Term+3+2-11-2012+Story+-+Mission+To+Maruka's+Moon

__**MISSION TO MARUKA'S MOON**__
Hello my name is Hugh and I now live on Mars. I’m adopted by aliens!

It all started when the emergency government speakers announced that a city-sized meteorite was hurtling towards Earth. My siblings, Rose, Jonas, and I were running to our escape pods while the meteorite was heading to Earth. The speaker in the escape pod told us that we were heading for Mars.

My brother, Jonas, switched on the pod, shut the door, and hit the launch button. Our take off was rough. We could see little meteorites breaking off the giant meteorite causing the pods to tremble. After we passed the meteorite storm our journey was slow and peaceful. The escape pod started rumbling as we entered Mars’ atmosphere. As we were about to land on Mars Rose began to panic, she started to press a whole bunch of buttons to try and communicate with mom and dad.

When we opened the door of the escape pod we saw an alien. Rose started screaming. She passed out. I heard Jonas holler, “Cool! An alien!” Then he dashed by me and poked a five-eyed alien in the stomach. He asked in a curious voice, “Is it real?” My new surroundings were so overwhelming; I needed to take a deep breath.

All of a sudden I asked Jonas a question I hadn’t realized yet, “Hey... Where are mom and dad?”

Jonas spun around, “you don’t think they might be....”

I responded, “...maybe their pod got hit by a meteorite?”

“No!” Jonas yelled at me, “They must still be on their way.”

Suddenly, I heard a chorus of sounds behind me, victoriously shouting “yip, yip, yip, yip!” We spun around and my jaw hit the ground at what I saw. The aliens were marching away from us, with Rose, still passed out, being carried off like a sack of potatoes on their shoulders. I was too stunned to move, but Jonas was already bolting towards them. All of a sudden, a tiny alien peaked one of his five eyes out of a crater and whispered, “quick, get in here!”

I yelled at Jonas, “Come back, there's too many of them!” He twisted around and we both jumped into the crater.

The alien grinned and said, “I can help you, let me introduce myself. I’m Gamzee, I don’t want to hurt you, here put these things on.” He reached down to the bottom of the crater and opened a trap door into a compartment. He pulled out some blue costumes and quickly helped us put them on. I reached in my pocket to grab my Iphone and check out my new look on the camera. I was stunned to see how hideous I looked! I looked just like one of them!

The three of us hopped out of the crater and started to follow the marching aliens. I quietly tried to echo Gamzee's’ “Yip, Yip” sounds, and realized that none of the aliens even suspected that I wasn’t one of them. As we marched along, a large building came into view. It looked somewhat like one of the skyscrapers back on Earth. It was built from grey bricks and boarded up windows. Gamzee tugged at my costume and said, “quick, follow me,you’ll never get past the face recognition screen! I know a shortcut.” He lead us through a door at the back of the building. We entered a room filled with hundreds of aliens. In the middle of the room stood a giant glass test-tube. As I stood on my tippy toes, peering over the aliens heads, attempting to see what was going on. I watched in horror as they slowly lowered Rose into the test tube. I spun around to beg Gamzee to help, but he was nowhere to be seen!

“Gamzee, Gamzee, where are you?” I whispered with urgency. I scoured the mob of aliens desperately looking for him. There was some commotion at the front of the room as one of the aliens seemed to be pushing its way through the crowd. “Gamzee?” I thought.

There was no time to lose. I didn’t know what these aliens were planning to do with Rose, but she was now slumped in a ball at the bottom of the test tube. Slowly, a green jelly liquid began to fill the tube from a small hole in the bottom. This roused Rose awake, and she wearily raised her head and her eyes grew wide with fear as she became aware of the thousands of eyes on her. She stood up quickly and her skin glistened from sweat as she began to panic. She hopped from foot to foot as the tube rapidly filled with a translucent green jelly. As the jelly encased her at the knees, she began to plead to the aliens for help.

