By: Kevan Kenner
I always knew that my teacher Mr. Vile was evil but I couldn't prove it until today. One reason why he is evil is because his name spells evil if you mix the letters around, and vile already means harsh and cruel. Another reason is because his eyes are as red as fire. The final reason is every single time he laughs he sounds really, really creepy and mysterious like a horror movie. It all started on a plain Monday morning, the day I hate the most why, because today we had to do a really hard English test, and every singleMonday there would be a quiz, pop quiz or test, whatever every kid in class did they would get a big fat red F- in a red circle on the sheet of paper. At 8:00am sharp Mr. Vile would enter straight through the door like a train rushing down the train tracks and would give me a heart attack every time even though I expected it. He marched to his desk and announced ‘’POP QUIZ!’’ All the kids began to sweat and rushed over to get their pens, pencils, erasers and sharpeners. Mr. Vile had a huge stack of paper and books in his hands, the papers were green and red with two sides filed with questions. I felt a tingle down my spine, something was not right. The paper for the test was the same, Mr. Vile was the same but something else was wrong. I looked around the classroom searching for clues as to what was wrong while my best friend Xavier handed out the tests.
Once all the tests were handed out Xavier asked me in a worried voice “dude something's up with Mr. Vile, I mean I know he is evil but today is different.’’ I heard him and then I whispered “ I know, I can feel something odd I just can't put my finger on it.’’ And right when I said that Mr. Vile screamed “STUDENTS BEGIN NOW !!’’. I looked at the test and thought that it was going to be impossible. I began to worry and see the inevitable F- again. But once I looked closer and worked through the questions I found that they were easy for me. WAIT hold on,Mr. Vile’s tests are never easy,never at all. I scooted my chair over to Xavier and whispered “dude this test is very easy, Mr. Vile’s tests are never easy’’ Xavier whispered “I know something serious is going on, this could all be nothing maybe he is trying to trick us or something!’’. I finished the test and then handed it in. Next what happened was the creepiest thing that has ever happened to me. Mr. Vile actually said in a clear polite voice “Good Job! Kevan’’. I was shocked and slowly walked back to my desk and told Xavier what just happened. His eyes shot open along with his mouth dropping. He said “ARE YOU SERIOUS! you have to be kidding me he said “GOOD JOB!!’’ I replied with a short and simple answer, “yep”.
Before I could even blink my eyes it was lunch, our school has lunch at 9:30 in the morning which was very odd as that is a normal persons breakfast time. While I was eating Xavier was showing me a diagram of a building, his new house plan. He had been given the chance to design his own room. I nodded in agreement and liked what I saw. His room had a bunk bed and the room theme was Viking age, and looked super cool. After lunch Xavier and I played Foursquare. Foursquare is an intense school recess ball game where you hit the ball into the opponent's square and try to hit the ball to the person without them catching the ball. It was always fun, especially if you win. The school bell sounded which signaled it was time to get back to Mr Vile’s class. As Xavier and I entered the class Mr. Vile mentioned he had a surprise, he gave us all a piece of caramel candy because everybody did such a great job on the test. My suspicions grew and I wondered what was going on. But with candy on offer how could we resist. The class ate them all. The delicious taste satisfied my taste buds but a strange feeling started to spread over me. I began to feel very drowsy and my eyelids were as heavy as a planet falling down. After three seconds we were all on the floor snoring, and there was drool coming out of our mouths.
