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Among us

As the ear-piercing alarm screeched as we flew into the literal unknown, we covered our

ears and screamed as if that would help the alarm’s blaring stop. We were gonna hit the surface

on a planet in uncharted territory! 3,2,1!........ OK, OK, wait. You are probably wondering why

we are falling to our death, screaming our ears out. Well…….. That will need a lot of explaining.

Three lucky (I really shouldn’t say “lucky”) people were chosen to adventure and record

an actual planet with oxygen! This could change all of humanity! The planet was named Rar 86.

All 3 candidates were to be sent to Pasa (Knock-off Nasa), and the candidates' names were kept a

secret…... so, naturally, everyone knew about them. Their names were Mark, Megan, and

Matthew (That’s me!)

We put on our space suits and headed to the space shuttle, which was HUGE. It stood

probably 200 feet tall, maybe even higher! It probably took a century for them to make this

because it was probably 5 million pounds! We went into the spacecraft, and it was SUPER high

tech. It had an autopilot since no one had a rocket license. Mark and Megan started talking about

how the ocean is a soup.

“ It doesn’t HAVE to be boiled”, Mark said. “That is only how humans want it”

“No, it has to be boiled, that is what everyone says” Megan replied.

“And who is everyone?”

“ME!”, Megan screamed.

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“Let’s not rip each other into shreds on the first day, and we haven’t even gone yet”, I

said.

This continued far too long. I grabbed my journal. Some pages will be ripped out because

Pasa wanted information about Rar 86, so I started the page with this:

DAY 1 WORKING FOR PASA

This will be a day to remember, as this achievement would, without a doubt be like no other.

Everything in my life has led up to this point.

3,2,1 BLAST OFF! We rocketed into the atmosphere and into the unknown.

DAY 20 WORKING FOR PASA

As we are nearing our destination, I fill up with Pride, for I will be one of the few to be on the

first other planet(to be discovered)that has oxygen.

We are finally ¾ of the way! All of us talked about what we were going to do on the

planet when the alarm started blaring and pierced our ears. The mainboard showed us that a

meteor had crashed upon us, and we could do nothing about it. Well, thank you autopilot. We

were panicking and screaming. And…….. this is where we left off. “AAAAAAH” we all

screamed as we braced for impact. I see a crack in the ship and I leap to close it before we die

with no oxygen. And BOOOOOOOOOOM!

We came crashing onto the surface, so my attempt at closing the hole had FAILED. But,

for a solid minute, I lay there on the floor and awaited my fate. But nothing happened. Nothing. I

opened my eyes, and I was alive. That means there was oxygen. Oxygen on THIS very planet. A

planet that was NOT Rar 86. I got up and reached for the handle on the hatch.
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Mark

Mark opened his eyes to see Megan on the floor, but still alive. The hatch was OPEN.

Was this Rar 86? Where was Matthew? I had many questions, but knowing no one would answer

them, I stood up and found a note.

Dear Mark and Megan,

It appears we have not arrived on Rar 86, but this is still an extraordinary discovery. If there was no

oxygen on this planet, I’m afraid we would have met the end of this journey. I went exploring if you

asked. How can I not if I have a pencil, paper, and an entire planet to map out. I will see you later

today though, so don’t worry. I also have a journal for Mark to do, because you can’t just sit down

and think about food all day.

Your Friend, Matthew

I headed to the hatch to see our location when Megan screamed and sat up. “W..W...Where are

we?” “Here”, I said. I handed her the note. “Couldn’t wake you from your beauty sleep can I?”

Megan

“M..M...Matthew, Mark, WHERE ARE YOOOU!?!?” I screamed. I expected an answer

back, but only silence came back. “HELP!!” I woke up screaming. It was just a dream. Mark was

walking towards the hatch while holding a piece of paper. “W..W...Where is Matthew?” I asked.

