the Miranda that was on the ship with us is actually a Drakarian in disguise.

Kylie I was a dracarian and we were heading to save Captain Keys and his crew. On our way we found out that the only one who was not caught was Captain Keys. There was a panel on the roof, Captain Keys tapped it, It glowed red then he used his dracarian hand and tapped it, it glowed green. We unlocked it and found out that Techsupport had changed the dracarians password. We went in and saved everyone then found out that Miranda was in the jail cell! I checked her blood and it was green, that means the Miranda and Brutus that was with us the whole time was fake!

Jayden Cheng Justin and his crew were in their spaceship flying to the cocoon. When they arrived in the cocoon, they were searching for a dungeon because Captain Keys was captured by the Dukariens. Justin and his crew found a door to a dungeon but it was locked. Captain Keys translated English into Dukarien language and said help in Dukarien. Justin took that and there was a guard guarding the prison door. One of Justin’s crew mates killed the guard. One of Justin’s crew mates tried to open the door and an incorrect sound flickered on. But when another one of Justin’s crew mate took the dead Dukariens and tried to open it, it went “ding''. With a green light, it showed Dukarien words. Justin used Captain key’s translation for “help me” and filled the boxes with the same characters and then figured out that the two words said “Username” and “password”. One of Justin’s crew mates guessed the other blanks and they noticed it was the same alphabet as a keyboard and now they know the Dukarien language. Justin and his crew started to guess the password and first for the password they guessed Gleebosuck. It was incorrect, they tried different words and some letters popped up green and one of Justin’s crew mates tried the same letter for the username like “aaaaaaaaaaaa”. A screen popped up and said “are you a bot? click yes or no” in Dukariein language, since they knew the alphabet they knew what it was saying. When they clicked “no” another question popped up and it was a verification, it said “select the one that is a _____ bug”. They guessed, were lucky and got it correct. After that no one wanted to guess like how one of Justin’s crew mates guessed. They tried and tried and one of Justin’s crew mates said the Dukariens were going to see us, so we have to put someone on security. They put two of Justin's crew mates on security. It took more than half an hour to get the username and the password correct. After they got it correct the door opened, a lot of steam and an unpleasant smell came out. There they were Captain keyes and the rest of them in the dungeon. All the federals stood and came in a fighting position and were ready to fight. There were a few wounded federals. Captain says put your fists down, it's us. The federals in the dungeon put their fist down and talked. One of them who was called Miranda said “who was your commander while I was gone”? “Miranda was our commander'', one of Justin’s crew mates said. “But my name is Miranda,” said the Miranda in the dungeon. Now there are 2 Miranda’s, one is fake and one is real.

Angela Qi Jayden and Victor have low health so Kylie heals Jayden (mix success) and Erica heals Victor (mix success). Captain Keyes thinks that Kylie is a Decarian so Kylie walks towards Captain Keyes and Kylie tells him she is Kylie, disguised as a Decarian. He says someone drop your disguise and then he will believe. Victor and Kylie transform back to human and Captain Keyes believes us now. There is a door in front of us and Captain Keyes knocks on the door and it knocks back. Keyes walks towards the screen next to the door and says check this out and it blinks red. But when he uses a Decarian arm, it does not blink red. We see this screen and Keyes passes us a note that says “help us please”. He believes this is from people in the room. We try to hack the screen so we can get through the door. We finally succeeded in learning their keyboard so we translated it. The screen gave us a verification question because we tried the password too many times. Captain Keyes got the question right. We continued trying to hack. We finally figured out the username is ‘techsupport’. We finally get the password which is ‘strongcode’ and the door opens. Weird gas came out and we smelt a terrible smell. We saw many members of the federation ready to fight. Many are injured. We asked how long they have been there and most say they had been there for 3 days.

