This is the story of two astronauts who went to discover the unknown planets. One was named Kylie, and the other was named Charlie. While Kylie looked at the map, Charlie drove. They headed off into a place that was most unusual. It had seven planets and five moons. Kylie and Charlie landed on the first planet. That planet was called planet Alien.
They saw crowded towns full of aliens. There are more aliens here than on any other planet.
"Boy are these streets crowded." Said Charlie. He was standing in the middle of a street that seemed to have over a hundred aliens on it. Kylie nodded. She was sitting on a bench on the side of the crowded street.
Charlie was looking at some slime on the side of the street. Just then, an alien bumped into him. Apparently, the alien had a much stronger force than Charlie, so Charlie fell into the slime.
"Youch!" Charlie cried.
"Yuck!" Said Kylie.
"Why thank you! That's very nice of you." Charlie said sarcastically to the alien.
"You're welcome." Said the alien. "You looked like you needed some slime."
"I didn't need any slime!" said Charlie.
"What are you talking about?" said the alien. "Everybody needs slime. My name's, Allen, by the way."
"Allen Bytheway?" Asked Charlie. "That's a weird name."
"Not Allen 'Bytheway.' Just plain 'Allen.'"
"So, you're Allen the Alien?" asked Charlie.
"Come on, Charlie," said Kylie. "We better explore these other planets."
"Oh, let me help you!" Said Allen.
"Well, it would be nice to have a guide." Said Kylie. So they got back into their rocket ship and left planet Alien.
They flew off the planet, and then they landed on one of the moons. The moons were very small compared to the other planets.
"Wow!" Kylie said, "This is some moon!"
"There's four more of them." Said Charlie.
All of a sudden one moon disappeared. "Did you see that?" asked Kylie. "That moon just disappeared!"
"You're right! There are only four moons now!" Charlie replied.
"Oh, not again!" cried Allen "There used to be seven moons! Now we're down to four."
Then Kylie saw a small, tiny figure walking on the moon not far away with a small, tiny shovel. He was a small, black thing with a big brown fox tail. He had small beady, red, eyes. He was also wearing a yellow hardhat.
"It must be those little pests!" Said Allen.
"What are you talking about?" Asked Charlie. "How could anyone that small make a whole moon disappear?"
"You've never heard of the Holers?" Asked Allen.
"No, we just got here." Said Charlie.
"Well, the Holers are these pesky little things that dig holes everywhere they go!" explained Allen.
"A gal's gotta dig where a gal's gotta dig." Said the Holer, in a high sqeaky voice.
"They dug so many holes on their own planet," said Allen, "They ran out of land to dig in. Now their whole planet is one big hole."
"That makes no sense." Said Charlie.
"Their planet looks like a doughnut... with lots of holes in it." said Allen.
"I thought you said it was just one big hole." said Kylie.
"It is one big hole." said Allen. "With lots of little holes inside it."
"I'm sorry, but you've lost it." Said Charlie.
"It's sort of a hole, within a hole." Said the Holer. "Within another hole, that's inside a larger hole."
"I think he's lost it too." Said Charlie.
"We get it," said Kylie. "You have a holey planet."
"No, we don't read the Bible." said the Holer.
"Not that type of holy. I mean holeish holey." said Kylie.
"Everybody stand back." Said the Holer. "I'm getting ready to dig a hole here." And he held up his very tiny shovel.
"No way, mister!" Said Allen. "You're not going to destroy this moon, like you did the other three!"
"How can he destroy this moon?" Asked Kylie. "Look how tiny his shovel is!"
Allen ran over and took the shovel out of his hands. "You don't understand!" He cried. "These shovels look small, but they can dig big holes!"
"I think this whole universe has lost it!" said Charlie.
"Give me back that shovel you, you, you thing from another planet!" yelled the Holer.
"No way!" said Allen. "You don't deserve a shovel! All you do is dig holes with it, and terrorize us!"
"But that's what a shovel is for!" Cried the Holer. "Besides, we have to dig holes. You just don't understand."
"Why do you have to dig holes all the time?" Asked Kylie. "Is there a wicked witch robot queen that is forcing you to destroy the universe by digging holes everywhere?"
"Not quite." said the Holer. "Let me tell you our story."
"Wait," said Charlie. "First, tell us your name."
"My name is very hard to say." said the Holer. "It's really long."
"We can wait." said Charlie.
"Ok, here goes, my name is Prezeltella-mapelbara-dolfinolo-gofobroko-delopinata. But you can call me Pinny."
"A girl's name?" Said Allen.