As I began to wake up from my drowsiness I found that I had woken up in the weirdest place possible. A cage with red walls and red light bulbs flashing all over the room, there was also a bunch of food and water in the corner. There was a small window in the corner of the red gloomy room. It was empty at first but suddenly a group of Hammer Head sharks whizzed past. As I jumped in fear I noticed that I was sitting on top of my classmates. They were in a big pile still drooling on each other and sleeping. I searched for Xavier and stuck my hand into the pile and pulled him out. I dragged him to an empty part of the red room and sat him up. I slapped him in the face to try and wake him up. After several attempts of shaking him and slapping him he finally woke up and was quite drowsy. As his eyes cleared I screamed out “DUDE WE ARE IN A CAGE IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE AND I KNOW WHO IS BEHIND THIS!!’’ Xavier had barely woken up but he heard me and said faintly “and who do you think is behind this exactly?’’ I slapped him in the face again for two reasons, firstly because he was a complete moron and secondly because it was the most obvious answer. I then screamed “DUH IT WAS MR. VILE, I KNEW HE WAS EVIL AND VILE’’
I was looking around for what felt like an hour and finally I had a plan. I used my piece of iron and a wooden plank that I dragged out of the carpet and started carving a key to open the lock, I knew how to make the key because I had seen the lock before, it was a Coretexia Panther lock. That I had successfully picked in my house the previous year. I had a peculiar talent with working with locks. I carved the key for about three hours. I was working for 3 hours without food while my classmates just kept looking for clues and a way to get out, sadly no one found anything, just a piece of coal and a dead rat in a hole. Some were restless and some passed out, they all were sleeping a lot, but I went for hours without sleep. I slept for 2 hours without even waking up. I woke up at 2 pm and started to finish the key. I finished the key and screamed “I did it!”.Then suddenly Everyone heard Mr. Vile’s voice, he screamed “EXECUTION TIME MUAHAHAHAHAHA” in an evil voice. I knew what he was thinking and shoved the key in my pocket before it could be destroyed. Then a dozen little buds came out of the walls and began to shoot lasers and electro bolts at us. We all screamed and ran trying to dodge the lasers and electro balls. But none of us could dodge something that fast, we all got shocked and shocked until we were on the ground in pain. Mr. Vile screamed again “THIS WILL BE HAPPENING EVERY DAY UNTIL YOU TURN TO ASHES !!!!” . I quietly creeped up to the front of the room then quietly opened the giant iron door.
As we got out of the room we noticed that there were many obstacles to get past before we could escape. There were chains arrows and lava all over the place. I swung across the lava and dodged the arrow with nothing but a small injury, it was a large cut on my left elbow. On the other side I grabbed the map and my eyes widened as I read the title “The Bermuda Prison” I looked around in shock and screamed “WE ARE IN THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE SECRET PRISON!” we ran to the main control room and peeked down the hallway. We saw Mr. Vile in the corner of the room near the crack in the door, he was sitting in the main chair throwing a dart at our school class photo. I was worried, because in front of the door were droids guarding the door we needed a weapon or something to knock them out. I had some iron left from the key but it was too small to harm them, so I went to a small hole down the third hall and snuck past the droids I passed behind in the wall full of weapons, It was guarded by two droids with steel battle armor. I used all my strength and slammed their heads together, It didn't destroy them but they looked around in confusion while I closed the armory door. The droids heads were sparkling as I got us some weapons. Suddenly an alarm went off and I shot two arrows at the droids as I opened the door, the arrows went straight through their necks and their heads went flying across the hall as their bodies collapsed. I brought the six quivers, six bows and a small bomb out to everyone. I handed the bows to the boys and the girls stayed behind to be protected. I used my small bomb to bust the security droids to bits then proceeded to the door, I heard Mr. Vile scream “WHAT IS GOING ON”.
I felt like I was the main character in a spy game. I kept the thought of failing out of my head as I used all of my courage to open the steel rusty door, trying to not make a sound at all. The rest of the boys and I went to the corners of the room three to the left and three to the right and I stood at the entrance. I made a signal to the kid on the desk to guard the door as we approached. My heart raced and sweat began to run down my forehead. We burst into the room and I aimed my bow and fired at Mr.Vile’s main computer, I knew I would hit it. The arrow shot through the air and hit the computer straight in the middle where Mr Vile had an image of some hi-tech looking cannon. Mr. Vile did not flinch and turned around slowly and said in a very dark voice “Hello and welcome to my secret base, do you like it. It was abandoned nine years ago, the same time I became a teacher I was hopeless, no job no food no house. And the only option left for me was teaching, and teaching was the worst experience ever. So I decided to use the money from what I earned at our so called ‘wonderful school’ to create a super weapon”.He paused and the boys in the room stood aiming at Mr Vile taking it all in. “ Its purpose is to mutate all living beings on the face of the earth, then after the mutation begins the pitiful people of the world will slowly get weaker. Weaker to the point of where they will be vaporized into dust”.
