One very interesting day, I, Kevin, a 14 year old dude, was just reading the KO news. I was
reading the Cross Country section, while chilling at home. It was a nice sunny weekend but I
prefer time indoors.
“Hmmm, great quotes,” I said, reading the Cross Country section.
It was also a nice new coach I was sitting on.
“Ahhhhh…”
Suddenly a portal appeared.
“What the-
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!”
…
Island. I was on an island. I rubbed my eyes to see if this was a dream. It wasn’t. And then I
panicked, shaking harder than ever before. Then I realized something. I looked at what was
supposed to be the KO magazine. It was changed. The labels were saying stuff like “Barbie
Making a Nuclear Bomb In Project Barbenheimer”, “Luffy and Sparrow Conflict Makes the Sea
Deadly”, “A Bunch of Cults That Give Everyone Nightmares”, and more.
Yeah, this seemed like a dream. I pinched myself, harder and harder each time. I was still on
this weird island. I then remembered that portal. How do portals like that exist? How did that
magazine change?
Then this weird sign appeared. It read, “Welcome to Book Island”. Underneath, it said, “You
must unlock four locks to escape”. I then looked at the back of the sign, which said, “Go to the
top of that red mountain behind you”. That must be where the first lock is, I thought.
I didn’t want to be on this random island any longer. I ran toward the mountain. On my way I
thought I passed creatures that weren’t supposed to exist, but at the same time I could be
imagining it. Or maybe not.
Soon I reached the bottom of the mountain. I then realized that running up the mountain wasn’t
going to be easy. But I have Cross Country experience. I thought about what my coach said
about form. I also looked back to the time when we had to run up hills.
So I ran up the mountain. The mountain seemed to be getting taller as I went up, but I didn’t
give up. Then I remembered the importance of push. I kept pushing harder. I then ignored how
tired I was and soon I was scoring a personal record. In less than thirty minutes I had reached
the top of the mountain.
I had no time to celebrate though. I had to find this lock to get out of this damn island. But where
was this lock? It was nowhere.
“Ah, you over there!”
I turned behind and what I saw was definitely nonsense. I was facing the hero of thousands, or
millions, of fans, Harry Potter.
My heart raced. Hold on, characters from works of fiction were actually coming to life? But I
looked at Harry, and I saw something strange on his face. Evil. I guess Harry was evil. Yup,
maybe this guy isn’t a hero after all, at least not to me. Anyway, he started summoning a spell,
and I just quickly grabbed the only weapon I could think of that was near me: a tennis racquet.
My main sport is actually tennis, not cross country. Harry shot a spell which I reflected back with
a slice. But Harry then used his wand to send the spell back to me! So I hit it back with a
topspin. We kept rallying back and forth, kind of like a tennis match. I knew some excellent
techniques, but due to Harry being a wizard, it was pretty challenging.
Then I decided to take advantage of this fact: that this wasn’t necessarily a tennis match! I
looked at my surroundings and quickly calculated a move. I slammed the spell into a rock, which
then pushed the spell into another rock, and then the spell went into a diagonal direction toward
Harry, who did a backflip to dodge that, but then the spell hit another rock and went straight
back at Harry as he landed. And then… smack! The spell hit Harry hard.
But he wasn’t done for yet. He started shouting some weird words and then I could see that he
was about to summon a very powerful spell.
But then the actual impossible happened. Something appeared in the sky. Something looked
like… rockets attached to a cart! It slams into Harry and later Harry is sent flying into the sky and
never to be seen again. I looked at the cart and saw someone was standing on it. Someone
like…
“Anthony?!”
“You should work more on your form,” Anthony says, jumping off the cart. “I was told there was a
lock here?”
Anthony was one of my very good friends. This was indeed actually him.
“The lock… it’s…”
Suddenly something falls right out of the sky! It’s the lock!!!
We grabbed the lock and read it. It read…
“How should you rule?”
That made us both think. It was just a bit weird. We all knew what happened to Genghis Khan,
Alexander the Great, Napoleon, and other famous conquerors. So how should we rule? But
then we realized that the question was actually easy. It just required some thought about
ourselves.
“One conquers by conquering oneself”
We solved the first lock. Then there was another message.
“To find the next lock, go to Bowser’s Castle.”
We both groaned. But then we had another idea.
We arrived at Bowser’s fortress, but instead of doing it like a Mario game, we just came in there
stealthily. I guess it’s like Mission Impossible if they have stealth. I don’t know if they do. I didn’t
really watch any to be honest.
