Mars 2060
In 2050 scientists had a theory that Mars was just like Earth before the age of man. They needed to send a human to Mars, but they couldn’t send a human because back then astronauts cost an extortionate amount of money. They made an exception to put an ape in the shuttle instead which was quite hard because there were robots looking everywhere for unlicensed people. They launched the rocket into space with the ape in it and they decided to wait for ten years.
Now in 2060 they did some saving and hired us. But I’m the only one left! We weren’t the first ones to be sent here but we figured that out the wrong way. The ape mutated horribly. It looks like that creature from the really old movie Kong. Except for whoever or whatever it kills it revives just like him. I might be the only one on my team left but I’m not alone. A person and his team got sent here at the start of the year and he didn’t survive, he turned into a mutated ape, but he isn’t brainwashed. He’s my only chance of survival and getting back to the happiest place on earth, London!
At first, I thought the ape/man was just another monkey killing people and bringing them back to their master. But once he spoke to me with an English accent, I trusted him because all of the other apes just sounded like “eeeeeeeeeeekkkkk eeeeeeeeeekkkk eeeeeeeeeeeeekkk”. Poor, poor souls, I still don’t know how ape/man’s brain… wait hold that thought ape/man is a bit to much of a mouthful I ‘ll ask him what his name is,”hey what is your name?” “Bartholomew oh…maybe we will just stick with ape/man” what was I saying again? Oh yeah, I still don’t know how ape/man’s brain is still humanoid but I still have the shuttle to hide in.
How I’m still alive is that everybody else, which was about 20 people went out, where as I stayed in the shuttle. Wait one second ape/man is saying something “what no I wasn’t being a chicken I was being smart, hey I think I know how your brain fits in your skull because it’s microscopic! No, I won’t shut up, oh dear is this still on” I am so sorry about that. Oh dear the shuttle is reverberating I don’t know how that is possible. I designed the cloaking system myself, great, I think I discovered another mutation. Their sense of smell has levelled up. I told you to shower ape/man, but did you listen, no you never listen! I should never have given you those cheese and onion crisps, so what you hadn’t eaten in 5 months. You imbecile, the crumbs stick to your hair but never fear I thought an imbecile on my team might have lured something dangerous here so I put an escape pod on. It can travel 100 times faster than any modern car but it needs an excellent pilot. Wait ape/man just told me he was an honours student in flight school so finally he’s useful for something.
We are in the pod and I just gave him the instruction manual and 10 minutes later we’re ready to go. Wait that can’t be possible, we are in our escape pod, 10,000 km away from the shuttle. There is a rainforest in front of us with water and trees and almost everything Earth’s rainforests have except animals. I don’t know how, I’m gobsmacked so is ape/man. We stopped at the rainforest, sat down and drank from the river. We had water on the shuttle, but nature’s water is so more magical. I thought it was an illusion, but it wasn’t. We fell asleep in the driver seats in the escape pod and I think we were asleep for two days, but I tell you it was the best sleep of my life. But when I woke up the complete planet was covered in those plants and trees. I saw a brighter light than the sun it kept on getting brighter and brighter and brighter and then it stayed as bright as that for 5 minutes and then it stopped and exploded. It was the Earth…
