Author: Dhruv Dhakad, Class VI D
It was afternoon and I was awake from my afternoon nap. I decided to play a board game with my mom hoping that she was awake like me too, but to my surprise she was in her room sleeping. It was strange because I was the slothful one. I decided to eat a packet of chips. Unfortunately enough, there was not a single packet to be found. I grabbed some money and went to the nearest grocery store for a packet of chips. Surprisingly, everybody was asleep there too. I tried to wake the cashier up. When my efforts did not succeed, I grabbed a couple of packets of chips and left the money on the counter. As I walked through the street there was nothing but cars at the same place. As I looked in through the windows of the cars I saw people in deep slumber. Something was wrong. I couldn’t be the only one awake. Suddenly, another guy walked in. He was my neighbor, Sam. He said, “Are you awake?”
I said, “Yes, of course. Everybody should be awake at this time.”
“Haven’t you heard the latest news?”
He opened a digital newspaper on his smartphone. An article read, ‘The Whole World in Deep Sleep. Only a Rare Number of People Awake. Reason Unknown.’
I said, “We have to find the cause of this slumber.”
“Yes” said Sam.
Before I could say anything further, I saw a small light in the sky. It didn’t look like a satellite launched by the government as the satellites orbit in the exosphere and we can’t see it. It started moving towards a deserted ground. As I followed it to the deserted ground I saw a manhole. I said, “What is a manhole doing here?”
He replied, “It could be a secret pathway.”
A man appeared and swiped a card and a door opened. He went inside. We both were surprised. We had to get the card. Suddenly, a guard appeared from the satellite. I distracted him by making some sound. A duplicate card was hanging from his belt. We grabbed the card and entered their lair and hid. I looked at a large computer being operated by several people.
The man who had entered earlier said, “Our satellite is working. Everyone is fast asleep. Hey Doctor, what is the news?”
The man monitoring the computer said, “Sir, our satellite has found 3 people awake. They have probably developed the antidote which flows through their blood.”
“What! A minority of even 3 people can ruin my plan. Find them and terminate them.”
Both of us were running away from their lair when a bullet whizzed past the side of my neck. I ran even faster hoping for some help. But with that thought another tangled in. We both were only 2. Then who was the third person detected awake by the monitoring satellite? Suddenly a person came and shot the sniper with a perfect aim. This person was in a car. He stopped the car and let us in. He said, “Hello. My name is Tony. Nice to meet you.”
I said, “So you are the 3rd person awake.”
“Yes, pretty much this is the truth.”
He secretly got into an underground bunker with all you need to survive and there was also a large computer there.
Sam said, “Excuse me, can you tell us who that guy exactly was?”
“Oh, he is Albert Anderson. He is out to fulfill his dream to rule the world.”
“Ok.”
I said, “What are you doing on the computer?”
Tony said, “I am trying to make contact with the satellite and see what type of rays the satellite is emitting to make people fall asleep.”
“Ok. Continue doing it.”
Sam said, “According to his plan he will probably send professional terminators to kill us.”
“Don’t worry. They won’t notice us.”
Suddenly, an alarm rang. He said, “They have found us. Get into the escape pods and put on the spacesuits. We have to run away. The satellite can only be shut down by the main computer in his lair.”
I said, “We have the card to enter the lair. Let’s go.”
We reached there and entered the lair by destroying the pods following us with turbo waves. When we reached the lair, we saw Albert drinking coffee. He was wide awake looking at the computer screens. I took a gun and aimed it at his head. The scientists surrendered and deactivated the satellite. I used a teleportation device to reach home and went to bed like I was really sleepy because I really was.