We level up and I choose sharp again because that's my worst one. Kylie and jayden are still in disguise. We decide where we should go in the cocoon. We decided we should go the way to the battleground together. Vannesa asks James Keyes if he has a sibling because Jacob is sus (no success). James says you met Jacob, he is missing. We say his brother is on our ship and he says okay this is a lot. We go to the battleground and we see a lot of drones. We exit the room and continue down the hallway. We see a dark room and kylie pooks her head in. She sees one drone against the wall with a tube connecting to its head. Kylie goes into the room and kylie. The tube is filled with this like living of this liquid with water and a lot of sugar and another ingredient we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know. You can easily stab it in your own brain. I hear a sound behind me and I see a dekarian drone not doing anything. I tell the other people there is a drone.it starts to lick me. I back away. Kevin takes out the iron rod and wacks the decarian in the head. Victor hits him with the stumboton and the decarian collapse.Another Decarian comes to kylie and kylie pretends to be a decarian.

CHAPTER TWELVE Πθζζλεσ ανδ Σεψρετσ In the Cocoon

Vanessa Chen Deeper into the Cocoon: We decided to travel deeper into the ship together. After many rounds of “left or right?”, we went through many twists and turns. We then stop in front of a room. We examined the room for a bit, until Angela warned us of a drone Drakarian, waiting behind us. Kevin stepped up, and decided to play dead. The drone just picked him up, and dropped him off somewhere. I snorted. If this was a D&D game (it’s a very old game called Dungeons and Dragons), then this drone would have a -3 sharp. Kevin hurries back, and tells us not to worry, as for he was just deposited at the cell door that we had previously broken through. Kevin, again, did some scouting and told us what he saw. I didn’t listen in, and I uh, tend to drift off a lot and not pay attention. (Sorry, Kevin.) So we scooted around the place a bit more, checking stuff out and running away from others. Until we noticed something, and Kylie decided to head off and scout for us. She scuttled off, and we spotted a warrior Drakarian. Kevin, for some ridiculous reason, decided to throw one of those metal rods he collected from the asteroid that Fool’s End was on. He did some decent damage, but the monster swooped down, ready to kill him. Victor saves him. At this point, I feel like Victor will save everyone, if he has not done that already. Then me, Victor, and Kevin all square up to fight this Drakarian. We manage to do something, I suppose, because unfortunately, I don’t really remember. What I do remember, is that I got another injury from that, and therefore, I don’t have really good stamina. Then we all ran down the stairway at the back, knowing that we didn’t have much time to escape. We end up at this room, with a lot of other tunnels leading to the same room, with another large tunnel leading on the opposite side. Kylie, having extremely good luck and a Drakarian disguise, started to scout for us. We waited for a long time. We waited and waited, plus some people were getting a bit restless. I told them that they could scout while Kylie was on her excursion. 15 minutes have passed. Then 30.

Victor - Session 12 - Deeper into the Cocoon In the beginning, we decide to go deeper down the hallway and to try and get out of the cocoon. When we go further down the hallway, we come across a three-way path. Kylie decides to peek inside one of the rooms to see what is inside. Kylie sees a Drone that is inside with its head connected to a tube, and the tubes are dangling from the roof. Kylie scouts and finds out that behind the Drone, there is a bowl that looks like it was from the prison cell, and it seems very sweet. When we are done examining it, Angela turns around and sees a Drakarian Drone staring at her menacingly. The Drone picks up Kevin and brings him away but he comes back, and Angela slaps the Drone. We continue down the hallway and enter a room that has a very big Drakrian and a Drone. We then come across a room where two Drakarians are arguing with each other about something. Kylie goes into the room and goes to the other Drakrian in the other room. While we were waiting for Kylie, a Drakarian accidentally comes in front of us and we kill it. We meet up with Kylie at the other entrance then walk further along the hallway. We find the queenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s chamber and Kylie sneakily tries to sneak past the queen to get to the ship. We wait a long time for Kylie to come back but she does not so I peek inside to see what is happening. I watch as Kylie goes inside a room and presses a Node that peels open the door to the Pulse Fighter. Kylie goes inside the ship, not seeing anyone at first, gets worried but then she hears a toilet flush and Gideon comes out.

