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this is my story

Sgt. Hobbes, the drill sergeant here at the I.H.F.A (Interplanetary Hole Finding Agency), a shortish fat man, was yelling at us as usual. Us, being the class of space year 5982 “ALL RIGHT YA QUWRIDS” he said, “NOW IF YOU LO….” BOOM! All of the sudden there was a big explosion and the room turned into chaos, people running everywhere as debris fell from the ceiling, and as usual I get blamed.

“ARNOLD!” I was in the office of Becky, the head of the I.H.F.A., a luxurious office with a big desk. ”What am I going to do with you,” said Becky with a sigh, a tall older woman. “You remind me of me when I was your age.”

“I’m telling you I was framed!” I said.

“It does not matter. I will give you your new assignment. We recently were notified of a big hole with your name on it.”

“What do you mean?” I said.

“It literally says your name,” she said as she got up from her chair and walked towards the door. In the hallway I was hurrying after her.

When I caught up to her I said “I still don’t understand, you said ‘It literally says your name’”

“I don’t quite understand it either but Sgt. Hobbes will fill you in.  He is waiting for you in classroom 838 so hurry up.”

“Finally, I was waiting for a very long time” said Sgt. Hobbes, he was sitting on a desk, in front of him were my tools, my portal gun, safety shield and life scanner. “Here is the situation," he said "there is a planet called ‘So.’ When we sent experienced agents through the portal they got electrocuted.”

“You said ‘they’ don’t you mean he?” I said.

“No, we sent two agents and right before they passed out they both said, ‘Arnold it must be Arnold.’”

“So I don’t really have a choice do I?”

“No you don’t,” he said. He then rushed me to the portal room and through the portal.

When I got up after the landing I looked around and saw desert, desert, and more desert. I used my life scanner, set it for the surface and scanned. The only life I got on the screen was my flashing green light and a lot, almost too many, red lights behind me.

When I awoke I was in a small room, fortunately, they did not take my stuff and I had my own lock picking skills, I had the door open in minutes. As I crept down the hall I noticed that there was a door open at the end of the hallway open a crack. As I peeked inside I could not believe my eyes, there before me was Sgt. Hobbes and Varlancor, the worst of the worst. I was so startled by this that it took me a few seconds to realize that they were frozen and on the computer screen behind them  the words were flashing “Help Me Arnold.”  When I saw it I recognized the computer I built when I was seven, David.

The computer started flashing numbers and I realized it was counting down. I quickly shot a stun dart into Varlancor but I wasn’t able to shoot one into Sgt. Hobbes. When the computer flashed zero, Varlancor fell over and was asleep. Sgt. Hobbes took only a second to realize what was going on and pulled out his portal gun but I already had my shield up. He shot a portal at me but I managed to dodge around him and grabbed David. I jumped, I aimed my portal gun at Sgt. Hobbes and told him to grab Varlancor. Once he had him, I shot my portal gun at their feet. They fell through the portal and, still holding David I jumped in after them.

Two months later, in Becky’s office she was saying, “So it really wasn’t you who let the platypus loose in the teachers’ lounge.”

“Like I said before, it wasn’t me. Sgt. Hobbes framed me to get me on your bad side so you would send me on a dangerous mission so he could kidnap me. I still don’t know why. Fortunately, he did loose his job and I found David so he can take over. I think everybody will like him more.”

Just then all the sirens went off and the teachers started moving the kids shouting “headquarters has been breached! This is not a drill!”

“Here we go again,” Becky sighed as I dashed down the hallway.

Last edited by shiguy101 (2011-11-15 17:55:32)