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REVENGE OF THE TOAD MONSTER

by Greg F.

AREA: Pangia

TIME: 100,000 BC

Here in the past, millions of creatures (most extinct in our plot) roam the earth. One could wipe out a herd in a single battle. Its name today: Toadosauris Rex. If it almost lost a battle it would turn white and go on a rampage. It looked like a toad except it was 75-feet tall and stood on two legs. It was deep green but had gray slime, and its eyes were as black as coal. One day, a certain Toadosauris fell into a glacier, frozen forever.

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AREA: New York City

TIME: 2010 AD

Here in this busy city, robots and people somehow make the earth hotter over where the Toadosoris Rex fell. One day two boys named Greg and Thomas, and a robot named Bot, found out about it, the hardest way.

The city shook and trembled like a million earthquakes and the sky darkened like eternal night. Then the heat revived the Toadosauris!

Everybody fled in terror, but the Toadosauris blocked the exits of New York City. The military sent their finest men but the Toadosauris’s slime stopped them.

“We have to stop it,” said Tom, the younger of the two brothers. “But how?”

They thought about it. Then Greg said, “I know. The experts of the museum said that one Toadosauris can only be defeated by another. We just use the slime to clone it!”

“Also, put a computer chip in it,” said Bot. “Then we can control it.”

So that’s what they did. The clone looked exactly like the real Toadosauris. Then the Toadosaurises battled. There were punches, kicks and slaps. Finally, the clone wrapped his tongue around the real Toadosauris and defeated it.

After their short battle the Toadosaurises helped clean and cool the earth.

The (Happy) End

Greg is in fifth grade and likes swimming a lot. He is the author of “The Owl Inside Me.”