Anyway, we quietly sneaked past the humanoid turtle beasts. Anthony quietly whispered to me
that he found the lock. Problem: it was on top of Bowser’s head.
So we had this plan: sneak up on Bowser and strike him down. Then take the lock and make a
grand escape, or in other words, run for our lives. We quietly came closer to Bowser, who was
then only five meters away. We then got out our tennis racquets and hit Bowser hard.
He screamed and screamed and screamed. And then shot out a breath of fire. The ceiling was
then cracking. So we moved fast. Anthony quickly grabbed the lock and we made our escape.
But when I turned around, I saw Boswer running after us. He slammed his fist onto the ground
and there was a huge earthquake that nearly knocked us down. We then knew that Bowser was
going to be much harder than poor Harry Potter. Or…
“Anthony! Look!” I pointed to a canon. “Let’s head there!”
We ran to the cannon. Bowser shot a fireball but with luck it missed. We arrived at the cannon,
though barely, and quickly loaded it and lit it and aimed it at Bowser.
“3 2 1… Now!!!”
It took a while but the cannon soon blasted at Bowser. It was a huge bang but soon Bowser was
no more. No one said a word.
“How do we solve the lock?” Anthony asks, breaking the silence.
We look at it. It says, “Help him.”
“Who’s him?” I asked.
“Help me!!!” screamed a voice.
We looked above and saw the one and only Screamin’ Shawn. He’s also a real person.
“How do we help him?” I asked. “There’s no key!”
It took us a while to think until…
“The lock is the key!”
We opened the lock and freed the one and only Screamin’ Shawn. Then another message
came.
“Well done. Now take one of the planes here and fly up as high as you can.”
Shawn looked pretty surprised over what was happening but we ignored them and ran to the
plane section. There were different kinds of planes. A 1970 one, a modern one, and a 2057 one.
But the plane that caught Shawn’s eye was one resembling a bat. Of course.
So we took the Bat-thingy or whatever and flew up.
“Any food here? I’m starving,” Shawn complained. “Do you know how long I stayed in that
cage?”
“You might like this challenge then,” Anthony said. “Look!”
The next lock was right in front of us, but it had a large message.
“FIND FOOD HERE AND GIVE IT TO SHAWN!!!”
“A challenge made so I could eat? Wow, how generous!”
Anthony and I rolled our eyes.
“Wait, but how do we find food HERE?!” Shawn asked.
“Simple, you eat air,” said Anthony.
“Unless it’s like that key thing,” I said. “Look!”
The “clouds” were actually pieces of floating cotton candy this whole time. They also have
silhouettes of the word “wonka”.
“Yeah, I ain’t eating that!” Shawn decided. “Seems like piece of trash to me!”
Shawn ripped one of the pieces into half, and suddenly another message appeared!
“Break down the rest to get the next lock.”
“How do we do that?” Anthony asked. “Look how many there are!”
There were indeed millions of millions of them.
“What do we do?”
“I’ll handle this,” Shawn said bravely. He took out some large blaster and prepared to shoot it at
the pieces.
“Be careful,” I told him.
Shawn just shot a bold grin, either bravely or stupidly. He started shooting, and Anthony cursed.
“AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!” he screamed in some weird dumb voice.
He just blasted everywhere. There were actually some flying birds and Pokemon, and they all
sadly were blasted by Shawn.
But luckily, he managed to destroy all the cotton pieces. But suddenly…
“AAAAAAAAHHH!!! Look out! Aliens!” Anthony pointed to a bunch of spaceships entering the
battlefield.
“Aliens? Easy!” Shawn smirked. “AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!”
He started firing everywhere again. He managed to shoot some of the ships down in a matter of
seconds. However, I also saw more flying Pokemon die to Shawn’s blasts. I think one can say
he murdered a whole population.
But the aliens started losing. Then finally Shawn finished all of them off. But he wasn’t done yet.
A huge spaceship arrived. It reminded me of some gray golf ball until…
“That’s the Death Star!” Anthony cried, shocked.
“Oh…” said Shawn, surprised. “Oh, I didn’t sign up for this! Let’s get outta here before the ship
turns us into KFP, Kentucky Fried People!!!”
But then the Death Star fired and we all died.
The End.
…
Okay, that was a lie, my bad.
“But if we leave, we’ll never get back,” Anthony said.
