Challenges: SciFi Short Stories

Easter Outing

It was a bright and sunny evening of April during an Easter outing event.

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"Children, please come here, we will start the egg chase!" says one teacher while the other is gathering them catching some children joyously running away in every direction.

"Like every years, we put delicious chocolate eggs in the park. Are you ready to find them?" says the teacher quickly overwhelmed by the war cry of children hungry for chocolate. Everyone around me is bursting with excitement, their legs and arms are twitching, their eyes are scanning every every trees, every benches, their mouths overflowing with saliva between their teeth. The current mood frightened me a little so i asked to one of the kid:

"Are you ok?"

"Ahhh, Bouaahhh, Choooocolate!" spouts the kid in trance, lashing out pearls of saliva on my face. Every kids starts chanting "Chocolate, Eggs, Chocolate, Eggs...".

"Ready!" says the teacher lifting her hands "and... Go!".

Her hands claps violently, the kids shout and rush to every side of the park. I was hurt many times when the swarm was liberated, felled on the grass, beaten by fists, stamped by legs, I closed my eyes, hold my tears and cowered for as long as I remember until the calm.

"Are you ok? Are you hurt?" says a quiet voice among kids cries, her hand trying to reach me, her figures blocks the sunlight, it is the teacher.

"I am afraid. Everyone is... mad." I says shaking nervously, avoiding her hand.

"Come on! A strong child like you. Get up!" She grabs me, makes me stand, shakes me to remove the grass on my clothes.

"You should hurry and catch some eggs. Once you taste them you will now how heavenly they are and everything will be good for you." she says with a bright smile before leaving to join her colleagues sitting on the bench. They were chatting and laughing, living in another world surrounded by possessed kids.

I give a slow look around me, kids still running like mad dogs until my eyes catches a glimpse of blue light deep among the grass. I slowing walk on my four legs mimicking a lost lamb until I reach the spot. It is a buried egg, weirdly cold with evening's heat, trembling escape from it.

"He found an egg!" shout one kid before fives of them tackle me like bulls. I stand firm on my four legs, covering the egg under my belly, biting every hands and kicking every faces trying to reach it. "Egg!" shout another kid at the other side of the park. The bullies quickly change their aims and charge in the other direction like a hounds.

"Thank you little earthling, I owe you my life but don't think of me as a hypocrite if I call immediately for you help." A sweet smell of chocolate twitches nervously my nose, the egg was open, coming from it is the figure of a little rabbit standing on his two legs in what looks like a hand sized cockpit. His clothe are dark chocolate with blue stripes. Only his faces, ears and obvious front teeth were visible.

"I am SirPinla, member of the guardians of the galaxy. I am on a mission to retrieve a dangerous alien named PsychoDuck. He can control mind and is a duck. As member of the guardians, I solemnly ask you earthling: 'Are you ready to help me in my mission and authorize me to supersede your chain of control?'"

"What?" says abruptly while some of my brain's fuse burnt.

SirPinla swiftly jumps on my head, takes a retractable blue stick out from his suit and strikes me. Suddenly I feel numb.

"I didn't known you spoke our language. Let's go!" My body starts running toward the pond close to the teachers.

"Egg, Egg, Has it, Rabbit, Rabbit, Kill it!" A new chant resonates in the park while all children rush on me like a zombie apocalypse.

"We can still save them, trust me." says SirPinla while he take a little gun out from his pocket and starts firing blue needles. Every needle hits bull's-eyes, the kids in front of me fall one by one while a horde keep following me in the back.

We get closer to the pond, one duck flapping in hurry to reach the opposite side, and my body keep accelerating.

"No stop, not in the water! My parents will kill me"

"No way! I am so close! And you already gave your consent!"

"What?"

"Exactly!" SirPinla strikes me with the blue stick, my body jumps into the pond splashing mud everywhere. Hopefully I have feet. Behind me I hear kids crashing into the pond and the teachers shouting "What are the kids doing? Stop them! Stop... Stop.. Rabbit!"

One teacher jumps in the pond trying to catch me, loses her balance, falls flat while the other grabs the duck and run. I walk over the teacher's fallen body and reach the land.

"Throw me!" shout SirPinla.

My hand reaches him and throws him towards the teacher.

"Endgame Psycho Duck! You are mine!"

In mid-air, SirPinla shoots the teacher's ankles, she falls on her knees letting loose the duck  flapping desperately until SirPinla slashes him with the blue stick. Then the duck dematerializes and re-materializes into a tiny cube that get attracted to SirPinla's belt, joining several others ones.

"The galaxy is saved little earthling! You have my most gratitude. If you have any request I will gladly accept it. A chocolate medal? High tech chocolate computer? Or just delicious chocolate?"

"Can we just be friends and play again?"

"What?"

"Exactly!"

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"And that's how I ended up at your age in this park befriends an alien and saves the galaxy!"

The children were not impressed.

Suddenly an egg crashes on the grass, SirPinla emerges from it with his blue stick.

"No time to explain, I need you. PsychoDuck escaped!"