Alien Walls
Marcus Chun Yin Ng, Group 3: Fiction, Diocesan Boys' School
he Great Wall of China is perhaps one of the most famous historic sites on Earth. You might know it as
a normal construction done by the ancient Chinese, but as always, things have more than one side.
I didn’t know otherwise until I visited there the third time. I went up towards one of the
checkpoints but found no one there, ‘Strange,’ I thought. I asked if anybody was there but no one
answered .It was so quiet, I could hear my own heartbeat. I found a small door which I hadn’t seen before. My
curiosity helped me overcome my fear of getting separated from my family. I opened the door and saw a small
tunnel leading further into the Great Wall of China, and when I mean into, I mean literally going through solid
stones or bricks.
There was no light except for the faint light coming through the door. Sadly, it was quickly fading as the
tunnel started to curve. I took out my IPod and shone it in front of me, I soon arrived at a wall. I knocked on it
and heard a hollow sound. I walked backed a few steps and ran forward to the wall and made a few cracks. I
repeated the process a few times until it started to crack open, I barely made it as I slipped through the crack. No
matter, the point was that I got to the other side. I heard distant voices that were definitely not human.
I slid across the wall slowly and peeked through another door. To my surprise, there were creatures that had
green skin, two ‘eyes’ sticking up from their heads and they had a cool looking space suit thing with a jet pack
attached to it. Although they were aliens, they were speaking English. ‘Who’s there?’ One of the aliens asked.
For a moment, I thought it was talking to me. Luckily, another alien went inside and said, “It’s me, John.” “Oh,
hey Paul” Okay, so they were aliens who spoke English and had traditional names, typical. “One of the walls
was found broken and human hair was found near it.” Paul said. ‘Oops!’ I thought. John exclaimed, “I told you
we shouldn’t have used hollow walls! Now we might have already been compromised, and die in this stupid
wall.” I almost screamed when I was yanked up by an alien, “Found him!” it said. “Bring him to me” John
ordered.
“
Could we experiment on him?” Paul asked. My face turned as pale as a sheet, John must’ve noticed and
said, “Don’t mind him, he’s just kidding. Even if we wanted to, it won’t hurt a bit, because we will only use
multi-dimensional scanners.” Relieved, I asked why they were still staying on Earth if they had such advanced
technology. John answered that the reason they were still here was to protect from the end of our world as we
know it. He explained that the reason the world didn’t end on the 21
st
December, 2012 was because they were
here. He told me their people didn’t want to save us at first and tried to persuade John (who was their leader) to
move to another planet just like before. He then explained that they used to inhabit Mars just like they did now,
but when Mars was on the path of a meteor, John decided to just move to another planet, leaving the millions on
that planet for dead, knowing that they were not advanced enough to save themselves. Ever since he had a sense
of guilt inside him, knowing that he alone was responsible for their deaths. He further pointed out that they were
actually stopping the meteor that was supposed to hit us by using a magnetic field generator powerful enough to
disintegrate the entire meteor.
I questioned him why the Sumerians knew that the meteor would or was supposed to hit the Earth on the
21
st
December, 2012. He told me that the so-called Sumerians were actually aliens from another planet that co-
existed with the dinosaurs, but when the meteor hit the Earth, they dug into the centre of the Earth and only
came out millions of years later and became the ‘Sumerians’. They saw the stupid Homo sapiens and pitied
them and therefore made a calendar for them, since they wanted to be fair, they also helped the Egyptians build
the pyramids.
After explaining their history briefly, he sighed. I asked him what was the matter and he told me that they
had to stay on Earth to protect us from the meteor even with the magnetic field machine because it would take a
few hundred years for it to completely disintegrate the meteor into a harmless size and they could not return to
their home planet even if they already had the technology to do. So I volunteered to help, “How?” he asked,
“
You’re barely able to think for yourself!” another one exclaimed. I told them about my plan on keeping the
magnetic field working and only pass it to a worthy person who would never use it for evil purposes.
John thought about it for a while and decided to hold a meeting with all his people. The meeting lasted for
hours, but finally, they decided to let me have it. They even gave me a few hundred billion pounds worth of
diamond for me to use when necessary.
I said goodbye to them as they went aboard their space ship, “One last thing,” I asked, “Why do you guys
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