This was Aiden’s worst day ever. So far he’d lost three friends, and destroyed the world, “What was next, Mars?” he thought. It had all unfolded in the most bizarre way, just one symbol, just one nanometer, and none of this would have happened. For all he knew, he would be eating corndogs and mashed potatoes at the school cafeteria! But instead he was wearing an oxygen mask, and floating slowly upward towards “the portal”. “The portal” was a giant opening that had been “ripped” in space when the “incident” had occurred. He still couldn’t believe how it had happened. He was walking to school with his now former best friends. On the way they stopped to chat at a café. Everything had seemed normal at the time, until they stepped in the “formation”. The “formation” was a rhombus on the café’s quartz plaza. At that moment, a trapdoor had opened, and Aiden and his friends had all fell inside, landing with a thud. The room was a long dimly lit hallway with a red button at the end; all of them had slowly walked to the button. We stood there until I had exclaimed “I’m going to press it”. Aiden’s friends had immediately begun to yell and protest, except Alex. “Let him do it guy’s” he said. “If he does it, he won’t be my friend anymore” said my other friend Bill The other two had quickly agreed. “Fine” I said. Then he pressed the button. The effects where not immediate. His friends had left, and he just stood there, wondering what he had just done. Then it had all happened in a blink of the eye. He had left the trap room, and continued walking to school, and then he suddenly started floating! He yelled, and screamed until he realized other people were also floating! That’s when he saw the “portal”. It was a giant door like opening, and was glowing dimly green. It was also pulling everyone towards it! A moment of panic began as people realized the oxygen was thinning! As if in response, the “portal” began spitting out oxygen masks! Now, here he was about two enter the portal, wondering what he had just done! Coming Back to Earth, 6-8, p.1 3..2..1.. touchdown. The extra- terrestrial grinned. “This is it.” He exclaimed “The day I conquer Earth & enslave all the worthless scums.” “But first, they will be tested through the portal of DOOM!” “Boss, are you sure you want to do this?” asked one of the E.T’s assistants “Shut up or I’ll !!!!!!” he replied “I’m sorry boss.” He said “Good.” “Now let us have slugs & a new thing I got from Earth, “tea”.” “Yum!” the assistant replied The E.T yelled to the man at the computer, “Have any of those disgusting creatures entered the portal yet?” “Yes five, sir.” He replied “And, how are our guests?” He smirked. “Terrible.” Aiden was running through a never ending field, of snakes. He had been the first one to enter the portal, the first one assigned to almost certain death. He had found a sword sticking out of the ground, the second he touched it, the sword had stuck to him. There was also a message engraved, it stated: “For the first one” “Thank you”. The message had wanted to make him hide, run, anything to get away from this portal. But he couldn’t, he had to continue to clear a path for the others. So, he had forcefully dove in head first (Not- literally, thank God) and so far he had counted 300 kills, of course he had stopped counting after that. Now, here he was running through an almost endless field, when suddenly he was on a cliff! What is this? He thought. “Don’t look down” he warned himself. Hastily, he began Coming Back to Earth, 6-8, p.2 climbing the endless cliff, when he noticed something was coming towards him, it was a... SCORPION!! It was like black rain!! They kept on coming, and coming, and coming!! That was it! He pushed on, catching scorpions on his sword, when suddenly the setting changed yet again. Now he was in a log cabin, with a fire and kitchen. He was hungry! Unfortunately, the only food he had was scorpions. He sighed. “I guess I have no choice” he said aloud. Luckily, he had learned to clean and eat scorpion, snakes, and more animals at summer camp last year. He cooked the scorpions, and then closed his eyes. “Okay, you are about to eat a delicious plate of pasta.” He explained to himself. Then he ate it, in one gulp. - The E.T’s walked along the dimly lit hallway where the foolish boy had made it all happen. “It is confirmed that all of them are in the portal?” asked the E.T commander “Yes, sir. It is confirmed” replied his assistant “Good, now to go to the next secret room.” He said “Enter the passcode” “ACCESS DENIED!” “PASSWORD INCORRET” said the computer “ Erarfnrnerar, please” said the commander “!” said the computer “ WHAT!!!!!” bellowed the commander “VOICE COMMAND ACCEPTED! NOW ACTIVATING VOICE RECONGITION SOFTWARE” challenged the computer “Oh