Dear Earthlings!

I’d just got out of bed when I realised it was my first day at my new school. Then I walked downstairs and found an alien in the kitchen.
Could life get any worse? Yes – the alien was using my mug!

Now I know who you are, I can probably tell you about my extra-ordinary adrenaline-filled life. In case you don’t know who I am, I’m Marz, the simple school kid from another planet! Oh and by the way, the alien in the kitchen is my Dad, the owner of the massive computer company, Microsoft Curtains. I expect you’ve heard of it.

“RIGHT, MARZ, GET YOUR UNIFORM ON!” shouted Dad.
This was how it all started …

Chapter 2: The School Run
I fitted in to my tight red and black camoflage top, the smart sparkly black trousers and hard brown leather boots. Finally I grabbed my miniature blaster and loaded it. I sprinted out of my house past the asteroid fields and the Hallows of Peril. I was on time! But on my way a massive Trorm jumped out of a crater (oh, by the way, a Trorm is half troll, half giant worm. Its body, arms and head are troll, and its leg, well, tail, is worm).

I dived as it slashed its tail to the ground in front of me. I pulled out my blaster and rolled along the ground, aiming at the Trorm’s mouldy, green-tinted mottled stomach.. The scorching hot ray of intense blazing light made it recoil. It roared angrily and looked up at the sky, letting a long hideous tongue uncoil to its full length. The tongue made a clicking sound, as if it was doing some weird kind of Morse Code.
I stood up slowly. Could I move away while it was distracted? Then I heard a rumbling under the ground and at least twenty more Trorms blasted up from the craters. I swore in Mars language. “EYEK!”

Then I turned and ran. The Trorms had powerful plasma swords that could instantly incinerate me if they touched my skin, or blind me if I looked at them directly. But on the plus side, being half-worm, Trorms can’t run.

I looked at my watch. Two minutes to the start of school, and I was still a mile away. It was time for emergency action!

I ran down the road to the closest house. I noticed a sleek black state-of the-art Jaguar hover-bike (500 Martian-mph maximum speed) parked outside. I jumped on it and revved the engine, then sped off towards school. I noticed the Trorms getting closer and closer: they were now on hoverboards powered by shiny blue rockets. Trorms on hoverboards! I couldn’t believe what I was seeing.

Well, what would you have done? I couldn’t resist the temptation!

Chapter 3
I zoomed along the motorway and the Trorms were getting closer. I noticed a turned-over lorry in the middle of the road. It was tempting. Very tempting! I mean, it was a gas lorry! So I did it. I pulled out my blaster and fired it at the lorry. BOOM! The lorry exploded and its carcase flew into the air and bounced along the road until it was – well, off the road. I drove on and accelerated through the flames using my anti-flame protection bubble. (What? Don’t you have those on Earth? They’re standard issue in my galaxy.)

The back of my coat smoked a bit, but I was ok, and I could see my school ahead. The exploding lorry had delayed the Trorms, and now there were only ten after me. I gave a last burst of speed and in six seconds I was there. As the School Guards prepared to defend the School against the Trorms, I zoomed through the gates and let out a huge sigh of relief.

The danger was all behind me now. Or was it? I turned around slowly.
The Head-teacher was standing by the door – and he didn’t look pleased to see me!

To be continued!