PLANET MEEMOOSA AND THE PLASTIC KANGAROO
CHAPTER ONE - BLUE GOO
With a loud splash, Becky landed on her bottom in blue goo. She tried to move, but it was like sticky blue sinking sand, and she was stuck. She wriggled her bottom, but the goo was just too sticky, and she couldn't move at all.
She was so confused. One minute she'd been sitting in her Maths class, staring out the window daydreaming, and now she was in the middle of a sticky blue lake. And, she realised with panic - she was sinking!
At first only her feet and bottom had been in the goo, but now it covered her waist, and was creeping closer and closer to her neck. Tears filled her eyes as she realised that this was the end; she was about to drown in blue goo!
Maybe you're thinking she was daydreaming the blue goo, and that really she was sitting in her Maths class, gazing out the window and actively not listening to Mr.Thompson waffle on about algebra. But honestly, one minute she had been sitting in her maths class, staring out the window daydreaming, and the next she was drowning in blue goo!
How unfair to drown in a substance you've never seen before, all because you were daydreaming in Maths class!
By now the goo had reached the bottom of her chin.
She took several deep panicky breaths and clenched her face tight as the goo covered her lips and nose, pushed into her ears, and washed over her tear stained cheeks. She felt it heavy against her eyelids and then, only moments later it covered her head and........she was gone.
CHAPTER TWO - MEEMOOS
Five strange purple creatures were staring down at her. Each creature had three green eyes, three fingers on each hand, a long wobbly nose, big floppy ears and two strange circular antennae. They also had green hair poking out of their bellybuttons and the tops of their head. Not one of them had any clothes on except for sneakers. All of them were wearing sneakers. And one of them was holding a large stick covered in blue goo.
She squeezed her eyes closed and then opened them again slowly. They were still there staring down at her.
Becky realised that she was covered in bloo goo and the memory of it covering her nose and eyes came rushing back to her. How did she get out? She looked at the stick and felt the bruise on her head. They'd saved her life! The little purple things had rescued her!
Suddenly all five of the purple creatures started speaking at once. Their voices were high-pitched, but their words made no sense.
"Muuu meeee ma moooooo Moooooo meeee me Meeee mo miiii muuuuu Moooooo moooo me me Mi moooooo?" "Mi Maaaa mo miiiiii moooooo Miii miiiiii mo muuu! Mii moooooo mooooo meeee mu meee me!" "Ma miiiiii maaaa Meeee ma mooooo Ma Moooooo mi miiiiii muuuuu Miiiiii mo mooooo me!"
"Ummmm, can you help me? I don't know where I am."
The aliens just stared at her and then continued speaking.
"Muuu mi miiii miiii Mi moooooo Me ma moooooo Mu mooooo?" "Mi Maaaa mo miiiiii moooooo Miii miiiiii mo muuu! Muuuuu mo mu Mee mi miiiiii maaaa Mo mu moooooo" "Muuuuu mo mu!" "Miiiiii mo, Muuuuu mo mu! "
Finally one of them was pushed forward, and came up to her with a look of fear on its face. Three purple fingers reached slowly towards her. Becky shook with terror. The strange purple creature shook with terror. The three fingers reached out towards her face. They came closer and closer, and then they touched.
Nothing happened.
Becky stopped shaking. The strange purple creature stopped shaking. Then, two of them grabbed her hands and pulled her up onto her feet. Becky was at leat twice as tall has them.
They started to tug her along with her.
"Uh" She said nervously "Where are we going?"
CHAPTER THREE - THE PROFESSOR
"ReBECca WEAver, COMe on DOWwn" shouted a game host voice from somewhere Becky couldn't see.
The mini creatures had pulled her to an igloo shaped green shiny building that looked like a large dome against the ground. It was as they entered that the voice boomed out at her. Looking around her, she finally tracked it down to another small purple alien. Only this one had white fluffy cotton wool like hair poking out of his purple head, and a pair of glasses covering his three eyes. Yes, glasses covering his three eyes! Instead of normal glasses with two round lenses, he was wearing glasses with three round lenses.