“Here”, he said, and he handed me a note. “Couldn’t wake you from your beauty sleep can I?” I

felt the urge to punch him, but I started reading instead.

“So…… Matthew left?” Megan said. “Yeah”, he replied. I moved towards the hatch

and…. WOAH. That is all that came to mind. WOAH! There were forests, rivers with strange
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green liquid (It is a Drinkable liquid...I had to learn that the hard way), and it was filled with

wildlife. Mutated birds (not gonna question it), and lots of different species I have never seen

before. There were even 2 stars that were like the sun, pretty far away and small for a star. Wow.

Matthew

SCHING!!! As I sharpened the 2nd hatchet, I noticed the stars coming down, so I

grabbed my map and headed to the shipwreck. “Matthew!” Mark said. Megan ran right out of the

shuttle and both Mark and Megan simultaneously screamed,

“WHERE WERE YOU!”

“Things I was assigned to do on this mission, and staring into the sky is not one”, I said

in return. “Anyways, Where is the walkie-talkie, I thought you were working on it, Megan?”

“It is right here, but Mark keeps distracting me”

“I’m bored, I have no one to talk to,'' Mark said as he sat down.

“Well do something FOR ONCE”, Megan said. “ And didn’t Matthew give you a journal

to list the animals and stuff?”

“.....Well, I’ll do something, just not today”, Mark said.

“ Just sleep, tomorrow is a big day”, I said as I laid on the uncomfortable floor of the

ship again. As we drifted off to sleep, I remembered the crash. The alarm, the screaming, and the

crash landing, it never ended for me. I closed my eyes and almost instantly fell asleep.

Mark

Mark WANTED to go home. He missed food (please give me pizza right now), his

couch, a comfortable bed, and Letflix (Knock-off Netflix). Speaking of Letflix, there will be so
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many new shows and movies just waiting for him. I stopped thinking about it before I never

stopped thinking about it. Matthew was waiting for me outside.

“ We need to build a proper house for all of us because after all we’ve been through,

sleeping on the ground is what I hate most about this trip, and that is very weird”, said Matthew.

He grabbed his hatchet and slowly cut a tree with it.

“Here”, He said. I grabbed his second hatchet and rolled my eyes.

“Do you know how to use it?”, he asked.

“Do you think I would be the type of person interested in this stuff?” I said. As Matthew

boringly taught me how to cut a tree with a hatchet, Megan was fixing the walkie-talkie. Glad

that thing has a GPS. Once I finally paid attention to his lessons, we chopped trees for a good

long time till we had enough.

“Time for the building!” Matthew said.

“Yay”, I said sarcastically.

Megan

“Almost there”, I said to myself. “ Aaand…. DONE”, I said as I screwed the

walkie-talkie shut. I pushed on it and calmly said:

“GET ME OUT OF THIS PLACE, I NEED TO GET ON MY…. COMFORTABLE BED AND NOOOT THE FLOOR,

I NEED GOOD FOOD AND NOT FREEZE-DRIED FOOD, THIS PLACE IS NOT THE PLACE I WANT TO BE AT, THIS

IS NOT A SURVIVAL MOVIE!!!!!” I screamed. I let go and pushed again, “Sorry.”

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Matthew

“YES!” I said. Mark and I had finally finished building the log cabin. We had 2 bunk

beds (it took a long time to figure out what to use that was soft for the beds)! We even had a

bathroom…… which Mark used right away. I quickly ran out of the cabin to tell Megan the great

news, but she had better.

“I fixed the radio, so they should go to the GPS and we will be saved!” Megan said in

excitement.

“I also made a log cabin we can sleep on for the next few weeks!” I said.

We all had a feast on food that Mark finally hunted, and once dinner was done, we eyed the

sunset (maybe…..Starsets). We all went to sleep, knowing we will be home in a couple of weeks.

