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THE PLANET

"Hey! You over there." George heard a deep and powerful voice say to him. "How would you like to make a couple thousand bucks working for Proxima Inc?" "Really?" George replied. "What am I going to have to do?" "I'll go into detail later, how bout we go discuss this over a drink". " And by the way I’m Mr.Franchini". George was kind of intimidated by this strange fellows appearance. Something about him just didn’t seem trustworthy. He was about 5' 9 and wore an all black suit with white pinstripes. He looked very professional at what he did, whatever that was. Silently a black Mercedes hovered in and the doors swung open upwards as soon as Mr. Franchini said open. "This car isn’t even supposed to be out for another 2 years remarked George". "I've got my sources" replied Mr. Franchini. "Is there anyway I could get one of these?'' asked George. "Depends how good you are." replied Mr. Franchini.

Mr. Franchini walked into the bar first guiding George right behind him. George had never heard of this bar before. It was downtown so maybe that’s why. It was called Glucose, it was a bar and a restaurant. Mr. Franchini walked in first and George right behind him. George said "I’ve never heard of this place before,' Mr. Franchini replied, "Not many people have." As they walked in the first thing George noticed was the smell, it was a smell that was out of this world, literally, but Mr. Franchini guided George to the bar. They sat down and a weird looking girl came up to Mr. Franchini and said "good afternoon Mr. Franchini," "Hello Flo," he replied back. George looks like he had seen a alien. Flo had lime green hair and a very glow-like complexion and George noticed her fingernails had a very weird symbol that he had never seen before. He didn’t think anything of it, he thought they had to dress up like that to work there. "What do you want," asked Mr. Franchini, "ehh I don’t know yet," "what are you getting," asked George. Mr. Franchini said,” I am getting glow-in-the-dark snails," "HUH?" asked George. "Those sound nasty," said George. "Try them," Mr. Franchini said. "Nahh ill just have the out of this world chicken tenders," said George. So they put their orders in with Flo. George looks around the room, right behind him are a couple eating, two seats over is a man who hasn’t seen the light of day in years, his pupils were black and he also had a lime green tint. George sense that something was going on but couldn’t figure it out. He asked Mr. Franchini, "Where did you hear about this place?" "My Family owns it." said Mr. Franchini. "Really?,' said George, "Yeah. My dad bought this place back in 2009 and he made it into a bar," said Mr. Franchini. "wow, that’s neat," said George. "I guess but I’m hoping he'll pass it onto me someday," replied Mr., Franchini.

"Is your work close to here sir?" said George. "Yes it is very close to here, want to go there?" "Yes of course," George said in excitement. "First let me use the bathroom and we'll get out of here." "Alright," replied George. Mr. Franchini got up and let to use the restroom. 1 minute went by, 2 minutes went by, 5 minutes went by, 10 minutes went by, 20 minutes went by, George got impatient. He goes into the bathroom seeing if Mr. Franchini is alright in there. He peaks in and look under the stall for any feet, nothing, and no one was in that bathroom. Right before he walks out the door there’s a shiny lime green glow like he's seen all night coming out of the corner of the far sink. He goes to it and puts his finger on the glow and pulls out. All of a sudden a door starts to open and a blast of green light smack him in the face. When he could see, all there was a hallway leading somewhere. George was completely dumbfounded, not knowing where that green glow was coming from. He started creeping down the stairs. He got out his blackberry orange and pushes the flashlight button and a flashlight popped out. Shining his way down the stairs he hears voices at the bottom, he freezes and covers the light from his phone.

Quietly George tries to tip-toe backwards back into the bar. He creeps backwards right into someone and hears "got impatient did we?" well he was caught now. But thankfully it was Mr. Franchini and he didn’t look to upset. "Come on down sorry it took so long". George followed Mr. Franchini down into the room where the green glow was coming from. He walked through the door and was stunned by the blinding green light coming from piles of radium. Radium was priceless material that could be sold at a very high price but was banned because people started going crazy over it and wars and battles breaking out all over the earth for control of it. George remembered learning this in college. "Is that radium!?" remarked George. "Yes,” replied Mr. Franchini. "So that’s why everybody upstairs has a lime green tint in their eyes." "You guys are all radiates?" "I thought the government banned the radiates from earth since the war of 2623?" "They have" Replied Mr. Franchini. "We’ve been operating out of bars like this since the ban. "How’d you get all this radium in here without anyone noticing?" "That’s what we need you for" said Mr. Franchini.

