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One Friday there was no school so Mr. Trim invited his friends to go to Venus with him, they were glad to go, so they all got in the rocket.
Inside Mr. Trim said, “10...9...8...7...6...5.”
Bill sneaked in.
“4...3...2" said Mr. Trim.
Jack went in and closed the door.
“1...permission...blast off!” said Mr. Trim as they rose up in the air, they went to bed very early it was 5:30 when they took off. At 6:45 they landed on Venus.
They just got off when Dan said, “I’ll guard the ship.”
Just as they left Dan grabbed Bill and tied him up. Jack saw what Dan did to Bill so he ran and ran but Dan caught him too.
Meanwhile the others found life but it wasn’t friendly.
“Attack them,” said their leader.
Mr. Trim said, “We come in peace.”
“Liars,” said the leader.
Meanwhile Bill and Jack got away. Then it was a 3 way war.
Dan saw it, then he said, “This is terrible.”
And he joined the team. Bob was trapped.
“To prison,” said their leader.
Torry was trapped.
“Take him to your prison, leader,” said one of the Venus people.
Torry used his crystal to turn to a feather.
“Take a feather to prison? You’re fired! Take a feather to prison? Ha!” said the leader.
Torry turned back. Jack was trapped.
“Take him to prison,” said the leader.
Betty was put in prison, and so was Bill.
“Now it’s a 2 way war,” said Torry.
“Time for our meeting,” said the leader.
Then they had breakfast and explored Venus.
“Back to the war,” said the leader.
They caught Randy and John.
Mr. Trim said, “ Let’s hide.”
They got Victor going to hide from them.
“All in prison let’s go,” said the leader.
They went back to their hideout.
“All clear,” said Mr. Trim.
And they explored Venus.
“We better rescue the others after we eat lunch,” said Amy.
“O.K.,” said Mr. Trim.
So after lunch they went to the Venus people’s hide out, they were just about to give when Mr. Trim said, “I found it!”
Meanwhile Bob had a heat ray to melt the steal walls so they could get out. Just then they wet each other, but as soon as they met the Venus people met too. It seemed like the war would never stop. ‘Till the stars came out. Victor looked at his watch.
“Time for supper,” said Victor.
So they ate supper rexplored Venus and went to sleep. The next morning Mr. Trim went to work on an invention while Bob went back to the rocket with Jack & Bill right behind. While the rest helped Mr. Trim. Just then the Venus people came out and attacked. While Bob, Bill, and Jack ate breakfast. Just then it was break time at the war. So they had breakfast then Dan went to the rocket. While Mr. Trim work on his new invention. Then they went back to war.
“I never get to finish my invention,” said Mr. Trim.
Meanwhile Bob was tied up in the rocket when Dan got there and tied up Jack and untied Bob. Then Bill had a fight with Dan. Dan won when he tied up Bill. Meanwhile the war was getting to be a great big fight.
“Activate shirking ray,” said the leader.
They shrunk everyone on Mr. Trim’s team except Dan and Bob back at the rocket. Bob went back to see what was going on.
“Shrink him!” said the leader.
They aimed and missed. Meanwhile Torry turned into a giant still shrunken he was normal.
“Give me that ray,” said Torry kicking his left foot.
“Ouch!” said the Venus person dropping the shrinking ray.
Torry picked it up, gave it to Bob, changed back, and Bob returned them to normal.
Mr. Trim said, “Bob get out of the way!”
So Bob did what Mr. Trim said then Mr. Trim shot a gun it destroyed the shrinking ray. John was still exploring Venus. He put the flag on Venus. And found the rest so he joined in.
“Thanks for joining,” said Mr. Trim. “We need all the help we can get.”
Meanwhile Bill untied himself then Jack. They had a big fight just like the others. Bill tied up Dan.
“And now I’ll take off and leave the rest here,” said Bill.
“You don’t know which button,” said Dan trying to untie himself.
“This one,” said Bill.
“Not that one,” said Dan.
“You’re not going to trick me,” said Bill while Jack pushed it.
Just then some ropes came out and tied up Bill and Jack.
“I told you it wasn’t that button,” said Dan laughing.
“Ha, ha, ha!” very funny,” said Jack.
Meanwhile the Venus people went to bed so Mr. Trim worked on his invention while the rest had supper, then Mr. Trim had supper. Then all but John and Mr. Trim went to sleep. John flagged Venus and Mr. Trim worked on his invention. Then John went to bed and finally Mr. Trim slept. The next day the Venus people were thinking of plans to get rid of them. Meanwhile Dan was trying to press the button that tied. He did it!
Later Mr. Trim finished his invention.
“This invention will burn up everything except the flags on Venus. But who will do it. Warning, it spreads fast.”
Just then Dan got there, Dan heard what Mr. Trim said.
“I’ll do it,” said Dan.
For Dan is the bravest of them all. He put it down. He ran as fast as he could he got in the rocket.
“Blast off, John!” said Mr. Trim.
“I can’t the stuff is in the motor,” said John.
“Well give it full power,” said Mr. Trim.
“We did it!” said Mr. Trim.
“Randy’s still back there. I have to go back,” said Dan.
“No you’ll get burned up too,” said Mr. Trim.
Dan wasn’t listening he took the mini rocket to get Randy, Randy got in.
“Let’s blast off,” said Dan.
Later Mr. Trim’s rocket landed in his lab. They got out of the rocket. Bill & Jack untied themselves and went home.
“I feel sorry for Dan and Randy. Dan was brave, but the weapon spread too rapidly for him and Randy,” said Torry.
Just then a rocket came down and went in Mr. Trim’s rocket and out of the rocket came Dan and Randy.
Then Randy said, “W-shoo. That was a close call, if Dan hadn’t come I would have got burned up. Let’s have a party to celebrate winning the war with the Venus people.”
And the party was fantastic.
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