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The Little Alien That Could

By Chad, 13,

Once upon a time there was a little alien named Schlaodon. He lived on a small planet named "Planet Of Us." This planet wasn't any larger than the size of United States.
Every machine that was established on this small planet was made to last forever. Everybody on this planet knew everyone else and knew what they were known for. For example Schlobadon's dad was very skilled at digging holes, and his job was just that, to dig holes for building's foundations to be set. Yet Schlobadon wasn't good or skilled at anything. He tried so hard to become good at something but had no success at any of it. He became known on his planet as the alien that was useless.
This reputation of having no use at all was hard on little Schlobadon and the kids at school made fun of him. He was always the last one picked to be on teams, and nobody wanted to be anywhere near him, because of the fear that he might bring down their reputation. So because of this life was hard on Schlobadon. Since he had no friends, he had nothing to do in his spare time. So to fill this time of lonesome he read and had to learn to enjoy books. He read many things ranging from the old technology on Earth to the high-tech things that they used on his planet.
He learned everything there was to know about every machine in existence. He could find a problem in anything and know how to fix it. Everybody still made fun of him for his interest in machines, and they all thought that he was a fool for taking up something so useless as machines. They thought that he should try to learn some sort of skill. But as much as he wanted to learn a skill he just had no luck. So this interest in machines was good for him since he had nothing else to do.
By the time that Schlobadon was twenty years old, which would be fifty on Earth because of the longer year on his planet, the atmosphere started to weaken because of all the fuel being used on the planet. This meant that meteoroids and other rocks in space could easily hit the surface of Schlobadon's planet and destroy everything. Sooner or later the planet had to get hit by a meteor, and it did when nobody was expecting it. This harsh hit to the planet caused all of the power to go out and all of the machines to short circuit.
This enabled everybody everywhere from doing their daily routines. No one on the planet knew how to fix the machines since they were supposed to be ever lasting. Everybody that had once made fun of Schlobadon now turned to him to save their own lives.
He could have said, "No" to everyone and gotten back at them for making fun of him at a younger age, but he didn't and he accepted the challenge of fixing all the machines.
He went to work right away and started to fix every machine on the planet one by one with his bear hands. He was very successful in fixing these machines and made most of them perform better than they did in the first place. He had done it and single handedly fixed every one of the machines of his planet. Everything was back to normal now and everyone was very thankful of Schlobadon. The only thing that was wrong was that there still wasn't an atmosphere to protect his planet.
Nobody even remembered that there wasn't an atmosphere until the next meteor headed toward the planet. This made everybody worry and start to suck up to Schlobadon. They would give him gifts to come and fix their machine first after the meteor hit. Schlobadon accepted all of these gifts. Then when the meteor was about to hit a huge explosion occurred. Everyone was puzzled and wondered what the explosion was from. They all looked outside and realized that the explosion was the meteor being blocked by some sort of atmosphere.
This atmosphere was created by Schlobadon and the machine he made to make an atmosphere. So Schlobadon knew all along that the meteor wouldn't hit his planet, yet he still took all the gifts. Everyone now loved Schlobadon and he was now the hero of the planet. So just because you might not be good at something don't let it get to you, just keep after it and you will find something that you're good at.

 

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