November, 2001

Robo Fighter

There I was in a plane ready to jump out. Hi my name's Joe. I am a parachuter and I'm going to attempt a world record of a 20 men stack. Here I go. I am out of the plane. My chute opens. Two men are already stacked. My best friend's one of them. Now 10 men are. I am right in the middle where we stacked up. We did it. We're up. W're on the ground . Everyone's so happy like we had just won a war with only 20 people. We all went home to get some sleep.

I hear a knock on the door. It's my best friend Tim. I let him in. He said we should go for something new. Like what? I thought we would go for the longest free fall out of a plane. O.K. sounds fun but when are we going to? Tomorrow at 1:00. Meet me at the plane. Tim left and I went to bed. As I was lying in bed I thought of all the glory we would get for this.

Beep, Beep, Beep. I shut my alarm off. It was 5:00 in the morning. If we're going to do this we need to be ready. I got all my stuff together and went out. I checked and double checked my chute just to see if everything was perfect.

It's 12:00 now down at the plane waiting for Tim. When he got there he had a camera. I asked what it was for. He said, "It's for proof." But who's filming? I am. But that means I have to jump.

We're up in the air way up there and ready to jump. Ready? Yes. Here we go. I am flying towards the earth like a rock falling. Still falling. There we did it! I am reaching for my strap. Got it. I pulled on it but it didn't work. Oh no! the ground! Whump.

Wake kup! Wake up! I woke up in the hospital all of my friends around me. No family. I have no family. My friends were all crying. When I looked down I saw that my entire body was wrecked. The doctor came in and asked my friends to leave. They did.

What is wrong with me?

You were hurt pretty bad. We're putting you in the army.

Why? How am I going to fight like this?

Your body will be rebuilt with metal and skin. You know, like robo cop.

What if I say no!

Well, you can't. You belong to the army. Now they bought you and paid for your life. You will leave in one hour to the medical room.

One hour went by fast. They wheeled me to the room. Wake up now! I woke up to see a man in army clothes. It was the drill inspector.

Get on your fee now slime ball. I got up but didn't feel anything. It looked like my old body but I had no feeling in my whole body. I saw a whole bunch of people.

Come with me.

I looked around at all of the people. They were in big groups walking.

Since you don't like to listen you get going. zzzap. The man had an electric stick. I started to follow him. He went to a room with lots of beds. This is your bed. He pointed to an old dusty bed on top. Now put your clothes on. An old suit lay on the bed. I put it on.

Now what?

Go get your group. He pointed to a group of men.

Hey what's this. It's another one of us.

What do you mean another one of what?

Of a robot fighter.

BOOM! BOOM! We're under attack, grab a gun! We all grabbed guns. They all started to fire at another group of men but in different uniforms. I didn't know what to do. Start firing at them!

I started to fire. I hit one, two, three. I wanted to know what was going on. The other men ran. A man came up to me. You won't be able to practice. We train we're in war!

We went to our room and went to bed, but I couldn't. I just didn't get it yet.

Get up! Get up!

What it was - all a dream weaver dream. Why is everyone crying? I looked down and saw my body was truly ripped up. It was going to happen!!!

by Nick
A-6

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