Jayden Cheng Justin and his crew were exploring the massive ship. There was a big hallway to many other rooms. The hallways were not like normal ones. It seemed like the gigantic cocoon where the inside was made out of organic material. Justin and his crew were walking in the hallway and they saw a drone room and a fighting pit. Justin and his crew went to the fighting pit because they wouldn’t want the drones sensing them. When they were at the fighting pit they looked around until a drone came. Everybody froze and did not dare to even move a muscle. The drone picked up one of Justin’s crew mates and went out of the room, while it was flying out of the room it was poking Justin’s crew mate with its tongue. One of Justin’s crew mates shot down the drone. If they hadn’t, Justin’s crew mate that was picked up by the drone would have been gone. They ran away not to give away the clue that they shot down a drone. As they went up, they discovered more rooms and found some knights but kept cover. Justin and his crew found this one room that seemed like an exit. One of Justin’s crew mates was in disguise and so was Justin. That one of Justin’s crew mates split up with Justin and his other crewmates. Justin’s crew mate said the plan was “I go in and look around for and exit and you stay here”. Justin and the rest of the crew said “ok and be safe”. Justin’s crew mate looked in the room that they thought was an exit. There were a bunch of knights guarding it. They were attracted by something happening in another room and left. Justin’s crew mate found a spiral staircase to the basement. Justin’s crewmate went back to Justin and the rest and said “Come, I found a staircase to a basement!” . They followed Justin’s crewmate and went down the spiral staircase leading them to the basement. Justin’s crew mate split up again and saw a big bug that at the end was connected to 3 tubes and was fed eggs by drones. Also they knew the drones were dumb, they were mostly frightened by the big bug in front of them not far away. Justin’s crew mate wanted to get to the other side and actually made it there. They continued exploring and found a small room right beside them. Justin’s crew mate went in and saw only 5 holes, 3 in the front and 2 at the back. Justin’s crewmate peeked through the holes and saw their ship. In the other hole she saw a pathway and went in.

CHAPTER THIRTEEN Back to the Bridge

Death in the Cocoon By Kevin Ji

There was a gigantic Drakarian in the center. It looked like a giant spider. Kevin tried his best not to scream. Jayden took one look behind them and ran. James announced “We have to go there and there are Drakarians behind us coming.” The group walked into a single file line. “Oops!” Kevin tripped on the hard rocky ground. No one seemed to hear it but the queen turned around and saw Jayden. The queen swung her gigantic leg around to hit the group. Kevin ducked as the leg swooped past him. He looked up at the tunnels. Before he knew it he had been pinned by the arm of the queen. Angela quickly threw a rock at the head of the beast. And Kevin quickly pulled out his sound bomb and threw it. Ring! the sound nearly perforated everyone’s eardrums. Because the Drakarians are sound sensitive so the queen crawled away. Kevin wondered that they still hadn’t heard from Kylie. The crew finally arrived at the end of the tunnel which led to four other tunnels. “I suggest we go this way.” declared Captain Keys as he pointed at the second tunnel. They wandered in to find the Pulse Fighter parking where it used to be. Everything seemed normal but there were two Drakarian ships beside them. “We should sabotage those ships in case they come after us later.” said Keys. Angela, Garus and Kevin ran to one of the vehicles. There were two Drakarians, one of them was playing a bouncy ball. One of the crew mates grabbed it and chucked it away. The Drakarian was mad. Angela proceeded to grab a tool and knocked him out as Garus sprayed some words on the spacecraft. Finally, the whole group gathered and entered the ship. As the door closed right behind them, the lights flashed red and the ship began to fly. The battle just began.

Victor - Session 13 - Death in the Cocoon In the beginning in the Pulse fighter, Kylie finds Gideon and Gideon thinks Kylie is a Drakarian but Kylie finally convinces Gideon itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just a disguise. Meanwhile, in the queenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s chamber, we are still waiting for Kylie to come back and tell us what is going on. Jayden puts on his disguise and goes to find Kylie at the Pulse Fighter, and tries not to get noticed. Angela is tired of waiting and goes with Jayden to find Kylie and the Pulse Fighter. On the ship, Kylie tries to find the Drakarian Miranda, she searches everywhere and finally finds her at the bridge. When Kylie finds her she tells her that she knows she is a Drakarian but we can all be friends. Drakarian Miranda then asks where Gideon is, and she does not want to be friends with humans, the crewmates start to walk to Kylie and they kidnap her.

