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Due Date: Monday, April 20. At 8:30 a.m. on Monday, I will write the resolution and wrap up the story. NO LATE WORK will be accepted!!

Be sure to read the home page for more directions. Your sentences need to work with the plot, setting, and mood that is created for the story. In addition, they need to be grammatically correct (including spelling!) and should be __positive__ comments. **If your log-on name isn't __your own name__, then I can't give you credit or allow you to post to the wiki.**

I started the story with the title, and the rest is up to you. And Thomas Ayres already started the story--before the rest of you even knew it was there. Great job, Thomas! The rest of you need to join the story, and __make sure to correct any errors that you notice__. __**Remember that when you change speakers in your dialogue, you need to begin a new paragraph!!**__  __Pryor Junior High Teachers to Meet with Aliens__ It was early in the morning on April 16th, and the teachers were doing their normal duties in getting ready for the school day. Then without notice all the teachers were called to a meeting with new school faculty members. The school faculty gathered, and there was a bustle of quiet voices wondering who it was they were going to meet. They were in there for quite a while waiting on someone to come and tell them what was going on. Finally, Mr. Brett Mitchell, the superintendent, came in to tell them the news. He had a puzzled look on his face when he entered the room.

Then, he said, "Where is that alien? He must just be running a little late." They waited for more than an hour, and still no one showed up. A little later, the alien walked in the door and said, "Hello, my name is Marcy Ann." Marcy Ann was a very "different" looking creature. He had lime green skin with antennae at least 18 inches tall on top of his football-shaped head. He wore a hideous magenta lab coat and matching penny loafers. To top it all off, he barely spoke a lick of English. Fortunately, he had a translator box as a necklace so he could talk to us in English. The teachers were shocked to see a REAL alien. One teacher even passed out.

After Marcy Ann introduced himself, he sat down at the head of the table."I have to discuss with you all something very important," he said in his strange voice. Then, as he looked around the room, he gave Mr. Mitchell a little nod and asked, "Have you discussed with them the new arrangements?"

Mr. Mitchell looked at him and said, "Well no, that's why you're here." You can explain these situations a little better than me.

That's when Colton Hill, the assistant superintendent, barged in yelling. He said, "No one told me about this meeting! Who's here that's so important that I need to meet?" Everyone giggled a little and pointed at Marcy Ann. Colton looked at the creature and was stunned. He first noticed the shoes and said, "Who on Earth would want to wear those?" Then Marcy reminded Colton that he wasn't from this planet. "Oh yeah, that's right. Sorry," said Colton. "Back to the arrangements, Marcy."

Marcy sat there for a second to decide what he was going to say. "Ahh, yes, the arrangements," he said with a weird look on his face. Marcy took his time before he said anything. "Well," he started, "my planet has been watching yours for a while now, and we thought it was all right to make a trip, and while we were here, I met Mr. Mitchell, who generously invited a few of my colleagues and me to replace your current faculty."

No one did anything but sit there, wide-eyed and flabbergasted at this sudden change. Then, when the announcement really sank in, everyone burst out with questions at the same time, and the room suddenly filled with confused yelling and outraged comments. Obviously, none of the teachers were thrilled about having to vacate their jobs for other-worldly creatures.

One of the teachers, Mrs. Allen, yelled, "How can this happen?! We're losing our jobs to aliens! What are you thinking, Brett?"

Several were asking, "What are the students going to think? They'll have teachers that don't even speak their language, they won't get a proper education!"

Another teacher, Mrs. McCloud, said, "How can this be happening? My whole career has been at this school, and now all my students are going to have teachers that can barely speak English, and they aren't even from our planet. And, to top it all off, they aren't even the same species as our students! I hope you're happy with what you've done!"

Then Mrs. McCloud stormed out of the room, without any regard to the student, Josh Odle, who had arrived abnormally early and had heard everything. "I can't let everyone be replaced by aliens," Josh thought to himself, "I have to tell everyone about this tragic turn of events!" Just as Josh left the room, a teacher noticed him. But, fortunately for Josh, the teacher was Coach Devers, who didn't want to be replaced by aliens, and so he didn't say a word to stop Josh. Josh went to the office and he made an announcement to all the Pryor Junior High kids telling them that their teachers were going to be replaced by aliens. "I hope they don't think I'm some stupid kid that doesn't know what he's talking about!" thought Josh.