I stood paralyzed in fear. At that moment, I felt a cold, clammy tentacle on the back of my neck. It pulled me towards a dark shadowy corner.

“Hey! Who are you?” I yelled.

“It’s me Gamzee,” a voice whispered.

Rose was now pounding on the glass for help. She only stopped when the goo had completely surrounded her body. Suddenly, all the Aliens started to ‘Yip’ again because they saw Rose transforming into a green alien. A pink bow popped out of the top of her head. From the corner of my eye, I noticed a large blue alien dressed in a long robe approach the test tube. The crowd threw up their tentacles and chanted, ‘Gorzorg! Gorzorg! Gorzorg!’

“That’s our evil ruler,” Gamzee informed me.

When Gorzorg saw Rose, the only green Alien on the planet, he screamed, “Get that pretty girl, out of the test tube!” When the aliens heard Gorzorg shout, all of them shrunk down to the floor.

I cried out to Gamzee, “What’s going on?”

“Lord Gorzorg is trying to turn your sister into a female alien, which has never been done before”

“You mean they have never tried it before, and they are using my sister as a test subject?” I panicked.

“Long story short, Evil Gorzorg wants to be married.”

“What! My sister doesn’t want to be married to Lord Gorzorg. That’s absurd!” I was beginning to lose my patience and that rarely happens.

“We need a plan, now!” I hissed.

For 5 minutes we discussed a plan, then Gamzee stammered, “Alright, we need to get past the guards, push that big red button next to the tube to flush Rose out, find Rose, and then get out of here without being captured.”

“How are we going to do all that?” I said defeated.

As if on cue, a distraction presented itself. The commotion at the front of the room had turned into a loud chorus of angry “yip, yip” and I noticed that the alien who was pushing to the front was much taller than the others. He was now running towards Rose in the test tube. Just as he is about to reach the tube Gorzorg grabs him. That’s when I see it, Jonas’ dark brown hair minus his blue alien disguise.

“Get him!” I hear Gorzorg bellow.

The yips coming from the crowd are now filled with fear when four words ring out and echo in my mind, “Hugh, push the button…” The room fell silent except for the sound of Jonas fending off the aliens.

“Get off me!” Jonas cried.

I was energized with rage. I ran forward. The aliens watched me with what I can only assume was disbelief. Their alien jaws hit the floor when I hit the Big Red Button. I watched Rose disappear.

“Hugh! Help me!” Jonas called.

“I’m coming!” I replied reassuringly. I tore an alien off his back and he managed to wrestle free from the others. They continued to chase us and we barely had enough time to escape through the door Gamzee was holding open.

We ran after Gamzee through a dark corridor.

“Gamzee, you know this building better than us. Do you know where they sent Rose?” I gasped as I tried to keep up.

“I think so,” Gamzee pondered the possibilities, “It should be right through this door.” He said as he lead us down another dreary hallway.

Jonas knocked me over, “Get out of my way,” he spat, “Rose? Rossseee?” he cried out desperately. He began pounding on a small, brown door, almost splintering the wood.

“Who’s there?” Rose squeaked.

“It’s us!” Jonas called.

“Oh my gosh!” she says relieved, shoves the door open and smiles.

Jonas and I give her a hug when she begins to pull away. She sobs staring at her green skin. I know what she is thinking and the words catch in my throat, “It’s gonna be okay. We’ll find a cure.”

Gamzee led me and my brother and sister into a small room, where there were four cups of what looked like green tea, and a plateful of Mars bars waiting on the table. Gamzee invited us to have a seat, and we took our places as Gamzee started to tell his story. Rose, Jonas, and I put our elbows on the table and our hands on our chin, and listened intently.

"While I was Lord, Gorzorg was my very trustworthy right hand alien, until he betrayed me. It all started with a gorgeous alien – Maruka. She was a kind and loving female green alien, who is now banished from Mars and ruling one of our moons, Phobos."

