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A boy walks in from a long day of school; the playground scrap that he got into over who was it for tag really wore him out. Upon entering his home he knew something was wrong although he was all of six years old he still had a very high sense of things that were out of the ordinary routine of his every day life. He dismissed the fact that his mother did not pick him up from the bus stop, and started home. When he walked into the house men in neon green uniforms were swarming like fireflys. The boy thought maybe his parents are having a party they didn't mention."Mooom" the boy calls. Silence, even from the men in the room. Obviously there was something wrong with the way all the men eyed the boy with a look of sympathy. No one stopped him so he continued through the house. A man with army green colors approched the boy. He handed him a type of card then patted him on th back and told him, "follow me son," in a grave and gravally voice. The man was wearing a suit that made him look like he belonged in some kind of movie. He was SCU (Special Crimes Unit). The locals call them MIB (Men In Black) because the suits remind some of the older peolple of a movie back when they were young. After coming out of the haze that clouded his mind of any number of reasons why people like the MIB would would be in his house, he glanced at the card the man gave him. It looked like a drivers liscense. It said Mars at the top of it. It had a picture of the boys face and Zikko Calamari written under it. Next to the picture it said; Eyes: black. Hair: black. Weight: 40. Height: 4''. Zikkos eyes widen in horror. "MOOOOM!" He screamed. She did not answer. The MIB man said that rebels snuck into the house to retrieve some documents of classified information. "The information was about a shipment of orphans to Mars" the man said. "Your mother did not have the information, so the rebel must have kidnapped her. They wanted to force her to give up the information about the orphans. So they must have taken her to the rebel camp. "Why are you here then?" Zikko asks. Zikko was always the smartest and brightest of all his classes and the teacher says his IQ is years ahead of his time." Well son, we are looking for any clues to a struggle or even break in but there isnt any"." That makes no sense!" Zikko roared with frustration. No struggle. No break in. Mind control was only used by "Them"( the martian lieutenants). Martian police that deal with the rebels and use their mind control to coerce informatian out of them. The rebels were Orphans. Ever since Earth became over populated the government shipped orphans to mars to live with the martians. The Martians Patrol there like regular police but other wise dont even live in the same region as the orphans. They have to find a job and fend for there selves and ther foster homemates (other children in ther foster home). //This cant be happening,// Zikko thought. Everything else went by in a blur.The house was Searched for documents, Zikko was sent to Holding were recent orphans are held untill the MIB's ship him off to mars. An hour had passed by and over the inercome came a loud but slow voice announcing that all orphans heading to Mars should head on to the rocket. As Zikko was only foots away from entering the rocket he looked back and took a deep breath and thought in his head what's going to happend to him and what was going to happend to his parents, is he ever going to see them again while thinking a guy in a black suit told him to get into the rocket. Zikko shuts down once hes settled into his foster home. He stays to his self and does worry about his fostermates even when they reach out towards him. Zikko reasearched whatever was on his mind and started building his IQ to tremendous hights. He also works out when his eyes start to hurt in the odd hours of the nights. the same routine occurs for the next ten years until he moves out. Then the unthinkable happens and changes life on Mars for the orphans so drastically that now survival isnt as easy as the government made it out to be. Zikko hears thunderous sounds from outside and looks out his window. He sees enormous meteors crashing down all around his house, destroying all of the homes of the other orphans, completely demolishing everything. But somehow when the meteor storm had stopped, Zikkos house was the only house that remained. He walked outside and looked at the ruins of what used to be the orphan's homes. There was total and complete devastation. What used to be luxurious homes were now huge piles of rubble with enormous clouds of smoke hovering over them. Beautiful paintings and furniture looked like garbage that has been decapitated over the years. All of the orphans stood there in a group, in shock and awe, looking at what use to be there homes. The women were crying their eyes out, tears flying everywhere while the men stood there in astonishment recalling what had just happened. One man known as Tre walked over to Zikko while the others remained looking at the ashes. "This is a complete disaster." said Tre. "You must let the rest of us live with you til we have supplies to rebuild our homes." "No i will do no such thing." replied Zikko. "This is my home and i will do what i want." "But you must! We have nowhere else to go." "I will give it some consideration and tell you all tomorrow." said Zikko. Tre nodded and walked back to the other orphans to explain what was going to happen. They set up blankets and pillows and all slept around a campfire that