The Friends and the Time Machine - 10/5/82

Once there was a family of fifteen children and their mother and father. There were also three dogs, four cats, eight kittens, nine rabbits, five parakeets and ten canaries. The fifteen children were 3 sets of quintuplets eleven, twelve, and thirteen years old. They all looked alike and their names were all "Pat". The parents names obviously were Patrick and Patricia. As you may have already guessed the animals names too were "Pat". The Pat family lived on 5 Elbridge Rd. in Massachusets. (We call them the Pat family.)

Part I: The Time Machine

One day a peculiar thing happend, when the fifteen Pat children went to school. On their way to school Pat number one saw a time machine. Not wanting to share this with her sisters, she quickly went in. The other Pats continued on to school. Having closed the door to the time machine, she found she was not alone; a person called Zalord was standing next to her. They became good friends.

Pat discovered three dials, eight buttons, and six strings sitting on top of the time machine. Zalord noticed three windows, eight speakers, nine keys, and tons of year buttons. The years were from 1 - 10,000. Then, Pat found a book that read, "Instructions pour le Machine de Temps - PERSONNEL!" (They were glad they studied French.) Zalord grabbed the book out of Pat's hand and opened it up. He read a few instructions and Pat worked the time machine the way the book said to. "If you want to explore new lands, press the year, pull one of the strings, push three buttons, pressing the keys down at the same time as dialing," he read. "If you want to explore old lands do the opposite of that." At that point, they decided to stop for the day.

The next day, their teacher, Miss ça va wanted Pat and Zalord to do some research on the island of Krakatoa as it had been in 1775. After class Zalord said, "That means no more time mach-" "Wait!" Pat cried. "Time machine, we can explore Krakatoa in the time machine!"

So, after school they went to the time machine. They followed the instructions exactly. BLAST! "We are taking off!" Zalord exclamed. In five minutes, they landed on Krakatoa. Zalord exited the time machine first; Pat followed. Zalord found a sign that said: EX2LVM TVLVMD ZZX2352. They could hardly read it, the ground was shaking so much. They stumbled a little farther on until they saw a guy standing there that looked like a monter.

Part II: Was this Krakatoa?

"Are you a monster?" Zalord and Pat asked. "How can you insult me like that?" the monster cried. "We want to be friends with you," Pat said. Suddenly many more monsters appeared. "Don't go after these two," the first monster said. but it was of no use, for all of the monsters started chasing them. They finaly escaped back to the time machine. "What was all that wierd writing for?" asked Pat. "I think it was to scare Columbus so that he wouldn't stop there on his way to America." said Zalord. The time machine stoped at the place where it took off.

Pat ran home and asked her father for a computer. She refused to tell the other kids where she had been. Pat's father went to D.C. Computers and bought her and elegant computer and printer. Pat typed some research on the printer and hurried to school to give her teacher an early look. "Why Pat this, this is excellent!" Miss ça va said. Pat hurried back home and told her parents and they both gave Pat a big pat!

Part III: The Black Hole

One day the mother of the Pat family had to get a babysitter. Mrs. Pat called her and she was there in exactly five minutes. Cindy, the babysitter, and the Pat kids decided to go outside. This time they all noticed the time machine. Before Pat number one could say zip, they were all locked in the time machine. Cindy read the instructions (She read French too) and they headed toward ten thousand. They tried to land in ten thousand on a planet called Zippy Zula, but they couldn't. At this point they relized a black hole was pulling them away from Zippy Zula. "We are being pulled into the black hole!" Cindy cried. "We cant get out!" all the Pats cried. Looming straight ahead was a time warp. Pat no. 15 tried to steer away. They only had thirty seconds to get out. They rushed and rushed and rushed. Now there were only five seconds left, 5-4-3-2-1-0. Everything was black. It was too late.

Part IV: Conclusion

Cindy and the Pat family are still in the time warp. Nobody else knows what happend - only you & I.