"REBeccccccccA WEeeeeeeAver, COooooooMe on DOWn. YOU HAve won AN all expENses TRip to THe plaNET MEmoooooooSA. WiTH iiiit's picTUResque BLUe gooooo lakes and it's Pinnnkkkk sandy beaches, this PLanET paRADise is the perFECt place for a relaaaaaaaxing holiday away from the proBLEms and stRESSes of plAnet EaRRRth." This was shouted in a voice that was constantly going up and down like a game show host.
Becky opened her mouth three times but couldn't think of anything to say, so instead she just did an impression of a fish. After opening and closing her mouth several times, Becky finally managed to spit something out.
"Ummmmmm......uhhhhhh.......what?....um..wh..wha t's going on?"
Suddenly the up and down voice of the game host changed into a voice that was deep and all one tone. In fact, it sounded exactly like a news reader on the six O'clock news. Becky looked around to find the new speaker, before finally realising it was also coming from the alien with the fluffy white hair and glasses.
"At 11 minutes past two this afternoon, Rebecca Weaver was zapped from her Maths classroom in Middleton Elementary school and transported to the planet of Memoosa for experimental purposes. Unfortunately, there was a slight problem with the BOGEY and ..."
"The WHAT?"
"The BOGEY. The Bioscopic Overdrive Googleey Endoscopic Yeger. So Miss Weaver ended up in Lake Googaa swamp where she was rescued by some passing teenage Memoos, who delivered her to the laboratory of Professor Momimi"
"Wh...wh...who are you?" Becky managed to stutter.
The game show voice returned.
"I Am PROFessoR Momimi. And THIs is MEMooooooSA. WeLCooooME to our PlanET!"
"But who ARE you? How can you speak ENGLISH? and WHY do you talk like that? What am I DOING here? WHERE is Memoosa? What ARE these things?" Becky was getting annoyed.
The news reader voice came back.
"I am Professor Momimi. I learnt English using that strange television' thing you have on Earth. I often heard men talking like this on television, I thought it was normal. You are here for experimental purposes. Meemoosa is in the Snickers galaxy next to the Milky Way galaxy. You take a left turn at the sun, go past planet Zob, Flob and Wispooooop, turn right at planet Klingkling and Memoosa is first on the left opposite Trixia, and these things' here are Mo, Me, Moo, Ma, and Mmmmmm. They are teenage Meemoos, and they are late for school"
The five young Meemoos were still standing staring at her open-mouthed. Now the professor turned to them. "Meee mo mooooo mo Mooooo maaa meeee mo mo miiii" he said and gestured them away. The five teenage Meemoos looked nervous, but gave her a quick three-fingered wave as they raced off.
"Thank you" Becky shouted after them.
CHAPTER FOUR - ROOEY, LOCHY, AND NESSY
Becky remembered something the Professor had said.
"Ummm...wh..what do you mean by experimental purposes?"
"Nothing much. We just wanted to ask you a few questions about Earth and maybe have a look inside your head."
"A...a...a look inside my head?"
"Oh don't worry, we're not going to cut you open, just look at you with the SNOT"
"The WHAT?"
"The SNOT. The Scillitating nobrainesconey organspectomy triponiscope. It's just like a brain scanner don't worry it's not painful."
"Wh...why did you choose me out of all the people on Earth?"
"Well I saw you with my FART."
"YOUR WHAT?"
"My FART Franolegee Arsenpok Regeegee Telewangoscope. Well, I saw you with my FART machine, sitting in your maths class and you looked so bored."
Becky sighed. Stupid Maths class! If it hadn't been so boring, she wouldn't have been daydreaming and therefore wouldn't have ended up in this mess. Well, she was not going to stick for this! She was bigger than these weird purple Meemoo creatures and she wasn't going to let them do strange experiments on her! She stormed up to the professor and stared agressively down at him. He barely came up to her waist.
"YOU ARE NOT GOING TO DO EXPERIMENTS ON ME USING SOME SNOTTY THING! YOU ARE NOT GOING TO DO ANYTHING TO ME! YOU ARE GOING TO SEND ME BACK TO EARTH RIGHT NOW! UNDERSTOOD?"