night. Zikko walked back in to his house, and layed in his bed pondering what to do about this great ordeal. While thinking, Zikko slowly fell to a deep sleep. He began dreaming about what had happened many years ago. He thought about his parents and the time he had spent with them. Sitting at dinner listening to dad tell him how work was. Going to the park and playing soccer. Mom walking in at night tucking him in bed and kissing him on the forehead. Then came that dreadfull day when he arrived home from school and his parents gone with the MIB at his house. The next thing he knew he was awake in the dark, tears rolling down his cheeks as he decided to let the others join him in his home. Morning arose and Zikko appeared from his front door walking to where many of the orphans were still sleeping. Tre greeted him and Zikko gave him the news. Tre reported back to the orphans and Zikko heard a little cheer come from them. As the orphans gathered the few things they had left, Zikko turned back to walk to his house. And just as he started to turn, he heard another thunderous crash, similar to the many that he had heard the previous day. Zikko looked in amazement at the gigantic meteor that now lay where his home used to be. He dropped to the ground and slowly started crying. What he had known and what was all he had was destroyed by a meteor, just as the other orphans homes' had been. Zikko had no idea what to do, it was like all his planning, hard work and dedication to the perfect place for a house was all distroyed. He had no place to go, no idea how to survive from this point. Tre and many orphans all came up to him and tried to tell him that its all going to be okay but now no one has a place to stay but the red clay ground. Zikko just paced back and fourth thinking what to do, how to help himself and all the orphnas counting on him. One moment he stopped, with a big shocked look on his face knowing he found a perfect but not clear plan. The aliens. The aliens can help, they know how to get home. Zikko instantly told Tre and he didnt buy the plan, never thought it could work. But Zikko and his brilliant mind persuaded Tre and the orphans what and how to get home. The very next morning everyone started out on foot to find the aliens, Zikko had a very good idea of their where abouts but wasnt exactly sure. Not everyone believed in him and didn't like Zikko so much, jealousy was most of the problem because he was truelly the smartest teen on mars and one of the smartest on earth. If he can find the aliens, no one will ever be able to thank him so much. On this trip he starts to become tired more easily and seems to be getting more depressed. He knows what is going on with him. When he was a child he went to the doctors for the same problems and he has had a tumor in his brain that was dorment for years.The doctor said that if he were to see any signs that the tumor might be growing he was to get it checked out right away. No human doctors on mars knew how to take it out and no one knew how long he would live for but he just kept living his life trying to make his dreams come true of finding love and dying on Earth. A few days go by, still walking. Everyone is in pain and tired, they feel like they cant walk anymore but its the only way to survive. Zikko is losing brain knowledge and is losing his time of life, he wants to save everyone and he will do everything in his power to do that. His brain is telling him he has to rest but his heart tells him to keep going. The people follow, keep going and going, what they dont know is they are practicly there. Zikko doesnt even know how close he is. Everyone sets down for the night. Everyone but Zikko, he walks around on his own, and finds the hidden tunnel to what he thinks leads to the aliens for the special ride to planet Earth. He walks back to the group and falls asleep while looking at the stars. The next morning he doesnt wake up right away, he has no medicine to help his tumor and he doesnt have any way of getting some. Everyone follows him the way they have and he shows them where he thinks should be the tunnel but it isnt there anymore? "It couldnt of just moved what could have happened?" Tre said in an annoyed tone. Everyone is just mad and doesnt know what to think of him, they think Zikko has failed but really he hasn't.They think maybe he finally went crazy. "What do you want us to do?" Everyone asks. "Just dig, dig fast," Zikko gasps as he quickly thinks. Ten minutes go by, now twenty, now an hour, they find the tunnel finally. Zikko tries talking to the aliens but nothing works they dont understand. He shows a picture of earth and humans and they finally understand where they want to go. A ship only hold twenty passengers but their are over two hundred orphans. Zikko and Tre agree to go together on the last ship. Two ships leave and come back, five times each and the last ship that leaves holds, Tre, Zikko and eighteen more orphans. Zikko cant keep his eyes open. Walking for days and miles a time he needs to sleep. In the shuttle its loud. Noisy, with buttons being pushed and the curiousity on everyones face cant keep Zikko from starring. He puts his head back and tries to sleep. Tre and Zikko became good friends over this trip and this adventure which was long and endured strength. Zikko softly went to sleep and died slowly as his last memories. Zikko died on September 14th, 2099. No one knows till the trip is done, everyone is safe on earth and finding love, happiness and shelter.

By Denzil Penn, Tommy Morton, Gio Lara, Bret Sweetmen.