The Mars Wars (#Wattys2016)

Chapter 1:A holiday on Mars

"Pzttt.... This is...... This call from... Mars, signalling to..... Pzttt... Earth that we have.... safely reached the surface of... Mars. Pzttt.... Dang! Our radio and communicator's signal has been jammed, "I told my father when we were trying to contact Earth.

When we had safely landed on the surface of Mars with the Apollo 2000, a spacecraft that was made by NASA, and asking us to try it out by sending us with Apollo 2000 to Mars. When the space tele-transported us on the red soil, immediately we were surrounded by Martians with black headbands with weird marks on their bodies, equipped fully with combat shields and plasma guns.

My sister was so scared that I thought she would use up all her oxygen in her spacesuit. Hugs all around? A plate of chocolate cookies? Nay, I didn't think so. When the Martians brought us to their queen, I only needed one word to describe her :HIDEOUS! The queen was saying some words to her lieutenant when I suddenly heard tanks. And I mean siege tanks, those tanks can transform from siege mode to tank mode enabling them to roll on the ground.

The queen panicked, all around I heard was shouts of agony of the hideous Martians dying all around us. Then came a shout of cheer when someone stepped out of those badass tanks. If those hideous Martians are scared of something worse.....oh no! But when another Martian came out, he or she wasn't that ugly, so I'm guessing it's a he.

Then a female Martian came out of the tank too. Her armour gleamed with light and was carved lightly. I guess she was the male Martian's partner. "Hello there, Earthsiders, I see that you were taken by the green Martians." spoke Kerriagan the blue Martian. The male Martian, Raynor, invited us into his siege tank. All the troops transformed their tanks into tank mode and rolled to their kingdom, leaving the green Martians' castle in ruins.

My, I should say, my family and I were treated like princes and princesses in waiting. The food was a little unknown, but as long as it's tasty, it doesn't matter, does it? The castle was so big that it had more than 250 rooms! The blue Martians were so generous that they shared with is two rooms that were connected, one for my parents and one more for my sister and I.

We had some weapon training with plasma guns and other good stuff with lots of fun. Most importantly, we got to play with those badass siege tanks. We even went around Mars with those really futuristic space shuttles.

A few days later, we heard gunfire. Raynor was like, "Oh, c'mon, reinforcements?! Really?!" Peering out the window with extra-futuristic binoculars, I saw spider-like kind of tanks shooting plasma."Get all troops out of their bunk beds, focus all firepower on the capital ship, program siege tanks targeting those spider tanks, " Raynor ordered as he looked at me. "And I'll see you boys on the ground, " were his last words before he went to land.

As soon as I reported the situation to my family, without hesitation, they shooed me off to go in battle with the badass siege tank. A medivac came to pick me up. When I settled in it, the captain asked, "Where should I drop you, sir? " I responded, "Drop me near one of the unprogrammed siege..... Ah, you know what? Heck with it, just drop me in the barracks, I'll get one of those 'ghost' suits."

In case you didn't know, 'Ghost' suits are extremely futuristic. You can 'Psionic Splash' your enemies, leaving them stunned with electricity. You can also 'snipe' with your sniper-plasma gun, send nukes to bomb places and most importantly, 'clock'. 'Clock' means you can turn invisible as long as you wear the suit and have enough power to do it.

As soon as I rushed into the battlefield, not one, not two, not three but there were lots of spider tanks either getting shot or unprogrammed. I quickly took one out as it was spinning around looking for me. Five more spider tanks surrounded me but I easily took them out with 'Psionic Splash' grenades. Right then, a big capital ship loomed in the distance, dispensing out numberless spider tanks. I silently tele-transported myself under the AZ-1 by the look of the name of the ship.

Time for some fun, I thought. I heard a female robot's voice announcing "Nuclear Launch Detected, Waiting For Deployment." I then accepted the request to launch a nuke. From the distance near the castle, I saw a big missile bearing the seal of a nuclear. It launched up into the sky and then descended onto the capital ship.

I quickly tele-transported myself far from the capital ship and saw it blow up with a force so big that it pushed me back to some piles of rocks when I looked behind me. Then I heard the same female voice when I launched the nuke, now saying, "Ghost suit in requirement of energy." I then silently cursed myself for not noticing the level of energy in my ghost suit.

Near to me, there was a deserted siege tank and I climbed into it without hesitation. I quickly flipped up the lever for programming of the tank. Then the same female voice said, "Danger on battlefield imminent, programming, enter code. " I typed in the secret code for programming and the siege tank came to life.

After what felt like an eternity, Raynor's holographic face peeked up on my tank screen. When he announced that every one of the green Martians' reinforcements were destroyed, all the blue Martian troops launched out victory flares and we rumbled and rolled to the castle.

When I was in the middle of the battlefield, a Hercules transport ship picked me up. When I came out of my own siege tank, the other blue Martians were already happily partying away. We gave each other high fives when Commander Raynor congratulated everyone. "You've all done good work, lads, even the Earthsider, Mark, is learning fast," he continued, "You all earned yourselves some freedom, but when the enemy strikes again, be ready for them."

Author's Note :
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