Kim was having a really rotten day. She’d been in her second favourite lesson; ART! Everything went wrong from the moment she stepped through the door to the moment she left the classroom.
- Whilst getting some paint, she managed to spill an entire pot of blue paint all over her top and skirt.
- To make matters worse, she then slipped on the spilt paint and ended up falling onto the teacher’s lap. HOW EMBARRASING!!!
- She then transferred most of the paint from her clothes onto the clothes of her teacher! DOUBLE EMBARRASING!!!
Unfortunately, her teacher was in a particularly bad mood (and was wearing an expensive pair of trousers) that day. So he sent Kim straight to the headmaster’s office.
“Never have I…”
“I can’t believe what I’m hearing!”
“…ring your parents…”
The headmaster went on and on and on and on like this forever… and just when she thought he’d finished, he decided to go on and on a bit more.
It was so boring!
He then said something that made Kim’s heart sink like a stone dropped into a bowl of melted, mouldy beans.
“You are banned from Rocket Pilot Class from now on!”
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
This was quite possibly the worst punishment in the history of the world EVER.
Kim absolutely loved Rocket Pilot Class. In her opinion there was no better lesson. She enjoyed the freedom of whooshing through space at top speed and exploring new and exciting planets and moons.
She had always secretly hoped to discover a brand new planet that she could name “Rainbow Planet”. Unfortunately it looked like she wouldn’t be making any discoveries any time soon.
It was the combination of all these things that made her do something that she would later regret…
Kim stormed out of the Headmaster’s office, determined to get home before the head had a chance to phone her mum…
On her way through the school playground, she spotted one of the school rockets.
The caretaker had been fixing its Satellite Navigation System (the one that keeps the rocket from getting lost). However, he hadn’t actually got round to repairing it properly as Ms Chapstick, the school nurse, required his help in extracting a reception boy from the anti gravity toilet flushing device.
She stomped towards the rocket, face scrunched up in a frightening mask of rage. She flung the rocket door open and jumped into the pilot’s seat.
She slammed her postcode into the Sat Nav and the rocket roared into life.
Up, up into the sky it blasted, slicing through the air like a knife through hot noodles.
Up, up it travelled, getting further and further away from school, from her home, from Planet Earth.
Up, up through the atmosphere, up where the air is clear…
The Earth was now a marble, floating in a black sea of unlit paint.
Within seconds the Earth had got even smaller until it vanished like a white rabbit from a magicians top hat.
It was around this time that Kim began to panic. Sweat broke over her like a tsunami…
Suddenly the Sat Nav on the rocket began to make an ear piercing screech. Instantly, Kim pushed a ginormous red button that was clearly labelled ‘DO NOT PUSH!’ Alarmed, Kim noticed that the rocket was going down faster and faster. A few moments later, the rocket began to fall down, down and down. Screaming like a baby not getting it’s own way, Kim was petrified and her stomach was in her mouth. Gripping for dear life, she held on to the plastic chair. BANG! From a distance, Kim peered out of the enormous window and saw an unknown planet. The planet looked unusual with gilded floppy trees and rainbow coloured dust. Although Kim knew nothing about space, she knew she was going somewhere strange! Had she discovered her ‘Rainbow Planet’?
Meanwhile, back on earth, Kim’s head master talked to her parents.
“Kim had a few issues today, not only did she cover her teacher in paint but she stormed out and no one can find her!”
Kim’s parents sat there open mouthed.
Back in space, Kim put on her space suit and helmet and opened the door. She took a deep breath and got out of the rocket by pressing the ‘out’ button. Kim panicked but knew an adventure had begun! By this point, Kim’s hands and arms were sweaty and moist. Running as fast as a tornado, she tripped and hit her head on the floor. The next thing she knew, she was being carried by several aliens. Next Kim heard a strange noise, the aliens were speaking!! The aliens spoke in Gooble Abel Lang.
“Pechoo caca lo la?” Asked one alien.
Kim was stunned . “Where am I?” She looked around and gasped. A huge red eye in the centre of a multi-coloured octopus type creature, was staring at her. A sharp blade like a helicopter propeller, was attached to the top of its head. It spun around wildly. It sounded like the humming of her fridge at home, in the middle of the night. Were these the Octapelas she’d learnt about in her space history class with Mr Beatty, she wondered. These aliens had once been humans but had been kidnapped by the Lazerons and taken to the Rainbow Planet. Luckily that meant they could speak English.
A long green and purple tentacle tapped her gently on the shoulder. “Please will you be our leader and help us destroy the evil Lazerons?” asked the chief Octapela in a soft voice.
“But why me?” Kim was puzzled. “I’m not very strong or brave.”
“You are our only hope. No one has landed on our planet for centuries. You must rescue us.” The chief continued. “We will take you to our underground hide-out”.
The Octapelas took Kim gently by the arms and using their propellers flew across the rainbow-coloured craters.
“What’s the plan?” asked Kim.
“We’re going to crawl through a tunnel that we’ve made that goes under the Lazeron’s palace and attack the guards and destroy them.”
“But first would you like some food? asked the smallest Octapela. “All we have is some soup.”
Kim looked at the bowl of green slime and felt sick. “No thanks, I’ve got something in my pocket.”
“Here, take one of the weapons we stole from the Lazerons.” said another Octapela.