We have a new crewmate named Will, who is from the Pillar of Autumn. He doesn’t talk that much, and I don’t really bother to talk to him either. I’m not really the most social person in the entire world. Jayden decides to leave us, for he is the only one who has a Drakarian disguise. He cautiously slips through the entrance, but I don’t really pay attention. Kylie has been gone for quite some time now. Angela, who is without a disguise, also decides to check the area. As we watch, she enters the room quietly. Then I spot a Drakarian warrior inching towards Angela, and I zone in on the two living beings in front of my eyes. I moved a little closer towards the entrance, and noticed that Angela put her hair in front of her face. I sighed. I remembered from last time we fought a Drakarian that they are partially blind, so basically that’s not going to help Angela at all. Suddenly, I hear some sounds. Then it all comes crashing down on me. We were running from some Drakarians after killing one, and they were chasing us. I think. Weird vibrations run through the room. I shudder. I then noticed some flashes of yellow, but my mind was too preoccupied thinking about the Drakarians that were chasing us. Then, I hear tiny stomps getting louder and louder, like a whole lot of people are running towards us which is probably happening. We decided to enter the room. I felt my eyes pop out of their sockets. There, in front of us, in the middle of the room, was a giant Drakarian. My best guess is that it would be the queen, for this giant monstrosity had a feminine look to it and I could hear some higher pitched sounds coming from it. But it wasn’t up to me to judge its gender, I mean, look at myself. Most of us stayed silent, but Kevin and Erica both made gagging noises. I know for a fact that one of Kevin’s fears is of bugs, and Drakarians are extremely bug-like. Erica, I’m not 100% sure about her fears, but she did look really scared after seeing the-I’m guessing is the ruler-Drakarian. The hideous monstrosity turned towards us. “Calm down. There is nothing to worry about, little meals,” said its voice. It really did sound feminine, but I’m just going to stay gender neutral here and call this Drakarian an ‘it’. Now, back on track. I felt these weird vibrations coming from it, and I was like in a trance, walking towards the giant bug. Using my other senses, I could see that it was not only me who was being drawn towards it. Suddenly, I heard the unmistakable voice of Angela that breaks the trance. “Be a banana for Halloween!” I felt some sort of yellow goo on my body and it glowed as I tried to get it off. Bleh. The floor shook, and rubble fell around me as one of the Drakarian’s giant pincers tried to stab me. Luckily, I managed to dodge it, and as I looked around, everyone else looked fine, except for Victor, who unfortunately was impaled. My mouth tightened and I grabbed my dagger to free him. After a bit of slashing and jabbing, I freed him. I heard a yell that came from Kevin and then a bam as he was pinned against the wall. As I turned to save him, my feet didn’t move when I saw Erica running to save Angela, who was right underneath the ruler Drakarian. When I turned back, Kevin had

freed himself and was muttering, “I’m fine, I’m fine,” while brushing organic matter off of his uniform. We ran down a tunnel, led by Keys, and entered a room full of Drakarians. My eyes darted from being to being, but there was no sign of Kylie. We were heading towards the direction of the Pulse Fighter, but in the end decided that we would be sabotaging some Drakarian ships. To be honest, I don’t really remember much at all, only that me, Erica, Will and Miranda hid behind a tool bench and watched as Jayden talked to a Drakarian and meddled with the Drakarian ship. After finishing that, we returned to the Pulse Fighter. I raised an eyebrow when we saw the other group throwing comic books at an angry Drakarian. After meeting up again, we all decided that we would head to weapons. Then, following us beating up a drone, we talked with a dude named Tim, but he didn’t tell us much.