"So? I'm a girl ain't I?" said Pinny
"Sorry, I couldn't tell." said Allen.
"Well, the only difference is a girl's tail is shorter than a boy's. And we're nicer than the boys."
"Well, tell us your story." said Kylie.
"Okay." said Pinny. "It all started about five years ago, back when our planet was called Planet Friendly, a strange visitor came to our land. She was weird. She had bright red hair, yellow eyes, three noses and no tail at all. She looked very sick. And we all felt sorry for her. And because we were the
Friendly planet, we just had to help her."
"That's very nice." said Kylie.
"What's that got to do with all the holes?" said Allen.
"She told us the only way to make her well was to make medicine out of the juice of a living fire diamond." explained Pinny.
"That explains why you dig all those holes." said Allen.
"What's a living fire diamond?" said Charlie.
"It's the rarest, most powerful, and most valuable diamond in the whole universe." said Pinny.
"Please don't say the words 'hole' and 'universe' together." Said Allen.
"No, Allen," said Kylie, "I think Pinny means 'whole universe,' not 'hole universe.'"
"I don't understand." said Allen. "You're not going to put a hole in the whole universe, are you!"
"Never mind." said Kylie.
"Well, we said we would look for the living fire diamond, and we started digging. We found lots of regular diamonds, but they don't have any juice left in them. We took them to her, and she said, 'Oh Pish! These aren't living fire diamonds.' but she kept them anyway."
"Then what happened?" asked Charlie.
"Well, we just kept looking for it." said Pinny. "Eventually we dug up our entire planet, without finding anything. So now we have to dig up the moons. And when they are gone, we'll keep looking. We'll dig up all the planets if we have to."
"But why?" said Kylie.
"Because we're the Friendly Planet, and we have to help." said Pinny.
"I think she's just pretending." said Charlie.
"What is she pretending?" asked Pinny.
"She's pretending to be sick!" said Charlie.
"Why would she do that?" asked Allen.
"To make you take care of her," said Charlie. "And if you do find the living fire diamond, she'll probably take it to her own planet to become rich."
"Oh, that would be terrible." Said Kylie.
"She's already pretty rich with all the regular old diamonds you found for her." Said Allen.
"That's true," said Pinny, "I bet she has at least five dollars."
"It sounds like she's got a lot more than that." said Charlie.
"Five dollars could buy six planets, two rocket ships, fifteen spricklefigs, and a couple of eemoggs." said Allen.
"What's a spricklefig?" asked Kylie.
"What's an eemogg?" asked Charlie.
"A spricklefig is just a fig with sprickles all over it." said Allen.
"That explains a lot." said Charlie, sarcastically.
"It's a little tiny animal that looks like a fig, but it has a cold. It sneezes through the sprickles on it's back." Said Pinny. "They are very rare, and very expensive."
"And what's an eemogg?" Asked Kylie.
"Let's just say you don't want to get one on your carpet." Said Allen.
"Yeah," said Pinny. "That's gross."
"Why?" asked Kylie and Charlie.
"I don't want to talk about it." Said Allen.
"Neither do I." Said Pinny. "It's not polite."
Just then they heard an angry voice yelling Pinny's name: "Prezeltella-mapelbara-dolfinolo-gofobroko-delopinata! Get back to work!"
"What was that?" asked Kylie.
"Who ever it was, they scream like a Banshee." said Charlie.
"It was Mrs. Pruniski. The sick lady I was telling you about." said. Pinny.
"She doesn't sound very sick to me." Said Allen.
"Digger Prezeltella!" shouted the voice. "My sensors show you haven't dug a hole in almost five minutes! What is the meaning of this?"
"Sorry, Mrs. Pruniski." Said Pinny. "I was just talking to my new friends."
"Oh, that's alright then," said the voice. "you go ahead and have a nice long chat with your friends. I know I'll be alright. I probably won't die for another ten minutes or so, so you just finish up your little chit-chat."
"I'd better get to work." said Pinny, sadly.
"Oh, no..." Said the voice. "You just keep talking with your friends. I suppose I'll be alright. It's not like I'll DIE if you don't find a living fire diamond. Oh, wait, YES I WILL!"
Suddenly Pinny's shovel began to light up, and make a high pitched whine.
"What's happening?" Asked Charlie.
"She must have activated my shovel!" Shouted Pinny.
"What's that mean?" Shouted Kylie.
"It means that..." but Pinny never got to finish her sentence. Suddenly there was a huge hole in the ground beneath their feet. They all started to fall.
TO BE CONTINUED IN SPACE ADVENTURE PART II.