Briefcase Genie Option A: High
Aw, sweet Thursay=)
We’re almost through another week. Hurray!
Welcome to the continuation of the Briefcase Genie Adventure. If you missed Tuesday, click on Briefcase Genie under recent posts to the left and then return here.
Otherwise, here’s a great big thanks to Leslie Rohman for guest authoring this week’s story.
Please enjoy and vote for how you’d like the adventure to continue!
Briefcase Genie Option A: High
You tell your holographic head in the briefcase, “Let’s try high.”
“High it is then. Please exit the cab and hold on tight, we don’t want any accidents this time.”
“Huh? This time?” You ask in a slightly squeaky voice. But the hologram has already disappeared and the top almost closes on your fingers.
Not so sure about following these instructions, you must get out for the cabbie is waiting. You pay him and cautiously step out.
As soon as your feet touch the sidewalk, the case starts to rise taking you with it! You grab the handle with both hands as the speed increases. The wind drowns out the noise of you yelling yourself hoarse. Already high above even the tallest buildings of the city, the clouds are fast approaching.
You hear a crackling sound coming from the briefcase and suddenly, you’re in a spacesuit. And none too soon either ‘cause it was getting seriously hard to breath! The huge gloves of the spacesuit make it very hard to hold on to the handle of the case and you’re slipping as you hear more crackling. The case disappears and you land inside a huge clear bubble.
You kneel at the bottom and try to get your breathing back under control. Still rising at an incredibly fast speed, you leave the Earth’s atmosphere, and it looks like you’re enclosed in a fiery bubble. The spacesuit makes you feel just a little claustrophobic.
“You have approximately 4 hours of oxygen,” the holographic head is floating near the top of the bubble. “Please sit back and enjoy the ride.”
Relatively calm now you stare google-eyed as you fly past the moon. The earth looks exactly like in all the movies. It’s hard to believe that so many people fit in what looks like such a tiny ball now.
“If you will look to the right, we’re approaching Mars now. And oh look, we can even see one of the rovers sent from earth down there collecting information.”
You can see why Mars has been dubbed the “red planet”. It looks a lot like the red rocks that make up the Garden of the Gods in Colorado Springs that you visited once as a child. Mars appears to be smaller than Earth and the surface is full of craters and mountains, amazing!
“Brace for slight impact.” the hologram states in its flat voice.
“What?!” You swivel around and crane your neck up and down to see what it’s talking about. Right behind you, you see a rock about the size of a mini cooper barreling towards you.
A stream of barely intelligible words flies out of your mouth, “Turn, twist, duck and cover, move it, move it, get out of the way!”
And with each command you try to give, the silly case replies, “Not a valid entry.”
“AHHHHH!” You shout in frustration and no small amount of fear. You ram your right shoulder repeatedly into the side of the bubble to see if you can alter course just enough to get out of the rock’s way.
You’re making progress, but it’s not looking like enough. “Brace for impact” you mimic and then shout, “There is nothing in here to use for bracing!”
“And coming up on the left you can see Jupiter. Jupiter is the largest planet in our solar system, has at least 67 moons and is…..” The hologram keeps right on going as if nothing extraordinary were about to happen. Some part of your brain does note the enormous size of the planet.
CRASH!
You bang against the sides like a pinball and your guide says, “Due to unfortunate circumstances, we’re going to have to return home before the end of our journey, I apologize for the inconvenience. “
Inconvenience? This briefcase is crazy! There is a gaping hole in the side of your bubble!
“It also appears that your suit was damaged in the collision, and you used up a large amount oxygen when panicking earlier, as such you may run out of air before we land. Please breath slowly.”
“What!?” Your breathing is anything but slow now.
You’re zooming past Mars again, much faster than before. It’s incredibly noisy; kind of like a car ride with the windows all rolled down at 60mph. Except you can’t feel the wind in your face as you’re enclosed in the spacesuit. It’s definitely getting harder to breath and very, very chilly.
You shoot past the moon so fast that you might not have seen it if you’d blinked. The force of your speed has you pressed against the back of the bubble. The earth is coming up mighty fast.
“We shall attempt a water landing. Usually the briefcase will reappear and pull you safely to shore, but seeing as how you might not be awake-“
Your vision is fuzzy and you hear no more till- SPLASH! – The water brings you back to alertness.
“Good, good, hold on tight,” The briefcase bobs along in the water.
You are now spacesuitless and you manage to grab on and not let go till you are pulled onto a white sandy beach. It’s dark and moonless.
You lay there taking deep slow breaths agreeing with the Hobbit who said that adventures are “nasty, uncomfortable things” or something like that.
The case next to your head is buzzing and glowing yellow around the cracks again. You reluctantly place your thumb on the pad and see the holographic face as it opens.
“Where are we?”
It surprises you greatly when it actually answers, “Thailand.”
Huh, that’s pretty far from Denver…
Seeing how the case has a very large lack of concern for safety, you are reconsidering your original idea about throwing it in a dumpster. Getting home shouldn’t be too hard….
So do you,
Leslie and her husband, Nick.
Aa. Want to hear your next adventure options?
or
Ab. Chuck the case and thumb your way home?
Thank you again to Leslie for writing this week’s adventure.
Blessings and we hope to see everyone on Tuesday,
Jennifer
(Please post a comment with your choice. Heads up, one vote per comment per day please but comment as much as you like=) This makes counting votes easier. Voting will end at 8pm Mountain Time Monday. I’ll post whichever option gets the most votes on Tuesday and we’ll see how the adventure continues!)