CHAPTER FOURTEEN The Final Βαττλε

Final battle

By Kevin Ji

Kevin entered the ship as the whole team gathered together to prepare for the battle against the fake Miranda. “We need something to defend ourselves.'' Kevin replied. Tim looked at Kevin and said “I have a death laser I was about to throw away.” “Give it to Kevin.” said Vanessa. Tim dropped the laser in Kevin’s outstretched hands. BOOM! Kevin fell to the ground because of the heavy weight of the laser. The alarm went off as the speakers said “Federation people to the bridge.” A red light flashed around the room. “Whelp! That's my cue to leave.” As Tim transformed into Algar, he hopped out the vent and left. “Good luck!” Ge announced. Kevin and Vanessa walked to the bay and got Miranda, James Keys and Gertrude. Kevin wondered that they hadn't heard from Kylie or the rest of the crew. “Let’s go defeat the imposter!” said the rest of the crew. As the federation officers entered the bridge, the door slammed behind them as tons of Drakarian drones were around the imposter. Soon enough Kylie fell from the vent above. Jacob Keys also emerged from the vents. Kevin aimed the laser gun at the drones and started to charge. Vanessa tossed a knife at Kylie. Kylie caught it in mid air. BOOF! The laser shot and disintegrated the drones and went straight through them. The laser busted through the wall. So many things got sucked into space. Kevin bumped into the window as Vanessa floated out the window. Kevin saw Will run into the imposter and attempted to do damage but ended up getting cut in half. Kevin aimed his laser again at the imposter. Kylie threw a knife at the imposter but it did nothing except distract it for a second. Boom! The laser Kevin was holding was fully charged up and disintegrated the imposter. Another hole was busted through the wall. Vanessa slowly came back from space with an oxygen mask. A few minutes later, the hole was gone and everything returned to normal. They sailed back from the Drakarian ship to the violet Nebula, but that was not all. Their story wasn’t over yet. Drakarian ships were back. The Pulse Fighter shot heavily at the ships. The lights turned red again. They have detected a bomb. The ships shot at the wings of the Fighter but Kevin was busy disarming the bomb. The Pulse Fighter tilted over as Kevin’s head slammed into the wall. The Pulse Fighter tilted again. The fire was spreading around the wing. Kevin kept decoding the bomb and the password was ‘disarm the bomb’. Kevin checked the window and it was clear. The mission was finished and they won the fight finally.

He then turned into Algar. I sighed. He was holding a giant laser gun, and I knew that Kevin had been begging for a weapon since the beginning of time, so I told Algar to give the giant laser gun to Kevin, and he did. Then the speakers crackled to life. “Away party please return to the bridge, I repeat, away party please return the bridge,” said the imposter Miranda. My body froze. This was it. The ‘final boss battle’ in those video games would be appropriate. But the difference was that in this world, you don’t respawn if you die. Once you die, you die. Sure, you will get reincarnated, but your reincarnation won’t be you. It’ll be someone else. So you have to plan out every move carefully, and take extra precautions, because you’ll never know when someone leaves you. Suddenly, Keyes’ voice snapped me out of my thoughts. “This way!” We follow him, walking into the room beside the bridge. Imposter Miranda looked at Real Miranda, and there was an awkward silence. Then, Algar dropped down, threw a grey can, and ran away. I walked up to it, and cautiously examined it. Everyone else, excluding Jayden, backed away. As I looked at it, I realized that this is one of the bombs that exploded. I tried to warn Jayden and back away, but it was too late. The bomb exploded on both me and Jayden. I could feel it burning my face, and oh, it hurt like I was bathing my face in fire. Angela tried to help, but I guess she was really shaken up, since she just threw everything from the first AID kit at me. I sighed, crawled around to collect all of the materials, and tried to heal myself. Erica stood up to assist me, but she was also pretty shaken up, and just sat there, body trembling. I glanced around the room, and then noticed that Kylie was fighting against the imposter Miranda, who was slowly turning into a warrior Drakarian. I quickly unsheathed the dagger, and tossed it to her. Thankfully, Kylie caught it with no trouble. Suddenly, Kevin, with the giant laser gun, shot a laser at two drone Drakarians, basically turning them into ash. Unfortunately, the laser also broke the Pulse Fighter, getting rid of our disguise, but we were already leaving the cocoon. The laser made this big hole, and the majority of people thankfully did not fly out of the ship, but sadly, me and Erica flew out of the hole and into space. For a second I froze, because there was no oxygen in space. Afterwards, though, our helmets activated, and the emergency oxygen filled the helmet. I took a deep sigh. After a very quick conversation with Erica, we decided that we would try to catch up with the ship. After activating our boots, we managed to land on the roof of the ship. Erica healed me, and I tried to listen in on what was going on inside the ship. The airlock sprung open, and we quickly rushed in. I spotted Kevin aiming the laser gun at the warrior Drakarian, but nothing happened. I noticed that the thing was smoking, probably going to explode and my mind yelled at him to throw it at the Drakarian. My mouth did not open, but it seemed like Kevin was thinking the same thing as he tossed the gun at the Drakarian. Thankfully, it was too stupid to know what was going on, and as the thing exploded in it’s face, I spotted a dagger that also shot