"I loved Maruka, and we ruled the kingdom together as King and Queen. Maruka kindly ruled over the females and I patiently ruled over the males. Gorzorg was secretly jealous of my relationship with Maruka, and he convinced all the blues and greens that I was evil. Gorzorg told them extremely rude things about me, and acted impeccably courteous and innocent towards all aliens. With all of the subjects on his side, Gorzorg cruelly overthrew me, and he became the new leader."

It was all starting to make sense, I thought. Gorzorg was quite an evil character, and I could see why Gamzee truly wanted revenge.

"Gorzorg, now as Lord, demanded Maruka for her hand in marriage. Maruka refused this command, as she was not in love with him, and for Gorzorg, that was a huge disappointment."

"Even though this decision hurt him very much, he had to keep the respect of the aliens, so Gorzorg banished Maruka to one of Mars’ moons. She took all of the females with her, and forbid any of the males to enter, including me. She enforced this decision by installing a facial recognition system in the entrance of her kingdom."

Jonas, between mouthfuls of Mars bars, interjected, "Why didn't you leave Mars, and go live with Maruka on her moon?"

"I was forbidden from both Mars and Phobos, but secretly stayed in hiding, and have been plotting with all the new humans, like you guys, how to destroy Gorzorg's empire and bring the female green Yaps and the male blue Yips together again."

Rose had been quiet throughout the conversation, sipping her Martian tea, but as Gamzee finished, she let out a cry of dismay. "That's fine. But what about me? I'm GREEN! What can you do to turn me back to normal? I want to be normal again!"

"And", she continued, "I'm getting worse! The potion has not only turned me green, I'm starting to make Yapping sounds more and more, and these little bumps are appearing on the top of my head."

"Antennas!" We all gasped at once as we noticed for the first time the little indentations poking through the bow in her green hair.

We all realized that time was of great importance, as we needed to find the cure that would turn Rose back to a human, before she turned into a complete alien. Jonas suggested we check out the escape pod we arrived in, to use as transport to get to Maruka's moon, Phobos.

Jonas, Rose, Gamzee and I burst out of the snack room and ran to the space pod. They flew in the door and slammed it closed, there where buttons and dials everywhere. " Gamzee, start the engine. How, Push every button you see. Jonas hit a button and they blasted off to Phobos.

The pod crashed to the ground, rolled over once, and as the door popped open, we staggered out, dazed but unhurt. Gamzee pulled out a Smartphone-like device to hand to us. "I cannot go any further, so I'll stay and guard the escape pod. Rose, give this note to one of Maruka's guards to give to Maruka. Boys, you follow behind Rose and avoid detection. Text me if you have any trouble." Gamzee handed us a note, and put on the Mars version of Google Maps so we knew where we were going.

Four green alien figures guarded the entrance to the main palace. They yapped and pointed to Rose, to use the purple facial recognition machine to gain entrance. Rose confidently stepped forward and pressed her face to the screen. The machine hummed and then dinged, and the gates opened. As the guards parted to let Rose through the open gate, Jonas and I ran through the gate behind Rose before anyone could react.

"Run!" Gamzee's map program steered us through the maze of streets to an abandoned alley, where we could catch our breath. We called Gamzee on the phone and let him know we were through. "Wow! Great work guys! I guess Rose is really becoming more alien every hour!" Rose, with her green skin and prominent antenna bumps, yapped in agreement. Out of nowhere Rose started resisting us, she yapped and yapped, just then an alien saw us as Rose was fighting back, we picked up Rose and out ran the yap. A siren sounded "All units be on the lookout for two human earthlings, who have kidnapped one of our young yaplings"

We started to race through the long dingy hallway looking for the potion room. They read the door signs but only Rose could read them because it was in the “Yap” language. They found a room it said POTIONS. The door was locked. “Here let’s try this.” Jonas had spotted a fire extinguisher. With it, they smashed the window into smithereens! They charged in and started rapidly searching through the shelves of potions. “Aha! Let’s try this one.” Jonas cried. I grabbed a lava looking potion off the shelf with high hopes. Rose scarfed it down. Unexpectedly, her face turned back to a human face, but the bumps that were upon her head spread all over her body. There was a body length sized mirror in the corner, so Rose glanced at herself. Startled by her image, Rose almost screamed, but I covered her mouth so we wouldn’t be discovered.