The kids faces all looked like a missile was about to hit them in the head. I said with a shaky voice “ so that was what the cannon was for”. Mr. Vile’s arm know moved to push a button with the words ‘Whoopee GO WORLD DOMINATION’ which had a little skull in the middle of the button. We all picked up our courage and screamed “ WE WONT LET THAT HAPPEN” and as soon as we said that we all charged towards Mr. Vile. Arms in the air, we were as brave as lions, nothing could stop us. Mr. Vile pressed the button on his desk and a bunch of traps sprang up from the floor and the walls. Arrows whizzed by like streaks of light, and spikes and walls came up from the floor. All the kids dodged the traps barely. We all ran up to Mr. Vile, had a scared look on his face as he was hit in the head. Mr. Vile spun around and toppled to the ground and made a large “THUMP” sound. Mr Vile crawled to his desk and hit a button and fell back to the ground. There was a giant sound of someone talking, he said “Sink sequence activated, five minutes until base flood”. Mr. Vile began to laugh hysterically like a maniac. One of the boys acted quickly “ We have to get out of here!!”. As we ran out of the control room, we met up with the girls who had located a map of the base. Sirens whirred and red lights flashed down the hallway. “Four minutes until base flood” the speakers announced. “We have got to get out of here, We are under water so there must be a submarine room on the base somewhere.
That’s our only way out” I explained to the group. Sarah who seemed to have taken the lead among the girls located and transport hold on the map and led the group straight there. “Three minutes until base flood”. Lights continued to flash and sirens kept piercing our ears. Sarah and Xavier had located the transport hold which had a submarine called The Artemis, it was fuelled and ready to go. As we all boarded in I went straight to the cockpit and hoped it would be easy to get us out of the base. To my surprise Mr Vile must have set the autopilot co-ordinates to arrive in South Florida. I jumped into the drivers seat and simply had to hit the ‘Go’ button. The engines whirred and the submarine began to rumble forward. Around the submarine the transport hold began to flood as the sequence clock wound down. For the next few hours most of my classmates were sleeping in the bunk beds, some were talking about what the police would think about what had just happened. I was thinking about so many things at the same time, did Mr. Vile really make the weapon? Why hadn't he killed us? How were we still alive? Suddenly I noticed that none of this mattered, all of my classmates had cuts, bruises and other injuries but as long as we were still alive nothing really mattered. I was scared, confused and worried at the same time so I just calmed myself down and went to sleep as the autopilot was in charge.
Soon The Artemis arrived at Florida. As Xavier parked our submarine at the fishing dock near our neighborhood. Matthew came into the barracks and woke me up. I scrambled over to the main controls and pushed a button next to Xavier that turned the docking system on. The side door opened with a loud creaking sound and a bronze plank shot out from under the door. We all walked outside onto land while Xavier stopped and stared at what greeted us on the dock. There were news reporters, cameras, news vans and police trucks everywhere. We told the reporters what had happened and surprisingly they actually believed us. Soon the reporters left along with the police who had contacted our parents to take us back home. Three days later we were sent a message that the president would pick us all up personally. He arrived and we were greeted by the president personally, he was wearing his business suit and pointy black shoes. He asked us to drive with him in his ten meter long bullet-proof limousine. We drove in the car for a few minutes. We got out and soon I knew where we were, it was the same place where every single soldier got awarded a medal for bravery, we were in front of the White House. I looked around nervously as my classmates and I walked up onto the stage like area. We were surrounded by many famous military generals and commanders that I had seen in war books and on the news. The president walked up to us and shook our hands individually. He then handed a medal of honor and a medal of courage to each of us.
We all thanked the President and the generals and commanders all clapped their hands. For the next few weeks we all were like superstars, all sorts of people that we had never even met were asking questions and oddly asking for autographs too. On the first day that we went back to school we all crowded into the lunch room. Something had changed in us and all the students were looking at us. We sat down as a class and we all started eating looking around at each other. I finished my double ham and cheese sandwich. The school bell rang as my classmates and me walked to our class to meet our new teacher. As we walked back to class Xavier quietly asked “So, what is our next adventure?