The X Machine

[King Kane]

I was going to enter it for a story competition to get published for a children's book, but I delayed it, and then forgot about it!

So, I'll release it here.

Prologue:

  My name is Zen Lee. I am a fifteen-year old girl born in Shanghai, China. When I was three, my family moved to the United States, and I live in Boston, Massachusetts. I lived a pretty normal life until now, when I almost got hurt by two thugs.
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              BEEEEP!
                I rose from my pink bed and stretched. It was a Monday morning. I looked at my red alarm clock. The time read 5:30 AM in the morning. I headed to the bathroom, brushed my teeth and took a nice, warm shower. I looked at myself in the mirror. My face was pale white, with long, black hair. I headed downstairs to eat my breakfast.  As I chowed down my food, my mother asked me if I had done my homework.
               “No, mom. I’m really sorry.”
               “Zen! You have to do your homework to get into a good college!”
               “Okay mama.”
              “Anyway, I hear you’re having a dance competition. Good luck!”
               The golden school bus arrived. I waved goodbye to my mother, and headed to the bus.
               School was fast today. We took a math test, wrote letters to the president in language arts, and watched movies in science and social studies. The end of the day soon came, and it was time to dance. I watched as dancers jumped and twirled on the wooden stage. My enemy, Patricia, did her dance moves like a butterfly. She made no mistakes.
               Finally, it was my turn to dance.
               “Good luck, loser!” Patricia said.
               I got on that stage, and I tried my ultimate best. I was as beautiful as a dolphin. My moves were also perfect. I moved with superhuman ability, and when I finally finished, the whole crowd cheered. My mother jumped up and down, and the judges gave me perfect marks. I won the competition!
               Just as I was about to thank everybody, two guys in black suits came behind and took me. They held me tightly.
               “Nobody move, or the girl gets hurt!” one of the thugs said.
              
               Suddenly, with a lot of speed, my mom got up and kicked the thugs to the floor. The thugs recovered, and tried to stop her, but they were too slow. My mom punched them and tied them to a chair until the police came.
               “Um….”
               “Sweetie, I need to take you to the car.”
               She took me and ran with surprising speed to our purple car. She drove as fast as she could, and then pushed a button.
               WOOOSH. I looked outside, we were going up, up, and up until we were in outer space. Our car changed into a huge spaceship filled with a ton of computers and gadgets.
               After a short while, we landed on the grey moon. I saw a huge building a few feet from here. My mom took my hand again and ran to the building. She went inside to a briefing room. There, I saw a ton of men in tuxedos.
               “Commander Rao, here is my daughter,” my mother said.
               I looked over to see an Indian man. He had a badge that said Commander, and looked very handsome.
               “Hello, Zen. I know you have a lot of questions, but I have to explain everything to you in a short briefing. You see, your mother is a secret agent working for a group called the SEFD, Save Earth From Destruction.”
               I opened my mouth in shock.
               “She’s been undercover all these years fighting a group called the Invasion of Earth Act, known as the IEA. They are a group who wants to take over Earth. Those goons who held you today were from that group. “
                “And…..” I said.
               “We need your help. The IEA has made a machine, called the X Machine which can freeze the Earth. With that, the leader of the IEA, Hemingway Bradford, can take over the world. We got a message that he was planning to do it today.”
               “Why me?”
               “Because you know where he is.”
                I looked at my mom’s face, and it looked like she really wanted me to help.
               “Okay, fine. But I need to think for a while. Can you give me a room?”
               A male nurse directed me to a lovely hotel room which smelled like strawberries. I lied down on the bed and thought.
               He could be anywhere, I thought. From Egypt to Brazil, maybe even Antarctica! I was like this for hours.
Suddenly: “Zen,” the nurse said. “Your mom is kidnapped by the IEA! They left a note.”
               She gave it to me. It said, “Dear SEFD, I have captured your best agent, Xia Lee. Now you cannot stop me. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!”
               I realized where he was. The only place I would never think of:  My house in Shanghai.
I hurried into my mother’s rocket-car and flew to Shanghai. I saw all these tall buildings and beautiful lakes!
I hurried to my old house, which was very creaky and old. It was surrounded by big, bulky men. I snuck through them and hurried through the house. My room was guarded by a big, strong man. I tickled him and went in the room. I saw my mother tied on a chair. I ran to her.
 “You’re too late, Zen,” came a creepy voice. It was Hemingway Bradford.
“You!”
“Yes! Now, The X Machine is powered and ready to use! BWAHAHAHAHAHA!”
He brought a big black and white machine, and pressed a red button. A huge beam shot out the window and out to the world. It was starting to snow!
I tackled Hemingway and I tied him to a chair. I untied my mother, and we tried to stop the X Machine, but it was of no use.
“Darn!” I shouted.
I put a mirror in front of the X Machine, and it reflected the beam onto the X Machine. It froze.
I hugged my mother.
“Zen, I am proud of you! You are truly the daughter I wanted.”

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This isn't my best work, since I had to stay to a strict 1000 word limit.

[King Kane]

Why the heck hasn't anyone posted here