Just then, the door flew open. Maruka, surrounded by two large guards, stepped in, glaring around looking for the kidnappers. “Do you see them yap yap yap?”, asked a squeaky voice of a guard from behind her. Jonas takes the note from Gamzee out of Rose's green, bumpy hands, and gives it to Maruka. Maruka's eyes widen in surprise as she reads the note and her jaw hits the ground. A faint moaning sound escapes her lips. " Gamzee... Gamzee is alive?" Maruka finally manages to speak. " Yup and thanks to Gorzorg my sister is now green," Jonas snaps. He had lost his patience a long time ago and now his marbles were going.

Maruka signaled to her guards to retrieve Gamzee from the escape pod. "Come with me", she signaled to the rest of us, as she led us across the floor to a small glass cabinet full of vials and bottles. She fiddled through the cabinet and selected four or five vials of green and blue liquids. Maruka cleverly mixed and stirred the concoction in a small cauldron until a turquoise bubbling liquid was produced. "I think this just might work, try this, my little green visitor," Maruka said to Rose as she handed her the potion. Rose drank it eagerly, and right away her bright green eyes faded back to brown.

Gamzee entered the room flanked by the guards, and ran over to Maruka with a big alien smile. They embraced, and yabbered and yip-yapped excitedly. Then, together, they turned to Jonas, Rose, and I. "We have an announcement. We would like you to live with us as guests at our palace here on Phobos, for as long as you would like."

Rose, who was now virtually back to normal, with just a light green tinge and tiny bumps on her forehead, thought it was a great idea. Jonas asked if there would be an unlimited supply of Mars bars. When told there would be, he happily agreed. And I was actually quite comfortable living with my siblings and my new kind alien step-parents. And that is our story of how we ended up being adopted by aliens!

* Maruka reads note, realizes that Gamzee is there and they are allies of these humans. She also realizes Rose is actually a human.

* So, Maruka finds the potion for Rose, who reluctantly drinks it * They all go back to the escape pod, Maruka and Gamzee reunite, but they can't get the escape pod to work.

* So, they all stay on Phobos (the moon), and Rose Hugh and Jonas are adopted and live in the palace as a big happy family, eating Mars bars and living happily ever after.


 * Names for the story
 * Mar's madness
 * The race to which moon
 * Romance of Mars

IDEAS FOR PART 4 OF THE STORY


 * Rose Hugh and Jonas are on a mission to turn Rose’s skin back to her original colour.


 * Gorzorg is the (evil) alien who wants to turn Rose into a female alien he can marry.


 * Gamzee is the (kind) alien who wants to help Rose and her brothers.


 * Are the other blue aliens (yip yips) transformed by Gorzorg?


 * Blue aliens (males) and Gorzorg live on Mars, green aliens (females) live on a moon of Mars. Do the

siblings have to travel to the moon to cure Rose?


 * Green female leader (Maruca) version of Gorzorg, on the moon with the green ‘Yaps’.

Part 4

A) Backstory: told by Gamzee for the reader’s benefit. Backstory: Gorzorg stole Maruca from Gamzee. Maruca refused to marry Gorzorg and left with all the other females to the moon.

B) So what should we do: they decide that Rose is to travel to the moon, get past the facial recognition equipment, and infiltrate Maruca’s kingdom to try to find a potion.

C) So, how do the blues and the greens (yips and yaps), with Rose’s help (and Jonas and Hugh) reconcile and live together again. Also, bring in parents at the end.