John and the Book of Time Travel

Creative writing project by students from FH Miller Junior, led by Book Creator Ambassador Mira Campbell.

Miller Students Creative Writing

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When John and T.I.B.S. are in the yellow car and are going through the forest.

When John and T.I.B.S. encounter the lasers and have to find a way to get past them.

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I think - well that’s weird. Shouldn't the book not disintegrate since it’s another time. I go with T.I.B.S. to a yellow Off-Roader and I say, “Where are the Hover cars?” T.I.B.S. responds, “They aren’t invented yet.” “That’s bad,” I say. I go in the car, and when T.I.B.S. presses the gas pedal I can feel the mud splashing on me from the powerful wheels of the car the fresh pine tree smell.

Car Drive Away Sound (P.10) Recorded By: Daniel Simion <a href="https://soundbible.com/2166-Car-Drive-Away.html">https://soundbible.com/2166-Car-Drive-Away.htm</a> Laser sounds (P.13) Recorded By: Mike Koenig <a href="https://soundbible.com/1885-Martian-Death-Ray.html">https://soundbible.com/1885-Martian-Death-Ray.html</a> Rock Thrown (P.14) Recorded By: Conor <a href="http://soundbible.com/1891-Flyby.html">http://soundbible.com/1891-Flyby.htm</a> Tree falls (P.16) Recorded By: Daniel Simion <a href="http://soundbible.com/2039-Tree-Fall-Small.html">http://soundbible.com/2039-Tree-Fall-Small.html</a>

“There is the book!” The book is lying there glowing on a quartz pedestal. I start running to the book... it is almost gone! All of a sudden lasers start shooting from the wall! “Ahhh!” I jump back, nearly getting hit by one of them! “How will we ever get past those lasers!?” I ask T.I.B.S

“Yay it’s my birthday!” Wait a second.. this happened before! I go down stairs and T.I.B.S. is there with my present. “I don’t want a present this year.” “Why?” T.I.B.S. says with a confused look. Hmm, I don't know what to say! “I have enough stuff." “Oh okay” T.I.B.S Responds.

“There could definitely be another trap.” T.I.B.S. says walking slowly towards the book. “Hurry up T.I.B.S.! We only have 10 minutes left!” I step forward and all of a sudden a huge dark blue robot with massive feet comes breaking through the walls! “Oops.”

I stop hearing trees being crushed. I think to myself - the robot must have been teleported! I need something to break the book. “There!” I shout as I spot a hammer. I take the hammer and smash the book. Everything is being restored and time is going backwards! All the way to the morning again.

Huh, where am I? Who was that?” “Or should I say when is it?” I walk around seeing the empty highways. That's weird, in my time there is always traffic in the airways. I think to myself. I realize I must hurry to find the book before I'm stuck in this time. I see a school with a glow coming from behind it! It must be the book!

I get to the door of the playground where the light was seemingly coming from. I open the door and all of a sudden… I am surrounded by the same lime glow I saw when I first time traveled. This place looks more like my time. Phew, I was starting to get worried about that virus. I hear a loud robotic voice say “YOU HAVE FOUND THE BOOK, MOVING YOU TO YOUR TIME.”

“Yay, it's my birthday!” I run through the stone halls with the many doors. To be honest I don't know where half of the doors lead to. I hear my mom yell in the distance “Don't run in the house!” When I get down stairs, I see T.I.B.S. holding a present with green and white stripes and a blue bow. T.I.B.S. gives me the present and says, “I know I should be teaching you, but not right now because it is your birthday!”

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When John time travels to another time, his time travel book starts to disintegrate! He must get back! He is faced with dangers BIG and small! Will he come back or will he be stuck in another time FOREVER?!

John and the Book of Time Travel

When we arrive at the factory, I see an electric barb wire fence. “How are we ever going to get over that?” I ask T.I.B.S. “How about we go under instead of over?” T.I.B.S. takes a shovel from the car and starts digging under the fence.

I sprint to the school and when I get to it there's a red sign that says: It also has a picture of a mask. I sneak into the school and walk to a classroom where the chairs are stacked and the desks are just lying there collecting dust. I walk through the halls and see lockers with peoples' names on them.

&nbsp;The school is closed because of the virus COVID-19.&nbsp;

I will be back right away anyways. I take the book and open it. When I open the book, a strange glow comes out... maybe I shouldn’t have opened it! Sparks go flying from the book! Is this supposed to happen?! WHOOSH! ZAPPP! ZOOM! I am surrounded by a bright lime green glow as I travel 982 years backwards till I reach the year 2020. I hear a booming voice, “YOU HAVE ONE HOUR BEFORE THE BOOK IS DISINTEGRATED”.

The robot starts trying to stomp us and accidentally breaks the quartz pedestal holding the book. The robot says, “Uh oh” and runs away breaking a bunch of trees in its path. The book starts to turn and is teleporting everything to random times.

“I only have 20 minutes before the book is completely disintegrated! Hurry up!” “... and done!” T.I.B.S. says to me. We go under the fence and inside. The factory has steel walls with lots of wires going across them and the roof. Some of them have sparks flying around them!

I go to my room and say, “Set room to space ship projection.” I hear a robotic voice responding to me, “Room has been set to space ship setting.” I throw the book on the bed and lie next to it. I’m bored. I look at the book and think: a little time travel won't hurt anyone.

I think I am in 2048 now. The book thinks this is the time I came from, but wait a second, where is the book!? I see a factory and on the worn out red brick factory walls, I see the words, Teacher Intelligent Bot Simulation! T.I.B.S.! I go inside and see one of the earlier versions of T.I.B.S. I tell T.I.B.S. that I'm in the wrong time and have to get back! T.I.B.S. agrees to help me and says, “I know where they are making the book, but the news says it is disintegrating fast!”

“I know!” T.I.B.S. runs to the lasers and throws a rock he found on the floor at one of them. The laser turns slightly off course and hits another one.. BOOM! They all blow up.

I rip off the wrapping paper and.... there is a big book with a brown cover with the words Time Travel in gold. T.I.B.S. says, “it's a prototype so use it carefully or it might malfunction an…” I interrupt, “Yeah, yeah, yeah I get it, I will be careful!”

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