shut up!” said the commander “BAD ATTITUDE DETECTED, ACCESS GRANTED” said the computer Coming Back to Earth, 6-8, p.3 Aiden was no longer at the cottage. He was walking in a -123 Celsius plain field. Well, minus the plain part. There were scorpions, snakes, monkeys and even dinosaurs, “so that’s what happened to the dinosaurs!” he thought. It had now been about 3 hours science he had started, and he expected for the setting to change any movement, but nothing happened. This continued for hours, until he saw a glowing green light in the distance! This was the end of the portal, but where did it lead to? He would have to find out the hard way. He jumped in. He fell and fell for what seemed like eternity, until he fell in a room, no a jail cell, in outer space. A voice boomed from above. “Congratulations number one, you have achieved your goal of getting through the portal.” said the voice “We are the aliens, and we now have control over Earth.” “So, I am the one who activated the sequence!” said Aiden “Yes, and we thank you with a laser pen.” said the voice, a pen clattered to the floor. “But for security reasons, we must keep you in this cell” “Toodle pip and Cherie oh” “No, wait” said Aiden, but it was too late. It was time for escape. His plan was simple. Cut the door open with the laser pen they gave him, steal one of the ships rockets or escape capsules, get to the button, and press it to end this nightmare. “Simple, right” he thought. He carefully crept up to the door with his laser pen, and aimed for the lock. It took about 1 second for the lock to give a satisfying click. As quiet as a ghost, he roamed the hallways until he found a line of rockets, along with two lines of guards! They all immediately began to cruise towards him, and fast. He bolted at light speed towards a line of weapons in the corner of the room. He removed the most dangerous looking one and began firing, very randomly. When the dust cleared, no robot was standing, but he could already hear the cruising of more. He was not doing this all over again. Aiden flew over to a rocket, Coming Back to Earth, 6-8, p.4 and quickly scrolled destinations until he found Earth. The rocket took off at light speed, right towards a blue dot, home sweet home! As he got closer and closer, he realized slowly that he had forgotten to plan how to get into Earth without gravity! As if on cue, his eyes landed on a suit labeled “GRAVITY SUIT”. He was relived! He hopped in, and began the decent into Earth. The E.T and his posse where in the secret vault, the one that contained the actually button. The button that would make him capable of controlling everything, including the weather. Oh, how he had always despised the Earthling “TV weatherman” and their cruel “I can’t control the weather.” jokes. He continued talking and bragging until he got hungry, where he got down to business. “Let’s have tea.” he stated. Aiden was now back to where he should be, on Earth. He had landed right next to the café, and was already in the room. The first thing he had noticed where a trail of grease, the aliens had been here, or are here. That was when he heard voices. “It is time to press the button that will end the human race” said a mysterious voice “Not on my watch” he exclaims. He remembers the gun from the battle with the robot alien things; it was in the back of the rocket! Quickly, and quietly Aiden sneaks over and grabs the gun. As fast as a hurricane wind, he leaps back into the room and takes off running towards the voices, in a blink of the eye you fire at all of them. There are screams, and yelps, then silence. Quickly, he destroys the buttons control panel with a gunshot and begins to leave. “ OH, LEAVING SO EARLY?” a robotic voice counters “W..who are you?” Aiden asks “The computer” says the computer “You have killed my friends, and now I will kill you” Out of the corner of his eye, Aiden spots the control panel for the computer’s talking and action ability and destroy it with another gunshot. Then he sits down at the computer and Coming Back to Earth, 6-8, p.5 finds the controls for the portals, he removes the dangerous and moves them near the ground. Then he reactivates Earth’s gravity and sends the alien spaceship on route to a black hole. I go outside, and explain to all the people that are back on Earth what has been going on. The cheering begins “ AIDEN, AIDEN, AIDEN..” “Aiden, Aiden” Aiden slowly opens his eyes, his sister is standing over him. “I’ve been trying to wake you up for five minutes!” says my sister “Come on, where having pancakes. “Yum, pancakes.” says Aiden. Then hops downstairs. He gobbles up his food, then tells his family about the dream. His sister laughs and says “Even in your dreams, your ego never quits.” Coming Back to Earth, 6-8, p.6