As Josh made the announcement, he told everybody what he had heard and how they needed to rush to the teachers lounge immediately. As the kids left their rooms they couldn't believe what they were seeing. There wasn't just one alien, but almost thirty of them! They all resembled the teachers except for the skin and clothes, of course. One was short, skinny and always smiling. The students could easily tell that she or he was to replace Mrs. Motter. Another one who looked tall and lean and ready to set up an algebra problem at any given moment was obviously Mrs.Allen. However, these aliens were not going to stop the students. They easily overpowered "Mrs. Motter" and "Mrs. Allen" and then they went to the teachers' lounge and witnessed an unbelievable sight.

The aliens had turned the teachers' lounge into a giant spaceship that they were going to use to take the whole school back with them to their planet. "Oh my gosh!" exclaimed everyone. The aliens came up into the lounge just as the kids were disabling the spaceship, and the battle was on.

"HOLD ON!" shouted Mr. Cook,"There's not going to be a battle or all of you are going to get detention. Besides, you forgot your giggle guns." And he handed everyone their own giggle gun. "Now you can begin!" he screamed as he ran down the stairs.

Josh was the first one to shoot. He shot at Marcy Ann but nothing happened. "Did you really think those silly giggle rays would work on us?" said Marcy Ann with a laugh. "You will never be able to stop us!"

"Oh,yeah,"says Josh," I haven't done anything funny yet." Then all of a sudden Josh whips out a plaid hat with matching suspenders."What do you think about that?" said Josh.

"OH NO!" said Marcy Ann, "Not PLAID, we can't stand plaid!"

The next thing you know all of the aliens were screaming and shouting in pain. Josh being pleased with himself made a mental note to add a plaid hat to his drawing of Mr. Dryden, that way he can boast about it even more while remembering this boondoggle day. He would be much more pleased sitting in a corner drawing. It seems as though the students and staff now have an advantage on the aliens. The advantage wasn't just because of Josh's plaid hat and matching suspenders, but also of Tanners blue and white neck brace. It made them think of a more dominant alien race that had defeated them in the past, so every time they saw Tanner they would flee in terror.

"That worked, but what should we do now?" asked Superintendent Mitchell.

"You aliens better keep your eyes open, or else you might just find yourself in a world of hurt and misery." said Officer Adams. The officers got out super duper alien cuffs and attempted to chase after the aliens, but then all the aliens disappeared while they were grabbing their cuffs.

"Where did they go?" asked Officer Adams.

"Who cares? As long as they're gone I really don't care," Said Colton Hill. But Josh knew that this wasn't over.

Meanwhile, the aliens were all hiding in the air ducts of the school, waiting for their next attack. They watched silently through the vent, for the next innocent victim. The students were safe, though, because Officer Adams gave them a can of happy spray and a tickle shooter.

"How is a tickle shooter going to save us?" asked Jessica Taylor with a sigh. As the students were discussing alternative weapons, they heard a loud bang! "What was that?" shrieked the students.

"Let's go find out!" said Jared Boyd with curiously.

"No way! You're nuts!" yelled Amelia. The students took a vote and the majority of them wanted to find out what it was. As the students inched closer they saw an alien standing over a teacher! There we found Ms. Webster with an alien standing on her cart. The next thing we knew she was speaking to them in their own language. She was one of them! Some students had their suspicions about Ms. Webster (Logan Jackson was not one of them), but no one expected her to be one of them. When she saw us she stopped talking and tried to make it seem that the alien was holding her against her will.

After she realized that the effort was futile, she called for all her fellow aliens to come out of the air ducts, encircling all the students of Pryor Junior High School. One moment later, Brandon Marlin shot his tickle shooter at Mrs. Webster. And like the shot heard 'round the world, the battle was on.

All the aliens were running to find a safe place to hide while Brandon was shooting at them. He hit Mrs. Webster in the back and she fell to the ground and couldn't keep from laughing. He met up with Josh in his plaid and Tanner in his neck brace,and chased after Marcy Ann while shooting at him. Brandon has a horrible aim at long range, so of course he missed him. Brandon finally hit Marcy Ann in the back of his head. "Yes! I got him!"

Mrs. Webster finally got up and called over to the alien who was in disguise, Mrs. McCloud. Everybody stopped and turned to look. No one suspected Mrs. McCloud, but she ended up being one! Then Brandon turned around and shot Mrs. McCloud with his tickle gun. Hit! While Mrs. McCloud was on her back laughing up a storm, Brianna comes rushing in dressed in tinfoil. (She saw in a movie that it protects people from alien attacks.) "Oh my gosh! How could this be? Who would ever have thought Mrs. McCloud was in on it the whole time?" she said.

