Spies From Planet Aquezborg

By Charis J.

  If people in Columbus, Ohio had bothered to look up they would have seen that the object flying overhead was not your ordinary airplane. In fact, it was something completely different. Robot PN18S7 was on a top secret mission. The slit near the top of the beeping, blinking, gear-filled cube that was it's head glowed red as    it scanned the streets looking for a safe place to land. It soon came to a deserted alleyway and landed, it's wings contracting into it's back when it was safely on the ground. There was a whirring noise, and a metal arm with several strange looking contraptions on it popped out of the egg-shaped body. The end of the arm sprouted what looked like a short, fat crayon that proceeded to push on of the many buttons on the robot's chest. PN18S7's metal body began to ripple, like a pond when a stone is thrown into the middle. It began to change, and in less than five seconds an ordinary human businessman (or so it seemed) was standing in the alley. Dusting off his suit, the robot/businessman stepped out into the bustling street. It walked slowly, looking intently at anything and everything. After a while, it left the main road and turned onto a side street, eventually coming to a deserted park. Checking to make sure the coast was clear, PN18S7 pushed up it's right sleeve and pressed a green button on his forearm, turning back to it's robot self. It took to the sky again, this time flying for several hours before landing outside a top secret lab, where inside scientists were experimenting with man-made robots. In seconds PN18S7 was a scientist who belonged inside working. It easily got past the security system and into the lab. No one took any notice of him. It took it's time, examining each of the robots in turn. Finally it was satisfied and disappeared into the men's bathroom, where it climbed out the window. Once outside, the robot pulled off it's left thumb and spoke into it in a language of beeps and clicks unknown to any human being. Translated, it went something like this:
  "Earth is the same. Humans are still stupid. Returning to Planet Aquezborg." It turned into a robot and blasted off into the sky to it's home planet, where it wouldn't return to check on Earth's progress for several centuries.