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I find it very hard to write proper stories. So, I'm now writing a series of short stories. I would really like to know what you think of this so far:


Goldie stood on the edge of the building, overlooking the entire city. It was early afternoon on a nice, quiet, sunny day. Suddenly, a car that was driving along the road turned left for no apparent reason and smashed into the side of a building. The building was glass, though, and so the car just drove through it and out the other side.

Goldie immediately sprung into action and leaped of the edge of the building. Unfortunately, he landed in a bin. He quickly clambered out and continued on his dramatic chase. Goldie was a fast dog, but he didn’t have super speed. Well, he wasn’t actually a dog, either. He was really a soft toy made out of a super secret material which was struck by lightning, thus animating it and creating an artificial neural circuit simulating a brain… if that makes sense.

Anyway, going back to my original point; Goldie wasn’t able to easily catch up to the car, as the only powers he had were super strength and ever so slight invulnerability. He ran as fast as he could, dodging pedestrians, cars and especially bins. He ran down the road parallel to the building the car smashed into. When he got to the end of the building, which was at a junction, the car swerved across the junction and almost hit Goldie!

Fortunately, Goldie ducked. As soon as the car had passed over him, he sprung back up and resumed the pursuit. Goldie was very close behind the car now. With all his strength, he leaped at the car. Unfortunately, the car made use of its very, very good brakes. It stopped almost instantly, and so Goldie landed and rolled to a stop about 20 feet in front of the car, not on top of it as he’d planned.

The car reversed, spun round, and started driving towards the River Thames! Goldie immediately picked himself up and ran after the car. He didn’t have a clue why someone would want to drive into a river, but he had to stop them. Goldie leaped over car after car, pedestrian after pedestrian, until a few seconds later he was once again right behind the troublesome car.

But before Goldie could act, the car smashed through the rails on the pavement and began nose diving into the Thames. The front of the car was only 2 inches away from the surface of the water, but it didn’t get any closer. Goldie held onto the back of the car with one hand, while his other hand was punched deep onto the pavement.

Goldie threw the car over his head, back onto the road. It landed on its roof, partly crushing it, and so all the windows smashed. Goldie pulled his arm out of the pavement and began walking towards the car.

Suddenly, flames shot out of the exhaust, hitting Goldie! The impact threw him back, landing him in the Thames. Goldie really didn’t like swimming. After all, he was a soft toy, so when he got wet, the fabric he was made out of absorbed a lot of water, making him really heavy. Fortunately, Goldie knew of a way to deal with this.

He quickly swam over to the wall leading back up to dry land. Goldie was an excellent climber, as he had to do a lot of it to get to the roof of his owner’s house. He grabbed onto the nearest brick, and began climbing as fast as he could. Every second that passed, more water dripped out of his fabric.

When he got to the top, he poked his head above the edge, just to see where the people in the car were. The car was still upside down, but the flames that hit Goldie weren’t just flames! They were the exhaust flames of a rocket! That rocket was now propelling the car along the road!

Goldie had no time to lose! He immediately initiated his plan and climbed up to the top of the rails. He jumped off and belly flopped onto the pavement with a splat. All the rest of the water squirted out of him. He then jumped to his feet, quickly rubbed his poor nose, and ran after the car once again.

Fortunately, the car wasn’t moving very fast. Even though the rocket was really quite powerful, it was still pushing the car along the road upside down, therefore with no wheels. It was at most going only 30 mph, and Goldie could run a lot faster than that. He was a small dog, yes, but he could run about as fast as any racing dog.

Goldie had almost caught up to the car, but then the exhaust pipe turned completely 90 degrees to the right, stopped moving forward and spun around incredibly fast. Goldie had to move back to avoid getting hit by the exhaust flames.

Thinking ahead really wasn’t one of Goldie’s strong points. Without thinking, he threw himself at the top of the car. As soon as he landed on it, he was thrown to the side, and smashed threw the window of a building. He bounced off the ceiling, landed on a newly polished table and slid off into a little bin by the side.

Goldie jumped out of the bin, grabbed it, and threw it out of the smashed window he’d come through.

“And stay out!” he shouted.

He heard glass smashing, and walked over to the window to see what it was. He saw that the bin had hit a window from the opposite building. The window it had hit was at ground level, and it was also facing the spinning car. Goldie took a few steps back, ran at the window and jumped through.

He made it perfectly through the other window below. As he landed inside the building, he collapsed into a roll. He leapt up in the middle of his roll and landed on a table.

By this time, Goldie had decided that the car was a worthy opponent. He realised that he needed a plan. He ran over to another window, which had curtains. He pulled one of the curtains down and tore off the fabric, leaving him with the elastic. He then pulled off two metal chair legs from the nearest chair. Goldie next wrapped one of the ends of the elastic around one of the metal chair legs.

He then went back to the smashed window and held the end of the elastic wrapped around the metal chair leg outside, as close to the flames as he could without getting burnt himself. The end of the chair leg began melting. Goldie brought it back inside, and pressed it to the left side of the windowsill. He then did the same to the other end of the elastic. Now he had himself a makeshift catapult.

Goldie then looked around the room and saw a cylindrical speaker. He picked it up, and grabbed the middle of the elastic. He then held the speaker just in front of the elastic and started walking backwards. He pulled the elastic back as far as he could, aiming it at the car, and then let go.

The speaker shot towards the car at high speed, and embedded itself inside the exhaust pipe. The exhaust pipe started to expand slightly, with all the exhaust gases building up inside with nowhere to go. It was a bomb waiting to happen… and the driver was still inside!

Goldie dived out the window and charged towards the still spinning car. He skidded to a halt just in front of the front end of the car as it spun towards him. He held his arms out in front of him, bracing himself for the impact. The car hit him and pushed him back, but he held his ground.

The car finally came to a stop after about 2 seconds, but 2 seconds seems like a long time when the car you’re standing next to is about to explode. Goldie reached through the already broken window and pulled the door off. He then ran into the upside down car and came face to face with the driver.

The driver just stared at Goldie in amazement. Having a living soft toy isn’t something the average Joe sees every day. But Goldie was much less impressed with the driver. He wasted no time, and released the seatbelt from the driver. Goldie quickly dragged him from the car, seconds before the car exploded!

Goldie jumped on top of the driver and held him down on the floor.

“Why did you cause all this havoc?!” Goldie shouted at him.

Before the driver could reply, there was another explosion coming from behind Goldie. It was an explosion from a railway crossing. A bomb had blown up the track at the railway crossing, just before a car drove over it. The metal pieces of train track and the broken barriers had caused the car to get stuck on the train track, also trapping the people inside.

Goldie turned behind him to see what it was, but then the driver reached into his pocket and pulled out a taser! He then pressed the button and tasered Goldie! While Goldie was shocked, the driver pushed him off and ran away.

Will Goldie save the people trapped inside the car and will he stop the train from crashing into the destroyed section of the track? Find out next time!