My Old Short Stories

It's a Small World After All

One Day, there was a Scientist and her name was Casey (that's me). I have a lab in my bedroom. I also have an assistant and his name was Marcus. Marcus is a Flea that can talk. Which is where our story begins.

One Day, I was wondering what it must be like for Marcus to be a flea. Suddenly, I had an idea, I am going to make a machine that would shrink me down to the size of a flea. Marcus said he would take me on three adventures. It took me ten days to make it. I called it "The Sizinator (sigh-zi-nay-tor)" So I stood in front of the big gun and flicked the switch.

I had become the same size of Marcus. It was lucky my clothes shrinked too. He told me "go to Poppy and I'll bring the picnic basket." (Poppy is my dog) "the picnic basket?" I wondered what we were going to do with that. But it didn't take me to long to figure it out. We were going to have a picnic on my sleeping dog's back! I Quietly climbed on Poppy's back and waited. Not long after, Marcus came back with a picnic basket full of crumbs and scraps that looked like a feast fit for a king to us. After a few minutes, we got off Poppy's back and went to our next adventure.

Marcus told me to take his hand and hold on. Before I knew it Marcus was jumping really high taking me with him. Suddenly he stopped and I said "where are we, what is this?" and he answered "this is Harold." (Harold was my giant bear) I was so shocked to see how big he was. Harold was so big and I was so tiny that I couldn't even see it was Harold. We were climbing on him and bouncing on his belly for hours. Before Marcus took me on my next adventure, he wanted me to see the sunset. So he took me up to my window and we watched the sunset. It was red and orange and yellow and a bit pink and a bit purple. It was just lovely. Marcus said "I've saved the best and the grossest till last." The fact that he said "grossest" made me a bit worried, but he also said he does it all the time.

He calls it a "Body Adventure" but we had to wait until my mum was asleep. I asked Marcus "what are we going to do?" He said "I know how much you love the digestive system, so we are going to gear up, start at the mouth and go through your mum's digestive system." I asked the first thing that popped into my mind, "how are we getting out?" Marcus just handed me a special protective suit that looks like an astronaut's suit and said "put this on and lets go."

So we went into my mum's bedroom and slipped down her oesophagus. We had to be quick so she wouldn't choke. It took us a while to get to the stomach. Since we were wearing protective suits we didn't have to worry about the stomach acid. We landed in the acid with a little plop. Me and Marcus had a great time in the stomach. We were swimming in the acid and we were bouncing off the mucus and we were doing par-core on his food. Soon after that we went a bit further, we explored the small intestines. But I told Marcus we are not going any further, so we went back up to the stomach. The oesophagus was too high for us to get up through. Thankfully, my mum burped and we went flying out her mouth. That was the last adventure. I took the suit off, But I wasn't finished I wanted to push it further.

I have a time machine. I thought for a while of where we could go. Then I had it, World War 1. It was a horrible time in history, but there were lots of fleas around so we should be fine. "Let's go to the past." I went to the control panel that I built especially for Marcus and I set it to take us back to the middle of World War 1. We walked into the light.

The first thing we heard was guns and bombs. We hoped onto a soldier and climbed onto his head then jumped out of the trench and ran into "no man's land." We sat there for hours watching the war. Every so often we would play dodge ball, only with bullets. We were fine, no one got hit because there wasn't as much shooting going on. After a long while it was time to go home so we went back to the invisible time machine in the British trench that only we could see. We set it to go back to our time and there is one thing that I always love to say when going back and that is, "INTO THE FUTURE!"

When we got home I was ready to go back to my own size but there was one problem, we were too small to reach the switch and The Sizinator was so big, even Marcus couldn't jump that high. We found that out the hard way. I sat and thought for a while and then I had it, I'll make another machine that will allow me to jump high enough to reach the switch. So, me and Marcus worked together to make the machine. Marcus gets the pieces and the tools and I make it. After a couple of hours, we're done. I've called it "The Jumpinator" (jump-i-nay-tor). I set it so I can jump 21 meters high because The Sizinator is 20 meters. I stand in front of The Jumpinator and Marcus flicks the switch. I jump as high as I can and tilt the gun so it is pointing at me when I jump back down. I set it to my normal size, flick the switch, quickly jump down, I close my eyes and get zapped. I opened my eyes and found I was back to my own size. It was good to be back and Marcus was happy to be back on my Shoulder. To celebrate we went to one of my fav time in history, Ancient Greece.

THE END