It was 1961 my trainer Joe had raised me ever since I was a baby, he was like a dad to me. One day Joe was talking on the phone while I was lying on a little surgen table eating a banana. I just thought he was talking to someone until I heard him say…”Ok that would be fine my chimp won't mind being in space for 65 years!”
Yes I am a chimp My name is Lan. Then that's when it all happened.
NASA Space Station is ready for lift off! 3,2,1! BANG, CRASH. I felt something rumbling underneath me. I looked out for a split second and I was high up from the ground. I looked around me I was in something I have never been in before a space capsule! I did not know what to do. I talked into a radio that was beside me I said “I’ve made it Lan is in the air!” I waited… and waited… and waited… for a reply which did not come. Then I heard “BING” My radio had flew out of its socket I had lost connection with people. That was it I was alone.
I wish I was not a test subject any more. Then I remembered my radio had flew out I tried to fix it but then I felt sleepy and fell into a coma that I thought I would never awake from, and did not wake for
Sixty Five Years……
I struggled to wake up my vision was blurred out and so was my mind. Wait where am I? Where is everyone? I yelled out the name Joe but silence was all I could hear. No reply or a banana just the scene of space and me in the reflection. I’m wrinkled, old, grey haired. I turned around and seen the milky way, I do like being up in space but not alone. It is 2026 now, I would love to go back home and play in the trees eating a banana and playing with Joe. But In 1961 was probably my last time seeing Joe. I remember what he looks like, he has blonde hair, he is kind and helpful. He does not seem kind because he sent me in space but maybe it was the right thing for him. He also works for NASA Space Station. They were the ones who wanted me to go to space because Joe was the only one who had a pet chimp, that kind of means I’m famous.
I tried to close my eyes but the sun ran past them I opened my eyes and seen something round, green spots and blue patches. I remember seeing a picture of this before I got launched to space. I think I remember what it is! A smile lighted up my face with excitement because I had found my home EARTH!!
I was the only one in the capsule so it was up to me to use the control panel and get me home safe. I need to figure out which buttons to push and how to control this thing. Maybe they left an instruction manual in here? I looked everywhere, that's when I looked up and seen a photo of me and Joe. I am glad that I have found that photo now I can see him all the time. Thats right I need to look for a control manual to land. I have not found It so I need to figure out how to land with all of these buttons in front of me. Maybe I should press this button🔘. “PHEWWW!” I go down really fast. The capsule try’s to break through the earth's atmosphere and it does make it through. A parachute pops up above the capsule and makes it feel more calming. I still have not made down yet but I can see the ground far down beneath me. I have shot down to the ground “SHEWWW!” “THUDD!!”
Terra firma!!
The dust had past the window, so I looked out and I gasped. I can not understand what happened to this place! It’s been destroyed. I looked around everywhere the trees were leafless like it was autum the buildings have no windows, and worst of all where is everyone? Where is Joe? I looked down and in my cold wrinkled hands was the photo of Joe and I. I yelled “WHY DID YOU HAVE TO DO THIS TO ME JOE?” I scrunched up the paper and threw it at the ground.
This is not just a planet it's my home!
I looked at the photo and a shadow overcame it!
That shadow is weird I know it’s not my shadow because, it’s behind me this is weird?
So I turned around but I did not have time …...
THWACK!!!
I wake up in a room that looked exactly like the room at Joe’s house. I heard talking but it was a chimp
“OO AA OA” (That means we have killed the space chimp.) Wait!! What?? I’m not dead, Or am I?? I punched myself to see if I was a ghost.
“Oww” I yelled, I’m not dead. But all of a sudden it was so quiet the chimps had stopped talking. I jumped down off the surgeon’s table. I looked behind me no one was there, so I looked in front and there was a big chimp with a gun on his belt. He grinned and I gasped for air he pulled out his gun then he pulled out a photo and said,
“I have Joe he is in a big room in a chair with guards around him.” I looked closer at the picture and seen my worst enemy before I meet Joe it was Gwen. She worked at the animal museum she once tried to stuff me but Joe saved me. Since Joe saved me, wait I need that photo it is scrunched up on the ground so I tried to dodge the big chimp, but he stopped me with his hands. He pulled me up by the neck and threw me into a small tight room with no windows just a little plastic lookout. It kind of reminded me of the space capsule. So I pretended I was lifting off then I heard a voice, Joe? I thought I was daydreaming so I carried on what I was doing. But I kept on hearing it so I peeked out of the lookout and it was him, it was Joe! He was so old just like me. He looked at me he smiled and waved. He looked very weak he could not fight out of all those guards. I tried to get out to help him, I heard screaming out shouting I looked up and Joe had killed the guards “What the!?” “How did you do that” I said “A little bit of training” Joe said. Joe helped me out and we ran away. Big chimp stopped us in our path.
“Where do you to think you are going?” He said
“To find our home and live happy again.” Joe said.
“Oh No your not.” Big chimp said. He threw me and I landed right in front of the photo. I did not have time to escape he had slayed me with a knife. The darkness overcomes my eyes and I slowly start to close them. I quickly say “Good bye Joe thank you for eevverryythhh….” That was my last words. The darkness overcome my eyes and I struggle to breath, “ahoo ahoo.” I fall into a heavy sleep.
I wake up from the sound of a phone RING RING RING I hear a voice, “ Is that God?” “Am I in heaven?” “Am I dead?” I say to myself.
I do not know what to do. So I stay where I am and wait for some company.
I heard someone talking on a phone. It sounded like Joe's voice I did not have time to hear what he said. He came closer and closer to me, wait that's Joe when he was young. He said to me,
“Are you ready to go to space now Lan?” Joe said.
“NOO!” But it was too late. He had gave me a banana and I ate it and it put me to sleep. Joe took me to NASA space station, It is happening! My dream is coming true!