“But if we stay we die!” I exclaimed.
“Don’t worry, I have an idea,” Shawn said. Then he shouted, “Death Star, you-”
Shawn started saying all sorts of profanity, and I think he made the people in the Death Star
pissed off. The Death Star came closer and closer.
Shawn, though, put all sorts of batteries in the blaster. Then he pressed on the button but didn’t
let go. I then saw that he was charging for a really powerful attack.
“Ahhh, the Death Star is getting really close!” Anthony gasped.
He was right. The Death Star was just ten meters from us now. It…
“Eat this, you brainwashed goofy despicable monkey-faced butthole-” Shawn screamed.
He let go of the button and a huge hyper beam split the whole Death Star in half.
Splok!
And we survived.
And another message appeared.
“Good job completing the quest, despite the casualties. Now you’ve unlocked this lock. Now find
them and you’ll know where to go next.”
“Who’s ‘them’?!” Shawn asked.
Anthony cursed again.
“The creators here have some issues!”
“Very abhorrent issues,” Shawn agreed. “Yes, I concur!”
“AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
“Damn! Did you hear that?” Shawn asked.
Anthony and I rolled our eyes.
“Let’s follow it,” I decided.
We piloted the ship toward where the noise came from. We got closer and closer and closer.
Until finally…
“Noah, Drew, Jacob, and Cole?!!!!!!!!!!!!??????????!!!!!!!!!” we shouted, surprised.
But it wasn’t just them. There was another guy, an adult. He had a beard with a little bit of gray,
and dark sunglasses. He also had that kind of haircut that made you think he was going to
murder someone.
“Finally. You came,” he said.
“Who are you??” I asked.
He sighed. “I am Quadridupal Terk. I am the creator of this island.”
“I remember you on the news!” I exclaimed. “You’re that billionaire who got bankrupt!”
He sighed again. I never saw someone sigh like him. “Yes, I am the billionaire who got bankrupt.
As a result, I used all the technology I had to make this island, hoping this would become a
masterpiece. I was both right and wrong. It worked perfectly but then it started thinking on its
own. And became lethal.”
“So this is all because of you?” Anthony asked.
He sighed again. “I tried to destroy it, but all my efforts were in vain. So I decided to launch
portals to get you guys in. That way we could all work together to solve this predicament.”
“But why us?” Noah asked.
“Oh, those portals were random. If I had control I would’ve gotten the US military!” Terk
explained. “But don’t worry, you guys are fine. I knew it was going to be tough for you, so I
decided to go across the whole island. I’m the one who left the cart and rockets in Anthony’s
landing area. I’m the one who made the koopa troopas all asleep so you guys could easily get
in. I sent in the Bat-plane and put a blaster in it.”
“How did you do all that?” asked Cole.
“Yes, to do that, I sacrificed a lot.” We then saw that Terk had some deep cuts in his body.
“But how did you go that fast?”
“The portal device, remember? I couldn’t control who came, but I could control how I could help
them!” Terk explained. “But on the way I encountered dangerous enemies. That’s how I got
these cuts. But I’m fine.”
Terk didn’t look fine. His face looked like he was about to cry. I felt bad for them.
“Wait, so how long have you been on this island?” I asked.
“Seven years,” he answered.
“Seven years?! But the news was…”
“Time works differently here,” Terk explained. “And I’ve been here for seven years. I kept a
journal to keep track.”
“We can still get you out,” I thought. “The message said you know where to-”
“Yes. We have to go to the core,” Terk explained.
Everyone’s eyes were wide-eyed. The core? But how?! We didn’t know until Terk explained.
“I also added some missiles somewhere in the jet. We can use that to cut through the ground.”
“Let’s do that then.”
We all got onto the jet, and Terk took control. He set the missiles ready.
“Fire!!!”
The jet fired and a huge hole was made.
“Fire!!!”
Terk kept firing and firing. I saw Terk’s face. It was determination.
“Terk, you good?” Cole asked.
“Anything to fix my mistakes,” Terk replied. “Fire!!!”
Boom! The ground that we were standing on five minutes ago was now an abyss. Terk then
turned to look at us.
“Are we ready?” he asked. “This could be a very dangerous battle, where some of us may never
return.”
We all nodded, prepared to face what awaited us.
“Ok, let’s go!”
The jet with all of us onboard slowly came closer to our destination.
…
“We’re here,” Terk said.
There was nothing here except for one diamond. Except this diamond had the lock inside.