Not a second after Brianna said that Scooby and The Gang come in and said,"We knew it was Mrs.McCloud all along."

The entire school said,"WHAT?"

Then Velma explained," A teacher like Mrs. McCloud is too cool to be a normal human. She has to have been from a different planet."

"That explains everything," said Colton Hill. "Thank you for solving the mystery, Gang."

Mrs.McCloud said," And I would have gotten away with it to if it wasn't for this meddling school and that dumb dog."

"Scoooobyyy DoooooBBBByy DOOOOOOOOO."

But instead of arresting the alien Mrs. McCloud, Officer Adams approached the group and put the handcuffs on Colton. "This is what happens when you plagiarize material from my favorite cartoon, Mr. Hill," stated the officer.

"Jinkies," yelped Colton. But before Colton could explain himself and focus the attention back on the aliens, Mrs. Henderson came running up to the group with her shopping cart/classroom on wheels and whisked "Mrs. McCloud" away.

Officer Adams started chasing after the cart when all of a sudden he tripped over a tiny invisible wall that one of the aliens laid down. Luckily, Colton and the other non-aliens were trailing behind him, and they soon caught up and surrounded "Mrs. McCloud" and "Mrs. Henderson."

"Give up, aliens, you're surrounded," said Colton "You can't get away now." As soon as Colton said that, Mrs. Henderson pushed the cart at Colton, and Mrs. McCloud and Mrs. Henderson were off running again. "Stop, you aliens!" yelled Colton. "You will never get away!" And the chase was on again.

The aliens were running down the hall then, and just as they turned the corner, they ran right into a huge net that the students had put up to catch them. By the time that Colton had caught up to them, they were swinging in the net above his head. Then Colton shouted, "HA! You're trapped now, aliens!" But little did he know the aliens were carrying mini light sabers, so they could cut themselves free. After they were free, the alien teachers took off in the opposite direction.

"Hahahahahaha", said Mrs. McCloud, "they will never catch us now, NEVER!"

Just then Mrs. Henderson said. "Well, yes, they could stop us because there are two of us and......... a lot of them."

As Mrs. Henderson was finishing her sentence, a crowd of students surrounded the two so-called teachers.One of the brave students came running with a bucket of water and dumped it all over Mrs. McCloud.

"I'm melting!" screamed Mrs. McCloud as she descended into a puddle of green goo that looked amazingly like a diagram of a compound-complex sentence.

When water was dumped on Mrs. McCloud, some of the water splashed on Mrs. Henderson. Instead of melting, though, the water had an odd effect on Mrs. Henderson, and she started to grow extremely tall, and I mean REALLY TALL. When Mrs. Henderson looked down, she saw a herd of kids running towards her.

When the kids got to her, she jumped up and began to run in the opposite direction. Since Mrs. Henderson was so tall now, she could cover more ground and quickly put some distance between herself and the kids. The only thing that was slowing her down was that she insisted on continuing to push her shopping cart.

As they were chasing Mrs. Henderson, the students heard a high-pitched rumble; it was a mo-ped. As the mo-ped came to a sudden stop, the driver stepped off rather slowly. He was quite tall and muscular with a large leather jacket and dark sunglasses. He looked rather mysterious and a little dangerous. The initials on his jacket read "A.J." Everyone was curious as to how A.J. Snyder, M.D. might solve the alien problem.

"What in the universe do you people think you're doing?" Growled Dr. Snyder. "Just because these beings are of higher intellect doesn't mean that you should chase them around and tickle them. They are, after all, simply trying to teach you new concepts." With those words of wisdom, A.J. waved his magic wand (given to him by Harry Potter) over the green goo and brought Mrs. McCloud back to life.

"Thanks, A.J.," said Mrs. McCloud. "Because of your kind deeds, I'll forgive you for hiding my sandwich when you were in my 9:00 class. As for the rest of you, I thought we discussed tolerance and how important it is to accept and learn from those who might be a little different from you."

"Jinkies--what were we thinking?" yelped Colton. "I think we need another story to write that displays all the great things we've learned this year!"

That sounded like a great idea to the teachers, so stay tuned for more!!