Megan

Mark and Matthew went exploring to finish the map, while I stared at the wall, and

thought of our accomplishments. We will be Legends! Megan thought. People will know

MY name! I AM A GOD!! Okay, maybe that was an exaggeration. As I stared into the

ceiling a sound blasted in Megan’s ears. PTDTPTDTPTDTPTDTPTDTPTDTPTDTTPTD! She looked

outside and for some odd reason, she was expecting a helicopter, but instead, It was an animal.

She studied it. She had absolutely nothing to do, so she was willing to grab the journal, and she

started writing.

Mark

Mark was forced.

“C’mon, it’ll be fun”, Matthew said

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“I highly doubt that”, I said.

“You need to do something for once, you can’t just stay at home thinking about Letflix”,

He said. The way he said “home”..........

“How did you know I was thinking about that?” I said.

“The point is, we got you on this trip to do something”, he said. It was true. One day, 10

years ago, there were two boys who were best friends. One was hardworking and the other was

lazy. But guess what. MARK was the hardworking one, and MATTHEW was the lazy one. But

they both had one goal. Go into outer space and adventure there. I guess astronomy was their

thing because they learned all about black holes, comets, and etc. Now 10 years later, Matthew

was the one who became interested. And I became at the bottom…… I guess. We were walking

in the middle of a forest. I took a glance at his map and found an empty space. He noticed me

eyeing the map he was holding, so he said, “I didn’t have time to go there.” We walked the rest

in silence because we both did not want to talk.

Megan

A cow’s shape, a little purple, and white, but mostly pink. Horn’s like a bull, and mouth

that could fit an entire football. Teeth like sheep's, only good for eating grass, wonder why its

mouth is so big? It makes a sound like a helicopter. She remembered the alarm at the thought of

loud. She started drawing the animal.

Matthew

“RUN!” Mark screamed. Mark and I ran for our lives. I jumped over the fallen trees, I

avoided tripping on the rocks, and most importantly, I ran down that hill like the cops were
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chasing me. I had enough time to look behind me to see the creature following us. It had super

sharp teeth, and a huge mouth to fit me and Mark. It had scales, but oddly enough, it was sparkly

and very rainbowy. It was big, but not big enough to break the trees. That gave me the idea.

“Mark! Head down that way!” I pointed towards a path that was very narrow and full of

trees. He understood and ran as fast as he could all the way until we reached the end of the path.

We were safe.

“That was uncalled for”

Mark

We came back to see Megan holding a bunch of animals and she was holding the journal

Matthew gave me.

“Uuuuhhhh… why are you holding a bunch of different animals, they may seem hostile,

but when you touch them, they may get fierce”, I said.

“Why would you say that?” Megan asked.

“......well we may have done that ourselves”, Matthew said.

“WHAT!” Megan said as she carefully dropped the animals.

“Ummm….. We were trying to explore an area”, I said

“And we found a sparkle in a cave soo….”

“YOU TOUCHED IT!” Megan screamed.

“Maybe, or maybe not, it started chasing us down a hill and almost had its dinner”, I said

hoping I wouldn’t get scolded. But of course, she lectured both of us.

“YOU COULD HAVE BEEN KILLED!” She screamed.

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“Okay, okay”, Matthew said. “ We get the point.” Megan and I left while Matthew stayed

behind.

Matthew

DAY 42 WORKIG FOR PASA

As we are nearing the end of our journey, we all are cautious, as the rescue shuttle has not

come yet, and we all are impatiently waiting. But we all are proud of all our achievements….. No, not

achievements, we are proud of our accomplishments.

And the crash landing stopped.

DAY 389 WORKING FOR PASA

It truly was a big accomplishment. It has been a year……..Huh. I come back with worse handwriting.

Well, everyone is doing fine. Megan became fascinated with the animals on Rar 87 (Named after Rar 86), so she

studies animals. Mark got off his couch and went to college, and me? Well, I get to see Megan every day, because I

am a tourist guide and helper for people who want to live on another planet. Life has been…. Alright. But it was a

good accomplishment.