They walked into a back room where no one else was. Mr. Franchini touched a place on the wall and a 3D projection of a beautiful planet came out of the ceiling. " This is the planet Proxima." explained Mr. Franchini "This is where I need you to go. We need you to travel there and get the rest of a failed shipment. One of our smuggling crafts crashed on this planet and took all of our radium with it. I need you to go there and retrieve the radium. I promise the planet will be a safe environment. There will be hefty rewards waiting when you return. Maybe even one of those new Mercedes like mine that you wanted so bad". "Sound like a good deal" replied George. " I have a few questions first though, exactly how did the smuggling craft crash?" "Were not sure," said Mr. Franchini. "We think it was an engine failure of some sort." "Alright are there any other inhabitants on this planet?" "None that we know of. Proxima is an unexplored planet because the government has forbidden anyone from going there. Minus the people who were on the ship that crashed. Don’t worry about them though, that sector has been abandoned by the government for decades now." "I have one last question for you Mr. Franchini" said George. "Can I bring some help with me? A few friends maybe?" "You can only bring 3 other people. Don’t tell anyone else about where your going or what your doing. If I found out you did, there will be consequences." George felt a strange tingle up his spine. " I'll be sure to keep it a secret." "You should get going now said Mr.Franchini." "Alright ill keep in touch with you on my way there."

George in such excitement ran up the stairs not knowing what to do with himself. He ran out the bar and jumped on his Spidey 3000, which was a hovering scooter. On his way home all he could think about was the 3 people he wanted to bring. He wanted to bring way more than 3 but couldn’t. He walks in the door of his apartment, says hi to his robot fish, Scrappy, then throws in a microwaveable dinner which is done that less than a second. George knew he wanted to bring his best friend Johnny but couldn’t decide whom else. Instead he calls Johnny to come over and maybe he could help him decide. As George waited for Johnny he played his Super X500 Nintendo, "RING!" There goes the doorbell. Johnny had a arrived. "You will not believe what happened" Screamed George to Johnny. "What! What!" Johnny said in excitement. "Me, you, and our two hot friends are heading to planet Proxima" Johnny stood there in shock, and confusion. "What do you mean George" Says Johnny. "Well This Strange man Mr. Franchini Asked me to work for his company and go to the planet and retrieve the radium that was left on the planet due to a crash" "Oh how exciting! Let me go call Mimi and Lulu and well be ready to go!" Lulu wasn’t scared of anything and would surely be a good tribute to this trip. Mimi was very smart and invented the flying Bicycle.

George, Johnny, Mimi And Lulu met up with Mr. Franchini. "Ready to go?!" Said Mr. Frachini in a skeptical voice. George and Mimi were so excited they were skipping and hopping around. Mr. Franchini did not hesitate any longer to get them boarded on the spacecraft, and he gathered everything they would need on the planet. He handed them, two forks, a bottle of crazy clue, a rubber band, and a picture of a fat cat. Everyone boarded the "Brutus" The ship was named after a mysterious animal seen on the planet Proxima. 5..4..3..2..1.. BLAST OFF! Brutus Lifted up into the air. "Did anyone one else see Mr. Franchini give off a evil laugh when we closed the door to the ship?" "I was wondering what that was" Says George. "That’s odd, oh well" Exclaimed Lulu. Hours went by, and the planet Proxima got closer and closer. Lulu was looking up information about the planet on her hi-tech head top, no not laptop a head top. "The planet Proxima has many un-explainable creatures, going to this planet is a big risk" Lulu read out loud. "HA! Yeah right" said Mimi "That is ridiculous Mr. Franchini says the planet is safe." "This isn’t going to be good." Johnny says with a low tone. "Beep, Beep Arriving at destination Planet Proxima" Says the ship.

Everyone ran to the windows and gazed at the cloudy and misty planet. "I was expecting something more beautiful. More spacious," Says Mimi, "yeah me too," Says Johnny. The Ship landed and the doors opened. Suits are not needed on this planet, so everyone walked off the ship. "Now, we have to find the ship that was crashed here, and return the radium, Now we should divide the supplies that were given to us, and split into groups" George says to the group. "Johnny and Mimi will take one fork, and the crazy glue, myself and Lulu will take the other fork, the picture, and the rubber band" George says. "How will we know when to meet back to the ship" Lulu says with worry in her eyes" "I think we should yell boomshakalaka" Johnny said immediately. "Okay that will be our call" Says George. "Lets go this way" Says Mimi. Everyone took off. Lulu and George walked into the dark misty trail. "I know I’m never scared but this planet is giving me the creeps, I don’t like the tingling feeling it gives my stomach" " We just have to find the radium and well get out of here" George says as he try’s to calm Lulu down.