“Let’s break down this diamond!”
We all got weapons and started breaking down the diamond, piece by piece. Soon, we had the
lock in our hands.
“Now what?” Drew asked. “Do we just wait for some random message?”
Terk then laughed.
“This is it!”
We all turned to look at him. Then, suddenly, an evil grin slowly appeared on his face.
“Uh-oh.”
“You fools!” he cackled. “You showed me that this island was a success! It’s dangerous and
lethal and risky! Now I know that with its power I shall show true might to those who shunned
me before!”
Terk, with the “lock” in his hands, floated up and shouted the familiar sentence.
“One conquers by conquering oneself”
A bright purple mist coats him until finally he morphs into something brighter, stronger, and
eviler.
“I am the Interdimensional Conqueror!”
“Ooh, this guy gave himself a cool name. It’s like we’re in a movie,” Noah realized.
“Now, I shall test this new power by killing you all!” he cried.
He clapped his hands and five portals opened. Out came five new strong enemies: Naruto,
Luffy, Goku, Thanos, and Sauron.
“Oh, that’s not good,” Drew realized.
“You think?” Jacob asked, annoyed.
Like this was a football game, we all huddled up.
“Okay, these new enemies are strong, but we only have to defeat Terk to win,” I explained.
“But we can’t do that if those enemies are in the way,” Anthony told me. “What are we going to
do?”
“This is a test of everything we’ve been through,” Shawn explained. “Also, remember, it’s the
power of will. But maybe to make things easier… Aha! The enemies can kill themselves! Like if
one of them did an attack and instead of hitting us, it hits…”
“Great idea!! Let’s do that!” Drew decided. “Agreed?”
“Agreed,” everyone else said in unison.
“Okay, let’s go!” Anthony cheered.
“Wait, we have to do a wood cheer,” Noah explained.
“Damn you Noah we don’t have time…”
We quickly did the wood cheer anyway and then charged into battle.
“Let’s not die!!!”
A few weapons spawned out of nowhere and we grabbed them. Felt like a video game! Anway,
then we ran toward our enemies, instigating an epic battle.
Luffy’s arms enlarged and Goku blasted at us. We barely managed to dodge these.
Naruto charged at us but Shawn got out his blaster and blasted repeatedly. And soon, believe it
or not, Shawn managed to kill Naruto, even though that didn’t follow the plan. HIS plan, I should
say. I guess sometimes you have to improvise.
Meanwhile, Anthony quickly grabbed a lightsaber and got himself between Luffy and Goku.
Goku shot another blast but Anthony deflected it back toward Luffy, who made no effort to
dodge it. The blast hit Luffy but he still wasn’t down.
Noah decided to take down Terk himself. He got out a rocket launcher and fired at Terk but the
attack was ineffective. Terk then waved his hand and Noah was sent flying.
But Jacob saw Sauron’s weak point. He shouted for Goku to attack, and he did. Jacob dodged
this blast with a backflip and Sauron’s arm(the one with the ring) was chopped off. The ring fell
into the ground and Sauron exploded.
But then Thanos was beginning to attack us with Infinity Stones. But suddenly something big
crashed into the battle and flattened Thanos.
“What is that?” Cole asked.
He ran toward it and when he got there his eyes widened.
“An atomic bomb!”
The Barbie music was going on and everyone closed their ears to avoid listening to their least
favorite music. Goku though had anger issues and decided to incinerate Luffy into bits. Then he
just destroyed himself. Then our advantage came.
Together, we charged at Terk, dodging his blasts and then blasting at him. Terk dodged them
though and then started to laugh.
“This has been fun, but it’s time to die!” he shouted.
He started summoning something big. The sun…
“This is something nobody can ignore!” he shouted, enraged. “US, Russia, and China? I shall
murder them all and see who’s the important one!”
Suddenly a lightbulb appeared on my head. No, I mean a lightbulb literally appeared on my
head. It bonked me and then a new idea came to mind. But a bold one.
I grabbed Shawn’s blaster and blasted at the nuke.
Bam!
The bomb exploded. I looked up into the sky and saw Terk getting vaporized into a million
particles.
Ka-boom!
I woke up from the couch I was sitting on earlier. When I was at home…
“Huh?!”
There was the KO newspaper on my lap. It didn’t have the Barbenheimer stuff or whatever.
Then as I stood up I noticed I had gained a six pack.
The End.
(by Kenneth Sohn ’27)