towards it. As the smoke cleared, all that was left of the warrior Drakarian was ash. After that battle, the engineers decided to repair the ship. We managed to fix most of the major damages, but not all. Then, it was time to battle the cocoon. As everyone else argued over what to do, I hit the red ‘fire’ button, and the Pulse Fighter fired at the cocoon. We battled a bit, I don’t really remember much, just that I repaired a lot. After winning the battle and the cocoon exploded, we healed up, and returned to Earth. Then, while the ship was still in quarantine, Angela quickly called an emergency meeting. Apparently, there is a bomb, inside the ship, and we are all going to die.

Angela Qi Tim is a Turian and Brad is a Drakarian. We see that Tim is wearing a sneaky bracelet. Tim gives Kevin a weapon that is the size of a dog that says “experimental”. This weapon is a death lazer. Kylie is saved by Jacob Keyes and follows Jacob. The lights turn off and emergency lights come on. A voice says go to the bridge. We don’t know where Kylie is. We go back to the launch bay and we see the real Miranda. We tell real Miranda that the fake Miranda wants to fight us. Keyes pulls out a weapon and walks towards the bridge. We walk into the room and James and Jacob look at each other. Real Miranda sees Fake Miranda and freezes. We then see Algar come out of the vent and throw something at us. I move back. Jayden tries to catch it but misses. Vanessa examines it and it's a grenade that explodes. Vanesa takes 5 health damage and now has 2 remaining. We see Jacob and Kylie come out, but Kylie hangs upside down and gets hit in the face. Will gets sliced in half by a half-Drakarian, half-Asari thing. Several Asari get their stun batons and attack us. Kylie frees herself from off the roof. I try to get a first aid kit. I move toward Vanessa. I drop medical supplies in Vanessa. Vanessa goes back up to four health. We hear a laser burst and vaporize 2 drones. Vanessa gets sucked out and says “avenge me.” Erica also gets sucked out. I collide right next to the hole but a protection bubble closes the hole. Vanessa and Erica launch themselves onto the roof of the ship. I try to kick the drone but miss and it hits me with its stun baton and I lose 2 health. Other crewmates come and Max punches the drone and James kills it with a fire extinguisher. I try to kick the drone again but get hit by the stun baton . We see 3 Drakarian ships moving toward us. One moves towards us and we fire. We blow up the ship in front of us. We repair our ship and fire. Kylie decides to jump off the ship and go to the other Drakarian ship. We fire at the Drakarian ship and obliterate it but receive damage from the one behind us. We move forward and then left. Kylie is exposed in space. We turn towards the cocoon and James hits the fire button. The cocoon charges at us and we turn to the left, then turn to the right and fire. It fires back at us, and our ship is on fire. We see the Karma hit Kylie and Kylie is on the front of the Karma. We repair our ship twice and we are back to 7 health. We turn left and fire at the cocoon. The cocoon points its laser cannon at us and we go backward, losing 1 health. We hit the cocoon and it also hit us. We fire again at the cocoon and it burns and disappears. We get ready to go back home. We fill our logs with everything we did in our journey. We think of our family and friends back home. We make our way back to central command but it is empty. I walk down the hallway and hear a beeping noise. I follow it and it reveals the biggest bomb I’ve ever seen. We have to stop the bomb, we ask the drones but they don't know, so we continue to try. I end up disarming the bomb. Finally, our mission is over.