The little alien backed away from her and looked sheepish. It wasn't a game host voice or a news reader's voice that came out now but the voice of a little boy, who sounded like he was trying to explain why he couldn't hand in his homework.
"Well... I would, it's just that...well it may take a little while. You see the BOGEY...well it's not really working properly right now, which is.....kind of...why you ended up in the goo lake and not here. So you see...well...I can't send you back right now."
Becky's voice was cold. "WHEN CAN YOU SEND ME BACK?"
"I'm not sure... maybe...umm...a few months?" He raised his eyebrows hopefully.
Becky narrowed her eyes, looked threateningly at him, and shook her head.
"or maybe in a few weeks?" Again he raised his eyebrows hopefully.
She took a step towards him and looked mean.
"A few days?"
Her hand reached out and grabbed hold of his fuzzy white hair.
"Hours, a few hours?" He said hurriedly.
"FINE" Becky agreed angrily and let go.
"BUT IF I SOMEHOW END UP IN ANOTHER BLUE SWAMP OR ANYTHING YOU ARE DEAD, OKAY? DO YOU KNOW YOU COULD HAVE KILLED ME? I NEARLY DROWNED! WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY DRAGGING ME UP HERE AND DUMPING ME IN YUCKY BLUE GOO? IF IT WASN'T FOR THOSE TEENAGERS, I'D HAVE BEEN A GONER!"
The Professor's voice changed again. This time it came out like an old fashioned English butler.
"Yes, that incident with the goo was unfortunate. I am terribly sorry about that. In fact I cannot quite understand it. I tested the BOGEY several times and it was working perfectly when I zapped up Rooey, Lochy and Nessy."
"Rooey? Lochy?, and Nessy?"
"Ah, they are your fellow guests here on Meemoosa. Follow me and I shall introduce you"
The corner of the room was fenced off. Behind the fence there were two very small sheep and a large plastic kangaroo.
"This is Rooey. He grew a bit during the zapping process,
but I fiddled with the BOGEY before I zapped up Lochy and Nessy from the shore of Loch Ness in Scotland. I think that I may have overdone it though, because they appear to have shrunk a bit during the process." He looked up at her. "Luckily, I fixed those problems before zapping you up.....unless..."
He looked up at her worriedly, "Are you normally so tall?."
Becky looked herself up and down.
"Yes." She said coldly. "I am normally this tall!" She remembered some of her schoolmates teasing her for being short, and added sadly, "In fact, I'm actually quite small for a human being."
The two little sheep were abnormally small. They didn't even come up to Becky's knees. Other than that they looked like normal sheep, but much smaller and cuter. The plastic kangaroo came up to Becky's waist. It was a child's toy, only now it was bigger than the child!
The kangaroo winked at her. But, it was plastic! She touched it. It was cold and hard and quite definitely plastic. It winked again.
"Umm...Professor... I think Rooey is...um...alive. He just winked at me."
The Professor looked at Rooey, who's eyes remained open and still. Then, he turned and looked at her as if she was crazy.
"Of course he didn't wink at you. He's made of plastic!"
As the Professor turned back to the machine he had started tinkering with, Rooey jumped in the air and did a little dance.
"Professor. Look! He's dancing!"
Again, he looked at Rooey, who was now firmly on the ground and completely still.
"Wait!" Becky commanded. "He'll move in a minute."
They both stared at Rooey for several minutes, but nothing happened.
"This is silly. He is PLASTIC! He is NOT alive!", said the Professor. "Maybe you are just tired after all that inter-gallactic travel." He turned back to his machine.
Rooey stuck his tongue out at her.
"PROFESSOR! You missed it! He just stuck his tongue out at me!"
The Professor looked worriedly at her, and scratched his head with his three purple fingers. "Hmm, maybe you just need something to eeeeeeAT. My wife is an exxxxxxxcccccellent cook. You could come to my house for luuuuuuunch?" His voice seemed to have settled into something a bit more normal than the booming game show voice, although he still occasionally shouted out some words.
Becky shrugged; she was kind of hungry. "Yeah, okay."
As they left, she gave Rooey a final look. This time he was tickling one of the sheep with his tail.
"Professor?....Oh, nevermind."