by Marama Carmichael

Created on: May 02, 2008

The P.I.G and the Space Pirates

The PIG shot upwards, and flipped onto its side as it tried to outrun the larger ship behind it. The pirate guns started shooting, and the PIG turned and twisted as it tried to escape the enemy fire.

"ADAM! They're going to hit us. Do something!"

Until that morning Sarah had thought her brother was a normal thirteen year old boy. He hated school and vegetables, loved sports and computer games, and constantly argued with her about what to watch on TV. But, this morning she had found out that he was an intergalactic space agent, who spent his spare time zapping around the Universe saving aliens and planets. Now they were flying along sideways in a spaceship called a PIG (which stood for Pyrogytating Inter-stellar Grundlygig), being chased and shot at by some space pirates.

Suddenly there was a loud crash from the back of the ship, and the entire cockpit started juddering and flashing red.

Sarah looked at Adam in panic.
"ADAM! WHAT HAPPENED?"

"We've been hit! We're going to have to try and land before we crash."

As thick black smoke billowed into the cockpit, the spaceship plunged into a nose dive and zoomed towards a Smokey yellow planet.

Sarah screamed.
"AAAADDDDAAAMM!"

He struggled with the steering stick, pulling hard upwards until the ship finally leveled out only meters from the ground. Seconds later the ship crashed onto its belly in a cloud of dust and smoke, and skidded the length of a football field before coming to a stop.

"Quick! Let's get out of here!"

They struggled through the cockpit, but outside they could hardly see each other through the smoke and dust.

There was a large chunk missing from the side of the spaceship.
"Can we fix it?"
Adam looked at it and shook his head.

"Uh-oh, we have company."

Several large black shadows appeared through the smoke.

"Oh no! They're Zigots, from Planet Grunt. They steal spaceships and take the prisoners back for their experiments, or worse...for their feasts. They're the worst kind of space pirates."

"Adam, what can we do?" She whispered frantically as the hideous creatures surrounded them.

"Nothing. For now, do exactly what they say. They'll kill us if we resist. Don't worry we'll find a way to escape later."

There were five Zigots pushing them back against the side of the PIG. They had three legs each. They were black and hairy, with big red eyes, fangs and claws, and they were covered in big red boils that were dripping a yellowy white pus all over their fur and onto the ground.

One of the Zigots

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