Life when Upside-Down 2: Revenge of the Ancients

By Henry M

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 I woke up and was startled by the sleek modern design of my room, and my grand bed.

Oh, right.

I realized I was in the White House, and remembered that whole crazy adventure. Never again, I thought. I was relieved that the whole “living on the clouds” thing was over. I turned on my SUS laptop, and joined Survive! My survival world where I got stuck in the Nether. I looked around, and remembered that I was harvesting nether gold. I was on peaceful mode, so I didn’t need to worry about hostile mobs. I needed nether gold to trade with piglins to get obsidian to make a nether portal to go home. I even made a nether base! I just finished trading gold when I looked at the date.

Monday.

I groaned, saved and quit, closed my laptop, and went downstairs. I made myself some Steak-Frites, a French dish that is literally just steak and fries. I drank the whole gallon-carton of milk, as I always do, and made my way to my sister’s room. I woke her up, and told her it was Monday. “Are you lying?” she asked me. I replied “No – but if I was lying on the floor, you could call me mat!” I giggled, she groaned, and I made her a PBH&B, Peanut-butter-honey-and-banana, the best sandwich on Earth. We made our way to our grandma and grandpa’s room, and I saw that my grandma (I call her Nina) was playing a crossword game on her phone. Emma interrupted her puzzle, so I said “Don’t interrupt someone’s puzzle – you could hear some crosswords!” I giggled, Nina laughed, and Emma groaned.

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We were all eating breakfast with the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES like it was no big deal, until my dad said “This is disgusting,” and started wolfing his food down. We all stared as he said “EW!” or “This is terrible” every 5 or 6 bites or so. When he finished, he said “That was the worst dish I have ever tasted… can I have seconds?” We all laughed, and then the bus came. Me and Emma groaned, reluctantly heading out the door. We were getting on the bus, but when we got on, we were in a completely different place. I realized that we were at the supercomputer at the center of the universe! Again! Only one thought crossed my mind: What if everyone thinks we skipped school, and we get in trouble?

“What is this place?” Emma asked. I explained that this was the area in which I fixed gravity. “Ok” Emma said. We were walking around when, suddenly, a very old looking alien came up to us. It said “Get ‘em.” Immediately, five other ancient looking aliens surrounded us. Then, the hologram from last time came, grabbed us, pressed a button, and suddenly, I felt like I was going through an interdimensional gateway. It’s hard to explain, but I experienced a tingling sensation, like pins and needles, and then I felt like I was being turned inside-out, and then every atom of every cell in my body was separated, isolated, and then put back together again. Then, I realized I was a hologram! I was pulled into another room, and then turned back into a human. Emma experienced the same. Only one thought crossed our minds:

What just happened?

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“I’m here to help,” said the hologram. “My name is C.A.P.E. It stands for Center for Advanced Photonics and Electronics” The hologram was a person wearing a lab coat, and had an ID card and pen in his pocket. He had combed black hair that was perfectly straight, flat on his head, and he looked like he really did want to help. “Who were those people?” I asked. Harry replied “Those were the Ancients. They’re extraterrestrials who coded the laws of physics, and they’re really mad about you fixing gravity.” I asked “Did they close the portal?” “Yes,” C.A.P.E. said. “They don’t want anyone to get in or out. But I have the power to teleport one of you back to Earth, to the place of your choosing.” I immediately replied “Teleport Emma to the White House, the capitol of the United States of America.” Suddenly, Emma disappeared. Then, the Ancients found us.

I ran as fast as I could and got to an empty room. The Ancients ran right past me, so I walked out and to the computer. It was now password-protected. I couldn’t hack it, so I tried to force-data transfer to a microchip with 10,000 gigabytes. It worked! I would need to escape to be able to use it, though. I ran to where me and Emma appeared and looked for any sign of a portal.

All I saw was a window to a star called Beetlejuice, the edge of the universe, Earth, Canus Major, – Earth! I really wanted to make science history, though, so I grabbed my camera, my military-grade 10,000 GB microchips, and went through the portal. I ended up in a spaceship, and realized it was just like the fighter jets at home! I took pictures, recorded my findings, proved the existence of dark matter and dark energy, proved the Big Bang theory and that God made it happen, basically your average revolutionary scientific breakthroughs. And I was only 11! I data-downloaded all the info I needed to re-create a stable two-way wormhole on Earth, and made my way back into the portal. I made it to Earth, landed perfectly on the White House runway, and showed my findings. Our scientists laughed, until they saw my DIY wormhole and my spaceship. I had changed the course of human history! All because of a school bus trap! I was a hero to all of humanity. Until… the Ancients found us.

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There were ancients everywhere. The U.S. Army needed assistance form the Marines, the Air Force, and the Navy. The President and my family were led to a secret underground bunker hundreds of miles below sea level. I decided to go out and help, and activated my homemade Nuclear Death Ray. (Thanks, Nicola Tesla!) I got rid of some of the Ancients, but the ships were still above, deploying more troops every second. “Charge!” the ancients said, charging. I activated my D.I.Y. space laser, the Long Locust ™ (from Locust Laser, Space Laser in Latin) and fired. The enemy ships blew up, and crashed in a really cool and dramatic fashion. I declared us victorious, and stopped the president from activating the nuke codes in the Nuclear Football, and also listed off potential new planets just in case of another attack that could end up as a mass extinction, or destroy Earth. We all had dinner, and I got to have year-long summers and the rest of the month off for saving the world! Oh, and did I mention the FULL SCHOLORSHIP TO HARVARD UNIVERSITY?

The End.