The Boy from Space

Piper was on her way to town walking on the gravel road to get some stuff Isaac had asked for.  Then suddenly a space ship looking thing started falling from the sky!  Closer and closer it came.  Finally Piper dove down hitting the ground with a thump and threw her arms over her head and just as she did that, crash!  The space ship exploded at impact.  Dust flew everywhere.  She shut her eyes tight making sure no dirt could get in.  Finally silence.  She carefully lifted her head to see what had crashed.  All that was there was some metal bits sticking into the field and a crumbled up pile of cloth.  She wanted to know more about this mysterious spacecraft so she stepped back onto the gravel road and walked across to the other side to get a better look.  As she got closer she saw that it wasn’t just crumbled up cloth.  IT was a man.  Wait.  No, not a man, a boy just a little older than she was.  She didn’t know whether to see if the boy was alive or go and get help, but knowing Piper , she would go help anyone.  She ran towards the mangled up boy.  When she got to the edge of the clearing that the crash made, she stopped. 

          Ender awoke in the middle of a clearing.  He couldn’t tell if he was hurt or not so he checked his arms, legs, and head.  All were a bit sore but as long as he could move them he should be fine.  As he was getting up he stopped on his hands and feet because something caught his eye.  A slight movement out of the corner of his eye.  He got up fast, and turned toward the movement.  He looked around the clearing but saw nothing so he thought it was just an animal or something.  Just as he started looking for his desktop in the rubble, he saw it again.  This time he was sure it was a person because he felt eyes watching him.  So he said, “Who’s there?  I know you’re watching!  Come on out and show yourself!”

          Ender waited but nothing happened.  Just as he was to yell again, a girl came out from behind a piece of his space shuttle.
          Piper hesitated before coming out, but she knew that she could always just o back and hide in the grass.  So Piper cautiously stepped out from behind her hiding place.  The boy standing there looked bigger now that he was standing up.  He also looked confused.

          “Hi.  My name is Piper.  I am not going to hurt you.  I just want to know if you need help.” Piper started slowly.

          “My name is Ender and where am I little girl?  I need to get to Florida!” he responded in a harsh tone.

          Right away, Piper knew that this Ender kid was going to be a handful.

          “Well, you’re in England and Florida is on the other side of the ocean,” Piper said politely.  Ender looked outraged!

          “What do you mean?  I need to get to Florida in 3 days!” Ender angrily said.

          Piper did not feel like getting yelled at by some kid who looked like an astronaut freak, so she said, “If you go to the airport and buy a plane ticket you could get there in no time!”

          “Where is the airport and how far?” Ender said, looking more hopeful than before.

          “I can drive you there!  It’s only like and hour!” Piper politely stated.  “Let me go and get the truck.  Stay here and stay hidden.  Okay?” Piper added.

          Ender did not know whether to trust her but she looked trustworthy so he nodded and turned around back toward the rubble to find his desktop. 

          Piper went back to the house, grabbed some food, and left a note saying she was going for another walk.  Then she jumped into the truck.  Edmond’s driving lesson paid off!  She sped down the road and stopped where she remembered she saw the crash and there was Ender holding a flat computer screen thing and another suit in the other hand.

          Ender got into the truck.  Ender was confused about how a little girl could already know how to drive, but he did not question her.  After a while of awkward silence, Piper said, “Why were you driving a space shuttle?”

          Ender did not feel like talking but did anyway.  He explained about how he was in battle school and saved the world from an alien invasion. Piper was taken back from what she was hearing. She thought that he was lying and making it up, but the story did have something to do with the space shuttle type of thing. They were getting closer and Piper had one last question for ender but as she turned to ask the question he was gone. There where he was sitting was the weird thing ender was holding and on it had a message going around the edges it said,” thanks for helping me get back to where I was suppose to go. I got a hold of the house where I was going to and got transported there!” right as she was finishing reading the message it disappeared. Piper then look out the window and saw another Space Shuttle but this one was smaller than the other and it went up into the sky. Piper knew she should turn around and go back home so that Edmond and Isaac won’t be worried. So she turn the truck around and drove hoe knowing that no one would believe this.