Johnny and Mimi treaded into the wide-open field of craters and deep trenches. " With the conditions of this planet, well never find the Ship. Hours and Hours past, and Johnny and Mimi found nothing. "I say we take a break" Says Mimi, "Lets go into this cave over here" As Johnny Stepped over Weird shaped bones "Mimi, what is this?" "I don’t know but lets get out of here" Mimi ran into the close cave. "Lets go this way" Says George. "Whoa, Mimi did you see that!" "No what happened!" She said in shock. All of a sudden, out of the dark comes a creature mixed with deer and alien a "Derain" "RUN MIMI!" Yells Johnny. The Derain chased them out of the cave. "Splat!" Mimi Tripped. The Derain Slowly Approached Mimi, he looked Hungry. Johnny pulls out his fork. "Ya ya! Get out of here!" Johnny started to chase the Derain with his fork. "Kill it Johnny!" Yells Mimi. Johnny Stabbed the Derain, And the crazy Creature Deflated. "That was a close one, thank god for the fork" Laughed Mimi, "Lets move on" Johnny says.

As for George and Lulu, They continued down the dark trail. "There’s nothing here!" Lulu says angrily. "We have to keep going Lulu" George says as he slowly approaches a giant creature print. "What is this!”? George said to Lulu. "It's huge, I wouldn't want to come across whatever it is maybe we should Turn around" Lulu said with frustration. "Boom. Boom." "Uh oh" Lulu screamed. "Its. Its. The BRUTUS!" "WHAT! How do you know" Says George "I saw it on the head top" Lulu says. "Hurry get out the picture" George told Lulu. The Brutus Started to come their way, he didn't look to happy that we were in his territory. The Brutus was about 10 feet tall, has a huge nose, and a little head. "What do i do with the picture!" Yelled Lulu to George who was sprinting behind her. "Hold it up so the Creature sees the fat cat, he should be scared and run off" George coughed. She held the picture up. " Ahhhhh!" Yelled the Brutus. "He ran off!" says Lulu.

After Lulu got over the shock of what had just happen she glanced in the direction where Brutus had ran and to her surprise found what they were searching for. It was a ship not unlike the one that they had flow to get to the planet, however the outside had a strange green glow of left over radium and looked as if had been in a blazing fire. As soon as she figured out what she was looking at she screamed, "George look!" "What is it Lulu?" he replied. She quickly said "look I think its the ship that were supposed to be looking for." They headed into the direction that the crashed ship was landed in. As they stumbled into the center of the crater why the ship had broken down became more apparent. There were deep claw marks on the outside of the ship.

"George something’s wrong what could had done that to the ship?" Lulu said with an obvious fear in her voice. "Relax it must have been the Brutus or something I don't think there’s anything for us to worry about." Lulu reluctantly followed George closer to the ship but when they had finally got there you could tell that George knew that it wasn't the Brutus that had done this anymore. George lurked in the side hatch to the ship and with in seconds ran out as if he had seen a ghost. "Lulu remembers how when the ship had crashed there were passengers on the ship?" "Yes?" she replied. "Do you remember how I told you they were never found?" he panted. "Uh huh." she said with suspicion in her voice. " I think I just found them" he screamed. "What ew are they in there now?" she said as her face began to lose color until it was almost the color of the glue that they had been carrying.

Lulu and George began to walk around to the other side of the ship so they could find another place to crawl in the ship where they wouldn’t find the remains of others travelers. As they were on their way the ship began to shake and a loud screeching noise came as if from inside the ship. They stopped in horror and around the side of the ship they could see the shadows of something that was slowly getting closer. Lulu was getting ready to run when around the corner came their friends. "Thank god its you guys were thought something was in that ship!" said George with a sigh of relief. "Wait are you saying that that noise did come from you guys?" Johnny said with a distraught look on his face. "No? Why would it be." lulu interjected. "Because it wasn’t us either!" screamed Mimi.

Then out of the ship creeped a creature unlike anything that could be seen on earth. it had claws that were the sizes of a normal humans head and looked like it could take all four of them out with one swipe. And that’s exactly what happened with in a second it lunged at them and jumped on top of Lulu and Mimi and ripped them to shreds in a way that looked as if it had come straight out of a horror movie. Johnny was next and the creature got to him before the thought to run had crosses his mind. Unlike the others though George sprinted quickly enough that he made his way out of the crater and without even looking back he got with in sight of the ship when suddenly it began to take off like that was the plan the whole time. He was alone with out his friends with out almost anything but the unfamiliar life that was on the planet that was now his home.