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The Exploration Laser: A Short Story

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The exploration cruiser crew were wishing they weren’t in the white and orange and REALLY battered freighter known as The Exploration Cruiser. They were wishing about hanging out at planet D-X38, meeting their humanoid friends and drinking Coke at the diner. But no, NASA needed information about aliens (both hostile and docile) and planets beyond Voyager 1 and Voyager 2’s reach. It was very boring, and they had lots of unfortunate run-ins with the hostile Zarkians. Luckily, they escaped from most of them. Before long Zarkians started targeting the T.E.C. The captain suddenly said groggily, “What’s that? Is that mission control? No wait. . . . It’s something else!” The lieutenant said,” We’ve got to make contact with them! Okay, Special Exploration Squad, get into Pod …show more content…

After them!” And the chase was on. The Zarkians has a disarm laser, so they tried to fire it at the TEC. The captain was smart enough to swerve the cruiser away from a bright red disarm laser beam fired from a disarm laser cannon. But all the swerving caused turbulence knocking two cadets unconscious. The aliens fired again. The laser was meant to be aimed at the cruiser, but it had a hacked circuit board, went haywire and ended up firing at planet J-x6B9. It was full of docile aliens. It hit an alien secret base, and in no time at all the docile alien agents fired back with their ion cannon. The green bolt of ion went into the ink black space. It hit a hostile Zarkian pod and it plunged into J-X6B9’s moon, D-R8. Unfortunately, it was empty so it didn’t provide much strategic advantage to the T.E.C. cruiser. The docile aliens fired again; this time it was fired hastily at a GPS bulb on the top of the alien gunship and. . . . It was a hit! The TEC crew and cadets were happy with glee, and seized the opportunity to fire back at the gunship. The bolt hit an engine and stunned it. The Zarkians span around to retaliate, but it was too late. Their ship began plunging toward a gas

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