Here is my story from school:
Astrolad
A Cinderella tale by Edward Chen
Once upon a time, in 2543, in a small town near the NASA building, there lived a young astronaut in-training named Sam. He was a diligent person, but he was also extremely kind. He always tried his best on the incredibly hard training and test days, and never complained. Unfortunately, there was an extremely mean crew that didn’t ever let him pass the tests. They were just embarrassed that such a young person could pass all those really difficult tests.
So unfortunately for Sam, on test day, when he completed all the tests for the expedition easily, they said”You just got lucky! We’ll do this again tomorrow.”
Sam’s shoulders slumped, yet he replied, ”Okay. I’ll try to come back prepared.” “You’d better,” they would reply back. Sam’s shoulders slumped more and more as if he was carrying a thousand pounds on his shoulders.
While he was walking home, he saw a billboard advertising a important message. It said the greatest astronaut in NASA could go to Pluto to see if they could spot real living things in person! There was a contest for who could pass really hard tests would be able to go on the expedition.
The next day, he immediately went to the crew and said”Please, please, PLEASE let me take the tests. I want to see if I am truly a worthy astronaut after all. I always try my best on the training and test days. Please let me try.”
“You?! You’d think a scrawny wimp like you could go on such a difficult expedition! Ha! You’ll be surprised! Not in a thousand years could you even just go on rocket ship to outer space! Forget that ‘career’ of yours. You’ll never go on any trip on any rocket ship!” the crew said. And with that they left Sam to find another person to go on the trip.
Sam was sitting in his bedroom, weeping that he couldn’t go to Pluto, when the ghost of Neil Armstrong appeared. He was a handsome guy wearing a expensive suit made of velvet material.
“Who are… you”Sam sputtered.
”Neil Armstrong” He replied “I’m not only a hero in NASA, I’m also your fairy godastronaut. You will go on this trip to Pluto.” Sam stopped crying and stared at the ghost, dumbfounded. “But I can’t go. I’m not the greatest astronaut in NASA these days. I’m so puny and unworthy.”
The ghost replied “ Don’t listen to what other people think. I see a great potential in you. You just have to prove it’s there.” And with one look into his magical telescope, and the words”ASTROLOPA”there was space suit in his closet. Before he left, the ghost said these words “But make sure you come back within 2 years or else the spell will be broken.”
Sam happily replied”O.K.”and danced off to the NASA building with his suit.
When he got to the NASA building he went straight to the judge building. Sam had been smart enough to put on his space suit before he walked in so the crew didn’t recognize him. There tables were littered with notes. Then they looked up and smiled.
“It’s about time,”one of them said.
“Yes it is,” said the others.
Sam was lead down to the “Extreme Test Area”, which wasn’t that extreme for Sam. All he had to do was first, run up to ten mph, sprinting, which he aced. Then he had to go jump up to 6 feet, and he did as good as he did with the running. The last and hardest test was to be able to stay calm in lots of scary situations, and he completed that test with little difficulty. The next thing he knew, he was on a rocket ship to Pluto.
He had a great time over there. He found there was life on Pluto, so it was worth the trip. But soon it was December 31, 2544. Sam saw this and left Pluto immediately, but came back to NASA a split second late on his rocket ship. Soon all that was left was his “normal” clothes that was really his pajamas with rockets and UFOs all over them. In fact, he was lucky he had any clothes on! Sam realized he was in big trouble. So when the crew came to greet him, he rushed off, and he was really fast because he used the treadmill in the rocket to exercise his legs during the trip. He ran and didn’t stop until he got back to his own house. But he never actually mentioned his name when he was chatting before takeoff. The crew saw that he lost one of his gloves on his way out before his clothes turned back yo normal. So they were determined to find the owner of the glove.
They said”Whoever’s hand can fit in this glove shall be one of us!” Everyone cheered, though the glove was ginormous , so everybody, including the crew, doubted that somebody’s hand would fit in it. Despite all this, they still said”The search will begin tomorrow!”
The next day, the crew went all over the town in his limo. He even tested people that weren’t in NASA! But alas, he made to Sam’s house. Sam was sitting in his room, regretting that he forgot about his godfather’s warning. The crew rang the doorbell. “Ding Dong,” it went. Sam heard the faint noise of his custom sound of a rocket ship taking off.(Of course, it wasn’t the actual volume~it was made fifteen times quieter.) He opened the door very slowly. He found the crew standing at his door.
“Hello?” he said.
“OH NOT YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NO WAY IS YOUR PUNY LITTLE HAND IS GOING TO FIT IN THIS GLOVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You’re an idiot if you think it’s going to fit!” Sam’s shoulders slumped again.
“But can I please try it? Please with astronauts on top?”
With a little swearing, they said “FINE!”
“SLIP” the glove fit perfectly! The crew blinked 100,000,000 times, but nothing changed except Sam. All of his suit had appeared. It was hard to see, but he smiled under his helmet. He was back in his suit, helmet and all.
“No way…” the head of the crew mumbled.
“Ok,…” Sam replied “do I get any reward?”
“OF COURSE!” the whole crew exclaimed. Sam slowly smiled even bigger as the crew’s chauffeur drove away to a very pricey restaurant, but thanks to Sam and all his support, it seemed dirt cheap.
Sam became world famous everywhere he went. People would ask for him to autograph their shirt, hat, and lots of other accessories that they had. The crew, on the other hand, was not doing so good. The leader had retired, and everybody voted Sam to be the new one. He fired the mean crew and hired one that was kind and of course, knew how to teach astronauts.
The mean crew moved to a different country, and got booed every time someone saw them. Sam married a famous actress, had 4 children, and lived happily ever after.
THE END
(Or is it? Bum bum bum…….)