Once Upon a Lightyear (standard:science fiction, 1162 words)
Author: Robert G Moons	Added: Aug 11 2011	Views/Reads: 4339/2192	Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes)
A Short Alien Bedtime Story (Humorous/Satire). An alien father reads a bedtime story to his little boy about humans.

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fields. The humans worked on it for 23 ellipse durations.” 

“Wow, that's a long time – Those scientists must have died of old age!”
exclaimed his son in shock. 

“Aaah, no. I'm 35 durations old, and plan to live quite a few more,”
said Notruhk with uncertain confidence. 

“A-ny-way, they finally recreated this power generator a thousand times
larger than the original object. They didn't have the materials that 
the original was made of, so they had done the best they could with 
what they had. Unfortunately, their version was very crude in 
comparison, but they were eager to see what it could do. Maybe it could 
make their space ships go faster, or power a huge weapon to defend 
themselves against unknown future enemies.” 

His son interjected – “Like the outpost cannons of Mapzorp – they
can destroy an entire planetoid with one shot!” his son bragged with 
delight. “PAAAH-BOOOM!” 

“OK, we can do without the sound effects please. Can I continue?” In
reply, his son nodded with extreme exaggeration. 

“So, the big day came; the whole planet was very excited, and there was
much rejoicing. The President of their world had the honour of pressing 
the button that turned on this alien power source. He made a speech 
about what a great day it was in human history; that this day would be 
remembered for all time, or something like that. You know, 
blah-blah-blah.” His son frowned impatiently at his dad's mockery of a 
politician – his left antenna began to twitch. 

“Daaaaad.” 

“OK.... So after his speech, he pressed the button. The gigantic purple
cube started to glow slightly, and then began to hum loudly.” Notruhk 
picked up his son's slurpy-cup to demonstrate the rest. “Next, it 
lifted off the ground and started to spin. It spun faster and faster; 
shot up into the sky and into space. It hovered up there above the 
planet for a short time; came down at an incredible speed, and 
destroyed the planet. THE END.” 

“How did it destroy the planet?” 

“It's too complicated.” 

“Daaaaaad.” 

“You're to young to understand.” 

“Please, Dad.” 

“OK, OK. Do you remember what happened when that asteroid hit the moon
orbiting Phautogue?” 

“Wow, that's soooooo abominable!” 

“Yes, I thought you'd like that,” Notruhk said looking bored. “Anyway,
there's more.” 

“More to the story?” 

“Yes. You see, this is a true story, and do you know what the object
really was that the humans had found?” 

“Was it a secret-super-duper-ultimate-planet-killer-weapon from the evil
Taelrok Empire?” 

“Aaaaah, no. It was... a child's toy!” The pause for effect was a nice
touch, he thought. 

“NO DUNG!” his son yelled. 

“Hey, watch the language. Yes, a child's toy from the most advanced
world in our galaxy – Z'va Prime.” 

“So the moral of the story is...” he waited for his son's answer. 

“Don't... build, a really big toy, on your homeworld?” 

“No, not exactly.... Never mind. Go to sleep now.” 

“OK, goodnight dad.” 

“Goodnight, son. Don't let the humans bite.” 

His son smiled. It was the bestest story his dad every told him, and one
he would never forget. Funny humans, he thought, but that President of 
Earth was right about being remembered. He retracted his mandibles, and 
went quickly to sleep. 

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