Justin and his crew were in a place searching for one of Justin’s crewmates because she was captured by the fake Miranda and put in a cell. Earlier, Justin’s crewmate went looking for Miranda and stopped by the pulse fighter. She took a look inside while still in her disguise. One of Justin’s crewmates was walking past and saw Justin’s crewmate, then they went into the washroom as quickly as possible and put the lock on, occupied. Justin’s crewmate said “it's just me!” Justin’s crewmate in the washroom slid the door open a tiny notch so that he could peek. Justin’s crewmate in the washroom said “yeah ? What do you need?” Justin’s crewmate said “where is Miranda?” Justin’s crewmate in the washroom said that she was at the bridge. Justin’s crewmate was walking to fake Miranda at the bridge and when she was there Justin’s crewmate said “I need to talk with you, Miranda.” Miranda said “ok”. After Justin’s crewmate was done talking, Miranda said “Drakariens and humans can’t get together.” Miranda ordered some drones to make a copy of her and take her to the cell. Justin’s crewmate luckily escaped the copying but was still put into a cell. Now Justin and his crew went looking for Justin's crewmate, who was stuck in the cell. Justin and his crew went back to the pulse fighter and saw people from our crew taking weapons and putting them somewhere else. One of Justin’s crewmates hit one of the people taking Justin and his crew's weapons. The person with him said “Oh, thank you, people in here are being replaced by replicas.” One of Justin’s crewmates said “are you one?” “No,” said Tim. Now Justin’s crewmates thought he was a replica. While Justin’s crewmate in the cell was chained, one of Justin’s crewmates broke free of the cell. They tried to free Justin’s crewmate but Justin’s crewmate who tried to free Justin’s other crewmate in the cell got hit with a bat kind of thing and fell to the ground in Justin's crewmate’s cell. The door slammed closed, but luckily a few moments later a person with green glowing things came and it was Jacob Keyes! Jacob Keyes unchained Justin’s crewmate and gave Justin’s crewmate a pair of goggles that can make you see better in the dark. Justin and his crew went in the open and were ready for a fight but one of Justin’s crewmates in the pulse fighter threw a can grenade. Justin tried to catch it but ended up blowing himself up and one of his other crewmates because she examined the can grenade. After that happened, Justin and his other crewmates were very unsteady. Justin crawled away and hid to heal. Now Justin’s crewmates were battling the fake Miranda. One of Justin’s crewmates went up and tried to hit Miranda but Miranda just sliced him into two with her dagger and then he was dead. One of Justin’s crewmates took out a death cannon then pointed it at the mini-dudes and said “move everyone!” Everybody moved out of the way and successfully blew the mini-dudes up. Then something happened and almost everyone got sucked out, but luckily a few people survived by holding on to something. Unfortunately, some people got sucked out. The people who got sucked out came back with their jet-packs. Justin’s crewmate aimed the death cannon at Miranda and successfully hit Miranda. Everybody went into the pulse fighter and flew back home. The cocoon was blocking Justin’s and his crewmates' way so they had to defeat it to fly back home. Little mini spaceships started to come out of the cocoon. After defeating the mini spaceships it was time to destroy the cocoon.The cocoon was charging up it’s gun and “pew” it went as fast as lighting but luckily Justin and his crew dodged it. Justin and his crew took aim and struck the cocoon’s left wing but it was still in the air. The cocoon struck Justin and his crew and now the pulse fighter was flaming up. Luckily one of the engineers fixed the motors. The pulse fighter took aim again and down went the cocoon at a terrific speed, in flames. Now Justin and his crew went back to earth

but when they were at earth they realised a bomb! Justin and his crewmates were now trying to decode it with what we already know. In the speakers in the pulse fighter Miranda (the real one) said â&#x20AC;&#x153; this is Miranda please go to the escape pods. Justin and his crew were trapped in there so they had to decode the bomb. They successfully decoded the bomb and lived happily ever after.

Thank you for reading!