Kim examined the gun. It was black and shiny and looked like a hand with four red finger-like spikes with sharp, pointed nails at the end.
“The nails shoot out a poison that kills instantly” explained the Octapela chief. “You look like you need to rest.” said another Octapela.
“Yes, I’m exhausted.” Kim lay down on the rainbow coloured floor and closed her eyes and fell fast asleep.
“Time to go,” whispered the chief, as he helped her to her feet.
Kim was nervous. Her heart was pounding. But she knew she had to go. She put the Lazeron gun carefully in her pocket and followed the Octapelas towards a locked door that led to the passage-way as they hovered above her.
“It’s really narrow and dark in here”. said Kim.
“Don’t worry, our eyes are luminous and light up in the dark.” said one of the Octopelas.
Silently Kim crawled along the passage-way and the Octopelas followed her.
“We are at the palace.” said the Octopelas.
“How will we get in?” asked Kim.
“Hold on to our tentacles and we will fly you up. Then we will use the spinners on our heads to drill a hole.”
Just as Kim crawled through the hole she spotted two Lazerons coming towards her. They were bright green and scuttled around on their eight legs like monster spiders. A terrifying eye, in the middle of their bodies, shot out lazer beams. Kim could see arrow headed hands on every one of their eight legs, ready and waiting to shoot out sticky, deadly venom. At the end of each antenna there was a mini hole that fired out bullets.
She pulled out her nail gun and fired.
“Bulls eye!” She shouted. Two Lazerons lay dead on the ground.
She turned around and saw the Lazeron army coming towards her. “Oh no!”she yelled.
She started shooting but soon she had used up all her amo.
“AAAAAAhhhhh! I’ve been hit!” she screamed.
She looked up and saw that she was surrounded by Lazerons. They dragged her to a pit full of deadly aliens, and threw her in.
She could feel the pressure in her heart pumping quickly and loudly. She suddenly felt fear spreading all over herself. Trembling, Kim stood up and heard a faint hissing sound coming from the shadows of the surrounding, colossal, pit walls. Deadly aliens!
As cautious as a lioness hunting her prey, Kim slipped her hand into her pocket. She could feel her favourite pencils pricking her fingers. Fumbling even deeper into her back pocket, Kim grasped her pen knife from the camp she had been to the day before. Scraping the end of the pencils with the serrated blade she sharpened her pencils, crafting them into deadly weapons. Mini spears.
Kim took a deep breath, this would either work or end treacherously. She stabbed the deadly aliens straight through their precious eye with her transformed pencil. They screamed in agony and disintegrated, turning to a puddle of gloop (alien slime) on the muddy floor. Relieved, Kim sat down, “Now those terrifying aliens will be having a hard time in Tartarus!” she thought. However, she still had to escape this muddy pit.
Looking around her, Kim glimpsed two sticks in the corner of the pit. She picked them up and because the pit was so aged, there were holes in the walls. So, she got the two sticks and she forced them into the walls and started climbing up and out of the pit to freedom.
Kim suddenly thought about the Octapelas. What would happen to them? Where were they? How could she find them? She heard a Lazeron say “Ready! Aim! F…” Luckily she still had the two pencils in her hand. There was a jewel in King Lazeron’s crown. She threw the deadly pencils at the crown just before the guns had been fired. The jewel (which kept the Octapelas from being human and the Lazerons alive) fell to the ground. Now that it was out of King Lazeron’s possession, the Octapelas grew smaller and smaller. They were turning back into humans. Meanwhile, the Lazerons were running about yelping with fear. They too were transforming, but into gloop.
Luckily, one of the Octapela (who had just turned back to human form) was a crazy old engineer. He fixed the colossal rocket with Kim’s help, as she was good at puzzles. This time it was ultra upgraded.
They all clambered into the rocket. It was very crowded. They started the countdown…”Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one , blast off!” they cried with delight.
As they were soaring through space back towards earth, Kim spotted a bright, precious, golden, star, so, she opened the hatch and stared at it. As she climbed back into the cock pit, she caught a glimpse of an Octapela resting his arm on a peculiar button labelled “Don’t push! Self Destruction of Earth”. Kim shouted “No! Stop!” but it was too late. Several meteorites were headed towards them. They swerved round them only to see the meteorites falling on earth. Earth was now demolished into hundreds of tiny pieces. “Oh no!” sobbed Kim, “What have we done?”
Distraught, they headed back towards Rainbow Planet because all of their friends and family must now be dead from the massive blast. Rainbow planet was the only safe place they knew. Together they built fifteen houses. One for Kim and fourteen for the other Octapela families.
Every night, Kim looked up at the stars and wondered whether her mum and dad would ever come back for her. One night when she was looking up at the stars, she suddenly spotted a rocket headed towards Rainbow Planet. On the side of the rocket in big black letters was printed N.A.S.A. When the rocket arrived and the hatch opened, her mum, dad and teacher, Mr Beatty, floated out of it wearing their own, white as snow, space suits. They had left earth just in time in search of Kim and her stolen rocket!
It must have been Kim’s destiny after all to spill paint all over her teacher and discover Rainbow Planet!
by Year 3 pupils from Stanley, Heathfield Junior, Sheen Mount and St. Edmund’s primary schools